Bears Loss to the Packers

I am biased and admit that I've always liked getting Justin Fields as our QB so it colors my judgment on this considerably.  I also admit I get pretty angry whenever I think about how the Bears failed to set him up for success here.  But that ship has sailed and we can't undo what's happened to Fields here.  So, looking forward it gets so complicated keeping him.

1.  I'm wondering if Fields' original ceiling has been permanently lowered by these 3 years with the Nagy/Getsy thing?  If so then maybe he will never be the guy we hoped he could be.  I just don't know.

2.  These gyrations to keep 'Flus, add new coordinators (O and D), keep Fields but install a new offense - after wasting Fields' rookie contract years... it just seems to be like the past failures of not starting clean top to bottom with the coaches and QB1 synced up from day-1.  I know it "can" work... anything is possible.  But is it best?  I don't know.

3.  Maybe it's best to just start over.  That may even be better for Fields anyway.  He may be able to go to a better franchise that isn't quite as dysfunctional as the Bears.  

4.  All that said, I'll bet you anything that the Bears cobble together some "misfit toys" thing that will just end up not working anyway.  Eberflus will probably stay and we will get the new QB1 and new OC/offense, and next year Flus will be fired and George will make the new guy keep the existing QB1 drafted this year - and the dysfunction will continue for yet another cycle of fail.  I do fear that this will be the case.  LOL, no, I won't bail as a fan.  I'll keep hoping some day in a land far, far away, the story here changes for the better.  I'll keep cheering for the team.  I'll keep posting here, hoping.  A hope springs eternal kind of thing...

So we’re now collaborating about continuity! How perfect is this!

Seriously....we are in danger of making that absurdity a reality.

I could totally see them saying "continuity" a dozen times trying to explain why they feel a 10-24 HC is so irreplaceable.

You can make a case for keeping Fields.  I agree with that.  Maybe Harbaugh could salvage him, I dunno.

I don't know what the case is for keeping Flus.  He's Popular with the players, I guess.  That's it.  Don't tell me there aren't upgrades out there.  Harbaugh and Vrable are both huge upgrades that could be signed tomorrow.

I am terrified they are gonna run it back with Flus & Fields (which will fail) and miss the chance to reset and align everything perfectly.

I am also terrified they're gonna keep Flus and draft a new QB (how does that pairing make any sense?) and then have to fire him a year later (which repeats what they did with Fields in 2020).

The one benefit I can think of from being a bad franchise for so long is that these guys have made every possible mistake before so you would think they would now have a blueprint for avoiding new ones.

My only hope is that Kevin Warren can restrain George and Teddy from their worst impulses.  Otherwise, get ready for another wasted 3 years.