Jordan Love, in his 1st season as an NFL starter......

And it's okay if all of us don't agree.  I'm not trying to convince anyone that I am right about any of this.  I am just being honest with how I personally view it.  LOL, more often than not I am wrong about Bears players.  I own that.  Mostly I am trying really hard now to look forward rather than get wrapped around the axle about past stuff that can't be changed.  I just hope the Bears can get it mostly right now... if they draft a QB I'm not going to get worked up over it - and I will be positive about it too.  And truth be told, maybe Caleb is absolutely the best way forward for the team and Fields (give Fields a fresh start on another team and us a draft pick or two).

Fields missed 4 games due to injury.  Some might say that was "just a fluke".  I would point out that it happened on a classic Fields screwup play (he literally held the ball >6 secs on that play) and therefore is not an anomaly.

Regardless, as Ric and others have pointed out, its really really hard to call a pass offense for a QB with his issues.  Getsy for all his shortcomings was the fall guy, let's be honest.  Unless JF has excellent pass pro, he pretty much sucks as a passer.  I have pointed out the details of that ad nauseum so I won't go through every detail again.  When asked to do a quick pass attack, his delivery and release are too slow.  His throws are imprecise too often.  When asked to throw intermediate level, he doesn't read fast enough, misses the middle-of-the-field too often, and sucks at passing with anticipation.  He waits until guys are open, i.e. way too long, and therefore leaves plays on the table plus takes a lot of extra sacks.

So....the Bears had to run the ball a lot.  Because running (which they generally did well at) and chucking an occasional deep shot are the only offensive tactics Fields can run successfully on a consistent basis anyway.

Fields and Love went head-to-head twice and twice Love was the better QB by a large margin. 

It wasn't close.

Ric, I pointed out exactly that fact during multiple games in real time in the live chat.

Fields looked comfortable, in command, and decisive as a thrower early in a lot lot of games.  The O generally moved the ball well too.

But when you got past the scripted stuff, and especially in the 2nd half when the O had to adjust on the fly based on the situation or score, things went south quickly.  I can't recall a single time Fields got the ball 1st and 10 in the 4th Q with the game hanging in the balance and I felt to myself: "no problem--we got this".  

The 4th Q was generally a Fields fuckup-fest, hate to say it.  Even in that Minnesota game we won 12-10 on a late FG, he fumbled TWICE in the 4th and we were really lucky both were recovered.  

It's so weird bc most of the year, Hoge was 100% keep Fields the issue is Getsy. Then the season was wrapping up and he started looking at stats, and Jahns really started hammering home some specific stat related on field stuff and he has st 180'd. And Gabriel went the exact opposite way around the same time.

Just bizzaro world. It's like this season started to break both of them