Bears release JF video

College and the NFL are two completely different things. Was he a star in college? Sure, but he can't put it up against grown men doing this job for years paid millions of dollars. I'm not saying Williams will be better or not. Williams for sure has a much higher ceiling seeing that one is getting picked #1 overall while the other one didn't make the top 10. We know Fields floor and have a real idea of his ceiling. A bottom tier QB who has to run to make his magic work. 150 yards 1 TD passing. Don't say adding Harrison is going to make him Mahomes now. 

Getting Williams resets the QB clock to 4 years again. Allowing the team to save money and put it in other spaces. With Fields that's not true and when you put top 10 money in average QB's. Well you're not a good team. If we only had the #9 overall pick I would say stick it out with Fields but the ability to reset that clock for someone who has a higher ceiling. Sorry but Harrison can't win Super Bowls. Ask Calvin Johnson that one. 

Put it like this, if the Chiefs didn't draft Mahomes and instead put that pick into helping Alex Smith. They would not be the power house or dynasty they are today. At most they get one Super Bowl. Mahomes brought them to 5 AFCCG and 3 Super Bowls. I'm not saying Williams is Mahomes but you have to go after top 5 QBs. Fields is not a top 10 QB and never will be. 

I understand your points and there are some good ones there that I do agree with, motm.  I do.  My main point is that Field is still in possession of the elite skills that we all watched him use as a passing QB at OSU.  He showcased elite decision-making, elite passing accuracy, elite arm strength, elite leadership of his team and he performed these things against elite defenses - the best - and on the biggest, greatest stages in college sports.  

He didn't just "forget" that stuff.  It is there.  It always has been there.  But he came to a team that (until now) has not had the skills to develop a QB or build a quality offense.  That is not Fields' fault.  That is on the Chicago Bears and has been for decades and decades of failures.  Again, we have seen this with our own eyes.  Watching Caleb Williams I see a guy with great skills too.  I don't see him as what I saw Fields perform in college, but he is really really good.  I look at him as "a poor man's Justin Fields" not having the size or quite the skill set Fields showcased to us (going against far better defenses at OSU).  But Caleb Williams is still a very solid college QB.  I think the "good news" is that the Bears no longer have Nagy or Getsy, and in this year-2 of the rebuild they have the resources to complete the upgrade to the offensive line, and add a WR2 and WR3 - that will greatly help Shane Waldron develop Fields, Williams or Maye.  This year's QB1 will come into the best environment that a QB has come into in decades here in Chicago.  I am encouraged by that.  I think Williams can be a good QB for us, but I do believe a higher quality QB1 is Justin Fields.  That is what I see in him... when I watch the elite performances in his OSU days (again, I have watched every single snap he took at OSU, not just the hightlights) I see what an incredible player the Bears received - and so far have failed.  This season will be his first NFL year with coaching and player talent to do great things here.

No, but we have been trying like hell to beat it out of him

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LOL, the Bears have sure been a "piece of work" on offense over the decades here.  I am very encouraged that the team will finally get it right and 2024 will be our year to shine on offense as well as defense.  I do like this Shane Waldron as our coordinator.  And Poles has shown that he can draft well with some nice additions in 2023.  This year he can build on that.  I feel like he can get this done here.  And no matter who is our QB this year I am thinking the team around him on offense should be really solid.