Instantly I know I’ll get the crew who is already done with fields knocking me for this take.
But for the rest of us who still feel like maybe… Fields still could be the guy…
OL is playing well, defense playing well and instantly improved by Sweat. Moore is still the best player on the team, Kmet, Mooney, Foreman, Herbert coming back, great opportunity for Fields to show if he can be the guy we thought he could (and show consistency) before the franchise moves on.
Admittedly I’ve been very reluctant to give up on fields, I just see so much potential fucked up by (imo) coaching and play calling. But I will move on if he gets to prove me wrong through the rest of the season… or he can prove me right and we can ball out on other positional needs and make our run!
I just want success for Da Bears, Bear Down
I think people need to realize the O line looks significantly improved because Fields isn’t playing.
Come on now. Bagent has had fairly clean pockets to throw out of. Fields had guys in his face because defenders were coming off the line completely unblocked even when only rushing 4. It took a while, but the offensive line is communicating with one another better and getting their blocking assignments down now.
There are countless clips out there of defenders running unblocked towards Fields because we had silly things happening on the o line like a double team on one guy, another lineman blocking the air, and then a defender running straight at Fields.
Look up any JT O Sullivan video from the first 4 or 5 weeks on the bears. The O line was laughably bad. JT O literally called out the Bears offense for having a player out of place or missing simple assignments on every play.
It’s crazy people don’t understand this.
Bagents last 5 chiago bears games (4 starts + 2 quarters) = 5 sacks.
Fields during the same 5 chicago bears games (2.5 quarters of play) = 4 sacks.