This phenomenon is vastly exaggerated for QBs. Anybody who acts like it’s a completely impossible task to tell how a QB would turn out in a better/worse situation have no idea what they are talking about or what to look for.

Take Mitch for example - he always stared down his first read, couldn’t go through his progressions, and panic-threw into his checkdown option if his first read wasn’t there. All traits of bad QBs that made it obvious he didn’t have what it takes, and he never improved. It didn’t matter how clean the pocket was, how good the playcall was, the same traits remained.

It was obvious that he would suck wherever he went also, and sure enough he did. If you didn’t predict that, then you didn’t know what you were talking about.

The same can be said of Fields - he’s not some perpetual victim of bad circumstance, he’s just not very good, and it obvious. I’ll bet anyone any amount of money that he will suck for the team we trade him to this offseason too.