This franchise can’t develop rookies QBs for nothing. You guys are hoping for the next Justin Herbert to come here and overcome this next coaching staffs ineptitude.
Instead of rolling the dice again for another half decade of (please be good) QB play, why don’t you consider trading for an established quarterback. Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, hell trade the number one overall for Justin Herbert, he might want out of LA.
It literally doesn’t matter who the Bears draft this year, they won’t be good because the Bears have NEVER shown that they can develop a QB.
Ok I’m out.
I think the fan base just knows Fields isn’t it. Is Bagent a better QB than Fields? No. But he’s a picket passer with a strong work ethic and a lot of promise. Fields apologists kept getting upset, thinking that we wanted Bagent playing because he gave us the best chance at winning. No.
Most of us wanted Bagent because we knew the season was over and we know Fields isn’t the guy. Why further injure this guy you’re obviously gonna trade away? Why not see how far you can develop Bagent? See what he can do. Fluse and Getsy like Bagent because he allows them to open up the playbook more. Fields holds on to the ball too long and is uncomfortable in the pocket.
Bagent was a guy that went totally unnoticed, and our scouts happened to see some promise in him. Made his way to backup, and eventually stepped up when called on and did fairly well, considering. He’s just a good story. For all these guys with a hard on for Fields, how do you not want to see Bagent succeed just as much?
Two years of Fields: “He has so much potential” 😫 Two games from Bagent: “He didn’t do anything Fields couldn’t do! He’s just a backup! He’ll never be anything more than a backup!” 😫
You’ll get every downvote in the world but no one will have a rebuttal for you 😂 it’s comedy how everyone labeled Bagent a “career backup” after 5 games his rookie year but if you compare his first 5 starts to Fields’s people should’ve been calling fields the backup his rookie year.
Fields had 0 tds first 3 starts ended the 5th game with a ratio of 1 td-2 ints and only eclipsed 200 passing yards once while having 2 games under 70 yards passing. Bagent never got below 150 passing yards and matched field’s TD to int ratio. Let’s keep in mind Fields had the better defense and coaching staff around him his rookie year in comparison to Bagent.
Not saying Bagents the guy but to label him a career back up 5 games/4 starts into his career is such typical casual bears fan behavior.
This. The thing people forget is that until he started to heat up in weeks 4 and 5, Fields was playing like dogshit on the season. And he was looking like dogshit in week 6 against MIN, too. Bagent came in and played on time, distributed the ball quickly with short/intermediate throws and led a touchdown drive—all things Fields had shown little ability to do to that point in his career.
Nobody realistically thinks Bagent is the better QB, but it was refreshing seeing someone in a Bears uni do some of the things Fields couldn’t/wouldn’t. And a completely raw rookie who had precious few snaps with the 1s, at that. There shouldn’t be ANYTHING a UDFA DII rookie does as well as (let alone better than) your first round, 3rd year starter, yet here we are.
I’m glad Justin is back and playing (relatively) tight football. Is he “the guy?” That depends on what you mean, but plenty of teams have been pretty successful with QBs who nobody would realistically consider “the guy.” Thinking of guys like Nick Foles, Eli Manning, Matt Ryan, Philip Rivers, etc. I think this fanbase gets a little too obsessed with wanting an ELITE QB, when meanwhile Detroit is doing just fine with Jared Goff at the helm.