The current crop of up and comers weren’t out of diapers in 1985. Shane Waldron was like 6. Ben Johnson and Bobby Slowik weren’t even born yet. These guys don’t give a fuck about the 85 Bears. How often do you think about the 1972 Dolphins?
Getsy is great at starting drives. It’s ending drives he can’t do.
Fields will have to learn a new offense anywhere else too lol. At this point the decision should be left with our future head coach. Let him decide whether he likes Fields + a massive draft haul or Williams or Maye + a good draft haul.
He was used to having to stop and come back to deep balls from the last few weeks.
The Bears themselves did this with John Fox. After the shitshow that was the end of the Trestman era the Bears hired John Fox who was clearly already washed up but who could maintain a locker room. They reset the culture and tried to strike big with Nagy. It would’ve worked but Mitch didn’t develop and that was the end of the Pace era.
He’s been there for 10 games. They’ve improved 8 spots in yards per game and 4 spots in points per game with no major additions over the offseason. Howell, a 2nd year 5th round QB, is leading the NFL in pass yards to go with 17 TD and 9 INT, and outside of one disastrous game against Buffalo has been pretty good with not turning the ball over. He had 4 INTs in that game and 5 in the other 9. Even including that game, his 2.3% INT rate isn’t awful it’s just not great.
There is plenty there to say that it wasn’t just Mahomes making Bienemy look good.
(1) Fields did win in college. At that level, you expect the elite of the elite to dominate.
(2) it’s not Caleb or Fields, Fields + it’s what you can get for Caleb vs Caleb + what you can get for Fields.
Caleb had an amazing sophomore season. He was efficient while putting up really big numbers, with another year of development to get even better. That’s what got him on the radar as a generational prospect. That tag was put on him last year. Then he took a step back as a junior. Put another way, if he hadn’t dominated as a sophomore he wouldn’t be in the discussion for #1 pick this year, and certainly wouldn’t have this “generational” can’t miss tag on him. So now you have to decide which is the fools gold, and that’s where the fans are. He wasn’t bad this year by any stretch, but also didn’t live up to the hype. Matt Leinart was also a lock #1 prospect until he returned for a final year.
Much like Fields, having seen what he can do at the college level certainly impacts how you evaluate what he did this year. That’s not a bad thing, we did see how high the ceiling goes last year. That’s production on his game tape. But is that a realistic ceiling for him to hit in the NFL? His junior year being a downtick just has to create some pause when we’re discussing this. The things he put on tape this year feel a lot like what we’ve seen the last 3 years with Fields and that is concerning because of the value of the #1 overall pick. He holds the ball too long, and hangs on his reads trying to push the ball deep. Are we spending #1 on Fields v2?