I don’t see this happening. You ruin the relationship with Fields and whoever you draft because they’re such a high prospect. You won’t get a chance to develop Fields further because any time he screws up everyone will be clamoring for the new kid.

The only way I see us drafting a QB while keeping Fields is if it’s late in the 2nd or 3rd or 4th rounds. Something like where Russell Wilson or Kirk Cousins got drafted. They weren’t drafted to start on their teams. Matt Flynn just signed a big contract with Seattle. Rg3 was the unquestioned starter being the 2nd or 3rd overall pick in Washington. However Russ and Kirk did end up starting after a while, but there were no expectations when they first got drafted.

Having depth along the offensive line is always going to be good. O linemen get injured all the time.

I would not mind taking a blue chip LT. Braxton Jones is good, but he’s not elite.

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.

I think if Fields will look much better behind this significantly improved O line and defense. I hope the coaching staff tells him that we don’t need him to be perfect. We hung in there and only lost by one score vs the Saints after turning it over FIVE times. Our defense is good enough that we can afford a few mistakes on offense now. Eventually our defense should even be able to generate some turnovers.

I want us to be aggressive downfield on those 3rd and longs. Just throw a deep bomb that’s essentially a punt. Sometimes draw a PI, sometimes throw a pick (which would be similar to a punt), and just go for it. Stop with the 4 yard runs on 3rd and 12. Remember last year when Fields would just keep it himself and run for 16 yards? He has no chance of doing that now because they just call some dumb run or screen that gets blown up immediately.

Can someone explain the different positions to me? What’s the difference between 3 Tec and 1 Tec and why is Walker better at 3 Tec? And why has he been playing DE instead?