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.
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.