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LOL! If it helps you sleep at night feel free to tell yourself that but boy. That is a take.
If the Packers called the Bears and salary cap doesn’t matter, and said “we’ll trade Rodgers for Fields”, the Bears would hang up on them.This is great by the way, thank you for the laughs here!
Well no sh!t. If I had a terrible team and had an elite running back playing quarterback I wouldn’t trade him for Rodgers either. Rodgers is like 20 years older. That’s not what your claim was. But yeah you definitely needed to shift the goal posts because people were already laughing at you.
What goalposts did I shift? He has had the highest QBR among ANY QB in the NFL the last 5 weeks. Fact.Who laughed at me?You got all bent out of shape because I said Fields is the best QB in the division (spoiler alert: he is). You do you, pal. Again THANK YOU for the laughs. Enjoy your Sunday bro.
Who the best QB in the division is has nothing to do with who you want for the entire rest of your franchise. Glad you shifted the goalposts.But hey if you think Cooper Rush, Jicoby Brissett, Marcus Marriotta, and Geno Smith are four of the top 10 quarterbacks in the NFL I don’t know what to tell you. I’ll just say you’re right, I can’t argue with you. Lol
That’s it? That’s all you got? I’m offended, you’re better than that Wades.
This board has had quite a range of opinions on Fields.Last season and even into the early part of this season, the general feeling, even from Bears fans, seemed to be that he couldn't be a QB for an NFL team that actually hoped to win. But in the space of a month or so, he's become the next great thing. All of those are generalizations; I know that some Scoopers had more nuanced views.I'm not a Bears fan, but I've had opinions on Fields too. I was relieved when the Panthers didn't draft him because his work at Ohio State didn't lead me to believe he'd be a franchise QB, and nothing we saw through the early part of this season made me feel my team had missed out on anything. I don't see Bears games where I live, so all I see are the highlights, and he sure has had a lot of those the past many weeks. What I'll say now is, "We'll see." There have been a lot of Next Steve Youngs and Next Michael Vicks, and few actually become anything close. But maybe Fields will be that good, and if I were a Bears fan I'd finally have some hope.
He's a great running back.Obviously if you're building an NFC North franchise from the ground up he's the QB you'd want out of all the NFC North QBs. He's 23 and, again, an elite running back. You can build a competent offensive scheme around that skill.But the idea that he's currently the best QB in the NFC North today is...well, laughable doesn't even describe it. If you got down to Championship weekend and stripped each team of their QB and said, "You need to select one NFC North QB to play this week and in the Super Bowl, and after that everything is back to how your roster is going forward" 32/32 GMs are taking Rodgers 1, Cousins 2, Fields 3, Goff 4.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
What has me most excited about Fields is over the last month +, has been his development in the pocket. As he's gained confidence and continued to develop, his pocket presence, his throws, his accuracy have all dramatically improved. He is showing a lot of signs of becoming a dude, but he isn't there yet. The pick he threw was terrible, you can't do that. The problem had been those decisions in the past would manifest themselves and lead to another turnover, or poor decisions.
When do Bears fans want to start seeing some wins from their dude? I find it hard to reconcile being both super excited about the great progress he's making, but also celebrating the fact that, in large part because of his momentum changing, awful pick 6, the Bears lost to the awful Lions, which helps them get an easier schedule (because teams stay the same year to year, so teams who finished low in the standings will do so next year as well so, easier schedule) and a higher draft pick.So, is next year the year your dude needs to be better than, like, 5-12?Also, for as good as Lamar has been, he's 1-3 in career playoff games and has 4 total touchdowns (3 throwing, 1 rushing) to 5 INTs and 5 lost fumbles over those 4 games.