Oso planning to go pro
I was completely wrong about the Chiefs. I had them penciled in for the Super Bowl. Hope , they don’t regain their mojo when they play the Packers .
Matt Nagy has got the COVID.How can you fire a sick man?
Are the Panthers and Broncos kicking themselves yet for taking DBs ahead of Mac Jones?
Are the Bears kicking themselves for taking a QB over Jones?
Jones would be floundering in Chicago too. He's been fine but its not like he's setting the world on fire. He's in a good system that allows him to make a lot of short manageable passes and he still has a 1.5 TD to INT ratio. More than half his games his average completion is under 7.5 yards.Fields has taken 22 sacks and he's a mobile QB with great elusiveness. Jones has taken 14 in NE. He'd be embedded in the turf if he was a Bear.
Mac Jones yards per completion: 7.2Justin Herbert yards per completion: 7.2(Others of note ... Ryan Tannehill and Patrick Mahomes. 7.6; Tom Brady and Josh Allen, 7.5; Kirk Cousins, 7.4).Mac Jones intended air yards per attempt: 7.5Justin Herbert, Dak Prescott, 7.4; Patrick Mahomes, 7.7; Joe Burrow, 7.8.Mac isn't the Mad Bomber by any stretch, but he's been perfectly average when it comes to pushing the ball downfield. He is not Checkdown Charlie.You wrote a post yesterday lamenting Fields' lack of weapons, but Jones' top receivers are Jakobi Meyers and Kendrick Bourne. Not many teams - zero, in fact - are taking that pair over Allen Robinson and Darnell Mooney.As for Fields' sacks, many of them are because he's been agonizingly slow with his reads and holds on to the ball too long. More telling is pressures. Fields has been pressured in 23.3% of his drop backs. Among starters, that's less than Bridgewater, Russ Wilson, Jameis, Zach Wilson, Cousins, Darnold, Wentz and Allen, and within 2 percentage points of six other starters. Yet Fields has been sacked more than all of them, and only Darnold is close (21 on 253 pass attempts, to Fields' 22 on 131 attempts).Again, Nagy is terrible and the Bears O-line ain't great, but Fields has issues that are all his own.
I remember the knock against him during the leadup to the draft was exactly that (in addition to work ethic, being "last in, first out") and many analysts took serious heat for saying it.
No "many analysts" did not take heat for saying that. Dan Orlovsky took heat for stating it came from "NFL sources." After which, many people who know him and worked with him defended him.I will say right now there is no evidence that I am aware of that his work ethic is a problem either. Do you have any?The slowness in reading his progressions? Definitely.
I would post the numerous articles going after analysts talking about his poor reads and decision making ability but someone here might resort to personal insults again. Here's Todd McShay talking about Fields being a "one read QB:" "The catalyst for this is a report from ESPN analyst Todd McShay who regurgitated a stat that said Fields only progressed to his second read seven times in 200 throws, and he mentioned the “research” was done by scouts for an NFL team."There were also concerns about his poor reading of delayed blitzes and staring down receivers.
Mac Jones is working with Josh McDaniels. Jones probably got better coaching at Alabama as well. Some NFL people aren’t overly impressed with some of the coaching that occurs in Columbus. Fields definitely has issues but he’s in an impossible spot imo.
Throw out the Mac Jones comparison, then. Doesn't change the fact that Fields has been objectively bad so far. Not just worse than Jones, but worse than Zach Wilson and worse than Trevor Lawrence, neither of whom walked into ideal circumstances either. Heck, Fields has been worse than Davis Mills, and if you think the Bears' offensive depth chart is lacking, go check out the Texans' roster.(Also worse than Trey Lance, but that sample size is way too small).I totally get that Bears fans need to blame Fields' struggles on others. The franchise wagon is hitched to the guy for the next 4-5 years. and if he's not good, it will set the team back for a long, long time.I'll say it again, none of this means Fields is doomed to be a bust or won't be the best QB of the 2021 draft class in three years. But he's struggled mightily, and much of those struggles are a result of his own deficiencies. Bring in a new coaching staff tomorrow, and those deficiencies don't go away. With the exact same coaching staff and same roster issues, Money Mitch never looked this bad and even went to the Pro Bowl in his first season with Nagy.
Adams has Covid as well, very likely he misses Thursday night (which sucks, I was really looking forward to seeing that game).
The Trubisky pro bowl is worthless considering he was way down the pecking order.
Fair, he was an alternate. But he also had a legitimately solid season ... #3 in the NFL in QBR, #16 in passer rating that year. And he did it with Taylor Gabriel and Tarik Cohen as his top pass catchers (Robinson missed several games with injuries).My point is that while Nagy is bad, he's not so bad that it was fait accompli that Fields would be the worst starting QB in the NFL seven weeks into the season. I suspect the Bears fans who were calling for Fields to start from week one - and that would be about 95 percent of them - believed this would be the outcome.
Lots of players on both sides of the ball have looked great against the Jets.