Bonus question - what would it take for Fields to remain the Plan A starter for the Bears next year?
My take: good QBs have bad games and bad QBs have good games. In order to be considered a long term option, the bare minimum you want to see is twice as much good as bad. This year Fields has been the other way, with 2 good games and 4 awful ones. By this admittedly simple logic, he would need 6 consecutive good games with zero stinkers before I would consider him to have turned the quarter and re-entered the franchise QB discussion. (By this same logic, two more awful games would mathematically eliminate him from achieving the magic 2:1 ratio this year.) So yes, I think it is still possible that Fields turns it around and becomes the guy. As a Bears fan that’s what we should all be rooting for. But the odds of that happening look very slim indeed right now.
Yeah, it’s a bit unfortunate we didn’t make a backup plan and draft a QB in like the 5th/7th round. They might have less of a chance compared to Fields to make it, but this would be the perfect opportunity to try somebody else and see what that looks like… Tyson doesn’t look like he’s it to me
What would some late round flier give you that Bagent hasn’t already? Making the roster and beating out Walker and Peterman is already a great success story for an UDFA. If you want to pin your hopes on an unlikely underdog story Bagent is a better bet than most.
That’s a fair point, there realistically probably isn’t somebody there to give you a much better shot
