Tall Midget wrote:
The Hawk wrote:
Last I heard, getting away from tacklers and/or pass rushers, mostly entails running strength and ability Are you aying that he doesn't have a strong and accurate arm? I disagree with that assessment then. As for your point of comparison, WHO IS DAVIS MILLS? Are you telling me that someone named Davis Mills should be the next Bear's qb?
Fields has great escapability, yet he also has the highest sack rate among NFL starting QBs over the past three years. He has a strong and accurate arm, yet he ranks 30th in QBR, 29th in yards/attempt, and has thrown for 230+ yards only 6 times in his entire career. He's also last in the NFL in time/pass since he entered the league.
Last year, Davis Mills was one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL while playing for the league's second-worst team and has been replaced in the starting lineup by C.J. Stroud. Yet even he managed to amass as many games with 230+ yards passing in 17 starts as Fields has in 38 starts.
Fields is not a future All-Pro. He's just a below average QB who has interspersed some great plays with many more bad ones. He is occasionally transcendent but consistently mediocre.
Have you ever coached players in a physical sport? If you have you should know that when you see a young person being able to use his physical talents to make terrific plays you want to groom that athlete into a star for your team do you not? Coaches take great time and energy in developing these prospects because they make the rest of the job of winning games so much easier.
I think that you and many others get so locked into past performance stats that you fail to consider why the player failed as in terrible help from the rest of the team poor coaching, etc. I see people on this board bringing up Fields past QBRs, Wins versus losses, etc. I say bullcrap to that. I say that when you have a guy with Fields immense talent, that you build around that talent and forget the stats which were accumulated during a time where he was getting the crap kicked out of him because of bad support and the learning curve for all young qbs.
You say that Fields is "JUST A BELOW AVERAGE QB". But you admit that he has the ability of making transcendental plays. I don't think that this is really the case for him. There is no pass that he cannot complete. He still has things he needs to get better at as in limiting his fumbles and looking the defenders off the receiver targeted.
Bottom line. they need to grow this guy into a pro bowl player and put a damn dynasty in place. this should be a heady time for Bear's fans going forward.
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