Calling it now.....
Justin Fields - the new CIO in Chicago
Career Is Over!!
I'm missing the Doug & O'B after game show.
The wheels are coming off the Bears. Again. From this morning, Fields blames coaching as to why he sucks.
He sees everybody blaming Joe Barry for the woes of the Packers defense, and figures he can blame coaches too.
Their DC resigned this morning. His place was raided by the FBI after the week 1 game.
@Boris posted:This is beyond awful.....
.@ChicagoBears this is…..a….a…..frustrating to say the least. It’s never going to get any easier than this. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/ILKUiMG0Lh
— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) September 19, 2023
But then you see some of the throws he made on the 90yd scoring drive late in the game. He can make the throws, it's just not often or consistently enough.
I hope he keeps giving them just enough hope to keep himself around for a while longer.
Or worse. I hope not.
Even weirder: Peanut Tillman is now an agent with the FBI. He informed Bears brass about the raid.
Nothing verified, but words like disgusting and salacious have been used.
MORE NEWS: Bears legend Charles Tillman broke the news about Alan Williams to Matt Eberflus, Ryan Poles, and Kevin Warren per sources.
— Jon Zaghloul (@JonZSports) September 20, 2023
Eberflus cried, and could not believe what had happened.
Ryan Poles and Kevin Warren DO NOT blame Eberflus for having Williams on his staff.
Schefter said Eberflus just resigned! W the Fin F is going on?
Sorry, that part was fake. Fake twitter account spelled Sheftar.
A team spokesman addressed the rumors regarding Halas Hall being raided today as false. We were also told that the police have not been to Halas Hall in connection to Alan Williams.
— Courtney Cronin (@CourtneyRCronin) September 20, 2023
Schefter reposted the tweet I posted from Courtney
If you're looking for more #Bears news ... the team terminated the contract of QB Nathan Peterman, who was the No. 2 to Justin Fields through the first two weeks.
— Brad Biggs (@BradBiggs) September 20, 2023
@Boris posted:Schefter reposted the tweet I posted from Courtney
If you're looking for more #Bears news ... the team terminated the contract of QB Nathan Peterman, who was the No. 2 to Justin Fields through the first two weeks.
— Brad Biggs (@BradBiggs) September 20, 2023
Tyson Bagent, undrafted rookie out of some place called Shepard University is now the backup.
What an absolute dumpster fire. And people were worried about Clifford being our backup.
Holy Hell is that franchise a dumpster fire.
@Dr._Bob posted:There goes any humor in this situation. Get out of football.
You know how the internet is. Official statement from Williams is "health concerns and family issues", FWIW.
Of course if I was going to federal prison I'd also have some health concerns and family issues, so....
@vitaflo posted:Rumor is Williams is connected to child porn.
Caution please.
Can we help him out and trade Joe Beary to da Bears?
I would almost feel sorry for that franchise if I could stop laughing...
@vitaflo posted:The Bears have had plays where two WRs run the same route right next to each other two weeks in a row now. That’s definitely a coaching problem.
But Fields also waits until a guy is super wide open and looking back at him before he ever attempts to throw the ball. That shit is on Justin.
Long may it continue.
@GreenBayLA posted:Can we help him out and trade Joe Beary to da Bears?
For both their first round picks?
@DH13 posted:But then you see some of the throws he made on the 90yd scoring drive late in the game. He can make the throws, it's just not often or consistently enough.
I hope he keeps giving them just enough hope to keep himself around for a while longer.
He's a perfect example of why you might want to stay in college another year. There's no question he has talent. But he needed more experience before jumping to the next level. And he had to go to the absolute worst place imaginable for a young qb. I'd love to see the kid somewhere else, in a pro style offense that actually coaches their qbs. As it stands, he's being ruined for any realistic opportunity he may get anywhere else. Coaching matters.
Clarity:
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 20, 2023
-- The FBI did not raid Halas Hall today.
-- The league is not involved.
-- Peanut Tillman is not involved whatsoever in this matter. https://t.co/KJwpI2L5We
This Alan Williams news has to be insane the way nobody wants to break it and risk any of it being wrong
— Will Compton (@_willcompton) September 20, 2023
@artis posted:He's a perfect example of why you might want to stay in college another year. There's no question he has talent. But he needed more experience before jumping to the next level. And he had to go to the absolute worst place imaginable for a young qb. I'd love to see the kid somewhere else, in a pro style offense that actually coaches their qbs. As it stands, he's being ruined for any realistic opportunity he may get anywhere else. Coaching matters.
I think there's a reason the best QB's don't always (usually?) come from the best college teams. Fields was on a Buckeye team that had Chris Olave, Garret Willson, Jameson Williams and JSN on it. When you have a stacked WR core you get used to just throwing to wide open guys all the time. You never learn to make the hard throw because every throw is easy.
You see it in Fields play now. He locks on receivers, and waits until they are wide open and looking at him before he throws it, just like he did in college. But you can't get away with that in the NFL.
It's the one thing I appreciate about Love's game. Love throws with anticipation and on rhythm. Fields does not. Certainly that's coaching, but I'm not sure an extra year at Ohio State would have helped Fields at all. If anything it would have just ingrained his bad habits even more.
Week 1.... If we flip QBs - Fields in Green & Gold and Love starting for the Bears.
What's the final score?? Same?? Closer?? Flipped?!?!
Same scenario, Fields sitting behind Rodgers until now?
JF prolly has a pretty good game. He's got physical ability, but that org really f'd up his head.
No answers here, just some perspective from a Chicago Tribune reporter.
@vitaflo posted:I think there's a reason the best QB's don't always (usually?) come from the best college teams. Fields was on a Buckeye team that had Chris Olave, Garret Willson, Jameson Williams and JSN on it. When you have a stacked WR core you get used to just throwing to wide open guys all the time. You never learn to make the hard throw because every throw is easy.
You see it in Fields play now. He locks on receivers, and waits until they are wide open and looking at him before he throws it, just like he did in college. But you can't get away with that in the NFL.
It's the one thing I appreciate about Love's game. Love throws with anticipation and on rhythm. Fields does not. Certainly that's coaching, but I'm not sure an extra year at Ohio State would have helped Fields at all. If anything it would have just ingrained his bad habits even more.
Agreed. That's absolutely a major factor. I'm a second level Buckeye fan(due to the wife) so I watched nearly every snap Fields took at OSU. The same reasoning applies to every Buckeye qb in the past 20 years. Barrett, Pryor, Braxton Miller, Haskins, Cardale Jones were all faced with the challenge of adapting to a much higher level of defense in the NFL. None of them were able to take that step. Stroud's fate could easily end up the same.
When you're surrounded by the best recruits in the country, it's easy to think it will be just as easy when they turn pro. And like you said, Fields had a trove of great o-linemen, rbs, wrs. The upside to staying an extra year is the maturity level, not necessarily in the way of football knowledge. Both Fields and Stroud started just two years. The case could be made that a kid 20 or 21 lacks the emotional and intellectual maturity to transition smoothly to the big leagues. But I do take your point on that.
As far as JL, It's glaringly obvious that he sat and learned from a hof guy. In a number of ways, you can see Rodgers' influence on him in just two weeks. He's poised, he stands tall, he's following the progression of a play, and thus far seems to have developed a clock in his head that defines pocket presence. Again to your point, both guys' routes to the NFL were unorthodox. Rodgers had to go the way of juco, Love found his way to a smaller school. Both had no choice but to prove their worth without a ton of fanfare or a dream team surrounding them.