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Worked for Houston as well. imagine if they had pick#1 in 2023 and preferred Young. I'm sure they hated what Lovie did at the time but it may have saved their asses, LOL.
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The pendulum swing that goes with the fan base is fucking ridiculous. CW can go from bust to HOF in one drive with some people.
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I mean, this is basically the same thing(if not worse), but caleb has yet to play his first NFL game.
I heavily doubt waldron will let caleb go out and get his brain beat into sludge to prove a point like nagy did.
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Not a chance. People have dug themselves in far too deep to turn that quickly. He threw for 50% against backups in the pre-season and he’s being heralded as the next Mahomes.
You know the fan pattern of blame. Flus is up next. It’ll be a while before this fanbase turns on Caleb.
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Last year was not a big enough leap for Fields because there was no leap.
Poles never committed to building the roster with Fields in the plans. It was the right move. When Fields showed some signs in 2022 he made a desperation move to get Claypool, and then added DJ and Wright in the offseason. He again did not fully commit to Fields but gave him another year because of the options he had at the time. There was hope JF could improve in the necessary ways, by us fans, and by the team. If Caleb was in the 2022 draft, Justin would've been gone then too, though.
There's still a reluctance for people to accept the reality of JF's play this last season. Nobody in the league was willing to give anything up to give him a chance to start. The Bears would've drafted another QB if they were picking at #2 this year, likely at least at #3 as well. This wasn't simply that Caleb was too good to pass up, it was also Fields wasn't good enough to stick with if you had another viable option.
Fields is not going to be a long term starter in the league, obviously that's my opinion, but I will be shocked if he is. And yet we had people yelling about how the Bears should trade out of #1, pass up on a top 5 prospect of the last decade+, and build around a guy who isn't even viewed as a starter by the NFL. While there's still denial of this, in a few years we will be able to look back at it and see how absurd it all was. Because it was completely absurd.
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I told my kid we should cut him after the first series against Bengals...got him all riled up.. lol. After living through Trubisky and Fields, he knows that somethings special is happening.
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I can agree with it not being a big enough leap and Williams was too good to pass up.
Fields also had another year with DJ and Wright to prove it and didn't making Williams even more better in comparison.
The way Poles made moves for Williams before he stepped on the field vs the way he didn't for Fields tells me he was never sold on Fields. Fields could've won the spot but didn't.
Remember there was a chance to draft WRs in Poles' first year, we got DBs. There was a chance to get Centers in Poles' second year, we got DBs. That is not being sold on your QB.
Compare to Williams, you get all those players and more when you're just in pre-draft talks.
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Yep, CW has an actual runway. to be fair, his headset was cutting in and out on those 2nd and 3rd drives against Cinci. After he got his helmet working, he started clicking. Could have been jitters playing at Soldier Field for the first time too.
Color me ***, I am balls deep in on CW.
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There’s no doubt in my mind he’s going to be good but outside of the people still dedicating every day to Fields>CW, he’s not going to catch any shit from this fanbase
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And everyone knows Waldron has exposed the deepest recesses of his playbook to win every preseason game.
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Damn, i didn't know completion percentage was reliant on the full playbook, especially against 2nd and 3rd stringers.
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Didn’t he play against 1st stringers in game 1? Or am i misremembering?
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I’ll be honest. I have proposed trading Justin Fields. It might’ve even been one of the first threads I made here (it might not be, I can’t remember where I posted it). I thought if we could get a first round pick for fields, it might be worth it to trade him since he still had upside. I’m not sure we could’ve gotten that, but the other part of my thread was drafting Bryce Young, so I’m glad we didn’t in hindsight.
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I think it was a mix in the first game.
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It’s not so much the stats as the throws he made. I kind of agree though, there is cause for concern, but it’s his first preseason. This year you have to forgive his mistakes, since he’s a rookie. Worst case scenario, I think he’s Jay Cutler with a different attitude. Someone who has all of the tools, but never really puts it together. I think he struggles a little early on, but I think he’s going to be the best qb the bears have ever had by far.
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That's a lot of different types of diarrhea typed out there bud.
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Im not even concerned. Im just saying its going to be a while before there's any kind of noticeable turn of the fanbase against Caleb. Im not even criticizing his play, though even pre-draft i thought he was bit overrated because people put far too much stock into the off-platform, Mahomesian arm angle stuff. I would have liked to see a little more quick play from the pocket during this small sample size.
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No, it’s not.
Every player hates practice more than playing.
Practice is harder, as it’s more physically grueling.
Unless you’re mailing it in, practice is harder than the game. And it should be. If it isn’t, are you actually working hard?
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