OT: Justin Fields’ Destination Thread, Steelers and other teams reportedly want him to sign new multi-year contract

[Salvaged Ship]

I would be shocked if a team signed Fields with the immediate intention he is the starter. It will probably be a situation where ends up in a camp where there is a chance he could start if he earns it. I am betting Raiders

 

[GoDJtop10]

At this point, Fields is a starter on a bad team and a back up on a contender,

So now, instead of career backup, he will now only be a starter because the team he starts for will be a “bad team”. You guys and the moving of goalposts is hilarious.

For the record, 18 of the teams in the NFL didn’t qualify for the playoffs, so that means those 18 quarterbacks (Burrow, Purdy, Prescott, etc) are only starting in the league because they are on bad teams. For crying out loud, you guys make absolutely no sense LOL.

 

[GoDJtop10]

The same could be said for the pro-Fields posters that were so sure the Bears were going to pass on Williams and take "Da Haul".

Seems like the Bears should have listened to the fans that advocated for “Da Haul”.

Justin Fields was 4 - 2 in the 6 games he started with one offensive weapon, while Caleb Williams was 5 - 12 in the 17 games he started with multiple offensive weapons. Before any of you go to your talking points about “rookies struggle”, let me remind you that Jaden Daniels (who we could have drafted) led his team to the conference championship game.

Also, two Bears OCs were fired, the Bears head coach was fired, and the Bears GM was reportedly on the hot seat after the team ended with a worse record than the season prior when Justin Fields was the starting quarterback.

 

[DC]

JF should have stuck to baseball

 

[Salvaged Ship]

Fields is not a very good QB, he is not leading a team to anything. Even if Caleb busts I can’t fault the Bears for drafting him instead of keeping Fields, you could see Fields ceiling was not what was needed to be a consistent contender.

 

[Moses Moreno]

You’d think—if Justin was worth half as much as what you’re implying/suggesting—Pittsburgh wouldn’t screw around, they’d have extended him already because they don’t need to think over their QB situation—but they haven’t done so. In fact, they openly stated that they will keep only one between him and a washed Russ. Why is that?

I think those who argue so arduously know why, despite their best whataboutism, misdirection, or contrarian retorts.

At this point, Fields is a starter on a bad team and a back up on a contender, because there are years of tape where he doesn’t see the open guy, and he can’t throw to win you a game.

I wish him well, and I hope he gets himself a nice new contract and more consistent home, because the kid is likable—But—enough of trying to make him something he’s not and never has been.

The market is forming right now - they're going to see what NOLA does with Carr, kick the tires on some other QB trade targets and probably do research on Darnold, Rodgers, Stafford and Cousins to see what tred is left on their tires (for everybody but Darnold). If Carr gets cut - he's a pretty attractive option on a vet min contract for a year.

They would have to give him a serious offer for him to forgo free agency and they're probably not going to do that.

 

[DC]

Fields is not a very good QB, he is not leading a team to anything. Even if Caleb busts I can’t fault the Bears for drafting him instead of keeping Fields, you could see Fields ceiling was not what was needed to be a consistent contender.

It's kind of glaringly obvious at this point. Sad, but true. He sure gave us some fun highlight runs though!

 

[inchibearfan]

Seems like the Bears should have listened to the fans that advocated for “Da Haul”.

Justin Fields was 4 - 2 in the 6 games he started with one offensive weapon, while Caleb Williams was 5 - 12 in the 17 games he started with multiple offensive weapons. Before any of you go to your talking points about “rookies struggle”, let me remind you that Jaden Daniels (who we could have drafted) led his team to the conference championship game.

Also, two Bears OCs were fired, the Bears head coach was fired, and the Bears GM was reportedly on the hot seat after the team ended with a worse record than the season prior when Justin Fields was the starting quarterback.

Are you comparing a rookie to a 4th year player?

 

[Salvaged Ship]

It's kind of glaringly obvious at this point. Sad, but true. He sure gave us some fun highlight runs though!

Incredible runs, very exciting at times. Can run like Lamar, just can’t throw like him or make decisions like him. I liked Fields, just isn’t good enough in the areas you need to be a big time winner. Not sure what we have in Caleb, time will tell now that he has a great offensive coach.

 

[TL1961]

So now, instead of career backup, he will now only be a starter because the team he starts for will be a “bad team”. You guys and the moving of goalposts is hilarious.

For the record, 18 of the teams in the NFL didn’t qualify for the playoffs, so that means those 18 quarterbacks (Burrow, Purdy, Prescott, etc) are only starting in the league because they are on bad teams. For crying out loud, you guys make absolutely no sense LOL.

Let me see if I can follow your reasoning without getting dizzy as you're clearly going in circles.

You are insulted that someone suggests Fields will only start for a bad team, which seems to imply you think he can start for a good team, which you have defined as only those who made the playoffs.

So, tell us, which of those playoff teams do you think will be signing him to be their starter?

I don't want to assume anything given your statements on this topic thus far, so I will go with my expectations, and you can tell me if you disagree. Are you expecting him to be signed by.....

Chiefs, Bills, or Ravens?
Texans, Chargers or Broncos?
Lions, Packers, Vikings, Eagles, Rams, Commanders, or Bucs?

Who have I missed?

The Steelers! The team most likely to be looking for a new starter is Pittsburgh. At least that's the expectation. We don't know that as fact.

Here's the funny thing. Of all those teams, wondering whether he could have won the starting job is purely speculation.
But not Pittsburgh. The one QB whose team may want to move on is the only one Fields had a chance to beat out for the starting job, and he didn't.

And while Pittsburgh is expected by many to move on from their starter, they have yet to commit to the man who is already in their building. A guy they saw every day.

But you're aghast at the notion someone doesn't think a good team will sign him to be their starter.

Please explain.

Now, let's look at the "bad teams". Are there teams that could reasonably be expected to consider him?

The Giants, Jets, Raiders, Browns, Titans are all possibilities I suppose.

Bears? Panthers? Seahawks? Bengals? Dolphins? Jaguars?, Patriots?, 49ers? NOPE

Who's left? Five more.
Cowboys? Falcons?, Cardinals? NOPE

Saints? Doubtful as the cap hit for Carr is too much.
Colts? Wouldn't they be doubling their headache?

That leave five reasonable possibilities, and if anyone feels it's unfair to say it would be only bad teams need look at that list and tell me which team isn't bad?

Keep in mind, while the draft is considered weak at QB, there are two at least who are likely to be drafted by teams with high picks.

And Darnold and Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers will be filling some of these openings.

So...there's five competitors with JF for five chairs. And the music's going to stop at some point.

Tell me where I am wrong. Which of these teams - plural according to @Moses Moreno - are looking at Fields as a starter in 2025?

He very well might find one. It's not out of the question that he starts somewhere, but the idea that there is some long line of suitors ready to shell out big bucks is not realistic.

 

[--CyBear--]

Let me see if I can follow your reasoning without getting dizzy as you're clearly going in circles.

You are insulted that someone suggests Fields will only start for a bad team, which seems to imply you think he can start for a good team, which you have defined as only those who made the playoffs.

So, tell us, which of those playoff teams do you think will be signing him to be their starter?

I don't want to assume anything given your statements on this topic thus far, so I will go with my expectations, and you can tell me if you disagree. Are you expecting him to be signed by.....

Chiefs, Bills, or Ravens?
Texans, Chargers or Broncos?
Lions, Packers, Vikings, Eagles, Rams, Commanders, or Bucs?

Who have I missed?

The Steelers! The team most likely to be looking for a new starter is Pittsburgh. At least that's the expectation. We don't know that as fact.

Here's the funny thing. Of all those teams, wondering whether he could have won the starting job is purely speculation.
But not Pittsburgh. The one QB whose team may want to move on is the only one Fields had a chance to beat out for the starting job, and he didn't.

And while Pittsburgh is expected by many to move on from their starter, they have yet to commit to the man who is already in their building. A guy they saw every day.

But you're aghast at the notion someone doesn't think a good team will sign him to be their starter.

Please explain.

Now, let's look at the "bad teams". Are there teams that could reasonably be expected to consider him?

The Giants, Jets, Raiders, Browns, Titans are all possibilities I suppose.

Bears? Panthers? Seahawks? Bengals? Dolphins? Jaguars?, Patriots?, 49ers? NOPE

Who's left? Five more.
Cowboys? Falcons?, Cardinals? NOPE

Saints? Doubtful as the cap hit for Carr is too much.
Colts? Wouldn't they be doubling their headache?

That leave five reasonable possibilities, and if anyone feels it's unfair to say it would be only bad teams need look at that list and tell me which team isn't bad?

Keep in mind, while the draft is considered weak at QB, there are two at least who are likely to be drafted by teams with high picks.

And Darnold and Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers will be filling some of these openings.

So...there's five competitors with JF for five chairs. And the music's going to stop at some point.

Tell me where I am wrong. Which of these teams - plural according to @Moses Moreno - are looking at Fields as a starter in 2025?

He very well might find one. It's not out of the question that he starts somewhere, but the idea that there is some long line of suitors ready to shell out big bucks is not realistic.

But , you know, the Steelers only started Wilson to make that 4th round pick a 6th. Jeanyus!!!!

 

[Moses Moreno]

Let me see if I can follow your reasoning without getting dizzy as you're clearly going in circles.

You are insulted that someone suggests Fields will only start for a bad team, which seems to imply you think he can start for a good team, which you have defined as only those who made the playoffs.

So, tell us, which of those playoff teams do you think will be signing him to be their starter?

I don't want to assume anything given your statements on this topic thus far, so I will go with my expectations, and you can tell me if you disagree. Are you expecting him to be signed by.....

Chiefs, Bills, or Ravens?
Texans, Chargers or Broncos?
Lions, Packers, Vikings, Eagles, Rams, Commanders, or Bucs?

Who have I missed?

The Steelers! The team most likely to be looking for a new starter is Pittsburgh. At least that's the expectation. We don't know that as fact.

Here's the funny thing. Of all those teams, wondering whether he could have won the starting job is purely speculation.
But not Pittsburgh. The one QB whose team may want to move on is the only one Fields had a chance to beat out for the starting job, and he didn't.

And while Pittsburgh is expected by many to move on from their starter, they have yet to commit to the man who is already in their building. A guy they saw every day.

But you're aghast at the notion someone doesn't think a good team will sign him to be their starter.

Please explain.

Now, let's look at the "bad teams". Are there teams that could reasonably be expected to consider him?

The Giants, Jets, Raiders, Browns, Titans are all possibilities I suppose.

Bears? Panthers? Seahawks? Bengals? Dolphins? Jaguars?, Patriots?, 49ers? NOPE

Who's left? Five more.
Cowboys? Falcons?, Cardinals? NOPE

Saints? Doubtful as the cap hit for Carr is too much.
Colts? Wouldn't they be doubling their headache?

That leave five reasonable possibilities, and if anyone feels it's unfair to say it would be only bad teams need look at that list and tell me which team isn't bad?

Keep in mind, while the draft is considered weak at QB, there are two at least who are likely to be drafted by teams with high picks.

And Darnold and Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers will be filling some of these openings.

So...there's five competitors with JF for five chairs. And the music's going to stop at some point.

Tell me where I am wrong. Which of these teams - plural according to @Moses Moreno - are looking at Fields as a starter in 2025?

He very well might find one. It's not out of the question that he starts somewhere, but the idea that there is some long line of suitors ready to shell out big bucks is not realistic.

The majority of the posts I'm making in this thread are based on the reports I've read or listened to and I do my best to quote my sources.

There's a lot of speculation that the Rams are looking to move on from Stafford because they're looking to get younger at the position. Not sure how they plan about going to do that or who they're targeting - but that's out there and opens up another spot.

Regarding the rookie class - everything I've read was that while Tennessee isn't looking to draft one - but both Cleveland and the Giants are and they want to give both Ward and Sanders bridge QBs to avoid rushing them out there. Pelissaro said Cousins or Daniel Jones for Cleveland.

Every report I've read says there's not a market for Russell - he's been shown the door in 3 of the last 4 seasons and both Seattle and Denver took on a lot of dead cap to get his ass out of the building and didn't miss a beat when he left. He's 36, short and has a game that relies on a good deal of his athleticism which is dwindling. If you think teams are going to prioritize him over Justin in the open market - good on ya, I disagree.

The Jets aren't going to be in the running for Rodgers or Darnold for obvious reasons and I'd doubt that they're looking at Wilson because he's old, sucks and a weirdo. The Raiders could be in the running for Rodgers and Darnold - but like people have discussed in this thread - Fields is a better fit schematically for Chip Kelly's offense, so I'd expect they're a suitor too.

Here's what Adam Schefter said about him earlier last week:

“The Steelers have made it very clear they’d like to bring back one of those two quarterbacks. They’ve spoken to Russell. They’ll be talking to Justin Fields, but there will be a market for Justin Fields. A number of teams (are) interested in him and we’ll see whether or not that includes Pittsburgh in his future.”

So when the best news breaker in the NFL says he hears that a number of teams are interested in Fields - I tend to believe him because he's 25 years old and immensely talented relative to the rest of the free agent QBs. You think he doesn't get a job, I do and in this thread I'm going to continue to discuss the rumblings of the offseason QB market and your dumbass is going to continue to ***** like a moron.

 

[jsu34]

Folks, there are actually teams interested in Fields, believe it or not. I mean it's only maybe 5 teams, if that many. It's a fact.

Your opinions or mine don't matter.

It is what it is.

 

[TL1961]

Five is what I pointed out as max.

 

[DC]

Fields could totally pitch for the Sox.

 

[Moses Moreno]

Five is what I pointed out as max.

You'd rather believe that there's a snowballs chance in hell that the Jags trade Trevor Lawrence than believe that there's a solid market for Fields in FA and you guys are the ones calling the people who are interested in Fields delusional.

 

[msadows]

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They'd have $83m in dead money this year to do that deal. I have a better chance at starting for the Steelers than that shit happening.

And even if it did happen - that's another team that would need a QB to play games for them next year.


Every major news breaker last week said the same thing - there's going to be a market for Fields in free agency. To believe Albright's post is to believe that teams across the board are going to prefer Trey Lance, Mac Jones or Zach Wilson over him.

Personally if I'm one of the teams who draft ward/shadeur I sign justin to a 2 year deal as a starter until they are "ready".

If justin pulls a darnold you just either trade him for a haul or keep him and get rid of shadeur/cam.

MY guess for justin is still the jets.

 

[DefNextYear]

Actually, another interesting team is the Seahawks... they'd need to figure out money though. No idea why they gave Lockett so much guaranteed with DK and JSN on the roster. I'm sure they can make some cuts to get there though. I'd definitely be ready to move on from Geno.

 

[dennehy]

Actually, another interesting team is the Seahawks... they'd need to figure out money though. No idea why they gave Lockett so much guaranteed with DK and JSN on the roster. I'm sure they can make some cuts to get there though. I'd definitely be ready to move on from Geno.

They could easily cut Geno, but I suspect they are going to run it back this year and then clean it out after 2025, when a bunch of their top guys are free agents. They are old and their cap situation is bad.

 

[DefNextYear]

They could easily cut Geno, but I suspect they are going to run it back this year and then clean it out after 2025, when a bunch of their top guys are free agents. They are old and their cap situation is bad.

Yea, I don't feel strongly about it, but I'd be kicking the tires on some young guys if I were them to get ahead.