Why Fields should sit just one game in the regular season.

[JP Hochbaum]

During the preseason and off season activities, Fields will learn what to do with the ball in his hand and in the huddle and behind the center pre and post snap.

But how does Fields learn how to handle the NFL game day? You can't simulate that in any other situation besides being part of an NFL team, during a regular season game.

Therefor there is a legit reason to allow him to just get that experience in before starting a single game. Let him experience a game or two and what life is like in the NFL. Let him learn how to handle the media circus. In game adjustments. Reading the in game analysis on the tablets. Learning how to communicate with coaches and teammates on the sidelines. Getting used to game day travels. Learning how to last in a 17 game season, as opposed to a 10 game season. Getting an idea of the speed of the game from the sidelines. Get him in for a series or two along the way so he can learn the speed of the game in the actual game.

This isn't meant to baby Fields but is meant to allow him to come into week 2 or 3 without having to worry about anything else besides live game action, and allow him to experience the non-game action that often gets overlooked and could overwhelm.

 

[Bearcub13]

Let him play when he earns it, if he is outperforming Andy Dalton in practice consistently, he should play. Until he can do that, putting him in games is doing nobody any good.

 

[bears51/40]

During the preseason and off season activities, Fields will learn what to do with the ball in his hand and in the huddle and behind the center pre and post snap.

But how does Fields learn how to handle the NFL game day? You can't simulate that in any other situation besides being part of an NFL team, during a regular season game.

Therefor there is a legit reason to allow him to just get that experience in before starting a single game. Let him experience a game or two and what life is like in the NFL. Let him learn how to handle the media circus. In game adjustments. Reading the in game analysis on the tablets. Learning how to communicate with coaches and teammates on the sidelines. Getting used to game day travels. Learning how to last in a 17 game season, as opposed to a 10 game season. Getting an idea of the speed of the game from the sidelines. Get him in for a series or two along the way so he can learn the speed of the game in the actual game.

This isn't meant to baby Fields but is meant to allow him to come into week 2 or 3 without having to worry about anything else besides live game action, and allow him to experience the non-game action that often gets overlooked and could overwhelm.

If this was 20 or even 15 years ago you may be correct............but not in today's game. QB's such as Burrow, Herbert, Mayfield, come into this league ready to start. Add Fields to that list.

 

[JP Hochbaum]

If this was 20 or even 15 years ago you may be correct............but not in today's game. QB's such as Burrow, Herbert, Mayfield, come into this league ready to start. Add Fields to that list.

I am sure he is ready to start, but it would put him in a better position to play better from the start, if more things were removed for him to handle day 1.

 

[bears51/40]

Sorry I don't see how it would help Fields to sit even a game or two. I think we have to look at Fields as a day one prospect and understand where he has come from. Fields looks so great right now in camps because he has been exposed to NFL concepts since he has been a teenager through the elite 11 program and the Quarterback Collective to name just two. Both programs for these elite prep prospects include NFL head coaches and top assistants. Fields has been receiving NFL style coaching for years. In Fields college years at Ohio St. he is using spread and RPO concepts that are now a staple in the NFL. This is not new to Fields, he does not have to learn from a vet how to be a pro. He has lived it since his teen years.

What Fields does have to learn is the speed of the game, and you can't learn that from the bench.

 

[Britbuffguy]

If he sits in Week 17 cause the Bears have a playoff birth locked, Im okay with Dalton starting that game.

 

[JoJoBoxer]

During the preseason and off season activities, Fields will learn what to do with the ball in his hand and in the huddle and behind the center pre and post snap.

But how does Fields learn how to handle the NFL game day? You can't simulate that in any other situation besides being part of an NFL team, during a regular season game.

Therefor there is a legit reason to allow him to just get that experience in before starting a single game. Let him experience a game or two and what life is like in the NFL. Let him learn how to handle the media circus. In game adjustments. Reading the in game analysis on the tablets. Learning how to communicate with coaches and teammates on the sidelines. Getting used to game day travels. Learning how to last in a 17 game season, as opposed to a 10 game season. Getting an idea of the speed of the game from the sidelines. Get him in for a series or two along the way so he can learn the speed of the game in the actual game.

This isn't meant to baby Fields but is meant to allow him to come into week 2 or 3 without having to worry about anything else besides live game action, and allow him to experience the non-game action that often gets overlooked and could overwhelm.

There is a tried and true method for Fields to learn how to handle the media circus. In fact, it was used to see if Fields should be drafted so he is already ready for any media circus in the world. Trubisky took the same training, but Pace drafted him anyway because he is a clean-cut white young man.

Here is Trubisky after the one-hour session chatting Bears football with Halftime.

And here is Fields after his one-hour session chatting with Halftime.

Fields, "It's ok Halftime. Everything is going to be ok."

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

He has been in the media spotlight since high school, this is ignorant.

If this was 20 or even 15 years ago you may be correct............but not in today's game. QB's such as Burrow, Herbert, Mayfield, come into this league ready to start. Add Fields to that list.

It's not so much as 'not ready to start' (especially with his talent) as it is, the game is softer now, especially protecting the quarterback with bullshit penalties.