Jiddy
I wear my Meatball Badge with honor.
but what are you doing behind fields? signing another 10 million dollar sounding board? Fields is half way thru the decision timeline of the fifth year option and has not shown enough to be the next 50 million dollar quarterback. You want to baby him and give him no competition or do you want someone good enough to replace him because you know he is going to miss games. Another 2500 yard season and Mooney and Claypool deciding they can get at least 800 somewhere else means you are basically starting from scratch. Are you going to tag one of them and dish out 20? At that time you are going to think maybe we should have taking Richardson, put a package in like New Orleans did for Hill because everyone knows Richardson needs two years in development. Then your offense does not have to completely change to a statue in the QB position.
Baby him or force him to compete? Man I hate these donning a QB a franchise guy out of the draft. Seems there is no way around it. But part of why I think Poles went with this deal was because he did not want to go from 1 to 4 and then 4 to 9, so I dont see him dropping more. The only no brainer is if the bears were offered Payne and 16 for 9, but he is locked up for 22.5 a season and I do not think he can be moved now. You still have a chance next year with Carolinas pick, but you gotta think the bears pick will be in the teens.
I mean...This post acts as if backup QB isn't an issue for ALL NFL teams. Yes, Fields may get injured...Yes...We need a reasonable backup QB. We may draft one in the later rounds, who knows?
We'll have two first rounders next year. So if Fields busts out, we'll trade up if we need a QB and neither of our picks is high enough to get "our guy." Fields stepping up, just like Trubisky before him, is the best option. Nothing different happening here than any other QB needy team.