Rich Eisen: Why the Chicago Bears are Set Up to Succeed wIth Caleb Williams | The Rich Eisen Show

Rich Eisen describes why the longtime beleaguered and beat-down Chicago Bears fans will have all of their demons exorcized with the presumable arrival of Caleb Williams
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[@markkostecki4558]

Bears fan here. I was already all aboard. Then I saw Caleb dap up Keenan Allen in bears gear and i ascended to football heaven I think

[@KisutoJP]

I concur I was also feeling a lot of feelings 😅

[@america1st721]

just like you did when you took tribisky, Fields, cade mcnowen, rex grossman, kyle orton and harbough? Oh yeah...what could possibly go wrong? Williams is the biggest bust since leaf.

[@Nerm176]

@@america1st721how can he be a bust if he hasn’t played a down in the NFL yet? 🤡

[@TheUnseen0n3]

​@america1st721 good thing you aren't paid to think

[@Gray_Bush]

@@america1st721 You sound like a jealous Carolina fan...😂

[@junjuntwnty5]

Idk if Caleb is the guy. But the bears TEAM is set to be one of the best situations any first qb taken with the first pick has ever entered.

[@xx_-peekabo0-_xx623]

Stop the cap Joe burrow had tee Higgins’s Joe mixon and Tyler Boyd already on the team Jamar chase was a plus after

[@lillangen]

@@xx_-peekabo0-_xx623 Swift/Herbert, Allen, Moore and Kmet is a better group than the players you just mentioned (minus Chase, since he wasn't there when Burrow was drafted)

[@billyboy2108]

Us fans bears suffer from years of bad qb play. People forgot we started Rex Grossman in Super Bowl 😂

[@dariusmorgan8302]

"Wounds of Trubisky...b-side of 'Sounds of Silence'...perfect 😂

[@mattchapman548]

I think what you’re looking for Rich is PTSD - Post Trubisky Stress Disorder

[@jazumi7798]

Bears fans suffer from constant reset at qb trauma. We will see how it plays out. At each reset excitement dwindles and skepticism creeps in.

[@Grizz1yAdams]

Well said. It's all I've known since I wasn't around for '85 ('06 was fun, but who would have guessed QB play was the biggest concern that year and Rex wasn't the guy).

[@justinrakestraw4142]

Because we don't know how to develop a quarterback. When you throw a kid in and expect perfection immediately you set yourself up to fail. Manning didn't do it, Brady didn't do it, Brees didn't do it, Young didn't do it, and Favre didn't do it. The only quarterback I've ever seen go crazy his rookie year is Stroud. I know Rothlesburger was a game manager so he doesn't count in my opinion.

[@georgeismail4192]

​@@justinrakestraw4142And Stroud is about to have that Sophomore slump! Similar to Deshaun Watson!!!

[@fivefour5514]

Exactly right now it’s the shiny new toy everyone especially the Chicago media is excited, but you still have to see how it plays out. Bears have been a qb graveyard qb development suck’s

[@becomingnursechyna]

When the media is too high on a draft prospect, I immediately assume they are going to be trash 🤣

[@HUNCHO1p]

That’s like the top 10-15 prospects every year😂

[@shipwreck8847]

They have two studs at the WR position. If they got Odunze that would be amazing for the future. That would cement them for year to come. I just don't know how long Keenan has left in him to play at an elite level as he's getting older. But I would love to get Odunze. But the easy pick is getting Dallas Turner.

[@shipwreck8847]

@@tengille I'm a chargers fan, I've seen worse. Philip Rivers last year with the chargers he was basically getting a 1 second bombrush.

[@justinrakestraw4142]

The Bears need a left tackle that can anchor in pass rush. Also, I'm not sure we are done at center. I think they feel that they are good at WR. I would have traded back kept Fields and drafted Harrison as well as trading for Keenan Allen. Imagine this you could of had Alt as well! Or Bowers at TE!!!

[@Andy-fg7hm]

Answer: No one will know till Caleb actually plays

[@jamesjross]

I have a feeling he will be the biggest bust in NFL history. we've seen this before.

[@SmittyAZ]

@@jamesjross You said the same thing during the Mahomes hype, right?

[@richmargin6082]

Exactly

[@Hiphiphooray490]

No one knows what the market will do this year with certainty. Yet I’m invested.

[@zonedout5998]

Yes, nobody knows. It’s all assumptions at this point. Now as a football team, they are responsible to have a winning team and try their best to go to the big dance. So GMs will have to made decisions on college tape, a players talent, is the player coachable, do they think the player is capable of making the next step and succeeding with professional coaching, etc., when it comes to draft players. With that said, you have to make your best decision pick based on potential and your due diligence. Then hope everything you reviewed and planned happens. That’s all you can do. That’s the point in this case.

[@sammysam2615]

The media has claimed for months that Williams would instantly make the Bears contenders. I don't want to hear he needs more time, more weapons, more protection and or better play calling. Let's see it. No excuses

[@miken2968]

Never happen.

[@domwilson2505]

Oh shut the hell up. Why are so many bears fans being so near sided about next year? What are we gonna do if we don't make the playoffs? Trade Caleb? Lol. Hope for the best this season but stop being dramatic

[@richmargin6082]

2:13 exactly right. Just ask Cam Sutton 😂

[@martinmelhus7324]

The Bears have a long history of great quarterbacks, and their fan base is totally comfortable with that idea. There's Sid Luckman, and (speaker runs out of room), ....

[@charleshartigan1658]

Love the Partridge family reference. Love you guys!

[@wentzr]

As a bear fan “its been set up” is precisely why so many of us have so much apprehension to go all in on any of it. We’ve seen this movie before. For me it goes back to the 80s when we “scored” the almost heisman winner Jim Harbaugh. Non stop let down since

[@pttthhh]

I get it, but I'm optimistic. As a Cubs fan, this reminds me of their rise. And Poles is the Theo Epstein in this scenario.

[@wentzr]

@@pttthhh thats quite a comparison. Man was that exciting. I just wish my pops lived to see the cubbies win it all. I hope my kid doesn’t have to go through that with the bears and me 🙃

[@joelk7923]

OK, it's official - Rich is finally the one that got me hype for this. 🐻TF⬇️

[@majorturner1687]

I swear because I wasn't feeling it at all when they let Fields go but now I'm interested to see what this upcoming season will bring 🤔

[@michaelcaffrey1897]

Mahomes wouldn't be this good if he went to a different place. Coaching, culture, stability, and not getting rushed in were all part of it.

[@joeiborowski9763]

I think he would had eventually. He probably would not had won 3 SBs, but his talent would had been recognized such as what happened to Stafford. Too much credit given to coaches. 80% of success is the quarterback, all the coach can do is set up best conditions, not perfect conditions for him. Matt Nagy was blamed for Fields failure, he goes to Kansas City as offensive coordinator and wins a SB with Mahomes with no decent receivers except Kelcie and the most dropped passes in the NFL. Same thing with Brady/Belicheck. Brady leaves to Tampa and wins another SB while Belicheck does nothing and gets fired this year wth a 4-13 record. And he was one of the winnigest coaches in NFL history? Why was that? How come his great "coaching skills" didn't transfer to success when Brady left? A good quarterback makes 4-5x more money than a good coach. Now tell me, who is more important for who's success?

[@michaelcaffrey1897]

@@joeiborowski9763 I don't think Brady would have become who he is in another situation either. He eventually became the most important part but wasn't in the beginning.

[@greg334]

Rich, you’re the man 👍🏿

[@oshkoshdom2197]

Life long Bears fan (64 years) it isn't so much the QB we question its will they do to Williams what they did to Trubisky and Fields by not gearing the offensive play calling to his strengths.

[@michaelmanwiller1869]

The Trubisky debacle is what's turning Bears fans off from Drake Maye. Don't trust another North Carolina QB.

[@kevinb6745]

📠

[@Joseph-gm3qm]

As a Bears fan I'd be fine with Caleb or Daniels

[@alexamerling79]

Best roster I have seen a number 1 pick qb to to. 🐻 down!

[@TheDruidicMonkPlays]

As a Bear fan, I deal with this a lot with my family. We have had such bad QB play in our lifetime, that before Fields, our only "Great" QB was Cutler. Every year they are saying Get him more weapons, get him more protection, get him a real OC. The same things we are saying with Fields. And now we have those things, but for Caleb. I'm excited to see Caleb in a Bears jersey, and I think by the end of this season, so will the rest of Bears fans.

[@robjohnston1114]

I wish Rich devoted as much airtime talking about Reuben Kincaid as he does talking about Caleb Williams.

[@TheUnseen0n3]

No one cares

[@iamalan4221]

Tracey rocked that tambourine! 🤘🤘

[@officialSTR1FE]

Yall gonna be talking about us all year! We Up Bear Don

[@tommydavidwalker2445]

I'm a Bears fan but most of my friends who are fans are going through some strange relationship transfer of power struggle with Bustin Fields to Caleb Williams

[@kallusbane2964]

Right 🤣🤣🤣🤣 dudes be riding fields jock hard

[@ji8044]

The big majority of 1st Round QBs fail, so either the Fields fans or the Williams fans will ultimately be proven wrong.

[@justinrakestraw4142]

I wanna hear the nickname you give Caleb when he struggles his first year. Fields got one year with one receiver that was NFL caliber. Williams has two so I expect playoffs or else Poles twerker and Everlose need to go!

[@Alex-dc5mx]

Fields is very good u clearly don't know football

[@miken2968]

No ody like Caleb. He's a bust

[@BRADPARDZS]

The 🐻 would not bring a Keenan Allen to pro day if they want Daniels.

[@misfits12o]

Keenan lives there bro. They didn’t bring him. Tho yea they’re taking Caleb.

[@Mad-genius]

He 's from there. Lol

[@BRADPARDZS]

​@Mad-genius he has no obligation at all to be at usc pro day just because he lives around the area.😂. And no way you're convincing me that a future hall of famer wr was there because he was so excited to see a rookie qb throw a football in his jogging shorts 😂😅😂.

[@Mad-genius]

@BRADPARDZS Didn't say he had an obligation, but guess what genius, his boss, and his bosses boss were there. Tell me, you don't know how the world works without telling me.

[@markvanburen3438]

I'm happy we kept Eberfluse. Consider the options. Harbaugh wasn't an option. Eberfluse is arguably a top 10 or even a top 5 defensive coordinator in the league. I'm happy with him calling the defensive plays as a head coach. Utilizing the talent as well as adding to it ( Not to mention adding to the offence, plus, with Shane Waldren as the offensive coordinator). I'm optimistic, I see a good future in the Chicago Bears. Bear Down!

[@Jonahch2v9]

If playing QB in Chicago wasn't bad enough, the whole way Fields was treated shows what you are getting into. Even as a Bear fan, I'm expecting him to head to Washington.

[@Chicago2714]

Everyone in Chicago KNEW not to take Trubisky. My lord

[@darkrebel2177]

I'm not a bear fan I'm a true bear head. It's way deeper.

[@brycebanghart3739]

This is a great way to look at it. Rich is right, this isn't like last time because Chicago doesn't need a savior. They just need a closer.

[@PhysicalFortitude]

We don’t need a savior but it appears we are chasing one.

[@hookwrench1060]

As a older bears with friends we just shrug. And say wait and see. Bears will ruin another qb. But have hope. Younger guys our kids were pissed and distraught when fields left. And we laughed and said welcome to being a bears fan. Hope Caleb does great. They are trying to set him up to succeed. It looks like.

[@specialist-in-tech]

Another QB named Williams will end up ruining the bears for a decade. They are sucked into the national media hype. National media hype all last year was on Bryce Young. They were pour mouthing CJ stroud bc no good QBs come from OSU. That’s how bad this Caleb hype is.

[@stevekar1597]

this can be special the kid the way he throws the ball sometimes with just a flix of the wrist reminds me of Aaron rodgers

[@chuckhampton142]

Yes, exactly.

[@Iceviper36ify]

Insane the amount of disrespect Trubisky gets... Threw 6 TDs in one game 2018 Year 3rd in QBR That drive to set up the double doink NEVER THREW A PICK SIX People make him out to be SOOO bad YOU OWE HIM A THANK YOU POST CHICAGO BEARS

[@ragnarocking]

The Bears offense is nearly set (maybe a question on the O-Line) and we all know Caleb has talent. It's all about the OC and if he can make it work, and be flexible enough to tune/fix the offense when it doesn't. From my understanding of the reasoning Poles' gave for selecting Waldron - the latter quality is the reason he hired him. We'll see. I predict several _bad_ games by Caleb with several eye-opening, jaw-dropping (to a QB starved Bears fan, anyway) games in between that will remind us of why we selected him. Bears fans that keep predicting a deep playoff run need to temper their expectations and be realistic. Don't expect a Stroud-like season - those only come once in a millennia

[@ramsenn2680]

Bears can pass rush?… as a bears fan 🤔

[@ninjalbatross]

We do this every 3 years. The only franchise without a 4,000 yard passer. They are guilty until proven innocent. This is also the same guy that was gloating over landing Rodgers and that it was the Jets time blah blah blah... we all saw how that worked out

[@BB-bp7vx]

No problem computing Caleb coming to Chicago at all. Let's go Bears!

[@antwanterry9772]

Williams about to have half da bears nation painting their nails next year😂😂😂

[@chimorriegeorge7284]

😂 you better invest in nail salons , nail polish companies ect right now cause if he comes out ,week one, on 🔥, then its over 😂...

[@paulcusentino4917]

High 1st round 3rd time is a charm

[@dionisiosanchez9080]

Is he aware that we haven’t had trubisky for some time. So why keep talking about it. We aren’t going from trubisky to Williams we’re going from fields to Williams. Gotta love that this guys literally just talk and don’t have any thing smart to say ever!

[@aaroncody9775]

As a Bears fan since I was 6 years old and I’m 34 do we really think that going and getting pieces and throwing a rookie qb in gone change our culture in here for it… it’s the same thing every few years we starting over at qb I’m bout tired of being a bears fan they been making horrible decisions since they fired Lovie Smith and gave Brian Urlacher!! This season is bust or win for me I don’t care who they have or I will no longer have a football team ‼️💯

[@roberttosa2560]

The Bears will find a way to screw this up. They always do.

[@Hiphiphooray490]

Noodle armed Tyson Bagent, without a center or Keenan Allen, was 2 of 4 last year.

[@wol4djr]

You also said Wilson is better than Trevor Lawrence. Guess you were wrong!

[@patrickkirkham]

Set up everywhere except for the OLine, so they better use the 9th pick for an OLineman since they only have two more picks after

[@tweezerd]

Line should be middle of the pack at least, which they were last year. 2 young and solid tackles even if braxton isnt the best, 2 good guards, and finally an actual center even if he isn't great. Depth still a concern though as their interior been injured a lot. Would be pretty happy if Alt is there at 9 but won't be upset if it's WR or DE.

[@mojorisin54]

I think the Bears want Washimgton to think they are gonna draft Caleb Williams so they can get more to trade picks. I think Bears go for Daniels from LSU or Penix from Universoty of Washington

[@sJ-bb8lr]

Until its time for contract negotiation 😂😂😂😂😂 then back to square one ..thats the chicago bear way

[@vernellgarrett3485]

~ All season long the narrative was "Caleb is bigger than Patrick Mahomes". Dude officially measured at 6ft. tall. Bears fans can start worrying now . . . ~

[@johnreape4353]

Williams is 6', 7/8, virtually 6'1"

[@justinrakestraw4142]

I'm a Bears fan for 46 years. I believed Poles when he talked building teams for the long haul through the draft. The Bears only have 4 picks this draft. Fields is gone so there's no whipping boy you can blame. If the Bears draft Caleb and he doesn't immediately take off the coach and GM have to go! If you expect Fields to win in one year when given one receiver I expect Williams to do better. I personally would still trade back and build for the haul like Poles once said.

[@TheUnseen0n3]

68 turnovers in 3 seasons. Never beat the Packers. 10-28 record. Never thrown for 400 yards or even 300. Fields wasn't a whipping boy he was a bust.

[@Sam_1205]

Right, he better come in his rookie year and light the world on fire............or else.....

[@miken2968]

Luv seeing Bears fans excited. Will love it more when he's a Huge BUST

[@Sneakycastro69]

You’re gonna be extremely disappointed than

[@miken2968]

@@Sneakycastro69 bet

[@mrjasonlazarus]

I listen to this guy at 1.5 speed he’s real a slow talker

[@smodiddley]

Dude probably said the same thing when the Bears got Fields in the first place 😂

[@coreygarnett5826]

I have a Trubisky and Fields jersey.. I’m never going to buy another Chicago Bears Quarterback jersey again..

[@richardcranium5801]

Just buy an urlacher or Hester jersey and call it a day brother

[@JimSchranz-ow4qu]

Me too, next time it's 51 and l'm done

[@abadwaluwm2128]

Yes you will shut up!

[@coreygarnett5826]

@@abadwaluwm2128 when it comes to my team(Da bears) don’t count on it and are you a cheesehead??

[@TheTominator]

To my everlasting shame, I bought a Grossman jersey in ‘06. I learned my lesson too.

[@chidrax1694]

Bears fans & haters are going to be watching Rich! Stay tuned sports fans

[@markpantoja2797]

Caleb/Bears has the feel of watching an arranged marriage be arranged.

[@MisterBlaine102]

Long time Bears fan here. Bears will spend years destroying Williams, and then trade him.

[@robbiegoff7713]

Post Traumatic Tribinsky Disorder is a real thing.

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

"You're going to give millions of dollars and you don't want an a hole on the team"... why not?! The Jets did it! 😂

[@rons3634]

Fortunately, Poles has built the roster to the point that even if the starter was Bagent, they would still be fighting for a playoff spot this year. Williams would have to be atrocious (which he most likely won't be) to keep the Bears out of playoff contention. I'm not on the "he's gonna be a bust" train but I haven't drunk the "he's the second coming of Mahomes" Koolaid either. We'll just have to see.

[@SmittyAZ]

Why won't Caleb get a Trevor? Does anyone hold Trevor's rookie season against him? Was he considered a bust?

[@tamoiwilliams8730]

Rinse and repeat every 3 years now. I’m not sold on this new regime ability to develop a quarterback. You can’t blame the next leadership for what the precedent is but you can see the same trends and thought processes from the last regime but the allure of a new regime disguises it.

[@MykeyGHarris]

As soon as Chicago loses a few games, we will see what Mr Williams is all about. Fields did the grunt work of the rebuild, now Williams must take advantage of this situation.

[@johnreape4353]

Fields was far and away the #1 reason the " rebuild", was so painful!!

[@johnreape4353]

Fields was 10 - 28. He isn't an NFL calibre starting qb!!

[@thinkof2morrow]

Back then Mahomes could have flamed out of the NFL if he was drafted by that Bears Regime.

[@jimough2441]

Third at best for the foreseeable future, no matter what they do.

[@tsrgoinc]

I smell Bo Callaghan!

[@scottbaker5998]

PTDD - Post Trubisky Draft Disorder. I just pray that we avoid the pandemic of the White Sox, where we can't keep him on the field for more than 60% of a season.

[@double051]

Sharing a division with the Packers and the new Lions makes it tough for the Bears.

[@dannyevilcat]

We're not stuck in the North with them, they're gonna be stuck in here with us 😀

[@xxsweetnessxx3474]

No it doesn't

[@FrankieLunn]

Bears showed they can hang with the Lions. For some unknown reason we just haven’t against the Pack. I’m ready for Caleb Williams to lead us

[@michaelmanwiller1869]

The Bears are just as likely to make it tough on the Peckers and Lambs

[@johnreape4353]

@@FrankieLunn The " unknown reason", has the initials , J F!!

[@codysmith1915]

Mahomes is not the current version without going tocany ried

[@theman8034]

Bears rebuild reminds me of the Cowboys rebuild in the early 90s. If Caleb is as good as he is, I feel like they can be the surprise team that comes out and takes the NFL by storm, not to mention the NFC isn’t as tough as the AFC.

[@Raider870]

Tell me you dont want me to draft you without telling me he doesn't care about the number 1 pick he clearly let everyone know what teams he wants to go to 😂😂😂

[@denisryle6410]

The Da Bears are trying to Change there culture. Give Poles credit for getting this far .

[@johnw1420]

If we dont at least, make the playoffs this season, idk.

[@anz2441]

Waldron is key !

[@Zorn76]

I dunno. USC qbs... The Bears still have an F.O. problem they can never fix.

[@specialist-in-tech]

Caleb does not want to be a Bear. You can see it in his vibe, he demeanor and the way he talks. He was trying to keep his cool, but he knows one way or the other the Commanders will nab Caleb. He keeps himself to distant around the bears, and even when he saw Keenan. Said he’s known him for a year. Magic johnson is crafty business dealer and he got cliff to DC for a reason. Calen wants his guys. Kliff, magic, the Commanders.

[@Sam_1205]

Even if this is true.....assuming you somehow have inside information because he has NEVER said that. Guess who has the #1 pick and who doesn't. Caleb is going to Chicago!

[@robertbougher8820]

If Bears fans don’t want Caleb they’re insane. I’m a Rams fan and would trade anything they wanted for the right to draft him.

[@joeiborowski9763]

True Bears fan do, the rest (minority) are wannabe lovers of Fields.

[@pauloshman6188]

I'm Fields fan. It sucks they used him. To be in this situation of drafting Williams. Push back time to pay quarterback.

[@bourbontrail565]

CW Will have his own draft show at the Motown Casino. It’s ALL about him. Nothing else matters.

[@brianwoodland9712]

"Post-Traumatic Trubisky"?...no...the wounds of Bears fans are at least 12 - 13 years old .

[@miketemple7686]

No, Mitch Trubisky isn’t walking through that door. But you know who did less than 24 months ago, with just as much fanfare, if not more, than Williams? None other than Justin Fields. Chicago is the place where QB careers go to die before they get started. Twenty four months from now Caleb Williams won’t be in Chicago. He’ll be playing in Denver.

[@johnreape4353]

Jayden Daniels isn't the #2 qb. Drake Maye is clearly above Daniels. Mc Carthy could possibly be drafted ahead of Daniels also.

[@7Ahmawan7]

Meth is bad for you…

[@kavid8120]

A path has been laid….lets hope he doesn’t squander it.

[@mikebedford4537]

We would rather have Poles trade back and start Bagent then waste a pick on one of these QBs

[@R17759]

Who is “we”

[@mystimallow]

I definitely don’t want Bagent starting 😂

[@lynnglidewell7367]

Schedule. The all important 2024 schedule has to known first before anything else. Will The Bears play their hated nemesis Green Bay at the front of it? If so Caleb Williams and Keenan Allen probably won't be ready for it. Their timing won't have jelled yet. Chicago needs to settle down and wait to see the schedule before they get all ramped up and grow mile high expectations.

[@GlC111]

Go Bears.

[@kurtisp6901]

As a Packer fan I love this move. Caleb Williams will help keep the Bears in obscurity for at least 2 or 3 years until he joins the likes of Vince Young, Ja Marcus Russell,RG3, or just about any one the Browns have drafted or traded at quarterback for the last 15 years, Willams may have the skill but his head is in the wrong place and will be yet another bust for Chicago.

[@baseballdude3100]

Haha! Please, you would have been more worried if the Bears kept Fields ?? 1st round QB's are always risky picks but it was the right move. Goodluck with Love. That GB offense lived and died with a healthy Aaron Jones. Now getting rid of him, that's a move I love.

[@John__Dough]

I’m not buying it. You’re just a Fields fan boy pretending to be a Packer fan. lol

[@oo-hk6zd]

More like wounds from 86 when we knew it was over.

[@Droski_Rodriguez19]

To you guys bashing the bears, clearly you aren’t paying enough attention to what the bears were when Ryan poles arrived to what they’ve become, and now can be of Williams pans out

[@stevenbarnes8238]

I just dont want to be " owned " by a qb from a nearby rival anymore so...

[@tomwest5107]

i don't doubt that caleb can elevate a deflated bears team but i feel like he may ultimately disappoint. listening to him i really don't think he has it, whatever it is. sometimes you just know. you listen to cj stroud and you know he has it.

[@mrlaw711]

A look back - Justin Fields had a better pro day than Caleb Williams, and a 70 yard throw to exceed CW's 65 yard throw. Much more pressure on CW because he has to win two of his first three games because every player in the NFL know that with the players the Bears signed, JF would win 10 + games this season.

[@robbers91]

Fields sucks and was gonna hold this team back if we kept him

[@Sam_1205]

His Pro day was better? LOL! Caleb walks into Chicago a better QB from jump

[@specialist-in-tech]

Caleb’s going to be traded to Commanders. Commanders also want Caleb’s badly. They are underplaying his hand. So you could be underestimating the power of magic Johnson’s and his relationship with Kliff and Caleb’s dad Carl. Chicago bear fans know something could be happening behind the scenes.

[@johninphx9360]

I dont think his small size will translate to NFL. He is short and NEEDS to get out of the poket to see the field. NFL lineman are only getting bigger. A smaller QB is gonna have a hard time in modern NFL. I'd take Maye just for his size. Trading #1 for 2 and a pick makes much more sense to me.

[@mickelkobeck7376]

The "cryin man" will be a BUST of epic proportions. EPIC.

[@tsrgoinc]

Exactly my thoughts!

[@mikearnold7277]

One of my first sports memories was watching Walter Payton cry on the sidelines. So…

[@mickelkobeck7376]

@@mikearnold7277 On his mother's shoulder? LMAO

[@Bryan-ig2zp]

Worse than a 6 round pick?

[@edwardsaucedo9223]

Chicago does things a day late.

[@keithcrook8591]

Can see it now. Justin Fields is the starting QB of the Steelers in the playoffs but hey, “it’s only because he’s on such a good team.” Caleb struggles and like Trevor every excuse in the world is made for him.

[@andylarkin5779]

He's not even starting.

[@MajorPaign]

🙄

[@keithcrook8591]

He will by playoff time. Probably long before that

[@joshuagaines6829]

Delusional. Caleb will have better stats this year than fields ever did here with more wins. He's a better thrower of the football by such a wide margin

[@ArmorOfZeus]

​@@keithcrook8591LMAO, living in fantasy land

[@micahcotten6841]

They're giving Caleb Everything that they wouldn't give Fields. Fields #1 WR was Darnell Mooney for 2 years, then they give him DJ Moore and he did well. Now they give Caleb DJ Moore and Keenan Allen, and possibly Odunze or Bowers, Fields never had weapons like that, he never had a chance.

[@okstever]

The previous regime did that. You can't blame Ryan Poles for doing what's right for the Bears long term. I love JF, I hope he goes on to win with Pittsburg, I truly believe he is a top tier QB in this league. It sucks that he was put in the position he was but Poles is doing the right thing for the franchise here.

[@jordanw1649]

ok you say he did well but compared to 2022... His qbr went down His rating was the same He took more sacks. And barely cracked 2500 yards. In the end I don't totally disagree with you. But this was the obvious decision due to what the rookie QB contract allows for the rest of the roster. We had one cost controlled year of Fields before possibly overpaying for his services. I think it's telling that he didn't even land a starting job.

[@creightonc8147]

Yeah Poles had to come in and clean house when he got here, Pace left a mess, bloated contracts, offense was a disaster, he didn’t have a choice and said exactly what he was going to do, tare it down. That wasn’t because of Justin, it was because of everything else. Poles never judged him on year 2, he understood the problems. But he did bring in Moore, he did draft Wright. He didn’t judge Justin based off the defense having a bad game. But he looked at other things, the slow drop back, the slow release, the hitches, the 4th quarter collapses and interceptions, the inability to throw over the middle. These are not scheme problems, they are not issues with personnel, these are QB problems. He didn’t play well enough. And now for some reason you want him to not keep improving the team. Guy did a tare down his first year, and look at all the pieces he has added in the following two off seasons. He plans to keep doing that because it’s what is best for the Bears.

[@caseysager655]

After 3 years of having the lowest 4th quarter completion % and near the top in 4th quarter interceptions you have to start laying some of the blame on the guy playing the position.

[@VvVT734]

@@caseysager655numbers can be twisted anyway you want. Most of that blame goes on the Bears franchise.

[@LuvtheJEm]

Stop it. If mahomes went to the Bears, he'd be in the same boat as trubisky. They're not a team that's good at developing a qb. They still need an o-line, they still need another TE, they need more receivers and a running game. The defense doesn't pass rush very well, their play is a rollercoaster. And apparently, we're ignoring that their HC is on the hot seat, the GM might be on the hot seat and unless they hired waldron to take eberfleus' job when he inevitably gets fired, there will be a new offensive system next year, too. I take no joy in saying this and I hope I'm wrong, the one consistent thread throughout all the failure has been ownership, until that isn't the case, I'm going to expect more of the same.

[@darkrebel2177]

Bear head get it right.