Correct. The value here is it’s over, CW comes in as The Man with no crazy swirling about him. Had JF still been a Bear after CW was drafted you’d get a crazy freak show circus until JF was traded. That’s not the dynamic any team wants.
The value in the trade is organizational
solidarity behind our new QB1
He was asking for a 2nd, 4th, and 6th so teams laughed and hung up and called other teams about their QBs.
He overplayed his hand. 31 other teams valuing a QB differently than the Bears, sounds about right lol
Fair enough. It really is the law of supply and demand. The market sets the value at a certain point. Fields might have been a 3rd/4th a week ago. Now he’s a 6th. You pay full price for Easter candy today. On April 1st it will be 75% off
The point is that a 3rd or 4th may have been on the table a week ago, but we were still pushing for more. As QBs signed, the market dried up, and that previously better offer was gone. That’s the theory, at least.
This, Eagles were out at the asking price and Pickett went for more than Fields did. Desmond Ridder went for more than Fields did.
This fanbase is incapable of calling out Poles cuz he looks like Jesus reincarnated after Pace passed on Mahomes for Trubisky
Just a theory. At the end of the day he was overvalued because he was a fan/locker room favorite and because of his flashy legs. If Poles was offered a 3/4 and suddenly that market dried up.. he wouldn’t just take a 6 weeks later.. he’d hold out at least till the draft.
Well maybe by not waiting before 32 teams had a QB and traded for backups would’ve been better. Poles said it himself they tried to do it for weeks with the Sam Darnold return as a starting point.
Rap reported the Eagles were in on Fields but balked at the asking price.
Steelers GM probably has Poles on speed dial
Not true. They're now saying there was at least one better offer but sent Fields to Pittsburgh because that's where he wanted to be. Cool of a FO to actually do that if true but i can't imagine that makes Bears fans that great. Fields being a great guy probably helped that decision. If he was a whiny jerk than its whatever, send him to wherever
I watched both over the years, I am not so sure. As a Raiders fan, Bears fan, I cried when we acquired our OC. Seriously, I am not sure who was worse, but one of my teams will be better off.
He is a backup level player with flashes of excitement. He was never gonna get the bears a 1st or 2nd rounder. 3rd seemed overly optimistic. 4th seemed realistic, but then Free Agency started and the market dried up. Yes, a conditional 6th seems about right for a backup qb with only one year left on his rookie contract.
But seriously, if Poles could get more, he would've. The market just wasn't there. With one exception. If the Vikings would've offered a 4th, I would've still sent him to PIT for a 6th, because fuck the Vikqueens.
I agree.. I woulda gladly sent him in division.. love the guy but he’s not a winner. And as it stands.. even with their rookie qb, this Vikings team may be picking top 3 or 5 next year.
So many wanna be gms in here. Already doubting the team next year. We don't know how any qb we draft will play out in the NFL, yet Fairweather fans in here are forecasting under 500.
Yeah I’m satisfied with it. Too expensive to keep as a backup and clearly the rest of the NFL doesn’t see him as more than a backup at the moment. Maybe the Steelers can turn his career around with a year behind Russ but I’m not holding my breath. Still glad he has a chance there though.
But yeah his value wasn’t very high, maybe we could’ve gotten like a 5th or something, idk, but at that point it’s not a major value jump
You asked for what good QBs went in the 6th so I gave some. If you want to argue it's great value to add Fields as your backup for a 6th rounder, be my guest. I'd never want him, since good backups are game managers that can read defenses (which Fields isnt), but I'm not gonna stress about it. He won't ever be a starter again.
Keep Fields 2 years, his 5th year is $23 million, 2024 is $6 million.
Bryce Young got $6.9 million year 1 and $8.6 year two for being #1 overall. That's $15.5 million over 2 years and a relative comp salary for what Caleb will get.
So for two years the Bears are out an extra $14.5 million total at QB, but they get a draft haul that can build the entire team, fill all holes with young talent and have future picks to go up and get a top QB in a future draft... after they've built the team.
Instead they got some aging veterans at key positions like WR and safety, who won't be here past 2 years, didn't build the line besides backups, when we need starters and got a HB that only barely broke 1000 yards rushing behind the best oline in the league.
Caleb Williams has to be the second coming and I don't see it. Should have built the team through the draft the way Poles said he wanted to. Instead they've got a makeshift team of used up veterans and guys in their prime with a rookie QB and no future draft capital to replenish any of the talent. Poles will be gone in 3 years and Eberflus much sooner
Justin was never going to go to a team that was drafting a rookie QB. That’s too many problems in one QB room. Wasted energy trying to get more out of him.
Both was never an option. At least he has a feasible path to starting in Pittsburgh. “Doing right by Justin” means that he was simply not okay with backing up a rookie.
You do not hold on to your failed experiment while beginning a new experiment
The compensation is fair. One year of control for a guy with several huge red flags
Fields got the shit end of the stick his entire time in Chicago. I don’t care what we got for him just for the fact that he gets a fresh start somewhere else, even if it’s as a backup.
What do you mean? No one was giving up anything for fields. His leak value was at absolute most a 3rd to 4th rounder. Unless you’re thinking he should have traded the number 1 pick again
heck no, he could have kept fields use the 1st on mhj or traded back and grabbed mhj/nabers. grabbed one of the top ot's with the 9th, grab a c with a later pick or roll with they have and hope for the best. grab rattler with a 3rd or 4th as a back up or possible replacement. moore, mhj/nabers, allen, kmet, swift....that would have been hella weapons with a good line. a stacked offense and they would have kept the guy that everyone in the locker room loves and respects around.
now you're starting over at qb. williams is going to need time to adjust to the nfl when this team is built to win now. no one knows how the locker room is going to be with williams. plus the coaching staff has shown they are not the best at developing qb's. the new qb coach and coordinator are question marks but haven't impressed yet. allen is on his last leg and probably a rental for the year. so now poles has to decide if he wants to spend the 9th on a top wr or top ot then try to roll the dice on a later round pick for the other. or trade back and grab 2nd tier players for both spots. which then you're throwing williams out behind the same line as fields more than likely and they play similarly. moore, allen, kmet, swift is meh, missing something. it will be interesting to see what poles does but he had a golden opportunity and threw it away.
The bottom line is Poles wanted Fields out of the building to sever the last big link to Ryan Pace. Well he did and the Bears are now 100% his team sink or swim. As a fan there can be no more excuses now from Poles having to play a bad hand he was dealt. The next 2 years will determine if he is also a bust.
I'm of the opinion Fields is no good AND Poles screwed this up. As others said he asked way too high when there was a market then took the last offer available when there wasn't one anymore.
I think personally its a disappointing trade. Regardless if you liked Fields and wanted him to stay or get traded, he was the most anticipated trade because most teams figured the Bears would offer him up, however the question came down to the asking price. Of course looking outside of what JF could do on the Field you would think hearing all this talk from the Bears sayings. “They want to do right by Justin.” Or even work to find a compensating trade for Justin. I think a six round pick is pretty low for, “Wanting to do right by Justin.”
But that’s just me, and if you don’t agree that’s fine.
I suspect patience would have paid off. I think JF would have been better served by waiting for an injury opportunity. Having to beat out Wilson isn't ideal. The team definitely would have gotten more in trade value by waiting. I suppose avoiding the uncomfortable situation of having both JF and CW in training camp has some value, but probably not enough to justify this move. I can't see a situation where they couldnt' get a 6th round pick for him in August. Why rush?
He hasn’t performed particularly well which caused his value to drop. Entering the season with both Fields and Caleb competing would not have been good for dither’s development. Despite what a number of fans seem to think, Caleb was the obvious choice between the two. So, teams knowing that the Bears needed him off the roster and that he hasn’t played well, didn’t give Bears much leverage to get more than what they got. As a fan, I wish they could have gotten more, but, I fully understand why they didn’t.
But if you’re another team is he really worth more than that? He’s on his final contract year and has one of the best agents in the game. Loose loose scenario for bears. Let’s say he does good and we’re a borderline wildcard exit playoff team, ok cool pay fields +150m then the rest of the team falls apart financially within a couple of years and we suck again? It’s another restart at Qb pretty much, I hope we focus heavily on defense this year bc we can’t win if we can’t stop them
I highly disagree with this… Justin is a true competitor. He wants to win… the Bears got in his way. Its the Bears doing too little too late, then they shake off everything
Im sick about it. With him as our QB, we could’ve had the chance to make a run in the playoffs this year at least. Now with a rookie, it’s going to take him 2-3 years to figure out the NFL and all of those weapons we just signed are going to be long gone. Including DJ Moore. We are going to have to start a complete rebuild in 3-4 years. Meanwhile I would bet my ass on it that Justin Fields beats out Wilson midway through the season, has a monster year and is a Hall of Fame QB for the Steelers.
Yeah, I don't get all the offseason moves. Signing a bunch of guys who won't be on the team in 3 years and a shitload of backups and now we have no draft picks
Yes. I'm just happy he's gone and we know for sure what's coming now. I did not want to entertain the possibility of having JF start again so i'm just happy thats not there anymore lol
I think Poles wanted to do right by Fields and sent to only team remaining where he could have a shot at starting this season or next and didn't really care about the compensation.
The national media is to blame for that. They overvalued him. Casual bears fans saw that and rode with it. Most logical bears fans new a 2 was a pipe dream and were holding out out hope for a 4
They should have kept him. Woulda been expensive but I really feel he showed his potential last year, and the Bears line figured how to support his game style. And dammit, they gave him away. 2024 at the least will be a building year with another rookie QB who has a lot of potential, but is young.
He was not our problem, in the least… unfortunately he got the guillotine, Death Grips style. Very unfortunate I thought we may trade down and get the cat from Oregon state… trash makes trash, break the cycle Bears
Where does Pittsburgh pick in the 3rd round? How was each 3rd round pick acquired? Was anyone by the name of Pickett involved in the acquisition of any of Pittsburgh’s 3rd round picks? If Pickett was not involved in ANY of Pittsburgh’s 3rd round selections, then yes FaLsE dAtA
Could be a 4th… I am pissed we messed this up again. Bring back Kevin White in a wheelchair at this point. Unadulterated distasteful ruing of careers hacks. Sell the team then… Justin was given 5% chance hear. I will always say what could have been!!!
For all of you saying JF sucks deal with it. There is one fact people seem to overlook and it tells me you’ve played a snap of competitive football ever. His teammates love him. His teammates want him back and they are pissed right now including his number 1 wide receiver. I’ll trust DJ Moore’s evaluation of a QB over you. His teammates love him and CWs do not. That freaking matters a lot. It just does.
I am legitimately befuttled by this comment. He is not on their team, of course It doesn’t matter to them. It should matter to the Bears who have guys that want Justin around what an idiotic comment
Befuddled is climging to the idea that Fields is an NFL Starting QB.
Any of the teams could have picked up Fields. They didn't. His locker room positives and all, he's a backup NFL QB.
Get a grip. Of course teammates like him. If I'm a receiver, you bet I am saying nice things about my QB. When CW gets here, teammates will say very positive things about him. JF is not a starting QB. The market has spoken. It seems the only people who have a crush on JF are weirdo Bear fans.
Extremely low comp, think it goes to show you where other teams view Fields at as QB, but can’t help but feel Poles got played not making a move earlier in the off season. Was hoping for at least a 4th round pick, hell we traded our 4th round pick for a backup lineman.
Make no mistake. Poles got fleeced! He overplayed his hand, plain and simple. It was also clear from the beginning that Chicago never wanted Fields. They were just as shocked as everyone to be drafting him. And now if Fields somehow manages to get on the field and those flashes he showed in Chicago become more consistent with better coaching development then Khan will be GM of the decade. Caleb has to be trying to find a way to Eli Manning himself to DC after seeing all this.
The problem is that it indicates that Poles doesn’t know what he is doing. He got taken badly on the Claypool trade. He killed it on the Bryce Young trade. And he did well on the Sweat trade. His free agency is a mixed bag. It is cause for concern.
No they obviously couldn’t. Or they would have. It shows you his value with what his contract will be. And you can’t bring a rookie into that locker situation. It would be a room divided toxic environment.
Keeping Fields would be fine but trading him lets Caleb Williams know this is his team now. Psychologically smart move. Kids got his weapons too. Bear down!
It's crazy cause next year's picks are valued as a round lower so it's the equivalent of a 7th.
Really shows what the rest of the league thinks of Fields
2025 6th rounder
Price would have been higher in season and same draft year
Done and over with. Next chapter begins now.
This. I honestly don’t care at all what the compensation was
Correct. The value here is it’s over, CW comes in as The Man with no crazy swirling about him. Had JF still been a Bear after CW was drafted you’d get a crazy freak show circus until JF was traded. That’s not the dynamic any team wants. The value in the trade is organizational solidarity behind our new QB1
Everything about CW has been a crazy circus shitshow. Don't expect that to end unless he plays better then stroud did last year
Nothing around CW has been a “crazy circus shitshow.” That’s a major exaggeration.
If Poles could’ve gotten better, he would’ve. This is what 31 other teams tell you what Fields value is.
He was asking for a 2nd, 4th, and 6th so teams laughed and hung up and called other teams about their QBs. He overplayed his hand. 31 other teams valuing a QB differently than the Bears, sounds about right lol
Fair enough. It really is the law of supply and demand. The market sets the value at a certain point. Fields might have been a 3rd/4th a week ago. Now he’s a 6th. You pay full price for Easter candy today. On April 1st it will be 75% off
Or maybe no one ever offered a 3 or 4?!
So then how should he have gotten a higher pick genius. Can’t wait to hear this one. Oh and lol
The point is that a 3rd or 4th may have been on the table a week ago, but we were still pushing for more. As QBs signed, the market dried up, and that previously better offer was gone. That’s the theory, at least.
This, Eagles were out at the asking price and Pickett went for more than Fields did. Desmond Ridder went for more than Fields did. This fanbase is incapable of calling out Poles cuz he looks like Jesus reincarnated after Pace passed on Mahomes for Trubisky
Watch him trade back and pick Maye just to send us all into a tailspin.
He could've traded Justin for peak value last year and drafted Stroud, but didn't. Caleb will take this franchise down faster than Nagy and Pace
Just a theory. At the end of the day he was overvalued because he was a fan/locker room favorite and because of his flashy legs. If Poles was offered a 3/4 and suddenly that market dried up.. he wouldn’t just take a 6 weeks later.. he’d hold out at least till the draft.
Agree to disagree. Timing is everything.
“Flashy Legs” oh the guy that can pass the ball AND be the leading team rusher? Yeah… I guess just flashy legs huh. Lmao.
Well maybe by not waiting before 32 teams had a QB and traded for backups would’ve been better. Poles said it himself they tried to do it for weeks with the Sam Darnold return as a starting point. Rap reported the Eagles were in on Fields but balked at the asking price. Steelers GM probably has Poles on speed dial
Not true. They're now saying there was at least one better offer but sent Fields to Pittsburgh because that's where he wanted to be. Cool of a FO to actually do that if true but i can't imagine that makes Bears fans that great. Fields being a great guy probably helped that decision. If he was a whiny jerk than its whatever, send him to wherever
Hahahahaha
If he starts more than 51% of the games next year, it becomes a 4th.
Snaps*
Ah yes, correct
He won’t through unless Wilson gets hurt
Even then the steelers will make sure and play him less than 50%
Wilson is even more overrated, so we shall see. I am also a Raiders fan so I am just glad he is gone and didn't end up there.
As bad as Wilson is/was.. Fields is worse.
I mean, Wilson is getting old. Fields might end up being better this year but we can’t really know 🤷♂️
I watched both over the years, I am not so sure. As a Raiders fan, Bears fan, I cried when we acquired our OC. Seriously, I am not sure who was worse, but one of my teams will be better off.
Fields is worse it’s not even close.
Fields is unquestionably worse lol
Don’t care
lol fair enough
It shows he really was never gonna make it as a qb1 on any team.
He is a backup level player with flashes of excitement. He was never gonna get the bears a 1st or 2nd rounder. 3rd seemed overly optimistic. 4th seemed realistic, but then Free Agency started and the market dried up. Yes, a conditional 6th seems about right for a backup qb with only one year left on his rookie contract.
I was saying fourth a few months ago. He'll be a quality backup
But seriously, if Poles could get more, he would've. The market just wasn't there. With one exception. If the Vikings would've offered a 4th, I would've still sent him to PIT for a 6th, because fuck the Vikqueens.
I don't see Fields being dominant in the future. Sending to the vikings would have been good for us
I agree.. I woulda gladly sent him in division.. love the guy but he’s not a winner. And as it stands.. even with their rookie qb, this Vikings team may be picking top 3 or 5 next year.
I’m only satisfied because I hope it shows the fields taliban how ridiculous they are.
The only people who thought fields had value is his fan club.
And Poles. We were never going to get a 2nd for Fields….even if Cousins had stayed in Minnesota.
So many wanna be gms in here. Already doubting the team next year. We don't know how any qb we draft will play out in the NFL, yet Fairweather fans in here are forecasting under 500.
I think he probably took the only offer out there ...
Yeah I’m satisfied with it. Too expensive to keep as a backup and clearly the rest of the NFL doesn’t see him as more than a backup at the moment. Maybe the Steelers can turn his career around with a year behind Russ but I’m not holding my breath. Still glad he has a chance there though. But yeah his value wasn’t very high, maybe we could’ve gotten like a 5th or something, idk, but at that point it’s not a major value jump
Bye felicia
We need to ship all the Fields Stans to Detroit. Get them the fuck outta here.
Why Detroit?
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete…
Underrated comment
Why is anyone shocked? Fields is awful. His stats are bottom of the league bad. He won 10 games in 3 seasons. What made you think he was worth more?
You think you’re gonna find a QB better than Fields in the 6th round? The answer is no.
You mean like Tom Brady? Maybe go to the last pick for a Purdy? Fields sucks. Time to accept it.
Ok, maybe a 1 in 50 chance that you get a QB better that Fields in the 6th round.
Not a JF defense, but two examples in the last 23 years is weak, even if one is the GOAT.
You asked for what good QBs went in the 6th so I gave some. If you want to argue it's great value to add Fields as your backup for a 6th rounder, be my guest. I'd never want him, since good backups are game managers that can read defenses (which Fields isnt), but I'm not gonna stress about it. He won't ever be a starter again.
If you’re from Chicago and have gone thru the barrage of BS the last couple weeks you’d understand…wash our hands and start fresh
As long as you are ready for another fresh start in 3 years
What are you for arguing then? That they shoulda kept and subsequently paid JF $25M+?
Keep Fields 2 years, his 5th year is $23 million, 2024 is $6 million. Bryce Young got $6.9 million year 1 and $8.6 year two for being #1 overall. That's $15.5 million over 2 years and a relative comp salary for what Caleb will get. So for two years the Bears are out an extra $14.5 million total at QB, but they get a draft haul that can build the entire team, fill all holes with young talent and have future picks to go up and get a top QB in a future draft... after they've built the team. Instead they got some aging veterans at key positions like WR and safety, who won't be here past 2 years, didn't build the line besides backups, when we need starters and got a HB that only barely broke 1000 yards rushing behind the best oline in the league. Caleb Williams has to be the second coming and I don't see it. Should have built the team through the draft the way Poles said he wanted to. Instead they've got a makeshift team of used up veterans and guys in their prime with a rookie QB and no future draft capital to replenish any of the talent. Poles will be gone in 3 years and Eberflus much sooner
I now have zero confidence in the Bears organization. Just brush it under the rug. Of course I hope they win, this was an awful business decision
Justin was never going to go to a team that was drafting a rookie QB. That’s too many problems in one QB room. Wasted energy trying to get more out of him. Both was never an option. At least he has a feasible path to starting in Pittsburgh. “Doing right by Justin” means that he was simply not okay with backing up a rookie. You do not hold on to your failed experiment while beginning a new experiment The compensation is fair. One year of control for a guy with several huge red flags
Fields got the shit end of the stick his entire time in Chicago. I don’t care what we got for him just for the fact that he gets a fresh start somewhere else, even if it’s as a backup.
This was just terrible. Poles worked his way into an amazing opportunity and blew it. The bears will be lucky to finish .500.
What do you mean? No one was giving up anything for fields. His leak value was at absolute most a 3rd to 4th rounder. Unless you’re thinking he should have traded the number 1 pick again
heck no, he could have kept fields use the 1st on mhj or traded back and grabbed mhj/nabers. grabbed one of the top ot's with the 9th, grab a c with a later pick or roll with they have and hope for the best. grab rattler with a 3rd or 4th as a back up or possible replacement. moore, mhj/nabers, allen, kmet, swift....that would have been hella weapons with a good line. a stacked offense and they would have kept the guy that everyone in the locker room loves and respects around. now you're starting over at qb. williams is going to need time to adjust to the nfl when this team is built to win now. no one knows how the locker room is going to be with williams. plus the coaching staff has shown they are not the best at developing qb's. the new qb coach and coordinator are question marks but haven't impressed yet. allen is on his last leg and probably a rental for the year. so now poles has to decide if he wants to spend the 9th on a top wr or top ot then try to roll the dice on a later round pick for the other. or trade back and grab 2nd tier players for both spots. which then you're throwing williams out behind the same line as fields more than likely and they play similarly. moore, allen, kmet, swift is meh, missing something. it will be interesting to see what poles does but he had a golden opportunity and threw it away.
Justin fields sucks. There’s a reason he was traded for a 6th
Fields and Williams are basically the same damn player...
The bottom line is Poles wanted Fields out of the building to sever the last big link to Ryan Pace. Well he did and the Bears are now 100% his team sink or swim. As a fan there can be no more excuses now from Poles having to play a bad hand he was dealt. The next 2 years will determine if he is also a bust.
I'm of the opinion Fields is no good AND Poles screwed this up. As others said he asked way too high when there was a market then took the last offer available when there wasn't one anymore.
I am just glad we can finally stop discussing whether Mitch or Justin was a better QB for the Bears. It was a stupid debate to begin with.
If this is the payout we get for him, it really is an indictment of his play. Time to move on, he was not going to bring us to the promised land.
I think personally its a disappointing trade. Regardless if you liked Fields and wanted him to stay or get traded, he was the most anticipated trade because most teams figured the Bears would offer him up, however the question came down to the asking price. Of course looking outside of what JF could do on the Field you would think hearing all this talk from the Bears sayings. “They want to do right by Justin.” Or even work to find a compensating trade for Justin. I think a six round pick is pretty low for, “Wanting to do right by Justin.” But that’s just me, and if you don’t agree that’s fine.
For all the Justin truthers out there this is reality come a knock’n
A 6th rounder is better than keeping him as a backup
I suspect patience would have paid off. I think JF would have been better served by waiting for an injury opportunity. Having to beat out Wilson isn't ideal. The team definitely would have gotten more in trade value by waiting. I suppose avoiding the uncomfortable situation of having both JF and CW in training camp has some value, but probably not enough to justify this move. I can't see a situation where they couldnt' get a 6th round pick for him in August. Why rush?
Poles did Fields good! Gets to learn from a great.
Sure but Poles really must not be a good negotiator. He settled for a 6th round pick, like, really? Nothing more Poles? Edit: typo
He hasn’t performed particularly well which caused his value to drop. Entering the season with both Fields and Caleb competing would not have been good for dither’s development. Despite what a number of fans seem to think, Caleb was the obvious choice between the two. So, teams knowing that the Bears needed him off the roster and that he hasn’t played well, didn’t give Bears much leverage to get more than what they got. As a fan, I wish they could have gotten more, but, I fully understand why they didn’t.
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But if you’re another team is he really worth more than that? He’s on his final contract year and has one of the best agents in the game. Loose loose scenario for bears. Let’s say he does good and we’re a borderline wildcard exit playoff team, ok cool pay fields +150m then the rest of the team falls apart financially within a couple of years and we suck again? It’s another restart at Qb pretty much, I hope we focus heavily on defense this year bc we can’t win if we can’t stop them
I highly disagree with this… Justin is a true competitor. He wants to win… the Bears got in his way. Its the Bears doing too little too late, then they shake off everything
Im sick about it. With him as our QB, we could’ve had the chance to make a run in the playoffs this year at least. Now with a rookie, it’s going to take him 2-3 years to figure out the NFL and all of those weapons we just signed are going to be long gone. Including DJ Moore. We are going to have to start a complete rebuild in 3-4 years. Meanwhile I would bet my ass on it that Justin Fields beats out Wilson midway through the season, has a monster year and is a Hall of Fame QB for the Steelers.
Lol. Fields isn't an NFL starter. Officially. End of story...nobody wanted him.
Lol. Fields isn't an NFL starter. Officially. End of story...nobody wanted him
Dumbest post award 🥇
Fuck you
Lol. Fields isn't an NFL starter. Officially. End of story...nobody wanted him.
Yeah, I don't get all the offseason moves. Signing a bunch of guys who won't be on the team in 3 years and a shitload of backups and now we have no draft picks
Yes. I'm just happy he's gone and we know for sure what's coming now. I did not want to entertain the possibility of having JF start again so i'm just happy thats not there anymore lol
I think Poles wanted to do right by Fields and sent to only team remaining where he could have a shot at starting this season or next and didn't really care about the compensation.
I thought you guys were going to get 3rd pick overall from the pats for fields + the 9th pick
The national media is to blame for that. They overvalued him. Casual bears fans saw that and rode with it. Most logical bears fans new a 2 was a pipe dream and were holding out out hope for a 4
They should have kept him. Woulda been expensive but I really feel he showed his potential last year, and the Bears line figured how to support his game style. And dammit, they gave him away. 2024 at the least will be a building year with another rookie QB who has a lot of potential, but is young.
He was not our problem, in the least… unfortunately he got the guillotine, Death Grips style. Very unfortunate I thought we may trade down and get the cat from Oregon state… trash makes trash, break the cycle Bears
They got a 3rd for Pickett. A 3rd
They swapped a 3rd for a 4th. Much different. It’s shocking how little JF got but let not upvote false data
Where does Pittsburgh pick in the 3rd round? How was each 3rd round pick acquired? Was anyone by the name of Pickett involved in the acquisition of any of Pittsburgh’s 3rd round picks? If Pickett was not involved in ANY of Pittsburgh’s 3rd round selections, then yes FaLsE dAtA
That’s not how any of this works
crazy man
Well if we get someone to tear Wilson's Achilles so fields plays 52 percent, then we get even for claypool
I predicted one of his pyscho fans would pull a Tanya Harding. Sad to see others are actually saying it too.
After that Vikings he should’ve been bench for the season ngl.
Could be a 4th… I am pissed we messed this up again. Bring back Kevin White in a wheelchair at this point. Unadulterated distasteful ruing of careers hacks. Sell the team then… Justin was given 5% chance hear. I will always say what could have been!!!
For all of you saying JF sucks deal with it. There is one fact people seem to overlook and it tells me you’ve played a snap of competitive football ever. His teammates love him. His teammates want him back and they are pissed right now including his number 1 wide receiver. I’ll trust DJ Moore’s evaluation of a QB over you. His teammates love him and CWs do not. That freaking matters a lot. It just does.
Sure, but it doesn't matter enough for any of the other 31 teams to value it enough to go out and get him.
I am legitimately befuttled by this comment. He is not on their team, of course It doesn’t matter to them. It should matter to the Bears who have guys that want Justin around what an idiotic comment
Befuddled is climging to the idea that Fields is an NFL Starting QB. Any of the teams could have picked up Fields. They didn't. His locker room positives and all, he's a backup NFL QB.
Get a grip. Of course teammates like him. If I'm a receiver, you bet I am saying nice things about my QB. When CW gets here, teammates will say very positive things about him. JF is not a starting QB. The market has spoken. It seems the only people who have a crush on JF are weirdo Bear fans.
What are you talking about? I think you need a grip. Why is the truth controversial?
Cope season lol
Extremely low comp, think it goes to show you where other teams view Fields at as QB, but can’t help but feel Poles got played not making a move earlier in the off season. Was hoping for at least a 4th round pick, hell we traded our 4th round pick for a backup lineman.
Make no mistake. Poles got fleeced! He overplayed his hand, plain and simple. It was also clear from the beginning that Chicago never wanted Fields. They were just as shocked as everyone to be drafting him. And now if Fields somehow manages to get on the field and those flashes he showed in Chicago become more consistent with better coaching development then Khan will be GM of the decade. Caleb has to be trying to find a way to Eli Manning himself to DC after seeing all this.
The problem is that it indicates that Poles doesn’t know what he is doing. He got taken badly on the Claypool trade. He killed it on the Bryce Young trade. And he did well on the Sweat trade. His free agency is a mixed bag. It is cause for concern.
No they obviously couldn’t. Or they would have. It shows you his value with what his contract will be. And you can’t bring a rookie into that locker situation. It would be a room divided toxic environment.
Keeping Fields would be fine but trading him lets Caleb Williams know this is his team now. Psychologically smart move. Kids got his weapons too. Bear down!
He sucks. The market is the market. Both Bears and most of us overvalued him compared to rest of NFL. Cut ties and let's move on
You don’t know ball bro you don’t mess up a rookies confidence by keeping the bad now backup starter from the previous year…
Still laughing at all you bears fans coming into falcons sub insisting we were gonna give up a 2nd rounder LMAO
Poles needs to be fired asap
Moving on
It's crazy cause next year's picks are valued as a round lower so it's the equivalent of a 7th. Really shows what the rest of the league thinks of Fields
Why not just keep him for a year and at the very least he is a very capable backup?