NFL

I feel like Fields is far from a bust. Statistically, he's become a mid-tier QB this season, and I think that's perfectly fine.

Half of the teams in the league would have an upgrade with him at QB and he's a clear #2 (behind only Trevor Lawrence) coming out the largest QB draft class in history. He doesn't need to be a locked-in top 5 to not be a "bust".

Last year we had 5 games in a row, averaging 30 points for that stretch, but went 1-4 because of the defense - yet he gets the blame, when he was the clear reason we were even in those games.

Obviously, I'm still in on him, and I feel like the horrible coaching and playcalling is playing a part in him not taking the gigantic leap many expected in the offseason. You see the same behavioral issues and habits (only worse) with Bagent, and it becomes clear that our entire QB room is suffering from the way they are coached.

As a neutral with no real concern for any of the teams or players, fields was leading the NFL in TDs when he got hurt, and it seemed like the coaches didn’t want him to run for the first month, and then he started to run a little and had back to back 4 TD games.

As for Nagy/trubisky, it seemed like Mitch would have a great game where he had designed runs and roll outs, then the next game they’d have him do 40 7-step drops and he’d be awful. That’s a coaching problem if you can’t see what he was good at and then build on it.

I think being a bust is a coaching problem the majority of the time. I don’t think Fields ever stood a chance at developing there the same way Mahomes probably wouldn’t have if he were taken instead of Trubisky.

No it’s a fields problem, not a single coach could have turned that guy into a quality starter

Man those last 10 years we had some really shitty decisions made.

God I hate the term bust. It's so dismissive.