So remember the other day, when the Blob relived some six decades of Chicago Bears quarterbacking tradition, which includes the likes of Gary Huff and Bob Avellini, but no Unitases, Elways, Montanas or Manning/Bradys?
The conclusion was the Bears do quarterback messes the way puppies do messes, period, and it's just a function of their being. Some football teams do linebackers or running backs; the Bears do linebackers, running backs, and Look at that, Concannon just threw the ball into Lake Michigan again.
This brings us to yesterday along the lake in Cleveland, where Justin Fields, the shiniest quarterback prospect the Bears have had since forever, got his first official NFL start. Needless to say it went the way the quarterback business tends to go for the Bears.
Behind an offensive line that couldn't block a random thought, Fields completed 6-of-20 passes for 68 yards while fleeing the Browns pass rush like Dr. Richard Kimble looking for the one-armed man. The Seven Blocks of Al Dente Spaghetti allowed him to be sacked nine times -- and Fields is not exactly the Statue of Liberty back there. The man's got some wheels.
Final score: Cleveland 26, Bears 6. And Fields finished with a QBR of 6.0.
Sooo. Now what?
Now Matt Nagy, already coaching for his job, has to decide whether to stick with the kid and risk destroying him completely behind that Oh-for-God's-sake O-line, or stick the veteran Andy Dalton back there as some sort of sacrifice to the quarterback gods. What to do, what to do.
In any event, the Bears, per tradition, don't have a QB1. They're still the home office for QBNone.
But, hey. At least they have a running back (David Montgomery) and some linebackers (Roquan Smith, Khalil Mack).
Again, per tradition.
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