Poles panicked and the Steelers ate his lunch again.
Now what's the plan for a #2 QB? Or heck why should I even think there is a plan. Poles is probably happy to go into the season with an undrafted rookie as a backup again.
Best way to ruin a qb room, can't keep them both
I wanted Caleb to at least earn the job. JF would eventually play his way out of it.
Now JF goes into a pure backup role with zero chance of starting.
Bears Also have no "mentor" QB on the roster and FA is slim because we waited too long.
It isn't the 90's anymore. It doesn't work that way for top picks.
Probably why all the top picks lately aren't working out.
Burrow, Lawrence, Goff etc. The same as it has always been.
Goff didn't start week 1. He started 7 games as a rookie and went 0-7.
Burrow is one of the few that worked out well. He was also 24 when he started in the NFL.
I'd say the jury is still out on Lawrence who has a losing record as a starter.
You are trying to the twist the numbers to fit your argument. Just because Goff sucked as a rookie doesn't mean it didn't work out. Peyton Manning didn't work because he stunk his rookie year as well.
I think Peyton Manning is the only first overall pick to start his rookie season and win a championship.
That is a a trivia question, not a stat to measure success. Matt Stafford also.
The only success I care about it a championship.
I'll give Stafford a half point. He's a very good QB who was traded to a championship team.
Whoa now. These are some crazy high expectations for a franchise that hasn't even won a playoff game in over 10 years. Let's just make the playoffs first.
I was pretty confident the roster as is with JF and two elite prospects makes the playoffs next year.
That shouldn't be the same goal for Caleb. But considering he is a rookie, it will be a win if the Bears win 9 games.
If Caleb's time comes and goes with Chicago and the Bears don't win anything, I don't think I call that a success.
You are all over the map. First you want them competing, then you want Caleb to just win the job and Fields be the backup, then Fields makes the playoffs.
I don't want Caleb handed the job. I would have liked for him to learn and earn it from JF or whoever they had as a bridge QB.
JF makes the playoffs on a team WITHOUT Caleb because that top pick in theory gets traded for two early picks this year and maybe a player or early pick next year.
So it's really the difference of Caleb & #9 vs JF , MHjr, #9 , second rnd pick, and future first or starter in a trade.
If the only goal is winning playoff games, that second scenario is way safer.