Miles = Rick Morrissey is a match?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2023/10/15/23918396/time-for-bears-to-sit-justin-fields-give-tyson-bagent-chance-matt-eberflus-shepherd-universityEven though Bagent threw a very bad interception Sunday in a 19-13 loss to the Vikings, he showed enough in his emergency performance to deserve another look. That’s all you need to know about Fields and the state of the 1-5 Bears.
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He received the same uneven-to-bad blocking that Fields has received for the past three years but exhibited a much better feel for the passing game than Fields ever has. He threw a couple of ridiculous passes, including the underthrown interception on first down at the Minnesota 35 that all but ended the game. He also lost the ball on a strip sack that turned into a 42-yard fumble return.
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But tell me where the Bears are going with Fields. He’s no longer the rookie with tons of room to grow. He’s every bit of what we’ve seen for too long, a quarterback who doesn’t look beyond his first read. The best version of him is when he runs, and that version doesn’t work in the NFL.
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Fields went 6-of-10 for 58 yards and an interception, which is why his passer rating was 36.7. The Vikings sacked him four times, the last one leading to his injury. That performance is much closer to the player Fields is than the player who threw for a combined 617 yards and eight touchdowns the previous two weeks. Those games, against the Broncos and the Commanders, were a mirage, the product of two bad defenses.
His stats Sunday felt … normal.
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After the game, Eberflus didn’t sound like a man making a change at quarterback. If that’s because he doesn’t believe Bagent is good enough, fine. If it’s because he believes Fields is good enough, then the Bears have more than a quarterback problem. They have a judgment problem, too.
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