Who's at fault for the failure of Justin Fields with the Bears depends on your viewpoint but there's plenty of blame for everyone.
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00:00 And so that's the way it ends.
00:10 It's kind of hard to believe it ended this way.
00:12 Justin Fields is heading out of town.
00:14 He's going to Pittsburgh now.
00:16 The hard thing to believe in the entire situation is that the Bears could only get a sixth round
00:20 pick as compensation.
00:22 Not even a sixth round pick this year.
00:24 It's a conditional sixth round pick for 2025, which means it could be a fourth rounder if
00:30 he gets 51% of the playing time.
00:32 But Russell Wilson is supposed to be the Steelers' starting quarterback.
00:36 So who's to blame for all of this?
00:37 Well you can probably start with Ryan Poles because he held onto the pick past the time
00:42 that he probably should have.
00:43 He probably could have just gone out and traded Fields at the beginning.
00:47 We don't know that for sure, but with all the prices being thrown around for what Fields
00:52 was worth, you'd have to think they could get more than a sixth round pick for him at
00:55 that point.
00:56 But really in the end, the blame belongs to Fields himself.
01:01 And you can look at all the problems the Bears have had at putting together teams around
01:06 him.
01:07 And two different coaching staffs, two offensive coordinators, Bill Lazor, and then of course
01:12 Luke Getzey who was getting blamed for a lot of things that the Bears were doing incorrectly.
01:17 The truth is the Bears offense did get better.
01:18 It just didn't get better enough.
01:23 And it's just like with Fields.
01:24 He improved, but he didn't improve enough.
01:27 But the one thing Fields did not do more than anything else was he didn't win.
01:31 He won 10 games and lost 28 as a starter.
01:35 Now you can be one of those people who say that starts and wins aren't quarterback statistics.
01:40 And you're right if you're a fantasy owner, but in real football, that's what counts.
01:45 Did Fields get enough help to win games?
01:47 Well, no, of course he didn't get enough to win a championship or anything like that.
01:52 But come on, 10 wins out of 38 games?
01:55 That's Blaine Gabbert stuff.
01:58 You know, Fields got the ball with the chance to win games at the end in 2022 plenty of
02:05 times.
02:06 The Bears defense did let him down a few times, but the Bears lost seven straight times by
02:11 a touchdown and a conversion or less in that season.
02:15 And they added two more in a row on this year.
02:18 And these were with Fields around as quarterback.
02:20 Well then, finally, they got rid of that streak.
02:23 And it was Tyson Bajun who got rid of the streak.
02:27 Fields had a 53 passer rating in the fourth quarter.
02:30 He was 41st in the league out of the 32 teams.
02:33 So do the math.
02:35 And you can talk about the lack of talent all you want, but he had DJ Moore this year.
02:40 And also there's one other thing to consider.
02:42 Matthew Stafford all those years in Detroit, he's won 38 times in the fourth quarter and
02:47 had 34 game-winning drives.
02:51 It doesn't always come down to the talent and those tight games at the end in the NFL.
02:56 It just comes down to a guy that can make the plays when they need to be made, and Fields
02:59 wasn't doing it.
03:01 So now we're going to get to see Caleb Williams try, I would assume.
03:04 Let's just hope that they don't get the same result.
03:07 At least this time, they won't have to give up a first-round pick and a second-round pick
03:12 and a fourth-round pick from the following year to make the trade to get the chance to
03:18 see the quarterback fail.
03:20 They own the first pick.
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