OT Justin Fields is so bad it's embarassing

[Garthshort]

Just afraid that next week, with Nuk back and we score two first quarter TD's, that fans will expect 50 points every week. Puts a lot of pressure on our offense.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Thee Ohio State QB curse.

I'm not huge Fields fan but he was thrown into the worst possible situation he could have been drafted.
CJ Stroud will likely be the #1 pick in the draft next year and I'm not a fan at all.

 

[Russ Smith]

I'm not huge Fields fan but he was thrown into the worst possible situation he could have been drafted.
CJ Stroud will likely be the #1 pick in the draft next year and I'm not a fan at all.

I mean high picks usually go to bad teams. He joined a team that was 8-8 the prior year and scored 372 points. Same coach next year with one more game they scored only 311 points largely because Justin Fields, as a rookie admittedly in a Covid season, was terrible. Fields was 2-8 as the starter, Dalton was 3-3. Dalton had more TD passes than Fields in 4 less games. Veteran vs rookie obviously but the reason the Bears were so bad last year was they had a rookie QB and the coach had to play him because they picked him so high and because a week after throwing 4 picks against us, they had to sit Dalton for Covid and then a hip injury so they made the switch to Fields and never went back.

I'm no Nagy fan but he was 8-8 made the playoffs with Dalton, playing Fields got him fired.

He's a great athlete and he has a strong arm but he's got horrible mechanics and he doesn't see the field at all. I was watching one of those ESPN football shows today and they were showing "highlights" from last night and showed at least 5 plays where a Bears player was open for a TD and didn't get the ball from Fields, to be fair that includes the play to Pettis in the endzone that he got both hands on but they all agreed it was such a terrible throw that it allowed the DB to get in there and contest the catch should have been an easy TD. What was really a concern they said was that most of the plays the guy wide open was the primary read so even if Fields was just looking at one guy he either failed to see it or failed to get the ball there. they also pointed out what Herbie was saying last night he holds the ball too long because he wants the guy to be wide open so he messes up the timing on lots of plays leading to sacks or making tough throws that should be easy. He's young you'd hope he'll get better and he has a new coach and new OC but his OC is from the same coaching tree as Kyle Shanahan the coach who had Lance and Mac Jones rated ahead of Fields last year. They're trying to run a similar system run heavy 1-2 reads for the young QB.

 

[oaken1]

Yeah, i dunno....

We aint really in a position to be bashing another teams young quarterback.

 

[ajcardfan]

Yeah, i dunno....

We aint really in a position to be bashing another teams young quarterback.

Anyone can bash Justin Fields. He makes Murray look like Peyton Manning by comparison.

 

[Zalixar]

Cardinals dunking on anyone is pathetic. Cardinals are the joke of the league.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Cardinals dunking on anyone is pathetic. Cardinals are the joke of the league.

Which Cardinal is doing that exactly?

 

[Zalixar]

Which Cardinal is doing that exactly?

 

[ajcardfan]

Cardinals dunking on anyone is pathetic. Cardinals are the joke of the league.

We aren't even noticed enough to be the joke of the league. That would be the Broncos and Russell Wilson at the moment. IMHO.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

We aren't even noticed enough to be the joke of the league. That would be the Broncos and Russell Wilson at the moment. IMHO.

Exxxxxxxxxactly.

 

[HairZach]

I think the OC and the Bears are making him worse.

Fields is proof that organizations matter. Switch him and Jalen Hurts the last two years and I think the Eagles probably look potentially scarier.

Justin is flawed, but the Bears are looking Wilks level offensively.

Justin has some good plays but so much of it is him just looking lost. The Bears look like Wilks offensively because they drafted a Lamar/Rosen hybrid.

Cardinals dunking on anyone is pathetic. Cardinals are the joke of the league.

Cardinals are just mediocre right now. Lions, Broncos, Commanders and Bears are jokes.

 

[Zalixar]

Justin has some good plays but so much of it is him just looking lost. The Bears look like Wilks offensively because they drafted a Lamar/Rosen hybrid.

Cardinals are just mediocre right now. Lions, Broncos, Commanders and Bears are jokes.

I mean the franchise as a whole.

People sympathize with Lions and Browns and (Chargers) even root for them despite lack of success, (before Watson). Bears have had success (although not in a long time). Commanders have had success (same).


Cardinals have had pretty much nothing but a footnote in a lost season. One of lowest win % in all teams and yet can hardly gain any support, sympathy, other than Fitz. Easily become a team that's bad, not easy to root for by others, and find amazing ways to embarrass themselves which unlike Chargers, Lions, etc, is rarely endearing. Just a joke.

The last decade and half we've found some success, but yet found even lower lows and still can't shake the same ol' Cardinals. We got no past success to ride on, we just got nothing.

Until we finally win a SB, it's going to be a bumpy ride. We've had a taste of success and now we won't settle for anything less.

Something something stones and glass houses, etc.

 

[AZCB34]

The Justin Fields led offense scored more points than the Kyler led offense

 

[Garthshort]

The Justin Fields led offense scored more points than the Kyler led offense

Are you sure? I show Arizona with 114 points and Chicago with 93.

 

[AZCB34]

Are you sure? I show Arizona with 114 points and Chicago with 93.

Meant for this week, of course I am guessing you knew that.

 

[Garthshort]

I didn't know that. And even this week we had a big nine points while the Bears had seven. No?

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

I didn't know that. And even this week we had a big nine points while the Bears had seven. No?

6 of our points were scored by the special teams.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I didn't know that. And even this week we had a big nine points while the Bears had seven. No?

The offense had 3 points.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Are you sure? I show Arizona with 114 points and Chicago with 93.

it’s pretty close when you consider that we have 12 points scored by defense/special teams. Do bears?

 

[Garthshort]

The offense had 3 points.

But the offense put the team into position for:
1. Three or four FG's.
2. A blocked punt that resulted in a TD.

 

[Fiasco]

Viewership is up from a year ago despite the awful matchups, especially with a younger and most coveted advertising demographic.

Amazon is just ahead of the curve...again...

The viewership comparison looks good until you compare it to a non pandemic recovery year.

The “coveted 18-34 year old” trope is a holdover from the Mad Men days. By 2010 50+ age group was spending something like 2.5 times the “coveted” 18-34 year olds.

IMHO amazons TNF started out well but viewership is rapidly accelerating towards the **** house if something doesn’t change quickly.

 

[splitsecond]

The viewership comparison looks good until you compare it to a non pandemic recovery year.

The “coveted 18-34 year old” trope is a holdover from the Mad Men days. By 2010 50+ age group was spending something like 2.5 times the “coveted” 18-34 year olds.

IMHO amazons TNF started out well but viewership is rapidly accelerating towards the **** house if something doesn’t change quickly.

I highly prefer the Amazon version of TNF minus the god awful play so far. Definitely the worst start to the thursday games ever so far. 6 weeks of total crap.

 

[Garthshort]

So, if we put up 40 points, Amazon will be okay?

 

[Chris_Sanders]

The viewership comparison looks good until you compare it to a non pandemic recovery year.

The “coveted 18-34 year old” trope is a holdover from the Mad Men days. By 2010 50+ age group was spending something like 2.5 times the “coveted” 18-34 year olds.

IMHO amazons TNF started out well but viewership is rapidly accelerating towards the **** house if something doesn’t change quickly.

Advertisers don't care about 10 years of Boomer spend. They want 40 years of youth spend. That is just the way it is.

 

[Fiasco]

Advertisers don't care about 10 years of Boomer spend. They want 40 years of youth spend. That is just the way it is.

It’s the way it *used* to be. Trade pubs have been lamenting the decline of the buying power and importance of 18-34 for years. Sure, the lifetime spend of a 18-34 year old and brand loyalty is still important but the significance of it has diminished significantly relative to the rapidly increasing consumer spending power disparity between that age range and their older peers.