The Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears kicked off Week 2 of the preseason Thursday in Seattle. Second-year quarterback Justin Fields looked sharp for the Bears in his lone drive to begin the game, but there is still one glaring issue with this team going forward.
Fields was pressured on four of his eight drop backs against the Seattle Seahawks. That shows the team hasn’t really changed much after Chicago’s offensive line played in 2021. Last season, Fields was second in the NFL in pressure percentage. He was also fourth in quarterback hits per game.
During Friday’s edition of Get Up, ESPN’s Mike Tannenbaum stated that Fields career will have him morphing into former No. 1 pick David Carr.
“I think it’s reckless what they’re doing,” Tannenbaum said. “I would’ve taken Chris Morgan, their offensive line coach, and head coach Matt Eberflus and said, ‘We are drafting offensive linemen for at least this draft and maybe in 2023.’ They drafted offensive linemen in the fifth, sixth and seventh-rounds. That’s not good enough.”
Tannenbaum continued: “Justin Fields is a great talent – not a good talent, a great talent. But he may turn into David Carr. He has no chance to get through 17 games.”
David Carr holds 2 of the top 3 most sacked in a single season record. 76 and 68 times. He is the ultimate poster child for putting a QB in before the rest of the team is ready to play.
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Because of that, we never got to fully see if Carr could potentially be a good QB because of the team that drafted him, and unfortunately for him, it was an expansion team.
We can only hope that the Bears can do right by Fields before it’s too late.
