Justin Fields In Line For Mahomes’ Style Rookie Season On The Bench
Justin Fields is going to have to bide his time before he becomes the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears.
That’s according to head coach Matt Nagy, who knows a thing or two about integrating elite young quarterbacks.
Nagy was a part of the Chiefs setup when Patrick Mahomes’ sat on the bench for most of his rookie year. That seems to have worked out quite well for Kansas City.
Nagy intends to ignore the media, the fans, and what must be his own temptation to throw Justin Fields in right away.
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Heading into Week 1 of the 2021 NFL regular season, Andy Dalton is the Bears’ starting quarterback.
“It is the case,” Nagy said. “And I think for us to focus on the day by day and just everything that goes into it. The only thing that those guys care about right now is just being great at that position and if you ask all three of them, and that’s what they’re trying to do. And I’ll always go back to when we evaluate those guys at that position, we’re evaluating the entire package. I think Andy had six plays.Â
“It’s hard to say much good or bad about that with six plays. We’re going to get him some more snaps this coming preseason game. And with Justin, I go back to what I said too, we want to be able to see live plays, live situations, he got that. The only thing he can do is to continue doing that and we have to make sure that plan allows us to evaluate how well he does knowing those circumstances. Ultimately, in the end, whatever is best for the Chicago Bears is in the end what we’re going to do.”
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“You got to play the situation and just understand, the excitement is there. I’ll go back to we all want him to play really well. That’s a good thing, is for him to go out and play well. At the same point in time, we knew going into this that in this situation, any time there’s something that goes wrong for a guy like Andy in this situation, that that’s going to be there if Justin’s playing well.
“But no, this is something that we’ve planned for, prepared for, and again, Justin understands all of this, and that’s what I love about him. He understands the plan. He understands the process. They all do. We asked him to go out and play well on game day live.”
