A few weeks ago you couldn't even name a handful of people who thought Matt Nagy was making the right move. I mean honestly, he wouldn't even let Justin Fields compete for the starting spot let alone name him the starter. It seemed like a dumb move on his part: job on the line, sub-par offense, questionable play calling. Why wouldn't he give his team the best possible option to compete? Well.... he actually did.
As we all know, Andy Dalton is not the greatest QB in the league and even I thought the Bears made a mistake in being the landing strip the Red Rockets touched down on. But damn, he really hasn't looked THAT bad (relative to Bears QB play). He moved around the pocket very well and was making plays. Nagy new what he had and has been trying to game plan around Dalton being the starting QB for months. I don't know about you guys, but I really don't think being a Head Coach in the NFL is that easy. He is constantly under extreme pressure from management and fans alike, and I just don't think he wanted to switch around his whole game plan to give Fields the try we all thought he deserved.
Unfortunately for this take, it doesn't even matter because Dalton is injured and Fields gets his first start against the powerhouse that is the Cleveland Browns. Fields may have a great career ahead of him, but there is no way Myles Garrett lets that start in Cleveland. Fields is two weeks behind the other rookie starters and that's not good considering they've been playing as such. Bears are still the Bears, Nagy is still Nagy, and the old Cleveland Brown moved to Baltimore in 1996.
Browns 31 - Bears 16
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