Is It High Time For Bears To Press The Reset Button Again?

In the third quarter of the Chicago Bears vs. Minnesota Vikings Week 6 game, backup quarterback Tyson Bagent entered the game in place of injured starter Justin Fields.

Following their victory over the Washington Redskins 40-20 the previous week, the Bears were humiliated by the Minnesota Vikings 19-13 at home. In addition, a right-hand injury forced quarterback Justin Fields to leave the game; he may be out for some time.

Is It High Time For The Bears To Press The Reset Button Again?

Josh Metellus, a Vikings safety, sacked Bagent shortly after he entered the contest. With the fumble recovered for a 46-yard touchdown, Bagent received an unwanted start to his professional career.

670 The Score’s Danny Parkins, host of the Audacy original podcast “1st & Pod,” spoke about the Bears’ current situation, how tiresome it is to keep hitting the reset button, and Chicago’s lack of consistency.

“It really feels like a coach: bad. Quarterback: bad. Line: bad. GM: maybe bad. He hired the coach, he traded for Claypool, but he also traded the number one pick for D.J. Moore and picked the Panthers to do the trade with. Some of his draft picks look good,” Parkins said (38:40 in the player above). “They’ve got a lot of cap space but are they hitting the reset button again?

“It’s exhausting to hit the reset button. And if you hit the reset button and you draft a new quarterback, you can’t give him Matt Eberflus so now you’re firing another coach just two years after you hired him. And then should you hire a new GM so that for the first time in forever you have a quarterback, a coach, and a GM all brought in together? That makes a lot of sense. But now you’re changing it up again.”

“The beauty of the competent organizations is they’ve got continuity. They’ve got an identity. They know who they are. They know what they want to be. They know what they’ve been,” Parkins continued. “The Bears, it’s Marc Trestman and then it’s John Fox and then it’s Matt Nagy and then it’s Matt Eberflus.

The Bears are still trying to figure out who they are, whereas winning organizations have managed to identify who they are.

“It’s old-school defensive coach, old defensive coach, and then young innovative weird offensive coach, and then back to old defensive coach, then back to an offensive coach,” said Parkins. “They don’t know what they want to be.

“And then this GM has to inherit this coach and then this coach has to inherit this quarterback and then this quarterback gets pawned off on this GM. It never makes any sense. It never makes any sense. They can’t even snap the ball!”

Given that Fields is still questionable for Week 7, Bagent now has the opportunity to start in his first NFL game against the Las Vegas Raiders.

When Bagent graduated from Martinsburg High School, he was considered a zero-star prospect. He made the choice to register at the local school where his parents had both attended.

With 1,400 completions and 17,034 passing yards in the end, the 23-year-old Division II quarterback set a record for most passing yards in the division’s history. He also received the Division II equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, the Harlon Hill Trophy.

 

 

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