Sources Say The Chicago Bears Are Committed To The Future With Justin Fields, And Will Trade The First Pick In This Year's Draft. Just As Reports Come Out That "Patrick Mahomes Was Devastated He Was Not Drafted By The Bears" Because Bears Fans Are Not Allowed To Have Nice Things. Ever.
If I told you a 23-year-old quarterback had a season in which he passed for 2,242 yards while completing 60.4 percent of those passes, throwing for 17 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. While also rushing for a league-leading 1,143 yards and eight touchdowns, you'd say that's pretty fucking good right?
Yes. You would.
Unless you're a moron, or just a straight-up hater. Or both. Or you're from Wisconsin.
Whatever the case may be, if you deny that the quarterback in question, Justin Fields, had a good to great season this past year, you have your head up your ass.
And that's just objectively speaking.
If you want to get down to brass tacks, the poor kid played behind one of the worst offensive lines in football, with next to zero weapons to support him. I feel foolish even using the word weapons because as semi-decent as Cole Khmet and Mooney might be, they are far from game changers, or threats to defenses. Yes the Bears had a formidable run game, but Chicago always going to Chicago and no matter who is wearing the headset here, refuses to base the offense around the run.
Regardless, the Bears are high on the kid enough to begin talks through the backchannels (apparently) that they will not be drinking the Bryce Young kool-aid, and dealing Fields, rather instead, will look to deal the #1 pick for what is hopefully a kings ransom.
Considering the former front office, the firm of Pace & Nagy, dealt away the Bears future via the next 4 years of draft picks, and leveraged everything for Khalil Mack, fate could not have smiled upon this current Bears front office any better.
This should be awesome news for Bears fans. The future should be bright as the fuckin sun in a magnifying glass in Chicago right now.
I say should be because in true, customary fashion, Bears fans just cannot, by law it seems, ever be happy and optimistic. It's unlike anything I've ever seen before.
Point in case, as Chicago fans should be focused on the offseason, building around Fields, and acquiring as much draft capital as possible, the guy headed to the Super Bowl again, Patrick Mahomes, has a dad who for some unknown reason felt the need to twist the knife in Bears fans' backs. God knows why.
Exibit A:
NBC Chicago - The success of Patrick Mahomes continues to torment Chicago Bears fans.T
After clinching his third trip to the Super Bowl in his fifth season as a starter, the Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback's father said he “wholeheartedly thought” he was going to be Chicago.
And he added that Mahomes “definitely wanted” to be a Bear.
“Because they told him that they were going to draft him," Mahomes Sr. told Parkins and Spiegel. "They told him they were going to draft him, so we thought he was going to be the third pick overall and go to Chicago. He had a great meeting when he there and liked all the guys that were doing stuff there. He thought he was going to be a Bear.
"And then once they traded up and got Mitch, it kind of hurt him. It really did."
The Bears famously traded up in the draft to select North Carolina quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with the second-overall pick. The Chiefs would eventually move up to the No. 10 pick to select Mahomes.
"He always knew that Kansas City had told him that they were going to come up and get him," Mohomes Sr. said. "They just didn’t know how far they’d have to go. But initially, he thought he was going to be a Chicago Bear.”
And the irony from that interview, Matt Nagy stacked the deck for the Chiefs to get Mahomes. Nagy gave Mahomes the plays they were going to go over in advance of his meeting with Andy Reid so he would ace the interview. Nagy would then be hired by the Bears as the head coach in 2018, after Mahomes' rookie season in Kansas City.
Tell me God doesn't hate Chicago Bears fans.
You can't.
This is like the Alanis Morisette song "Ironic", in real life.
You're just walking your dog down the street on a bright sunny day, whistling to yourself, thinking about how grand life is. When all of a sudden, out of absolutely nowhere, a loose brick falls off a building above you, grazes the scaffolding below and caves your head in. Direct shot. Lights out. Game over. Goodnight.
Patrick Mahomes Sr. (with all due respect, the ONLY Mahomes outside of Jr. that any of us care to hear from, yet never do) finally decides to go on a podcast, and feels the need to bring up the fact that his son really had his heart set on being drafted by, and playing for the Bears?
Essentially, Mahomes wanted to be the first real quarterback the Bears ever had, and lead them back to supremity. You really have to respect it.
(FUN FACT - When the Chiefs played the Bears in 2019, Mahomes added some salt in the wound of Bears fan with a touchdown celebration. He counted to the No. 10, because he was the 10th overall pick after the Bears passed in favor of Trubisky.)
Instead, what we were all lead to believe via rumors, ends up being true - that Ryan Pace sold Mahomes on the fact he was the Bears' guy, got his all his hopes up, and then for some bizarro world reason, traded up himself to draft a guy his head coach never liked from the start…
A mystery I don't think we will ever know the answer as to why.
But one that will haunt Bears fans for eternity.
But one which I argue shouldn't. And here's why.
Matt Nagy was like Artie Piscano from Casino. He was so fucking inept, egotistical, and hardheaded (lethal combination), that, as Joe Pesci so eloquently put it, "he was the kind of guy who could fuck up a cup of coffee."
If you think Patrick Mahomes comes to the Matt Nagy "lead" Chicago Bears, and does what he did in Kansas City, you're fucking delusional.
Nagy would have ruined him the same way he ruined Mitch Trubisky.
I am OBVIOUSLY NOT arguing that Trubisky had the same ceiling as Mahomes, or is the level of player Mahomes is, but seeing what Nagy did with a player like Trubisky- one who was drafted as a mobile threat, a guy who could extend plays, pass on the run well, roll out the pocket, and scramble to pick up first downs, yet was forced to run the most vanilla, basic bitch offense the league has ever seen- 3 and 4 step drop after 3 and 4 step drop, behind a gawd-awful line, tells you all you need to know.
And that's not even getting me started on the bang-up job Nagy did totally obliterating any semblance of confidence his young quarterback had in himself, and by translation dismantling any confidence his locker room had in him. Continually throwing him and his offense under the bus on a weekly basis, NEVER once taking responsibility or accountability for poor game planning, horrendous execution, and horrific personnel management.
Mahomes could not have dreamt up landing in a better situation than he did in Kansas City.
With the QB whisperer Andy Reid. A brilliant football mind, not hung up on himself enough to cut off his nose to spite his face. A guy who builds offensive game plans around his players, and doesn't try to jam a square peg in a round hole.
With legit weapons out the wazoo. Guys like Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce, two of the most dangerous players to ever play their respective positions. And, up until last year, a very formidable offensive line to protect him.
I'm not saying Patrick Mahomes isn't Patrick Mahomes if he winds up on any other team, but he's definitely not being called a future Hall of Famer in year five like he is now.
Would Mahomes have accounted for more wins, and possibly pulled out a W against the Eagles in that infamous double-doink game at Soldier? Yah, probably.
But would he have probably ended up as RG3 the sequel shortly after? Almost definitely.
Keep your chin up Bears fans. Brighter times are ahead. I can feel it in my plums. Nobody deserves it more (besides Lions fans). Just keep the faith, stay positive. And don't let the Mahomes family get you down.