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Around the Horn

Should The Bears Trade Fields?

Around the Horn

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mina Kimes, Tim Cowlishaw, David Dennis Jr., and Pablo Torre join Tony Reali to discuss if it would make sense for the Bears to trade away Justin Fields, their takeaways from another #1 ranked CBB team going down last night and if Mike Trout can convince Shoehei Ohtani to stay in Anaheim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Me and Akai, Tim Tallisha, David Dennis Jr. Pablo S. Tori. Does anybody want to be number

0:09.2

one? Everybody's losing this year. Okay, just make four to number one. How you doing,

0:17.6

Rose Thrill? Also, what's real and what's not about the Bears and the number one pick?

0:22.7

Let's go.

0:29.0

What do you say? What do you know, Gordon Ramsay? What do you want him for?

0:38.0

This pose from Jason Loccon for a more than one NFL general manager came away from the

0:44.0

Senior Bowl fairly convinced that Justin Fields will be dealt. Wow, but that'd be

0:50.5

true. We did a story the week after the season, Ryan Paul's saying he's

0:53.8

excited about Fields. He's a starter for next year. But, Paul's left the space

0:58.5

open for him to be blown away by a quarterback to draft at number one. So,

1:04.7

mean, I ask you, is this the Bears playing the draft game? Would trading fields

1:08.5

make sense for Chicago? Well, I haven't heard anything to this effect, but I'll

1:13.6

say it's not totally irrational because frankly, any team without a top 10

1:19.7

quarterback who was the number one overall pick should at least consider it.

1:23.4

But I don't think the Bears should do it for a couple of reasons, starting, of

1:26.7

course, with Justin Fields himself. I do believe he flashed enough last season to

1:31.9

make them believe, okay, we should at least give him a shot to develop.

1:35.9

Certainly with a better wide receiver core because I think he had the worst in

1:38.7

football last year. Of course, he has a high floor as an incredible runner, too.

1:42.1

The other reason Tony is this quarterback draft doesn't have a surefire

1:48.3

full-proof number one type prospector Andrew Lux to Joe Burrows, whatever. So, if

1:53.5

they were to move on from Fields, there would still be a question mark, I think,

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