Bernie Lincicome: Yes, Justin Fields beats expectations -- low ones -- and the Bears will just excuse it all if it doesn't work out
In baseball a popular trope is the"sophomore jinx," or as Ozzie Guillen once quizzed me,"What is a 'summer jintz'?" Whatever the name, it does not exist in football. A rookie year is meant to be improved upon, and if it is not, well, there may not be a third year, which I guess would be called a"junior adieu."
This left Fields to save the Bears' respectability, if not always himself, progressing not in the position he is supposed to be playing but as some sort of hybrid irritant and occasional whiz kid. Take, for example, the second season of the unlamented Mitch Trubisky, a Pro Bowl pick that year, leading a 12-4 Bears team into the playoffs for the first of two times, with honest quarterback statistics like yards passing and touchdowns. Tomorrow was kissing the Bears on the mouth.
Dan Marino lost the Super Bowl in his second year and never returned, Bret Favre was in the Pro Bowl, Eli Manning and John Elway revived teams to division titles. Lamar Jackson, the better version of Fields, was MVP on a 14-2 team. "We want to finish strong," Eberflus insists, convincing no one."There's a lot of development to do, a lot of things to look at."
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