I'm personally of the mindset that Fields is good enough to win with even if he has his limitations. I think a lot of his consistency issues are directly tied to coaching, such as bad gameplans, poor play calling, bad situational decision making, untimely penalties and a failure to consistently maximize his skill set through design. If you have a trade scenario where you can amass another haul of premium draft picks and a good veteran starter or two in a trade back from 1, e.g. the Bryce Young trade, then Fields plus those assets is a greater value to the team then a gamble on a rookie QB that might turn into a bust. I get the potential for reward with an elite QB, but I think the Eagles are the best example for roster building in the NFL right now and I'd prefer to copy them than hope and pray you can be like the Chiefs and win the lotto at QB. Imagine an offseason where we exchange the 1st pick for a high caliber veteran starter, Marvin Harrison Jr, a high end second round pick that turns into a starting center or safety, and future premium draft capital. Then we use our native pick on a blue chip lineman and add quality depth and developmental players with later round picks. Use the over $80 mil in cap space to extend Jaylon Johnson, improve O line depth and plug other roster holes of which there are seemingly much fewer than we had heading into last offseason. Hire a new HC who will commit to building an offense that utilizes our rosters talent and who knows how to handle critical decisions in the game better than our current staff. That would set this team up for immediate and sustained success.
Having said that, I think in all likelihood Poles will bring in a new head coach who will want to start fresh with his own guy at QB because that's how the NFL works and unlike the Cards, we can move on from our incumbent QB without a huge contract preventing a trade.
I'm personally of the mindset that Fields is good enough to win with even if he has his limitations. I think a lot of his consistency issues are directly tied to coaching, such as bad gameplans, poor play calling, bad situational decision making, untimely penalties and a failure to consistently maximize his skill set through design. If you have a trade scenario where you can amass another haul of premium draft picks and a good veteran starter or two in a trade back from 1, e.g. the Bryce Young trade, then Fields plus those assets is a greater value to the team then a gamble on a rookie QB that might turn into a bust. I get the potential for reward with an elite QB, but I think the Eagles are the best example for roster building in the NFL right now and I'd prefer to copy them than hope and pray you can be like the Chiefs and win the lotto at QB. Imagine an offseason where we exchange the 1st pick for a high caliber veteran starter, Marvin Harrison Jr, a high end second round pick that turns into a starting center or safety, and future premium draft capital. Then we use our native pick on a blue chip lineman and add quality depth and developmental players with later round picks. Use the over $80 mil in cap space to extend Jaylon Johnson, improve O line depth and plug other roster holes of which there are seemingly much fewer than we had heading into last offseason. Hire a new HC who will commit to building an offense that utilizes our rosters talent and who knows how to handle critical decisions in the game better than our current staff. That would set this team up for immediate and sustained success.
Having said that, I think in all likelihood Poles will bring in a new head coach who will want to start fresh with his own guy at QB because that's how the NFL works and unlike the Cards, we can move on from our incumbent QB without a huge contract preventing a trade.