Several sports columnists, including this one, have written recently about Chicago’s long-standing fascination with whomever happens to be the backup to whichever Bears quarterback happens to be failing at the moment.
Seventy years of this have brought us to rookie Tyson Bagent, who likely will start in place of the injured and average Justin Fields on Sunday against the Raiders. But the current situation has revealed that, although many Bears fans want to see what the backup can do, plenty of others are so emotionally invested in the idea of Fields being great someday that their vision is clouded.
