
It didn’t take much for Justin Fields’ footing as the Bears’ franchise quarterback to slip a little, and that’s not surprising here.
The Bears’ exasperating history at the position makes it the most volatile job in Chicago sports: The public is overly eager to declare you a hero, and unless you can immediately live up to that, the clock starts ticking on your exit. Mitch Trubisky was overzealously celebrated as the answer in 2018, then got booed off the field halfway through the next season.