It’s always overwhelming, the moment when you get the thing you’ve been clamoring for all along. From the second Justin Fields was drafted (a decision from Bears general manager Ryan Pace that achieved near universal praise for its situational aggressiveness and acknowledgment that he could not survive with the quarterback room as constructed at the time), we imagined what Matt Nagy’s offense would look like piloted by an athletic quarterback with a deft passing touch and a temperament to handle high-pressure situations.
We all rolled our eyes together when Nagy did what most coaches do, forcing Fields to win the job out of training camp.