Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields is no stranger to making history. His sophomore season was littered with broken records, highlight-reel plays and unreal potential. He even snagged a vote for MVP.
Simultaneously, the Chicago Bears were unable to win football games. They ended the year on a 10-game losing streak and finished with an overall record of 3-14. They were luckily rewarded with the No.1 overall pick thanks to an old friend.
Despite it all, fans were beside themselves with excitement because of Justin Fields. Dubbed as ‘H1M’ by many like myself who thought they’d never see this day, Fields was the answer to a near-century search for a franchise QB.
The good news didn’t stop there, as I felt supreme confidence in the direction of the Chicago Bears at every level of their organization for the first time ever after the underrated hire of Kevin Warren as President and CEO.
After Ryan Poles’ brilliant trade combined with his key acquisitions to begin free agency, I am here to inform you that Justin Fields is about to become a Chicago sports legend.
The Chicago Bears are primed for a meteoric rise led by QB Justin Fields and it will end in historic fashion: Being crowned as the 2023-24 NFL MVP.
Let us not forget that the Chicago Bears fielded perhaps the worst roster in the National Football League last season.
Despite his lack of support, Fields proved he was the answer at QB. Ryan Poles agreed, trading the No.1 overall pick in the draft for a franchise-altering haul.
It turned out he was just getting warmed up. He followed that performance by signing a plethora of free agents on both sides of the ball, upgrading the roster considerably in the process.
The Bears are now the talk of the league, giving off a very positive vibe which players want to be around. For a franchise that has been notorious for their resistance to change, this is no small feat.
Justin Fields is the answer for why that aura finally exists, which leads to my first reason why he is going to take the megastar leap to become NFL MVP in Year 3.
Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields’ unique blend of charisma, generational ability, toughness and work ethic make him a talent magnet for the Windy City.
While there are rare exceptions, team success usually plays a vital role in deciding who gets serious consideration for NFL MVP.
For the Chicago Bears to be considered a contender, they needed significantly more talent for 2023-24. Luckily for Bears Nation, Justin Fields already stated that he would help bring players to Chicago.
The Bears GM went to work in somewhat surprising fashion, as many observers thought we’d shell out a big contract to a premier player in the trenches.
However, Poles still has a lot of cap room and draft capital to fill those positions, as he’s shown recently with his sneaky signing of DL Rasheem Greene. There’s a lot of talent still to come.
The most encouraging aspect of these signings was hearing the newly-acquired Chicago Bear players make it clear that Justin Fields is a big draw. The butterfly effect of his magnetism is a huge boon for the Bears.
Justin Fields’ talent magnet is only increased when respected analysts like the NFL Network’s Adam Rank willingly add to it on Twitter, as seen below.
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— NFL Total Access (@NFLTotalAccess) March 31, 2023
With a talent-infused roster, there is no question in my mind that Justin Fields will lead the Bears to a worst-to-first turnaround in the NFC North. Add it to the MVP résumé.
Even the acquisition of D.J. Moore is a direct result of Justin Fields’ presence. The No.1 pick became expendable after Fields’ value was evident to Ryan Poles. More on Chicago’s newest D.J. later.
With a long offseason including the draft and after-draft cuts still ahead, I feel secure in saying Ryan Poles will be able to continue stacking this roster in large part due to the presence of JF1.
With that being said, there are more layers to peel back to fully realize why the 2023-24 MVP is Fields’ destiny. What better layer than the advantage of our beloved city?
With Justin Fields playing at an elite level along with the Bears being serious contenders, the noise and narrative of Chicago will be impossible to ignore.
Why be modest? The Chicago Bears are the greatest franchise to play for, bar none.
We have the most passionate fans in the NFL to pair with our tradition. How often have you heard Bears fans turn an away game into a home game over the years?
When Justin Fields is lighting up defenses and the Bears are pushing for a top seed in the playoffs, the hype in Chicago will be deafening. Other candidates will fall to the Chicago narrative one-by-one.
If you’ll allow me a comparison despite the fact that they play different sports, the situation would be strikingly similar to when Derrick Rose became the youngest NBA MVP of all-time in 2011.
Statistically, Rose was not a slam dunk to win (pun intended). What Rose had to strengthen his case was the noise and the narrative.
He was a young kid leading a once-proud Chicago team back to prominence. His passion, leadership, sportsmanship and breathtaking athleticism were impossible to ignore.
Sound familiar? The media crowned Rose long before he won a landslide vote. When Justin Fields finally brings the QB position to prominence in Chicago in a winning season, it’s over.
Justin Fields represents everything that is romantic about football, just as Chicago’s own once did for basketball.
It’ll still be vital for him to hit the ground running. Luckily for Justin, for the first time in his professional career he has scheme stability. History shows this is vital for QB success.
Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields will finally have the advantage of offensive system stability due to the return of OC Luke Getsy.
It has been well documented how crucial it is for a quarterback to be comfortable in the system they’re running. Fields’ newfound stability will be a key factor in his success this season.
Comfort can have two meanings in an offensive system. Future 2023-24 NFL MVP Justin Fields has never had comfort as a pro due to his first Head Coach Matt Nagy.
Though it was widely believed that the Chicago Bears stole Fields with the No.11 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, Nagy proclaimed in perplexing fashion almost immediately that Andy Dalton would start.
Fields couldn’t get any meaningful reps with the starters in training camp. When Dalton inevitably was injured, Fields struggled as Nagy never focused on his rookie’s strengths.
This was the first error of system comfort. By refusing to help his first round draft pick, he set him up for failure, resulting in Justin getting annihilated by the Cleveland Browns defense in his first start.
Matt Nagy sealed his fate and was fired at the end of the season along with the rest of the coaches and the entire front office. Enter Ryan Poles, new Chicago Bears GM.
While hiring a new regime was necessary, it unfortunately forced Justin Fields to go through the second error of system comfort: Learning an entirely new system.
Learning two different offenses in your first two years is far from ideal. It explains why Justin Fields started slow last year, but that didn’t stop the naysayers from calling our QB a bust.
New OC Luke Getsy was smart enough to analyze Fields’ play to see what worked and adjusted after the aforementioned Week 6 loss to Washington. The results speak for themselves.
Justin Fields will finally get to go through an entire offseason perfecting his knowledge of an offense instead of learning a new one. Nothing will satisfy me more than his critics who say he can’t throw having to eat crow.
Speaking of Fields spinning the rock, let’s talk about another reason why you can expect Bears passing records to be shattered sooner rather than later: Brand new Chicago Bear D.J. Moore.
There are multiple examples of young QBs exploding in recent history. They all have one thing in common: The addition of a legitimate WR1. Enter D.J. Moore.
I remember exactly where I was on the evening of March 10th, 2023, when I found out that the Chicago Bears somehow acquired D.J. Moore plus picks for our No.1 overall pick.
While this feeling had been building over quite some time, it was at that moment when I knew without a doubt that we weren’t dealing with the same old Chicago Bears organization.
Hibernation was finally over. The addition of D.J. Moore is the key to unlocking Justin Fields’ full potential, as his addition to the depth chart immediately improves the outlook of every skill player in our offense.
Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen had similar career paths to Fields through two years. Then they were delivered a WR1 and the rest is history. The Fields-to-Moore connection will similarly terrorize the NFL.
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When D.J. Moore laces up to play his first regular season game next season, he very well may be the best wide receiver to play for the Chicago Bears in their storied 103-year history.
Mix that with the most talented Bears QB of all-time in Justin Fields. Throw in a dash of Chase Claypool, Darnell Mooney, Cole Kmet, Robert Tonyan, Khalil Herbert, and D’Onta Foreman. What does that recipe make, Bears Nation?
The most dangerous and explosive Chicago Bears offense in modern football history. If you took out D.J. Moore, that statement would be impossible to make. With him, it is inevitable.
When asked about his first conversation with Justin after the trade, D.J. Moore’s response was perfect in more ways than one. It was exciting from a fan perspective while providing yet another analytical example of Fields’ uncanny maturity and deeply-seated desire to win.
All of which brings me to my final and most important reason why Justin Fields has a date with fate next February.
Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields is built for this moment. He is the epitome of the evolution of the quarterback position and he now has the chance to prove it.
I’m a fan just like you, Bears Nation. I’ve died on the hill of hope many times as a Chicago Bears fan, yet I climb up again. I know how it feels to be let down by my favorite team or my favorite player.
I understand the pessimism of Bears fans who don’t want to get on that hill again with me. With that being said, everything that I know about Justin Fields has me convinced this is different.
Fields has been in the spotlight his entire life because he has worked for this moment his entire life. From winning Trent Dilfer’s Elite 11 high school quarterback camp over Trevor Lawrence to being endorsed by Cam Newton, his drive to be the best has been evident to all from an early age.
Many athletes are unable to withstand the pressure of Chicago sports. The pressure is exponentially greater as a Bears QB because of our history, but Justin Fields embraces it unlike any player I’ve seen play the position before him. He is used to the spotlight and he shows it.
He has navigated the difficult Chicago media from Day 1 with the maturity of a seasoned veteran. He is constantly working at his craft. He organizes teammate workouts on his own to build chemistry with his weapons on his own time.
These are the attributes of a champion. These are the attributes of the NFL MVP. Maybe most importantly to this city, these are the attributes of a beloved, enduring Chicago athlete.
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The Chicago Bears did not do justice for this generational talent during his first two years in the league. Justin Fields never wavered. No matter how many hits he took, how many passes were dropped, or how many leads he gave our defense were blown, he accepted the blame.
He was a leader through all of the trials and tribulations because that is who Justin Fields is at his core. He doesn’t need to fake it. He earned the belief of GM Ryan Poles, a man who did not draft him. New President and CEO Kevin Warren already was a believer.
Now armed with the full support of a modern Chicago Bears regime, Justin Fields is going to take the NFL by storm. It began last season, but the best is sure to come.
I believe in Justin Fields. If you don’t believe yet, you will. You’ll have no choice but to believe in the man known as ‘H1M’ when Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields raises the 2023-24 NFL Most Valuable Player award next February.
Book it, Chicago.