Here it is: The worst Justin Fields take of all

The last thing the NFL needs is to adopt a transfer portal so struggling franchise quarterbacks like Justin Fields can find a new place of employment away from the dysfunctional Chicago Bears.

Somehow, someway, we have arrived at the worst take involving Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields to ever grace this earth: The second-year pro needing a transfer portal of sorts to get out of town.

Conor Orr of Sports Illustrated spoke this laughable idea into existence. While the Bears have been the epitome of what not to do at the quarterback position for multiple lifetimes, a transfer portal would destroy the very fabric of what makes the NFL king in America. No other league breeds hope as honestly as does the NFL. The college transfer portal is in its wild west stage.

While the transfer portal could be good long-term in college football, it will totally ruin the NFL.

Here it is: The worst take about Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields ever

Understandably, there is so much to unpack here. First off, we are essentially light years away from a transfer portal even crossing the minds of the NFLPA. The current CBA was only recently ratified. If the players want it, lord only knows what they will have to give up to the league’s 31 owners plus the stakeholders that run the publicly traded company that is the Green Bay Packers.

Secondly, with that in mind, by the time the transfer portal discussion could potentially enter the fray at the next CBA negotiations, players like Fields will have either made it as a professional or they will have not. If we want to look at potential players who could be impacted by a possible NFL transfer portal, ask the kids in high school who are so stoked about getting their learner’s permits.

Thirdly, if we can get past the idea of a transfer portal not potentially entering the NFL fray until the early 2030s, the owners will crush this immediately. Transfer portals work in college sports because there are multiple leagues. The same principle applies with soccer, allowing one top-flight striker to transfer from a beast in the Bundesliga to the best club the EPL could ever hope to offer.

By the time the NFL could even think about adding a transfer window, the league will have learned lessons from the failures of the NCAA, or from college football if it inevitably breaks off and governs itself, as it should. Simply put, it is way, way too early to cross-pollinate the ideas of implementing a transfer window within the NFL at this time. Free agency is the far better option.

If we are going to go down this rabbit hole on Easter Sunday, a transfer portal in the NFL is going to eliminate parity once and for all. What good is the NFL Draft or ample cap space if a moody player can just up and leave after a year because he feels like it? The reason football is America’s favorite sport is because it encapsulates the blue-collar mentality this great country was built on.

In the NFL, teams can cut players. If a guy stinks or can’t hang when the bullets are flying everywhere, he will be exposed. Half the league is undrafted. Ultimately, people don’t choose football; it chooses you. In a game defined by teamwork and one of desperation, you cannot kill hope. Otherwise, a quarter of the league will become the bottom-third of baseball and the NBA.

As far as Fields being thrust into a difficult environment, that falls into the tough stuff category. He may have used a hardship waiver to transfer from Georgia to Ohio State because he was not going to beat out Jake Fromm. However, it is not like Kirby Smart, Ryan Day or any Power Five coach for that matter could get rid of his scholarship. That is why the transfer portal even exists.

Ultimately, the Bears traded up to take Fields No. 11 for a reason: To be the savior of the franchise. While that was previous regime and a bad one that has seeped its way into the professional team I root for, there are no excuses for Fields. If Joe Burrow can take a woebegone franchise like the Cincinnati Bengals to the freaking Super Bowl in year two, why can’t Fields do the same in 2022?

And that right there is where the bar is at. Is Fields ever going to be Burrow? No, but he has a chance to be something special in Chicago. It may not come right away, but he has to give it his all during the next three-to-four years of his rookie contract. No doubt about it, this is a challenging job, but the upside of being the quarterback who silences the Ghost of Sid Luckman is undeniable.

Now is the time for guys like Fields to battle through adversity and not look for the easy way out.