Chicago Bears: 5 Storylines to watch vs. Titans in preseason Week 3

1. Justin Fields gets his first start

This is not the start the fans expected for Justin Fields. Head coach Matt Nagy announced that Andy Dalton would start Week 1 of the regular season. That caused a fan uproar, despite the fact that Nagy said that would happen since practically the moment the Chicago Bears drafted Fields.

Fields won’t be with the starters just yet, but he’ll have better weapons around him than he’s had this preseason. In addition, he’ll have players with something to play for so they’ll do their best to play as well as possible.

Fields will play the entire first half. It’ll be a change from the previous two preseason games. In those games, he came in with the Bears in a deficit. Now he’ll get an opportunity to get the team going early and setting the tone. It’ll be interesting to see him start a game and get the offense going.

We’d like to see how Fields learns his lesson. He had some eye-opening lessons last week against the Bills. There was the play in which the line crashed to the left and the running back went out to the right. With the defender going unblocked, Fields was supposed to glance left and throw right, to the wide-open receiver. He looked left too long and ended up getting blasted.

Fields did learn from that, though. The coaches ran the same play a few plays later and FIelds did what he was supposed to and made the play. The coaching staff wants him to do the same this week. Hopefully, he can correct some of the deficiencies the coaches told him about. That will speed up the clock for him to eventually take over as QB1.