Luke Getsy Popularity Perplexing for Bears Fans

Analysis: Former Bears offensive coordinator has interviewed with the Saints, Raiders and Patriots and it's possible none of this adds up to Justin Fields staying in Chicago.

Luke Getsy continues to receive interviews for offensive coordinator positions.

This can't be good news for Justin Fields fans in Chicago. It might not be good news for the Bears.

When the Bears first fired Getsy, the initial interest in his services came from teams perceived to be in the running to trade for Fields, if the Bears decide to draft USC quarterback Caleb Williams.

New England and the Raiders are two teams Getsy interviewed with during the last week. However, on Wednesday Albert Breer of SI.com reported Getsy has a second job interview this week with the New Orleans Saints.

The Saints have a quarterback in Derek Carr so they would really appear to be interested in Getsy. And perhaps the other teams were, as well.

Breer, appearing on AM 1000's Kap and J. Hood, said Getsy is more popular around the league than some Bears fans might think. Maybe all those screen passes he ordered Justin Fields to throw against Minnesota didn't sit as poorly with other teams as they did with Bears fans.

"He's very well respected," Breer told Dave Kaplan. "In fact, I think there are people out there that think he did a pretty good job the last couple of years, all things considered, bringing Justin Along, building on offense for Justin, weathering the injuries, having a rookie quarterback ready to go in Tyson Bagent. You know, it wasn't an ideal situation the last couple years."

Breer mamde a strong observatioin by poointing out Eberflus hadn't been trying to blow up everything done on offense so far.

"If you're Matt Eberflus and you thought it was broken, then why did every guy you look at come from the same tree?" Breer said. "They were looking to continue on what Luke Getsy had helped build in that sort of (Sean) McVay-(Kyle) Shanahan-(Matt) Lafleur type of system. And they go and get a guy who fits that (for OC) in Shane Waldron."

If this is true, it doesn't necessarily mean the Bears are done with Fields. If they're keeping a similar offensive system, it would seem chances for Fields to pick right up where he left off in late-season progress would be good.

However, Breer totally shot down chances of Fields' return as quarterback when he repeated something being reported last week.

"I think some of the guys who went through there (Halas Hall) and did interviews, did their offensive coordinator interviews, one of the things that excitied them about the job was the chance to take Caleb Williams," Breer said.

Breer was the one who had reported Eberflus was defending Fields during some interviews, but it doesn't seem the Bears coach did this necessarily to express what he thinks in terms of keeping the current QB.

The situation described by Breer is that Eberflus isn't down on Fields, but that they see Williams at least near where Fields is now with great potential as a passer, and he brings along the added plus of costing the team very little for at least four years.

"Now you can build aggressively with the extra money you might have," Breer said.

This is the other side of the coin about the building process. While it's often perceivde it's better to build the team with a bunch of draft picks they would get for trading away the right to pick Williams, they also can build up the roster by using the extra cap space afforded them by four years of not giving Fields another contract.

The real concern with that idea is if Williams isn't actually the player everyone thinks he'll be. 

Then the Bears would lose Fields, have a bust QB but still plenty of money to use to build. Almost no one seems to think this is true of Williams, though, and those assistants interviewing and saying they like the chance to work with Williams says it.

"It's not like Justin Fields is a bust," Breer told Kaplan. "It's more, this (Williams) is a very unique opportunity with a very uniquely talented player and that's a uniquely talented player you're going to have at a fraction of the cost it would take to keep Justin for the next three or four years."

So if Getsy is perceived around the league as a good offensive coordinator, then it's very possible teams around the league think Fields would be more to blame for the problems in Chicago on offense.

There's likely to be less for trade compensation should the Bears really be trading Fields then, even if it's more of a financial decision by them than anything else.

Then again, until this is all spelled out clearly by someone in power, chiefly GM Ryan Poles, then it's all nothing more than conjecture. At least it's interesting speculation.

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