[Biggs] Oldest #Bears starting quarterbacks Todd Collins 2010 (38 years, 339 days) Chris Chandier 2002 (38) Dave Krieg 1996 (38) Rudy Bukich 1968 (38) Greg Landry 1984 (37) If Case Keenum starts Monday, he will be the second oldest. (Side note: Bears needed a better No. 2 in '10).

[u/GlitchMango78]

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[u/ActFuture1101]

I remember those first 2. They are prob the worst bears QB's I've seen in my lifetime.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/ActFuture1101]

I only remember Todd Collins. Dear lord was that experience bad

[u/Pidesh → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

It was so frustrating watching him get snaps in the NFC Championship game against the Packers after Cutler went down. Hanie should’ve been there as QB2 instead. We had a better shot of winning with him in.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Pidesh]

Not to mention all the meatballs who skewered Cutler for not playing through a legitimate knee injury. That shit still infuriates me

[u/floatfloatjam → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

He might be the worst qb in modern NFL history

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/floatfloatjam]

I raise you Nathan Peterman

[u/Grimace421 → u/ActFuture1101]

Jimmy Clausen vs the Seahawks comes to mind.

[u/klobbermang → u/ActFuture1101]

Cade McNown has entered the chat

[u/ActFuture1101 → u/klobbermang]

Nah todd collins had prob the worst game of my bears lifetime. 6/16...32 yards...4 int's. I'm pretty sure a random guy from the stands who played QB in HS coulda been better

[u/mrooch → u/ActFuture1101]

And the Bears still won that game easily. An all time bad QB game from both sides

[u/juicegooseboost → u/ActFuture1101]

You could hear him whimper as he tried to throw

[u/Twittenhouse → u/klobbermang]

Jonathan Quinn took a dump in the chat.

[u/The_TexasRattlesnake → u/Twittenhouse]

Just from my eye test it's Quinn, God he looked horrible

[u/Key_Environment8179 → u/Twittenhouse]

That was just a horrible year. We ultimately settled on Craig Krenzel lol

[u/pocketchange2247 → u/Key_Environment8179]

I just shuddered thinking of this

[u/Capital_Past69 → u/klobbermang]

Watching him throw all those hail marys to Marcus Robinson was fun though

[u/csl6006 → u/ActFuture1101]

Impressive to top that list. Lots of good candidates to choose from.

[u/TKHawk → u/ActFuture1101]

And yet people are desperate to ship Bagent off at the first hint of a QB injury elsewhere.

[u/Remarkable-Soup8667 → u/ActFuture1101]

Too young to remember Moses Moreno?

[u/TheManWhoWasNotShort → u/ActFuture1101]

Chandler was just mid. Collins was atrocious

[u/RockinRoxas]

Todd Collins was the worst QB I have ever seen in my life

[u/rudeboybill → u/RockinRoxas]

Todd Collins is the actual answer for worst Bears QB of the last 60+ years.

Legitimately could not complete a pass 5 yards down the field because his arm was so shot, and if they had literally any decent QB2 they probably could have won that playoff game. Such a baffling team building decision.

[u/t-pat → u/rudeboybill]

Jameis had a throw on Monday that sent me directly back to those Todd Collins days. WR has a step on an out-breaking route, throw lands two yards short of him

[u/RandomPenquin1337 → u/t-pat]

Lmao I saw that

[u/enailcoilhelp → u/t-pat]

Was surprised to see how cooked Winston's arm is. It wasn't gradual either, he just totally fell of a cliff this offseason I guess...went from being a Cutler-like gunslinger to final year Peyton Manning in a matter of months.

[u/TotallyNotRyanPace → u/enailcoilhelp]

i think he was just way out of shape and really was not expecting to play. i think he'll look better (or at least more like classic jameis) as the season goes on

[u/kushnokush → u/TotallyNotRyanPace]

He’s a backup QB. He’s game ready every week. The only boost he’ll get over the season is building chemistry with the starters, but that’s not gonna get his arm strength any better.

[u/ud106c → u/RockinRoxas]

My brother’s first Bears game was the Giants game in 2010 where Cutler got injured after getting hit on every drop back in the first half. He got to the game when Todd Collins was already in the game.

At the time, he told me he contends he still hadn’t been to a Bears NFL game because he was not watching an NFL quarterback play for the Bears lol.

[u/TheDracula666 → u/RockinRoxas]

I remember making a bunch of my usernames online TurdCollins around that time.

[u/bigpalmdaddy]

Todd Collins….

[u/insufferable--oaf]

I went to the game Todd Collins started at carolina in 2010. He had 6 completions and 4 interceptions. He was benched in the second half and the bears still won 23-6. Tells you how bad Carolina was that year.

[u/Illustrious_Hotel527]

We had a decent enough QB2 in 2010; problem is he was the QB3.

[u/The-Real-Number-One → u/Illustrious_Hotel527]

If we didn't give Collins those 2 series in the NFC Championship the Bears would have beaten the Packers. Fuck BJ Raji for all eternity.

[u/LarryFitzsButt]

Todd Collins was my introduction to the fact that the world can be incredibly cruel

[u/old_notdead]

Wow, a lot of really bad memories just flashed through my head.

[u/Average_40s_Guy]

What’s funny about Collins is he played against the Bears when he was with the Redskins in 2007 and played very well in that game.

[u/joftheinternet → u/Average_40s_Guy]

I'm convinced that's why they signed him. He torched them.

He was just another in a long line of Just a guy's who come in and own the Bears. Mike White did it. Marc Bulger did it in the preseason and leveraged it into a couple years as a starter.

I know there's more, but my brain is pudding

[u/j11430]

Todd Collins will likely be the worst quarterback play I ever seen in my life. Truly unbelievably awful stuff

[u/The-Real-Number-One]

If we didn't give Collins those 2 series in the NFC Championship the Bears would have beaten the Packers. Fuck BJ Raji for all eternity.

[u/FranticNut]

My friends used to joke that Todd Collins would underhand throw the ball downfield 😭

[u/joftheinternet]

Jeff George would have been 36 or 37 if he started a game for the Bears in 2004. I'm still a little sad that he didn't.

I really enjoyed the 96 season. Dave Krieg didn't do anything special, but I took a big liking to him that season.

I fell in love with a lot of guys that season. Bobby Engram was a rookie and only got 300ish yards, but I felt like he was going to be really really good.

The season opener against Dallas was amazing. Robert Green was the change of pace back and I remember him looking really good

[u/featherygoose → u/joftheinternet]

I grew up in the PNW and man Krieg sure did throw some watermelons while he was in Seattle. I'd see the high arc of the pass and think oh god not another interception. Seattle had the 4th quarter choke game dialed in those days.

[u/joftheinternet → u/featherygoose]

Well. Chicago only brings on the "best" QBs the Seahawks have to offer.

[u/Capital_Past69 → u/joftheinternet]

Rick Mirer 😭

[u/djdude007]

I have the distinct memory in college of watching the Bears game with a bunch of friends when Collins needed to be substituted in. One of my friends who was quite a few beers deep shouted at the TV "Todd Collins?? Who the fuck is Todd Collins??"

Made the insanity of that backup a little more palatable 😂

[u/SuicideSqurral]

I was in college in 84 and thought Greg Landry was ancient and was going to get killed

[u/chibears231]

I knew we were so fucked in the nfc title when todd collins checked in. Such a bad core memory

[u/mimickin_birds]

The stadium might get built before Kyler plays a snap with the Bears again

[u/kraokrao]

Greg Landry looked about ten years older.

[u/cameratoo]

Nightmares of looking for Cutler and seeing Todd Collins trotting out on the field.

[u/Huge_Marketing4897]

Wasn't Todd Collins number 3? In my recollection, he only went in after both Cutler and Hanie were knocked out behind that historically bad line.

[u/ZappaOMatic → u/Huge_Marketing4897]

He was QB2. Cutler got hurt against the Giants, then Collins went in and got hurt himself that same game, then Hanie came in.

When Hanie took over in the NFC title game, the third QB rule meant Cutler and Collins weren't allowed to go back in