I haven’t seen any stats on it for the Bengals game but it still seemed to me he was hesitating before throwing or deciding to run. It wound up being ok because of the Bengals lack of a pass rush and the Jets line playing great. It will be a different story next game with Myles Garrett and Cleveland’s defense. It will likely be a low scoring game, hopefully the Jets can generate enough offense to win it.
Not sure what it was. He seemed to move a bit quicker but he also had incredibly clean pockets due to what you said in facing an anemic pass rush. The Jets finally ran some play action and moved him out of the pocket too which was nice to see.
This right here is what I don't understand. If fans can see it, why can't a professional OC? Justin Fields should be operating NOTHING but a play action/bootleg/RPO type of offense where the pocket moves the majority of the time. It is VERY clear that this kid is simply not capable of dropping back as a pocket passer. He needs the defenses to shift so that he can make a decision. He has no concept of how to pre-snap read so he needs some form or type of plays/system that gets him out of the pocket, forces the defense to commit so that he can do his thing. Seems he's above average when things begin to move. When he has to stand in the pocket he gets killed and this team loses. SO clear it's not funny. Hey Tanner, if you are reading this thread, please heed. If someone knows the guy...please relay. It's so simple it's painful. The reason coaches, like Shanahan and Reid, are so successful is because they CHANGE their offenses to FIT the player. Not the other way around. If you put Pat Mahomes in a classic drop back and pass offense the Chiefs would be shit. If you put Brock Purdy in a scrambling offense he would be shit. It's simply phenomenal to me that PROFESSIONAL NFL people can't see, learn and adjust..
I'm just a layman, but this sounds good. How did his previous teams handle him? Did they run the type of offense you are asking for?
He was late on throws still the difference was just that the Jets were able to keep the defense off him for longer because the Bengals have no pass rush, I agree with the OP
Yea unfortunately the most likely scenario is a Bills redux next week against the Browns. If the Bengals pass rush was even average we'd have lost that game. Fields had all the time in the world and still was late on throws. Fun for a week, but something tells me we'll be having the Tyrod convo heading into New England.
He was really late on the crucial 2point conversion to Davis. We were so fortunate that Davis made the tough catch and the ball was like 1 inch over the line. The replay shows Fields scrambling and making a beautiful move to avoid the sack and hitting Davis in traffic. But the replay also shows Davis wide open for a much easier conversion when Fields was in the pocket comfortably lol
So many big plays were the benefit of Fields having the time to overthink. The 4th down pass to Ruckert, late. The big gain to Arian Smith, late. The two point conversion, late. This is just who he is. And these are the types of outlier games that have gotten him starting jobs for four years. The rest of the games are why he's lost all of them and will lose this one.
Nope, neither the Squealers nor Bears were those kind of offenses. Not that it matters a whole lot as the other posters are correct. He holds the ball too long regardless.
