Anonymous former coach of Steelers’ Justin Fields blasts his ability to play QB
When the Pittsburgh Steelers traded for Justin Fields, they knew they were trading for low risk high reward, kind of deal. If he hits, you have your QB for the next decade. If he misses, Pittsburgh loses out on a mere 6th-round pick. But there is a reason why he was acquired for such little […]
When the Pittsburgh Steelers traded for Justin Fields, they knew they were trading for low risk high reward, kind of deal.
If he hits, you have your QB for the next decade. If he misses, Pittsburgh loses out on a mere 6th-round pick.
But there is a reason why he was acquired for such little capital, and one of his former coaches just told us why:
Anonymous Bears Coach Blasts Fields
“Watch his [Fields] eyes. He tries to see the whole thing and doesn’t see anything. His eyes are all over the place and it’s just really hard to watch. It’s just bad football,” an anonymous coach from the Chicago bears told Tyler Dunne of Go Long regarding Justin Fields…
"…He’d be a great single-wing quarterback if that was still around," added the unnamed coach.
Strong comments from someone who was in direct contact with Fields, I hope I don't burst any bubbles, but the coach is right.
Fields is a walking TD. He has a whip of an arm and a build and running ability that could allocate starting reps if he was a full-time RB.
That has often parlayed huge plays and highlight reels that make you wonder why he was ever available, much less for a 6th-round pick.
The problem is, while Fields' highs are high, his lows are very low, and the consistency needed to play and win from the pocket has yet to show itself in his young career.
The question is? Can he fix it.
That's the answer Pittsburgh is waiting on.
In my opinion, when evaluating QBs, the best ones have an innate feel for timing, rhythm, and anticipation.
All the greats, you know the Mahomes' Brady's and Mannings' of the world, are as instinctual as they are physically dominant, if not more so in the case of players like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
I'm not sure if Fields has that instinct, but you have to lean towards no at this point of his career.
What I am sure of, and what Dunne explains in the piece, is that even if he did have that instinct, Fields was set up to fail in Chicago.
His tenure saw him surrounded by sub-par infrastructure everywhere but at RB.
It's hard to see if a QB can process appropriately when he has less than 3 seconds before he's on his back because his line is full of turnstiles or his WRs can't get open.
We know that won't be the case in Pittsburgh, but there is also no promise that he gets the chance to prove he's solved his woes. Russell Wilson is the clear frontrunner in the room, but all signs point to a world of a QB competition come training camp in July.
Maybe then Fields will be able to finally show the reason why he was drafted to be the face of a franchise.
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