hot take here but why would the bears hire anybody from Green Bay to be their offensive coordinator Luke Getsy has to go.
I didn’t hate it at first, but especially someone with no prior playcalling experience too. Like, we have a guy with high talent at a position we have never had success in.
Let’s pair him with a Defensive head coach and a coordinator who’s never called an offense and got to work with a vet aaron rodgers, so he never had to develop a young qb.
Exactly. The coaching choices were not thought through well.
Too many damn screens
Fields haters. Who on the fucking planet succeeds in this offense? Fumbles- bad yes. But for the love of fucking Christ look at these play calls.
First, they won, and should’ve won by a lot more. Second, it’s not like the game script gets pulled out of nowhere, it’s a feedback and dialogue between the coaching staff and the personnel, mainly QB
It is not a dialogue between coaching staff and QB or else Getsy would not have said the game plan is not specific to a QB.
He literally said that…
Yeah idk if Getsy realizes that there are ways to get the ball out quickly while still throwing in front of the line of scrimmage
Fields isn’t good at those.
I can pull up several pre-draft scouting reports that specifically talk about how he struggles to hit blitz-beating routes down field
I believe you. I know he’s not good at them.
You are on every comment here ready with his pre draft scouting report saved to your clipboard. Did Fields like steal your girl in school or something?
The play calls had to be like that because of fields’ weaknesses.
He’s notorious for being unable to identify and hit hot routes against the blitz. It was all over his pre-draft scouting reports. We saw it all through the last Minnesota game.
The majority of our normal dropbacks against blitzes tonight went badly.
Then wouldn’t this defense be a perfect time for him to try and put it together, trial by fire style?
This last stretch of games is supposed to be his proving ground to show he can improve from the beginning of the season. For 95% of this game, we all thought we were gonna lose, even when we were up. Why not use that position to dial up plays against a blitz defense that fields needs to work on and prove he can have success with.
I understand planning around your players strengths and weaknesses, but when the opponent is shutting down and even predicting your game plan, you need to let your players prove they can adjust to something that works
You gonna promise the coaching staff they get to keep their jobs even if they lose?
If not, you can’t ask them to implement developmental game plans.
I get what you’re saying, but I’d honestly consider this win still a loss for the coaching staff.
leaving out the screens, getsy is still abandoning the run game as its working. Flus called a great defense, but as a head coach, still makes questionable decisions that didn’t work out, such as the challenge on that vikings catch that was obviously going to stay.
It really felt like we won, despite the coaching ineptitude. Without J.J and Moore, that game becomes a crushing loss. Instead, it’s a hollow victory for everyone on the hotseat
More from NGS:
Justin Fields completed 14 of 16 attempts behind the line of scrimmage, both career highs.
- Air Yards/Attempt: 2.7 (Career Low)
- U10 AY: 24/27, 155 yds (+9.3% CPOE)
Fields completed every pass he threw to the middle & right side of the field (18/18)
^(*Note: Passing stats by air yards and receiver location do not include throwaways. Justin Fields had 5 throwaways out of 37 pass attempts.)
It’s basically back to the play calling from the first 2-3 games. Screen after screen
whenever a downfield pass is called, fields will hold on to the ball and either gets sacked or runs out of bounds
But we have seen him throw down the field this season?
This was his knock when he was drafted and why he fell. He had a solid o line at OSU and was throwing to Wilson and Olave.
Hard to push the ball down the field, when you have a coach calling nothing but screens. Flores isn’t dumb, he went fine we’ll rush 7-8, beat us with it then. Whenever they tried to push down the field it was in obvious downs and WRs were always covered. Meanwhile you have a running game that was averaging 4 a carry stopped calling it for a screen.
also hard to push downfield when you have no time to throw because you’re being blitzed
There are other ways to respond to pressure than endless screens. A blitzing linebacker or defensive back is a gap in the coverage, you just need to have routes available that can take advantage of it
Justin Fields can’t take advantage of it. That’s why we have to call screens.
From his scouting reports:
https://walterfootball.com/scoutingreport2021jfields.php
“Can freeze when seeing the blitz Must get better at passing in the face of the rush Blitz recognition needs work”
https://www.nfl.com/prospects/justin-fields/32004649-4576-9504-963d-c33127e80752
“Field vision is average in face of the blitz. Missed open blitz beaters in the middle of the field against Indiana. Gradual operation time prevents expedited release.”
It’s wild that when DJ Moore gets the ball, good things happen. Like seriously it’s so crazy! We should do that more
Damn! 72.9% completion! That’s 🔥
Cause of all the screen passes. Which we hate right?
Love the player, hate the play caller
Sad playcalling. I still don’t understand how the coaches attend practice and say “let’s run 20 screens and only throw it deep 3 times” 😬😬
I don’t understand why we don’t have a quick slant anywhere in the playbook.
We do, bagent was throwing a fuck load of them, Justin must not like the throw