Pro Football Network website QBR rankings. They are dead on here.
17) Justin Fields, Chicago Bears
Justin Fields is one of the most dangerous entities in the NFL, but he’s hamstrung by the Chicago Bears offensive line and schematic structure. Minnesota did not allow him to attack downfield. They blitzed him early and often, forcing the ball out of his hands quickly.
But Fields also needs to do a better job of protecting the football. That is something that the Josh Allens and Lamar Jacksons of the world tend to struggle with. Their endless playmaking efforts put the ball in adverse situations. Fields’s relentless pursuit of wrenching himself out of sacks puts the ball at risk too much.
But if he had time to operate the same way his successor at Ohio State has in Houston … Instead, they’re stuck throwing screens and praying their pass catchers can break a few tackles.
Fields has the longest time to throw in the NFL. He’s regularly creating problems for himself with awful pocket awareness. On one of the first plays of the game he rolled out and nearly walked right into a rusher that kmet was desperately trying to block away from him.
Can you explain how this time-to-throw stat is actually measured? I’ve seen conflicting info when I google it. Some websites say it’s the time from snap-to-throw that’s measured, and some say that it’s snap-to-pressure that’s measured. I’m not trying to argue, I’ll just think the stat is more important if Fields has the most time in the league before being pressured. Otherwise, his ability to evade pressure surely increases his average time to throw.
Next Gen stats has time to throw as just snap to throw AFAIK.
We see the plays, we know that the OL is protecting him often enough, and we see him bail on clean pockets often enough, that the “his ability to evade pressure increases his time to throw”. Fields evades pressure that he creates for himself by not throwing the ball.
When you say it like that it makes it seem like a massive problem. But there’s no evidence he does this substantially more than other quarterbacks in the league. And I don’t know how you even assume he did this last night when the All-22 isn’t out and they blitzed 53% of the time.
Pro Football Network website QBR rankings. They are dead on here.
17) Justin Fields, Chicago Bears
Justin Fields is one of the most dangerous entities in the NFL, but he’s hamstrung by the Chicago Bears offensive line and schematic structure. Minnesota did not allow him to attack downfield. They blitzed him early and often, forcing the ball out of his hands quickly.
But Fields also needs to do a better job of protecting the football. That is something that the Josh Allens and Lamar Jacksons of the world tend to struggle with. Their endless playmaking efforts put the ball in adverse situations. Fields’s relentless pursuit of wrenching himself out of sacks puts the ball at risk too much.
But if he had time to operate the same way his successor at Ohio State has in Houston … Instead, they’re stuck throwing screens and praying their pass catchers can break a few tackles.
Fields has the longest time to throw in the NFL. He’s regularly creating problems for himself with awful pocket awareness. On one of the first plays of the game he rolled out and nearly walked right into a rusher that kmet was desperately trying to block away from him.
Nobody is falling for this OL excuse anymore.
Can you explain how this time-to-throw stat is actually measured? I’ve seen conflicting info when I google it. Some websites say it’s the time from snap-to-throw that’s measured, and some say that it’s snap-to-pressure that’s measured. I’m not trying to argue, I’ll just think the stat is more important if Fields has the most time in the league before being pressured. Otherwise, his ability to evade pressure surely increases his average time to throw.
Next Gen stats has time to throw as just snap to throw AFAIK.
We see the plays, we know that the OL is protecting him often enough, and we see him bail on clean pockets often enough, that the “his ability to evade pressure increases his time to throw”. Fields evades pressure that he creates for himself by not throwing the ball.
Fields has either the highest or second highest time to pressure (it was posted on r/NFL sometime in the last couple of days).
Let’s just completely ignore him continually bailing on clean pockets and passing up open receivers downfield
When you say it like that it makes it seem like a massive problem. But there’s no evidence he does this substantially more than other quarterbacks in the league. And I don’t know how you even assume he did this last night when the All-22 isn’t out and they blitzed 53% of the time.