It’s a valid concern, but even if the patriots lose out, Carolina has to win 2 to pass them

The first fumble was one of the worst plays of the year from fields. Just completely panics for no reason and thus missed an easy touchdown throw

I dunno if feels like we finally have time to hash out the whole Justin Fields thing once and for all

It would be better if he could be a great QB. But he can’t.

This franchise loves to find any excuse to give up on the position and go “fuck it, we running the ball and playing defense now.”

If we somehow end up outside of the Williams/maye tier in the draft, I wouldn’t love it but it might be the best of a bad situation

???

Calvin Johnson was widely lauded as a generational wr prospect and mocked as high as no. 1 overall

Yes, taking Williams is the right call. But saying that won’t get you attention and clicks, so I expect a lot of these takes until April

Well, the list of QBs he’s won with is equally bad

Unfortunately, he is missing the most important tool

He is not. Moving on …

No matter how much film you’ve been shown that you’re wrong about this and many of them are fields’ fault, you keep ignoring it and coming back to this take

Every fandom says the exact same things about their coaches.

It’s more fun to believe the coaches are dumb than our players are bad

Yes to both

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.

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

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.

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.”

No matter what else happened before it, the game was on the line and the QB made a play. That’s how you win in the NFL.

He may not do it often, but I won’t deny he did it tonight.

(the screens are working better than the non-screens)

Just a textbook game for how Fields manages to make his box score line look ok but fails in key situations.