In The Pocket: Justin Fields' struggles, Tua Tagovailoa's ascent, Sam Howell's flashes, and more
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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On the Week 2 edition of In The Pocket, Robert Mays and Chase Daniel dig deep into Justin Fields' struggles, trying to find a path forward for the Bears' quarterback. They also heap praise on Tua Tagovailoa and Mike McDaniel, revel in their enjoyment of Sam Howell and Eric Bieniemy, and also discuss the play through two weeks of Bryce Young and Josh Allen.
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.8 | Joining me today for our second episode of In the Pocket. |
| 0:54.2 | It's Chase Daniel. Chase, how you doing, man? What's going on? What's going on? Busy week. Busy week. A lot to talk about, but I'm glad to be here. I can't believe it's already our second episode. It seems like it's like the fourth or fifth, but only number two, baby. Number two, for people unfamiliar with the show, this is our chance on the athletic football show fee to chat all things NFL quarterbacks. |
| 1:15.6 | Chase played in the league for 14 years, a bunch of different coordinators, |
| 1:18.0 | bunch of different teams, tons of perspective. |
| 1:20.1 | And we've got a lot to get to and a lot of perspective to share today because it was |
| 1:24.7 | a action-packed week in the quarterback world. |
| 1:27.4 | And let's start with a little bit of news kind of coming off of the week that was share today because it was a action-packed week in the quarterback world. |
| 1:31.9 | And let's start with a little bit of news kind of coming off of the week that was. |
| 1:37.7 | We started recording shortly after Justin Fields finished up his press conference today at Hallis Hall. |
| 1:38.8 | And he came out and said, I'm going to be playing more free, playing like me, I'm playing |
| 1:43.6 | way too robotic. |
| 1:45.5 | And when asked why he thought some of that robotic elements of his play kind of creeped in, |
| 1:51.5 | really during his career in Chicago, but specifically last week, he hesitated and then just said |
| 1:57.0 | coaching. And after that said, you know, I understand they have jobs to do and they're supposed to |
| 2:02.1 | tell me where to look, but at the end of the day, I just got to play. |
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