Justin Fields and the Bears' Offensive Adjustments Are Working | The Play Sheet [VIDEO]

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Ringer’s Ben Solak talks about Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields and the adjustments that offensive coordinator Luke Getsy has made to help Fields after his struggles early in the season. Wide receiver D.J. Moore has been a boon to the Bears offense, and the schemes and routes that Getsy has implemented have fans in Chicago hopeful for more performances like the Bears' win over the Commanders in Week 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Howdy? I'm Ben Solac. This is the play sheet. So weekly Wednesday podcast we do where I break down some film. It's a video pod. So click in your Spotify app, click on the episode and watch the video unless you're driving, in which case, finish driving and then do all of that and then watch the show. This is the play sheet.
0:19.2	The opening script, did the Bears fix everything?
0:22.6	In the first two weeks of the season, there was no team more embarrassing than the Chicago Bears.
0:26.9	They entered the year with expectations for a second year leap under head coach Matt Iberfluse
0:30.5	and a third year leap for quarterback Justin Fields. They faced Green Bay in Week 1, Tampa Bay and
0:35.7	in Week 2, and completely face planted.
0:38.3	Offensive issues were myriad and easy to see.
0:40.7	Receivers were running the wrong routes.
0:42.1	The offensive linemen were blowing assignments of pass protection.
0:44.3	The play caller couldn't help the quarterback, and the quarterback couldn't help himself.
0:48.2	Watching Fields was so frustrating to start this season because he had the same issues now that he had like as a rookie in
0:54.9	2021. He felt exactly the same. The timing was terrible. His feet in the pocket atrocious,
0:58.8	his pocket presence, abysmal. He was taking sack after sack. He was missing receivers.
1:02.7	Inaccurate throws all over the place. It was like he'd been dropped in an offense that he had
1:06.3	never practiced before. Really frustrating to see. So yeah, there'd be that cool deep bomb or a nice
1:11.5	scramble outside of the pocket, but those plays had always been there, and you can't keep
1:15.5	hanging your hat on that. So I had promised myself that I had sworn off Justin Fields, okay? And
1:20.2	then the last two weeks happened, home against Denver and Thursday night against the commanders,
1:25.8	the offense explodes. Fields has over 600
1:28.4	passing yards. He has eight touchdowns. He has only two turnovers and there were bad
1:32.7	turnovers, but there were just two of them, which is nice. And it feels like this offense
1:38.0	might actually kind of be good. Now, we've all been fooled by the bear's offense before.
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