Justin Fields is struggling at Jets training camp, but that's no reason to panic.

In fact, it's pretty meaningless.

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It is Thursday, August 7th, 2025, and I'm your host, John B from getting green nation.com. Thank you so much for making the show your first listen or first watch every day. And a big shout out to you every day. This is a daily podcast covering the New York Jets with new episodes each day through the week, Monday through Friday. On today's show, we have our weekly mailbag. Normally we do our mailbags each Wednesday, but we push this week's back to Thursday. Thanks so much to everybody who sent in questions. Let's begin. Our first questions about Justin Fields. John, the recent reports from Jets practice at training camp have not been good for Justin Fields. Sounds like he's struggling consistently. How concerns should Jets fans be? That's a good question. And yes,

one of the ongoing themes of Jets training camp, at least the early stages of Jets training

camp, have been that Justin Fields has been struggling. Aside from one day over the weekend,

there have been a lot of negative reports about his performance in these practices. I don't think you

should be any more worried than you were about Justin Fields entering training camp. I don't think you should be any more worried than you were

about Justin Fields entering training camp. I don't think you should be any less worried than you

were about Justin Fields entering training camp. I don't think the results of these practices

are all that important. I think that what's happening right now is the Jets are preparing for the

season. You know, the key word in training camp is training.

The Jets are putting in a new system.

They're learning how to operate these plays. You have a lot of new pieces on the offense. These guys are learning how to work with each other. Fields is adjusting to his new wide receivers. He's adjusting to a new playbook. And I think we forget, like part of the reason you have training camp is to kind of work

out the problems now because the first time you try and execute a play is probably not going to go,

probably not going to be executed in a top notch manner. You know, I mean, how significant is

training camp? Well, how often do we look back when a player either has a good season or a bad season?

You know, let's say we get to January.

The players have a great season or a bad season.

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