REPORT: Bears DO NOT Plan To Reduce Justin Fields’ Carries This Season
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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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On today’s show, host Jon Zaghloul reacts to a report claiming that the Bears do not plan to reduce Justin Fields’ carries, and explains how that will factor into the team’s offensive scheme in 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news, Justin Fields is not expected to run less, but they just wanted to get hit less. |
| 0:05.8 | Sports Talk, Chicago here for Johns Glow. Appreciate all of you tuning in. Subscribe to the channel |
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| 0:20.5 | Yeah, you heard me right. The Bears |
| 0:22.6 | are not interested in running Justin Fields less. And I find this interesting because |
| 0:27.8 | over the past couple of months, there's been more talk about, okay, Fields is going to have |
| 0:33.2 | weapons, it's going to have an offensive line. There's no need to run him as much as they did |
| 0:37.2 | last season. We saw last year how many times the Barons kind of put him in harm's way, how many |
| 0:42.8 | times Fields got beat up and even injured near the end of this season. And people were wondering, |
| 0:49.3 | myself included, how they would address things moving forward, knowing he has weaponry, he may have a little bit |
| 0:55.6 | more protection, going to be more integrated in this offense with Lucchese. |
| 1:00.1 | But here's what ESPN insider Dan Graziano had to say. He said, quote, don't be surprised if |
| 1:05.4 | quarterback Justin Fields keeps running. I asked the bear's official if the team wanted Fields to run less |
| 1:09.7 | this season to avoid putting himself in harm's way. The response was, quote official if the team wanted Fields to run less this season to avoid |
| 1:11.1 | putting himself in harm's way. The response was, quote, well, we want him to get hit less, which |
| 1:16.6 | indicates it might not be as simple as running him less. In watching the 55 sacks the fields took in |
| 1:21.8 | 2022, it seemed like a lot of them were the result of indecisiveness in the pocket, which is understandable |
| 1:27.0 | for a young |
| 1:27.5 | QB. It should be something that gets better this year. There's some more. The acquisition of |
| 1:32.2 | DJ Moore has been a major improvement for the receiver broom, and that upgrade, plus another |
| 1:36.9 | offseason of work, should help this passing game evolve. But Bealds isn't just a good runner. He's |
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