Justin Fields takes aim at Chicago Bears coaching in bombshell comments
Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields considers "coaching" could be the reason behind his "robotic" play during their 17-27 Week 2 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Fields, 24, threw 211 yards on 16-of-29 for a touchdown and two interceptions. On the ground, he rushed just four times for a total of three yards and a touchdown.
That is the lowest yardage in a single game since the former first-round pick's rookie season. Sunday also saw Fields sacked six times as the team struggled to push the ball downfield.
After similarly losing their season opener 20-38 to the Green Bay Packers - after which Fields apologised to the team's fans - the Bears are off to a 0-2. Including the end of last season, Chicago has lost a dozen games in a row.
In the aftermath of defeat number 12, Fields seems to be turning fire on the franchise's staff. While not naming names, the quarterback suggests that coaching might be why he has been overthinking things in bombshell comments unlikely to go down well within the organization.
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"Could be coaching," he said to reporters at a press conference. "They're doing their job when they're giving me what to look at, but at the end of the day, I can't think about that when the game comes.
"I prepare myself throughout the week, and when the game comes, it's time to play free. It's about thinking less and playing more."
Fields has already apologised to Bears fans this season after their opening game loss to the Packers (Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images)Fields later clarified that it was not the presence of too many opinions in his ear that was overcomplicating things. "I don't think it's too many coaching voices," he continued. "But when you're fed a lot of information, at a point in time, and trying to think about that info like when you're playing, it doesn't let you play like yourself trying to process so much information to where it's like, if I just simplified my mind, I would have did this.
"I saw a few plays on Sunday to where, if I was playing like my old self, we would have had a positive play. There would have been a few more third-down conversions.
"So I think that's the biggest thing for me is just playing the game how I know how to play it, how I've been playing it my whole life. That is what I got to get back to doing.
"My goal this week is to say 'f it' and go out there and play football how I know how to play football," Fields explained earlier in the press conference. Afterward, he later clarified his comments about the coaching. "I'm not blaming anything on the coaches," he told reporters. "I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches. Never gonna blame anything on my teammates.
"Whatever happens in the game, I will take all the blame. I don't care. If its a dropped pass, it should have been a pass. Put on me. But never will you hear anything come out of my mouth to where I will blame it on somebody else in this organisation or my teammates. Never will you hear that.
"So I just want to clear that up. And just know that, like, I need to play better. That's it. Point blank. That's what I should have said in the first place."
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