This is a bit of cherry picking. Why pick 19 games instead of his entire career? Because that's the arbitrary number that makes his stats look best? His career averages are 155 yards/game, 1.5 TD:INT. The larger sample size is more meaningful. This also doesn't touch on the sacks which are the big story with Fields. Fields is the first QB to have 4 consecutive seasons with a sack rate of 10% or higher. 80% of his sacks are taken after holding the ball for 4 seconds or longer. Sacks are drive killers when you can't pass well. The running ability is nice but largely irrelevant when you're losing 10-15 yards 10% of the time you drop back to pass.
The offense is going to suck. Plain and simple. One of the worst offensive rosters in the NFL, and what talent is there has been developed poorly over the last couple of years and is now learning a wholesale new scheme and identity. High expectations beware.
No more then 20 passes a game. Run heavy but, it needs to have creativity. Outside runs, tosses, sweep, iso, tackle and just not the HB dives we have been use to lol. I'll be happy
This is my view as well…Fields is not a good QB, and that’s been true for three years on two different teams….The Bears drafted him high and saw enough after two years to let him go…the Steelers benched him after 6 games despite winning some of those games…and sure, the Bears are not the poster child for QB development, but the Steelers have been a consistently well run team, and for all the lip service about how they “wanted” him to return, they made a minimal effort to retain him, so sorry, I’m not putting all that much stock in that. I think that for the most part, great players don’t take too long to show it, and while we don’t necessarily need Fields to be a “great” QB for this year (but we would need him to be great if we want to become a consistent payoff/Super Bowl contender), I think he has a ways to go to even be considered “pretty good”, or “league average”. I’m not at all high on him, and while training camp is not real games, I am a bit disappointed that it just feels pretty much like he’s been the same type of QB in camp that he’s been for 3 years now. Sure, it’s early. Sure, game planning will be different. Sure, his running ability, which may not be showing yet in camp like it will be used in games, may improve his play once the real games start. But all in all, I’m afraid that he’s going to be more of the same…which to me feels quite a bit like Zach but with better wheels. And I remember how fucking frustrated it was having to watch our team struggle to complete simple fucking passes and find the open guy. Putting drives together was such a tall task, compared to watching real QBs make it look like there is ALWAYS someone open. So again…he’s our QB and I’ll be rooting for him, but I am preparing to be very disappointed watching our offense. Again.
Because he’s young and has improved. I used 19 games because that’s how many starts he has in the past 2 years. I’m interested in the player we have today, not stats from when he’s a rookie
