Justin Fields Hold On to The Ball Too Long So We Should Send Him Into Oblivion.

The last 4 months of sports in Chicago have frankly been amazing. The Bears drafted Justin Fields which almost no one predicted would happen. Unless you are my dad who told me a few night’s before the draft he thinks we are drafting Justin Fields which I then proceeded to tell him to “shut up and stop dreaming”. Yes he reminds me very often of that. The White Sox are a good baseball team once again. The Blackhawks landed star studded names like Marc Andre Fleury and Seth Jones via trade. Also the Bulls are starting to look really fucking fun for this upcoming year. So with so much promise and success in so little time it’s easy for some people to talk about the little things that aren’t going the greatest.

Justin Fields is now holding the ball too long during live scrimmages and it’s making Matt Nagy very anxious. This is also the same practice in which he threw more touchdowns than incompletions. This isn’t anything new by any means either. He had an average of 3.1 seconds from snap to release on throwing plays in college which is weird considering his offensive line was pretty solid this last year. So we should do the rational thing and blow this up and predict he’s a bust. Let’s run through some things first before we do that though.

Let’s start with some positives first before we really crush this man. For starters he’s a very young QB who played 22 games at Ohio St. 9 more games than the man he’s going to be replacing Mitch Trubisky. In those games he threw for 63 touchdowns with a massive 9 interceptions and completed 68% of his passes. People said he was a last guy in, first guy out type of man. Which is crazy because that never came out of his high school or collegiate coach’s mouth. Nor his new boss Ryan Pace who said during the offseason Justin has pretty much lived at Halas Hall. It’s really just come out of Chris Simms and Dan Orlovsky’s mouth. As you can tell by their NFL careers they've got what it takes to be a premier NFL starter all figured out right?

Well you also might be very worried about his issue as a first read only guy. Well, do I have some news for you. Ben Solak and Brett Kollman both brought this to my attention. Great NFL film analysts, you really need to check them out. They showed that Justin Fields made more throws beyond their first read than any other QB in the entire NFL draft. Along with that in those throws that went to his 2nd, 3rd, or 4th read he completed 69% of those passes compared to Trevor Lawrence (43%), Trey Lance (64%), Zach Wilson (54%), and Mac Jones with a whopping (31%). He also had the second highest accuracy mark on those throws just behind Trey Lance. So far so good right? Also he runs a 4.4 40 yard dash which is not bad bad for a guy who is a pass first QB.

So here we are back to the issue that Justin Fields holds on to the fucking ball too long. What a bum. A guy with numbers like that, along with being the most accurate QB in the draft past his first read surely can’t fix the mistake of holding on to the ball too long, right? He can’t grow and learn more about the offense that he’s just getting into. He can’t come up with better ways to get the ball out quicker by getting better at reading defenses and knowing where guys are gonna be at a certain moment. I think we all need to realize he is destined for QB hell and so are the Bears for the next few years.