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Michael Rosenberg

Justin Fields Just Told the Bears How to Best Help Him Succeed

What if Justin Fields wasn’t blaming the coaches, but admitting the truth about himself?

Fields described his play in the first two games as “robotic,” which shows he hasn’t purchased a good robot lately. They’re amazing! Anyway, he was asked why he has played so robotically, and this is what he said:

"You know, could be coaching, I think. At the end of the day, they are doing their job when they are giving me what to look at, but at the end of the day, I can't be thinking about that when the game comes. I prepare myself throughout the week, and then when the game comes, it's time to play free at that point. … My goal this week is just to say, ‘F it’ and go out there and play football how I know to play football. That includes thinking less and just going out there and playing off of instincts rather than so much ... info in my head, data in my head.”

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