Darnell Mooney mentions Justin Fields will make the 49ers pay for drafting Trey Lance
Bears WR Darnell Mooney sees last Saturday's win against Cleveland as a confidence booster for the first-team offense. Although it was only a preseason game, and the offense kept its scheme pretty simple, Mooney was thrilled about the unit's play.
"That's a glimpse of our identity of how we want to play," Mooney said. "Just let Justin [Fields] do his thing and have him comfortable wherever he wants to be, and we just get in the right spot."
Despite many in the media already saying Fields will struggle in Year 2 due to questions about his supporting cast, Mooney is predicting his QB1 will «shine» in 2022.
«I know he's a dog. I know he does things after practice, during practice and in the offseason,» Mooney said Monday, via ESPN's Courtney Cronin. «There's things that he's shown. I've seen exactly what he can do. He's gonna shine for sure. He's gonna blossom.»
Let me remind you that Justin Fields was the 4th quarterback chosen in last year's draft, where the Jaguars, Jets, and 49ers all opted to draft another quarterback ahead of him. Mooney believes Fields will make San Francisco regret passing on him in last year's draft.
Finally, Mooney knows the offense has a lot more to show in the regular season. He seems very excited about getting deeper into the playbook, which includes "a lot of nice and crazy plays."
"If you look back, we didn't really run many plays," Mooney said. "We've run some of the same plays every down. Just a lot of play-action and then maybe one or two shots down the field. But we're really running the same plays. Nothing really crazy. Just our basic, simple plays. So we've got a lot of things cooking."
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