Former Bears offensive coordinator extremely critical of Justin Fields and the Bears
While opinions about this year's Chicago Bears team are pretty mixed, pretty much everyone can agree that Justin Fields looks so much better and that the whole spirit that is being established by the new coaching staff seems way better than last season.
However, there are still some major doubters.
Indeed, Daniel Greenberg reported that former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz said on @The33rdTeamFB that quarterback Justin Fields "makes a lot of mistakes and is not particularly accurate at times. He's not a quick read-and-react guy, and he's on a horrendous team. They just don't have anybody there."
Here is the exact quote he said:
Fields is a guy that makes a lot of mistakes and is not particularly accurate at times. He's not a quick read-and-react guy, and he's on a horrendous team. But I don't know if I've seen an offense that bad in talent since the 0-16 Detroit Lions (in 2008). They just don't have anybody there. It's a bad football team right now.
And, when you put a guy behind a bad offensive line and you have no talent at wide receiver and you tell him to just go make big plays, he's going to learn bad habits. You start doing stupid stuff just trying to survive.
I also have questions about whether he can really react fast. I think he's a talented guy as a passer, but you don't know how to evaluate him because he just doesn't have anything around him.
And, when you put a guy behind a bad offensive line and you have no talent at wide receiver and you tell him to just go make big plays, he's going to learn bad habits. You start doing stupid stuff just trying to survive.
I also have questions about whether he can really react fast. I think he's a talented guy as a passer, but you don't know how to evaluate him because he just doesn't have anything around him.
I have to say that I think this is pretentious nonsense. I'm sorry but Markz has been losing a lot of respect lately and I can say he lost it all after this.
here is the response from Luis Medina following this quote. I love this.
Who wants to hear from a former NFL coordinator who has done nothing since living good off Hall of Famers like Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, and Dick Vermeil? Or someone who put together an offense that almost broke Cutler (literally and figuratively). Or a talent evaluator who couldn't fit a perennial Pro Bowl tight end like Greg Olsen into his offense because his brain wasn't willing and/or able to see how to properly use that player? Not me. That's for sure.
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