The connection between these two players is the silver lining from Thursday's game
I know that the Bears fans don't have a lot of optimism for this year's Bears attack. However, I believe that there are a few things that we should be glad happened on Thursday. The first one is the fact that Justin Fields is starting to use his legs more and more to advance the ball down the field and this could help the offense tremendously. The second thing is the fact that Fields seemed to have great connection with WR Darnell Mooney.
Here is what Patrick K. Flowers of Bleacher Nation had to say on the connection between both players.
Darnell Mooney hauled in seven Justin Fields passes for 68 yards in Thursday night's loss to the Commanders, a season-high in catches and his second-best yardage output of the season (94 yards against the Giants in Week 4).
Fields targeted Mooney 12 times last night, and they hooked up on a beautiful 26-yard completion where Fields got outside of the pocket and hit Mooney coming from the middle to the sideline for a first down catch and run, one of three first down connections between the pair.
Mooney's 12 targets are twice as many as his previous high of six this season against the Houston Texans in Week 3. The Fields-Mooney connection has to be there for Justin to succeed, so at least that can be chalked up to a silver lining from an otherwise cruddy performance.
Fields targeted Mooney 12 times last night, and they hooked up on a beautiful 26-yard completion where Fields got outside of the pocket and hit Mooney coming from the middle to the sideline for a first down catch and run, one of three first down connections between the pair.
Mooney's 12 targets are twice as many as his previous high of six this season against the Houston Texans in Week 3. The Fields-Mooney connection has to be there for Justin to succeed, so at least that can be chalked up to a silver lining from an otherwise cruddy performance.
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