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After watching him for a few years, here is your typical Fields snap.
Comes to the line with a quizzical look on his face, struggling to read the coverage, tentatively points out the MLB, rarely makes a line call adjustment.
Takes the snap and stares at his first read, and stares, and then starts leaking out of the pocket laterally which causes him to have to stop and reset his feet before he throws, but he has to see that his guy is wide open before pulling the trigger, either does not see or ignores the guy breaking open in the flat and instead looks deep and waits, and waits for a guy to look totally open, while all this non-processing is happening a very large and angry man wearing the opposite color jersey breaks away from a blocker.
Fields sees the rusher and turns his back to the defense and begins to run backwards and twirly, maybe one out of ten times he breaks away and makes a play, but the other ninety percent of the time he is either sacked, fumbles, throws a bad pass, or is picked.
It all starts with the struggle to initially read the defense or to adjust protection, of course having a quality center would help with the line calls, but for some inexplicable reason Ryan Poles has decided not to help his QB1 in an area he obviously struggles with, but a quality HC or OC would have demanded action at this positions, so they have all contributed to their own demises.
However, the most glaring flaw is that Fields consistently will pass up easy short completions while attempting to play, and I am going to steal one of LTG's phrases here, "play hero ball", by waiting for deep crossers to open, but the early inability to read the defense means that he did not realize there was deep safety help on his deep routes, and that the easy short completion was what the D had given him, knowing that he would not take the easy play.
This has been going on for his entire Bears career and no coach has been able to break him of these bad habits, there will still be the occasional wow moment where his athleticism allows him to make a play, but you see a persistent picture of what Justin Fields is and what he likely will always be, and the current staff has no answers as to how to best use his abilities while limiting his limitations, so you get a team with one of the worst records in the NFL for 2-3 years.
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