Gang Green Nation on Justin Fields
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A year ago the Jets gave Justin Fields a two year contract with $30 million in guarantees to leave the Pittsburgh Steelers. To say the deal aged poorly would be an understatement. Fields posted a QBR of 38.7 and was benched midseason.
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Fields' $30M guarantee deal aged poorly; benched after 38.7 QBR, then traded away with salary absorption.
Fields' Jets contract aged poorly; he posted a QBR of 38.7 and was benched midseason after the Jets gave him a two-year deal with $30 million in guarantees to leave Pittsburgh. JJ Zachariason argues the organizational failure was compounded by the Jets refusing to tailor their conventional offense to Fields' skill set (designed runs, RPOs, simplified concepts) despite knowing his limitations as a pocket passer. Fields was then dealt to Kansas City in the offseason, with the Jets absorbing most of the salary to escape the mistake. Zachariason concludes Fields was never good enough to be a quality starting NFL quarterback and regressed predictably under those conditions, representing a massive organizational whiff from top to bottom.
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