Film Study: TIME TO MOVE ON? What went WRONG for Justin Fields and the New York Jets Vs the Broncos

Well, all right. Let’s talk about a very stupid football team in the New York Jets who I made a video last week where I just titled it bad. Didn’t even title uh give it a title. And somehow they managed to one up that rough performance. Let’s talk about how um first like Fields is going to get some criticism. I’m going to criticize Fields a lot in this video, but let let’s point out it wasn’t all his fault. So this play, it’s only going to be a three-man rush. That’s a part of it. However, as you see when this play begins, I mean, you look down the field and and what’s open? Nothing, right? It’s second 13 as well. That doesn’t help. But it is a three-man rush. So, for Fields, he he has an opportunity to use his legs. You know, he likes to take advantage of those opportunities. Watch as he is going to ultimately scramble outside the pocket. I have to say, he doesn’t have his head uh downfield right here. If he does, Garrett Wilson is, you know, he’s open for a touchdown on this play. There is nobody behind him. So, the initial not being able to get the ball out, not really his fault. Again, this would be a tough play, but this is this is something that like more and more guys in the NFL can do now, right? If you’re going to be a top 15 quarterback, you kind of have to at least do this sometimes. Here, uh, you know, Fields ends up just uh going down. Again, it’s hard to fully blame him. It’s It’s not that he made a bad play. He just didn’t make the great play. Uh, so that’s kind of my point. It’s like there were opportunity there were times when it’s like I’m not really blaming Fields. This is a tough situation, but like maybe this could have still been better. I think I think both things can be true. You also have something like this where what’s going to happen is this is going to be a um a one-on-one matchup on the outside. Okay, one-on-one matchup on the outside. That’s good. We like those, right? Uh have an opportunity to make a play. Fields going to take the snap. It’s Aaron Smith who is running this route. Um you know, is it open? No. But like, hey, third and five. Let’s throw one up. See if your receiver can make a play. I don’t hate the idea of sometimes doing this. I I don’t. Now, uh a play could have been working over the middle, but honestly, this is fine. This is a totally fine decision by Fields to make. The issue is just the ball. As you see, this just isn’t a competitive football. And again, I’m not saying you have to complete that, but can you can you give your receiver a chance there? Again, it would have been a really difficult play to make that work, but they weren’t able to make the the difficult play. And then there was something like this where this is going to be a designed roll out towards the top of the screen. Denver was definitely all over the Jets in this game coaching wise. I mean, that’s just that’s something you noticed. It was on both sides of the ball, but especially the Broncos defense against the Jets offense because watch that player right there. Um, you know, the design roll out and I feel like there’s a few times when again, maybe they just got lucky, but I feel like they just had the right defense dialed up due to just kind of watching tape, knowing what the Jets like to do in certain situations, seeing how they’re aligned, and then calling things. Watch that player I circled. he’s going to rush in and he’s just going to completely blow up this play. A lot, you know, that wasn’t a designed uh run necessarily. That was a blitz, which I mean by that is that guy doesn’t usually rush the passer. Uh he did on this play and I think it’s because they had a feeling this play was coming. Heading over here, like I think it’s also fair to say like Broncos are good. Bronco, this is a good defense that you’re going up against. Like a lot of teams that are, you know, good teams have uh struggled against this defense. Here you have you have your number one wide receiver Garrett Wilson who is very good going up against the reigning defensive player of the year in Pat Certan. So it’s a one-on-one matchup. Third down and eight. Part of it is when you are kind of a one receiver team like if they can take out that receiver well then you’re going to be in trouble. So for Garrett Wilson, he needs to win this matchup for the Jets to have a chance here. And when it begins honestly I think Wilson’s running a pretty good route. One of the issues is just like you know Certan knows where the first down marker is. He knows where the Jets are trying to get to right here. So when Wilson cuts towards this the first down marker, Certan’s able to completely cover that. Again, I’m not going to crush a team for not being able to beat past Certan, but I think because Certan was kind of blanketing Wilson when he was on him, it just made things so much more difficult for anything else to get going. But also like heading over here, I do want to critique uh Fields uh some for this. Like I think that Fields was making mistakes. So first this play, it’s a third down and five. Jets are up a point again with all this disaster offensively. They they were leading at this point and hey, if you can get a drive going, maybe you can ice the game a little bit. Well, what is the concept going to be? The Broncos are showing blitz. They are not going to blitz. They’re going to drop back and play zone coverage, which is actually a good thing for the New York Jets because that’s what their receivers towards the offense is right are going to do. And with the blitz, guys can get out of position. You have three routes. One going kind of shallower, one more over the middle, and one further down the field. A lot of times one of these guys can get left open. In fact, that’s exactly what’s going to happen here. I mean, you see underneath this is wide open. I mean, this is just this could not be more open on this play as the the uh player covering the flat is completely covering a route further towards the bottom of the screen. This is a third and five. This is a free first down. Fields read is here like this. He has to make this play. You know, again, sometimes a guy gets wide open on the opposite side of the field from where someone’s looking. And I’m I’m, you know, I don’t criticize that cuz you can’t see the whole field, but this isn’t that. This is the concept working the way it’s supposed to work. A guy is getting open and Fields just sits there and gets sacked. I mean, it’s just it’s not it’s not good ball. I mean, it just there’s no other way to say it. It’s just it’s not good football. And this is why I’m probably leaning towards putting Terrod Taylor back in the game if I’m uh you know, if I’m Aaron Glenn. It’s just probably the right call here. There was also a fumbled snap. I don’t know if that’s on Fields, but that can’t happen. It actually worked out okay on this final drive. Let’s talk about the final drive because this was there was a couple big mistakes here by Fields and by this offense as well. Really by Fields on this specific play. You see Wilson is in motion. He’s going to be going out towards the flat towards the top of the screen. Third and eight. Minute 18 left. The Jets are down two points. Just outside of field goal range right here though. Fields takes a snap in this play again. Hufonga who’s in coverage completely blows this. I mean, Garrett Wilson is is wide open. This is a dream. If you’re an offensive coordinator, you’re thinking, “Yes, my play worked exactly the way I wanted it to. We have a guy open and and Fields is just he’s just late.” You see, eventually he gets the ball over there. But takes long doesn’t put enough on it and Huonga is able to recover and make the play. If that ball is there early though, Huanga doesn’t have a chance to recover and make the play. That’s a first down. You’re in field goal range. Honestly, the Jets probably win the football game if Field just makes a not even a great play. If he makes an okay play there, and he didn’t. And even on the fourth down play, I didn’t love this from Field. So, the Broncos are going to show pressure. Again, I showed earlier sometimes they will show pressure, but not actually uh blitz. So, you you know, you don’t know exactly what’s going to happen, but still, they’re showing pressure. Fields takes a snap, they do pressure, ball has to come out, right? It just does. You have to give yourself a chance. And I know there’s nothing really open. There isn’t. There’s a a player who’s open well short of the first down marker with a guy right in you know off screen that you can see uh you know 82 right there but other than that there isn’t anything open. You got to give yourself a chance. I mean it’s an allout blitz like you’re not going to be able to rush here. Fields holds on to the pocket anyway and again I mean tries but it just it it doesn’t work. I mean again either the ball has to come out or you have to just put your head down and start running but he didn’t really do either. Uh I think really the ball has to come out there and it didn’t. So yeah, it’s tough, especially cuz it did look good when week one for Fields, but like this is just not good football. If it’s me, I’m going with Terod Taylor. Um, but yeah, those are kind of my thoughts on Justin Fields and his not very good performance with the New York Jets. At least that’s what I think. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below. Always love hearing from you. 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  4. Justin Fields is a LEMON. The Jets bought a LEMON with this guy. Three different teams can't fix him, that makes him a LEMON. I wouldn't give him another snap in a Jets uniform, I'd cut him and sign a free agent out there, anybody, sign Ryan Tannehill, just get this guy off the Jets somehow.

  8. Fields is simply not a starting QB in the NFL – he has had the same problems for 5 years , it ain't chainging – he can't see the field, he can't read defenses, he holds the ball way to long and he is simply unrealiable in clutch situations – Glen has to bench him or he will lose his job – The Jets make the Bears organization look good and as a Bears fan I can tell you the Bears organnization is dysfunctional and got luckly with Johnson and Williams

  14. Got 30 seconds in then gave a thumbs down. Opening with zone illustrated circles when the D is in man is hilarious, but just flat out wrong. Be better or shut the fuck up.

  15. The Jets need to put Fields under center and have him roll out on every play whether he hands off or not. It is too easy for the defense to diagnose the play when the QB is in the shotgun.

  17. With over a minute left in the game ( 3rd down and 8 ) Fields targeted Garrett Wilson on the sideline. Wilson slipper while making his cut and I believe he would have caught the pass if he hadn't slipped..

  18. While I don't think Fields is very good, and think he may not be a starting NFL caliber QB, let's remember this game was a worst case scenario in a lot of ways. Bad Oline vs a team on a historic sack pace, only having one good WR vs a true shut down CB, and a bad coaching staff for the Jets. Add this to Fields' trouble reading defenses, slow decision making, and inaccurate short passes…and I think most people saw this game had disaster written all over it.

  19. Uh, wake up. Chicago dumped Mrs Fields because he can't/won't read defenses and holds the ball WAY too long. He'd rather run around behind the LOS until he's sacked or runs OB. He went to Pittsburgh – who desperately wanted him to work out there – and did the same thing. One year there and it was over. Jets having NO QB signed Mrs Fields to a whopping 2-year deal $30M guaranteed apparently realizing then he was probably not the answer.
    The guy blamed his coaches in Chicago for expecting him to 'remember more than one thing at a time' and said he didn't see any reason to learn to read defenses – he thinks he should be winging it out there. He is, at best, a backup QB you PRAY never has to go in for more than one game.

  23. He has the physical tools, but he doesn’t process defenses well, and isn’t good past his first or second read.

    That much said, the Jets aren’t a great environment for a QB.

  26. I stopped listening to this stupidity by a minute twenty in. Mrs Fields is at the 50 with nobody near him – heading for the sidelines, as usual. Garrett at the 30 – 20 f*ckin yards away and NOTHING behind him but open field. Mrs Fields can't throw on the run? OR plant and throw 20 yards??? Does she? No. She does what she always does in this situation, hold the ball and run OB or get tackled OB. And this dork says this ISN'T a bad play by Mrs Fields? This guy knows NOTHING about football. Throwing on the run – untouched – a mere 20 yards is something a HIGH SCHOOLER can do you donkey

  27. It occurred to me that Tampa Bay won this week with a bunch of guys from the bottom of the WR room named Johnson. So how come the Jets can't have their equally low level WRs have a game like that?

  32. I'm going to leave this here. Stop trying to blame a QB that's on a team that made no player improvements from a team that won 5 games last year with a QB that's considered one of the greats. Secondly Denver is ranked one of the best teams defensively of all time.

  34. Justin Fumbles has been a bust since the day he was drafted by the worst NFL talent assessor, one Ryan Pace. Justin Fumbles cannot read the defense pre or post snap, he has zero pocket awareness, he cannot progress past his first read, he has a molasses slow release, he is inaccurate passing anywhere on the right half of the field, he is not durable and he is not a team player.

  40. I'm sure before they signed Fields they studied him right? And they ultimately said "yes…we want him as our starter". So i don't blame Fields much.

  41. As a Bears fan, who was never a JF fan boy I am thrilled to have Caleb. I could go on at length about their differences in release time, pocket awareness, vision… but I’ll keep it simple in another aspect. Go watch each of them be interviewed. Justin Fields energy and enthusiasm is nonexistent. It is absolutely fucking brutal. Caleb Williams, love him or hate him, people have different opinions, but I’ll say one thing: that kid is absolutely in love with the game of football. He is absolutely in love with winning and ready to die trying. People hate on the fact that he’s upset, or has even been someone who has come to tears over losing a game in college. I will take that any day over someone who just sits there with a dead ass expression no matter what is going on in the game. CW all day.

  42. Really appreciate you sharing the video because it was nice to see the linemen get beat play after play.

    Sack 1- Wilson isn’t open- 2 guys are sitting on the hitch.

    Sack 2- meyers and tippman get beat badly

    Sack 3- free runner LB and doesn’t get touched as he’s looking for a deep in with Wilson. Reynolds on a 3 yard cross won’t come close to getting the first down 9 yards from the sticks and the safety is biting down.

    Sack 4- DT swim move on meyers and him and tippman get beat again. Common theme here. Probably the most revealing statement of another video: “they have to get their act together.” Indeed they do. They got beat the entire game.

    Sack 5: mason Taylor open and doesn’t pull the trigger. First sack on fields. Really his only one the entire game. Congratulations 🎊🍾 you got your internet meme snapshot. Bravo.

    Sack 6: coverage sack. Nobody open. Could have gotten it to Garrett? Again, are you high? He had about as much separation as a fly on shit.

    Sack 7: Fashano on the left tackle completely blows his block on the blind side. And you once again direct blame to Justin fields. Baffling.

    Sack 8: linemen get beat once again.

    Sack 9: All out blitz and he has Arian smith over the middle with a defender right on top of him. He’d have zero chance of getting the first once he caught it.

    Let’s just be generous and say Justin fields was responsible for 3 sacks – which wasn’t even the case. This video is nothing more than a demonstration of quite possibly the worst offensive line performance of any team this year. Shift your attention to the line instead. It’d be a lot more constructive.

    Notice how nearly every sack was in a predictable third and long situation. Breece hall averaged 2.7 ypc on 22 attempts. Terrible.
    And as for the offensive coordinator: DO YOU KNOW WHAT A SCREEN PASS IS?
    Clearly not. Because they wouldn’t rushed as aggressively if he did. Even just 1 to keep them honest.
    If anyone needs to go it’s meyers and tippman and their offensive coordinator.

    But this is Justin fields career. A nice scapegoat for everyone bc he’s the quarterback.

  43. This stuff that you pointed out is not on fields… The problem is not Justin fields… The problem is the system and players around him… There's too much inconsistency with his protection and his RECEIVERS… If Justin Fields had the same protection and play calling/designs did Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and Patrick mahomes has… He beats their stats easy…

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