Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields feels like an overload of information from coaches stressing he stay in the pocket has limited his productivity.
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00:10 I didn't like, I felt like I wasn't necessarily playing my game.
00:20 I felt like I was kind of robotic and not playing like myself.
00:26 So my goal this week is just to say F and just go out there and
00:30 play football how I know how to play football and that's not.
00:35 That includes thinking less and just going out there and
00:39 playing off of instincts rather than just so much sort of say info on my head,
00:45 data on my head and literally just going out there playing football.
00:51 I mean, just going back to it's a game.
00:52 And that's it cuz that's when I play my best is I'm just out there playing free and
00:57 I'm being myself.
00:59 So I'm gonna say kind of just up all the what I should do,
01:05 what I, this and that like pocket stuff.
01:09 Like I'm gonna go out there and be me.
01:11 So could be coaching, I think, but at the end of the day,
01:17 it makes it, they're doing their job when they're giving me
01:22 what to look at stuff like that, but at the end of the day,
01:26 I can't be thinking about that when the game comes,
01:30 I prepare myself throughout the week and then when the game comes,
01:35 it's time to play free at that point.
01:38 So just thinking less and playing more.
01:41 I think that I've had times where like, okay, they want me to do it like this.
01:45 So I have to kind of change it, but I mean, I just have to,
01:48 it's probably more of a me thing than a coach thing.
01:51 I have to still be the person and the player, what's got me up to this point.
01:57 So rather than changing my whole game, just implement it in my game and
02:01 make those little corrections, but don't allow that to change me as a whole player.
02:06 I don't think it's too many coaching voices, but
02:09 I just think when you're fed a lot of information at a point in time and
02:14 you're trying to think about that info, like when you're playing,
02:18 it doesn't let you play like yourself, you're trying to process so
02:23 much information to where it's like, if I just simplified my mind,
02:27 I would have did this, I've saw a few plays on Sunday to where I was playing like
02:32 my old self, we would have had a positive play,
02:35 there would have been a few more third down conversions.
02:38 So I think that's the biggest thing for me is just playing the game how I know how
02:43 to play it, how I've been playing in my whole life, so I gotta get back to it.
02:47 >> Anything personal, if the coaches say, we need to play better,
02:51 we need to play better, I need to play better.
02:54 I'm not taking that personal because I think everybody in here knows that I need
02:57 to play better, including myself.
02:59 So they're not gonna take it personal if us as players go to them and say,
03:04 I didn't like this call or they need to be better.
03:07 So we're all grown men in the building and we all can take it.
03:12 So it's about working with each other, getting each other better,
03:16 holding each other accountable and working towards the same goal.
03:19 So in terms of that fact, yeah, I think everybody can do better around here,
03:25 including myself, so.
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