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Really good all-22 review on The Athletic from Kevin Fishbain right now. It's pretty lengthy, and it's well worth it.
If you don't already subscribe to The Athletic, they have discounts all the time, and the cost is pretty minimal for all the good content you get.
How the Bears created explosive plays with Justin Fields, Allen Robinson and Darnell Mooney: All-22 review
Just a snippet from the article to whet your beak:
First-and-10 from the Lions’ 45 — (2:01) J.Fields pass deep right to A.Robinson to DET 18 for 27 yards (A.Oruwariye; W.Harris)
Late in the third quarter, it was another first-down chunk play. In Weeks 1 through 3, the Bears averaged 5.42 yards per completion on first down and completed only 59.4 percent of those passes. Against the Lions, Fields averaged 9.8 yards per catch and was 5-of-7 passing on first down (71.4 percent).
Here’s a look at the routes. Fields is going to fake the handoff to Damien Williams and get a double-team block on his blind side from Kmet and Graham.
Robinson explained Tuesday what he was looking for on this play.
“Pre-snap, I’m seeing what they’re in and I see a two-high look, so maybe how I have to run, the route may change a little bit as far as angles and things like that, so all that’s kind of going through the play,” he said. “So as I’m going to my route, I see the safety getting a little bit of depth, me knowing I have to cut across his face, but also having to get the right amount of depth so that the corner doesn’t sink under that. So being able to process all those things and as I get out of my break, seeing the ball come, which was a very well-placed ball, and then being able to come down with it.
“Like I say all the time, that’s stuff that you practice and things like that, and you expect that because that’s one of those things where we didn’t necessarily even get that look in practice. But me knowing the coverage that they had gotten into and things like that, now that shifted me and the progression and things like that, so it’s a lot of things that you know as the play is just developing and seeing what the defense is giving you.”
While the pocket is mostly clean for Fields, the one pass rusher who gets through happens to be close to the passing lane, having beaten Germain Ifedi inside, but Fields lets it fly on a dart.
“I was on the sideline, so the main thing as soon as I caught it, once I got my first foot down is to try to drop that second foot as quick as I could, which I felt myself do so at that point it just was just like controlling the ball,” Robinson said. “I was able to catch it, keep the ball in a good place and get my feet down.”
If you don't already subscribe to The Athletic, they have discounts all the time, and the cost is pretty minimal for all the good content you get.
How the Bears created explosive plays with Justin Fields, Allen Robinson and Darnell Mooney: All-22 review
Just a snippet from the article to whet your beak:
First-and-10 from the Lions’ 45 — (2:01) J.Fields pass deep right to A.Robinson to DET 18 for 27 yards (A.Oruwariye; W.Harris)
Late in the third quarter, it was another first-down chunk play. In Weeks 1 through 3, the Bears averaged 5.42 yards per completion on first down and completed only 59.4 percent of those passes. Against the Lions, Fields averaged 9.8 yards per catch and was 5-of-7 passing on first down (71.4 percent).
Here’s a look at the routes. Fields is going to fake the handoff to Damien Williams and get a double-team block on his blind side from Kmet and Graham.
Robinson explained Tuesday what he was looking for on this play.
“Pre-snap, I’m seeing what they’re in and I see a two-high look, so maybe how I have to run, the route may change a little bit as far as angles and things like that, so all that’s kind of going through the play,” he said. “So as I’m going to my route, I see the safety getting a little bit of depth, me knowing I have to cut across his face, but also having to get the right amount of depth so that the corner doesn’t sink under that. So being able to process all those things and as I get out of my break, seeing the ball come, which was a very well-placed ball, and then being able to come down with it.
“Like I say all the time, that’s stuff that you practice and things like that, and you expect that because that’s one of those things where we didn’t necessarily even get that look in practice. But me knowing the coverage that they had gotten into and things like that, now that shifted me and the progression and things like that, so it’s a lot of things that you know as the play is just developing and seeing what the defense is giving you.”
While the pocket is mostly clean for Fields, the one pass rusher who gets through happens to be close to the passing lane, having beaten Germain Ifedi inside, but Fields lets it fly on a dart.
“I was on the sideline, so the main thing as soon as I caught it, once I got my first foot down is to try to drop that second foot as quick as I could, which I felt myself do so at that point it just was just like controlling the ball,” Robinson said. “I was able to catch it, keep the ball in a good place and get my feet down.”
