If that's the case nobody should ever waste their time with a player that didn't work out with their original team. Or their college teams for that matter. A try out is the most anyone should get, either got it or they don't.
A 4th try for Darnold? Why bother if a coach isn't going to try to fix him?
Being mental is why I wondered if it was there in college. If the Bears created the problem as an answer to being blind to having routes jumped it's likely something other coaches have tricks to fix.
It's both of their responsibilities: the team coaches and Fields.
The players are studying to be worldclass experts in their position. Fields has money to pay experts to train/teach him in the off season. Don't you think the best are doing/did that?
I mean, as an example, Fields could have paid Joe Montana to train him on pass timing and reading defenses. More likely Fields would probably get an expert who's more familiar with today's game, maybe someone on the Steelers' list of professionals.
From tennis, Andy Roddick hired Jimmy Connors to train him to win. It improved his game.
Fields had a Super Bowl MVP QB on the Bears staff to mentor him, a dude known to be willing to mentor, and rumor was he didn't eat that up.
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