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The quarterback said he spoke to the Bears staff about his concerns and felt that coaches were receptive to his diagnosis of what went wrong at Tampa Bay. Coach Matt Eberflus said that he did not feel the Bears were overcoaching Fields and that "having him being free is what we want."
"He respects that partnership, and so do we," Eberflus said. "We want him to play free. I think it's very important that, as we work through this, making sure that he does play free, that we coach him that way.
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"A lot of times he wants to be perfect. He wants to do it the right way. And there's a balance there, though, right? There's a balance between, 'Hey, going through my progressions,' but also having the ability to say, 'Hey, I feel these things happening. Now I'm going to play instinctual.' And that could be just sliding up in the pocket in the B-gap and delivering the ball or taking off and running. I think that's where that is."
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A reason for what Fields believes is causing him to overthink in games, according to the 24-year-old quarterback, is what he has been coached to do.
"You know, could be
coaching, I think," Fields said. "At the end of the day, they are doing their job when they are giving me what to look at, but at the end of the day,
I can't be thinking about that when the game comes. I prepare myself throughout the week, and then when the game comes, it's time to play free at that point.
Thinking less and
playing more."
"My goal this week is just to say F it and go out there and play football
how I know to play football," Fields said. "
That includes thinking less and just going out there and playing off of instincts rather than so much, say, info in my head, data in my head. Just literally going out there and playing football. Going back to
it's a game and that's it.
"That's when I play my best, when I'm just out there playing free and being myself,
so I'm going to, say, kind of bump all the what I should, this and that, pocket stuff. I'm going to go out there and be me."
I don't think it's too many coaching voices, but I just think
when you're fed a lot of information at a point in time and you're trying to think about that info when you're playing,
it doesn't let you play like yourself," Fields said. "You're trying to
process so much information to where it's like, if I just simplify it in my mind, I would have did this. I saw a few plays on Sunday, if I was playing like my old self, we would have had a positive play. There would have been more third-down [conversions]. I think that's just the biggest thing for me is playing the game how
I know how to play and how I've been playing my whole life. That's what I got to get back to doing."