It might need are available a loss, however Sunday’s efficiency from quarterback Justin Fields was top-of-the-line performances of his profession, and was simply the very best efficiency of his tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Fields accomplished 24-of-32 passes for 312 yards and a landing, and added 10 carries for 55 yards and two scores within the 27-24 loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
Although Fields had a killer mistake within the recreation on a third-down scramble, dropping 20 yards and fumbling the soccer away, taking the Steelers out of field-goal vary, the fourth-year quarterback was superb after that third-quarter mistake.
So good, in reality, that it seems time for Steelers’ offensive coordinator Arthur Smith to open the playbook up extra for Fields — and earlier — at the least in keeping with NBC Sports activities’ Chris Simms.
On his “Chris Simms Unbuttoned” podcast Sunday night time following the slate of Week 4 video games, Simms acknowledged that he needs to see Smith open issues up earlier for Fields in video games and to actually belief the younger quarterback as a result of the “outdated Justin Fields” from Chicago is gone.
“However I feel they should belief him slightly bit extra. Previous Justin Fields is gone. I haven’t seen outdated Justin Fields shortly,” Simms stated of the Steelers’ quarterback, in keeping with video by way of NFL on NBC on YouTube. “He hits the open goal. He doesn’t throw the ball into triple protection. He’s doing the fitting factor.
“So he continues to progress and I feel they’re gonna should open up the vault with him slightly bit.”
After 4 weeks because the beginning quarterback for the Steelers, and having put collectively two good performances in back-to-back weeks, it does seem that it may be time for the Steelers beneath coordinator Arthur Smith to open issues up extra for Fields, and earlier in video games, too.
He’s making good selections with the soccer, and is throwing correct passes with nice contact and placement, too. For essentially the most half, he’s not making an attempt to do an excessive amount of and is making the performs which are there.
That’s extremely encouraging. Outdoors of that third-down fumble, Fields isn’t making an attempt to play hero ball like he needed to do in Chicago, and it’s resulting in some nice performs and good performances total. He single-handedly dragged the Steelers again into the sport on Sunday in Indianapolis with some clutch throws and large performs along with his legs.
Fields is trying like a dynamic dual-threat quarterback, one that may be a franchise quarterback. That’s a testomony to him and to Smith’s teaching on the offensive aspect of the soccer. It’s time to open it up a bit extra, although. The Steelers offense wants it.
