Pittsburgh Steelers QB Justin Fields will see a well-recognized face on the opposing sideline on Sunday towards the Las Vegas Raiders, as Luke Getsy, who was his offensive coordinator for the final two seasons with the Chicago Bears, is now the OC for the Raiders. Getsy had his press convention forward of the sport on Sunday earlier as we speak, and proper off the bat, he was requested about Fields.
“Justin’s an unimaginable man, simply an unimaginable competitor, nice teammate. I can solely think about these guys love taking part in for him,” Getsy mentioned through the Raiders’ YouTube channel. “He’s a competitor, so he’s gonna deliver it each single play. He doesn’t have any backdown. There’s no excuses with that man. That man goes and balls and so it’ll be nice to see him. I do know that our protection can have a giant problem going up towards him.”
Antonio Pierce mentioned he’s going to choose the mind of his teaching workers concerning the Steelers, and with Getsy understanding Fields, that’s who Pierce will flip to. Getsy in that occasion is giving extra scheme-based recommendation.
“Whenever you’re speaking a few explicit participant, I feel these guys, they don’t want a lot of my assist, however if you’re speaking about schemes or perhaps locations you’ve been prior to now, I feel typically that may go into a bit of little bit of the dialog,” he mentioned.
Getsy is aware of quite a lot of Fields’ strengths and weaknesses from working with him the final two seasons, however there’s solely a lot he’s going to have the ability to do to assist out the Raiders given his focus is on the offensive facet of the ball and clearly the Steelers aren’t working the very same stuff that Getsy did with Fields in Chicago. Nonetheless, he’ll be capable to present not less than some help though it comes all the way down to execution on the finish of the day and if the Raiders will be capable to cease Fields.
There was quite a lot of debate in Chicago concerning the Getsy-Fields pairing and whether or not Fields was the difficulty or Getsy was. The Bears determined that each weren’t ok and let Getsy go after the season whereas buying and selling Fields. Whereas the 2 of them might need had a great working relationship, each of them are going to need to get the win on Sunday and present what they’re able to.
Las Vegas’ protection is coming off a tough efficiency. They allowed 27 factors to the Broncos final Sunday (Denver additionally scored on a pick-six), and so they’re going to be down DL Christian Wilkins, who went on IR with a Jones fracture. It’s a great alternative for Fields to have a get-right recreation and assist the Steelers keep away from dropping three video games in a row. He may do it in entrance of his former offensive coordinator, who’s going to attempt to match Fields with Aidan O’Connell, who will likely be making his first begin of the season on Sunday.
