Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 16, 2021
Justin Fields being ‘calm, cool, collected’ will serve him on-field and off
Bears quarterback Justin Fields waves to the crowd at Guaranteed Rate Field on Sunday.With 22 seconds left in the first half Saturday, Bears quarterback Justin Fields took a shotgun snap, looked left for his receiver running a post route and, seeing it covered, checked down left to running back Khalil Herbert. Herbert caught the ball a half-step outside the numbers and ducked out of bounds as he was hit.
It was just a gain of five yards — but it was Bears quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo’s favorite play of the game. He told head coach Matt Nagy as much.
