Justin Fields turned the ball over on the Bears’ first-quarter red zone trip, overthrew a wide-open teammate in the end zone in the second quarter and took an inexcusable delay of game on fourth-and-11 in the fourth quarter.
The plays in between were just as ugly, too, as the Bears quarterback took a significant step backward on national television in a 12-7 loss to the lowly Commanders on Thursday night at Soldier Field.
Fields used a 39-yard scramble to move the Bears to the 5 with 52 seconds to play, but he scrambled for one yard on first down, threw two incompletions and then lofted a pass to Darnell Mooney at the front right pylon.