It’s not a good sign that Bears quarterback Justin Fields’ second season that he threw just 11 passes in the loss to the Packers on Sunday. But Fields isn’t interpreting that as the coaching staff doubting him.
“Not at all,” he said, citing the ground game averaging 6.7 yards per carry.
While the Bears ran the ball well, led by David Montgomery’s 15 carries for 122 yards, trailing by 14 in the fourth quarter wasn’t the time to rely on that. Rather than let Fields try to win the game, they ran on 10 of 13 plays to open the fourth quarter and drained nearly seven minutes of game clock.