Through the first six games, the Bears called just 12 designed runs for Justin Fields. They called 10 against the Patriots. What changed? If you ask offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, not much.
At 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, Fields is a talented runner with the football. It's one of his best assets. It's what makes Justin Fields Justin Fields.
In preparation for the Patriots, the Bears had Fields watch cut-ups of how the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson attacked New England with the QB run game, especially with one play in particular where Jackson torched the Patriots for a long touchdown. "He’s referring to the one play where we had kind of the counterscheme that went into, and I think Lamar went like 70 yards on it or something like that," Getsy said."That was a really good opportunity for our O-line to have a pretty good opportunity to get on their second level. So we wanted to kind of implement that. Instead of having our running backs just do it, we wanted to have Justin do it.
But now that the Bears' QB run game is on tape, Getsy and Fields have to find a way to build off their success against the Patriots and keep defenses guessing. "I think it's just staying within who we are, what we do," Getsy said."Guys have a lot of reps and believe in things conceptually and we got to keep maneuver that. That's what this league is. Teams that do too much, it's hard to be good at it. Teams that are really, they normally do what they do really well and then just make it look a little different to the defense. The defense makes it look a little different to the offense.
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