I have said this before but will repeat it for this thread. Fields doesn't process quite fast enough on field. He got better but missed guys just as they were breaking open. He got spoiled at OSU as most QBs do and expects to see NCAA open not NFL open. With the receivers we had last year that was hard to trust and he hesitated to throw it where they should be going and tried to wait for them to get there. The biggest difference between him and Russ the willingness to put it up with touch and let the receiver make the play. If Fields would spend a lot of time and repetition working just dropping and throwing with trust on timing patterns over the middle, he would become much more dangerous. He also needs to sometime take a little off his deep throws and let the receiver get under it. He has a bit of the early Elway issue of drilling it as hard as he can all the time. He also needs to practice his short screen throws. He had no touch on those at all. If we are going to sign him, we need to do it and then get him working on his own on these issues.
Russ is limited by age and height. I would imagine he is shorter now than when he came in the league, gravity is a *****. With him late in the year against better competition they just rushed the middle and said try and beat us outside. Then they were able to double our only competent outside deep threat and limit us. With his lack of threat to run we were not in a good position and the coaches failed to adjust properly or couldn't, due to lack of receiver talent. Russ is better at reading the defense, when he can see it to read it.
