I Give You 2 Good reasons...

I give You 2 good reasons why using Fields in the red zone is a bad Idea.
1. Name Me one championship team this has worked for???
2. The most important is this one......In doing this, You are forcing....even if it's subconsciously....whatever Qb you send in, to think....I must score a td every time they are in the red zone, and in sports, or anything in life....that pressure is a bad thing, and will cause either one to force something that is not there.
3. It will cause a split in the locker room., and even a mild split is a bad thing for a team looking for a championship.
You want to do it....put both on the field at the same time. Otherwise stay away from it. They are not Wrs, rbs, DBs, and other types of players that are conditioned with interchangeable positions they're whole careers.

 

What about in short yardage, but not in the red zone? For example, I know it would be a dead give away but would we be better off with Fields running the 3 and 1 QB sneak rather than Wilson? And would we then be able to run play action off of that?

I agree with your point about red zone, but much like my first question, what if we are at the 1 yard line?

 

I don’t mind sprinkling him in here and there for short yardage and red zone situations. Don’t make it an absolute every time, but get him in there periodically for a different look.

 

That’s 3 reasons

Or are only two good

 

Agree that you can't put him in on every red zone opportunity, but in obvious short yardage situations, I would be fine with it. It's kind of like the Philly thing...you know its coming, but can't stop it.

 

Russel Wilson has been atrocious in the red zone. Running Fields out there 6 or maybe 8 times a game is not a bad idea when the offense flounders and can only score FG’s. I would have Fields out there from time to time to ignite some kind of spark. The Steelers are winning but what they are doing on offense is not a winning formula, especially in the playoffs.

 

I'm for it. The other team is going to think it's a run play and he has the option to run or pass.

It's a team sport with guys making huge sums of money. The object is to win football games any way possible and every guy on team should pull for the other guy. Sadly it don't work that way.

 

That was my first thought when I saw it.

 

so, the Saints used his effectively with Brees and what's his name. Championship, I have no idea, but effective - yes.

I disagree on the split. Russ is a grown man, I would bet plenty mature in his ability to handle this.

We will see how MT handles it.

 

Don't we have RBs for goal line and short yardage plays?

 

yes - predictable and not working well (see OLINE deficiencies and our 4th and 1 failures now that Wilson is QB)

 

No issue with using Fields here and there but it doesn’t have to be every Redzone snap. Defences will figure that out pretty quickly.

 

Does running aQB with known fumble issues make more or better sense?


Teams use' jumbo packages' for that as well.

 

If this splits the locker room, then the locker room ain't no good and Wilson ain't no leader.

I don't think they should do it as a matter of course, as a default, but why not sprinkle it in, we have to try something right? because this 'aint working, and remember this is the same argument you used for bringing in Wilson over JF.

So why not try it out? if it doesn't work, then so be it, but if it does....

And if does work, then we're a better team. I think putting in Fields at the 5 for instance gives the defense a whole new dimension to think about, I don't see why we can't sprinkle in some JF, when things aren't working, it might jumpstart the offense, why refuse to use a weapon?

 

In there another post about putting Fields in when in the Red Zone. Couldn’t these reasons have been listed in that post? Just curious.

 

Reason #4 - He should be practicing to play CB.

 

Keep in mind that the red zone numbers for Wilson are somewhat misleading. He should have had three red zone touchdown passes in the first quarter against the Giants. One was called back on a penalty. Jefferson cut the wrong way on the second one. The third was reversed on replay because Pickens screwed up and didn't get both feet down.

 

true - good points.

 

While I see your point, I think Fields has shown maturity in not forcing things.

People were mad yesterday about him sliding early, but he clearly had it drilled into him to protect the football. I think we’d see a similar approach in the red zone.

 

If I told you twice, I told you once - leave the Crash Test Dummies out of this.