(670 The Score) Bears quarterback Justin Fields didn't have the smoothest of performances across practice Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fields hasn't been impressive with his timing in the past two days, as Adam Hoge of CHGO told the Parkins & Spiegel Show on Wednesday afternoon.
"Today was not a great day for QB1," Hoge said.
"Really, yesterday wasn't great either. But today was, look, I'm just going to repeat what I've been saying on CHGO and some other places. Like, when he's throwing to DJ Moore, he looks like that quarterback that Matt Eberflus, Luke Getsy, anyone of us have said is the goal for this offseason – get rid of the ball faster, make faster decisions, be more accurate. When he's throwing to DJ Moore, I see that quarterback. That's there, and I think that's been relatively consistent. The concern for me – and I wasn't even considering it too much of a concern until the last two days – is just when he's going other places, I'm still seeing more of the guy we saw last year where there just is that inconsistency. And today especially. It was just today. It really hasn't been these other practices. We've been able to watch five total over the last five weeks or so now, four weeks.
"But I found myself standing on the practice field there today literally saying, 'Throw the ball, throw the ball.'"
Hoge expanded on Fields' inconsistency in minicamp, where the Bears are doing work in a seven-on-seven setting without a pass rush.
"I don't have a great answer for you on the timing thing," Hoge said. "Because especially when it comes to seven-on-seven, there's not even the fake pass rush without pads on. There is no pass rush. There is literally not anybody coming at you, and there's just been plays where I see him with that little hitch, that little extra hesitation before he unloads it. Then he will unload it to where he's looking. There's one example today, I think it was to (receiver) Tyler Scott, where he did that little extra hitch, he finally decides to throw it and it gets broken up by (cornerback) Jaylon Johnson. Because you just can't give DBs at this level that little half extra second to make the break on it or they're going to make the play."
Hoge emphasized that much of what he had seen from Fields earlier in the offseason program had been good, as his rhythm was better then.
"It's not that there's nothing good going on," Hoge said. "There is … We all just want to see it be more consistent."
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