Ever since Justin Fields got to New York, it feels like the Jets have been wrapping him in bubble wrap. And yeah, fair enough—you’ve got to protect your QB. But lately, it’s felt less like caution and more like an overly safe, vanilla offense. They’re basically keeping the car in neutral, and it’s holding Fields back.
You can see it plain as day if you watch the training camp tapes—just quick slants, little dump-offs, and short screens. Nothing that really lets Fields open up and launch it downfield. And the Jets’ idea of ‘taking it easy’ with Justin Fields? Well, Garrett Wilson clearly didn’t get the memo.
Fields’s WR1 seems dead set on making life as hard as possible for both himself and his quarterback. In a clip posted by the Jets’ official X account, Sauce Gardner was lock