Justin Fields Opens up About “Comfortable” Starting Role at Jets
Aaron Glenn, the coach of the Jets, has already selected Justin Fields as his starting quarterback. Fields will be the eighth different Week 1 quarterback for the Jets in the previous 14 seasons to replace Aaron Rodgers. Unlike last season, when the Steelers benched him following a 4-2 start, Fields is used to this role. […] The post Justin Fields Opens up About “Comfortable” Starting Role at Jets appeared first on BlackSportsOnline.
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Aaron Glenn, the coach of the Jets, has already selected Justin Fields as his starting quarterback. Fields will be the eighth different Week 1 quarterback for the Jets in the previous 14 seasons to replace Aaron Rodgers. Unlike last season, when the Steelers benched him following a 4-2 start, Fields is used to this role.
According to ESPN’s Rich Cimini, Fields stated: “It was, of course, different for me and a space where I wasn’t necessarily comfortable,”
In his first public appearance since agreeing to a two-year, $40 million deal in free agency last month, Fields spoke with the media on Wednesday.
Justin Fields talks about his bench role and now starting
He claimed that his choice to quit the Steelers, who attempted to re-sign Fields, was unaffected by his benching.
Fields said: “You can’t take things personal,”. “That’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, not to take anything personal. At the end of the day, I was just excited of what the Jets had going on here with AG [Glenn] and just with the coaching staff, so it didn’t really have anything to do with Pittsburgh.”
However, Fields acknowledged that her seat behind Russell Wilson was “a place where I wasn’t, really, never in… in my entire life.” Fields played 15 snaps in five games and threw two passes in the final 12 games, including the postseason.
He said: “Coach [Mike] Tomlin made a decision he thought was best for the team, and I’m never going to go against that,” “I’m not a selfish guy whatsoever, so I just tried to change my perspective, get better each and every day in practice.”
In his sixth season, Fields, 26, now has the opportunity to start for the third time.
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