It makes no sense that the Chicago Bears offence, led by Luke Getsy in his second season as offensive coordinator and Justin Fields in his third, has not improved.
However, Shaun King, a former NFL quarterback and football coach, believes that a detail about Getsy that was missed may have added to the problems.
Surprisingly, during a Friday afternoon discussion about Fields with Bernstein and Holmes Show of 670 The Score, King proposed that the reason for Getsy’s apparent lack of progress as a play-caller is a literal lack of vision—he finds it difficult to see the game from the sidelines.
Getsy has called every game from the sidelines during his two years in Chicago, and those campaigns have produced very little improvement.
So why not give it a shot and call plays from the booth, as many coordinators in the league already do? Maybe because Getsy has his sights set on more important things, as King speculates.
“This is the situation with these coordinators, and I’m not sure if the general public is aware of it,” King clarified. “Coordinators who want to be head coaches always want to be on the sidelines because they believe it presents them in a favourable light. .. At USF, where King coached quarterbacks and running backs from 2016 to 2019, I had a situation where we had a guy who, from the sidelines, just couldn’t see it. He wouldn’t enter the booth, though, because he wanted to be a head coach.
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