Value of Playing Justin Fields and Starters in Preseason Opener
Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy describes what the first-team offense and QB Justin Fields can get out of playing in the preseason opener.
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00:03 Yeah, I think it just kind of falls back into the chemistry
00:22 thing, right?
00:22 Getting that group kind of the first time
00:26 and having that experience for the first time.
00:29 I mean, we just talked about Darnell.
00:30 Just to put them in a uniform, get up, hear the cadence,
00:33 hear the huddle call, hear cadence,
00:34 all that stuff is invaluable.
00:36 So let's go get a crack at it.
00:38 And it'll be good to just kind of get things started
00:40 off the right way.
00:41 That's the biggest difference, right?
00:42 Is you're talking about a guy that
00:43 was in year 17 or whatever the heck it was by then, right?
00:46 So I think this is just a much different situation.
00:49 When you get to that point, I think it is more like, OK,
00:52 as long as we feel good about what's
00:54 happening on a weekly basis.
00:55 And then we get the opportunity in Indy, too.
00:58 So other teams have been doing that a lot more.
01:00 That's where you want to kind of get most of your work in.
01:04 Yeah, I think so incremental is the way
01:06 that I just believe in just getting better.
01:08 I do believe in that.
01:09 I think a preseason game is hard to get too excited about
01:11 or too frustrated about as well.
01:13 So preseason is a different style.
01:15 We're trying to do as good of a job
01:17 as we can evaluating the guys that we have on the roster.
01:21 And so you're going to do some different things.
01:23 And so we want to make sure that we're able to do that.
01:26 It's still important that we follow our principles
01:29 and see that play style.
01:30 That's what we want to make sure that that is evident on the tape.
01:33 That better be evident on the tape,
01:34 the way we're firing off the football,
01:35 taking care of the football, and the way that we finish.
01:37 We want to do that better than anybody in the world.
01:40 So that better be what we see in first week.
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