Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus wants to see more consistency from quarterback Justin Fields upon his return to the field Sunday at Detroit.
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00:03 Injuries with the quarterback position.
00:12 Field will be back at practice today.
00:13 Our plan is to start him on Sunday.
00:16 He continues to progress this week.
00:19 He's a big part of returning to practice today.
00:22 He's going to be a big part of the evaluation.
00:24 But again, he's progressing well.
00:26 And our plan is to start him this week.
00:29 So that's what it is.
00:30 Nate Davis is back out there today.
00:32 We'll get him back in the mix.
00:35 He'll be starting that right guard for us.
00:37 Remove Jenkins to the left.
00:39 And that's going to be the move that we make there.
00:42 Then we feel that's our best five out there
00:44 as we get healthy with our football team.
00:46 So that's excited about that.
00:48 Terrell Smith is also returning to practice from illness.
00:52 And again, he'll be rotating in there
00:54 with our DBs, our different packages that we have.
00:57 So really excited to get him back there.
00:59 He feels good.
01:01 And it looks good, too.
01:03 Kari Blastingame has been cleared
01:04 from concussion protocol.
01:05 He'll be back out there as well.
01:07 Good to get him back.
01:08 I think seven weeks is enough time for the show consistency
01:12 and being the high performer that we expected him to be.
01:15 And I know he's had some good performances along this year.
01:19 Certainly the last few have been solid.
01:22 And we expect consistency out of all our positions.
01:26 Continuing to watch and observe and look and see
01:28 where he is.
01:29 And he looks good.
01:30 And so we're excited where he goes.
01:32 And again, this will be a big evaluation today.
01:34 Like I said, I think it was Monday about going full speed,
01:37 doing full speed reps, and all that.
01:39 So it'll be a big--
01:40 I'll just say look out of this side of the eye.
01:43 Make sure you do a good job with that.
01:44 I know it changes.
01:46 It really does.
01:46 But I really commend him for that,
01:49 to have that flexibility.
01:50 Because he's a heck of an athlete
01:53 and a really good talent.
01:55 And he's really grown in front of our eyes.
01:57 You see him being a pro, consistent day in and day out
02:02 during practices, showing up every day, putting the work in,
02:05 and it's starting to pay off for him.
02:07 And he's had some good battles.
02:09 He had a good battle last week.
02:10 He was playing a really good player last week.
02:12 And he gleaned a lot of information
02:13 from that performance.
02:15 And I expect him to get better because of that.
02:17 Always hard.
02:18 When you get back to full strength--
02:19 and Cody has been a true pro.
02:21 Obviously a captain here for many years
02:23 and had a great long career.
02:24 And he's still going to continue to help us as we go.
02:27 We're always-- that's our starting lineup for this week.
02:30 And you know things can happen like that.
02:32 And he's back into the mix at center, guard,
02:34 wherever it might be.
02:35 And we're fortunate that we have the flexibility to do that,
02:38 to move Tevin to both sides, to move Cody,
02:40 have Cody play guard or center.
02:43 So we're fortunate that way.
02:44 He brings that flexibility to our team.
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