Matt Eberflus on Where Justin Fields Stands for Lions

Justin Fields makes his first start after sitting four weeks and here's what Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus saw from him in the week's practices.

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00:03 Yeah, I thought he improved.

00:14 I thought he got a feel for where he was,

00:17 and I thought he improved every single day.

00:19 So you get that timing with the receivers,

00:22 the concepts that you're running that particular week.

00:24 And I thought he got his footwork back

00:27 where it needed to be.

00:29 And I thought the accuracy was good.

00:31 It got better as the week went.

00:33 So I thought--

00:34 Yeah, there's an excitement.

00:34 Yeah, no doubt.

00:35 I think that certainly having him, our starter back,

00:38 is definitely a boost.

00:40 And you can see the defense getting excited about it

00:42 and talking to him on the side in the building.

00:45 And certainly the offense guys were excited about it.

00:48 You could see them walk through how the energy was there.

00:51 And yeah, definitely.

00:52 Yeah, it's certainly an important position.

00:55 And my hat's off to Getsey and Janoko

00:58 to be able to train a rookie, to come in there

01:01 and to go to and to, and to be able to function

01:03 the way he functioned.

01:04 And my hat's off to Tyson to be able to do that.

01:06 And like you said, it's through the whole league.

01:09 Every tape I turn on, I'm like, this guy's playing quarterback.

01:13 And you try to watch these crossover games,

01:16 and it's happened a lot.

01:18 I think it's historic, right?

01:19 So those guys had to be ready to go, and our guy was.

01:23 And it was good that he was in there.

01:25 And my hat's off to the coaches.

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