Gang Green Nation
The New York Jets and their fanbase would love nothing more than for free agent acquisition and former first round pick Justin Fields to play so well that everyone is confident that the team has their guy at the helm of the franchise for the next decade. Whether that happens will be decided on the field. Through two weeks, “the field” has told two wildly different stories.
EPA is estimated points added, and it essentially measures whether or not a given play has increased the likelihood/amount of points that a team is expected to score on a given drive. As shown by the tweet, Fields was perhaps the best he’d ever been at the NFL level in Week 1 and the worst he’d ever been at the NFL level in Week 2. Talk about a Jeckyl and Hyde type of situation.
Which of those two is closer to reality will be determined throughout the season after Fields returns from his concussion. In the interim though, we fans have gotten a quick crash course in just how good Fields can look when it’s all going right and just how bad he can look when it’s all going wrong. I think we can all see firsthand why the opinions of others on Fields have been so divided over the years.
