Mike Martz rips into Bears QB Justin Fields again after Sunday's performance

Bears quarterback Justin Fields seemed to have won over many following Chicago’s 19-10 upset Week 1 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

But former Super Bowl winning head coach Mike Martz just isn’t one of them.

In his latest video analysis piece for The 33rd Team, Martz voiced not only his discontentment of Fields’ performance but his frustration with the Bears as a whole.

“I’m just shocked, shocked at the Bears,” Martz said. “I mean they took this quarterback, they went up and spent a lot to get him, and he was…less than remarkable would be the kindest thing that you could say about him. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such a bad performance by a quarterback in his opening performance of the season like that. 

“He was just completely awful. He really just deflated the football team with his performance. When you got a quarterback that can’t do anything at all, defensively you shut him out basically for a half, you kind of lose hope. Right now [the Bears] are a team without hope.”

It marks the second time in the last three weeks that Martz had ripped into Fields and the Bears via the 33rd Team. On Aug. 23 he compared the Bears offense to the winless 2008 Detroit Lions.

“Fields is a guy that makes a lot of mistakes and is not particularly accurate at times,” he said. “He’s not a quick read-and-react guy, and he’s on a horrendous team. But I don’t know if I’ve seen an offense that bad in talent since the 0-16 Detroit Lions (in 2008). They just don’t have anybody there. … It’s a bad football team right now.”

Against the 49ers, Fields had a rough go of things in the first half. He completed just 3 of 9 passes for 19 yards and an interception. However, he turned things around in the second half and finished 8 of 17 for 121 yards, two touchdowns and an interception while adding 28 yards on the ground. 

Fields led Chicago to 19 unanswered points after the Bears fell behind 10-0, and he completed 3-of-5 passes for 48 yards and a touchdown on Chicago’s go-ahead touchdown drive in the fourth quarter. He also had a 51-yard touchdown strike to Dante Pettis in the third quarter.

Sunday’s win was just the second time in the last nine seasons that the Bears won their season opener.