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Justin Fields' coaching bandwidth issues sound like another recent QB who never recovered his promise

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Years ago, when the Philadelphia Eagles were trying to coach their way out of a gully in the development of Carson Wentz, sources from inside the team and the quarterback’s camp explained the conundrum through a prism of bandwidth. As the story went, when Wentz showed up on a given day to work out various kinks in his performance, he had three voices in his ear.

The head coach, Doug Pederson. The offensive coordinator, Frank Reich. And finally, the quarterbacks coach, John DeFilippo. Three coaches … three former quarterbacks … three viewpoints on precisely what was causing problems in the development in their young star quarterback.