Matt Harmon & Andy Behrens break down Caleb Williams’ performance in the Chicago Bears 20-19 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. In the rookie QB’s first game without former offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, Andy argues that Caleb cut down on some of the mistakes and poor offensive scheming that bogged down Williams in the first half of the season.
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Video Transcript
Bears lose this game.
Who cares?
Who cares?
Because like none of this matters.
Andy, what the only thing that matters, like wins and losses don’t matter for the Bears right now.
Saving Matt Eber flu’s job doesn’t matter who cares.
I think, I think everything, all the evidence shows like Eber flu should not be the guy in charge of this team anymore.
We gotta figure out something else here.
Uh So who cares if they win or lose games?
All that matters is that Caleb Williams has productive, reps down the stretch and I, I feel like we gotta come out of this game feeling great about that part of it.
Yeah, it’s funny.
My, as you can imagine, I follow a handful of Bears fans on social media and they, they clearly broke into two camps, uh, immediately following this game.
There’s the, there’s the, the folks who came into the season fired up to get like the sixth seed, seventh seed, whatever.
Let’s get to the playoffs.
How do we get to nine wins, 10 wins, 11 wins.
And then there’s, I don’t know, most of the year you and I have talked about this, I just want to see Caleb Williams develop.
I want, I want confirmation that he is who I think he is and I wanna, I wanna see him better by the end of the season, I want to see real growth from, from September to December and January.
Um, you know, there’s, there’s always a voice in your head that is like, oh man, I, I think this is mostly about the play calling and I think the coordinator change is gonna make a big difference, but I don’t know it until I see it.
Right.
Um, but man, the offense, um, the offense stayed out of, you know, third and forever for most of the game, um, when they got themselves to third down, it was quite often third and manageable and they were able to convert, um, quick hit stuff.
Every, every time Caleb dropped back to pass there, there was an easy button somewhere on the field.
It wasn’t, you know, 34 players, um, running deep, slow developing routes that the Bears can’t block and that, you know what, no, no two players actually operating in concert down the field either like this suited their personnel.
Um I think in the first half of this game that the number was, uh, 1.92 seconds to throw for Caleb, man.
Where, where has that been?
Well, they, they schemed it up for him.
They, they got him a lot of stuff at or behind the line.
Of scrimmage, they got him a lot of quick hits, they got him a lot of designed runs.
Um, they had him proactive as a, as a rusher, even when it wasn’t a designed run.
It’s not the result anybody wants.
And I, I do agree that like within the building it is probably beaten them down to have both this loss to, you know, your long time rival and to have the Hail Mary loss just a few weeks ago.
But man, um if you’re, if you’re just a fan who, who is really only interested in the development of Caleb Williams over the course of this season.
This, this was awesome.
In fact, it was, it was almost a perfect scenario, right?
Because I, I get to feel really good about Caleb Williams again and we clearly took another step toward a new coaching staff next year.