Chicago Bears' Turbulent Season & Coordinator Shake-Up

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00:00The biggest disappointment, though, has to be in Chicago and the Bears and that today

00:08or this week rather was represented when they moved on from their offensive coordinator

00:14in Shane Waldron.

00:15You know, I look at Kayla Williams, who I bet to an offensive rookie of the year, and

00:19I'll be honest, I go, I did the right thing.

00:21The reason I bet the Bears is I believe they would make the playoffs.

00:25It wasn't even about Kayla being better than Jaden Daniels or Bo Nicks or even Marvin Harrison

00:30Jr.

00:31Malik neighbors.

00:32And you look at what is going to probably still get Jaden Daniels that award.

00:36It's making the playoffs where I was wrong was the Bears and man, I was wrong about the

00:43Chicago Bears.

00:44I and I ignored some warning signs about Ibraflux a bit and Shane Waldron a lot.

00:51And Kayla Williams is now finding himself having a really bad season in effective and

00:57efficient, struggling to complete passes to three straight games for Kayla Williams, completing

01:02less than 55 percent of his passes.

01:05His top passing yards in that run is to 17.

01:08He's thrown for under a buck 40 in two of those games.

01:12No passing touchdowns in that run.

01:15When the game this is coming off of a by the game before that, he threw four scores.

01:19That is just been a nightmarish season in Chicago, which is incredible to say is just

01:26a few weeks ago they were sat there four and two looking dangerous.

01:29Yes.

01:30And they did over exceed in the first half of the season.

01:33And I think that's maybe where they got into a little complacency.

01:37And that's where Matt Ibraflux and that offensive staff, Shane Waldron, felt, you know what?

01:42Let's try and get to eight or nine wins to solidify in a playoff role as opposed to just

01:48continuing to open up the offense.

01:50The concern for Caleb early on was that, you know, he didn't have a quality road win under

01:55his belt outside the winning overseas in London against Jacksonville.

01:59Right.

02:00They were starting to come into form.

02:01That might have been one of his better performances from a passing perspective as well, where

02:06he lit up the Jaguars.

02:07But Kev, you know, you know how I felt about the Bears coming in.

02:10Right.

02:11Yeah.

02:12Not not about Caleb, but he was dead to rights to begin with.

02:15Right.

02:16He did it last year.

02:17And whether you love or hate Justin Fields, that's not the point.

02:20The point was this was a very conservative staff and they over exceeded early on.

02:26Caleb needs to be able to improvise.

02:28He needs to be able to get the football out of his hands quick.

02:31They didn't have that type of offense.

02:33They wanted to run it.

02:34Then they got confused when teams shut down the run and then they were not aggressive

02:38in terms of their play calling short to intermediate passes.

02:41He took nine sacks last week against the New England Patriots.

02:46Nine sacks.

02:47I mean, it's unfortunate, but they're putting him in the same situation that everybody killed

02:54fields for.

02:55It's going to be the same thing unless you get an offensive mind.

02:58Yeah.

02:59But they also field didn't have anywhere near the talent that this young kid has here in

03:02Caleb Williams.

03:03And also keep in mind to start those first three games went one and two.

03:05They should have been on three.

03:06The Titans handed them that game on opening day and Caleb wasn't very good.

03:10Then they turned the corner.

03:11The Rams, Panthers, Jaguars, not great football teams that okay, rookie now took his bumps

03:14in the roads.

03:15Looks like he's going to turn the corner, turned it, turned it the wrong direction that

03:18commander's card.

03:19Those Patriots games got worse by they were now granted.

03:22You had to fire your office.

03:23According.

03:24There's no question.

03:25I don't know if you're going to fire the head coach during the season, but that's the easiest

03:27change to make.

03:28You're not sitting down.

03:29Caleb Williams saying you got to take a backseat like Anthony Richardson.

03:32That's your franchise guy.

03:33He's expected to move mountains out there on offense and the weapons are there.

03:35Joe, three quality wide receivers, good tight end, good running game here.

03:38You should not be scoring under 10 points in a game.

03:41There's a chance they can turn it around today because sometimes you do get the bump from

03:44the offensive coordinator.

03:45And I've always said this, regardless of what you think Thomas Brown is going to do today,

03:49I guarantee you, he's not going to have a conservative game plan says, let's just keep

03:52us in the ball game.

03:53That's not how you get a job.

03:54That's not, you get the buzz around the league.

03:56You step into today and challenge Green Bay Packers and score 24 plus point.

04:00And let's say even if you lose the game, Hey, look, the offense is back.

04:02That's all you can ask for.

04:03If they enter this game and lose to the Packers, I don't know, 27 to 13, it is going to be

04:08hell on wheels to listen to what they're talking about in Chicago the rest of the way, because

04:12then it goes right back to Eber.

04:13Yeah.

04:14I think the reality is there's almost nothing you can do to keep his job.

04:17I think the worst part for the bears is the potential that you have now lowered how good

04:22your job is.

04:23I think you look at this past off season and you could easily argue the bears were the

04:26best job available on the market.

04:29We might get the Cowboys job.

04:31You might get both New York jobs available this off season.

04:35Just that right there.

04:37You might be fourth because New York is new Dallas is, I mean, what are we talking about

04:41here?

04:42Right.

04:43In terms of pedigree.

04:44I'm not saying the bears are a small market team by any stretch, but man, you, you have

04:47real things that you could potentially be competing with at a super high level, making

04:51this difficult for you.

04:52You want to get into that conversation.

04:55We'll watch it play out.

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