Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL writer Frank Schwab and senior NFL writer Jori Epstein discuss the early season concerns for Chicago’s rookie quarterback and whether changes already need to be made in the organization. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
At what point?
Then do the Chicago Bears look around and say, hey, we gotta make sure we’re protecting Caleb.
Like I’m not saying that Caleb Williams should be benched right now, but I am saying that whatever the Bears are doing isn’t working.
At what point do you look around and say, hey, I don’t care what happens this season.
I don’t want to do to Caleb what other teams have done to first overall picks.
Yeah, and I think it starts with coaching.
This is just not sustainable.
This is smart by the Chicago Bears to drop him back 52 times.
And we said that the week before after that Sunday night game of you’re putting too much on Caleb, he’s developing bad habits and nothing changed in week three.
And I think that’s where it starts.
I think that you can’t bench him.
That would be such a bad look and, and hurt his confidence and all, it’s just not an option right now.
I hear you that you can’t bench him if I ran the Chicago Bears today, I would fire the entire coaching staff and as part of that, I would bench Caleb Williams and I would make it very clear that I failed Caleb Williams, my coaches are failing Caleb Williams and everybody in this building has failed Caleb Williams.
So instead we’re going to bring people in right now that will make sure that we don’t do any more harm to him while we figure out the right people to develop.
Caleb Williams.
I hear you that it’s a bad look to just bench your quarterback.
I don’t think this coaching staff has done anything to deserve any benefit of the doubt.
Jason fits firing everyone and be the first overall pick.
I do think, I think a lot of this is just a matter of like reality vers her expectations.
If this was happening in Washington and Carolina in summer, we didn’t think that Caleb had all the pieces around him.
I don’t think we would be so shocked that a first overall pick doesn’t have perfect protection.
I think that we might have convinced ourselves that Chicago had better pieces particularly on the offensive line.
I also think again, we cannot overstate and there are a lot of people around the league who really believe this is an element of the problem that Caleb wants to extend plays.
He’s trying to do that, that’s what he did in college and it worked for him.
So he is not going to always cooper so to say with what the offensive line is trying to do to protect him.
And so part of this is the people around him.
And part of this is Caleb saying this is how I play football.
This is what’s made me great in my career.
And he is going to have to learn how to hang in the pocket and how to really just try and take a little bit by little bit if that means taking fewer hits.
