Coming into the year, many Chicago Bears fans wanted the team to show significant improvements on both sides of the football. With head coach Ben Johnson taking over, fans hope he can turn Caleb Williams into the quarterback many saw when he came into the NFL.
Caleb Williams entered the NFL as a generational talent, but his rookie season fell well short of expectations. Still, the second-year quarterback has plenty of time to grow into the star many projected him to be.
Bears Coach Ben Johnson Gets Honest
It’s tough to say that the Chicago Bears‘ offense has been perfect throughout the first four weeks of the season, but there have also been improvements every single week. They scored 24 points in the first game of the year and 21 in the second, before responding with 31 points against the Dallas Cowboys and 25 against the Las Vegas Raiders, both of which were wins. Not only did they score more points in both games, but Williams has also started to figure some things out, including leading a game-winning drive late against the Raiders.
When speaking to reporters about how the offense has looked throughout the first four weeks, it sounds like Johnson expects the Bears to be even better on that front moving forward. He doesn’t believe that anybody is pulling their weight yet, including himself.
âI donât feel like everybody on offense yet is pulling their weight, and thatâs myself included. Thereâs a number of things from yesterdayâs game that I have to do a better job of; thereâs a couple calls I was getting in late. Thereâs a couple things that the coaching staff, myself, we could have coached up better to give us a better chance there.
âWhen you look at it as a whole, it was just a mess, man. Iâm just not proud of what we put on tape. I think itâs a reflection of myself; I always take it personally. I saw us getting better the first three weeks in a lot of ways on offense and then this was just a little bit of a step back for us,â he said, per Courtney Cronin of ESPN.
Bears QB Caleb Williams Is Gaining Confidence
Everybody has said all the right things for the Chicago Bears over the past few months, but again, this is an organization and a fan base that’s dying for success. The words don’t mean as much if they can’t deliver the job. For Williams to come out against the Las Vegas Raiders, however, and do what he did in the fourth quarter, was a massive step.Â
He stated, according to the team website, that those are the moments he loves. He has the confidence in himself to go out and make plays, and that confidence is only growing as he gets older.Â
“I think it’s just the confidence that I’ve had in myself through the hard work that I’ve put into myself and my work and my craft,” Williams said Tuesday at Halas Hall. “It’s just grown over the years. It started when I was younger.
“Those moments, you go through a whole game and there’s not many things that the [defense] is going to show you differently in those moments. I feel more comfortable in those moments. I think my heart rate drops. Everything kind of settles in. It’s gotta-have-it moments. I think I’ve done a good job with that over my career in those gotta-have-it moments, and I think it comes from the hard work throughout the week, the belief in teammates, things like that.”
Hopefully, this is just the start of Bears‘ offense eventually being one of the best in the NFL.
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