Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I've seen hundreds of dicks in my life.

You get moist for Caleb when you watch college football

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

It's not a concern that Johnson hasn't immediately fixed all of Caleb's problems.

It is a concern, however, that Caleb has so many problems to fix.

I've seen hundreds of dicks in my life.

You get moist for Caleb when you watch college football

"We" were always led to believe that the only 2 problems that needed fixing were the OC and Head Coach however. Nothing was ever wrong with Caleb the player. His only problem happened to be the 2 boobs who happened to be coaching him.

Caleb Williams isn't really a "true" rookie because he turned 23 late into his 1st season in the NFL!"

"We" were always led to believe that the only 2 problems that needed fixing were the OC and Head Coach however. Nothing was ever wrong with Caleb the player. His only problem happened to be the 2 boobs who happened to be coaching him.

No one said he was a complete player.

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Caleb Williams isn't really a "true" rookie because he turned 23 late into his 1st season in the NFL!"

I've seen hundreds of dicks in my life.

You get moist for Caleb when you watch college football

There is a helluva lot revisionism going on around where Caleb is concerned these days.

Immediate...

Caleb Williams isn't really a "true" rookie because he turned 23 late into his 1st season in the NFL!"

It’s the first step in the journey of a quarterback bust. Lowering and revising expectations to fit the outcome.

It’s the first step in the journey of a quarterback bust. Lowering and revising expectations to fit the outcome.

This time last year you basically couldn’t escape hearing anything about the Bears without being bombarded with 1) generational 2) best situation for a rookie quarterback ever.

C.J. Strout was killing it with 11 on 11 at the same point last year.

When Stroud wasn't throwing touchdown passes, he helped the offense move the chains during 11-on-11 play. For the third consecutive practice, Stroud's production led to an efficient performance for the offense while he continued to get the ball out quicker.

Coach DeMeco Ryans has not named Stroud the Texans' official starter four days before their first preseason game against the New England Patriots. But every snap Stroud has taken since Thursday's practice has been with the first team — despite solid play from Mills.

I've seen hundreds of dicks in my life.

You get moist for Caleb when you watch college football

That said, from Day 1, Williams’s buy-in on Ben Johnson has been high.

The 23-year-old was there, alongside DJ Moore and Rome Odunze, for the introductory press conference, which is a small, but notable, thing for a guy to do coming off his rookie year. That, in turn, gave the two their first chance to sit down and talk face-to-face. And it also showed that Williams had an understanding of the responsibility that would come with his place as the Bears’ franchise quarterback, which would be Johnson’s starting point anyway.

Williams was around the building a lot from that point forward, which gave Johnson, offensive coordinator Declan Doyle and QBs coach J.T. Barrett a shot to organically build their relationship. That facilitated some hard truths to be doled out at the start of the offseason program in April.


There were two areas where the coaches wanted improvement from Williams. Both related to how he carried himself as the quarterback, based on what the 2024 season showed. One was body language. The other was presnap procedure.

On the former, while the coaches understood the beating he took, they showed film to emphasize how he’d been slow to pull himself up off the ground. It was a long year. People got fired in-season. And in adverse circumstances, the staff explained, having a quarterback who was rolling with the punches would go a long way. On the latter, there was a smattering of small things—like on the first play of one game, he turned to his left, thinking the motion was coming, when it was actually coming from the right—that needed to be cleaned up.


To Williams’s credit, he welcomed every piece of criticism in an effort to get better. Which allowed the staff to move quickly to a lot of Lions tape, to give Williams an idea of what Johnson would be bringing from Detroit with him, and Matthew Stafford film, to bring some visuals to what they’d try to work him toward technique and fundamentals-wise.

Progress, thus far, has been steady, and Williams is working at it. The Bears adding Case Keenum to the quarterback room was, indeed, intentional, and Williams has taken advantage of it, in using Keenum almost as another coach after hours (to work around the CBA-mandated limits on what the coaches can actually do with the players at this point in the calendar). And, on the field, Williams has been good for at least one “did he really do that?” throw every day.


So, at this point, it’s fair to say things are as good as they could be.

Which, to be sure, is better than they were five or six months ago.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Yeah, the fact that they didn't have a veteran QB on the roster last year seems like a pretty strong indictment of Poles.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The bullshit is going to get smeared on real thick here these next three months before the actual games get played.

Backup-proofing the roster like that seems like a directive from above Poles.

I've seen hundreds of dicks in my life.

You get moist for Caleb when you watch college football

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Any GM in that situation would have signed Ryan Tannehill (or someone similar) in his sleep just because. I'm sure there was a directive to not invite even the slightest quarterback controversy if things went sideways at any time.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

"OMG! We gotta get a veteran backup for Caleb! It's essential." said no one last year.

Everybody thought he was the 2nd coming of Stroud. Teaching Caleb to be a professional didn't cross hardly any minds. If it did, let's see the post so I can pat you on the back.

"OMG! We gotta get a veteran backup for Caleb! It's essential." said no one last year.

Everybody thought he was the 2nd coming of Stroud. Teaching Caleb to be a professional didn't cross hardly any minds. If it did, let's see the post so I can pat you on the back.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I said they should keep Fields unless they got a really high draft pick and throw him out there week 1 unless Williams dominated him in training camp.

Then it turns out the Steelers got a higher compensation draft pick than they gave up.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

...because Poles prioritized Fields' interests over those of the Bears--yet another indicator of his incompetence.

It was a topic of discussion on many of the Bears podcasts, though not a top issue since there were so many other problems with the team.

But your overall argument is strange since it was Poles' responsibility to establish a fruitful approach to developing his top pick, and he clearly failed at that. What posters here or elsewhere said at the time hardly matters.

I've seen hundreds of dicks in my life.

You get moist for Caleb when you watch college football

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.