Damn... I need some sort of generational reference guide to see if Williams is being generational
Williams is generational.
Odunze is generational.
Allen is generational.
The crocodile hunter is generational.
DJ Moore MAY be generational.
On the D I believe we have maybe 3 more generational guys.
Poles is generational. (at least he's been the best GM in my generation)
So that's at least 4 and maybe 8 generational players on our roster right now. and with a generational GM, I expect more generational talent next year, and even more the year after that. Within a generation (or sooner!), our entire team should consist of nothing but generational talent. Can you imagine? our depth and even our practice squad will be completely stocked with generational talent. It'll be... - what's the word - I can't think of it right now - uhh - hmmm, Oh! Generational!
Damn... I need some sort of generational reference guide to see if Williams is being generational
Williams is generational.
Odunze is generational.
Allen is generational.
The crocodile hunter is generational.
DJ Moore MAY be generational.
On the D I believe we have maybe 3 more generational guys.
Poles is generational. (at least he's been the best GM in my generation)
So that's at least 4 and maybe 8 generational players on our roster right now. and with a generational GM, I expect more generational talent next year, and even more the year after that. Within a generation (or sooner!), our entire team should consist of nothing but generational talent. Can you imagine? our depth and even our practice squad will be completely stocked with generational talent. It'll be... - what's the word - I can't think of it right now - uhh - hmmm, Oh! Generational!
Post by dachuckster on May 27, 2024 20:50:30 GMT -6
I just saw Kramer on another YT channel. He went into a lot more detail about how the Bears should work with CW to get him into the NFL game. A lot more detail than the previous one and Erik comes off a lot more positive about CW.
And he has some very valid opinions about the 2024 draft QB class. I really like his feeling that Caleb Willliams needs to be able to play within what his opponents give him and not play to be the savior who makes big plays. Personally, I feel that this adjustment would be in the class of rookie growing pains for a talented young QB. But some young QBs have struggled with just this in the past.
I feel that will be his hardest adjustment. When you have been able to be the hero so often, the tendency to play that way is strong
+1 I've been so bored these past few weeks that at night I try to watch a Caleb Williams game, or at least part of one before I go to bed. Now that the initial hoopla has calmed down (with me anyway) I like to think I am being more objective with what I think I see with his play. Last night I was thinking as I watched him play, that he is used to not having a good OL. That 2023 OL was as bad as anything I've seen on the Bears. He'd bale and run in those situations and my thinking is that it is a LOT easier to juke college rushers than the NFL rushers. Hopefully Waldron will install some options for him hit a quick outlet pass or just throw the ball away more often. Now, he did that sometimes, and actually did it more often than Fields did here. I do worry about injuries if he tries too much of the ad-hoc running against pressure.
Another thing he needs to improve is to secure the ball better. He seemed to fumble the ball due to not protecting it as he jukes around in those situations. I don't know the actual numbers of fumbles (maybe I'm exaggerating the problem) but over the weeks I've seen him cough up the ball by not being careful with it. Gotta fix that now that he's in the NFL because these NFL guys will feast on strip-fumbles if he doesn't fix it.
I think the biggest positive I saw was that he seems to process the field well (most of the time) and get the ball out to an open guy... he worked a lot from the pocket, so that criticism of him not being a pocket passing QB are simply not accurate. But he needs a pocket to BE a pocket passer, and all too often the D rushers were on him way too quick for him to see anything... it was just run and juke to survive. At least that's what it looks like to me.
Bottom line is that he is a gifted project, but still a project QB coming to the NFL. Oh, and if the OL can protect him (even average/reasonably well) I think we will be pleased. If the OL here is bad then don't expect the magic to happen, no matter how many elite WR's he has.
I feel that will be his hardest adjustment. When you have been able to be the hero so often, the tendency to play that way is strong
+1 I've been so bored these past few weeks that at night I try to watch a Caleb Williams game, or at least part of one before I go to bed. Now that the initial hoopla has calmed down (with me anyway) I like to think I am being more objective with what I think I see with his play. Last night I was thinking as I watched him play, that he is used to not having a good OL. That 2023 OL was as bad as anything I've seen on the Bears. He'd bale and run in those situations and my thinking is that it is a LOT easier to juke college rushers than the NFL rushers. Hopefully Waldron will install some options for him hit a quick outlet pass or just throw the ball away more often. Now, he did that sometimes, and actually did it more often than Fields did here. I do worry about injuries if he tries too much of the ad-hoc running against pressure.
Another thing he needs to improve is to secure the ball better. He seemed to fumble the ball due to not protecting it as he jukes around in those situations. I don't know the actual numbers of fumbles (maybe I'm exaggerating the problem) but over the weeks I've seen him cough up the ball by not being careful with it. Gotta fix that now that he's in the NFL because these NFL guys will feast on strip-fumbles if he doesn't fix it.
I think the biggest positive I saw was that he seems to process the field well (most of the time) and get the ball out to an open guy... he worked a lot from the pocket, so that criticism of him not being a pocket passing QB are simply not accurate. But he needs a pocket to BE a pocket passer, and all too often the D rushers were on him way too quick for him to see anything... it was just run and juke to survive. At least that's what it looks like to me.
Bottom line is that he is a gifted project, but still a project QB coming to the NFL. Oh, and if the OL can protect him (even average/reasonably well) I think we will be pleased. If the OL here is bad then don't expect the magic to happen, no matter how many elite WR's he has.
+1 I've been so bored these past few weeks that at night I try to watch a Caleb Williams game, or at least part of one before I go to bed. Now that the initial hoopla has calmed down (with me anyway) I like to think I am being more objective with what I think I see with his play. Last night I was thinking as I watched him play, that he is used to not having a good OL. That 2023 OL was as bad as anything I've seen on the Bears. He'd bale and run in those situations and my thinking is that it is a LOT easier to juke college rushers than the NFL rushers. Hopefully Waldron will install some options for him hit a quick outlet pass or just throw the ball away more often. Now, he did that sometimes, and actually did it more often than Fields did here. I do worry about injuries if he tries too much of the ad-hoc running against pressure.
Another thing he needs to improve is to secure the ball better. He seemed to fumble the ball due to not protecting it as he jukes around in those situations. I don't know the actual numbers of fumbles (maybe I'm exaggerating the problem) but over the weeks I've seen him cough up the ball by not being careful with it. Gotta fix that now that he's in the NFL because these NFL guys will feast on strip-fumbles if he doesn't fix it.
I think the biggest positive I saw was that he seems to process the field well (most of the time) and get the ball out to an open guy... he worked a lot from the pocket, so that criticism of him not being a pocket passing QB are simply not accurate. But he needs a pocket to BE a pocket passer, and all too often the D rushers were on him way too quick for him to see anything... it was just run and juke to survive. At least that's what it looks like to me.
Bottom line is that he is a gifted project, but still a project QB coming to the NFL. Oh, and if the OL can protect him (even average/reasonably well) I think we will be pleased. If the OL here is bad then don't expect the magic to happen, no matter how many elite WR's he has.
Yeah, that was the issue with JF also
With this WR group, there’s no excuse for a generational QB to not get the ball out in 2.5 seconds, and if this OL can’t even hold that long, then it’s on them, not Williams.
