Will OL waste Williams rookie season?

What is a “pressure”?  I went back and watched every pass play.  Brax took Anderson out the “back door” behind CW over and over and over and over.   And yeah, it was sometimes close to CW, because he didn’t have a clean pocket to step up into.  Call that a pff “pressure” if you want. It wasn’t Brax who was letting CW get hits, bruises, and sacked 7 times.  Brax was going 1-on-1 against one of the best in the league.  Anderson got real, play-disrupting pressure only about 3 times.  He’s going to do that or more against just about anybody.

Brax still gives ground too quickly and drops his anchor too close to QB at times. I will give you that.

Listening to former NFL players talk about this "easy" schedule today, they say there are no easy wins.  Thayer said the Colts will now know how to exploit our OL after the film on the Texans game.  They will use that to do to us what the Texans did.  The Bears need to be ready for that and have a strategy for fixing the vulnerability.  Olin Kreutz had some specific ways to do just that.  Some of this is fixable this season but the Bears need to make these adjustments.

The key takeaway is that this game is not going to be an easy win like the fans want to believe.  There are few easy wins in the NFL.

A “pressure” is not desirable but not as significant as a sack or hit. They quantify it as 3.5 feet from the QB or something like that.  About 6 of the 8 “pressures” were guys pushed behind Williams and not impeding Williams ability to throw.  I consider that a “win” on the rep, and Brax had a ton of them on Anderson and the other dude (Barnett?).

So I watched Briggs with that guy Pat on ESPN.  Pat was the only one who went off on Brax and said he couldn’t block Anderson or Micah Parsons. Bullshit.  Neither one of them ever got a single sack against Brax.   Myles Garrett gave him problems. No shame in that.  

So zero blame on a bad OC?