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Carmen Vitali
NFL Reporter
The Chicago Bears have dismissed offensive coordinator Shane Waldron.
Now what?
Chicago is sitting at 4-5 on the season with a rookie quarterback on pace to eclipse 3,000 yards and score nearly 20 touchdowns, which is by far and away the best by a rookie quarterback in team history. From the outside looking in, it doesn’t seem like a situation that warrants the most drastic change a club has made in-season.
But it was a lack of adjustments that doomed Waldron in Chicago. Something had to be done for a team that hadn’t scored an offensive touchdown in 23 drives. That’s two whole games. The offense as a whole has scored just 12 points in that span. The progress your first overall pick made in a three-game win streak prior to the Bears’ bye has been completely undone.
Caleb Williams and Chicago’s offense have the sixth-lowest total EPA as a unit. The last three weeks since their bye week, Williams has a 50.5% completion rate, the lowest of any quarterbacks with at least 50 dropbacks in that span, per PFF. His 63.8 passer rating is the worst of any such quarterback. Williams is averaging 4.7 yards per attempt, which is second-worst.
And yet, whether it was because of the play calls or Williams’ own desire to make plays, he has the 10th-highest average depth of target in the last three games. He’s got the third-longest average time to throw. With that offensive line, which at one point had four of the five players on it out of position in last week’s 19-3 loss against the New England Patriots, holding the ball is the last thing Williams can afford to do.
What’s even more befuddling is that Williams has the second-best EPA per dropback on short and intermediate passes among quarterbacks with at least 100 dropbacks on the season, according to Next Gen Stats. He has the fifth-best passer rating on such throws.
Why aren’t more of those being called?
Players like tight end Cole…
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Publish date : 2024-11-13 18:59:02
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