Chicago will ruin Caleb Williams if they're not careful.

[JABF]

This brings up a good point.  Do you believe this is one possible outcome or not?  I'm just curious if people here think this is a real thing or not.  Can you ruin a QB or not?

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Chicago Bears will ruin Caleb Williams if they're not careful

No team can wreck a quarterback, and the future of the franchise, quite like the Chicago Bears.

Given how abysmally Caleb Williams’ rookie season is going, there ought to be a healthy level of concern about whether the overall No. 1 pick is destined for the same downward spiral as Justin Fields and Mitch Trubisky. Or pretty much any other promising young QB the Bears have gotten their hands on.

Over the last 20 years, the Bears have drafted four “franchise” quarterbacks, only for each one to flame out. (Save it, Rex Grossman apologists. That Super Bowl season was despite him, not because of him.) At some point, it stops being about the failings of the quarterback and starts being about the failures of the people behind him.

And, in this case, that means the entire Bears organization.

[bearsinhouston]

Of course it's possible. I have seen it on the Bears and on other teams. Happens too often. There are not enough people in the league that know how to properly develop a young QB. There are a few teams that seem to have built and institutionalized that ability. The guys that can't..... We have hired most of them and will hire the rest of them by the end of the decade.

[JABF]

Nov 13, 2024 9:31:19 GMT -6 bearsinhouston said:

Of course it's possible. I have seen it on the Bears and on other teams. Happens too often.

I believe that. 

But it seems like some folks don't believe it.  They just write 'em off as bad players as if coaching doesn't matter and surrounding talent doesn't matter.  If that were the case then hey, why worry about firing a Shane Waldron?  If you get the draft pick right then the QB woes are fixed here in Chicago.  Just "draft a guy" and be done with it.  We have had 40+ failed starting QB's here in Chicago.  It is not logical (at least I don't think it is logical) to just write 40+ quarterbacks as being bad QBs.  Statistic probability is probably greater that one of us will be struck by lightning today. 

[bears40]

It happens and, in my opinion, the smartest guy in the room syndrome kicks in and the coaches try and change what made the qb successful to begin with.

[bearsinhouston]

Nov 13, 2024 14:09:43 GMT -6 bears40 said:

It happens and, in my opinion, the smartest guy in the room syndrome kicks in and the coaches try and change what made the qb successful to begin with.

Yep. As stupid as making a QB imitate Rogers when he has been successful with his own movements. You wonder how these guys ever got out of coaching at the grade school level, much less the NFL