Matt Spiegel

So I think Ryan, I think he understands the pressure to just finally nail getting a pass rush.

I think he's going to throw as many resources at it as he needs to in order to finally get it done.

Brett, the fixer for everything, any hole that the Bears might have going forward, in theory, is the quarterback, is Caleb Williams.

We all know that good, great, elite quarterbacks clean everything up.

The question is, Brett, I'm just wondering, from your film review throughout the season, what do you think about Caleb Williams right now and the trajectory that he is on?

So you saw the progression from the start of the year to the end of the year as far as like Ben Johnson's chosen style of offense.

Right.

It was very under center heavy.

It was very play action heavy, but it wasn't the same type of play action or under center play action that he was doing in Detroit.

In Detroit, Jared Goff was very much like I am picking on linebackers.

I am picking on hook zone droppers like between the numbers.

Intermediate depth, like we are going to work the middle of the field off play action because play action is going to move those players and I can pick apart those windows.

Whereas with Caleb, like when they were going under center play action, it was big game hunting all day long.

Right.

Like they were they were attacking down the field.

So everybody looks at the completion percentage, but it's like you got to look at the average depth of target to like they were.

attacking and it didn't work all the time but when it would hit they would get a chunk play and then they would build off of those explosives and chain them together like they very much wanted to be an offense similar to the Rams and the Rams if you're looking at you know getting an explosive pass play one play after an explosive pass play and chaining those two together the Rams were by far number one in the league at that last year and that's really what Ben Johnson wanted to be he wanted to build an offense out of explosives and

sometimes they would stall and they would stall for a while when they just weren't hitting them and then you would get to the fourth quarter and all of a sudden all they're getting is explosive plays so really what i think this offseason is about is just being able to hit those explosives earlier in the game so the fourth quarter isn't so stressful because we see what they can be when they're actually hitting those it's just we're only getting it for one quarter every single week

It's a cautionary tale about, you know, trying, trying or rather sticking too much to the process, I would say.

And if you're looking at a lot of the best teams in the league, they get a core of players right at a certain age range.