The season has gone from bad, to worse, to a complete chaotic mess for the Chicago Bears. What started out as a promising campaign at 4-2 has seen the Bears lose three in a row, just before the toughest stretch of the season begins.
After the firing of offensive coordinator Shane Waldron earlier this week, many other storylines and narratives began to form; some of them true, others maybe not.
One of the reports, or rather, rumors, that surfaced was the idea that there were some Bears veterans who went to head coach Matt Eberflus and wanted rookie quarterback Caleb Williams benched in favor of Tyson Bagent.
Later, Bears beat reporter Courtney Cronin would essentially put a calming to those rumors, stating that the locker room was fully behind Williams. However, there was still much speculation out there in regards to whether or not there were even just a few players that didn't want Williams under center.
The media did their thing. We'll just put it that way.
Those rumors were seemingly started by Chicago radio personality Marc Silverman of Waddle and Silvy and, funny enough, those two do have a relationship with Bagent's father. Now, it looks like all of this mess was, in fact, just a rumor.
The recent report of Caleb Williams being benched could be a mere conspiracy theory, which is even worse for Matt Eberflus
There are those out there who have pieced together a largely-confusing puzzle in a rather elementary way for Bears fans to understand, and in a nutshell, it goes like this:
Bagent's dad made up a false report that players wanted Williams benched. He "leaked" that report to the radio guys, who made it into a huge story and thus created a controversy in Chicago.
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Come to find out, it appears as though all of it was untrue, at least according to Bears wide receiver Tyler Scott, who admitted as much in the below post with podcast host and NFL personality Adam Rank.
But the more intriguing aspect of this post was the fan who re-posted Rank and Scott's video with an outline of what supposedly went down with Bagent's dad and the media guys.
The person that leaked the Bagent over Caleb news was in fact, you guessed it his dad. This is a problem that #DaBears need to cut https://t.co/YJFxs52eAx pic.twitter.com/9XW673wLR5
— Erick M (@E_Mon94) November 14, 2024
Look, we know the culture at Halas Hall is already in question. Waldron wasn't holding players accountable. Eberflus doesn't appear to be that type, either. The Bears don't have a true leader at head coach, and that seeps down the pipeline of the entire coaching staff. It has no other option but to do so.
The Bears are dysfunctional; we know this to be true, and we have known this for a while now. It starts at the top. It starts with the McCaskeys. But, that's a completely different story for another day.
Right now, the fact that Bagent's father is reportedly making things up and this isn't the first time ... big yikes, as the kids say. That's a huge problem. This is the type of longstanding distraction that the Bears must put a halt to, but it's a bit too late for Eberflus to be the one to do so.
This is just further proof that the Bears need a new leader at the helm. Eberflus' time is running out, and there is no possible way he can be considered to coach this team another season after 2024 is up.