Chicago Bears coaching staff under fire for causing Caleb Williams injury

The Chicago Bears' game against the Arizona Cardinals was over at halftime. The Bears came out flat after a week in which the team made headlines for what seemed to be a growing rift between the team's players and coaching staff.

Sunday's effort against the Cardinals likely will do nothing to silence that speculation.

In fact, how the Bears handled the closing seconds of their blowout loss to the Cardinals may just be more reason for the team's front office to intervene. Despite trailing the Cardinals 29-9 during the final minute of the game, Matt Eberflus and the Bears' coaching staff decided to leave rookie quarterback in the game.

In a game where Williams was sacked 6 times, the rookie quarterback appeared to suffer an injury on the second-to-final play of the game. The injury concern was then intensified when Williams was taken down to end the game.

The most important thing to the Bears' season is not only the development of Williams but his health. That would be the reason there was no logic to the idea that Williams was still in the game despite the score marking the contest essentially over.

Above anyone else, Sunday's loss is on Eberflus and his coaching staff. The Bears were not prepared for their game against the Cardinals and Eberflus' incompetency as a head coach may have led to Williams being hurt.

Williams' apparent injury may be the most defining example of how much lack of awareness Eberflus has as the Bears' head coach. There was no reason for Williams to be in the game and if he is forced to miss time, that is a fireable offense.

For all the talk that the Bears, with Williams, were embarking in a different direction, Sunday's loss was all too familiar with the quarterback once again being at harm's risk due to the very organization he is playing for.