Ahead of their Week 3 game against the Indianapolis Colts, the Chicago Bears offense is expected to finally find some success. Shane Waldron expects to get the run game going. Matt Eberflus must have a type. The first thing Waldron said was fundamentals. And man, did he stress it. The history of Eberflus is the teaching of the fundamentals. Luke Getsy failed. Well, sort of. Waldron stated that part of Geno Smith's resurgence was getting back to his fundamentals and playing to his strength.
If you feel that Waldron isn't playing to Caleb Williams's college strengths, you would be mistaken. After two games, he tried to play to D'Andre Swift's strengths, but that required proper blocking with attitude and, you guessed it, fundamentals. Waldron is also planning to anticipate the young quarterback's improvements. That is bold because that is exactly what Frank Reich tried doing with Bryce Young and the Carolina Panthers.
Shane Waldron is confident his approach will work for Bears' offense.
To Young's defense, Reich was fired before he could get his magic to start working. During Waldron's press conference, he sounded more confident in his ability to fix the offense. Waldron was asked about how he can help aid in pass protection by using more 12-personnel (two tight ends) to help chip the edges. Waldron shared that he has been using a lot of 12 and that he needs to get his line and entire offensive to work better as a group.
That's spot on, Shane. You let them know that you have been working and will continue working to get things right. I truly dislike dumb questions at press conferences. So when someone claps back at them reporters, I have all of the respect for that person. But again, we are overlooking the defense. The Bears defense can ball. If the offense can do what the Bears defense did and build up slowly to become good, the sky is the limit.