Chicago Bears rookie quarterback Caleb Williams had a different tune while speaking with reporters at Halas Hall on Thursday.
While Willliams has been praised this season for being Bears' proof, his comments on Thursday would suggest that the losing and uncertainty surrounding the team's coaching staff has gotten to him.
Introducing the saddest quote of this Bears season, via rookie QB Caleb Williams-- pic.twitter.com/srHms2BIO9
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Williams' rookie season with the Bears has become the very thing he and his father feared while being vetted by the team during the Pre-draft process last season. Given the history of failure and dysfunction that the Bears have had at not only the quarterback position but the organization as a whole, Williams was right to have reservations about wanting to be drafted by the Bears.
While the Bears were successful in their pitch to the Williams, the result has been a current seven-game losing streak that has featured the firing of the rookie's first offensive coordinator and first head coach at the NFL level. Beyond that, Williams is far and away the most-sacked quarterback in the NFL this season.
What's amazing is that through all that has gone wrong for Williams this season, his play still confirms that he is the answer at the quarterback position for the Bears.
The handling of the firing of Matt Eberflus along with the immediate disconnect with previous offensive coordinator Shane Waldron has led some to believe that Williams may already be looking for his way out of the Bears' organization.
If there was a silver lining to Williams' comments on Thursday, it's that he still has confidence in Bears' general manager Ryan Poles.
“The amount that he cares about us, the Chicago Bears and wanting to win is why my faith is in him and believing in him and making sure that we get it right,” Williams said.
Poles will need to validate that faith this offseason, assuming his job remains. The biggest goal of the 2024 season was to make Williams' landing in the NFL as soft as possible. Nearly every move Poles made to accomplish that goal has failed. He may get a chance to correct those mistakes this offseason but the fact they occurred in the first place makes the speculation of his job status warranted.