Caleb Williams tried to do too much as Rookie. The new coach of De Beren can solve that

If you have ever played too cooked with your friends or significant others, you know how overwhelming it can be. Orders that come in warm and quickly, not much time to get them done and food can be set on fire very, very quickly.

If you are not too cooked, you might be a fan of kitchen nightmares. The iconic show follows Gordon Ramsey as he responds to the worst kitchens in the world and tries to repair them before they go completely bankrupt. The most common theme between these kitchens? The chef tries to do too much and make everything taste bad, even if the intentions were good.

Think of the first year of Caleb Williams with the Chicago Bears Like playing at the highest level, or a really crazy episode of Kitchen Nightmares. So many things to adjust and try to do for the Snap, then after the Snap the bears looked more like a high school than a real NFL franchise. At one point the Beren metaphorically were on fire (Center Coleman Shelton pointed to a hot edition while Williams adapted to a run with a route that was tagged):

The Chicago Bears attack was a traveling band from Catastrophe, destroyed with plays by a bad offensive line game or recipients who perform the wrong routes at the wrong times. It looked like an attack that was put together two days before a competition, as if they were an Aau team. However, Williams was not flawless in the shortcomings of the violation. Despite a 3,500 passing garden and 20 TouchDown season, Williams 36 of the 47 qualifying QBs ended in success rate and 35 of the 47 EPA per game. He was also fired 68 times, and among all the QBs that were under pressure on 100 passing attempts, he was fired 27.4% of the time. While most Rookie QBs were in the same area (Jayden Daniels had a 24% bag when it was put under pressure, but also had a TD percentage of 6.2%, so he was a little more tree than bust), Williams could not bring the big plays for the bears for the bears last season.

The shortcomings of Williams and the attack of De Beren led to great revision this season, but the biggest is to hire Ben Johnson to be the head coach. Johnson was the NFL Playcaller do Jour in the NFL last season, so the Detroit Lions Be one of the most explosive violations in the NFL. What can Johnson do in Chicago to maximize Williams? Well, the answer is simple, literally.

What went wrong

Let’s start with some of the most important components behind what went wrong in Chicago, looking through the lens of the Williams season and also through the lens of other Rookie QBs. If the number one choice, I think Williams has handed over too much to be put on his plate. Playing QB in the NFL is really difficult (shocking, I know), but the best teams when switching their Rookie QB to the speed and complexity of the NFL game make the attack a lot easier for their young boys. Williams was thrown in the fire early, a week 1 -starter given the keys to change and to form the attack in what he wanted it to be on the line of scrimmage. Master-level QB-Dingen for a man who is just going to university when we keep the analogy going. What resulted is a mess, combining an attacking line that was bad in the middle with a QB that flourished so many fires that he did not notice those who did not notice him.

For the most part, Williams did well to diagnose where the pressure would come from, but the reaction of pass protection was insufficient. See what happens when Williams points to this simulated pressure from the cardinals. He sees Safety Budda Baker crawling closer to the line, points out … and is nevertheless fired.

There was no communication and no adjustment to simulated pressure during the season for the bears, and even if they got a body on a body, it didn’t take long. The offensive interior of the bears had the 11th highest blocking in the NFL last season, and it felt like every pressure match with which the bears would be confronted, so that Williams would leave little time and few answers to that pressure. This one against the Packers Feels like a microcosm of what was going on in advance with the Chicago protection plan. 6 men protection versus a 5 -man busy, but the RB does not know that they are slipping full and thinks it is a 4 -man slide, so that the edge remains unblost.

If the pressure was picked up properly, the actual passing game felt randomly merged like two different offenses. This quote from Ben Johnson spoke loudly about what was appeared on tape last season for the passing attack in Chicago:

Recipients who are not on routes and a general lack of communication and trust among recipients and QB. There were too many cases that Williams threw Inbreakers who wanted his receiver to continue running when they choose to be in a zone. Those things happen early in a season, not in week 14. The process here is correct, nice pocket movement on this dagger concept. But Williams throws it high and Wrome Odunze stops in the zone instead of keeping running.

In turn, the pressure and miscommunication showed both the front and in the recipient Core Williams as if he had no confidence in his attack, and resorted to a creative mode in a world where every level feels like a boss fight. With all the chaos that flew around him, Williams sometimes resorted to bad habits and sloppy mechanics, those deep steps sail because he is worried about pressure. This is a play that Williams has made earlier, but see how his heels click when he pops up and he tries to hurry this pitch. The ball flies from the borders and there is a missed opportunity.

There were several weird Turndowns and missed opportunities on tape for Williams, where he resorted to a big play hunt only to keep the attack up. Although a large game hunter is in order, you can sometimes be caught on the big deal for the big and opportunities underneath to keep the attack moving. If there is something that I learned by looking at Kitchen Nightmares, it is that when everything is on fire in the kitchen, chefs make mistakes to repair it all at the same time. That feels like the perfect one-liner for the Beren attack last season.

What needs to be solved

So how can Ben Johnson Caleb Williams help to realize the potential that made him the best overall choice? For the most part, the bears started that process. There is nothing that helps a young QB who had to do everything when it came to pressure and adjustments than having an experienced offensive line for him, and the bears brought heavily to their interior. Chicago traded for Los Angeles Rams‘Guard Jonah Jackson, who has experience in the Ben Johnson attack, than before Kansas City Chiefs‘Stalwart guard Joe Thuney. After that, the Beren premium money paid at the Midden Drew Dalman, who was the best center that was available. Having a veteran interior will help Williams find out the pressure and adjust protection without asking him to do it all yourself. In Detroit, the Leeuwen Center Frank Ragnow had protection, giving QB Jared Goff more a streamlined process before and after Snap.

Schematically there are things to build with Williams and this attack, and by some of their free desk and migration movements, Johnson told us what this violation will be. Very early in the low season Johnson said that this attack would be ‘QB-friendly’, and for me that says something else. These will not be Aaron Rodgers who step at the line and look at the defense and then choose from his Rolodex of play calls like you in Madden. For me this sounds like a simplified process for Williams, making the easy things done before you do it difficult. Something I learned by looking at the Rookies last season is that they asked them to do limited things early is fine. Williams was won standard dropback stuff much more often than all his colleague smokies, while the attack did not really give him a lot of easy buttons to work with.

Part of the good that came from Williams’ tape last season is that he is a really good passer -by in the movement. When the bears brought him out of the pocket on designed rolls and bootlegs, you can see the rotational power that he can get through his hips and lower body. Moreover, he has the creativity to find windows outside the pocket for himself, something that most QBs don’t really bring to the table.

Williams is a very good athlete, something that I think the bears are completely used to the maximum and the game is completely used to water. If Ben Johnson wants to do something to help Williams, let him use his athletics and the ability to throw the platform with a playing promotion and boot -based attack to get the ball to athletes in space. Johnson used a lot of playing promotion in Detroit with Jared Goff as his QB, but because Williams is more an athlete than Goff, much more expects out of pocket work. You see playing like this and being excited, because Chicago may have the staff to run this with the new Te Colston Loveland.

On the ground I think the bears will be more out of zone based than any other Run concept. Detroit ran more outside the zone last season than any other team in the NFL per sport information solutions (SIS), but their Run game gets from so many different disciplines. The offensive line of the bears can be built to do more external zone blocking, which will really help with setting up the game promotion and bootlegs of that for Williams.

The most important thing is that I think this attack will lean on what Williams is doing well and then builds on the areas where he misses the entire season. We saw young QBs such as Jayden Daniels and Bo Nix Excel when they were asked to do what they are best at, while their respective coordinators in more master level QB’ing were scattered as the season progressed. Expect that for Williams, who should now have more communication in his kitchen, so he can cook freely.