If anybody has a right to be frustrated with Ryan Poles, it is the quarterback he drafted into this mess. The Chicago Bears GM thought he had the table set perfectly. Shane Waldron was hired as an experienced offensive coordinator. The offensive line was the deepest it has been in years. They had actual weapons at wide receiver. Everything was aligned. Except no, they weren’t. Waldron was fired after nine games for incompetence. Matt Eberflus followed a few weeks later. Williams has been sacked 56 times with four games remaining. Even the fancy receivers have disappointed.
One would understand if the quarterback was angry with Poles. He certainly has viable grievances to be. However, Williams didn’t take that road. He told the Chicago media on Thursday that people don’t understand the Bears GM. While he may come across as relatively unemotional to the cameras, nobody is more committed to making this team a winner than him.
“Being able to be around him, being able to see the type of guy he is, how much he cares. You all only get to see a glimpse of it from [an outside] perspective. And then obviously in the media, we did ‘Hard Knocks’ recently and you kind of got a glimpse of it. 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. That’s my short answer to it.”
Caleb Williams appreciates that Poles is determined.
The quarterback has stated many times his goal is to win championships. Nothing else matters. If he senses somebody around him isn’t dedicated to that same task, he won’t have much to say to them. The fact he was willing to stick up for Poles says a lot. It may also explain why team president Kevin Warren made it clear the team isn’t moving on from the GM. While some mistakes have been made, he’s still young and has done good things as well. Caleb Williams is one of them. Fix the coaching staff and plug some holes on the roster and this team can make the jump to playoff contention. Williams seems to believe that despite recent events. Sometimes, when you have patience with a person, they figure it out. Maybe the quarterback is hinting that should be the case with the GM.
@KrisA, the Eberflus Bears beat the Rams in September while the Bears were healthy.
And that was in the 21st century!
I know some peeps hate factoids, especially the Chicago media.
But the run game was destroyed by the personnel changes from 23 to 24 with the Bears. The Bears never had a strong run game in 24 and everyone knows it so don’t bother w@ garbage time stats.
A QB with no run game is toast in the NFL.
Tonight’s Rams win in SF of an injured and beat down team further shows just how far the Bears have regressed. This is end of year 3 and where is the hope? Poles needs to go, get offensive people in charge to bring the team into the 31st century. I get sick to my stomach when I hear names like Flores and Vrabel getting consideration.
Honestly, Pace/Nagy got fired after a 6-11 record. This was in 2021. Poles and Flus got hired to fix that. 3 years later we need to win 2 out of the next 4 just to match that debacle. Has Poles really rebuilt the roster? Sure it’s got younger, but I don’t care what the age of the team is, or how much available cap space we have unless it leads to improvement/wins. Nobody should be happy with where this team currently sits and it starts with the GM. Until the Bears start putting up W’s then Poles hasn’t done his… Read more »
What’s he going to do? Bash the GM that courted him and selected him number one overall in the draft?
I read that statement twice, and it seems remarkably ambiguous. Saying that Poles wants to win, and cares about “us” and that he has faith in him doesn’t once address how he feels about what Poles has done, or what he think Poles will do.
Didn’t Poles repeatedly say he had “faith” in Eberflus, before he fired him. Didn’t we all, at one time, profess “faith” in our ex-girlfriends? You know, before they got hold of our credit cards?
“Faith” is an ephemeral thing. Ask CW again about 20 more sacks from now – or 2-3 more games.