Shane Waldron’s brief tenure in Chicago was a disaster, and the Bears wasted no time moving on. After just nine games in the 2024 season, the team fired him—a rare in-season move for the franchise, highlighting just how poorly things went. However, new details continue to emerge about the turmoil inside the Bears locker room, particularly regarding Waldron’s relationship with Caleb Williams.
There had been speculation about tension between the two, but an episode of Making Monsters by 2nd City Gridiron shed more light on just how strange their dynamic became. Taylor Doll, host of the Making Monsters podcast, shared some shocking details about the situation with Shane Waldron.
Reportedly, before Waldron was fired, Caleb Williams had to seek outside resources to review film because Waldron was not doing it with him. Williams even went as far as creating his own film study room to make up for the lack of coaching from Waldron.
“He built his own film study room because Shane Waldron was not going over film with him.
Despite the chaos, Williams still managed to put together a fairly productive rookie season, which makes his performance even more impressive.
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That’s why hiring Ben Johnson this offseason is such a huge win for both Williams and the Bears. With a significant coaching upgrade, the entire offense should benefit. Johnson has also assembled a strong staff around him, giving Williams the best possible support to take a big step forward next season.
If you’d like to listen to the full episode, here’s the link! I highly recommend it—Taylor did an amazing job, as always.
Nurse Sally, so we are going from the four thousand four hundred fourth forth year of the rebuild to the fifty five thousand five hundred fifty fifth year of the rebuild. That’s pretty impressive for a team that’s only been around for a little more than a hundred years. Keep meowing little pussy cat.
I’ve read of executives who started out their careers as failures of disastrous proportions. Usually, this was due to simply not having the talent for the position they were in, but sometimes it was due to stubborness, arrogance, or an unwillingness to change. But in some few cases they made a turnaround because they reexamined the approach they took when they realized they were going to lose their career and would probably never be trusted to work in their chosen field again. The hole is pretty deep. I have no idea if Poles can turn this around for himself. But… Read more »
4 4 4 4 = the fourth year of Poles’ attempt to rebuild from a losing team to something other. Inept and sad really. Let’s hope the Bears can have a winning season in year 5 5 5 5 5. Miss you Virginia.
Remember during the season and they had Waldron shaking on the sideline. I thought it was just nerves being new, no, the fact was he didn’t know what he was doing and was scared to death.
The reason Waldron was brought in because everyone viewed him as some kind of QB guru, Oh look at the fantastic job he has done with Geno Smith. Well apparently, Poles got that one wrong. I just hope the mouths whispering in Poles ears aren’t as braindead as the last bunch. I know Johnson is supposed to be the second coming. But so was Caleb. I truly hope he is the Bears coach for the next 12 years and Caleb is the QB here that long. But guess we will know about that in 8 months from now.