Bears did Caleb Williams no favors in Week 10, yet he still managed to avoid an upset, now tough conversations need to be had
Bears made things way harder than it needed to be in Week 10.
Caleb Williams, take a sigh of relief, because you absolutely deserved it after the way you played and battled through the punches in Week 10.
As for the rest of the team, there’s no apologizing for winning in the NFL, something head coach Ben Johnson has been preaching for weeks. The Chicago Bears improved to 6-3 on Sunday with a win against the New York Giants, but the majority of the team didn’t play like a winning team.
And yet, Williams led two touchdown drives late in the fourth quarter to secure a 24-20 win, and the entire locker room better be apologizing to No. 18 for the way they played.
Bears need to start having some tough personnel conversations after Week 10 win
When you look at the box score, it may not appear that Williams played a great game. It was a good game at the end, but man, he played incredibly.
The 20-of-36 passing line looks much worse than it should have been when you factor in the six drops PFF charted by Chicago pass catchers (most by any team in a single game this season), although the conditions were not ideal at Soldier Field. Regardless, Williams was putting passes on the money all game long.
When you look at the box score, only two players managed to catch every target that went their way: rookie TE Colston Loveland (4/4) and rookie WR Luther Burden III (3/3). The rest of the pass catchers caught 13 of their 29 targets (44.8 catch percentage).
Wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus is the main culprit. He had multiple killer drops in this game, catching only one of his four targets for five yards. Wide receiver DJ Moore, who briefly left due to a shoulder injury, had four targets and zero receptions.
After this game, it’s clear Loveland and Burden need to start getting more opportunities over other players because they’ve proven to not only be reliable but also dangerous as well. These two rookies combined for 106 yards on just seven targets.
Getting back to Williams, this game was an absolute statement by QB1 for the way he handled a ton of moments of understandable frustration. Yet, Williams continued to go out there and do his thing. He finished with 220 passing yards, 63 rushing yards, and three total touchdowns.
It truly seemed like watching this game that Williams did it himself, and the defense got bailed out with the Jaxson Dart injury, leading to Russell Wilson entering the game and blowing it for the Giants.
This was a game the Bears couldn’t afford to lose with a daunting schedule coming up, and Williams put on the Superman cape to make sure that didn’t happen. To me, this was Williams’ biggest win of his career for the way he handled everything thrown at him.
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