The Bears lost their first game under new head coach Ben Johnson on an inconsistent night for quarterback Caleb Williams, and Johnson said after watching the tape that Williams had too many plays that he\u2019d like to be able to re-do.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was up and down. We had mixed results,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThere were some things he did that were top notch and I would put him up there with some of the best in the NFL. He had a couple throws with guys in his face that he delivered on target that were very tough. . . . And yet there were still some that we would like to have back. There were probably three or four of them that we counted on tape, at a minimum, that we would want back. We chatted for a while and he\u2019s very self-reflective on it and critical of himself. It\u2019s a starting point for us so we\u2019ll look to get better next week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bears\u2019 first offensive drive was a thing of beauty, with Williams looking poised and in control while passing and ending up running the ball into the end zone himself. But after that, Williams went through a long stretch of poor play, brightened only by a late drive that proved to be too little, too late.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome good football on tape, but too much inconsistent football that popped up,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cEffort wasn\u2019t an issue, those guys did a good job playing hard and competed the whole night, but the execution has got to improve, particularly there in the fourth quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his second season after being the first overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft, the Bears need more consistency from Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears lost their first game under new head coach Ben Johnson on an inconsistent night for quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-215455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115179966256617346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}