Colin Cowherd: Caleb Williams, Bears Heading Towards a Divorce

Colin Cowherd has seen sufficient: The Caleb Williams experiment will not finish effectively for the Chicago Bears. 

Following the Bears’ 52-21 blowout loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 2, Cowherd would not assume that Williams works effectively with new head coach Ben Johnson and would not see that altering.

“The additional this quarterback will get from the play script, the more serious he’s,” Cowherd mentioned on Monday’s “The Herd.” “He is like a studio musician having to go stay, or a humorist who’s completely reliant on joke writers. His model on this league just isn’t a timing model, and this coach craves it. This coach craves construction. So does Kyle Shanahan. Caleb would not work with Kyle Shanahan. Perhaps there is a coach it really works with — I do not assume it is Ben Johnson.”

The very begin of the Williams-Johnson partnership was good. Williams accomplished his first 10 passes of their Week 1 matchup towards the Minnesota Vikings, ending their first drive of the season with a dashing landing. However issues slowly deteriorated for Williams and the Bears in that sport, throwing for simply 210 yards and a landing in a 27-24 defeat.

Sunday’s loss to the Lions had considerably of an analogous script. Williams threw a 28-yard landing to Rome Odunze on the Bears’ opening drive earlier than the Lions obtained out to an insurmountable lead. Williams wound up finishing 19 of 30 passes for 207 yards, two touchdowns and an interception, with Chicago failing to attain on seven of its eight possessions after its opening-drive landing.

Whereas Williams’ numbers aren’t horrible, many imagined that the No. 1 total choose from the 2024 draft would present his full potential with Johnson, who was in a position to unlock Jared Goff’s full potential in Detroit. However Cowherd thinks that Williams is not the quarterback that Goff is, a minimum of not the one that matches Johnson’s system.

“There are two or three elements to quarterbacking on this league,” Cowherd mentioned. “You do not have to be huge. You do not have to be tremendous cell — Jared Goff is not. However there are two or three issues it’s a must to do on this league. You need to be constantly correct. You simply need to be. Once more, Jared Goff cannot run, he is constantly correct, Caleb’s not. And it’s a must to be an anticipation thrower. You need to see stuff earlier than it is broad open. And he would not. It additionally helps you probably have composure: I do not assume he does. 

“He is just like the information anchor when the teleprompter goes down: ‘Oops!’”

If Williams continues to wrestle, historical past means that the Bears would possible transfer on from him earlier than they transfer on from Johnson. Cowherd made some extent of that, but additionally talked about that it won’t all be Williams’ fault if the Bears ultimately transfer on from him. 

“I do not assume this marriage is gonna work. I believe Caleb may go someplace, however this head coach didn’t draft this quarterback,” Cowherd mentioned. “There’s sure franchises that may’t get out of their approach. The Jets, they preserve changing the coach and the coordinators and the quarterback, and the Cleveland Browns. … I believe the Bears are falling into this. I imply, they’ve fallen into it. I simply do not assume this marriage works! 

“Folks get divorced, and so they discover the love of their life. Caleb’s actually gifted, and Ben is a structured, timing coach. However collectively? They do not complement one another.”

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