Offensive coordinator Shane Waldron has a lot on his plate this week before he calls his first-ever play in the regular season for the Chicago Bears. He has to devise an offensive game plan to defeat a talented Tennessee Titans defense. He also has to prepare his rookie quarterback to execute the game plan.
Waldron sent a message to Caleb Williams ahead of his first regular season start in the league.
Shane Waldron wants Caleb Williams to execute at a high level
Per the Bears website, Waldron told reporters on Thursday that he expects Williams and the offense to perform at a high level on Sunday.
“We expect to execute at a high level in terms of the operation, avoiding any pre-snap penalties, staying ahead of the chains, playing efficient football, being an efficient running football team, being able to operate at a high level,” Waldron said.
“Our expectation as an offense in terms of play style and all that, that starts with hustle, effort, all the intangible things that we know we can control, give that as a starting point for us as an offense and then let the skills take over for the players.”
Williams and the offense struggled with pre-snap penalties during OTAs and at the beginning of training camp. At one point during camp, Waldron said Williams’ understanding of the cadence was the furthest thing from where the Bears coaching staff wanted their rookie quarterback to be.
Williams and the Bears offense have improved in that area during the preseason.
The Chicago Bears have their expectations for Williams
Per Courtney Cronin with ESPN, Waldron said the Bears’ expectations for Williams are different than those outside the building:
It’s an amazing word that shows up on so many questions, right? Expectations. Expectations. And I think there’s external expectations that are totally separate from the way we operate every single day. The expectations for our daily operating is how hard we’re working, what we’re doing, but there isn’t this down the road expectation, right?
The expectation is what does walk-through look like today? What’s practice look like this afternoon? So for us if we work hard and prepare the right way, we have great players around this building right here, then you trust the process and the results will happen.”
Williams has the talent, but the most important part of learning the quarterback job as a rookie is to nail the process of playing the position the right way at the NFL level.
The Bears will have their expectations for Williams. But fans and the national media will have their expectations for Williams. Frankly, Williams told the fanbase and the national media to have high expectations for his play before and after he was drafted.
Hopefully, good results will follow.
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