Has anyone read the 3 part article on Caleb Williams

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reading this a little bit at a time.....coaches like how the hell we not know this

Sadly enough, this play on Dec. 26 gave a few coaches flashbacks to the first week of April. Back when Williams flew to Chicago on his only pre-draft visit. That early, coaches could sense that he’d struggle with basic huddle calls and forget to motion players. And it wasn’t until later — right around that second-to-last game of the season — that coaches say they learned their quarterback had a learning disability.

Multiple Bears sources tell Go Long they’ve seen evidence that Williams has dyslexia. They also believe that the GM, who has access to everything, was well aware of this condition before the Bears made the quarterback their first overall pick.

A learning disability does not have to be a deal-breaker, of course. Many highly successful pros are open about the condition. Packers pass rusher Rashan Gary owns it as his “My Cause My Cleats” initiative. Frank Gore rushed for 16,000 yards, the third-most in NFL history. Savants such as Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Magic Johnson revolutionized their respective fields with dyslexia. Yet rather than do what a normal NFL team would with such a gigantic decision — meticulously chart a plan — the Bears, coaches and scouts tell Go Long, either suppressed this information or overlooked it. At worst, it’s a cover up. At best, gross negligence.

Either way, the offensive coaches had zero clue.

Not during OTAs. Not during training camp. Not even as the losses mounted and pink slips flew.

Understandably, they were incensed.

One source says Brown confronted Poles late in the season to point out that this information would’ve been helpful months prior. Go Long was not able to contact Eberflus for this series, but assistants and scouts alike believe the head coach was kept in the dark. “There’s no way (Eberflus) wouldn’t tell Shane and those guys,” one coach says. “He doesn’t operate like that. He’s not going to risk getting fired not to tell Shane a big secret. What are we talking about? There’s no way.” Adds one source in the front office: “Poles is still running the organization. He should be in communication with the coordinators.”

The person in charge of handling such matters is the team clinician, one source says, and the team clinician (Carla Suber) determines how a player then works with coaches and teammates to function at an optimal level.

“We would’ve fukking coached him differently,” says one former offensive assistant, who believes Poles knew. “This is criminal. Withholding this shyt? They should have been fired. They knew. The GM and them knew.”
 

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That article is something to talk about during the off-season. Completely irrelevant at this point

It’s possibly the reason we only won one game my guy
This is just a response to Seth Wickersham book who expose the bears offensive coaching staff but I'm sure the truth is in the middle Caleb could've been better last season and the coaching staff could've been better last season
I think the staff called some fugazi plays, but this guy still throwing into double coverage, still waiting to throw, missing throws, throwing behind the wr, like i get it if they felt fields was not the answer, they literally could have moved back because nothing about Caleb was 1st round to me, and (you) as a nd fan should know after that game that boy was exposed
 

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People already calling for floos head in Dallas, Waldron was a fukking terrorist. DC got let go for still unknown reasons.

The team was a fukking circus but lets blame the rookie.

So whats more likely, this is a hit piece or every single coach on that team was a bytch. Because this is reading like they got utterly bytched by a sassy rookie.
 

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Yeah that's true.

And I'm no sports psychiatrist but Caleb Williams genuinely seems like a dikk.

People like to compare him to Kobe but Kobe was tryna learn from people. Williams kinda comes off like he knows it all already.

I'm not a fan but I ain't a hater either but I do hope the young brotha succeeds. He just has to get outta his own way it seems.

I could be completely wrong. :heh:
 

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Yeah that's true.

And I'm no sports psychiatrist but Caleb Williams genuinely seems like a dikk.

People like to compare him to Kobe but Kobe was tryna learn from people. Williams kinda comes off like he knows it all already.

I'm not a fan but I ain't a hater either but I do hope the young brotha succeeds. He just has to get outta his own way it seems.

I could be completely wrong. :heh:

Im tryna understand where this comes from. He comes across pretty humble in every post game interview, almost to a fake degree
 
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