The Bears ran a Caleb Williams option with D’Andre Swift on an incredibly foolish 4th-down play call

To say the Chicago Bears offense has been anemic to start the 2024 season would be an understatement. At the time of this writing, Chicago has just one offensive touchdown through almost 11 quarters of play. Meanwhile, Caleb Williams has been pressing, and the Bears offensive line can't block to save its life.

Well, we shouldn't overlook new offensive coordinator Shane Waldron's culpability in this disastrous mix. We saw an excellent example of this with the Bears facing a fourth-and-goal late in the first half against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.

Rather than perhaps run some misdirection or have Williams roll out with a quick-timing play, Waldron had the Bears run ... an option with Williams and running back D'Andre Swift. On fourth and short. From the goal line. Obviously, it didn't go anywhere.

Truly, it's one of the more foolish play calls I've seen in a while:

Only the Bears could pull off this complete lack of rhythm and synchronization and somehow make it look even worse with their play calls. Seriously, an option on fourth down? What are we doing, folks?

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