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  "path": "/bears/2026/07/03/fox-broadcaster-mark-schlereth-bears-caleb-williams-not-a-good-quarterback-despite-progress",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-03T22:54:14.611Z",
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  "textContent": "<p>FOX broadcaster Mark Schlereth, a former two-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman, ripped <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears\" target=\"_blank\" >Bears</a> quarterback <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2025/08/31/why-do-so-many-people-hate-bears-qb-caleb-williams-he-answers-exactly-that-question\" >Caleb Williams</a> as “not a good quarterback” even as the team has celebrated his trajectory and his popularity is at an all-time high.</p><p>Schlereth’s criticism, which Williams saw on X and reposted, was that even though he’s a “dynamic athlete,” he doesn’t do the basics well.</p><p>“He makes big-time plays, but is he a good quarterback? No, he’s not a good quarterback because he doesn’t play on schedule,” Schlereth said on his podcast. “Watch how many times they get [late in games] and they’re down 21-7. Then he holds the ball, scrambles around, makes three big throws and all of a sudden they win 24-21.</p><p>“That’s not playing quarterback at an efficient level. That’s being a dynamic playmaker. So at this point, Caleb Williams isn’t a good quarterback.”</p><p>It was a harsher, more extreme version of something Bears coaches have been saying anyway: Williams needs to be a more accurate passer, be a little more clockwork and raise his completion percentage.</p><p>While he set the franchise record in passing yards and helped the Bears to their best season in 15 years, pulling off seven fourth-quarter comebacks along the way, he was last among qualifying quarterbacks in completion percentage at 58.1 Coach Ben Johnson has set the bar at 70%.</p><p>“We don’t have to work as hard for our money,” <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/05/22/bears-coaches-have-a-simple-message-to-qb-caleb-williams-this-offseason-do-less\" >Barrett said in May</a>. “There’s times where we could just work through our progression and get the ball out on time instead of having to create and extend plays.\"</p><p>Barrett added, \"You don’t necessarily have to put the cape on and make those crazy plays because you already were killing them in the first three quarters.”<br></p>",
  "title": "Fox broadcaster Mark Schlereth: Bears' Caleb Williams 'not a good quarterback\" despite progress",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-03T23:00:47.384Z"
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