Analysis: The interceptions have definitely occurred for Caleb Williams at Bears camp and it can’t be ignored even if coaches downplay them, but he’s hardly the first to do this.
The Bears head coach smiled and almost seemed on the verge of laughing when the subject of training camp interceptions came up.
“Right now, I don’t care about interceptions,” he said. “I truly don’t. I love the fact that he’s trying to learn this offense and make throws. I’d rather him do that than take the 5-yard check-down. I need him to test it right now.”
The coach wasn’t Ben Johnson and he wasn’t talking about Caleb Williams. It was Matt Nagy talking about a day when Mitchell Trubisky threw three interceptions at training camp in Bourbonnais in 2018 amid the rash of interceptions he was throwing.
Trubisky would go on to post his career-high passer rating as a starter and the Bears would roll to a division title in his second year.
Camp is not a precursor to anything. The next year at camp, Trubisky had a day with four interceptions and had a poor season when he complained he wanted TV sets at Halas Hall turned off to block out negativity.
There is just no way the naked eye can equate interceptions in training camp to throwing them in games. There are too many variables entered into all of this.
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