Bears offensive coordinator Declan Doyle shines great insight on training camp strategy that often leads to bad outside narratives

Presenting these kind of looks and situations in real time helps Williams learn and adapt on the fly. The story here has nothing to do with bad plays by the offense, just creating live situations to put on tape and learn from.

From the outside looking in, it's difficult to recognize that, something NFL legend J.J. Watt made a point to bring up earlier this week when observing how people are reacting to training camp on social media.

"You have no idea what the purpose of that period is, what the goals are, what the context is," Watt posted on X. ". . . More importantly, practice is for practicing. You’re supposed to fail. You’re supposed to try new things, see what works and what doesn’t work, etc. If you only do what works, you’ll never grow, adapt, change. The entire point of training camp is to build and grow towards the season so that you perform your best when the real games start."

For those keeping "stats" or drawing major impressions from training camp practices, you're just wasting your time. The coaches know what they're trying to accomplish in practice and recognize what was "right" or "wrong" on any given play. 

And that's not to say Williams hasn't been making mistakes. He certainly has, but from there, it's all about educating the player and moving forward, which is what Doyle alluded to when asked about keeping track of Williams' mistakes on the field.

"The biggest thing is, you track it and you give it to him and say ‘Hey, we’re below our standard right now.’ That information is really helpful, because obviously it’s one thing to say that, it’s another thing to walk into the quarterback meeting and hand them a sheet that says, ‘Hey, you’re above or below championship standards,'" Doyle added. "It’s something we’ll track throughout camp. . . That’s the biggest thing. We have to track all of it and make sure our players are aware of what we’re going to ask them to do."

The coaches understand what the expectation is, and most importantly what the situational context is, out there on the field. Training a long road filled with ups and downs. All that matters is that some progress is being made each and every day.