LAKE FOREST, Sick. — Chicago Bears normal supervisor Ryan Poles known as an impromptu information convention Thursday to deal with the fallout from a litany of occasions at Halas Corridor on Wednesday that started with quarterback Justin Areas expressing frustration over how he’s being coached and ended with the unexpected depart of defensive coordinator Alan Williams.
Poles voiced help for trainer Matt Eberflus and Areas, including, “No one in our entire building, none of our coaches see Fields as a finger pointer at all.”
“First and foremost, to hit it straight on, we have adversity right now,” Poles stated. “Slow start, 0-2, not where you want to be. We’ve dealt with life issues. We’ve dealt with injuries and that’s all real and that’s a part of what we do and what we gotta deal with.
“To create it in reality, in reality cloudless, I do know the out of doors noise, however no person in our construction is panicking. No person is flinching at any statuses, now not our proprietor, now not our president, our head trainer, now not myself, none of our avid gamers. Everyone seems to be that specialize in fixing the problems that we have got in order that we will be a greater soccer group.”
Fields said Wednesday that the amount of information he’s receiving from coaches is causing him to overthink in games and “now not play games like myself.” Fields characterized his play in a 27-17 loss to Tampa Bay as “robot.”
“Once I pay attention to him and that entire do business in, nearly all of it was once like, ‘All proper, I’ve gotta manufacture this readability, I’ve gotta get well,'” Poles said of Fields’ comments. “I believed he took possession of the entirety. He didn’t have to mention the rest about that. Our coaches are like, ‘How are we able to create you higher? How are we able to backup you achieve success?’ And there’s at all times that stability. No person took it in my view. Everyone knows we have now a hand in our luck and we would like him to achieve success and it takes everybody for him to achieve success, together with himself. I kinda idea he accident on all of that. It was once disagree injury to someone.”
Fields addressed reporters later Wednesday at his locker and said his quotes were taken out “of context.”
Poles also addressed the resignation of Williams, 53, who had been away from the team since last Thursday due to what the Bears classified as a personal reason. In a statement announcing his resignation, Williams said he was “taking a step again to deal my condition and my folk.”
“With regards to Alan, I don’t have many main points so as to add there,” Poles said. “We struggle to paintings actually, and I do know there’s a ton of incorrect information available in the market. The previous day, we mentioned Halas Corridor being raided. That’s totally fake. Don’t even know the place that got here from. Labored with [president/CEO] Kevin [Warren] and [Bears chairman] George [McCaskey], all of our management, to create certain we had been dealing with it the fitting method, speaking correctly and clearly the entirety concluded the day prior to this. However we have now a ton of self assurance in our plan shifting ahead.”
Poles stated the Bears will re-examine titles a few of the defensive workforce then past. Eberflus, who spent 4 seasons because the defensive coordinator in Indianapolis, will name performs towards the Kansas Town Chiefs on Sunday.