Responding to a new book that claims then-rookie quarterback Caleb Williams was left to watch film without guidance, former Bears head coach Matt Eberflus maintained Williams had daily sessions with coaches.
Eberflus, who is now the Cowboys’ defensive coordinator, told ‘‘The Doomsday Podcast’’ with Ed Werder and Matt Mosley that Williams wasn’t left to his own devices when studying game tape.
‘‘I would say this: In the development of the quarterback position — and, really, all positions at my time with the Bears — we have always had daily, coached film sessions,’’ Eberflus said ‘‘That was all through the entire year. That’s what I observed, and that’s where it was. . . . That’s really all I have to say about it.’’
Eberflus, however, wasn’t with the team for the entirety of Williams’ rookie season. The Bears let him go with five games left, the first in-season firing in franchise history.
In the upcoming book ‘‘American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback,’’ author Seth Wickersham writes that Williams told his father, Carl, that “no one tells me what to watch” in film sessions.
Williams said last month he knew how to watch film but was trying to find ‘‘more efficient ways’’ to do so. The Bears think first-year head coach Ben Johnson and his offensive staff will help Williams to that end, as will third-string quarterback Case Keenum, who has been in the NFL since 2013.
Eberflus made reference to his time with the Bears when he was asked how he had been helping Cowboys first-time head coach Brian Schottenheimer with the responsibilities of his new gig.
‘‘There are a lot of things as a head coach that you don’t know that are involved with the job until you become a head coach,’’ Eberflus said. ‘‘If it’s with the media, if it’s with PR, whatever it might be — practice schedules, install, training camp, all those things. If I see something, I say something.’’
