If you need any indication that the Chicago Bears vetting process for a new offensive coordinator was flawed from the beginning, this story hammers it home. Everybody knows the story. Matt Eberflus and Ryan Poles met with nine candidates for the job, trying to cast a wide net for who they could get to develop Caleb Williams. They eventually settled on Shane Waldron, former offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks. It felt like a safe decision. He’d done some good work with Geno Smith the past two years and was an understudy of Sean McVay and Pete Carroll.
However, it is apparent the Bears didn’t do their homework. If they had spoken to more people who watched Waldron and had ties to people around him, they would’ve realized he was a walking red flag. Nobody has proven that more than Dave Mahler of 93.3 KJR, who covers the Seahawks in …