When Kramer fumbled, it seemed a familiar situation because earlier in the year, from the Indianapolis one-foot line, they attempted an outside option throw on fourth down and ended up losing 12 yards.

“I’m trying to learn from it,” Waldron said. “I felt like moving forward here, hey we have different plays that aren’t all vanilla and what’s the right time to use them (trick play)? I felt confident. I “I always have confidence in our guys’ ability to execute them and then I have to think and look, when the next scenario presents itself, what can we all do better to execute in that situation?

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It seems encouraging that he at least admits they might want to worry less about a tasty game and more than six points.

And then again…

“It’s a balance, like you said. And you look at the risk-reward ratio. I think looking back earlier in the season, you’re probably referring to the Colts game there, the fourth and first,” Waldron said. “And I will not be afraid of these things.”

Bears fans, after Sunday, might say “stay away, please.”

The call for the coin drew criticism from DJ Moore and others. He did so during a regular spot on AM-670, and while admitting the team preferred to keep that thought to himself, he also told Halas Hall on Wednesday that he said what he thought was just.

“I think there’s always valid criticism when things don’t work,” Waldron said. “We’ll work internally. We’ll hug each other and work to look forward, execute better and call better plays in the next situation that arises.”

When asked if he would call him back if given the chance again, Waldron probably didn’t endear himself to many Bears fans.

“At that moment? Yes, I was confident. I had confidence in him,” he said. “And thinking about it, all the things that go into any call throughout the game, whether it’s early calls in the game that lead to things not working or calls down the middle, calls at the end, critical calls, I will always evaluate them and move forward.”

As for the actual execution, at least Waldron didn’t avoid that problem too much.

“It just wasn’t a clean transfer,” he said. “Those guys (Caleb Williams and Kramer) and we looked at it and moved forward, and it didn’t work, obviously the ball ended up ricocheting forward.

“Something that didn’t appear but happened, and we can’t wait to clean it up.”

So they need to clean up the transfer from Williams to a player who normally gives the ball to someone else between his legs rather than taking it from someone while trying to figure out where to run with 11 angry men rushing on him.

It might be better to just come up with another much less risky play and forget about it, like giving it to Roschon Johnson, who has scored four times from the one-yard line this year. D’Andre Swift did it twice. Rome Odunze caught a pass from the 1 once. Moreover, Khalil Herbert, when he played, scored on a 2-meter run.

So there are ways to get to the end zone from 36 inches and it doesn’t require trickery.

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