Caleb Williams

That's my pick of the week.

I want to see what six-foot-one Caleb Williams can do.

By the way, I had to look that up, because Arch Manning, I believe, is going to measure bigger than Caleb Williams.

Yeah, Caleb's better than Arch.

Yes, I would agree with that, but I don't know how much coming out of college.

There's no such thing as too many miles to feed in Cincinnati with Joe Burrow.

There's no such thing as too many miles to feed in New England with Drake May or Chicago with Caleb Williams.

But there is in a place like Houston.

That's a place where you can't have too many miles to feed.

Then Jaden Daniels.

Caleb Williams.

Dak Prescott.

Byron Young.

It is funny.

We were having this raging debate argument last week about Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson and who deserves the credit.

Is it Caleb? Is it Ben? Is it Ben? Is it Caleb? And I always side on the side of the quarterback, of the player, because Caleb Williams was great before Ben Johnson got there, and Caleb Williams would have been great eventually with someone as his head coach.

It's kind of like Michael Jordan.

Eventually, somebody was going to win the six titles with Jordan, and that somebody was Phil Jackson.

The best team in the NFL right now and the most exciting quarterback in the NFL and the best head coach in the NFL right now, the Chicago Bears.

Legitimate Super Bowl contender.

Yes, greatest quarterback to ever play the game of football, Caleb Williams.

Especially down there, we've got chances down there in the red zone to protect the football.

So I saw Caleb Williams asked you for your jersey at the end of the game.

Have you ever said no to someone who's asked? Because I'm sure that you get asked all the time being a star quarterback in the NFL.

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Yeah, there's no doubt about it.

And we heard Justin Fields and Mitch Trubisky and Caleb Williams all as a part of that.

And you pointed it out before the show started today, Dan, that...

Year three in the last several years has tended to be a pretty big year for the highly drafted quarterbacks of the Chicago Bears.

This time of year in year three, too.

Like if you go back through it and that's that's where the premise here for the sake of our conversation is, have we reached that? the worry-free zone with Caleb Williams.

So we'll unpack that here in a second.

But when you think back to Mitch, right, like year three, tomorrow is actually, I looked this up a little earlier today, the seven-year anniversary of the loss to the Chargers down the road here at Soldier Field.

Don't worry, kids.

We're going to have a big old Caleb Williams topic coming up at 1 o'clock, including how important year three is for this quarterback because his two predecessors.

Year three.

So are we there? Are we actually locked in now? Are we going to make it through year three with a Bears quarterback without having to distinguish that Bears quarterback? There's also, coming up at 1 o'clock while we're at it, there was a story on ESPN with anonymous front office members.

God, I love anonymous front office member stories about picking MVPs in the top five teams MVP candidates right now.

Is Caleb Williams in that? We will reveal and discuss coming up for you at 1 o'clock.

But right now, actually, this pertains to the Take the North podcast as well because you and our other founding father, David Haw, or was it Rich Campbell? Was it even before? No, it was David Haw.

It was Take the North.

Their identity is their quarterback.

Caleb Williams is their identity.

And it feels weird for me to say that as we all continue to adjust to habits.

My God, the Bears have a quarterback.

The Bears have a quarterback.

Not just the fact that he has had back-to-back terrific games, 300-yard games, and obviously at the Carolina game, and we do have to factor in the fact that he was out for a few games as well, but the leadership.

thing like and like we're always pointing that out and you know in the years that he is the first two years he's been here but it's real now because you see him being a leader to the not only the offensive players but to the defensive players to the special teams players and he is the one that is making it all work I dare I say it Caleb Williams is the Bears identity right now

I went with four adjectives.

I'm sure, Kevin, you're probably tired of rehashing that Thursday game, but how close were you to getting a finger on that ball on that third and nine? It seems so tight.

In a play like that, do you just kind of credit Caleb Williams? He made a great throw.

Yeah, I mean, you've got to give him credit for sure.

He made a phenomenal throw.