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Do we feel better or worse about Caleb Williams after ’24 combine?

Caleb and Kimmy, we appreciate that, Caleb. He’s always done his process his own way, whether it be from candy to how he handled his business over combine weekend. How do we feel about the way Caleb Williams weekend went? Do we feel better or worse after the combine? Peter it was quite a roller

Coaster of a week. We started off the show Monday and I came out here with Tom Pelissero and I was like, I’m hearing he’s not going to do his medicals. Is no player in the history of the combine had denied doing medicals. It’s something that you see maybe in the NBA with a

Select few. And we also heard he was coming in a day later than the rest of the quarterbacks. And we heard he wasn’t looking to compete in throw. And there was already the narrative forming that this guy might be just too big a star for the combine. And in his own head

Might be too big a star for the combine. Let me get to the combine. I’m not going to say other quarterbacks did this, that, whatever he was there, he talked to teams. He talked to the media on Friday, and I watched him all day Saturday like a like a hawk. I’m watching

Him just here. Like I’m just staring at cameras are not this guy was really, really likable and super pleasant. I went up to him and spoke to him on Friday night. And this is a story no one gets Friday night. The DBS are working out. I’m like, why

Is Caleb Williams here? Oh my friend is working out in the defensive back room. No other quarterbacks were there watching the DB drills. He was there hanging out to watch his buddy at USC compete. Then he was there with Rome. I think bears fans are melting. Like, is there

A chance we can get both of those guys? Um, I’m not carrying water for Caleb Williams. I don’t know who his people are. He doesn’t have an agent. I don’t know his business people. There’s no win for me here. I put this tweet out as I was leaving on Saturday night, and I

Was leaving the building. Last player to leave the field Saturday night after the drills, Caleb Williams hung and said goodbye to all the folks who ran the drills and worked the event. He went up to all the stadium employees, shook their hands, said thank you. He’s hanging around. Is it nothing? Maybe. Is

It something? Maybe I don’t want to paint a narrative that this guy is some diva. I’m not even going to talk to people. I’ll talk to my person here. Give my publicist your number. I’m not. He was cool. He was approachable. And I thought that Kimmy Chex clip with him with

The sour candies. As as silly as it was, actually showed. He’s got a likable side to him. More than the narrative that’s been painted, that this guy is just in some other universe and is too good for the NFL. Peter, some clarity on the medical part of it. I think you should tell

People, because this was important for me to hear, because I was trying to fight that judgment off a little bit as the stories were coming out last week. He will participate in medicals as he meets with teams, and he’ll disclose that and he’ll determine which teams he wants to do the measure with

The 33rd, the 23rd team in the draft does not need my medicals. That’s his theory. The 27th team in the draft is not even top teams will get my medicals. We’ll do it all. I’ll meet with them. But I don’t think my information needs to be public for all those folks. You believe

He wants to be a Chicago bear? I do, yeah, I think he wants to be the first pick in the. That’s what I got. Okay, well, he he may not be a bear then, but he may be the first pick. I think he must be the first pick in the

Draft. And if the bears are there, I think the bears would be a more than you know. And it’s funny because they asked him, they’re like, what makes you want to be a Chicago bear? And I thought he would go to Walter Payton and talk about,

Oh, I grew up in the bears with Ditka, and he was like, there were a 710 team. They were competitive last year, I think gives us a good chance to win. Like he’s not doing the thing that we kind of do this with, with the bears, where everyone

Just goes right down memory lane and it’s like, talk about the fridge. Like he doesn’t remember that stuff. He doesn’t remember it and wasn’t faking it. Didn’t study. It’s easy to Google it and be like, okay, I’m going to mention the history. Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus. He wasn’t doing

That. He was like they were a good team last year. I’d like to join them. I like that, yeah, for sure. And I agree with all of that because I look at Caleb Williams and you said it and I think that’s a great story to tell of you were there. So for

People like me that you’re just at home and you’re watching it on television and we get the Kimmy Cheeks bit, but we have no idea what he’s doing because we see that he’s not doing the medical, he’s not doing drills. So it’s just like, well, what is Caleb Williams doing down there

At the combine? And you talked about the interview process and the medicals and all of those things. That to me was the most important thing for him to be there and to meet with Chicago and talk to them and for them to get them in the room, put them

On the board and ask them all of those questions and the likability is so important to me because you’re going to draft a quarterback. Let’s just say Chicago decides to go with Caleb Williams at number one. You’re getting rid of Justin Fields, a quarterback that it seems like a

Lot of guys in the locker room like him. So when Caleb Williams walks in, not only do you have to perform, but when you’re walking in those veterans, those young guys, they have to take a liking to you and appreciate you for coming in and treating those

Guys a certain way. You can get into all the Nil money and endorsements and all of those different things that he had while he was in college, and you can start to judge him not knowing exactly who he is as a person, because he lives in a penthouse or he drives a certain

Car, but what was so cool to me is you look at the interactions that he had, and you mentioned that that he’s there Friday night and he’s watching his friend as a DB. I look at him during the media portion where Brenden Rice is up there on the

Podium, and I want you guys to take a listen to what Caleb Williams went out of his way to go and talk to his former teammate. Right Somebody’s got a question. Hey, um, how did it how does it feel to be Jerry rice? I have a I have another

Question after that. Yeah, man. She feels even better to be a teammate of Caleb Williams. Okay. All right, all right, all right. My second question is. Yeah, I’m I’m gonna back this guy up. Why should they drive you as a fantasy player? Should you be a wide receiver one or,

You know, should you be the flex player? You know what I should be wide receiver. Yeah, obviously me and you should. Well, well, we have 45 catches in 12 ties. That’s that’s unheard of. That’s something like that man. Yeah I had a pretty good quarterback. Appreciate you. Have a nice day.

Have a nice day. Yeah So he’s not participating at the combine. He’s not doing the drills or any of those things. So he could just be showing up to the combine doing his meetings with certain teams and then going back and being to himself and staying kind of out

Of the limelight. But that wasn’t the case. He steps up and he’s asking his teammate a question. To me that goes to show the relationship that he has with the guys within the locker room. I think that’s something that’s going to be very important to whoever he goes, because you mentioned it.

He said somebody asked him about would you want to go to Atlanta? He’s like, if they trade up and they go number one. Yeah, he wants to be the first pick. And you want a guy that wants to be in that spotlight and wants that pressure on him. You got

Something? Oh, it’s picking up your nonverbals. It’s like nodding okay I agree. It’s good. That is a good take. Especially the part about if fields is done with and the bears and like we love fields. Who is this kid? I think to that point though this is heavyweight is the crown.

There’s a lot of things that the rank and file football fan may be annoyed about. With Caleb Williams. First of all, all the reports about not doing this, not doing that, people don’t like that. Um, the idea that he didn’t want to be a bear, true or not, people hear that and

They judge him for that. Also, you mentioned it like the nil thing like this is a new world. Like this guy’s wealthy. He drives this car, allegedly has this house allegedly like there may be sort of a disdain for that amongst football fans. I think he showed up and he’s he’s

Got he’s right on that line. I think he’s confident. Yeah. And he should be maybe like just one foot in cocky. But of course he should be cocky. I think when he talks to the media I think he looks people in the eye. I think he gives real answers. I don’t

Think this this is this planted thing from some sort of publicist. Say this, don’t say this seems authentic to me. It’s the answers are a little bit confident, which I like. Like, what do you expect this guy to be lives in LA plays for SC is the star quarterback $10 million

Last year? Come on, make 10 million bucks last year. I mean, Brock Purdy made 200 grand. You know what I’m saying? Like he’s he should be confident and cocky. Um I don’t know if he’s going to have it on the field or not. I know he’s talented as

Hell, but you can’t expect him to show up and just be hat in the hand like, golly gee, it’s so great to be here in Indianapolis. Like he’s from LA. All right? He gets it a little bit. He lives in LA, so the fact is, if you think he’s too cocky

Or whatever, fine. I’m not going to talk you out of it. When he’s actually stepped up and had to answer questions, I thought he did. It really well, and I thought he looked people in the eye and was honest. And we’re going to talk a lot about this

Guy. We’re going to get a lot from him. I like how he showed up in Indianapolis. I do, I liked how he toed the line too, specifically on Saturday. Peter and you had a good vantage point. You were up on the concourse looking down so you could see kind of the nature of

Everyone milling around and interacting with each other, watching him field side with the receivers that were working out and the other quarterbacks and stuff. There is a way that he could have showed up and been a been a distraction, almost, and made it about him and almost felt like I’m not working out.

But I still want people to look at me. And he wasn’t like that whatsoever. He was part tree in a non-selfish way, if that makes sense. And that’s what you want out of a guy that’s one of 53. He might be the number one overall pick. Wherever he does

Go. But you want a guy who can lead lead with his non-verbals and with his verbals. Have confidence, have cockiness. I don’t care what you call it, but I thought the way he was present because there were other players who may have participated in other parts of the week, yet

Didn’t show up and I was feeling their absence almost so I wanted to see what he was like amongst everybody. Um, yeah. I mean, Jayden Daniels didn’t show up. Yeah So, okay, I mean, Heisman spoke and that was a lasting memory, though. He made a big deal about the fact that Caleb

Missed a medical. Jayden didn’t show up to the drill. So you could have whatever one you want. One thing with the it was interesting, Penix was throwing in that group and, uh, and he’s whipping it around and Caleb is like ten feet away just watching Penix and everyone going, whoa!

And I’m like, does the competitor in him want to just say, you know what, screw it. Let’s throw it. Yeah Was he nodding or

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