Best of The Week on The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin argue whether the Kansas City Chiefs deserve to get a league-high 8 primetime games next season, explain why they would not vote Pete Rose into the Baseball Hall of Fame even after he was posthumously reinstated by Rob Manfred, and debate whether Caleb Williams and his camp were correct when they suggested that the NFL do away with the NFL Draft system.
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| 0:32.5 | Seth Wickersham, one of the great investigative reporters and authors of this generation. |
| 0:37.9 | He's gotten deep dives on the Patriots, as you know, had a big bombshell on the Pete Carrolls |
| 0:43.0 | and the Seahawks with Russell Wilson. |
| 0:44.6 | While his latest one, he's got a book coming out focusing on the, quote, American Kings, |
| 0:50.5 | a biography of the quarterback, focuses on a series of quarterbacks and their histories and what's going on behind closed doors. |
| 0:56.7 | One of the excerpts that's getting a lot of attention today involves Caleb Williams, the franchise quarterback of Chicago Bears. |
| 1:05.3 | According to Wickersham, and the best part is he's got quotes on the record from both Caleb Williams and his father. |
| 1:12.4 | But according to Wickersham, Caleb was so concerned about being picked by the Bears first overall that he and his family weighed circumventing the entire NFL draft, consulting with lawyers to figure out a way around the least CBA and also included the idea of skipping the draft |
| 1:30.1 | altogether and signing with the U.F.L. |
| 1:33.3 | Instead, to Wickersham, Caleb really wanted to play |
| 1:37.4 | for the Minnesota Vikings, didn't want to play for the Bears, |
| 1:41.5 | didn't think that that was the franchise that would get his career in the right trajectory. |
| 1:46.7 | And according to Wickersham in this book, one of the big reasons why they even attempted to do this, which obviously they didn't, was because Caleb Williams, his dad, Carl, and everybody else in their camp have a fundamental distaste for the |
| 2:02.6 | NFL draft process, the rookie wage scale, so on and so forth. |
| 2:07.7 | The only thing I want to say, Kelvin, I'll let you go first. |
| 2:10.7 | Okay. |
| 2:11.1 | As I agree, the rookie wage scale is a sham and the players sold the other players up the river. |
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