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Around the Horn

Excited to be a Bear

Around the Horn

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Clinton Yates, Woody Paige, Israel Gutierrez, and Kevin Clark join Tony Reali to discuss Caleb William saying he would be excited if he was drafted by the Chicago Bears, if Max Strus’ 59-foot game winner is the best heat-check ever, and their takeaways from the NFLPA team report cards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The manager of Justin Fields posting video of Fields jumping around in a kitchen looking

0:07.8

excited with no explanation and no hit when it was recorded or what it was about.

0:12.0

That's a choice, right? So there's that non-reporting,

0:15.7

and then there's Caleb Williams talking and telling E.S. Bien, he likes Michael Jordan and Walter

0:21.0

Payton and deep-dish pizza. These are two stories you see. and Oh! Oh! Oh!

0:33.0

Oh!

0:34.0

See I did that joke yesterday and nobody laughed.

0:36.0

Now, this is the paddle I need for that joke.

0:38.0

Thank you.

0:40.0

Caleb Williams like all of the top-ranked quarterbacks.

0:47.0

No throwing, no football at this combine session, but he's talking and he told the ESPN if the bears draft them number one he'd be excited

0:56.5

Which is nice

0:58.0

Would he be as excited as an unsource untime-stamp Justin Fields in a well-appointed kitchen with a video we have nothing about, who knows?

1:05.0

All right, so put that to the side.

1:07.0

That's just all speculation, and honestly, it's not a report, so we're not going to address it.

1:11.0

But Kevin Clark, what do we have here with Caleb Williams?

1:16.0

We have a big day for the Chicago Bears. He's not going to, Caleb Williams is not going to try to control

1:20.6

this process, which is always a fear when there's a prospect like Williams

1:25.1

and a team like the Bears. It's consistently failed quarterbacks. The Bears aren't going to change

1:29.7

as a franchise. We have a lot of data points on that. So you have to draft a guy who's going to change

1:34.9

everything for them. Williams is not going to be Mahomes immediately but he has the highest

1:39.2

ceiling of any prospect in a long time. He gives him the best chance to change their franchise you draft him you don't look back

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