Chicago Bears Caleb Williams CALLS OUT Media Over False Reports! Was He Justified?

Caleb Williams spoke to the media today, a Caleb that seemed very disturbed, not disturbed, I would say perturbed, rather. And as soon as that press conference was over, the internet went nuts. Let's talk about a couple of these reactions, because some of them, some of them, some of them I don't quite get. The media, in effect, for the last four weeks, has questioned in large part his toughness, his willingness to play, his diva mentality has been pegged this entire time former players have actually sat there and made repetitive jokes about it i'll give you a couple some of my favorite this is i'm gonna start with some of the most recent ones just just people just trying to find something to dig at Caleb Williams which again don't quite get this is coming from First Take well first things first rather this is Nick Wright and i'm gonna i'm gonna paraphrase this here and we ain't gonna get no intro let me jump straight in ain't no need to have no intro this is this is one of those moments he said i am concerned that something like this would get to him i'm paraphrasing here meaning the scrutiny he's in a sense questioning his mental toughness another individual on that same panel had made it a Ben Johnson issue that this is a coaching issue the fact that you have something as they would say tribute like this clearly bothering Caleb as to what was being said and how he was being displayed in the media and things of that nature you have some individuals actually making him more akin to a not not not necessarily in a good way a Kevin Durant type player someone who could probably exist in that space but clearly is bothered by the things that are said about him these are the same people who grew up in an era where we had Michael Jordan and this was actually mentioned on this panel but Michael Jordan spent every waking minute finding something to use as fuel and would hold it against people he's held grudges against people for decades because of things said about him he stopped being best friends with one of his closest Charles Barkley and Charles Barkley did not speak for years over something that Charles Barkley said on a panel and you mean to tell me let's go to another one Speakeasy Pat hates that show by the Speakeasy Emilio, T.J. Ward, T.J. Ward paraphrasing here pretty much said that you're gonna cry in the car we're gonna hit you you're gonna pop a hammer you're gonna cry in in the car basically mind you this is the same T.J. Ward who was released by the Broncos his beloved Broncos in 2017 ironically for a hamstring injury the entire time they've questioned Caleb Williams ability questioned his not ability his toughness in these matters whether or not he had it from that perspective mind you this is the same QB who was hit 68 times all right let's get to the point as the media turned on Caleb in a large part i would say yeah not the Chicago favorites not those who actually believe in the team but just those talking heads who just i guess want to have something to talk about it's like they can poke and prod but they don't want you to respond and if you respond you're too emotional you can't handle it that is not the era we're in mind you a lot of times these players Caleb Williams included get get compared to players who did not have to deal with this level of exposure scrutiny and accessibility that we as fans have today the fact that i can sit here on a on a podcast on youtube and have a hundred thousand plus individuals listen to what the heck we're talking about is something that did not exist 20 30 years ago where a lot of our legends played it is not the same but a lot of these talking heads came up in that era i'm not going to be i'm in between right i'm i'm a millennial i'm in between that gap but they were a lot of these were beat writers but even players from early 2000s late like 90s actually speaking on these particular things and it's actually it's actually kind of shameful it's actually kind of shameful i'm not even going to lie about that it's it's one of the most ridiculous things and it actually goes to show that many people haven't grown with the times in my children's era what happens online has just as much weight as something that happened to them in person if something about them is said online they feel it as if it happened because they grew up in the era where the internet dominated i'm not saying that that's Caleb Williams but what i am saying is we need to back up off people who respond simply because things are being said about them online let them use as fuel i don't see it as any different than Michael Jordan running to the to the newsstand pulling out the newspaper and trying to find what beat writer or whatever they're saying about him in the news circuit it is no different the only difference is it's on your phone now it's on your phone now it's there it's immediate and it's amplified you can see it it's everywhere it's not just local what's the point too many people are questioning Caleb Williams in a way that honestly shouldn't even matter it's a grade two at best or at least let's say grade two at least injury let's just run it let's just run this down it only takes a google search only takes a google search location of the tear the higher the tear the worse it can be from the angle that we saw for what what what he was describing from what that a lot of people have kind of speculated a lot of people were like Caleb mentioned were wrong but you can speculate this if it was a significant tear you're looking at at the very least a four to six week recovery if it is a little higher it could be even more severe especially if he couldn't jog within the first week it is projected that that is a three to six month recovery that's the season three to six months is the season especially when you are in a division like ours where again he gets hurt in the division in a rival game he know you pretty much know you're going to be out for three to four weeks. He misses the Green Bay game. We lose that. Even if we have a decent record and a fighting chance for the playoffs, the fact that the rest of the division is as tough as it is, no matter how much credit we want to give them, your chances of making the playoffs decrease dramatically, especially when you don't have your star quarterback. Guess what? With someone who has the expectations that Caleb Williams has, I might cry too. I might cry too because it's that serious. Mind you, this is not his first time dealing with the hamstring. Now, he didn't have to deal with it in the middle of a season something he mentioned in his in his in his press conference but four weeks in the middle of the season is impactful especially when you don't have a bye in between now fortunately the Bears went two and one and hopefully he's back but even still i don't even think he should play that i don't think we should rush him back even for that because we have to he has to play sunday then turn around play thursday that doesn't make that's a level of stress that i wouldn't because the chances of re-injury of a hamstring especially with someone who is as mobile as he is is high one in three individuals who have a hamstring injury somewhat similar to his without really knowing a specific grade but just assuming grade two or worse one in three that's a 33 percent chance of you actually re-injuring that before the end of the season is the juice worth the squeeze now here's the thing i'm probably preaching to the choir most of you all you you've been rocking with us this is we are chicago once the chicago ends and so this is something just to simply combat the actual negative news cycle that's there but it's amazing to me that the same people who would praise him for his toughness to the fact that he actually wanted to even come to chicago a city that was known to actually be the death of qb's the one who's actually willing to take the chance to turn it around to go through everything he's gone through to this point and then to be labeled as a cry baby someone who can't handle someone who can't take it it's crazy to me it's crazy to me now listen he is not perfect by any means it is not without flaws and this is not one of those glazing moments where i'm going to sit there and make it seem like he walks on water but the very the one thing i do know is the dude is tough as nails he's not going to quit on his team and for for whatever reason that i guess the painting of his nails which i don't even see him do a lot of anymore and if he does who cares that has nothing to do with the level of injury that he could have sustained that could derail the progression of this football team to get where they want to go when you have high expectations and when you have high goals you have pressure on you you put pressure on yourself to do that and when you say have something interfere with that and fall short it pisses you off i i'm not going to fault someone for caring and too many times we do that we fault people for caring about what it's or what their situation we fault people for actually trying man cares and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that but you leave it to the national media maybe he can't hack it maybe he can't stay he can't be in the spotlight maybe he can't handle being the star all that foolishness has nothing to do with the simple fact that that man was dealing with something that could have derailed his entire season potentially without knowing it potentially it's crazy it's even crazy coming from former players who've had injuries where they've pretty much missed significant amount of time but they weren't important enough to actually matter to their teams because some of them didn't even get back on the field afterwards but i want to hear your thoughts man i want to hear your thoughts ultimately this video simply just responded to all the criticism and critiques that we actually get from Caleb Williams because it is wild and what's even more disappointing i end with this that same criticism and critique is starting to creep into to Chicago media a little bit just a little bit that's wild that is beyond me that's beyond me but i want to hear your thoughts i want to hear how you feel that the media has responded i want to hear how you enjoyed or even what your thoughts were or concerns if you're concerned about what you heard Caleb Williams say in that press conference give me your thoughts we love to hear it in the chat we'll be with you all this weekend if Caleb plays we will see how he bounces back the one thing i'll tell you is this and i'm just keeping a buck with you if he doesn't look good you said i don't want him to sit out there and try to tough it out for something that ain't no call it a wash get healthy we'll retool and get back at it and you you use all of this as bulletin board material to get back at all those people who were just flat out stupid but again i want to hear your thoughts well let's love what i say put in the chat i'll be in there with you till next time peace