“Nobody was open”
Caleb Williams had a throwing window to TE #84 Colston Loveland in the back of the end zone.
Williams was looking right at him.
Williams cocked his arm, but hesitated and “thought better of it.”
Plus, he had a backside target #2 D.J. Moore in the end zone jumping around wide open on the opposite side of the field, but Williams never has seen the whole field well…
Of course, nobody will focus on how the moment was too big for him and how he hesitated instead of taking the shot with the No. 1 seed in the NFC hanging in the balance. Instead, they’ll just make more excuses for him.
Too harsh?
No, I don’t believe it is.
Some athletes want the ball in their hand in the biggest moment of their careers, and others do not. The problem with Williams is that he wanted to keep the ball in his hand, once again, way too long. I got 8.11 seconds when I put a stopwatch to it. That might be the longest he’s ever held it. It’s the longest I’ve ever seen him hold it and I studied every snap he ever took at USC and have watched many of his games with the Bears since.
Ben Johnson has done a GREAT job hiding Williams behind the No. 3 rushing attack in the NFL (149.1 yards per game Team Rankings) and with YAC receivers who have accounted for about half of his “passing yardage” this season, but in the end, who players really are comes out in the big moments.
In the end, the overwhelming urge for Williams to play hero ball again and do something more than just take what was there cost him and his team. Whether it was selfishness and/or fear of missing Loveland and not trusting his 57.9% arm, or a combination of both can be debated, but what can’t be debated is this right here embodies why Caleb Williams is NOT IT in Chicago, ironically in the city where another athlete lived to take the shot.
Yes, Caleb Williams is a bust.
Outside of all the glamorized “dink and dunk,” short little passes and sporadic highlights that misrepresent his full body of work, it’s once again confirmed that he is a bust, just like I wrote 107 days before the Bears selected him in this pre-draft scouting report: https://t.co/E7heDV0kcX
That doesn’t make me happy by the way, I just wish prospects could get fair valuations based on what they actually show in college as projections so that their NFL careers could be framed with realistic expectations and they would have their very best chance to succeed, which is one of my main goals in what I do.
With Williams, the bar was set way too high, which this play confirmed, yet again.
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