Die-hard Chicago Bears fans should be commended for🉐 thei🌜r patience.
After all, this fanbase is going on 38 years since its la🎃st Super Bowl championship.
Even still … Bears Chairman George McCaskey is asking for more.
with Patrick Finley of the Sun-Times. Among the things that came up was aꩵ request for fans to be patient with roo𝓀kie quarterback Caleb Williams:
“Typically, the No. 1 pick in the draft comes into a situation where it’s going to take a while for things to come together. Caleb’s got a lot of support — a solid defense, good receivers, good offensive line, a good running game, tight ends. But I hope people will be patient. There are going to be growing pains. He’s going to make mistakes. That’s part of the learning process for any young quarterback.”
Caleb Williams is uber-talented. But you probably already knew that going into this post. The top pick in last April’s NFL Draft is gifted with arm talent, athleticism, moxie, and poise. A player like Williams oozing with talent often makes fans forget that he is a rookie. And rookies make mistakes. They are often maddening, mind-numbing, and frustrating as heck. That George McCaskey is serving up a reminder that even the best rookie quarterback prospects hit bumps in the road is an important one. This is a good bit of perspective to keep. There is nothing wrong with being grounded from time to time.
More notes from Chicago Bears Chairman George McCaskey
. And if you don’t have any big plans today, I’d encourage you to sit down with it and give the piece some of your time at some point over the weekend. In the meantime, here are some highlights I thought we worth re-sharing:
“The nature of the program, the drama, if there is any, is the player personnel and the general manager and the coach building a roster and guys fighting for roster spots. In our opinion, when you tell a young man that in all likelihood his lifetime dream is over, that’s a private moment. We want to be very sensitive about it; we want to handle it tastefully and sympathetically.”
“We understand that professional athletes swear from time to time. We wanted kids to be able to watch the show without their parents worrying. And we didn’t want to have a daytime PG version and a nighttime (one).”
I am wholly unbothered by the lack of cussing in this season of the HBO series. It hasn’t bothered me one bit. Heck, it didn’t even come up on my radar until friends in text and DM threads made a point to underscore it. I feel as if people worrying about it just want something to be upset about, which is odd behavior. Whatevs. There’s just one episode left. And I hope it is a good one.
