The NFL is a cut throat business. The contracts are not guaranteed and one blown out knee and you are done. The Team doesn’t care about you.
Yep like all businesses there’s exactly one person who will look out for your best interests… it’s yourself. Sure as heck won’t ever be ownership/management. Simply not their job.
Exactly. If someone placed you into a multi million dollar business decision and YOU KNOW that the other side doesn’t give a damn about you…you will look out for yourself.
As a side note, I have always been fascinated by why African Americans have given up baseball. The contracts are guaranteed and the career is longer. The NFL the career is short and the contracts aren’t guaranteed. The NBA has very few players, you have to be elite. Baseball is the better path.
There are ways to do something and there are ways NOT to do something. IMHO, the first thing Williams should do is STOP TALKING. You don’t negotiate in the freakin media. If Williams doesn’t want to go to the Bears, fine, back channel a deal. Do it quietly. There is no GM that wants to negotiate in the media, especially with a guy that runs his mouth. Williams might be better off shutting his mouth and going back to USC.
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Elway and Jackson had leverage. They had baseball.
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If I were the Bears, I would not trade the pick but would not draft him either. Let him go back to college, but definately do not make him #1 draft.
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Baseball is way tougher talent wise. In the NFL you can be an average QB, be in the league 10 years, never win a playoff game and make $40 million. MLB has many talented guys who never make it in the bigs.
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Did anybody consider that since Williams ran his mouth he has: #1 devalued the trade value of the Bears’ pick (since he doesn’t want to go there), and #2, damaged his own value (by being a pompous azz)?
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Williams has the same amount of leverage as Eli did and it worked out for everyone. It’s all business, just out in the public.
If someone isn’t using all their leverage to give themselves the best chance at success, or their best compensation, or anything to that effect they are doing themselves a grave disservice. Doesn’t matter if it’s Caleb Williams, Jeff Bezos, guy or girl getting their first job regular job out of college, tradesman, and well you get the idea. Fight for yourself management isn’t going to do it for you.
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Yes all those things but downside is #2 to his hometown team.
Bears move pick or don’t take him.
#1 on a guy who could sit out is 2 risky & pick is worth a haul.
They still have Fields on a cheap contract as fall.
You don’t go public until its line in the sand.
Declared a few days ago and then this comes out right away.
Rational 2 think he got to Bears through back channels. They blew him off before he went public.
Today’s stance would say otherwise.
Could not have gone well if Williams came out w this today.
Kliff as OC for next Wash HC ?
Kingsbury interviewing for the Bears OC tells me they probably didn’t blow him off.
I DO NOT disagree with what Williams is doing. He is rightfully trying to get the best position for his future. I disagree with the WAY he’s doing it. He could have avoided all this BS if he had just kept his mouth shut and had his people make some phone calls.
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Thing is on this situation is this is coming out anyways, ESPN, Fox, etc pay people in every organization for exactly this type of thing.
Good comments here. It won’t win any academy awards but enjoyed the movie Draft Day. Worth a watch.
I agree with that completely. I have utmost respect for anyone that fights for their future, but when you go around with FU Utah, or whoever you play, painted on your nails, that comes across with the wrong message in my opinion. Then when you lose to that team, you look even more ridiculous.
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Well that’s just getting what you deserve in a karmic sense. And hilarious for the rest of us.
And everything else aside Caleb Williams is in fact a first class tool of the highest order. And has been a tool for awhile.
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The testing they put top draft choices through, both physically and mentally and socially should be enough to red flag him. They know the size of his wrist and hands down to his feet and ankle size. They used the Wonderlik testing, but not sure if that is still around. But many one on one interviews to see if you are solid and ready for the NFL.
He’s bluffing.
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Elway leveraged the NY Yankees to force a trade to the Broncos. Wasn’t there some talk that Kyler Murray was going to play for the Athletics before he was drafted by the Cardinals?
Two tidbits on Eli Manning. He still owns the SD Charger jersey he held up in the photo op after being the #1 selection. Eli never beat the Chargers as a player. He was 0-4.
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So are you against the draft, should players get to be free agents when they come out of college?