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00:00It doesn't surprise me that he would devour that, that he would be at every turn trying to get as much as he can out of that.
00:06It's interesting to hear your read on that, that he's always had that in him, because he also has this like smiling kind of a little bit goofy side.
00:17But if he's working his ass off, then that can just be the personality that comes out as opposed to being a guy who's like trying to pretend or something like that.
00:26It's interesting. If he had better structure last year, would he have worked even harder?
00:32Yeah. See, when we talk about working hard, I don't think anybody in that building or anyone that's been around Kayla Williams thinks that he is lazy or complacent in any way.
00:46I think that he lacked people who could really show him how to do the work.
00:52Like I thought I was working hard until I got to college and I thought I worked hard kind of starting out college.
01:00And then I realized, oh, OK, this is what working hard at the college level looks like.
01:04This is how you study efficiently. This is how you organize your time.
01:07And this is the this is the amount of hours this requires versus high school to do well in class.
01:14I think there's some of that here, too, where Kayla Williams needed more guidance on how to do the work.
01:22I think he was willing, but he didn't really he wasn't really being taught.
01:26I think there was this. There was a two part problem with the way the Bears approached him.
01:31One, they assumed from the beginning, top to bottom, throughout the organization that he was more ready than he actually was,
01:37that he was more ready than hardly than basically anybody is coming out of college at that point, no matter how good they are.
01:43And two, there was this hesitation on the coaching staff to kind of, I don't know, treat him like a rookie and take a I don't know the right word for it,
01:56but a more a sterner approach with him and kind of coach him hard and be demanding of him and tell him if you.
02:04I think there was this sense from the day he got there from Matty Refluse and Shane Waldron, like, oh, this is our new boss.
02:10We work for this guy. And as good as Caleb Williams is and as good as as mature as he is, that's not a healthy, productive environment to grow in the NFL.