Caleb Williams Sets Huge Goal: 4,000 Yards for Bears — Achievable or Crazy?

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📺 On today’s GET UP, the crew debates Caleb Williams’ bold goal: becoming the first quarterback in Chicago Bears history to throw for 4,000 passing yards in a single season.

🔥 Is it achievable in Year 1? Or is the rookie setting himself up for disappointment?

We break down:

The Bears' history of QB struggles

His chemistry with Keenan Allen & DJ Moore

How his rookie ceiling compares to CJ Stroud, Andrew Luck & other top picks

Chicago’s revamped offense under Shane Waldron

🏈 Let us know your take: Is Caleb the real deal or too ambitious too soon?

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00:00training camps are underway and we've got six teams to report to training camp yesterday and

00:05so much talk around the offseason has been about the marriage between their first year head coach

00:09ben johnson and their second year quarterback caleb williams i want you to listen to both

00:14of them talking yesterday about how they are approaching this camp and this season and how

00:18different it sounds obviously i have self goals um and that's you know being the first 4 000 yard

00:25passer i'm embarrassed history that's a you know goal of mine 70 completion that helps the team

00:30uh keeps on the field puts us in better positions um and then other than that just trying to go down

00:35and you know score the most points that we can with these drives that we have so um you know that's

00:39that's kind of my self goal and obviously other you know other than that um you got to go win

00:43there were some footwork things that we wanted to clean up uh trusting the time in your feet

00:47being able to anticipate throws um there's a it's it's a lot of stuff that goes into that position

00:54and rather than throwing the whole gauntlet at them we're just building it from the ground up

00:59so those two things didn't sound similar to one another in fact as soon as caleb started talking

01:05nick i saw you react out of the corner of my eye what was that reaction i mean it just was um it's

01:11obvious to me that he's giving or he's giving the media and the fans something to grab onto which like

01:18he understands how it works he knows we want to hear but it's good it backfires like that always

01:22backfires it seems to me that what he needs to be focused on and he probably is focused on these

01:27things but he's telling us another thing but it just is a it's a scary thing to hear when your

01:31quarterback is coming out there telling everybody his um his statistical goals yeah i'm not going to

01:35assume that he's focused on those things though just because you know ben johnson said i mean i want

01:40to hear caleb williams say the fact that hey you know what i'm not going to talk about being the first

01:444k passer i'm not going to talk about 4 000 yards i'm not going to talk about 25 30 passes

01:48whatever over unders you want to put on tv i'm not going to talk about none of that what i am going

01:52to talk about is the fact that guess what ben johnson and my quarterback coach sat me down and

01:57said this is how we're going to watch film this is how we're going to start practice this is what i

02:01want you to concentrate on on three five and seven step drop this is how the routes are going to

02:05distribute this is how it's going to convert against cover two against cover three these are the

02:09things that are going to help you go bing bang boom to the next thing you know you got a 300 yard game

02:14a 400 yard game a 275 yard game no sacks no unnecessary sacks throw the ball away talk about

02:22the process because at the end of the year bears fans i mean you you know you can speak to them

02:27better speak for them better than anybody will sit there and go hey man we don't need to hear about

02:31any of these proclamations early on now just tell us how about how you're going to not take sacks

02:35know how the offense is going to be run and how you're going to win football games that's it

02:39it sounds like young caleb is watching the a block of get up along with jerry jones because

02:46the 4 000 yards the set like it's just so specific and i feel like that's been the conversation

02:51surrounding him and what are the expectations now that he's paired with ben johnson i you saw how ben

02:58johnson as soon as he started talking it was kind of boring you're like you're like okay because he's

03:01talking about the really rudimentary like basic stuff ben johnson is obsessive about the details

03:07and that's where caleb has to be i think if caleb i don't want to hear about the goals i kind of

03:13just want caleb to to be competent in an offense to by season end master that offense look comfortable

03:21know what a defense is trying to do to him know where to go with the football like those are the

03:25things even as pro day i remember scouts and gm said i just want to see him do the basic stuff

03:30we know he can do all the flashy stuff i want to see him do the basic stuff and so far in his nfl career

03:35caleb that's his that needs to be his focus the basics that's right look to be fair to him he was

03:41probably asked and so i answered a question that's fine no one is sitting here saying oh this is a

03:45terrible thing for him to say but what i do know and this is sort of an old thing that golfers talk

03:50about all the time you don't stand on the first tee thinking to yourself i want to shoot 68 today

03:54you stand on the first tee thinking i need to hit a good shot right here and then the next one and then

03:58the next one and on it goes and it sounds from what the coach is saying like they're tearing him down

04:03to the studs right if they're working on the footwork they're tearing it down to the very beginning

04:07i think also though in caleb's defense is the things that you tell the media not all the things

04:12that are in your head right and i think that lots of players do write down personal goals

04:16and think about personal goals i think what we have quibbled with with is that he's sharing that

04:21not as much or what we want him to be sharing is the quarterback speak that we've grown accustomed

04:26to when someone asks you what are your personal goals whether you have them or not

04:30you're supposed to say uh i'm not worried about that i just want to do the best i can for my team

04:35and make sure we win and so like we understand that you can have those goals and still be going

04:41and focusing on those little things but this is part of the game we're in a new era where it feels

04:45like players are being a little bit more open and honest and we don't always like what we hear

04:49you just hope behind the scenes though he's carrying out what ben's talking about that he really is

04:55obsessive about those things because sometimes look don we've all we played with guys who you

05:01know have these grandiose expectations of themselves then you're sitting there and you're

05:05going but damn aren't you the last one in the weight room weren't you the last one to walk into

05:09the meeting room and you're talking about all these things you want to do and you can't figure

05:12out why you aren't getting them like that that's what you just hope that he's paying attention to

05:16and when it comes to footwork just because we had a whole long conversation about it this morning

05:20you were making the point what when you got to san francisco early in your career what was

05:24hunger and focus i mean it was about footwork it was about speed away from center like like look

05:30this is what the pacing look like steve young joe montana they're being pretty good dudes like they

05:36want to play in some pretty good football in their career and who are the wide receivers jerry rice and

05:40john taylor i mean that's what everything was about was the timing so i mean look ben is on the right

05:46track it's not i'm not sitting here questioning him i just hope caleb is as well yeah yeah it's not

05:50going to be about those numbers at the end of the day he's doing the basics he talked about a variety

05:54of different things those are the things to your point that are going to want people to latch on

05:58to they've never had a 4 000 yard passer well that's one of his goals yeah let's go through

06:02the baseball yesterday run the bases last

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