SI Media with Jimmy Traina<\/a> where he was asked about Aikman\u2019s perceived feud with Williams earlier this season, and whether it stemmed from a missed meeting. And Buck did confirm Williams missed a meeting, in fact, he missed two.<\/p>\n\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff
\u201cWe understand you guys are busy. You\u2019re preparing for a game. The last thing you probably want to do is talk to us. It\u2019s kind of part of the drill, but we will do it when it works for you, on your schedule,\u201d Buck said while explaining most of these meetings are done remotely via Zoom, allowing them to work around the team\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were apparently willing to meet with Caleb Williams on his schedule before Week 1, when Chicago played the Minnesota Vikings. They were also willing to meet with Williams on his schedule before the Bears returned to Monday Night Football Week 6. And according to Buck, Williams didn\u2019t show up for either meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had that same issue Week 1 with Caleb,\u201d Buck told Traina. \u201cAnd then we had it again. I guess he brought it up saying, \u2018Well, I didn\u2019t talk to Troy before the game.\u2019 But we sat on a Zoom waiting forever and he just never came! I don\u2019t know what else we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buck also took issue with Williams initially implying it was Aikman who didn\u2019t show up for the meeting when the Bears quarterback claimed he tried calling a day late and it didn\u2019t go through.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the part that bothered me the most\u2026this was on your guys\u2019 schedule. And we sat there and we had it happen twice within the first six or seven weeks\u2026I thought the intimation that we weren\u2019t there or [Aikman] wasn\u2019t there was not an accurate description of how that all went down.\u201d<\/p>\n
To be clear, Joe Buck didn\u2019t think Troy Aikman\u2019s commentary or analysis of Caleb Williams was over the top. \u201cTroy was great,\u201d Buck said of the broadcast. Aikman has similarly pushed back on the notion<\/a> that he had any sort of axe to grind with Williams. And maybe they tried to call the game without any bias, but after Williams missed two scheduled Zoom meetings in six weeks, you can understand Aikman feeling a little slighted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caleb Williams admitted to missing his Monday Night Football meeting with Troy Aikman in Week 6, but Joe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[14354,8850,176805,50687,349,99,82871],"class_list":["post-356803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-caleb-williams","tag-chicago-bears","tag-joe-buck","tag-monday-night-football","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-troy-aikman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}