{"id":67664,"date":"2025-08-08T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:20:10","slug":"caleb-williams-laughs-off-viral-video-of-him-missing-his-target-into-a-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67664\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Williams laughs off viral video of him missing his target into a net"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caleb Williams defended himself after a fan\u2019s video<\/a> of the Bears quarterback missing his target while throwing into a net went viral. It prompted arm-chair quarterbacks to question Williams\u2019 progress since last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at it, and I laugh at \u2018em<\/a>, as always,\u201d Williams said Thursday, via Courtney Cronin of ESPN. \u201cWe\u2019re out here working. We\u2019re getting after it. We\u2019re competing, and that\u2019s one of the drills in which we were competing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams explained that the drill \u2014 throwing into a net from close range \u2014 is designed to work on a quarterback\u2019s quick delivery. He is supposed to throw the ball into the bottom left corner of the net as quickly as possible without turning the laces.<\/p>\n

Williams was shown missing four consecutive throws before yelling and stomping off, but he said his reaction was misconstrued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually have a rule in own QB room \u2014 if you miss the board, you have to do something funny or something like that,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some competition in those areas, also. It\u2019s something fun, something competitive. I was competing and I missed it, and it was fake anger that I had, that I showed. That\u2019s what [it is]. You\u2019re competing with your friends and something like that happens you give maybe a little few words that you may say, choice words after losing to your buddies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bears General Manager Ryan Poles also laughed it off, telling Cronin he didn\u2019t know \u201cit was a national crisis of Caleb struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The No. 1 overall pick in 2024 completed 62.5 percent of his passes for 3,541 yards with 20 touchdowns and six interceptions. The Bears went 5-12 last season and hired Ben Johnson as their head coach this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caleb Williams defended himself after a fan\u2019s video of the Bears quarterback missing his target while throwing into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-67664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67664","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=67664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}