{"id":900431,"date":"2026-10-30T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900431\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:26:09","slug":"jeffery-simmons-says-calling-caleb-williams-painted-nails-was-just-smack-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900431\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffery Simmons says calling Caleb Williams “Painted Nails” was “just smack talk”"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Bears defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons said his nickname for Caleb Williams two years ago was nothing more than gamesmanship. <\/p>\n

Simmons, then with the Titans, jokingly referred to Williams as \u201cPainted Nails\u201d in an NFL Network interview. He said Friday that he thought Bears fans were \u201cgoing to crash my Instagram\u201d after that.<\/p>\n

Now, Simmons, Williams and Bears fans are on the same side after the trade from Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of Caleb<\/a>,\u201d Simmons said, via Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times. \u201cOf course, being on the other side and having to play against him, I\u2019m not going to tell him that. I\u2019m going to talk as much smack as I can.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now he\u2019s on my team. Any teammate you ask about me, man, I have my teammate\u2019s back, no matter if he\u2019s on the other side of the ball or not. I\u2019m going to talk the most smack to you when you\u2019ve got a different color jersey on, but when we\u2019re on the same team on Sundays, I go to war for any of my guys in the locker room. I hope Caleb would know that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons said he and Williams talked after a joint practice in August and again on Friday morning before meetings. Williams doesn\u2019t hold the comment against Simmons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe comments a couple years ago about the nails is all part of my game, with the smack talk,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you guys have heard, but I\u2019m probably one of the best smack talkers. I talk a lot of smack when I\u2019m on the field. I\u2019m looking forward to being his teammate. We all know what type of player he is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bears defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons said his nickname for Caleb Williams two years ago was nothing more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-900431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900431","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=900431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}