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For most of his first season in Chicago, Caleb Williams was described with caution. Promising. Talented. Encouraging. Bears fans have learned to live in that vocabulary—hope without assumption, progress without certainty. That language is starting to disappear. Sports Illustrated’s early projection for the 2026 NFL Top 100 Players List placed Williams at No. 21 overall. For a Bears quarterback, that alone feels ... Read more

For most of his first season in Chicago, Caleb Williams was described with caution. Promising. Talented. Encouraging. Bears fans have learned to live in that vocabulary—hope without assumption, progress without certainty. That language is starting to disappear. Sports Illustrated’s early projection for the 2026 NFL Top 100 Players List placed Williams at No. 21 overall. For a Bears quarterback, that alone feels jarring. ... Read more

NFL discourse thrives on confidence. The sharper the conviction, the louder the reaction. But every so often, the league delivers a reminder that certainty is fragile—and the 2025 season offered one of its clearest examples. In March 2025, ESPN analyst Mina Kimes didn’t hedge. She didn’t soften her words. When the Seattle Seahawks traded Geno Smith and prepared to sign Sam Darnold, she called it “flat out… a terrible ... Read more

The NFL never forgets a take. It just waits. In an offseason filled with noise, few predictions landed louder than Mina Kimes’ reaction to the Seattle Seahawks trading Geno Smith to the Las Vegas Raiders. What she labeled a “terrible move” for Seattle and a “great” one for Las Vegas felt definitive at the time—confident, certain, and final. Less than a year later, it reads like a time capsule from a different ... Read more

The trophies make it look inevitable.The banners make it look easy. But Dave Roberts didn’t arrive at the top of baseball by skipping fear—he walked straight through it. In 2010, Roberts heard the word that stops everything: cancer. Hodgkin lymphoma. Two young kids at home. A future suddenly reduced to appointments, scans, and the terrifying quiet between them. He’s admitted that when people hear “cancer,” the mind goes ... Read more