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It will take more than a 5-12 season, two midseason firings and an offseason tempest to kill Caleb Williams’ confidence.
The Bears quarterback made that clear during a 15-minute press conference Wednesday in which he admitted to being infatuated with the Vikings last year — and skeptical of the Bears’ history of developing quarterbacks — before eventually deciding he was comfortable coming to Chicago.
Williams seemed sheepish about dragging a distraction into the Bears’ already busy offseason — Seth Wickersham’s upcoming book describes how he and his family considered trashing the Bears before the draft because Chicago was, in father Carl’s words, “where quarterbacks go to die.