The future of the Chicago Bears with Caleb Williams at the helm is generating intense debate. While the team’s general manager, Ryan Poles, has expressed that Williams could be on par with superstars such as Patrick Mahomes, sports commentator Jason McIntyre has made a much more worrying comparison. In a recent episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd, McIntyre did not hesitate to associate Williams with Johnny Manziel, a notorious NFL failure
McIntyre based his disturbing comparison on Williams’ statistics in the pocket, which rank him low among 34 quarterbacks in key categories such as passer rating and completion percentage.
McIntyre’s Criticism
According to the commentator, Williams looks so nervous in the pocket that his default instinct is to run and look for a play, a pattern that he believes evokes the playing style of Manziel, who was once a dynamic passer and runner, but quickly faded from the league.
” The Bears are treating Caleb Williams like a rookie, so he has to unlearn everything he learned last year. Obviously, some of the videos are not great. The video of the ball not reaching the net is not ideal, but I have a comparison that is scary, although I think it is not out of place. Some of Williams’ passing stats from the pocket: 24th in passer rating, 29th in yards per attempt in the pocket and 25th in completion percentage in the pocket. That’s out of 34 quarterbacks, guys,” the analyst commented.”
In addition, the commentator added that “that’s why my comparison is a little bit Johnny Football, a little bit Johnny Manziel. I wonder if Caleb is so jittery in the pocket that his confidence is shot, and his default reaction is, ‘Just let me run and see if I can make a play.’ Because that’s what happened to Manziel, and he burned out very quickly.”
Manziel’s free fall
In 2012, Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy at Texas A&M University with impressive statistics both in the air and on the ground, earning him a draft pick by the Cleveland Browns. However, frequent turnovers and lack of preparation, coupled with his personal problems, caused his career to quickly fizzle out
Now, with the Chicago Bears treating Williams like a rookie who must “unlearn” what he learned the year before, the pressure is on him to prove that McIntyre’s comparison is wrong and that his path will be that of a champion, not a failure.
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