Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams and Ted Lasso have something in common. Find out about the quarterback's unique mentality.
There is a good chance that Caleb Williams would be a fan of Apple TV's "Ted Lasso."
Incoming spoilers for people who haven't watched the television series that debuted in 2020. In season one, episode two, Ted Lasso, who is played by Jason Sudeikis, manages the soccer team AFC Richmond and provides some constructive feedback to one of his players after he fails to prevent the team's top player from scoring a goal.
Lasso asked his player if he knew what the happiest animal on earth was. The player looked puzzled, and Lasso said, "it's a goldfish," and Richmond's manager explained that a goldish "has a 10-second memory. Be a goldfish, Sam."
Now to go from Fútbol to football, Williams spoke with NBC's Chris Simms inside the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall last week. The two discussed how Williams puts himself in the right mindset after a negative play.
That comes natural for the Chicago Bears' quarterback.
"We go goldfish," Williams said. "Yeah, goldfish is 10-second memory. The happiest fish on earth, so we go by that here."
Williams would have appreciated Lasso if he was the leader of the Bears' program, but after the 24-year-old quarterback shared how he keeps himself composed after negative plays, he highlighted the passion that makes up a huge part of how he plays the game.
He wants to execute every play, score every position, win every game.
"I do get passionate about it, but I do understand that when I'm on the field, I need to be as calm as possible for the 10 other guys around me," Williams said. "That's more important than what I'm feeling. ..."
Ben Johnson made it apparent in his first month of being the team's coach that body language matters, and Williams emitting a calm presence to the rest of the offensive huddle should be music to Johnson's ears.
That goldfish mentality must've been tested for Williams, especially with how the final game of the Bears' season ended. Williams was intercepted while trying to target DJ Moore, and the Rams capitalized on the takeaway and went on to score the game-winning field goal in overtime.
There wasn't another opportunity to for Williams to lead his offense to correct the mistake. Instead that play is reminder of how quickly a game change. As long as Williams is playing quarterback for the Bears, he must have a short memory to move onto the next play, good or bad, for Chicago to have even more success this upcoming season.
