Colin Cowherd Corrects His False Comments on Caleb Williams

Once again Fox Sports' Colin Cowherd has been caught passing off inuendo and false reports as fact or even his own interpretation of fact regarding the Bears quarterback situation.

Cowherd had tried resurrecting an old, false report started by a social media troll in January saying Williams did not want to come to Chicago. 

Earlier this week Cowherd expressed the thought the first pick by the Bears would be traded to Washington because Williams is from the Washington area and because he supposedly didn't want to come to Chicago.

On Friday he was backpedaling at a rapid rate to cover himself. 

Cowherd said he was contacted by someone associated with Williams.

"So I got a call from the Caleb Williams camp and they went 'woah, woahm woah, Colin, we don't want to be painted as anti-Chicago and we don't want to be painted as anti-Bear,' " Cowherd explained. "And they made it clear to me that they said listen, 'We don't want to go to a city that doesn't care. Chicago cares. They're big, loud, they're passionate. They fire coaches all the time.' They care."

That one would be open to debate. Many in Chicago this year felt they don't fire coaches enough and should have fired Matt Eberflus this year to hire Jim Harbaugh. But they didn't call Harbaugh.

Cowherd continued to relay information given him by the Williams group.

" 'We don't want to go to some sun belt place where you tarp off the upper deck,' " Cowherd said he was told. "And they did say there is a path to succeed in Chicago. It's called the Houston Texans: defensive coach, couple of weapons, cap space, good pick. They mentioned (the Bears have) got a second pick (in Round 1). There's a bunch of good receivers out there: LSU, Washington. They could go get another weapon and they already have one bonafide No 1 pick."

The day before Cowherd was all gung ho on this belief the Bears weren't taking Williams.

"I do think it's possible that Washington trades up and Chicago allows Washington to trade up because Caleb (Williams) and his group do not want to go to Chicago," Cowherd had said, trying to portray this false report as fact. "He's from the D.C. area."

After he was done doing his backtracking Friday, Cowherd then set about criticizing Williams and even taking a shot at the Bears' past.

"And all he wants to do is win and he's super competitive," Cowherd said. "About my only criticism of Caleb Williams: He gets a little pissy after he loses. He gets very moody. He doesn't like to lose. He is hyper-competitive.

"People banged on him because he cried after a loss this year. And I'm like, 'he cares.' I don't want Jay Cutler, the greatest Bears quarterback ever. I don't want indifference. I want passion."

He might have satisfied the Williams camp.

The Sid Luckman camp, if not the Jim McMahon camp, will probably be calling Cowherd next to tell him there was a quarterback greater than Jay Cutler in Chicago history.