Mark Grote

I don't know if Wicks is long for the Cubs in terms of finding a place for him.

Maybe, maybe.

All right.

All right.

Hobie Milner.

A bear?

Okay.

Yeah, if I had to come up, aggregate one sort of evaluation of Caleb Williams from both Ryan Poles and Ben Johnson, it would sound something like, wow, this guy did some spectacular, great things, and we've got our quarterback.

but there are still things that need to be cleaned up.

He needs to continue on the path that he has been on for the last five or six games, and even some of the things that Caleb was just talking about, footwork, and as he put it, I love that, falling off the mound, I love that.

And you even heard Ryan Pauls talking yesterday about almost like saying what he does is awkward, and I can't even begin to figure out how he gets out of some of the trouble that maybe he gets into.

And we've been saying it all year.

There's a box that has been checked.

with Caleb Williams, and it's a huge box, and that is the ability to win games late.

Now, just fill in the rest.

Fill in the first couple of quarters of the game.

Fill in the consistency, the overthrows.

And I know that his receivers have not been helpful to him this year.

Way too many drops, and it reared its ugly head again in the playoff game against the Rams, Roma Dunze.

But now you have the luxury of putting it together.