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Caleb Williams is grateful for his rookie year | Take The North
17 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What insights does Caleb Williams share about his rookie year?
Does that make sense, gentlemen? Are you ready to play the Take the North game show? Yes. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm excited. Why don't we do a little paper, scissors, rocks here to see who gets to go first.
Ready?
Grody, just go first. It's fine. These are windows or buckets? These are doors.
I'm sorry. You're a door guy.
Keep notes at home to make sure you know whether the door has been used or not. Door. Dan, may I please have door number four? Oh, we're starting in a place.
Door number four.
Door number four. Oh, boy. Gabrielle Placencia. Gabrielle Placencia. Gabrielle Plasencia is absolutely a Chicago bear. And this one was sort of a trick question because he was a Chicago bear up until today. He was released this afternoon. Get the hell out of here. Get the hell out of here. He was an undrafted rookie kicker from San Diego state.
The game show was already set up before the bears release came in. Gabrielle has been released from the bears. I'll give you a, I'll give you a half point on that. Help us with the tiebreaker later. I knew he was a bear because that name, Placentia. Yeah. So, God. Grody gets a half point. All right, Studs, you're next. Can I go? Why didn't you just change that, Dan?
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Chapter 3: How has Caleb Williams developed under Coach Ben Johnson?
I don't understand. It was more fun. It was more fun that way. It's a good one. All right, I'm going to go door number eight. Door number eight. Bennett Lawson. Did you say Bennett Lawson? That's what I said. Don't you be on your Google machine. You should watch both of our iLevels. If you guys, the people can't see this, I'm putting the numbers that we've chosen in our chat.
That's what that was. I forgot the guy's name already. What was the name? Bennett Lawson.
Bennett Lawson.
I think that is a Chicago Bear. Bennett Lawson is in the 44th ward, gentlemen. Bennett Lawson is in the 44th ward.
Chapter 4: What challenges did Caleb face during his rookie season?
Does he lose points or do I just have a half game lead over? Yeah, you got a half point lead after round one. That would be really embarrassing. That might be my ward. That's great. All right, Grody. Let's go with high five. Your number five. Derek Curtis. Derek Curtis. That's an alderman. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. That is the 18th Ward Alderman, Derek Curtis. Correct. Well done.
Very proud of myself. I was really hoping Gabrielle Placencia was going to come later in the game, but we got about a minute earlier. If I lose by a half a point, Weider, I am coming over there. All right, studs. So I'm one and a half to zero. I'm the only one keeping score. By the way, I just looked.
I just looked. Lawson is not my alderman.
Not far off, though. Okay. So you're not that off base. Okay. Sorry. Okay. I'm going to go door number 12. Let's go 12. All the way up. Door number 12. Moving on up top floor. Wayne Matthews III. Wayne Matthews III. Wayne Matthews III. That's a Chicago Alderman. He is an undrafted rookie linebacker out of Michigan State.
Chapter 5: How does Caleb Williams describe his mental and physical growth?
Stubbs still not on the board after round two. You don't want to know why you should have gotten that one. Here's why you should have gotten that one. The third. That's athletes. The third? The junior part. There's like a hundred. How many Chicago Waldron are there? There's like a hundred? A lot. There's a lot. Yeah. That could absolutely be a third in there.
All right, Grody, you can apply some pressure here. You can really up the pressure.
All right.
I'm getting cocky. I know. I'm probably going to go on a losing streak now. Go ahead. Oh, my turn. Oh, I got to pick the door. You know what? I'm going to go to 11. 11. Okay. 11. KC Azamame. KC Azamame. KC Azamame. I am going to say Alderman. That is an undrafted rookie quarterback out of Tulane University, Casey Azamame. Oh, no. Get familiar. Training camp is not that far away. Oh, man.
Casey Azamame. All right, Studs. He's kept the door open for you. So where do you want to go next? My lead is down to a half. No, it's one and a half to zero still. You've still got zero.
Oh, right. I took points.
I took a point away. That's right. I'll go... I'll go two. I'm going to say door number two. Lamont Robinson. Lamont Robinson. Lamont Robinson. All right, that's a name I've heard. Is it? I think so. Maybe it's the name Lamont. I know the name Lamont. Gene Lamont was a former White Sox manager.
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Chapter 6: What does Caleb mean by 'the bad times make the good times feel better'?
Lamont Robinson.
Okay.
You got a 50-50 chance here. No, I know. I'm going to go Alderman. Chicago Alderman. Ding, ding, ding. Ford Alderman. Lamont Robinson. No shutout today. Closest to within a half point, Grody. Oh, man. You got a win by two? All right. I am going to go. I'm looking at the board to see what's available. Adam doing a good job of putting numbers up there. 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10. Give me four. No.
Four is gone. That was Gabrielle.
I started with four.
One, three, six, seven, nine, ten. Ten. Ten. You just said the numbers. I know. Matthew Martin. Matthew Martin. I feel like this is a really crucial one for me. This is like a turning point, potential turning point in the game. Matthew Martin.
Bear.
Bear.
47th Ward Alderman. Oh, man. You guys are doing horrible, by the way. So promising. Dan, would you have known these aldermen before you looked them up?
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