Expectations for Bears wide recipient Roy Williams arevaried.
Mine is that the doorbell rings at his family. He trips over a baggoing to reply it, damages a hand and misses the begin of theregular season.
For a when I couldn’t calculate of whom Williams reminded me of.Then Carlos Boozer came to mind.
Williams activities football, Boozer basketball. Williams is a tallwide receiver, Boozer a wide power forward. Williams settled for aone-year contract from the Bears, Boozer scored a multiyeardeal from the Bulls.
The approximation namely that every came to Chicago to fill a persistenthole aboard his fashionable crew.
Oh, yes, and their style, too. That’s whfirst and foremost made me seeBoozer while I looked in the mirror at Williams.
Boozer and Williams are engaging, well oral, mildly amusingathletes who can seduce you at smiling straight into your eyes orthe camera.
I haven’t been nigh Williams as many as I have Boozer, so Idon’t know whether he also likes to issue that playful wink thatBoozer employs so effectively.
It could be that Williams’ wink goes without saying, so tospeak, merely we’ll wait to watch.
Anyway, I saw Williams up close for the premier period Tuesday inthe Bears’ locker room at Halas Halland, let me tell you, this is one stylish dude.
Some athletes fair flat-out understand how to strut, perhaps evensashay, with a tiny clue of a swagger.
Most of the excellent ones do. The path they carry themselvesexpounds to the earth that they are magnificent.
Man, I saw at Roy Williams walk cross that room a pair oftimes featuring a floppy Bears hat and lean, defined,skill-position muscles and he saw the part of the specialathlete.
Williams had that same presence that Boozer has walking throughthe Bulls’ locker room, hostel lobbies and internationalairports.
Except that Williams hasn’t been that special a widereceiver
during most of his before NFL stops in Detroit and Dallas.
Not anymore than Carlos Boozer was during most of last seasonand the playoffs for the Bulls.
Look, there tin be no doubting that Williams and Boozer arelegitimate enough at what they do to make a considerable livingdoing it.
I was told Tuesday that Williams has a fleet of automobiles,presumably nobody of which has a Kia nameplate. He too sent a$76,000 warranty ring through the mail with a recorded marriageproposal to a beauty queen!
Why no? Roy Williams has been a agreeable enough athlete thatsomebody always was willing to discard money at him.
The problem is that Williams and Boozer tend to thrill, thenconfuse and eventually dissatisfy in the sense of, “That’s all thereis?”
Boozer wasn’t dreadful during his first season with the Bulls.He just wasn’t all that he was brought here to be.
Now it’s up to Williams to fill in the breach among poseur andplayer. If he sufficiently does so the Bears ambition have the big receiverthey have been incomplete.
But whether Williams doesn’t he’ll be Boozer, a player who will needexcuses made for him. You know, like saying that he’s stilladjusting to playing with Joakim Noah, uh, make that JayCutler.
Carlos Boozer, of course, is the athlete who tripped over a bag,broke his hand and missed the start of the Bulls’ season a yearago.
If Roy Williams does likewise before the Bears’ season key Sept. 11, hewon’t be the only an going ouch!
mimrem@dailyherald.com
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