Fine, let's argue about Caleb Williams. 

Here is a link to my Discord server, which is where I usually host my weekly live Q&As. discord.gg/brettkollmann The goal is to do another one this Wednesday, or possibly Thursday while I'm in Indy for the combine. Times will be figured out within the next couple of days so just keep an eye on the server for updates.

I want a slavic nfl team where you know the fans are gonna be so passionate you got flares going off and everyone bouncing after a 7 yard run

Bears fans are going to get this to a million views

NFL: “Planes need to be faster for Europe teams!” University of Hawaii: **flies 6 hours to play Fresno State**

Brett is fucking spitting bars man. Also people citing Caleb wants a stake of the team he’s drafted to is categorically untrue. He said ONE DAY he wants to be the owner of an nfl team lmao this is such a common dream for many players post playing career

Bro your idea for a 2nd bye week is nothing short of genius.

Brett kollman “post a video at a normal time” challenge IMPOSSIBLE

Thanks for the Maxx Crosby thing. We needed it.

Sorry I wasn’t listening. I was watching the cat in the background

There is no way the players union will let the nfl have a London based team. Between the taxes, the exchange rate and the fact you can be told you have to leave your home country because you got drafted there, I'm sure the union would fight against that ever happening.

On Brett's advice I had a few interesting draft picks in my dynasty league. To the tune of CJ Stroud, Zay Flowers, Sam Laporta, and Puka Nacua. On their performances I got my first ever win for a fantasy league. So... I trust his judgement.

Omg that Legends of the Hidden Temple crew neck is FIRE

An early morning Brett video is a rare but welcome sight to behold. I'm used to the 11-12pm 31st of the month videos. My whole schedule has been bamboozled. Edit: I'm dying, even the ad read knows this messed with us lmao.

As a Raiders fan, that Crosby line at the end of the TJ vs Garrett chat got me good - I feel exposed 😂 (8:13)

Thank you. It’s good to hear someone say it like you did about Caleb. It’s been interesting listening to people repeat almost verbatim the same criticism over how he expresses himself and the fact he showed his emotions on national TV. That article written by that short lived NFL scout from 20 years ago was given far too much attention and people formed opinions based it.

The Caleb Williams hate is just prospect fatigue.

On the Europe front, the European league of football is attempting to develop the continental game. An attempt to make a more sustainable NFL Europe. Would probably be better for the NFL to leverage some control over that as a junior league than trying to purely expand if it shows potential. Would allow them to test the waters without worrying about that travel aspect.

As a german, I actually don't want a franchise in Europe. I'm just happy we got 1-2 games a year in Germany. So it's more like a special event for us.

Agree with you so much on a Caleb. I can’t believe the nonsense people use to complain about him.

RE: Eu Teams. ... Ages ago, as a scheduling and thought experiment the "solution" I came up with for NFL European teams would be ... to add Four teams, and for the NFL to also build a large practice facility. Teams in England, Scottland, Denmark and Germany with a practice facility somewhere equadistant to the stadiums. The "concept" was that a visiting American based team could then spend 2-3 wks (if they also had a bye week) in Europe for the "overseas road trip" and decrease the travel time/jet lag. The European Division could then join the NFC/AFC on a four year rotation basis ... the advantage to this is that over an eight year span every NFL franchise would visit each of the four stadiums in Europe without requiring one specific division (NFC/AFC East) to have excessive amounts of travel compared to a midwest team. If you wanted to go Really crazy, after 4yrs you add an Asian division with teams in Manila, Seoul, Tokyo and Osaka ... then the divions would flip/flop Conferences so, again, every team in the league visits all of the stadiums each decade. Flip side the league would probably want to invest in a centrally located practice facility (someplace in Texas?) so when the European/Asian teams visit they have a "home" to stay/practice at without resorting to hotels and university fields.

I agree with what you said about Caleb feels like a mix of toxic masculinity/culture war stuff directed towards how he expresses himself. Also I did spend most of the video looking at your cat.

OH SNAP! I got on RU-vid. Thanks for taking my question Brett! Loved watching you guys all throughout the NFL season and sending you all super chats throughout the season. Love your work and EJ’s.

11:44 AHH I KNOW YALL REMEMBER OUR “SKINNY JEANS” PHASE‼️🤣🤣🤣

Always love the video brett. Hyped for the combine content

would definitely watch another one of these!

Headlines and rumors never came out of Caleb’s mouth. Owning a team, choosing where he wants to go etc. was never said by Caleb but social media has tricked people into thinking meme accounts as pro journalism.

I'm not a big college football fan but I definitely watched Caleb Williams all year last season Drake Maye, Jayden Daniel's, Shedeur Sanders, and Micheal Penix all these guys are going to take over the league in my opinion I really want to see Caleb run the 40 yd dash he's a crazy athlete almost underrated , Drake Maye impressed me too he's a real duel threat not just a statue

BTW I LOVE your TNF/19-week schedule idea!

Loved your suggested solutions to everything!

Anyone that always talks about how “toxic” Caleb is all the time while talking about him changes how I view that person as a person

In this video: Brett talks common sense at multiple fan bases

The only issue with your suggestion for the NFL schedule change with an emphasis on TNF is currently the NFL gives teams a bye week after international games. If they are ramping up the amount of international games. Those don't necessarily line up with each other or they have to line up with each other exactly. So a team would have an international game into a bye into TNF.

As a life long Bears fan that has heard so many outrageous arguments in the Fields/Williams debate the last several weeks, your explanation of the Caleb character concern being overblown is the best I've heard!

I've been advocating for a second bye week ever since they extended the year. There's almost no downsides to it. 1. Longer NFL year means more money for them (they love money) 2. Players will be healthier/have more time to recover from injury, leading to higher quality football/more interest in bad teams Example of my 2nd point: My second team is the Cardinals. They fucking sucked this year. I watched every game, but I had MUCH more of an interest in the games once Kyler came back. If your team is healthy but not doing well, there's still going to be reasons to watch the team because each time has at least one star. Injuries hurt everything. (I know that Kyler's injury was long term, but my point still stands). I wanted to see what our future might look like, and you can't see the full picture if your team is severely banged up. 2nd bye week now. Please. Hell, I'd even be down for a 3rd bye week.

Just wanna say I love you Brett. You always have such sensible and logical takes ♥️

Great take on Myles vs TJ. Coming from a Steelers fan btw

I don’t care about his painted nails or crying to his mom. I’m more concerned with him not having an agent, refusing to talk with the media after a loss (could be a problem in the NFL). Can he handle the media? How will he handle contract negotiations. Does he care more about money or winning?

Coffee with a Brett video on Saturday morning is a rare sight indeed, but a welcome one

ALL the takes. So effing good. Refreshing!

Bro you pulled the Hawthorne Heights reference and I love it!

Awesome suggestion regarding the NFL schedule.

Thanks always Brett

Good stuff Brett!

bro the hidden temple sweater though!!! hell ya bro!

I think you can accomplish the same goal you want to with moving the schedule up a week by moving it back as week too. This will make it to where we get the Super Bowl on Presidents’ Day weekend and most in the US will have that Monday off.

LOVE the schedule change idea

I think the best way for the NFL to add a European team would be to add a full division in Europe. Having your division rivals 5 time zones away just isn't a good idea. I expect the NFL knows this and that's why they held a game in Munich in 2022 and will again in 2024. They can probably put 2 teams in England, 1 in Munich, and if you can build an NFL fanbase in maybe Dublin or Paris you'd have enough for a full European division

Brett you are the best nfl creator, amazing video. Great takes as always

extra bye week seems like a win for orgs and a win for players. For that reason I could see it actually happening. And It would feel like we get an extra week of football without getting an extra week of football.

Not football related, but your shirt is dope! Loved that show

the only thing i will say about Caleb is when he mocked Duggan about crying then erased the tweet. eventually karma catches up and he ends up doing the same thing. that's very hypocritical.

I friggin loved legend of the hidden temple. What a great sweater!

Can we just take a moment for the shirt though? Absolutely legendary!!

4:31 I’d rather have the pro bowl move to London or some other European city. The season is over but it allows superstars to meet overseas fans who don’t often get to watch the the NFL live due to time difference. At most these players have one week to prepare (time difference) but it’s a low stake game

Super big props on the grace and tact you had with addressing the Caleb Williams question

Great take on C. Williams. This is what it comes down to with too many people in our society: they're trying to find a way to divide people! With fear, with anger and bad-mouthing. We need to stand up against those and FIGHT LIKE HELL!

I’m a man of my word, Brett! Said I’d try Factor next time you posted. Putting in my order Monday. Thank you for all you do and for always being yourself.

Just moved out of my parents house to my first full time engineering job and started using Factor! Thanks Brett!

Came here for Justin/Caleb with some real knowledge and nuance. Subscribed after your break down on TNF, you might just be a genius Brett 💪🏼

I'm European and I wouldn't agree that "European sporting event atmospheres are the best" There's no obvious trend that Europe > US or vice versa Firstly it is quite a blanket statement. But some of the "crazier" aspects of European sports are actually really toxic, I like how home and away fans don't need to be SEPARATED FOR SAFETY for US sports. And, it's a bit assumption that creating brand new NFL franchises will just get you the same fanbases and traditions for football (soccer) teams that have existed for centuries. As a separate point, I don't think a European franchise can work. I'm not going to uproot my Bills fandoom for some experiment, and most people in Europe who are already NFL fans are already fans of a team won't do that as well.

You didn’t consider thanksgiving Thursday games in your last part but otherwise a good idea to add another bye week

I think the only way you can add international teams is to add a whole division. The logistics just don’t make sense otherwise. That way they have 6 local games every season that don’t require trans Atlantic flights. Each team would have to have “host” accommodations. The teams would probably travel at the start of the week because of the time difference and stay overseas all week. That makes the most sense to me.

Great video man!

Really great video Brett and i'm looking forward to seeing what will happen at the Combine and the video/s that will come from there. I have a follow-up question with regards to the NFL in Europe question that Jack Hunter asked. How would you see that happening and do you think it would be successful? I'm asking because currently, the NFL is playing most of it's games on Sunday. And on Sunday, there are also a lot of soccer games from the various national leagues. On Thursday there would be the group stage games from the Europa League season (second tier of european football) and on Tuesday and Wednesday we have the group stage games from the Champions League. Do you believe that there would be a market in which there would be a big, steady number of people that would go to see NFL games on Sunday instead of watching soccer games? Either live in the stadium or on the tv?

About the executive structure thing I was literally thinking the same thing if not adding a third bye at some point

Now, I like your plan for the extra week for the extra bye, Brett. In fact, I thought thats what they should've done, when they added a week last time. That way, everything could stay much more easily divided up, and kept track of. It was nice when everything was divisible by 4.

Great, great, great segment

That sweater is freaking awesome Brett!

Always go back to the fields game against indiana.Three years later here we are

I really like the schedule adjustment idea. I had always thought a second bye week was needed just to get players time to heal. Never had a good way to do it without adding another game, which kinda negated the second bye. This keeps everyone on a consistent timeline, and gets every team national exposure which is good as well.

Love the Factor read!!! 😂😂😂

Love the shirt loved the 90s

Love the legends of the hidden temple t shirt, my favourite show growing up❤❤

Love your work and how well you articulate your analysis. Thank you. Question: do you think Chicago can support an additional NFL team in an upcoming expansion? Does your answer change if the Bears do not leave the lakefront?

Really interesting info about the double team % and pass rush win rate I had no idea they were estimates based on the chips.

The Pff isn’t just chips, it’s the real stats but it is what it is

I think the only knock on the guaranteed bye pre TNF is that many people will say it’s an advantage to a playoff team with a late season bye. Versus one who maybe had their final bye in say week 10.

I think so much of the Caleb Williams hate boils down to the fact that he's the first undisputed no. 1 qb with a ton of nil money and eligibility, so he actually has some negotiating power. I think a lot of ppl (particularly people in the comments section of channels much more sensationalistic than this one) don't like the idea of someone in his position having a say over where he goes... I mean hey Eli did the same thing through different means and that worked out pretty well

On the east coast this might be one of the most normally timed video he’s ever posted 😂😂

I was waiting for this video.

Where did you get that legends of the hidden temple sweatshirt? It's amazing and I want one lol

I'm just here to say, what an awesome legends shirt!

I went to a soccer game a couple of seasons ago with a friend. I am the usual goober when it comes to American sports, so I was fully ready to roast my friend about the game and the game day experience (United v Liverpool was the game, think it was the FA Cup). Honestly I wasn't prepared for how atmospheric everything was. The stadium itself had a certain aura and history around it, and the chants and banter from the crowd were unbelievable. I got hooked on the game and it's right up there with the NFL for me when it comes to which sport I prioritize. It's also interesting because Old Trafford is the butt of jokes for not even being as atmospheric or rowdy as some other stadiums, but it far surpassed the average game day experience in the NFL. Though some of it has been lost due to the corporatization of the EPL, there's still some sense that the club is local, and even moreso when it comes to the smaller clubs. Just don't get that same feeling with the NFL. I wonder how it was when NFL Europe was around and there was a team in London. Maybe someone reading this comment has some idea. Can't find anything online regarding this.

As a raiders fan thank you

I flew from Dallas to Heathrow in 9 hours. I'd love that they add 2 teams, but add a 2nd bye week to help schedule around these long flights. But these teams would probably go 1-7 on the road, and 8-1 at home every year.

Completely agree with the 2nd bye week

@brett what if they added a full european confetence, and set up road trips there to be a month, with the bye week after? May reduce some impacts of travel

Good shit

It had a lot of problems, but the old Super Rugby competition managed to make it work with teams split between New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Argentina. No supersonic travel needed. I think it would be pretty doable. There was also the Toronto Wolfpack playing in English Rugby League and it wasn't too bad - the only thing that killed it was COVID.

Awesome take on Caleb, was kinda unsure about his demeanor but when you put things in perspective it makes total sense. Shout out from brazil. BOLT UP ⚡⚡⚡⚡

Fantastic video. Level headedness is rare in sports media, that's why we all come here :)

Dude, Brett shouted out BOOM Aerospace. Thought you were about to talk about Hermeus too 😂

The Eurofighter Tyhpoon is a two seat supercruise aircraft. I'm sure if the NFL asked really nicely and had a few billion the UK could order a few dozen more to ferry them back and forth.

Watch this guy’s video on Joe Burrow as a draft prospect. He totally nailed every detail. I drafted burrow into my dynasty league and never regretted it. Unfortunately he’s had some injuries 😅

Brett, just for you, I watched the XFactor ad twice to make up for anyone that skipped it

2nd bye week proposal is a huge W. Great idea 💯

I agree that the Watt vs Garrett argument is bogus but the idea that tracking data couldnt deliver these stats is wrong. maybe espn cant do that right now but that's a diffrent point. Talk to Ted Knutson when you are at the combine.

Yes brett, my routine when you start talking about factor is to press the letter L six times and then it goes away .

11:05 KITTY CAT!!!

i went to HS with caleb. everyone connected to the program has nothing but amazing things to say about Caleb. from all accounts his teammates and coaches love him