AHEAD OF SCHEDULE: Caleb Williams-Ben Johnson Pairing Defying Odds in Bears Playoff Run | CHGO Bears

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Following the Chicago Bears Wild Card win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Playoffs, Ben Johnson’s group has now played 18 games in his first season as head coach. Of those 18 games, the Bears have been underdogs in 11 of them. How has the Caleb Williams-Ben Johnson pairing been able to defy the expectations to such a great degree? Brian Baldinger joins to give his perspective of the team’s progress ahead of the Divisional Round matchup against the Los Angeles Rams. Later, Adam Hoge has his report card for Caleb’s performance against the Packers. Just how elite was his second-half performance? Plus, cheese grater mania has taken over Chicago. Brandon Martinez became a fan favorite after he was seen grating cheese at the Bears-Packers game following a Bears touchdown. He joins the show to talk about his famous moment. Join Adam Hoge, Mark Carman and Greg Braggs Jr. on the CHGO Bears Podcast!

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0:00.0	from the fresh newly decorated Xfinity loft.
0:13.0	Wow, this is some big time, big time upgrades that we're making around here.
0:18.7	And yes, we are the CHGO Bears podcast.
0:21.7	Probably presented by our friends at Bet365.
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0:26.9	Get yourself $200 in bonus bets when you deposit $10 and make a bet for $5.
0:32.1	And from Toyota, let's go places.
0:35.5	Look at this.
0:37.1	This is nice.
0:39.2	Apparently you win a playoff game and you get to redecorate.
0:41.7	Yeah, I mean, we've got Mike flags.
0:43.4	You can't see the new rug, but it is popping.
0:45.7	New intro, new rug, new loft, new lights.
0:51.9	But same elite guests.
0:53.1	But same elite guest. But same elite guest.
0:54.3	That's right.
0:54.7	Why don't we just jump right into it?
0:56.4	Brandon Martinez is coming up later in the show, who was the cheese grater guy. I'm super excited to talk. We all are super excited to talk about him in about 20 minutes. And my guy, Tyson, Bejon, will be on about an hour from now. We've got a big show for today. We're going good and, I don't know, call it 88 minutes today.
1:10.7	But we lead off with our guy, Baldi, Brian Baldinger, joining us here, NFL Network and everything else in his sweet hulibouble sweatshirt.
1:19.1	Baldy, if I had told you that the division round would be the Chicago Bears hosting the L.A. Rams and that the Bears would come back and beat the Packers to get there.
1:33.9	If I had said that to you, I don't know, roundabout, call it, I don't know, mid-October, would you have said, dude, you need to stop drinking?
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