Are the Bears all-in on Caleb Williams now?

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Continuing our NFC North Check In series, Lorin Cox of Locked on Bears joins the show to discuss Chicago's season, where they stand on Caleb Williams, and the biggest offseason needs for the Bears. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul.
0:10.1	Matthew Collar here.
0:11.3	And returning to the show from Locked on Bears, Lauren Cox, we've had a lot of great episodes
0:17.0	through the years.
0:18.3	But Lauren, here's something's a little different about this one.
0:21.6	The bears are good.
0:23.2	This is the first time, you and I have been doing podcasts forever.
0:26.4	This is the first time that we can truly say the bears are pretty scary in the national
0:32.6	football league right now.
0:33.8	It's usually been kind of me making fun of the bears and you being like,
0:37.2	maybe it'll work, but it worked. It worked. So, uh, how was how was your year covering the Chicago
0:45.1	Bears? Yeah, there's a lot of like built in PTSD of like you're not going to trust it. I'm not
0:51.0	going to trust this. Like they're winning some games, but this isn't fully real, right?
0:55.9	Like this is still coming together and like, yeah, they're beating some bad teams and winning late in some of these games and it's fun and we're going to enjoy it. But like, we're not really buying in. And then all of a sudden, you know, you beat the Green Bay Packers in overtime, the regular season. and oh, it starts to feel a little bit real.
1:09.3	And you go at least toe to toe with the 49ers
1:11.3	and feel like, oh, you were right there with them.
1:12.6	And you kind of look around and you with the 49ers and feel like, oh, you were right there with
1:12.4	them. And you kind of look around and you're the two seed in the NFC all of a sudden.
1:15.3	It's like, okay, great. And then, you know, you get a playoff win over Green Bay. And that was really the Super Bowl this year for the Bears and everything else was just gravely at that point. So I think really, really fun season, but also I think some real acknowledgement that like,
1:27.5	it's not just going to be easy to just repeat this and do it exactly the same way next year.
1:30.9	Like they got. really, really fun season, but also I think some real acknowledgement that like, it's not just
1:27.9	going to be easy to just repeat this and do it exactly the same way next year. Like they got
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