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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Best of the Bears: Breaking Caleb Williams down in order to build him back up

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the Best of the Bears this week, Tribune reporter Dan Wiederer joined the Mully & Haugh Show to break down the biggest storylines as training camp continues; Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how the Bears are breaking quarterback Caleb Williams down in order to build him back up; and Spiegel and Holmes listened and reacted to defensive end Montez Sweat's comments about new defensive coordinator Dennis Allen's scheme.

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0:00.0

Thanks everybody.

0:03.3

You're listening to the best of the bears.

0:06.7

He's it for the touchdown and the Chicago Bears have taken the league.

0:10.9

A weekly mix of 670 the score's best NFL talk to get you ready for game day. Day.

0:35.3

Good morning, Dan. How are you?

0:36.3

Hi, David.

0:36.7

How's it going, man?

0:37.5

Doing well. Thanks for joining us on this, you know, take away the focus a little bit from the trade deadline drama and countdown in anticipation.

0:45.6

I'm sure I'll hear a lot about that from Bigsy here in a few minutes.

0:48.3

Oh, geez. Yeah, tell them to stop texting, please.

0:51.7

Stop texting baseball thoughts.

0:53.4

Yeah, whatever. Yeah, whatever.

0:54.8

Yeah, whatever.

0:57.2

Dan, let's go back to yesterday.

1:02.7

Caleb Williams was his weekly session with the media, and I think there was a lot of focus, as there has been, on the operation, the pre-snap cadence, the motions, all the things that have little to do with finding

1:13.6

receivers, throwing the football, and executing the pass. But I think that's appropriate, and I think

1:17.9

that Ben Johnson has emphasized that. What was your take on the way that Caleb Williams presented

1:23.2

himself yesterday, and what kind of camp is he having? Yeah, I think there's a couple things here, David.

1:29.5

I think there's so much to remember about how much a quarterback is responsible for.

1:34.2

And so when this regime under the new watch of Ben Johnson talked about building Caleb's

1:39.0

foundation again, they were talking about some of the things that you mentioned there, being

1:42.5

able to handle all the stuff pre-snap, being able to understand motions and shifts, which attached to which plays, how they time up, how all these things that happen before you have the football on your hand go towards creating successful plays once you do have the football on your hand.

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