Best of the Bears: Caleb Williams reflected on learning a lot in his turbulent rookie season
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🗓️ 20 June 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks everybody. |
| 0:03.3 | You're listening to the best of the bears. |
| 0:06.8 | 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. |
| 0:41.3 | I think it comes with the comfort level in terms of knowing what's being asked in terms of the offense. So we're all lined on what we want a certain route to look like, where we want the ball to be thrown. |
| 0:46.3 | And so, you know, routes on air, you can go out there and tell a receiver, hey, you're missing your depth or expect the ball to be at this |
| 0:54.2 | spot, whether we're out there in a practice setting or he likes to keep those guys after |
| 0:59.9 | and work a little bit more after practice. So I think he's stepped up and, you know, he's continuing |
| 1:05.2 | to get better every single day. And it's just a matter of how many reps can we continue to |
| 1:09.6 | pile on over the course of training camp. |
| 1:12.6 | The familiar and persistent voice of the head coach of your Chicago Bears, Ben Johnson, right there. |
| 1:19.0 | This is Rahimi Harris and Grotie on 104-3, the score. |
| 1:23.4 | Do you remember the year 2024 for for the Chicago Bears Marshall Harris? |
| 1:27.9 | That was not last year's season, but it was two years ago. You're joking, right? I'm not joking because some people put it out of their memory. You're getting older, too. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't try to bring me up there with you. Listen, yes, I remember very vividly, as I told everyone, hey, all that the bears have |
| 1:45.1 | proven with this trip overseas over the pond and back is that they can beat bad teams. |
| 1:49.3 | I'm not a believer yet. |
| 1:50.9 | And then what happened? |
| 1:51.9 | It was bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. |
| 1:54.3 | And it was a scary, it was a really frightening year because you drafted Caleb Williams. You got the guy. You drafted the number |
| 2:04.2 | one overall guy, Caleb Williams, the generational quarterback, the elite quarterback. And you're |
| 2:10.0 | right, got off to a good start. There were some moments, but there were some god-awful moments |
| 2:14.0 | for Caleb Williams early in his tenure under the tutelage of... Is that we're calling it? The tutelage of... That's a nice way to describe it because I don't know how much tutoring he received. I wouldn't be that nice. I wouldn't be that nice. You're probably right. I shouldn't be that nice. Shane Waldron was the offensive coordinator. Matt Iber Fluse was the overseer of everything. |
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