Best of the Bears: Week 9 at Bengals

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the Best of the Bears this week, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes detailed why the Bears' matchup against the Bengals on Sunday is so pivotal for Chicago quarterback Caleb Williams; WGN sports anchor Jarrett Payton joined the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show to preview the Bears-Bengals game and to explain why Cincinnati star receiver Ja'Marr Chase will be such a difficult matchup for Chicago; and Spiegel and Holmes held their Turn the Page segment in which they previewed the Bears-Bengals game and discussed the NFC North outlook entering Week 9.

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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.
0:36.8	I feel like this is a big week for Caleb. It's huge.
0:37.5	Okay?
0:38.5	Now here's the thing.
0:40.5	Both of us, I think, are still in the same place of we understand the progress isn't
0:45.8	always linear and we kind of was like, yeah, December sounds right?
0:50.2	Like after Thanksgiving, after the Black Friday game, we should see something that resembles what it is that we're looking for.
0:57.9	And I'm not sure that even if we get to that point and it's like this still, if I'll be panicked, I will be a little concerned because I'm kind of always concerned.
1:07.7	I'm the mayor of worry town.
1:10.8	But there's, because there's been stuff to see, as we know, there's been some progress
1:14.1	and some things to see in some of the plays within structure, but there's just been
1:18.7	other questions. So why does this week feel big deal?
1:21.0	It feels big to me because, as you pointed out yesterday, you look at any defensive
1:26.2	category you want for Cincinnati, and they are
1:30.4	not good. It's a team that you should be able to move the ball on. They are dead last in
1:36.8	scoring, dead lasting yards allowed, 30th against the pass, 32nd against the run, 31st on
1:43.8	third down, 30th in red zone percentage.
1:47.1	They miss the most tackles of any defense in the NFL.
1:51.5	So this sets up as an opportunity for guys like DJ Moore, if he's healthy enough to play,
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