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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Best of the Bears: What's our confidence level in Caleb Williams now?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the Best of the Bears this week, Mark Grote and Ramie Makhlouf shared their confidence level in quarterback Caleb Williams now as compared to last year at this time; Sports Illustrated writer Matt Verderame joined the Rahimi & Harris Show to share expectations for Williams and the Bears entering the 2025 season; David Haugh and Ruthie Polinsky reacted to Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson still holding out hope that the Bears will build a new stadium in the city rather than in Arlington Heights; and Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened to Williams explain how he’s getting more comfortable under center.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Rahimi and Harris, midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670

0:08.0

with the first pick in the 2024 NFL draft, the Chicago Bears select Caleb Williams.

0:17.8

You know, history's the history. Like, I'm kind of done talking about it.

0:21.2

Like, we go back so much all the time and that those days are over.

0:30.4

Are you as high on Caleb Williams now as you were when the Bears first drafted him.

0:37.9

312, 647, the number here.

0:41.7

Chicago Sports Radio 670, the score.

0:43.3

It's Mark Grody and Arami McLaugh.

0:45.5

In for Layla and Marshall.

0:47.8

Both are off today.

0:50.1

I still feel pretty damn good about Caleb Williams,

0:53.3

but maybe the concern meter has gone from maybe up a notch from like a three to a four just because of some of the stuff that I have seen and some of the complications that existed last year with Caleb Williams that are still showing themselves.

1:09.5

And I still have not seen like good

1:12.4

days stacked together one after another with the cap and I do I take it all into consideration.

1:19.3

The new coach, the bad coaching last year, the new defense, the new offensive coordinators,

1:25.4

the new play calls. It all, it all adds in. But for a guy that we

1:30.5

were all, and I said it too, calling generational, calling elite, calling the best quarterback since

1:36.3

Andrew Luck, that has taken a slight hit with me. Still think he's been good. And I said it yesterday,

1:42.7

if I still had the press the yes or no button on Caleb Williams, it's still yes, but I'm not as convinced as I was when they drafted him.

1:50.4

My concern was never necessarily Caleb Williams. And not that there aren't, you know, holes in his game or weaknesses that he can work on. My concern is as a lifelong Bears fan and watching them break every quarterback that they've ever

2:05.5

drafted or traded for or signed, I wondered if they were going to break another one.

2:11.2

And I had concerns about the offensive line going into last year.

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