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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Caleb Williams Didn’t Play… Did the Bears Make the Right Call?

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Bears’ preseason opener against the Dolphins ends in a 24-24 tie, but there’s no shortage of takeaways for Ruthie Polinsky, Alex Shapiro, and Clay Harbor. The Charter crew debates Caleb Williams sitting out, breaks down Tyson Bagent’s full first half, and evaluates strong defensive showings from Noah Sewell, Austin Booker, and Dominique Robinson. They highlight Kyle Monangai’s running style, rookie performances, and Olamide Zaccheaus’ rising role. Plus, thoughts on Ben Johnson’s aggressive calls, special teams miscues, and what to watch ahead of joint practices with the Bills.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone?

0:06.2

Welcome back to the Charter Podcasts brought to you by St. Xavier University.

0:09.5

Ruthie Polinsky, Alex Shapiro, Clay Harbor, preseason game number one of 2025 is in the books.

0:18.0

And it was a thriller.

0:19.5

A tie.

0:20.6

24 to 24, the bears and the dolphins are locked at the end.

0:26.5

And there's no overtime in the preseason. And Ben Johnson's not happy that he didn't win that game.

0:32.3

We are going to break it all down. We'll also touch on joint practices that took place on Friday.

0:38.6

I do think there are a lot of storylines that carried into Sunday's game from Friday. So even though it's sort of old news,

0:45.3

we'll definitely touch on it. Guys, it was fun. I got to sit next to Alex Shapiro during the game

0:51.4

in the press box for the first time. We got to sort of watch that game together.

0:55.6

It was we had some friendly conversations over the course of the game.

1:00.1

We were texting with Clay a little bit back and forth.

1:02.8

And there's a lot to get to.

1:04.8

So I think we should start, guys, maybe sort of chronologically with the fact that we knew Caleb Williams wasn't going to play in this game.

1:13.1

We knew around nine offensive starters and nine defensive starters were not going to play.

1:18.9

The offensive starters who did not play held a practice at the stadium, 8 in the morning, throwing basically routes on air.

1:28.2

Ben Johnson said they ran about 70 plays, and it was very productive, said he.

1:36.2

We get to the game, and Tyson Beijing gets the start.

1:39.5

A little bit of a slow start, but let's start there.

1:41.8

Guys, I feel like the quarterback is always where we want to begin.

1:45.0

Let's get that out of the way so then we can get into the nitty degree because I think

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