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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Caleb Williams mentions how he was 'drowning' last year around this time

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened and reacted to Bears quarterback Caleb Williams' comments about his growing comfort in head coach Ben Johnson's offensive system.

Transcript

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0:00.0

go in Odyssey Sports Station.

0:03.3

The score!

0:04.7

Spiegel and Holmes, afternoons on the score.

0:07.8

It's staying the course.

0:09.8

We talked about all the players.

0:11.8

When they came back, we gave them an action plan,

0:13.8

three areas of improvement that we really want to hone in on in the springtime.

0:17.9

You don't just all of a sudden master those.

0:20.1

We haven't had pads on yet.

0:21.4

And so those will continue to be the points of emphasis for them over the summer and when we get

0:26.0

into camp so that we can apply them and when we're playing real football. So, you know, we fit

0:30.6

them on those things. I'm going to keep those in-house. Those don't need to be public.

0:33.6

But he is taking every little criticism, every little coaching point, and he's doing

0:41.4

things better and better every single rep that he gets.

0:45.4

Bears head coach Ben Johnson talking about the growth of the quarterback, Caleb Williams.

0:51.1

The Bears and the NFL is what I, in what I like to call the dark period.

0:56.6

This is the only real time that the NFL releases its stranglehold on the sports world.

1:04.2

There's a six-week window, really a five-week window because people start.

1:08.4

Yep, because people start getting excited about camp the week before camp starts.

1:13.2

And then, of course, you know, you'll have hard knocks come back and then we'll be back

1:16.5

in the cycle.

1:17.3

But right now is the dark period.

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