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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Caleb Williams talked deep ball accuracy & 50-50 throws

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how Bears head coach Ben Johnson views 50-50 balls in the passing game and what that means for quarterback Caleb Williams. They also listened to Williams' comments on the topic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Spiegel and Holmes.

0:01.2

So I've been waiting to say, and the stars are Spiegel and Holmes, Chicago.

0:07.5

Afternoons on the score.

0:09.8

Penn Johnson's been everything that was promised, man.

0:11.8

He really has been.

0:12.7

You go look at the numbers on this offense.

0:14.7

Caleb Williams is throwing against base defense, his second highest rate in football,

0:17.9

play action rate, third highest rate in football.

0:19.9

Next-Gen stats has a wide-open percentage, and he's first in football. They're getting such easy

0:25.7

wins in the passing game, and it starts not with the passing game, but with the ground

0:29.7

attack. Bears lead the league in expected yards per carry right now. This offensive line

0:33.4

completely retooled, right? You have four new starters, left tackle to right guard, right tackle darn out right, having an unbelievable season. They're moving the football easily on first and ten and they're establishing those open windows, those play action passes. Johnson, listen, they're seven and three. They have a negative point differential. They've got five game running drives. They're probably not going to win the North, but in terms of proof of concept, what you expected to get from Ben Johnson, all that and more.

0:56.7

So impressed.

0:58.3

Wow, that's it.

1:01.0

Man, our guys are the best.

1:03.8

Spiegel and Olms on the score.

1:05.9

I dropped a couple of those numbers in yesterday along the way that I had read in Ben Solac's column on ESPN.

1:14.6

That's Ben Solac.

1:15.3

You hit Matt Forte to a new stat.

1:17.6

Yeah.

1:18.2

Expected yards per carry.

1:19.9

And Matt's like, ooh, I like that stat.

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