Chicago Bears - the new cool team in the NFL thanks to Caleb Williams
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
312 Sports
4.6 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00 Bears
31:00 Luis Robert
41:45 HOF
48:00 Bulls
50:45 Michael Jordan
If a marketing firm had to choose the hottest story in the 2026 NFL season, the Chicago Bears would be the easiest sell—thanks to the electric play and magnetic personality of Caleb Williams and first‑year head coach Ben Johnson. They’re the coolest, most marketable team in football right now.
Elsewhere in Chicago sports, the White Sox officially traded Luis Robert Jr. to the Mets, closing the door on what once looked like a real championship window after their 93‑win season just five years ago. Baseball also welcomes two new Hall of Famers: Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones.
In the NBA, the Bulls stomped the Clippers last night and now shift focus to tomorrow’s matchup against Minnesota. And the highly‑promoted Michael Jordan NBC “special contributor” role? Total bust. MJ recorded one interview and offered almost nothing meaningful to NBC’s coverage.
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. Unfiltered on 312 Sports. |
| 0:07.3 | In Unfiltered, brought to you in partnership with My Bookie and by Giordano's. |
| 0:14.5 | Giordano's is on a role with its tribute to pizzas. |
| 0:17.9 | They're honoring the legendary Derek Rose on the occasion of his jersey |
| 0:21.4 | retirement with a brand new limited edition pie stacking two layers of Giordano's signature |
| 0:28.3 | pepperoni and topping it all off with a drizzle of homemade Calabrian hot honey. |
| 0:37.1 | There's a lot to do today, a lot. |
| 0:38.8 | We got basketball, we got baseball, we got all kinds of things to talk about today. |
| 0:41.7 | But I thought that last night's moment at the United Center, when they set everything up just |
| 0:46.2 | right, they set the broadcast up. |
| 0:48.3 | So Adam Amin had it all built up to the in-stadium introduction of Caleb Williams and Pete Crow Armstrong, who happened |
| 0:58.3 | to be sitting right next to each other, courtside, and nothing against PCA and whatever |
| 1:03.7 | that hat was that he was wearing. |
| 1:05.9 | He wears funny hats. |
| 1:06.8 | He's a funny hat guy. |
| 1:07.7 | No, he does. |
| 1:08.1 | That looked like a sarcastically funny hat. Like that looked like bad hat for the purpose of bad hat. No, I'm sure it's very trendy and stylish, and he's young. I can pull it off. But yeah, it's just, I'm too old for that cool stuff. But see, that's what I was wondering. Is that actually a cool hat now, or is that, like, bad hat? Like when people were wearing trucker hats ironically, and then they became cool. No, I think, I'm sure it's probably stylish and cool. And, like, you know, I look at the way younger people dress, like, when they're, when they're actually dressed and not wearing pajama pants or sweatpants. and like the pants are really big and flowy and they don't really kind of fit anymore and everyone |
| 1:49.8 | kind of looks big and boxy i think that's kind of stylish and and cool now but certainly wouldn't |
| 1:54.9 | work for me or for you so no it works works for PCA certainly wouldn't work for me. And the ovation for Caleb Williams was terrific. |
| 2:04.0 | And I want, this is something as we're, as I'm venturing into podcasting and |
| 2:09.2 | try and still after what five months now, really understanding the, the pace and the rhythm |
| 2:14.6 | of what we do. I want to go back. It's like a hitting list. I want to go back to go do. I want to go back. |
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