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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Chris Emma delivers a Bears hit from Halas Hall

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Score reporter Chris Emma, who shared a Bears report live from Halas Hall. He focused on the Bears’ decision to play their starters against the Bills on Sunday in their second preseason game.

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0:00.0

We like it too.

0:02.9

Chris Emma has got our Bears hit for us.

0:05.1

He joins us on the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline, Circa, Las Vegas.com.

0:11.0

Okay, Emma, what are we seeing up at Hallis Hall these days?

0:15.8

Guys, good to be with you, a hour or two hours or so on the practice field for the Bears today

0:20.7

with Caleb

0:21.2

Williams and the starters getting some situational work in there some scripted work throughout

0:25.6

the day. The story today is what Ben Johnson told us before practice, which is that

0:30.3

Caleb Williams and the Bears starters will be on the field Sunday night at Soldier Field.

0:34.9

And this is obviously different from this past Sunday where they kept the starters out.

0:39.7

Ben Johnson got another reason why they didn't play last weekend and why they will play on Sunday.

0:44.9

So here's Ben Johnson.

0:46.7

Well, last week, and really all through camp, I've been pretty consistent with the thought of reps, reps, reps are the most important

0:55.6

thing to get him up to speed.

0:58.8

And by the plan that we had a week ago, we were able to get him probably somewhere between

1:03.4

80 and 100 more reps than we would have been able to do had he played in the game.

1:08.4

This week, it's a different schedule, a different length of time in terms of in-between

1:13.2

games and all that.

1:14.3

And so our plan right now is the guys that sat out last week they will be playing this

1:18.8

week.

1:19.1

What do you learn from players who are established starters who are playing in the precincts?

1:23.9

What do you look for out of them?

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