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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Did DJ Moore need to make an effort to break up Caleb Williams' interception?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes wondered if Bears receiver DJ Moore could've done more to try to break up quarterback Caleb Williams' interception on a deep ball to Moore in Chicago's loss to Detroit on Sunday.

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0:00.0

On the fake, looking downfield,

0:04.0

letting it rip, DJ Moore's down now, and it's intercepted by Votte Maddox in the end zone.

0:11.0

Maddox played it better and he's got the pick for Detroit.

0:14.0

The ball snapped. They're trying to go for a fringe shot.

0:18.0

I mean, they're trying to get all this in one play.

0:20.0

DJ Moore's the primary

0:21.2

receiver. And in this situation, because the corner is underneath it and the safety's over the top,

0:27.7

there's not much of a place for Caleb to throw it. He's trying to thread the needle, but

0:32.8

Avanti Maddox playing center field just beats DJ to the ball. So that is just great team defense.

0:39.7

A corner working together with the safety creates that turnover.

0:46.3

So Tom Brady was careful and how he said it.

0:50.6

Avanti Maddox beats DJ to the ball.

0:53.7

Ben Johnson, after the game, asked about that I&T, just said he thought Avanti Maddox beats DJ to the ball. Ben Johnson, after the game, asked about that

0:56.1

I&T, just said he thought Avanti Maddox made a great play. Alex Coon, what did you say?

1:02.3

The Caleb said in reference to that play, he did not say that he made a bad throw.

1:09.8

It was more like he was trying to give his guy a chance.

1:12.2

Just trying to give DJ a chance.

1:14.5

You know, when we had Kurt Warner on after the Green Bay game on the Saturday night that was won

1:20.1

by the DJ Moore catch, Kurt was so beautiful, I thought, talking about the way a deep ball

1:27.2

can work, where you throw it up there and then

1:29.0

the receiver adjusts and tries to time it out and such. I certainly felt watching that play

1:36.0

and that interception that DJ Moore could have made more of an effort to get to that spot,

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