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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Herm Edwards: These Bears are humming through the NFL

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0

Spiegel and Holmes

0:01.5

Afternoons on the score

0:03.0

Hello

0:03.8

You play to win the game

0:06.8

We're playing to win this week

0:08.2

All right final hour for us

0:12.1

He is Anthony Here and I'm Jetser Richards

0:13.6

We are in for Spiegel and Holmes today

0:16.0

So excited to talk to our next guest

0:18.7

He is Herm Edwards

0:20.2

He is the one with I don't want to go too guest. He is Herm Edwards. He is the one with, you know, I don't want to

0:22.9

go too far, but that is one of the most favorite or famous quotes in sports. And Herm, I'm

0:28.8

sorry, it's a bit on the nose, but you heard Ben Johnson follow up after you, where when

0:33.2

Ben Johnson was asked this week about how they're going to approach the Detroit lines.

0:40.5

They're already in as the two or the three-seat.

0:43.6

And he said very clearly, we're going to play to win that game.

0:49.9

What was it so much about that quote from yours back in 2002 that you think resonated so much with the public?

1:12.5

Well, I just think people, you know, in general, whenever you are a competitor, I mean, if that's not your mindset, then you got a problem, right? And it doesn't matter how many games you want or lost. I mean, every game is a, or opportunities, that's the most important opportunity. And when you stop playing to win, then why are you playing?

1:16.6

The end of the day, I mean, that's kind of important last time I checked.

1:21.6

And it seems that this coach, Ben Johnson, for the Bears, in his first year,

1:27.9

we had seen for seasons that he was a high-level offensive mind in Detroit.

1:34.1

And then you had Dan Campbell as the head coach that seemed to be this sort of driving force for the Detroit culture.

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