Hope or Dysfunction? New-Look Bears Off to a Rocky Start, With Tyler Dunne.

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Founder of the Go Long Substack and podcast Tyler Dunne stops by the show to talk with Sheil about the Chicago Bears' curiously slow start to the 2025 season after an offseason of media-heightened expectations. (00:00) Intro/cold open (3:25) What’s wrong with the new-look Bears? (6:53) Did the Bears organization fail Caleb Williams? (13:24) Ben Johnson’s impact on the Bears (18:29) Cautious optimism with Ben Johnson going forward (24:15) The Hurry Up: Tom Brady and the Las Vegas Raiders The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Sheil KapadiaGuest: Tyler DunneProducer: Chris SuttonSocial: Kiera Givens and Brian WatersProduction Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer NFL show.
0:02.6	I'm your host, Shield Capadia.
0:04.1	We're talking the new look Chicago Bears today.
0:07.3	Ben Johnson.
0:08.6	Oh, and two, the takes are flying.
0:10.8	Caleb Williams, the ticks have been flying, are flying, will be flying maybe for the next
0:15.7	decade.
0:16.5	Who knows?
0:17.2	But I'm thrilled to have my friend Tyler Dunn, long time NFL reporter with a terrific
0:23.0	substack called Go Long where he does long for him. Deep dives and one of those deep dives was a
0:28.8	three-part eye-opening series on the Chicago Bears called House of Dysfunction. Tyler, so much
0:36.0	to get to. But let's start with this. What's the most interesting
0:39.1	Caleb Williams nugget to you that you unearthed doing all that reporting you did for this
0:44.9	monster series? Oh man. Well, hey, it's a pleasure to be here with a legend. Thanks so much for
0:50.3	having me. It's always great to cross pass. I'd say there are many. Talk to 32 people.
0:56.2	It's like 27,000 words so people can dig into it and maybe come up with their own
1:00.3	nugget, I'm sure. To me, it's the process. It's the fact that you've got the most treasured asset
1:06.0	in pro sports and you didn't consider anybody.
1:14.4	The GM Ryan polls and the scouts laughing Drake May off the screen.
1:19.9	Jane Daniels never a serious conversation had around the Heisman trophy winner.
1:21.6	Bo Nix and Michael Pennix did.
1:22.5	They were footnotes.
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