Hour 2: Contract Countdown
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:30.7 | Before we start a new hour on get-up, |
| 0:32.9 | Shafti insists we talk about kickers. |
| 0:35.3 | Well, that is not true, but when somebody connects on a 72-yard field |
| 0:39.4 | all the way that Chad Ryland did in Denver, it is worth bringing up. It comes a week after Cam Little |
| 0:46.2 | hit a 70-yarder in a game in Jacksonville, not in Denver, not in the altitude and the thin air. |
| 0:53.3 | I got it, but it's still 72 yards, which is incredible. With Chad Rowland hitting from 72 and Cam Little hitting from 70, I wonder if we may see some 70-yard field goal this season. That really is the question. The game has changed. I'm old enough to remember when a 50-yard field goal was a big deal. If a guy made a 50-yarder, that felt like a big deal. Suddenly 60 has become the new 50. Could we be in a league now where the second you get over midfield, you're in field goal range? That would, that would seem to me that could be a significant weapon for an NFL team if you had a guy who could do that. Yeah. If they're consistently capable of making it, yeah, it just blows my mind because I agree with you. 50 was like the thing. Yeah. It's one thing to do it in Colorado in the altitude. In Jacksonville, they are 16 feet above sea level, and we saw 70 yarder there last week. Okay. You know who we are. We got a new hour roll in its get up. Let's start with the game last night. We all wanted to see Caleb Williams in this new Ben Johnson offense. You were nervous as could be in Chicago. What is it going to look like? Dan, the news could not have been better. And this is the second throw of the game for Caleb Williams, and he sees the safety |
| 2:03.0 | spart. He goes one, two, three, back foot hits the ground, one hitch. And that ball is put right on Cole Komet's face mask, flawless. They've got two tight ends. They've got the one they drafted out of Michigan. Yeah, there was a couple of plays that stood out to me. this is one of them just because if you just watch his feet, it's telling me he knows what he's looking at and he knows when he's supposed to be looking there. It ball, again, perfect to the tight end. Now, here's a play. Why do you like this one? Because it's second and five. They call play action. The protection breaks down. Instead of him trying to run around and be a hero and do everything himself, he kind of waste the throw that leads to third and five. |
| 2:37.3 | We can get third and five. You get man coverage. They get his switch release. The ball comes once again out on time and it leads to yards after the catch. The window's big and it's going to constrict at some point but throwing it when it's big allows for |
| 2:51.6 | that after the catch by Alameda Zakeas. 97 passing yards on the opening drive for Caleb |
| 2:58.2 | Williams here's another nice play to DJ Moore in all he would finish six of 10 |
| 3:02.6 | 10 107 yards in a. Bears win 38 nothing. |
| 3:14.5 | To a month ago, I think I've grown a lot. Now my mindset is, you know, keep growing. I think the ideas to be able to handle every single thing that I, you know, I can and everything that |
| 3:19.5 | Ben says that, you know, I should be able to handle. Been able to do that consistently over the |
| 3:23.7 | next couple of years is, you know, important for me. I thought really the three days of practice |
| 3:29.9 | we had this week and this game were the most he stacked up good days in a row right now. So |
| 3:36.8 | the challenges can be to keep pushing in that direction. |
| 3:45.6 | Okay, so there are three elements the way I see it to evaluating how a quarterback played. |
| 3:46.9 | The first is you look at the numbers. |
| 3:51.2 | Those are easy for even people like me who didn't play the game to decipher. |
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