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Spiegel & Holmes Show

John Elway weighs in on Howie Long comparing Caleb Williams to him

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened and reacted to Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway react to another NFL legend comparing Bears quarterback Caleb Williams to him.

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0:00.0

It's coming. It's blocked. Williams going Anza. It's caught. Today, Walker, touchdown bears.

0:08.0

Nothing fancy. Here's Walker just running a post. It's cover four. The near safety bites down on the underneath player.

0:15.0

And then Amique Robertson has to try to play over the top of that, but he recognizes it late and

0:21.6

Caleb sees it right off the bat. You game plan for that coverage, for that route.

0:27.6

He got exactly what he wanted and that was great execution.

0:30.6

You saw that graphic on that last touchdown, Caleb Williams, a single season,

0:34.6

best season in passing Bear's history, passing Eric Kramer. Usually you say with a quarterback, particularly a mobile quarterback, make him go to his left.

0:43.3

He's as comfortable rolling to his left, flipping his hips.

0:46.3

Commit?

0:47.3

Yes.

0:48.3

He's, you know what he is?

0:49.3

He's, for me, he's John Elway from my generation. That was Howie Long several weeks ago, and that's aged really well, I think.

1:01.1

Howie Long's comp of Caleb Williams as John Elway for this generation, guy who can run an awful lot,

1:07.9

guy whose completion percentage is not as high as some of his contemporaries,

1:14.0

but oh boy, does he have a knack for making big plays late in the fourth quarter and such?

1:19.8

And I think that's aged really well from Howie Long.

1:21.8

I got another piece of breaking NFL news.

1:24.1

Okay, doke.

1:25.5

The Lions announced today that they have parted ways with offensive coordinator

1:29.2

John Morton.

1:30.4

Okay, so Ben Johnson's replacement has been fired and Dan Campbell finds somebody else.

1:36.3

Maybe somebody actually trusts to call plays, so he doesn't have to do it.

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