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Spiegel & Holmes Show

The national coverage of Caleb Williams is embarrassing

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Holmes & Russ Dorsey react to some of the dialogue nationally surrounding Bears QB Caleb Williams.

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0:00.0

I gotta be careful with Caleb Williams.

0:02.8

I don't want to say he's fragile at the moment, but the guy's had a lot going on.

0:10.4

Well, I mean, I'm going to be real with you guys.

0:11.7

I know Ben Johnson was one of the most highly acclaimed offensive coordinators in the last 15 years.

0:17.4

I mean, listen, he's doing these radio interviews.

0:19.8

He's going to the podium, and I don't see a lot of positivity.

0:24.9

Spent two years arguing with Jason McIntyre over his stadium. Yikes. I'm not surprised he hasn't

0:33.8

involved his thinking, but it's whatever.

0:42.9

He's not the problem, you know, because he's an opinionista, like from way back.

0:43.6

And that's okay.

0:45.8

Like, that's part of the echo system. We're going to talk about that later.

0:46.8

I know we are, and I'm looking forward to that conversation.

0:49.7

I was, like, I walked in here on Monday, and Tanny goes, hey, you know your guy was talking about Caleb Williams, and I was like, walked in here on Monday and in tanny goes hey you know your guy was talking about

0:55.9

Caleb william and I was like which one of my guys you have a lot what was it and he was like

1:01.5

sam a cho I was like oh sam that's my man yeah Sam and I used to do a show together it's great

1:06.3

I met his dad Dr. archo and all this stuff like Sam wouldn't break bad on Caleb, would he? And Taney was like, yeah, listen to this. Caleb Williams was very sloppy last night from the first play, really, to as long as he was in there. The first play was a fumble. He fumbled a snap on somewhat of a jet sweet motion. And then after that, you saw a couple sacks that were unnecessary, even a couple misses. That's not what you want to see in your last preseason opportunity to show what you can do. And then other things, a little thing, but a big thing, even just some of the uniform stuff. Look at the socks that are halfway down. He did the same thing last week. You saw D'Andricks who did the same thing as well. It's not a huge deal, but when you're looking at a franchise quarterback, a leader of the team,

1:47.0

you want to be in full uniform. We want to be a guy that other teammates can look to. And it's something you can point to when you do have penalties and you're sloppy. You're saying, man, this guy doesn't even focus on the little things. So those are two things, the sloppiness from

1:42.0

its play and trying to focus on the little things.

1:44.0

Yeah, that's really interesting.

1:45.5

Nope.

1:46.8

I have no problem with what's, So those are two things, the slapiness from his play and trying to focus on the little things. Yeah, that's really interesting.

2:02.3

Nope.

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