Troy Aikman responds to the backlash to his Caleb Williams commentary

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Anthony Herron listened and reacted to ESPN color analyst Troy Aikman's comments regarding the backlash he faced for his criticism of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams in Chicago's win at Washington on Oct. 13.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes afternoons on the score.
0:03.0	Yeah, you don't know what exactly Caleb Williams is being told or what they're going to do when they come in the game.
0:09.0	But, you know, do you say, hey, we're going to take our shot, give him a chance, but there was no chance that this ball, you know, you got two defenders and they were there the whole time.
0:19.0	And, you know, okay, you give O'Donze an opportunity to go up and make a play.
0:23.0	And that's fine.
0:24.6	Take the sure thing, especially there on second down.
0:28.4	I saw you said somewhere today that you caught a little bit of the TV copy of the second half.
0:33.6	Did the tone of coming from the color analysts there surprise you?
0:39.5	Um,
0:40.4	maybe I just had it on mute.
0:43.5	It sounded like you heard some of what they said.
0:46.3	No, no, uh,
0:48.0	listen,
0:49.2	you,
0:49.6	uh,
0:50.4	you,
0:50.5	uh,
0:50.6	you want respect in this league,
0:51.5	you gotta go earn it.
0:52.3	And so,
0:53.1	uh,
0:53.3	that's where we're at right now.
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