Was Cris Collinsworth too harsh on Caleb Williams during the NBC broadcast?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes. We're not afraid to remind people when we've had something correct.
0:05.8	That should be a tagline for this show. Who taught you how to do this stuff?
0:10.6	You are right? I learned it from watching you, Lawrence. I learned it by watching you.
0:14.5	Afternoons on the score. Chicago with the 49ers 36. First down at 10.
0:23.8	Williams under center, but a young guy remains the running back.
0:25.9	And there was some movement up front.
0:27.8	They snap into Williams to let the play go.
0:29.0	Williams with a free play.
0:32.0	Moving to his right, plants his feet, loads up, going deep.
0:33.8	Got a man, it's caught for the touchdown.
0:37.7	Colston Loveland in the end zone.
0:42.3	Williams with a free play rolled through his right and he finds Loveland.
0:46.5	A 36-yard touchdown and the Bears are within one.
0:48.3	It's Caleb Williams, HardCounds.
0:50.3	Aaron Rogers special right there.
0:53.7	Hard count getting the defense to jump and you just have a free play.
0:55.0	You wait until your receivers get downfield and you hoist it up there in Lublin just started on the right,
1:01.0	went to the left and then came back to the right once he saw Caleb Williams start to scramble.
1:08.8	And that was last night on Westwood One.
1:11.9	Wait, on Westwood One.
1:14.7	You're very good at that.
1:16.3	How about the fact that they practiced that specific version of the cadence,
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