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Spiegel & Holmes Show

What should be made of Tyler Dunne's piece on Caleb Williams?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.6632 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed Go Long writer Tyler Dunne's controversial three-part series on the dysfunction surrounding the Bears and what he reported about quarterback Caleb Williams.

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0:00.0

Why are the Bears not going to win or you want to go? Yeah, I got it. Because Caleb Williams paints his fingernails. He paints his fingernails. Oh, yeah. Pure trash talking, Kyle. Pure trash talking. That was good. That was good. That was a good one. Hey, look, he's artistically expressive. He's an unbelievable talent. And you're going to hate hearing his name for the next 12 years here at Lambo. He's an unbelievable talent. And you're going to hate here in his name for the

0:21.8

next 12 years here at Lambo. He's undefeated at Lambeau Field, by the way. All right, guys, hang on just a

0:28.3

second. We have a special test. Short sample size. Kyle Long on CBS Sports HQ. So shout out to him for that.

0:36.2

You're listening to a four seasons heating, air conditioning, Air Conditioning, and Electric Football Game Day,

0:40.9

presented by your local four dealers.

0:43.4

Caleb Williams, 1-10 in Green Bay.

0:45.9

That bombshell of an article that came out on Friday from Tyler Dunn,

0:50.7

just before you and I came on,

0:52.6

I'm glad that you and I got a chance to really dig into it and kind of have a long

0:56.6

conversation trying to figure out journalistically what was valid, what was not valid,

1:02.9

helping readers and listeners kind of decode it because it was a messy article in that way.

1:11.7

And I feel like as we come in here Monday, the coverage of that is sort of dissipated

1:17.6

a little more than I expected.

1:19.4

A lot of people kind of just writing it off as a hit piece.

1:22.7

Are you sensing some of that in the coverage and reaction?

1:25.6

Yes.

1:26.3

And I think Jack Silverstein at Reed Reed Jack, did an incredible thread on Twitter

1:31.6

talking about it and talking about the lack of journalistic ethics involved in the piece.

1:39.7

The only place that I disagree with Jack, and Jack's pretty much spot on, like, his feelings

1:44.6

or my feelings about how it came together, my only thing is that I would suggest that people

1:50.8

read it instead of just completely dismissing it.

1:55.0

Because I think that oftentimes when it comes to journalism, anything that is said negatively about a team

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