Colin Cowherd PRAISES Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams for BIG improvements | NFL Reaction

Welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Colin Coward podcast. Go on, hit that subscribe button if you’re new so you don’t miss any of our great football content this season. All right, Chicago Bears 47, Bengals 42. What a game. I mean, it shouldn’t have come to this. I mean, Chicago had it wrapped. The um I was thinking about this with the Bears. So they got that block field goal to beat the Raiders, the Jaden Daniels fumble to beat Washington, the 58 yard touchdown to beat Cincinnati. You make your own breaks mostly. But um I thought the really the thing that I’ve noticed about Caleb, and I said this Friday in the herd, is that against I like the Bears today against Cincinnati and Dallas when he gets that extra beat and a better run game, he’s very effective. He today while trailing Caleb at 124 passer rating, three touchdowns, no picks. Now it’s the Bengals defense, but I think what we’re seeing with this Bears team, they’re winning these weird games, John. The Bears lose weird games. It’s like what they do. Totally. They’re winning all these weird games. When they lose, they’re outclassed by Baltimore, right? They got but they couldn’t run the ball but they’re winning the weird games. And I mean Caleb today is 20 of 34. He’s never thrown a lot of picks. He had five carries, 11 yards a carry. I I do see growth. I absolutely do. Operationally, there was another moment that I just drives me nuts. But there’s a there’s something to be said for a losing organization. You saw the horsepower. He does not throw a lot of picks. Um I just think there’s there is value in winning games you have lost for the last decade. You know, blocking a field goal. Uh uh you when they hit that big play to Loveland, I’m like, “Oh my god, they they just would not have done that in the last 10 years.” So I I I’m I’m going to give the Bears credit by the way with the Packers and Lions losing. NFC North is wide open today. Massive day for the Vikings in uh JJ McCarthy and Caleb Williams. I wrote this down probably early in the third quarter. Can you win a shootout because we’ve seen them win some ugly games, right? Their defense was leading the league in turnovers and I didn’t know and they did. And it shouldn’t have been as they were up double digits, right? When DJ Morris they they went to challenge it, it ended up being a touchdown which was an explosive play. Ben Johnson’s a stud. You know, when part of the reason I like the Bengals in this game because like, oh, DeAndre Swift’s out. Well, he’s been one of the hottest players in the league and then he turns this Ruter seventh round pick. I think he ran for 170 yards, Colin. So, he was fantastic. The Bears defense morphed into the Bengals defense, so it even put more pressure on Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams, and they were awesome. The other thing is there’s kind of the elephant in the room with Tyler Warren looking like one of the best tight ends in the league. like, hey, you guys drafted Lovelin. Huge day for him. I think Lovelin got the game bowl. Lovelin and the running back. So, you had two rookies come through. Good day for Pace, right? Taking some heat with the Drake May emergence and people are kind of looking at his at his draft. So, Lovelind, the the rookie running back. And overall, like the thing that has stood out to me has been how good Ben Johnson is. And he he’s really kind of said to me, Caleb, when he scrambles around, it it doesn’t really work. He’s got to learn to kind of calm down a little bit, but like you said, doesn’t turn the ball over. Hit explosive plays today. And and Lovelin and the running back were they had 580 yards. Jesus, that’s a lot of yards. They averaged 7.6 yards a play. Dominated time of possession. And you know, they were much, you know, they were very good on third down. So again, they had a shootout with the Cowboys, blew them out, shoot out with the Bengals on the road, pick up a W. There’s value in all this stuff. And I think, you know, the other thing is we’ve seen it with Bo Nicks. He’s tremendous in the fourth, but he he has he has long gaps where he struggles. Drake May didn’t have a great day today. He had some he struggled a bit. Uh Pennock’s made some really good nice throws today. I think all these young guys, the difference between a great quarterback like Allen and Drake May is you know almost exactly what you get with Josh Allen. It’s Steph Curry. He may have a bad every eighth game he just may be off and it’s usually for a half. The great players are Kobe in his prime was was you got the same damn guy every night. And I think with Caleb Williams I think it’s official. I can see growth. I there’s no question he is a better football player this year than last. Would you agree that that you can see you can see growth? Yeah, he’s definitely better. He’s he’s solid. He has not been It’s his bad plays when he scramles around. It feels like the offense is just so out of sync because it’s like could he just sit in the pocket for an extra second, even throw the ball away and a lot of his scrambles don’t turn into explosive plays. But today when I I can live with the bad if you’re making explosive plays and throwing touchdowns. I’ll say the same thing with JJ McCarthy. I can live through growing pains if you’re accounting for several touchdowns a game, right? And I think you saw it today with both guys is they’re good or scoring plays. So if you’re giving me touchdowns or big chunk plays in the passing game, I I I can live with a bad sack or or a missed play on third and seven, right? That it’s when you’re not getting eat. You’re not getting the layup stuff and you’re not having, you know, scoring touchdown level explosive plays. So yeah, Caleb, they have explosive play. Oh, there’s no question. I I like Chicago skill players. Like him a lot. I mean, to be able to go to a backup running back and he’s kind of a gender bug. He’s a smaller guy. Might be kind of the pitterpatter of his feet. He’s He’s a He was running fast. Yeah, he was really moving. All right. Minnesota 27, Detroit 24. Before we get to JJ McCarthy, Goff got sacked five times, hit 11, 10 tackles for loss. Brian Flores was on his game today. They couldn’t run the football at all. So, it was um Omar on St. Brown and Sam Laapora were excellent, but Detroit could not run the ball. And that’s kind of the engine that makes everything slick and click there. JJ McCarthy was um after the first couple of drives, he he was about 50% again, but I got two touchdowns, ran for another um okay on third down, I thought he was very good in the scripted stuff early. Overall, he moves well. He looks I It’s funny about size. He looks a little small to me. It’s It’s so funny. Mahomes is 6’1 and a half. He feels huge to me. I don’t even Aaron Rogers is 6’1 and a half. He feels 6’4. Uh McCarthy if sometimes feels like he gets engulfed. But overall, I thought he moved well and played pretty well. Did you have a strong take on him? I I think your take on the weight, I think it’s a girth thing, your size, your thickness. Cuz Russell Wilson never felt like he was small, right? Even though he’s 5’10, cuz he’s 220 lbs. Caleb’s a good example. Shorter, but feel he’s Caleb’s 6 feet tall. I’m taller than Caleb by like an inch, but he’s thick. One thing we said about JJ last year during the injury and I think Albert Brer and a bunch of guys, he lost a bunch of weight and was like 185 lbs. So, I think it’s harder for Mahomes probably weighs 230 lbs. So, I I think that factors in. The number one thing with JJ today were the good plays were touchdowns. So, if you’re going to account for three touchdowns, you could have 20 incompletions and have some terrible plays. It’s when you’re not scoring and bringing none of that to the table, it’s just a complete disaster. Flores, I thought if you were gonna give one game ball to the coach today, it’d probably have to go absolutely because you’re on the road in Detroit. That was that that was excellent. I mean, his guys were flying around. Goff’s good against the Blitz and early on, I think they had blitzed like five or six times. They sacked him on two of them. Goff was all out of sync. their offense was out of sync. And I it it felt like he gave the speech, we’re going to have to win this thing because in fairness coming into that game and they they kept hitting on it on the broadcast of I I thought Tom did a good job. He said there’s no one disputing his arm strength, but you know, Burkhart must have come in late from the baseball game last night. was there. Talk about a guy grinding. And Brady’s big thing was clearly he knows Kevin pretty well. It’s like sometimes you need to do a change up. Sometimes we need to get some off speed. Sometimes you need touch balls because you watch the arm strength is fine. But on some of these balls over the middle on third and eight and even at his interception was a little behind his like Caleb like some of these guys is a work in pro. Yeah. JJ’s interception was low and down and it and the Lions player came over it. No, that’s that’s Matt Stafford is the master of tempo. Like he can sling it sidearm, he can throw heat and I think of it’s just it is a little bit like being a baseball pitcher. I what I worry about with JJ McCarthy is and I felt like this with Brock Pury. You know, when the Niners Christian McCaffrey is upright, I don’t even care who the quarterback is. I mean like m if if Christian McCaffrey plays today at half their yards. It doesn’t matter if it’s M. Jones or Brock Pretty. I do feel with Kevin Oonnell, Justin Jefferson, good left tackle. I I kind of feel like it’s hard to evaluate JJ because the coach, the left tackle, and the receiver are so good. It’s like San Francisco with Kyle and Chris McAffrey. And then when KD’s healthy and and Jennings can be, you know, highly productive, how valuable is the quarterback? So, this isn’t anti-J McCarthy. I just think I think again I think I just need more of him. I just have to see more games. I thought Brian Flores was game ball. That That’s why I think it’s fair for JJ McCarthy. the bar of how he’s being judged should be higher than a lot of random young quarterbacks on bad teams. When you play for crappy franchises and you lose, I expect that. Like whoever the Carolina Panthers draft, I I don’t expect it to look great. But when you get Justin Jefferson in his prime, Hawinson, Jordan Addison, Kevin Oonnell, if we had a coaching draft, where would Kevin? He’d go in the top five. So everything and this was Tre Lance’s thing. When you get drafted to a team whose expectations are, yeah, let’s win 14 games and compete for the conference championship, you you just get judged a lot differently. And I’ll give JJ credit in the Bears game. He had huge moments in a big time. Today at the end of the game with the game on the line, his coach put it in his hands and he delivered. And that’s where I think a lot of his defenders go with the quote unquote he’s a winner. There is some winning characteristics when you’re comfortable in big moments. You go back to that moment against Alabama where it looked like Harbaugh had this all-time great roster and he was going to lose in the in the playoffs to Nick Sabin on probably I bet Nick would say one of his worst ever playoff teams. JJ made some great plays. You watched his first start against the Bears big spot made some great plays and today on I thought they were just going to run it and just hey lean it on floor as they put it in his hands. Great throw Colin. Not a good throw a great throw. Yeah. Well, when I watched him at Michigan, that was always my take. Moves well. Gritty kid. Didn’t make a ton of big throws, but he’d make one or two NFL Sunday throws. He can make the big throws. So, I just don’t have a ton, you know? I mean, like, say what you want about Bo Knicks. I’ve got like a six-game winning streak and he he’s got a 119 passer rating, nine touchdowns, no pick in the fourth quarter. I’ve got a lot of samples of Bo Knicks. He can have gaps, but late he’s really good. So I with JJ I I’ve never been a huge believer but I thought you know what to go to Detroit you got the well you know you win a lot of different ways. Not every Sunday for Brady was great. That Teddy Brusski crew they there were days that Tom didn’t do a lot of heavy lifting. He was 20 of 28 with a lot of underneath stuff. So, um, yeah, if I was going to defend, you know, JJ hasn’t been playing, Carson has, or but definitely Caleb Williams. Their de I mean, Caleb’s defense I sometimes you watch the Bears on defense and they just look at and Minnesota till today, they had been pretty bad this season, Colin. I mean, today was and even today, they gave it’s not like they gave up 10 points. I mean, and they had some drop balls. I mean, there were plays to be made like the defenses on those two teams. I mean, Bo Knicks, we we might have just watched the two best defenses in the league play each other today, right? The physicality of Denver and Houston and how good their defensive lines are. So, anytime you have a defense that is that good, it does back you up when you’re not making plays. But, uh, I I’d say all three of these guys have one thing going for them. JJ McCarthy now, obviously, Caleb and Bo Knicks making plays in big spots. And I think when you look at Caleb and Boicks, they’ve had a lot of snaps now. Well, they also have Shawn Payeyton. I mean, look at the look at the coaches. Ben, Kevin O such an advantage. Such a huge advantage. [Music]

Colin Cowherd is joined by John Middlekauff to react to Week 9 in the NFL. They hit Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears’ crazy win over the Cincinnati Bengals. Is Williams actually developing as a quarterback or are the Bengals just that bad?

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46 comments

  3. What would you be saying had they lost that game? Caleb Williams runs around in the pocket back and forth like he’s in grade school. He holds on to the ball way tf too long. And he also misses on easy dump offs. So much talent it’s frustrating but he definitely needs work. One thing is if he would just step up in the pocket he’d get receivers open and be a threat to run in wide open field. But instead he sinks back and runs left and right. Ben Johnson please work with this young man to fix this! He should at least be a top 12 QB.

  4. Nothing against Caleb, but he was up against the worst defense in the league. That isn't even up for debate. Heck, even the Jets went up and down the field on the Bengals. The Bengals D makes the Dallas D look like the 85 Bears.

  7. You just dropped a video days ago talking about “Why this is Caleb’s last chance in Chicago “ or some shyt like that 😭🤦🏿‍♂️ Wishy washy analyst and ion even watch your videos no more because of it 💯 Same with Acho bs takes

  8. Penix was the best QB in their draft class but Poles got suckered in the hype and picked Caleb so that's who we got. Haven't seen anyone throw as nice as Penix since Warren Moon.

  10. He literally played the worst defense in football. I guess Justin Fields showed growth last week against the Bengals too. Caleb’s 2 best games this season have come against the 2 worst defenses in football: Cowboys & Bengals.

  16. Year 2 under Ben Johnson Caleb will be the best qb in his class. The bears have a top 10 office pass and run and he gets criticized like he’s a bust smh year 2 under Johnson will look so different. A half year is already noticeable. Ben gets a certified LT and Dennis Allen actually gets real pass rushers and this team with be a major threat. Watch. 3 years under Ben Johnson and the bears won’t be the laughing stock of the league no more

  20. Dude you’re exhausting to listen too. Caleb is the greatest, Caleb is on his way out, Caleb is great again. Let’s face it, it’s really Caleb’s rookie season. Last year doesn’t count because he basically had zero coaching. Stop writing the kid off and be more thoughtful.

  22. Collin has this weird obsession with making sure everyone KNOWS that he is 6’2”. It’s almost as if he has some mental complex in people possibly thinking he’s short since we only ever see him sitting down behind a desk.

  24. I want to give Caleb Williams props but it really needs to come with a grain of salt. He did this to the worst NFL defense in the history of the game. That is not conjecture but a fact. So forgive me, or don't, for pumping the brakes a little with his performance.

  32. You clapping seals would be all over Caleb if they didn’t luck out at the end.

    Chicago couldn’t stop anything it wasn’t a “wrap”

  33. Colin does this all the time. The Chiefs beat up on the Raiders and a Mariotta Commanders "CHIEFS ARE BACK!" . Caleb looks good against the Bengals defense ………..by the way the Jets got their one win against the Bengals……"CALEB IS MAKING PROGRESS" . Context matters

  41. Colin can't make up his mind. He's awful. He's great. He's a bust. He's a superstar. He's not progressing fast enough and will be gone at the end of the season. He's coming along nicely and has unbelievable skill.

    Sheesh!

  42. This video should've ended after Colin said "it was the Bengals defense…" yes correct, that's all it was.

    And Colin continues to say "and against Dallas", oh you mean against the other worst defense in the league?

    Caleb is mid. Stop pushing it.

  44. I’d like to think that Caleb will eventually progress to be an elite NFL quarterback but I don’t think that will happen. Caleb has played 25 professional games and he still has significant problems going through his progressions. His accuracy is still a problem. Holding the ball longer than any NFL quarterback. And finally his tendency to play “hero ball” too often like he did at USC. I’m hoping for the best but being a Bears fan I expect the worse.

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