Why Caleb Williams is a HIT for Ben Johnson’s Chicago Bears | Colin Cowherd NFL

Why Caleb Williams is a HIT for Ben Johnson’s Chicago Bears | Colin Cowherd NFL

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. I I want to I want to I want to talk about the Bears for a second. So Chicago beats New York 24-20. And so it was Caleb Williams and Jackson Dart and Jackson Dart outplayed him for the first three quarters. But there is something I’ I’ve said this about Caleb Williams multiple times, John. He doesn’t get hurt and he doesn’t throw interceptions. Jackson Dart gets hurt a lot and he’ll throw picks. Now Jackson, I thought he plays with a ton of confidence. He throws a nice ball. Jackson played really, really well. He had a couple of touchdown runs. One was a 24 yardd run. Was a big time run. Both those quarterbacks can really way above average movement. Way above average. Now again, Caleb had a great fourth quarter. But when I watch the game, and you have to watch the whole game, there’s becoming an issue with Jackson Dart. He’s blue tenting it. He’s getting banged up a lot. This is my Brock Pretty thing. If you’re a little smaller or you play with a lot of confidence, Baker Mayfield used to do that first couple years. He played with more confidence than he should have. Somebody would pick him off. He’d square him up. It’s like, bro, you’re a quarterback. You’re not You’re not a free safety. Would it worry you the Jackson dart concussion today, the constant blue tent visits, and the injuries? I think it worries me with all these young quarterbacks. They all have a style, you know. I would say Caleb Williams style is the same thing. He’s just built more like a like a tank. They all scramble around and run around. I mean, Jaden Daniels is nowhere to be found. Where’d he get hurt? Running, you know? I mean, this this is the new age. We watch football every Saturday for four plus months and it’s fantastic, but they’re all moving around. So, back in the day, Pton Manning, Tom Brady, one, all those guys are huge. The quarterbacks now are smaller. I mean, they’re they’re definitely smaller, but they move around. To me, the Jackson Dart, they the play that he got injured on, the one that he fumbled, it was like a quarterback power, which had worked earlier in the game. So, when you’re calling those plays and the guy’s name’s not Cam Newton, you know, this is the NFL, you know, he got rocked by like three guys. And I mean, there were a lot of plays. The strength of Caleb was on full display today. How many sacks did he break out of? I I actually think there’s an element that I it’s like I’m not I’m going to sound critical, but he almost throws too hard. There were so many balls that were dropped by those guys throughout the game. It’s probably, you know, you’re there, right? How cold is it in Chicago? You probably can’t feel your hands. Balls are pro I bet some of those guys were going to wake up in the morning with sore hands and but on the balls where Jackson Dart was completing them, it was more roll out lobs. It’s hard to complete the Brett Favre. Favre’s players used to talk about this in Green Bay like it is hard. Yeah. So did Elways in December and November. And I just thought like it’s not that Rome is a bad player, but you catch that. I would say Caleb Williams has right now as strong of an arm as anyone in the NFL. He let a couple rip today where you’re just like that’s Josh Allen if not stronger. It was Jesus. How about he he rolled right. I was impressed. I I I’ve been hard on him. I I thought I was impressed today with how he played in the in the weather, too. He rolled right. He threw a ball to DJ Moore in the end zone who he caught it but he was out of bounds. John, it was 40 yards. I swear to God it was a line drive to left field. It was about as high as the shorts stop. It was a freaking rope in a windy cold environment. And DJ Moore to caught it, but it was out of bounds. His I the word I always use with Caleb and I’d never used it with any quarterback before is just horsepower. He is a V8. I mean it is he is and here’s the other thing. The knock on him, Caleb, is, you know, he holds the ball too long. But I was thinking about this today. He doesn’t throw picks. So, in his mind, is, yeah, I’m going to hold it longer than other guys because my escapability outside of Lamar Jackson is probably second best in the league. So, first of all, I’m stronger than Lamar Jackson. So, if I do get hit, I mean, he rolls. You can’t if you’re coming in as a constantly. Yeah. or or Big Ben where a defensive player gets on his shoulder and he just brushes him off. So, I think a lot of him holding the ball is I just trust that I’m gonna escape. And, you know, I watched it a couple of times today when he had that big run down the sideline. I’m like, if he was a running back, you wouldn’t want to size him up if you were a safety. I mean, he’s a big dude. I remember we did this maybe like week two and one thing that jumped out to me you know because last year their games were just so I mean they had what like a 10ame losing streak I mean they didn’t matter you watch him this year he is way more athletic than I think people thought coming out also you know when you’re judging him against Arizona and Arizona State and Colorado right in college you see him against these NFL guys he’s running faster than them now you know I’m not saying he’s Lamar Jackson in the open field but he is way faster than I expected Uh I I thought he kind of won them the game down the stretch today. He he huge play after huge play and obviously it flipped when Dart gets hurt and Russell Wilson it was just man it’s hard to come in in a game where it’s freezing cold but god he looks terrible. So Caleb’s fourth gamewinning drive in six weeks and my whole life I have watched the Bears lose games like they’re winning and and this by the way it’s different. Denver is winning, but the quarterback play is awful. The quarterback play with Chicago is wildly dynamic. And and what’s interesting, Caleb’s gotten better late in games. He may not be as good on the script that he was in the first four weeks. Like now he’s doing stuff on his own. And I mean right now this season in the fourth day he had 77 yards passing, a passing touchdown, 109 passer rating, 52 yards rushing, and a rushing touchdown. Okay. And again, that’s not the script. That’s the opposite of the script. Those were crucial drives to win the game with a ton of pressure. Yeah, I think we I I think he’s a hit. I I I listen, winning games is like today I watched the Colts. Oh god, drove me crazy. They won the game. This is That’s why with analytics sometimes I’m like, I’m going to get points sometimes, not the touchdown. I need to win the game so we all keep our mortgage, right? Well, well, to me, the Bears game, if that had been a probably it’s probably a rarity in Chicago, but let’s say it’s a 75 degree November, early November game, you know, perfect weather. Let’s even say like 60. I’d be like, well, the Giants are terrible. When it’s freezing cold, that that makes the game very difficult. I don’t care who you’re playing. I I’m sure you saw some of that Wisconsin, you know, Washington game, Iowa, Oregon game. It is hard to play in those environments. No one can feel their hands. Hard to breathe. I I have way more respect. Like I I I don’t judge scores. You know, you’re not going to hit many explosive plays in the passing game. What is all what you know, if you go back and I saw it firsthand because they played the Niners when Lafleur got there and they resurrected Rogers career. They were playing these home games in Green Bay. It’s freezing cold. So your your vaunted pass attack does not work as well. And you know, University of Washington has one of the best wide receivers in the league, one of the best quarterbacks in the country. They couldn’t operate. They have a great offense. It doesn’t function or you know, Oregon has NFL players everywhere. They they couldn’t function. So, it’s like I I just go, “Hey, if you got to win a game 13 to 10, I actually think for and it’s an awesome Listen, if you’re a Bears fan, you apologize to nobody about winning games after the last. The Giants uh this thing I I defended probably three or four weeks ago. I’m like, listen, he went all in on this quarterback. He was right. Right. I mean, there is if you just pull GMs right now, I think 32 of them would take Jackson Dart over uh Cam Ward today. Now, his their careers aren’t written, but today Brian Del was right about the quarterback he liked. Yeah. The problem is his team. I mean, that’s I think I I read today a stat that that’s his fourth game in which he had a second half lead of 10 plus points. And obviously, he’s had now multiple double digit leads in the fourth quarter in which they imploded. I mean, today he kicked a field goal. They had 12 men on the field, but Russell’s in the game, not Dart. he declines the penalty and takes the points instead of just getting the first down because and listen I thought like hey you don’t want to risk fumbling you’re up 20 to 10 how are the Bears going to score but then it it bit him in the ass and there were reports you know local radio they people have connections to ownership that said the ownership was close after the Denver Broncos game and this feels you know you’re up 20 to 10 you’re cruising maybe they give them a little break cuz darts in the tent but man that’s it’s hard to It’s hard to kind of fend off the arrows, Colin, when you keep having these devastating losses. Football season’s here, and if you want to go to an NFL or college football game, Game Time is the place for you. The Game Time app just gives you the advantage back to you, the fans. It’s a hack for unlocking amazing tickets and experiences in a few taps. I love it. Easy to use. 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Colin Cowherd is joined by ‘3 & Out’ host John Middlekauff to react to Week 10 in the NFL. Caleb Williams led the Chicago Bears to another 4th quarter comeback, this week vs. the New York Giants, and the duo discusses how the Bears QB transformed into a hit for Ben Johnson.

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