Did Caleb Williams & Ben Johnson FIX THEIR ISSUES for Chicago Bears? | Colin Cowherd NFL

Did Caleb Williams & Ben Johnson FIX THEIR ISSUES for 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. All right, it’s time for our Sunday night pod. Uh it’s a wild day of crazy outcomes, special teams, block kicks, returns for touchdowns. One of the weirder Sundays. Let’s start with Bears 31, Cowboys 14. Let’s spend a lot of time on this. So, I felt for the first time, John, and I I wrote it down here. I really felt it in this in that 19play drive in the third quarter. I wrote down harmony. I really thought it was the first time out of the first drive that I thought Caleb and Ben, there was a certain harmony. Um, like he wasn’t rushing anything. Caleb made a couple of big-time throws, capped it in the end zone. I think it was DJ Moore. But I did. Now, the Cowboys again, you they won the field position game. Chicago did. Dallas CD Lamb got hurt second quarter. They didn’t have a lot of offense in the second half. And I know Dallas isn’t very good defensively, but listen, half the teams in this league aren’t going to be very good defensively going forward with injuries and personnel. I thought there was improvement. I thought Caleb, he dirted a couple of easy balls, but I thought there was some harmony with Ben. Yeah. I mean, I I think the story of the game is Ben Johnson versus Eberloose, which would be like uh you know, a 20-year-old playing a 5-year-old and pickup basketball. It’s not a fair fight. I mean, Ilfloose probably I understand, like you said, injuries, but I I think I flu is probably the worst defensive coordinator going. So, I I have a hard time. Listen, I I give Caleb credit. He may that that flee flicker is one of the more beautiful throws you will see all season long. It it felt like a flew night, but I don’t put much emphasis on I mean they score touchdowns with guys wide open. KT wide open touchdown. DJ Moore wide open touchdown and Rome I think the first touchdown of the game was it takes on the ground you know. So it’s just I I listen I’m not trying to be negative on this. A win’s a win. Cool moment for Ben getting his first win. But I I truly believe that some guys in this league get recycled unfairly and I flu is a good example. He has no business being a defensive court. It’s embarrassing. I mean, no one there’s no one even around. So, Caleb’s hitting these guys. There was a stretch early in the second quarter where he missed a couple balls over the middle. I’m like, “Yes.” Yes. But but then he he calmed down. I thought Ben Johnson for the first time this year had a rhythm in his play calling. It felt That’s what I thought. It felt like Detroit. Uh but he’s facing the flu. You know, you face Green Bay, Minnesota, the better defenses. It’s not like that. So I I have a hard time making a grand proclamation that Caleb’s fixed or anything, but you could only play who you’re playing and they shredded any he hit guys that were wide open. More of a reflection to me on Eberloose than it is Caleb is fixed. But I you know one thing watching the Bears I felt is they they do have good offensive personnel. I mean Jesus Luther Burton, Roma Dunay, DJ Moore, Cole Kit, Coloulston Lovelin. Swift’s a nice back. He’s a He’s not a star, but he’s a nice back. If you give Caleb reasonable protection, which he certainly had on the interior, they ran the ball better today. Here’s the one thing I is is if they become like the 23rd best scoring team in the league, it’s not going to be on the personnel or Ben. They’ve got good players here. They have some really really even their third string back is a capable player. I I would agree with you there. I I think two things can be true, right? Ibrafluence and the Cowboys defensive personnel might be the worst in the league combination. And the Bears are not as bad as they have looked through two games. Offensive personnel standpoint. Listen, is Rome ever going to be Malik Neighbors or Jamar Chase? Probably not. But he’s a really good player and he could be probably a really good two. We know DJ Moore is like a fringe what 1B2. So that they got two good receivers. Cole KT’s a good tight end, you know, and he’s technically they drafted a guy to supplant him. So I I I’m with you there. I I’m fascinated to watch. Listen, sometimes especially with a young player, a young person, however you could get confidence is important. So whether it’s against the worst defense in the league, uh who cares, right? So if you now it’s time, can you build on this? Who do they play next week? The Raiders who aren’t very good, right? I mean, so that that is something to uh to keep an eye on. If they can build on it, then yeah, then maybe there is some some life here. I I just have a hard time extracting much from uh throwing it to guys that are wide open in the NFL cuz we know that’s not the case. What 15 to 16 of the games that you’re going to play throughout the year, especially in that division, which is a good defensive division. You know, it’s once CD Lamb got banged up. I mean, you got Tolbert and Turpin and George Pickkins and Javvante Williams, pretty good running back, but it is um listen, here’s what you and I both felt coming into the Cowboy season. This is a bad coaching staff. And I thought today, there was one point it was, you know, it was uh it was a 1414 game. Uh, but it was 14-3 first after the first quarter and was it 1414 here or do I make a mistake here? Um, it was 24-14. I think there was a point in the game when CD Lamb went out and I thought, well, you know, they’ve got some pretty decent weapons, but I one of the things that was pretty clear is that Dak was trying to throw the ball down the field and was getting pretty good protection, but he couldn’t. And so once CD Lamb was out of the game, he was looking downfield. You’d see him multiple times, John. Dak would be waiting and waiting to go downfield and he would dump it off. Is that if you take CD Lamb out, you can see the Cowboys have missed defensively and offensively. They’ve missed on draft picks. They have a lot of Seale players. Well, well, let’s take the two teams, you know, coaching staffs. You know, Ben Johnson obviously is one of the better offensive coordinators and offensive minds in the league. And even Brady said Dennis Allen is one of the tougher defensive coordinators he faced as a player. And I don’t think he’s just thrown out there. We’ve seen uh him when he was with the Broncos with Pton Manning, excellent. And obviously when he was with Shawn Peyton, they had a couple years where the Saints defense was excellent. That’s why he got the job when Shawn basically took the year off, right? So then you look Brian Shottenheimer, hire zebra flu. Say what you want about Mike McCarthy. His new two defensive coordinators the last couple uh you know stretch was Dan Quinn and then Mike Zimmer, right? I mean those are obviously Dan Quinn is one of the better coaches in the league and and Mike Zimmer’s resume speaks for itself. So you go from those two guys to IFloo. I I I can’t get over I had a buddy one time tell me he had be he was a longtime quarterback coach and he he became an offensive coordinator for like one of the worst teams in the league. And I said, “I get the money, but can’t this derail your career?” He’s no he’s like actually this changes my career because once you go oh that guy’s an offensive coordinator whether you have success or you don’t you just get in that mix right Mike McCarthy when he became the head coach of the Green Bay Packers hadn’t been some dynamic offensive coordinator for years but he was viewed as like that was the next step and I think sometimes guys you know I flu becomes a head coach well if he’s not a head coach he’s then just a coordinator you see this with Brandon Staley well what if they’re actually just position coaches you know and they get in this cycle And you know, Ben Johnson gets to play him and was running circles around him today. I mean, the flea flicker is a good example where I thought the flea flicker because the guy almost got tackled. I’m like, this dude and he hits him and the guy’s wide open. It’s like, what is going on? These guys have no clue what they’re doing. So, listen, the coaching in this league, it’s when you get good defensive coordinators, it really stands out. The Brian Flores, the Robert Solas, the Vic Fangios, when you get bad ones, it really stands out. And I think that was pretty evident in this game with with Ben Johnson. And listen, I I’m not trying to diminish Caleb Williams, but he was throwing to wide open guys, which is pretty unheard of cuz it happens on a play, but it happened play after play after play. I mean, it was it was an unserious defensive performance. [Music]

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