Chicago Bears-Washington Commanders PREDICTION: Caleb Williams or Jayden Daniels | Colin Cowherd NFL

Chicago Bears-Washington Commanders PREDICTION: Caleb Williams or Jayden Daniels | 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. So, uh, let’s you you had a very So, I’ve had a couple of winning weeks in Blazing Five. And frankly, I’ve actually lost three games I should have won, including Denver Colts, which is just outrageous. Um, I’ve had a couple of stinkers where I’ve just not been able to get a break. Um, then last week I got the over on the Titans cards, which I didn’t deserve, although they should have covered that in the second quarter. Be that as it may, the most interesting bet on the board and one I’m feeling really strongly about is Washington minus 4 and a half at home against Chicago. So, I think a by week is really valuable when you have a veteran quarterback, a proven coach, a Payton, um, an Andy Reid with Mahomes. can really add layers to a playbook. Um, Aryans and Tom Brady come out of the buy and don’t lose again. But when you have Caleb Williams and you’re just got you’re trying to get the basic operations polished, you’re just trying to get the consistency ramped up. You’re not really spending it adding layers and layers to a playbook. So, you don’t get that advantage. Also, Washington now Terry McLaren back dbo Samuels. If you watch the second half of the Chargers Commanders game, Jaden Daniels was Jaden Daniels. Spinning it, accurate, moving. It was okay. Let’s not forget how good he was last year. He looked like that guy. It’s one of my favorite picks of the week. I also have this. I think I’ve told you this, the number four. I always take the favorite because Vegas doesn’t want to make anybody a four to four and a half point favorite. They want to go three, they want to go seven. When they do that four, four and a half, five, it’s like, okay, this team is better. We’d prefer We’d prefer to get it down to three. They don’t want to go to four. I think Washington’s my favorite bet of the week. Well, I hope you’re wrong. Um, we’ll we’ll we’ll start there. Um, I what I will push back on is you’re right. I don’t think that the advantage for the Bears coming out of the buy is the same as it is for Andy Reid, Shawn Payeyton, Bruce Arens in terms of like extra game planning for Washington. Like that is probably not what was happening. But like you know what I’d settle for as a Bears guy? Figuring out how to run the ball a little bit. like that. I do think that having a new coach that is trying to instill a new system, having an early buy is helpful because it’s more about self scouting. It’s more about like an extra week of training camp. And so, yeah, it’s maybe not like the conventional ad, but like maybe the Bears will get the play call in a few seconds faster. Maybe they’ll have a few fewer pre-nap penalties. Maybe they’d have a game with no pre- snap penalties. That would be amazing. Like, and so like those are low bars to clear, but I have thought that the Bears have gotten better week to week to week with Caleb Williams playing on schedule, playing in the pocket. What Ben Johnson is clearly trying to get out of him, some of it was the opponent, right? Dallas’s defense is is is a layup. The Raiders defense hadn’t been very good. That is clearly part of it. and Washington has a very good pass rush and we’ll see how healthy the Bears offensive line ends up being. We we don’t know who’s going to start at left tackle or right tackle uh at this moment in time which is not great uh for the Bears but I do expect the Bears to play well because I think that they are I think that they are very bought in on Ben Johnson. I do think he’s a good coach and I think that they are going to self scout like Grady Jared and TJ Edwards should help their run defense a little bit. Um, and I just I’m expecting a great game. So, I don’t love it as nearly as much as you do from either side. I I don’t have Do you have a pick you love? Not in the game. I don’t. I mean, again, but part of this is I really really I’ve got a lot of like take equity in Caleb Williams being good. And this is such a fun spot for Ben Johnson and the Bears. Everybody left Caleb for dead in the Jaden Daniels, Caleb Williams debate, right? Jaden has this the best rookie year I’ve ever seen. Caleb Williams Rocky at best. Gets his play caller fired, his head coach fired. Everyone’s got Jaden Daniels as this great guy. It’s also the game you’ll remember where the Bears lost on the Hail Mary last year. They were 4-2. Tyreek Stevenson is taunting the crowd and then his guy catches the Hail Mary and then the Bears lose 10 straight games. So exercising the demons of the Hail Mary game, Caleb v Jaden, Ben Johnson out of a buy. Like I just I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re going to get the best version of the Bears. They might lose, but I will be shocked if they play poorly. Like I will I will just be shocked if they play poorly. And I still have enough root in me for the Bears that I’m just going to not bet this one because I’ll be sweating it enough, which is a little embarrassing as a degenerate gambler. But as of now, I have no bet in the game. Taunting the crowd. 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. The game time guarantee means you can trust you’ll get a 100% authentic tickets on time and at the best price 100%. So they even let you preview your seat on the app. That’s special. Plus fees roll is included. So what you see is what you pay every time. Take the guesswork out of buying professional football tickets with Game Time. 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Although I think Rickettts is a really good above average owner, really in the community, really respected, really smart guy. um based on how the Cubs season has gone. Let’s say the Cubs lose in four or five. How will that be viewed? Because I know when you’re a Mariner fan, they’re the only team that’s never been to a World Series. If they get to the ALCS and they get overwhelmed by Toronto in six, you’d be like, listen, what a great season. Most of their guys are in arbitration. It’s a young team. I mean, Cal Raleigh this year is only making two and a half. Like Seattle’s young, ascending, loyal fans, only team in the Northwest, if it goes to the American League Championship Series and you win some games, it’s just a magical season to remember. New York, once Garrett Cole got hurt, was delusional if they thought they were going to win the thing. The Dodgers just have far more good players and the Brewers ended up being better than the Yankees. And the Blue Jays, I do believe, will win that series. Um, they just they get they hit too much. I mean this the Yankee starters Toronto is hitting 439 against Yankee starters. It’s like beer league softball numbers. So, but how are the Cubs viewed? Because Milwaukee has been they swept the Dodgers this year. They have been a freight train. Let’s say they lose the next game or let’s say they take it five and lose. How will that be viewed in Chicago? Massive disappointment and wildly frustrating if not expected. Um, few few layers to it. And maybe the biggest one is the Cubs stole Craig Council from the Brewers. That’s right. Their the their manager. They made him the highest paid manager in the sport by far. Uh, everyone has biases. You have to you can trust the people who admit their biases. I I’m friends with Craig Counsel. He was my brother’s childhood best friend. I’ve known him since I was 6 years old. I do a big charity thing with the Cubs. Like so like I I know Craig pretty well and I root for the Cubs since I was a little kid. Um Craig’s brilliant. He’s a great manager, but the Cubs dwarf the Brewers in payroll. They stole their manager and they had fewer wins than the Brewers last year and they had fewer wins than the Brewers this year. And then if the Brewers are the team that eliminates them from the postseason, it’s just not acceptable given the payroll and the resources disparities. It’s just not like and Tom Ricketts, by the way, would say the same thing. Like he he will not be happy with the result of that. And Cubs fans would say, “Well, then spend more money.” And the C the Cubs were disappointing at the deadline because Justin Steel, who is their ace, got hurt in April out for the year. And they did not make a big buy at the deadline. They made four moves, mostly peripherals, smaller moves. And that was seen as very disappointing because they didn’t go out and get a true difference maker. Did those moves help? Well, that’s the thing. There really was no true differencemaking pitcher who was traded. like it was a fairly benign deadline in that way, but fans don’t really want to hear that. And so the Steel got hurt in April and then Cade Horton’s their rookie pitcher who was an absolute stud. He got hurt in September. So like he so that it was oh wow, Horton’s going to be able to carry him and then he got hurt right before the playoffs. So like they they started Col they had an opener in game two against the Padres’s. They did a bullpen game in game two of the wild card series. Like that’s how depleted the Cubs pitching staff is. So at this point and show Emmanaga, who they’ve paid a bunch of money to and was really good, has been struggling and giving up a ton of homers and he got shelled in game two against Milwaukee. So the Cubs just do not have enough arms. So I will be shocked if the Cubs beat the Brewers in this series. I’ll be shocked by it. Um but a lot of people have wanted to blame Council and I just don’t think that that is right. And yes, again, I am friends with him, but I think objectively they don’t have the arms. They do not have the horses. And given their payroll and their advantages, it’s wildly disappointing. So hopefully this is a big off season for them. And I mean, listen, first of all, hopefully they make a run and they shock me and they make me eat my words. But assuming with your pretense that they lose in four or five, Cubs fans are not going to be satisfied with this year because of the inactivity of the deadline and because of who they lost to. They feel like they lost to little brother in pickup and it’s embarrassing. [Music]

Colin Cowherd is joined by ‘First Things First’ co-host Danny Parkins. The Chicago Bears are looking for revenge from last year’s Hail Mary vs. the Washington Commanders, and the guys debate who will win on Monday Night Football? Will Caleb Williams beat Jayden Daniels? Then they react to Cubs-Brewers and talk about how Chicago would handle losing to Milwaukee in the MLB playoffs.

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