Bears' Ugly Win: Caleb Williams' Struggles vs. Buccaneers

John, I wanted to hit the NFC North still because I want to hit your team and what happened in that incredible game on Sunday Night Football. I mean, you could even ask me. I watched the game. You could even ask me what happened. It would be hard for me to describe what happened on Sunday Night Football for the Bears and the Buccaneers. Caleb Williams had four interceptions. A few of them were just doinks that went off players. A few of them were just indescribable. The Bears ended up winning 27 to 24, but it was a disaster of a way to get there. It was an ugly win for a Bucs team that should not have been in that game at all. For a Bears team that was widely considered the NFC favorite, even over the 49ers going into this week. And now you have the Packers, you have the Niners, you have the Bears, and the Bears has put forth a lackluster effort. I wanted to get your take on what you saw on Sunday Night Football. What was that? I saw a team, I'm now 100% sure, will go to the Super Bowl. Let me explain why, because I know that sounds crazy after the game you might have saw. Every Super Bowl team has a couple of games like that a year that they win. Every time Patrick Mahomes has gone on a run to the Super Bowl, he's had a couple of games like that that he has won. You have no idea how he's doing this, but they still win. Joe Burrow throws you a couple of stinkers like this a year that Cincinnati wins, especially when they went to the Super Bowl. It happened. But to be able to steal after everything that's gone wrong, four interceptions, one of them was a legit interception and one that was thrown in double coverage and the end zone was a bad throw. The other two were just him trying to get rid of the ball and not really having the steam on the ball because the Bucs, who are the number one defense in the league, put a lot of pressure up the middle. And because of that, there's nowhere for you to go other than to try to boot the ball. And that led to a couple of picks because he just didn't have the arm. He, of all people, didn't have the arm strength to get it out of bounds. And then the other one just popped in the air. And that happens when you're throwing a lot of passes. So for him to have overcome all that. And get the ball in his hands and still go for Iceman to lead the team down for a game-winning field goal on the left hash, perfect as time runs out. You can't do that. That, to me, shows me his confidence is unshakable. It's unshakable. And when the time comes, he will deliver. You know who's had a lot of games like that on their way to the Super Bowl? Matt Stafford. It happens. You get those games. But if you're the last person with the ball, And you win that game, people forgive those kind of performances. And they never get, they get talked about as gritty wins and not embarrassing losses. And that's where I think the addition of Jeffrey Simmons comes in handy because like I now have confidence, like much more confidence in that defense. I know it was shaky on Sunday night against the Bucs. I understand that. But they roughed up Baker Mayfield still. I mean, he was limping across the field. They were still getting into that backfield. It was basically just self-inflicted wounds, right? It was self-inflicted penalties and mistakes that you usually don't see from this Bears team over the course of this first part of the season. So I still do have confidence. Yeah, it was ugly. Yeah, okay, they barely beat the Buccaneers. All the Buccaneers are three and five coming in. Who cares? They got to win. And like you said, I don't care who's coming in there. Everyone's going to want to beat you now. The Bears have to understand that. Every team now is going to have you pinned on their calendar. They're going to have you on their schedule and be like, they think they have the best offense. They think they have this guru as a head coach. We're going to show them. We're going to go in there and show them. And the Bucs, I've got to give them credit. They played a pretty tough game. They put up a fight. And for this bears team, they're now seven and two. They are still at the top of the NFC North standings. It's seven and two bears, six and two lions, six and two Vikings and six and three Packers. So it is going to be just a mess in the NFC North. As we head down the stretch and this is, let me also say, let me also say about Jeffrey Simmons, when you watch him play, And this is the thing about the trade deadline that it'll never sit well with me. If I was a fan of the Tennessee Titans, watching what he's doing on a winning team, knowing he was doing that for us on a losing team, I would question what's our purpose now. Because the NFL is the only year-to-year league where you can be the first pick of the draft and then be in the Super Bowl the next year because the margin of talent is about that thick. Anybody can beat anybody, and you can turn your organization and your team around in a season. We've seen it on multiple teams, and for them to let a guy like that go, if I'm in Tennessee, I'm even more upset about this, watching what he's doing in these primetime games because he is abusing 300-pound men, just abusing them, and no one knew he was doing this because he was playing in Tennessee. Now the fact that this guy's going to be a huge star. He's going to be a massive star in a Bears uniform.