5 On It: Bromance between Caleb Williams, Pete Crow-Armstrong is awesome

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What are the biggest takeaways from the Bears' end-of-season press conference?

Marshall Harris 0:03

What was your biggest takeaway from the Bears' end-of-season press conference?

Leila Rahimi 0:19

Well, Ryan Pohl said he's got some difficult decisions to make regarding his roster, and he could not be more correct about that. We spent the first hour of our show talking about what's going on in the secondary. You likely can't keep both Jaquan Brisker and Kevin Byard. And unfortunately, until now it's unfortunate, it wasn't previously. They both did a lot, especially in these last two games. So when you consider that, you know, it's a hard decision that Ryan Pulse had to make. He's absolutely correct about that. As far as Ben Johnson was concerned, I'm happy to see that he got to take a step back, at least momentarily, to collect his flowers. He deserves credit, and the coaching staff does as well, for the performance that this team had this year.

What roster decisions are facing Ryan Pohl and the Bears?

Leila Rahimi 1:05

And he's right at the same time. It's not good enough. Not for his standard. And that's the standard we should all hold this team to because that's how you get better. The other thing that he said that I thought was really important was when he talked about how they need to work on catching the ball as a team in the offseason. There's no doubt about that. Maybe if they had worked more on that in the offseason this past year, we'd be talking about another game right now. That goes for everyone. All of yous. So those are my, I think, two biggest takeaways.

How will the Bears address the secondary issues this offseason?

Leila Rahimi 1:37

But the credit should be given to both of those two for making this work to the extent of winning your first playoff game in 15 years. That's a big deal.

Unknown 1:47

Nothing that either of these gentlemen said at these press conferences did anything to knock the fervor, the excitement, the enthusiasm about the Bears going forward. I learned that Kevin Byard is definitely a priority in terms of that defensive backs room and what they're trying to do. And they'll see if they can get something financially that makes sense for both sides. I learned that Ben Johnson, even though he believes his team did a good number of things on offense... Feels like they haven't even scratched the surface. And that's honestly a little bit scary in a good way. Scary for opposing defenses around the league. He said that Caleb Williams is going to be a special player. And that lets you know he likes what he saw from Caleb Williams, but there's so much more he's getting ready to unleash.

Unknown 2:37

The catch the ball thing, that might've been one of the headlines because my goodness, he saw what we all saw and he was not afraid to acknowledge it

Leila Rahimi 2:46

The Florida Gator chomp is not an acceptable way to catch a football.

Unknown 2:52

He was very clear that that was going to be, as you said, Layla, a point of emphasis. Those are his words. He thought that they have a poised unit, Ben Johnson, and that they handled pressure better than most because let's be honest, most NFL games are one score games. And you can look at teams like the Lions and others that didn't quite come up big enough this year and you can look at the Bears who came up very big in those situations and that's how they had as successful a season as they did I'm just excited that we get to kind of follow this from a very different lens from 365 days ago we were talking about some very different things

Marshall Harris 3:34

Number two.

Mark Grody 3:36

This will continue to be a big Bears day on Rahimi Harris and Grody.

Why is Caleb Williams considered a special player by his coach?

Mark Grody 3:41

We've got Mark Grody coming up at 1225 bringing us his perspective from Hallis Hall. We've got Danny Parkins coming up at one who will discuss everything that's gone down in Bears world since Sunday. But we've had some... Big Chicago baseball news break late last night. The White Sox are reportedly in agreement with the Mets on a trade that will send center fielder Luis Robert Jr. to New York. Yeah, it finally happened. So what's your reaction to the Southsiders moving on from La Pantera?

Leila Rahimi 4:10

I was not expecting this to happen. I was on the record as saying I don't see the need in paying somebody $20 million when you can let them walk for free when $20 million would be the highest paid player on the team. That is not me making excuses for the Jerry Reinsdorf White Sox payroll.