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Anthony Herron praises Bears defense's strong performance in loss to Rams
19 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What was Anthony Herron's initial reaction to the Bears' performance?
Anthony Heron, score football analyst.
I was in the green room at the Big Ten Network last night, and then when the moment happened that Caleb Williams went deep through the bomb to DJ Moore, at that point I was all yelled out. I was just exhausted by then with all the different screens and the stimulus and the notes, and just seeing that, I was actually quiet at that point.
The touchdown at the end of regulation, I let out the big yell. The touchdown that closed the show... I let on exhale because I didn't know what else to do.
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Anthony Heron is truly never scared of talking about the Bears. He joins us on Mondays here on Rahimi Harrison Grody. This one no different. It is a Plumbers 911 Football Monday presented by Bucy Bank. Ant is an analyst for the score, Fox 32, and the Big Ten Network. Anthony Heron, I think we saw a defensive performance that was beautiful by the Bears.
Unfortunately, slipped through this team's hands. What do you think?
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. That was a really nice way for Dennis Allen, for the Bears defense, to close out the season with a performance that you can wonder, all right, what if you would have gotten more of that from throughout the year? Because I certainly didn't predict, and I think most of us probably didn't, that the Bears defense would be able to stymie
the number one offense in football for the bulk of the game in the way that they did. And there was certainly some assistance I think they got in that where Sean McVay just didn't seem to call a great game. See, maybe the top offensive mind in the sport, he basically just kind of gave up on the rushing attack for chunks of the game. I feel like there were some reasons for that.
It seemed to me like whenever the Bears would stem to a five-man front, get Tremaine Edmonds off one edge, I think that Matt Stafford seemed to me ā and I'll go through a second viewing of the game at some point, but my impression just kind of watching the TV copy live in real time was Stafford was making some adjustments to go ā
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Chapter 2: How did the Bears defense perform against the Rams?
So if you've spent all these resources to have him play guard and Jonah Jackson play guard and Drew Dallman play center and you feel great about right tackle, then just get left tackle figured out with one of these other bodies and supply a bunch of resources to make sure your left tackle doesn't get exposed. And I thought the Bears did that so much
throughout this season so it did surprise me the move yesterday what didn't surprise me was that Joe Tooney held up Joe Tooney against a physical Rams pass rush he held up well at left tackle on passing downs but in evaluating some of the rundowns I think that's where to your point Marshall the Bears run game didn't look and it's you know even before they had to make this move the Bears run game hasn't been nearly as dominant as it once was and
for yesterday's game was part of that because of having McFadden in at guard, Tooney out at tackle. Did that contribute to some of the run game being a little bit off base? I think that's possibly a factor.
Talking to Anthony Herron, analyst for 670 The Score and the Big Ten Network right here on Rahimi Harris and Grody and the Bears' overtime loss. to the Rams last night. All right, Big Ant, let's get into it. What was your view, your take, your analysis on the Caleb Williams interception, the Cam Curl with the interception intended for DJ Moore?
It's too bad that between Caleb and DJ, so much of this season, like the early portion as we watch, and it feels like eons ago, but we think back to the early part of the year where a big topic of discussion was Caleb and DJ not being on the same page. Some of the side adjustments. And some of that was in the red zone where just trying to figure out where is Caleb trying to go with the ball?
Why is DJ just a little bit off center from where he's trying to deliver it? And then we've just seen so many special moments from the two of them together, especially late in the season. And times where DJ Moore seemingly gets knocked out of the game and he's splayed out on the field or laying down on the opposing sideline. He fights his way back into the lineup and makes huge plays.
For that to be the last offensive snap of the season for the Bears is disappointing. It is unfortunate. It looked like another similar scenario where the two of them are seeing things just in a slightly different manner. I'll be curious to hear Ben Johnson in more detail about it at some point.
But these situations just come down a lot of times to kind of these Miller moments where you're looking at the leverage of a defender and that defensive back ā DJ Moore is thinking he's going to have an opportunity to take the route a little bit more vertical. Caleb is expecting, seemingly to me, it looks like Caleb is expecting DJ to fight across that defender's face.
And, you know, you got Roma Doomsday running a vertical route. And where Caleb delivered the ball, he delivered it. With timing, with anticipation, it looked to me like he threw it exactly where he wanted to throw the ball.
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Chapter 3: What were the key moments that defined the Bears' game against the Rams?
You probably know where we're going with this. So we will ask the former NFL athlete, Anthony Heron, about cayenne pepper, no Admiral Penguins, and more after this buzzkill of a Bears loss. We should be talking about the championship. But they're playing. So hang with us. More with Anthony Heron next on Rahimi Harrison Grody.