Bears go with starters in surprise move for preseason game against Bengals

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What was the surprise decision to start Caleb Williams in the preseason game?

Mark Grote 0:00

Rahimi and Grody, midday, 10 a.m. to two on the score. Line again is all the way down at the seven yard line. William just gonna take a shot downfield. Adunze was the closest man to it. A little frustration there from Rome. Not on the same page with Caleb. It'll be fourth down. Yeah, that was a third and twenty attempt from Caleb Williams, the Bears starting quarterback on Saturday night. And it ended up being a throwaway, I guess, to Roma Dunze. We'll break that down a little bit more as we welcome you back to Rahimi and Grodi on 1043, the score. Should also shout out some of the people on the other side of the glass. Yes, Ray Diaz is here. As we like to call him, Lupe Fiasco. Kick, push, and what? Coast. Uh, Tyler Buterbaugh, threat level midnight.

Mark Grote 0:56

Those guys are rocking those t-shirts today. That's why I mentioned that. Our video producers are Connor O'Donnell, Max Curtis, Jacob Studs. Sitting to my left is Layla Rahimi. I am Mark Grody. The Bengals beat the Bears 27 to 9, but in somewhat of a surprise, Caleb Williams got the start in the game, and he was two for five for twenty eight yards. He led an eight play, thirty-three yard drive, ending in a Cairo Santos forty five yard field goal. And I have to admit, the the build up to this preseason game, my excitement was probably higher than it should have been for a preseason game because I've been one of the people saying. When asked, when people ask me, and sometimes I just provide my opinion, I have, yes, I have wanted to see Caleb Williams play in the preseason.

Mark Grote 1:48

And I have been saying, just because you want to do the simple stuff better, just to get that little feel out there. And I'd been saying, even if it's just a couple of simple throws to your running backs, or just a simple throw up the middle. To your tight end.

How did the Bears’ offense perform against the Bengals in the 27‑9 loss?

Mark Grote 2:04

I wanted to see Caleb Williams play. So I got my wish. I was uh I was on the radio over the weekend with Judson Richards. We were talking about it. And then all of a sudden, after I got off the radio, the tweets started coming in that Caleb might play. So for a preseason game, it was very exciting for me, Layla.

Vinny Rotino 2:24

I also wanted the starters to play. I know that that's not typical now in the preseason. I know that that's gone out of style. But I still need to rep game speed as much as I possibly can for evaluation. And we knew that the joint practices, both this past week and next week against the Titans, this week, whichever you want to call it, is we're wrapping up the show or wrapping up that game. Well you obviously needed to see more out of your starters if you're asking them to play in the preseason game based on everything that we were told previously. So I don't know that Ben Johnson saw enough out of what he saw when you make the first two throws and then you miss the next three. That's gonna happen. You're also trying to mock up plays.

Vinny Rotino 3:12

I don't know that we got any answers at the left tackle position. And then not just that, but guys like Jedrick Wills were both at left tackle and right tackle at times during the game. The

Mark Grote 3:21

Benedet as well.

Vinny Rotino 3:22

And then what do we see is is a penalty on Braxton Jones that kills the drive. So You have to be able to mock some of this up. I've maintained, Mark, for the last several weeks that I want to see as much out of the combination of not just Caleb Williams and Garrett Bradbury, but Caleb Williams and whoever is going to play left tackle as much as I can for reasons like this. How much are you going to get pushed? How much did Braxton Jones get pushed out of the frame too? You know, you did a good job trying to redirect opposing defensive linemen. But the other part of it is too is is I didn't know if he wanted the throw to Rome back more or the one to Colson Loveland that made a lot of people talk. That was the one that looked like it was offline.

Vinny Rotino 4:04

And I watched that play a few times. There was a there was a defender for Cincinnati 33 crashing in off the safety blitz. And it looked like on that play to Loveland that Loveland could have also picked up protection there and blocked and then gone out in the pass pass.