Best of the Bears: Is Caleb Williams a top 10 QB?
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pandemonium at soldier field our friend kevin harlan on the call kevin i hope you've enjoyed taco bell this summer this is rahimi harrison grody on 104.3 the score and this is a conversation that was birthed of another conversation that you two troublemakers had Margaret E. Marshall Harris, when I was away. And I think we should also just open up our phone lines, open up our hearts and our minds. 312-644-6767. Chime in on this over text, over Twitch. Call us if you want. The discussion of who we think is going to have the top 10 quarterback season in 2026. We heard Danny give a preview, Danny Parkins, yesterday. He also wanted to know what the parameters were. I think for me it is after the 2026 season, after it concludes, regular season.
I'm not even including playoffs in this. You can if you want, but I just think it's easier to measure that way. Who do you think are going to come away as the top 10 quarterbacks? It doesn't have to be yards. It doesn't have to be touchdowns. Just who you think the top 10 were in the NFL.
So it's our projection of who are going to be the top 10 in the 2026 season.
Yeah, like once it's all said and done. But I also think this started from a conversation that I want to hear how it began, guys.
Well, it was really simple. Somebody got on Mark Grody because Mark Grody is always talking bad about Caleb Williams. Okay, he's not. He's not always talking bad about him.
Why do you hate Caleb Williams? Exactly.
But that's really what the question was. Why do you hate the Pope and the Bears?
Yeah, right. Exactly.
And so we were talking about it, and Mark's like, look, he's got a chance to prove himself as a top 10 quarterback. And I was like, oh, is he top 10? No, you're right. Because it goes back to our conversation, the three of us, where I said, sign me up. He's the franchise guy. He's the guy for the next 10 years. And Mark was like, yeah, I guess I'm there, right?
That was early last year when that conversation. Yes, it was.
Well, it wasn't early. No, no, no.
They had started winning then. They had a winning record. Was it a post-Bangles game? Yeah. Okay. Fine, fine. Yeah.
Before Bengals, after Bengals.
I mean, that's where Loveland takes off. You could use that as the demarcation for Caleb, I think, too. But you can choose your own game if you'd like.
I had confidence before that moment. But when they started winning, I think it was actually after the Eagles game. Eagles. Because my whole point was, what more do you need to see? Gotcha. Actually, you were kind of on the fence. Layla said she clearly was not there yet. And now it's like, okay, you got through the season. You got through the regular season. You even have some time now to think about what you saw, process it, understand what still needs work. And is he that guy? And you're now saying he is that guy, right?
yeah oh yeah but i mean the second contract i'm completely confident in that yes he wasn't ready to call him a top five quarterback and then i asked well are you ready to call him a top 10 quarterback right and that's where the conversation went is it went from everybody's getting on poor me because people think i hate caleb williams and it did the majority of the discussion turned into is caleb williams a top 10 quarterback well and here's the thing is i i just want to take this time to reiterate there is more than one way to be a fan of a team
Brian Poles said he wasn't ready yet to extend Caleb Williams. Brian Poles. Yeah. And don't you think he's pretty proud of the decision he's made? Absolutely.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–5:44
2
What criteria did the hosts set for projecting the top-10 quarterbacks at the end of 2026?
5:44–5:57
3
How did the hosts frame the question: is Caleb Williams a top-10 NFL quarterback for 2026?
5:57–16:01
4
Which quarterbacks did Marshall Grody rank and why did he choose his top-10 order?
16:01–36:52
5
What differences in ranking philosophies led to debates about resume vs. projection?
36:52–41:01
6
How could team context and injuries (Mahomes, Burrow, Stafford) affect 2026 top-10 quarterback rankings?
41:01–47:55
Speakers
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Transition with Spiegel & Holmes