Inaugural Bears Awards: Who was the team MVP?
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What is the purpose of the Bears Awards in this episode?
We wanted to do something since we were all together, now that everybody is back in action. I'm sorry, people take time off when the football season comes to a close. You usually take a few days here and there. So that was me. And we've been working on this for a while, and we wanted you to join us. We want to give out the Bears Award.
Yes.
Our Bears Award.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Oh, there's music?
So you don't have to listen to me do sound effects for the next hour.
Congratulations. My favorite is when Grody does the law and order. I don't know if it's much of a dink. It sounds like more cute when you do like your law and order is cute. It's like who stole somebody's eraser at school or something. Law and order sound effect is more like who murdered a guy, but both are valid.
Kill the guy.
So, okay, we've got this lovely music and here are our categories for the Bears Awards. I suggested Bears MVP, MVP honorable mention, because you probably know who the MVP is going to be. Best offensive edition, best defensive edition. I'll add that to the list. I know, Ray, I didn't text these all at once. player due to break out in 2026 on both the offense and the defense player who needs to improve or step it up in 2026 I think I said step it up like you gotta step it up out there we're gonna be motivational with our with our statements the best surprise of 2025 the most Ben Johnson like player Best Value Player is a good one. And then I also had the submission of Glad They Called That Guy Award.
So one where the Bears called that guy and you like what they brought to the team. And if you have your own awards, then you can also submit those to our text line and you can call us 312-644-6767. If you're wondering where we are on Twitch, we are at twitch.tv slash thescorechicago so you can join us on the Twitch mob chat Over there as well. So we will start with, in our Bears Awards, do we want to call these something? Like the FM inaugural first annual Bears Awards of the award? FM?
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Right there. She just said it. She just did it.
Right there. I think that's it. We need to drop. I don't know how you fit it on a trophy, but we'll figure it out.
Please read it back to us.
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guys. I'll write it down.
What categories are included in the Bears Awards?
Nice job.
Yeah. So good work, everybody. Please. I hope somebody got my first annual joke in there. At least that was a thing. So, all right. Number one bears MVP. It's Caleb Williams for me. Shocker. I'm not shocked by this at all. He ended up with his post-season yardage and his running yards. The total yards from scrimmage for Caleb Williams ended up being over 5,000. He was just shot. A 4,000 passing yards for the regular season. I didn't even need it that much. Because I was so happy with what I saw out of the offense as a whole, which was also based largely on the run game. His completion rate was 58%. I don't care.
Yeah.
I'm that. When it becomes an issue where it's losing you ballgames, then I'll care. But for now, with this first year and the Ben Johnson offense, and when you see how many knee-jerk reactions and decisions have been made in the NFL... For the teams who feel like they didn't get the quarterback question right, that means that that is the most important position on the team. It was the most crucial. The season was not going to work if Caleb Williams didn't improve, which he did. So overall MVP for me, it goes to the quarterback.
What's interesting about this question is every week on this show, Rahimi Harrison-Grody, on a Friday before game day, or excuse me, I guess on a Monday after game day, we talk about who was the most valuable player in that game outside of Caleb Williams because it's almost assumed that Caleb Williams would be the MVP, right? And so I did a deep dive, and my initial reaction was, of course it's Caleb Williams, but it's not. It's not Caleb Williams for MVP. I'm going with the guy who is set to win the inaugural Protector of the Year award. The MVP of this team is Joe Tooney. Let me explain why. Caleb Williams did a good job. Caleb Williams improved over the course of the season.
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