What was the Bears' biggest offensive surprise in 2025 season?
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What was the Bears' biggest offensive surprise in the 2025 season?
Rahimi, Harrison, Grody. Midday's Tindall 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670. The score. The score. The score. The score. The score. The score. The score. The score. Oh, my God. Ben Johnson into his bag of tricks.
And thanks, Tom Brady and Kevin Burkhart from Fox, because one of our questions on our season in review this hour on Rahimi Harrison-Grody is a game where you saw Ben Johnson in his bag. So the flea flicker, there it is. You know what?
I was thinking about how broadcasters legitimately must get so excited to find out they have a Bears game. Like, oh, we got the Bears next week? And just the possibilities are endless. Like after like the first couple of games of the season, that's where you want to be is at the Bears game.
Man, talk about season in review. That's probably the biggest, just the general mood surrounding this past season based on seasons before. Like, to have the Fox A team be out here so often. And, you know, for all the anti-Chicago bias I think we've seen in the past, how nice was it to know that, like, Kevin Burkhardt and Mike Tirico understand the goal of 4,000 yards for a Bears quarterback in the regular season? Things like that that make it all make sense. Like, the more you're here, you know what you are probably? More informed about the fan base.
Yeah, believe it or not, I would say that is going to sound weird coming from me. I don't think there's been anti-Chicago bias. The Bears have been a terrible franchise, except until this. I mean, a team that lost 10 in a row twice in three years, you're not going to give them the national game. And when they did give them the national game, often the Bears would embarrass themselves and thus their fan base and the talk show hosts and everybody that cares about the Bears. So I think it's actually been proportionate, to be honest with you.
Fair enough. I think after the Troy Aikman initial discussion, after that first game against the Vikings, there was a lot of discourse about whether or not there was anti. I think it wasn't like favoritism toward the Vikings necessarily, even though I think a lot of people did talk about how glowingly they were talking about J.J. McCarthy in the comeback. Yeah. But at the time, there was a lot of consternation about the anti-Caleb Williams bias out of Aikman when he talked about some of the throws that he thought he'd want back.
That's fair. Yeah. And wasn't that the week where Caleb didn't talk to Troy Aikman?
We didn't find that out till later because there was another game where it became a focal point. And then Troy later told us, oh, he didn't meet with me for that first game either.
Well, and here's the thing, too. Troy had some legitimate critiques of Caleb that people didn't want to hear. I mean, I know Troy was hated, but it outlines another example of where Caleb Williams improved. Remember, the main criticism that he had had was Caleb not guiding his receivers, not putting the receivers in a position to make a play after they catch the football. Guess who got better at that as the season went on?
All of a sudden, runner's balls became runner's balls, and Olamide Zaccheaus not getting a runner's ball became a thought that we're just now bringing up now, going way back to look at how things improved.
I hate the fact that, unfortunately, why do I feel like once Olamide Zaccheaus' targets were purposefully limited, that the offense opened up a bit for others, but... That's kind of how that went. Sometimes it's who you see first in a play. Sometimes it's how you roll out in your vision. But that was a thing. So second on our list in our season in review because Caleb Williams is the focal point. So I understand why that took so long. And let's face it, we had a little bit of fun with the intros of the topics here. Number two is what was the biggest offensive surprise? Either a game or just a result. Marshall Harris, I'll start with you.
I mean, let's be real. Like, what were we all wondering, complaining somewhere in between about when the season started? What are they going to do about this running back's room?
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