Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss the Bears-Commanders game and whether Caleb Williams is primed for another huge game, going for a 4th-straight win. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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I expect Caleb Williams kind of put on a show this week because we've, we've eclipsed the barrier for him where he's doing what he's like, supposed to be doing on the field production wise where, hey, you have the Panthers defense, you have the Jaguars defense.

You're the number one overall pick.

We've been tied you up, go kill and he did like, he was great in those games.

Cale Williams is a better quarterback than he was in week one.

And you're seeing like tangible results for that on the field and this is a defense that he should take advantage of.

Like, I don't really see what the spot here would be like where, where he could run into some trouble because this defense has kind of been cut up by everyone.

His intelligence is so impressive and I've talked about this for a few weeks now.

I wrote about it.

It's, it's, uh, that's why I want to emphasize this.

You do not see rookie quarterbacks with this handle of an NFL offense right away.

Week one, week two, they gave him the full slate to call plays, do no huddle stuff they use no huddle at the second highest rate in the NFL.

Commanders are first.

Uh, but that's not, it's different types.

Commanders is tempo, tempo, tempo, tempo.

OK?

We'll slow it down sometimes bears is the hanging huddle.

OK. We get to the line fake decay and Matt Ryan used to do it a bunch in Atlanta.

Pick the key and OK. All right.

Now we get everyone set.

We call the place nothing from the headset though.

And the fact that they let Caleb have full license to do that tells me that he's doing it in practice and meetings because you don't get to do that in games.

So as you can show you can do that, Caleb has shown this year like kind of the, the positive side of going out there as a rookie getting your ass kicked the first couple of weeks and you get to see like the improvement because if the week, week one man, like he was, he was there, there were a couple of times where he's like 1015 yards deep in the backfield with his back turned to the defense that that's like that's already gone for the most part.

Like you don't, you don't really see him taking those, uh you know, those kind of like explosive negative plays or, or, or even the risk for those.

So, you know, sometimes he's got to throw him out there, let him sink or swim and he's swimming like he's, he looks really good.

They've reworked the offense where they're now getting guys healthy.

That helps too but like alright enough Gerald Everett.

Alright, DeAndre Swift, you do this.

Ok. We're not gonna give you too many touches that you run the wrong way on.

Uh but it does have an explosive play element there.

So yeah early down they're moving the ball.

Well the offensive line has improved, they still have some moments where I'm like, oh uh, but Caleb does a really good job of getting everyone started out again.

It's just, it's really cool.

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