GMFB | "Bears are a legit playoff team - Kyle Brandt on Caleb Williams lead Bears beat Titans 24-17

he certainly is the Bears could have had Jaden Daniels they wanted him instead that's the number one overall pick first number one overall draft pick for 77 years for the bears but this was not a good first half and there was a lot of this he misses Keenan Allen there he did that a few times where he threw it deep and just missed him it was like he was he did not Keenan right through his hands and Keenan was kind of banged up he got more banged up as the game went on and then everything changed boom BL punt the most exciting play in the sport Jonathan Owens Scoops and scores touchdown bear down all right so they're on the board it was like play defense have special teams and the quarterback doesn't kill you and it just worked Caleb becomes the first number one overall pick quarterback to win his first game since David Carr they usually do not win when they start week one he did all was complicated 24- 17 the Bears win I'm going it down to the field Christina Pink with Caleb the most um it obviously wasn't a game that I'm gonna play in the future and not the game that I wanted to play for my first game but um just kept fighting um kept trying to lead the guys you know we're gonna get back we're gonna get back in the lab we're going to fix all these things um we're going to get ready for next week there are so many intricacies to that game and that interview and particular that we want to look at Kyle when you listen to his answer Caleb Williams the fact that he just played in his first game number one overall pick to have all of those answers and that tone about his team again continues to impress yes he was great on all that stuff I mean if you were if you watch that game and he was incredibly underwhelming but they won you're like what's this guy got to say for himself afterwards and he hit every single thing I got to play better I got to do better the special team was great the defense was great but we got the win and that's what's important I don't care about stats that's great he was really good there because he wasn't good in the game but that's all right you know what he didn't you he didn't do in the game you don't have any turnovers you not he did not throw a stupid interception we saw you know bonick throws he missed deep throws he missed this throw he missed that throw he managed the game he he had one delay of game penalty he had no turnovers and if I sound like I'm being like insufferable suck up fine I'm telling you he was not good in this game and it was as if lovey was there coaching it was a young brex Grossman and they're like just give it to Hester eracer and Briggs and let them win and Mike Brown will have some interception for pick six it was really like a throwback to 2006 they won the game the Bears usually don't win they won week one number one overall pick starting their first game almost never win lot to work a lot for Caleb but you don't need me to say it because he said it the second the game was over Bears one didn't turn it over I think there's a lot to build on yeah look the last number one overall pick to win their week one game was David car all the way back in 202 so it's not often the number one pick comes out and just rolls but Caleb did not play well I mean that was not like a good performance in fact some of the footwork was awful it looked like we were watching all the bad stuff from USC the tendencies that he kind of freelance is like he was not good but he didn't have to be good when the Special Teams and the defense were excellent like this could be the story of the Bears we did Hard Knocks and we're talking all about the offense and all the weapons but like gosh what they did in the second half and I got to see you in a game where they were down early and it look like this was going to be an alltime bus but I didn't think Caleb played well and I do have concerns if that's what you're going to get this season hopefully he improves but that was not a good effort no it wasn't a good effort and I love the self-awareness you know Kyle you were talking about that I think for any player to have that self-awareness that does give a sign that he is going to get better you start pointing fingers and saying this is other person it was the line it was the receivers there's some trouble there but it takes time to adjust to this game I think the success that he had in during the preseason and all the stuff that we kind of fell in love with the pageantry of the HBO uh Hard Knock special it's totally different when week one starts and I think Caleb Williams he knows that he sees that and he's going okay I have to recalibrate that's all you can do in this situation is recalibrate because the spinning around the stuff that he has success with you remember that play that we all love during the preseason we saw that a couple of times in this game and it's was like nuh-uh I'm right there yeah them big boys at 350 PBS oh yeah they'll come up on you and they'll close that ground very quickly and so I just think that Caleb Williams you know he'll get into Rhythm he'll have his receivers he still got dogs at the receiver Keenan Allen targeted 11 times but of course only caught the ball four times so that means there was some passes that were overthrown there were passes that of course Keenan should have caught U DJ Moore Roma dun once they get settled into this offense they're going to marinate they're going to cook really good it it just it almost makes me want to praise CJ Stroud even more for what he did last year as a rookie because I watched I watched Caleb look like that yesterday I look like jayen Daniels who's my number one breakout player of the year and I do all this stuff jayen Daniels he made mistakes left and right and then Bo Nicks who was supposed to be in Mr accuracy through two costly interceptions it's really hard to be a rookie and start out of the gates and CJ stra did it with no issues and just steamrolled right through the NFL season last year but I'm watching three rookies in their debuts all struggle mightily yesterday stoud is the one we're going to be looking at all year I mean I actually while we're sitting here talking I was like what did CJ stra due week one they got crushed by the Ravens but he threw 44 passes he he he looked more confident than Caleb did yesterday but I'm going to keep saying it all day week one week one week one and guess who the Guess Who Caleb plays in week two CJ strout in prime time so now we will have a direct comparison and you got to do a lot better next week and the first thing he said was I got to play better he knows we'll watch next week it be a great game yeah one thing you were saying too uh uh Peter it when you look at CJ Stout he did that with less Talent too around him you would you would argue that Caleb has way more Talent than CJ St so yeah definitely you know you get you tip your head off to to CJ for what he did last year I think there's a mental side to this too for Caleb Williams my my lone thought is that you're down 173 is the number one overall pick you had three points in a half and for you to come back and frankly it reminds me of that clip from hard KNX and someone asked him do you ever get nervous he's like no just that one time I was in high school and I threw two picks and I came back and had a touchdown on a slant this is this young man it's going to take reps in terms of the accuracy and the completions and whatnot but if you can keep your wherewithal on a game where you're down 173 at half I think he'll be all right uh still to come on our show we have some classic segments that we like to play on a Monday like rewind that what made you grab your remote the points were 33 of them 33 to 17 I mentioned the contract this comes out the morning of the opener we've been waiting for months we saw CD's deal we've got dax's deal now and uh he was never stressing about it he says my confidence in both sides of this that that's something would get done um understanding that that they were um hammering at it that that I had confidence in but it really wasn't in my mind for me it was just about getting ready for the the Browns whether it got done today um or not wasn't going to change um the way wasn't going to affect me honestly um I've told you guys before I don't necessarily play I don't play for the money uh I think when you focus and you control what you can control um things like that just happen uh so yeah I found out probably an hour I get or I mean honestly probably 20 minutes before was you know what I mean publicized to everybody else that is mindboggling he finds that out 20 minutes before everybody else did the win was impressive the money is impressive the Cowboys play was impressive it was a good day for the Cowboys Peter in Cleveland yesterday I mean you're talking about an hour before the kickoff you've got Tyreek Hill being detained by authorities you've got Kendrick Lamar being announced as a Super Bowl Halftime act you've got Russa Wilson being ruled as in active and then all of a sudden it's like boom after five months of talking about Dax cont track we're going to figure that out now you saying it was fun to work pregame shows yesterday I'll just say my hour on the fox pregame show was quite a bit of work yesterday Kyle and that was great with me it was great for Dak and sometimes that happens and you might say oh God how's he going to perform Under Pressure Dak wasn't necessarily asked to do much last yesterday but guess what everything he did was right and it was fine and was enough to make sure this thing was never end out the Cowboys took the foot off the pedal in the second half this was one of the biggest blowouts of the day and Zak was just on fire and he and CD lamb were a perfect connection look you're talking about the numbers 179 yards in a touchdown with an 85 pass like you're not going to necessarily uh you know go to the Pro Bowl based on those numbers but when you know you're the man in charge and you know that everyone in that building knows you're the man in charge that's what you're looking for I thought Dak answered the bell and gosh can we not put a Browns team like that on National Television for Tom Brady's debut ever again that that team was not worthy of that Spotlight of the lone 4:00 window on Fox and I worry about the Browns and we'll get to them all week long but I worry about the Browns and that we all just assumed all right well we didn't see anything in the preseason we didn't get any hint but like we assumed that they went to playoffs last year and Watson's better than Flaco the this was never a game and I I'll tell you the Cowboys they walk through this one they'll have bigger challenges coming through but gosh Browns fans we feel for you this morning too yeah this was uh this was a very tough one too for for the Cleveland Browns of course we know SE Watson he lost his father a couple days before the game the offensive line they had their issues obviously they lost their right and left tackle but I I want to look you know defensively because the Dallas Cowboys took advantage of the weakness for for that of the Cleveland Browns I mean just abusing them you saw Michael parsons's just lining up Every Which Way creating Havoc Lawrence was in the backfield six sacks I mean when you watch this game I felt badly for deshun Watson there was no time that he ever felt like he could get comfortable in the pocket he was just constantly running and moving and he just always felt even when the pocket was clear it felt like somebody was on top of him but this defense was just after him this was a very tough defense and they made the most and Kendrick's even get in there as well too to play Devil's Advocate though we saw some other quarterbacks yesterday Oar that handled themselves in a pocket sometimes that did collapse like a Josh Allen like a Matthew Stafford do you think deshun Watson should get to a point where maybe at times in a game he could take it on himself and hang and and really take responsibility of the offense yes and no that offensive line did not protect you go back and I had to watch that game a second time and I looked at it I'm like you can't get comfortable in that pocket deshun Watson is just constantly moving those guys I mean when you lose your left tackle and your right tackle and you're moving around like that it's it's very difficult to have settle feet now I thought that Cleveland Browns probably should have leaned a little bit more on the Run game that they didn't they were really constantly trying to force the ball in there um it was tough it was a tough day for deshun Watson yeah I mean it's deshun Watson doesn't look comfortable in four years it's it's been a tough half decade at this point and I I'm the guy and you know this Peter I'm always saying week one is a liar don't take too many takeaways from week one we've seen a bunch of Super Bowl teams get destroyed week one we've seen teams be World beaters week one so I really am trying to reserve today because it'd be hypocritical to say the Browns are screwed it's fine let's see what happens next week because that that was just terrible I mean it was everybody knows was terrible it's a really negative story it was really bad but it's like you said this too Peter we saw nothing in the preseason DeShaun Watson did not take a single throw he had arm soreness and then he came out and he was just like this this looks like a guy who's in a preseason trying to make the roster not a $230 million guy who you traded everything for and I have to say Browns fans are so upset this morning and I'm going to try to pick you up a little bit next week to schedule get Caesar thank God you have the Giant on the schedule you have the Raiders coming but I also think it's a little bit weird that you're watching this and you know down in Tampa Baker Mayfield looks like Prime Drew Brees and couldn't miss and wouldn't miss and is supported and the fans love him and the teammates love him Deshawn Watson needs to have a great game next week against the Jaguars because there is no fan attachment to DeShaun Watson in Cleveland there's no one in Cleveland who's like man that's always been my guy and we drafted him and I love this it's just like it was this guy that you paid for and PA everything for amid a lot of controversy he's never really played well for you for any consistency so what I'm saying is deshun Watson doesn't have skins on the wall for Cleveland he's they're not going to have his back when it goes Ary in fact I think they already don't I am a big week two guy matters week one is very weird some teams got killed yesterday they're going to be in the playoffs some teams won by three touchdowns yesterday they're going to finish six and 11 trust me I think the Browns have a very good team and a very good coach I don't know if they have a very good quarterback we'll out next week hope I also want to shout out we have a new household name the most impressive player was a guy named de marvan overshown he was everywhere I don't know much about deari and over I'm watching the game Tom Brady's first call and you're thinking wow Tom Brady's gonna be on the call he's gonna have he's gonna talk about DC we talked about de Marian over in the first the first half and this guy was unbelievable I'm telling you Cowboys defense was outstanding shout out to Mike Zimmer who we'll talk more about later in the show but gosh Cowboys fans got to feel pretty good Browns fans I I I already gave you my Spiel qu teaser de Marian overshown Brady cheex noes twice he's like no I got it that's my guy uh you mentioned Baker Mayfield guys coming up in the show we're gonna talk Baker next little teaser for next week it's Buccaneer hello for [Music] right Bo speech [Music] speech [Music] speech [Music] foree fore spee spee spe that do fore [Music] oh for [Music] again foree fore [Music] [Music] for fore spee for fore 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