Thursday, November 6th, 2025. And if those of you with ears can hear, you will be able to hear that I am still fucking sick. I have been sick since Saturday. I am now content to be sick for the remainder of my existence. And so I've just become accustomed to eating soup two to three times a day. I wanted to talk a little bit today and get this out there because one of the things that's been, I found problematic about sports journalism, sports writing, sports media, whatever you want to call it over the last few years is we've become a sports culture that just simply moves on. If you recall, I wrote a piece for Mockery in my early days when it just started in the summer for the platform about Rory McIlroy. And Rory McIlroy achieved in April, one of the great feats in all of golf, one of the great feats in all of sports. He won the Grand Slam. And it was, for my money with Tigers 2019, the most dramatic final round of golf I've ever watched. And one of the most dramatic sports days I've ever experienced. And what drove me crazy was that come the middle of the next week, all of the golf media seemingly moved on to the next tournament. And I kept thinking to myself, how can you leave the history this quickly? How can you abandon your historical moment this quickly and just move on to the next thing? I'm sitting here today, middle of the week, after what, now I didn't watch a lot of it, but I've seen the coverage, what was a historic World Series. And go on your sports media sites, go on ESPN.com. You will barely find mention of the World Series that ended a few days ago. Why? Because as a sports culture, we simply move on and we move on too quickly. My point with all this is that Sunday in Cincinnati was an historic Bears game. It truly was. It is a Bears game that we are all going to remember, those of us who recollect these things and cherish these things for the rest of our lives. I will never forget that game. I will never forget watching them line up for the onside kick and knowing full well that the Bears were going to give that ball up. Knowing full well, once they gave that ball up, they were going to let up a touchdown. Knowing full well, they were going to get into field goal range and more than likely miss the kick. I had played the entire narrative out in my head and the Bears were executing that narrative to perfection. That is what made the shock of the love landing so amazing because it was unfathomable to me that that could be the end of that game. And yet, here we are, as I die during the podcast, is this really a podcast? What is it? It's like a rant. Here we are, Thursday of the following week and everyone just wants to move on to the Giants game. Everyone just wants to move on to the next thing. Well, I'm going to take a breath, ironically, because I basically can't breathe. I'm going to take a breath and not let us move on quite yet because the thing I've been thinking about is that last drive for the Bears. Everyone will remember the Loveland play, but let me say this, that drive has the potential to be a building block drive for Caleb Williams. And I say that because my criticism of Caleb Williams so far in the Ben Johnson offense is Caleb Williams is far too quick to abandon the offensive structure in favor of his own improvisational skills before that is required in the actual offense. He trusts his own abilities so much that he is very quick to simply say, forget what was called, let me do my own thing. Well, that drive showed him, I hope, how he can thread that needle, how he can sort of balance that beam. And I think about that third down. On third down, the play breaks down, he scrambles for the first, bam. That's where the talent jumps off the screen. That's where the improvisational skills move the chains and keep the game alive. That's where you realize what all this ability gets you in the offense. Then the throw to Loveland. On TV, we all looked at that throw and thought he was wide open. We thought he was blanketed by DBs behind him, but we thought the throwing lane was wide open. On the All-22, we saw that it wasn't even close to open. It was a terribly hard throw, but it was there. And I think that throw is not getting made by Caleb Williams in the second quarter of that game. I don't think Caleb Williams is trusting the spacing and the structure and the offense and releasing that football in the second quarter. And I'm hoping, who knows? I'm hoping that throw gives him the confidence to understand what those things are there. You have got to let them rip and trust that the offensive structure is there to support you. Caleb did two miraculous things on that drive for the Bears. The third down scramble, the throw to Loveland. Both of those plays are 90 percentile plays, right? Backup quarterbacks don't make those plays. The hope now is that Caleb sees that success on that final drive and now starts to understand how to utilize his specific and elite level talents in the structure of Ben Johnson's offense. Because once that is grasped, once he understands how he fits into the structure, all bets are off, folks. All bets are off. We're talking about a 5,000-yard passer. We're talking about one of the best offenses in football, which they kind of are getting to be already. That drive is the building block. So we all remember the excitement. We all remember the craziness. We all remember the frustration and the nerves and the elation. But I also think we have to remember there's a potential there that the end of that Cincinnati game becomes the foundational moment. For Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson moving forward. We'll see if it translates at Soldier Field on Sunday. Bear down.