Olin Kreutz: Caleb Williams avoiding mistakes has been key to Bears' success

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00:00Yeah, and the Bears, some of that, people are going to watch the film

00:03and say some of that thing is luck, right?

00:06Like the fumble, and Romo Duns, he runs back there and recovers it.

00:09But then what happens right after that, we talk about making plays.

00:12Caleb throws a rope to him, right, for 24 yards.

00:14It's second and 25, and Caleb throws a rope, Roman.

00:18We're in the first down.

00:19After being in second and 25, David, to your point of the fact that he is making plays,

00:24he is not turning the ball over, right?

00:26If you think about J.J. McCarthy yesterday,

00:28both his interceptions were on first down, right, to Bayard.

00:31And then down there on the 30-yard line, he takes points out of his team's hands

00:35because he floats it, and Nashawn Wright makes an amazing interception, man.

00:39What a catch by him.

00:40You know, credit to Nashawn Wright and McLeod and these guys for battling out there

00:44with all the injuries that the Bears do have in the secondary.

00:47But they are protecting the football.

00:49He is not taking chances of the ball sometimes.

00:52He, like, holds them.

00:54I think someone's opened a flat for a short pass.

00:56He doesn't throw it, but he does throw it away.

00:58He doesn't take a sack, and he doesn't throw an interception.

01:01That's what's keeping the Chicago Bears in these football games.

01:04And he's coming out, and he's battling.

01:07And, look, he wants to win.

01:08He wants to put these teams away.

01:09He wants to score touchdowns and not get field goals, right?

01:12They came out of the half.

01:13They had the ball.

01:14They don't score.

01:15They get field goals.

01:16They keep them in the game.

01:17Field goal, field goal, punt.

01:18Play goal, punt.

01:19And all of a sudden, they got the lead.

01:21But the Shaw Bears are in the game because there hasn't been the critical mistake, right?

01:27There hasn't been the mistake that you're like, oh, man, there it is.

01:30That's what a bad quarterback does, puts his team in a bad situation.