{"id":3614,"date":"2026-01-14T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:45:31","slug":"halas-intrigue-bears-podcast-talking-caleb-williams-rams-matthew-stafford-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3614","title":{"rendered":"Halas Intrigue Bears podcast: Talking Caleb Williams, Rams&#8217; Matthew Stafford and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Rams week, and Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser break down what Caleb Williams had to say about the Bears&#8217; playoff matchup.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center>\n<div class=\"HtmlModule\"><a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"html-embed-module-0a0000\" name=\"html-embed-module-0a0000\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>New episodes of \u201cHalas Intrigue\u201d will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on&nbsp;<\/i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/halas-intrigue\" target=\"_blank\"><i><u>the podcast\u2019s hub page<\/u><\/i><\/a><i>. You can also listen to \u201cHalas Intrigue\u201d wherever you get your podcasts, including&nbsp;<\/i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/halas-intrigue\/id1478052803\" target=\"_blank\"><i><u>Apple Podcasts<\/u><\/i><\/a><i>,<\/i> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ldHWQoV9IJt7GeOWPj8mp?si=lzcG5vlRTzG30aPzdPwH7w\" target=\"_blank\"><i><u>Spotify<\/u> <\/i><\/a><i>and&nbsp;<\/i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/hS0oP2x\" target=\"_blank\"><i><u>Amazon Music<\/u><\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"list-bc0001\" name=\"list-bc0001\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"PageList-header\">\n<div class=\"PageList-header-title-wrap\">\n<div class=\"PageList-header-title\">\n<p>                <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears\" target=\"{_template=\/page\/list\/includes\/PageList-header.hbs, _styledTemplate=\/page\/list\/PageListH.hbs, hideAuthors=true, hideCategories=true, hideDates=true, hideDescriptions=false, hideTitles=false, pagination=[{_template=\/link\/Link.hbs, body=[Next Page], href=?p=2}], anchorId=list-bc0001, title=Latest on the Bears, titleUrl=https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears, count=20336, ctaButtonText=[], description=[], items=[{_template=\/page\/promo\/PagePromo.hbs, audio=[], authors=[{_template=\/author\/byline\/AuthorByline.hbs, authorPageUrl=https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/authors\/patrick-finley, bio=[{items=[Patrick Finley covers the Bears and the NFL for the Sun-Times after previous stops in Arizona, Florida and California.]}], jobTitle=[{items=[Chicago Bears reporter]}], media=[{_template=\/image\/Image.hbs, alt=patrick-finley-0.jpg, image={src=https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/a8\/3e\/6853c67f16af2c0c2ea207670528\/patrick-finley-0.jpg, width=512, height=512}, narrowImage={src=https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/a8\/3e\/6853c67f16af2c0c2ea207670528\/patrick-finley-0.jpg, width=512, height=512}}], name=[{items=[Patrick Finley]}]}], category=[{items=[Bears]}], categoryUrl=https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears, description=[{items=[Bears coach Ben Johnson had his quarterback study Stafford.]}], isFeatured=false, media=[{_template=\/image\/Image.hbs, alt=Los Angeles Rams v Chicago Bears, image={src=https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/2e\/e7\/c1082fd44b8f9749a756aa3360f6\/2175565034.jpg, width=5184, height=3456}, narrowImage={src=https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/2e\/e7\/c1082fd44b8f9749a756aa3360f6\/2175565034.jpg, width=5184, height=3456}}], publishDate=January 14, 2026 01:03 PM, timestamp=1768417436000, title=How Bears QB Caleb Williams learned to be more like the Rams&#x27; Matthew Stafford, type=Image, url=https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears\/2026\/01\/14\/bears-rams-b-caleb-williams-matthew-stafford-ben-johnson-study, wordCount=579, anchorId=promo-1b0000}, {_template=\/page\/promo\/PagePromo.hbs, audio=[], authors=[{_template=\/author\/byline\/AuthorByline.hbs, authorPageUrl=https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/authors\/cindy-hernandez, bio=[{items=[Cindy Hernandez was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs. 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New episodes of \u201cHalas Intrigue\u201d will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on&nbsp;the podcast\u2019s hub page. You can also listen to \u201cHalas Intrigue\u201d wherever you get your podcasts, including&nbsp;Apple Podcasts, Spotify and&nbsp;Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}