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Bears Over Beers: Offseason Goals, New Stadium Talk · 2nd City Gridiron

• 0:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: What's up, everybody?
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Another edition of Bears Overbears Powered by Second City Grid Irons.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Been a while.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: We haven't done a show since the Bears bowed out of the playoffs to the Los Angeles Rams.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's Ryan Drosty.
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's Brian Orange, Chuck.
• 0:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Brian, how you doing tonight?
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: doing great my man, been a great season.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously did not end the way that we wanted that game.
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was within our reach, but it came out short.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was still a great game either way.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Broke some records, viewership records.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, the whole season was kind of like that, just an exceptional season, caught a lot of attention, and did a lot of things that nobody thought that we could do.
• 0:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So overall, it's been a great season.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Had a great time with you on here, as I've said multiple times, man.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wednesday night kind of gathering get together with you and our listeners is really been a highlight of my of my season my weeks and you know kind of bittersweet to be turned into page on this season but we do have one more show a lot to go over and lots of look forward to so excited to wrap it up with you man and see what you got drinking tonight.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's made what was a really fun season even more fun, you know, doing the show full time this year and hanging out with all you, with you, of course, Brian, but then all of you whether you're joining us live or on the podcast feeds, it's been a really successful season for this show, you've experienced, you know, a lot of growth, love meeting everyone in the chat or interact on social and we're going to keep it rolling here in the off season.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not going to be a weekly show in the off season, but we are planning on doing more shows than we did in the off season last year.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So you'll want to make sure you're subscribed on YouTube that you're subscribed and all the podcast platforms.
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: You never miss an episode.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so you don't miss an episode of any other great shows here on Second City Gridiron.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Brian, I just want to say off the top.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks because we were going to do a show that Wednesday, right after the playoff game.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then I was really sick, you had been battling something before that.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then I got really, you might be even be able to tell them so little stuff.
• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been two weeks, but I came down with a really terrible kind of cold and flu that's going around right now last for a while.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so I felt like I had a 103 temperature that week and I felt like I couldn't do a show unfortunately.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: and also I was really trying to get better because that weekend I took my wife to Vegas for her birthday and I don't think I ever talked about it on air.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was really hoping I'd be able to watch the bears in the conference championship in Las Vegas and unfortunately it didn't happen.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I did go to Vegas and got better enough to go.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was definitely still feeling bad.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I had a great time in Vegas.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, now here we are finally wrapping up the season and I think we're going to look ahead and of course the off season we're going to talk maybe a little bit about some of the stadium drama that's been going on this week, but of course before we get to that.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: we got to talk about our beers and I think we both brought something a little extra special for this episode.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So Brian, you told me last night, you know, we had a little meeting with our bosses and you told me you had something planned, a good beer plan.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I've been thinking about it ever since, tell me, I can't wait any longer.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly, it is no beard.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I am going with the burping tonight in our rocks glass.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: The bears over Burbing is four of the show.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have Bala Bookers.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I got this bottle before our playoff game.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And what's really hoping that our boy Austin Booker would show up in a big way for us.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I would, you know, save it for them.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: But Alas, he didn't quite have as impactful performance and a little a beer shot glass here to make sure I'm getting proper poor.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, nice.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll do a little, a little too glass poor tonight.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I don't think I've done bourbon on the show this whole year.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's why this is a special one for me, obviously.
• 4:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And kind of dupe on that one.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't know it.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: You got the bourbon route, but I didn't.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I've not gotten the show everybody this glass.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I got this for my anniversary.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you haven't gotten it.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's awesome.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know you got one yourself.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so that's what I'll be sippin' on tonight.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: What about you, man?
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely beautiful.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I do have our paint glass so we can keep chillin' our merch here.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Here it is.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, the bears are overbears paint glass.
• 5:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: We saw a few of these and the rocks glass this year.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: So thank you to everyone who's been
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Buy one of those.
• 5:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can find them at the link in the description here.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: But also, you know, just supporting the channel in general, Brian and, you know, there's a drink out of glass.
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been really cool this year.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I was at the beer store tonight.
• 5:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, I was browsing the beers, taking my time and been there in a while.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And right as I was browsing, I got a text message from Mr. Brian Orange.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, we're still doing the show tonight, right?
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, oh, yeah, picking out a good beer right now.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then I ran across it.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: one of my all-time favorite beers.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: It only comes out once a year.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, this is a beer that he used to have to, basically I had to get there with an hour of it releasing every year or you couldn't get it.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yes, let me guess before you, before you share, but keep on, you have to get it once a year and have to get there early.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, to get there early, it would sell out within an hour and that was it for the year.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: And now, you know, like the craft beer boom is starting to slow down a bit.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's it's more plentiful.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, they didn't have that many of them.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: It came in a four pack of tall boys.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: They used to come in bottles.
• 6:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I saw it on the shelf and I could hardly believe my eyes.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I had to buy it.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I knew that was the beer for tonight.
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Do you want to tell you guess what are those?
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Is it dog fish head 120?
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, but that is a great guess.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do have one of those in my fridge, though, which, which, you know, I think that's 15% when you buy it.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: And mine's been in there a couple of years, so it's probably like 18%.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: But here it is.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Bell's hopslam.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, nice.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, this is a classic kind of a honey flavor to a tent, as you can see right there, 10% per cent.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was great.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is so good.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever had this one?
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, I've not.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a fantastic beer Kalamazoo Michigan we talked about bells, I think when we had a bears fan of the year on a couple of weeks ago Yeah, great great great Michigan brewery
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's see.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was going to see if there's a description.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, just as double indie a pale ale brewed with honey.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this has got to be fresh.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it had to have just came in.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm looking forward to when I first got into craft beer.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was one of those at like everybody seek out and you could only get that once a year.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I would always make.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'd be asking at the liquor store.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: When's it coming out once, when's it coming out?
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I remember even, boy, this is probably 10 or 12 years ago.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I remember being at work when it would release and calling my retired dad to go to the liquor store to get it for me.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he would, that would be like the only way it could get it.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: But now, yeah, it's pouring it out right now.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little bit easier to get.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got to try that.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've not had that one.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know if I've seen it, but no, I'll be on the lookout for it.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: for them and quite a bit.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is one, 124 proof.
• 7:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: So this is, I don't quite know if it's cast strength or what, but Booker does it strong.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: So,
• 8:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll get into the edge position at some point on on the show tonight, but This will definitely take the edge off cheers, my man.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been an honor.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, you too.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I got a lot of head on this glass right now So I'm gonna take my first swing out of the can.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that settles down.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Did you ever try the old nose grease trick
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, back in the college days with beer pong and all that I feel like it still works, even though we're older and more Probably doesn't work now, but now I don't want to do anymore.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like did I really used to do that?
• 8:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is random glasses with people playing beer pong back in the day.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know exactly what it's like about
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so bomb beer pong.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I used to love beer pong.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was on my favorite things to do as I'm sure everybody.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I quickly learned how discussing it was to be drinking the beers after the ball was going all over.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you're partying in some of the places.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I mean, disgusting.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I quickly realized, okay, let's just put water in these things have our own drink and we drink our drink when the cup
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: goes keep the water in.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody's going to get, you know, contagious.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, well, you know, speaking of that, I just probably like the nose, Greece trick was probably more just kicks in general that you'd break that out more so than beer pong now that you mentioned that.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, yeah, that was also pretty gross wasn't it?
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because I mean, I was in some Davy basements here, pong back in college.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I got to say it probably took me a good three or four years before I started to like, what am I actually doing here just disgusting so, you know, just godly man, young and stuff, yeah, but what?
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you guys are drinking, if you guys are drinking, and you know, hey, it doesn't have to be alcoholic.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you drink it soda, whatever, juice, let us know in the chat.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: We love to get interactive, let us know what you're drinking tonight.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, we're going to, we're going to talk about an abundance of topics, and then I think there's off-season.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll make this show very loose when we meet.
• 10:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes we might meet and talk about free agency or the draft.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes we might get together.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Talk about bears history, maybe a topic from the past.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: something like that.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to give you guys lots of different flavors in the offseason to keep tuned in to bears over beers and Brian, before I go any further, I do want to give a shout out to a new sponsor to show this week.
• 10:23
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• 10:26
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• 10:34
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• 10:44
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• 10:55
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• 11:00
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• 11:03
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• 11:04
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• 11:09
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• 11:20
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• 11:33
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• 11:44
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• 11:46
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• 12:09
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• 12:13
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• 12:20
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• 12:57
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• 13:05
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• 15:02
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• 15:05
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• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Brian.
• 15:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, how do we want to wrap this up with with the playoff game?
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's been a couple weeks or anything when we talk about, I mean, to me, generally, my thought was like,
• 15:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, we should have won, the bears won the stat sheet going away.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got a much better performance out of our defense.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we could have ever imagined, you know, if you would have thought you would limit the high-flying ramps off.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so what we did on that night, you would have thought the bears would have won.
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Fortunately, the offense, you know, didn't hold up their end of the bargain.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: everyone's talked about that last play.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: It looked like we were going to win an over time or at midfield.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe, you know, we should have gone for smaller chunks, but that route to DJ was open and what happened happened and the season ended.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it also in some ways, you know, it just feels like this is just the start.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: We could have gone further this year, but I still feel like this is a start of something special and next year will be even better than this year was.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 16:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah,
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the things that stuck out to me, not just in that game, but last few games as our run game did not quite pop the way that we had been used to.
• 16:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm curious to see, you know, what the remedy for that is moving forward.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think having a Theo.
• 16:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he was kind of lacking in past protection at left tackle.
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: They put Ozzy in there, all of a sudden our run game was doing pretty decent.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then obviously we had Tuney move to left tackle for that playoff game.
• 16:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I did think, you know, the O-line held, they seemed to hold up pretty, pretty good.
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, we had to get a few drops.
• 16:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Colson Lovelin had his worst game of the season.
• 16:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: And
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, it was a game I felt like we could have won, you know, I felt like we could we could hang with them.
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like you said, I think it sets us up for an even more exciting 2026.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: And especially if we can add a couple more key pieces and we'll get to that here in a minute.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: But overall, it can't be disappointed.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I loved having two home playoff games, man.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, if any of you guys were there, let us know.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I got to say, on the record, I love the Blue
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I always liked them.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad the curse is over now.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the self-made curse stands, but yeah, I'm excited to kind of review the season with you and kind of go over our highs and the lows of the season.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that'll be fun.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: But as far as a playoff game is concerned, I think it's great experience for the likes of Caleb and our young team.
• 17:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: but it was one that we could have won.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like they know that they could have won that game and our coaches, coaching staff to be able to go through that as a as a unit with our guys.
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: But this is going to be a season, it's going to be a season harder for get, you know, there's going to be some turnover.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's going to be tough.
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, more so for the players and coaches, we've already lost a few coaches, we're certainly going to lose some players.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, that's one of those things.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a final, you know, a final destination type of experience, the NFL football season for these teams.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: last time these guys are going to be together.
• 18:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: So luckily we've got a really nice promising young core but we've got some question marks and we'll get to that here on this show but as far as you are concerned looking back what would you say was your greatest highlight or the high point if you will of the season?
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh man, that's tough because you know, like we're doing these shows weekly and obviously the way the season started was we blew a game against the Vikings.
• 19:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: We should have won and and then we had crushed by Detroit, so everyone was down, but we I think we were even on the show at the time Brian saying like everyone is settled down, you know, there's plenty of time to get this thing right and boy, they blew the doors open against Dallas.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then right after that, at like the fourth quarter, come back, kind of started with what happened in Vegas in that last second field goal.
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was cool to get revenge in Washington.
• 19:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Man, I don't know, I think, you could point to Green Bay, obviously, but that stuff happened so late in the year two.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think the ultimate highlight is ending Green Bay season.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because the way that that rivalry or lack of rivalry had gone for so many years, and then we split with them the last two seasons, the two games that we lost come down to the final play, just like the games that we won.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we both felt like going into that playoff game.
• 20:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: If the bears could win that game, it would swing the momentum of the rivalry.
• 20:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because yeah, I mean, splitting is nice, but nobody really gets the upper hand.
• 20:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: When you send a team home in the playoffs,
• 20:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how many wins does that account for?
• 20:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's like winning more than one game, especially when it's your rival.
• 20:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we, you know, all these years later, maybe getting, now they won the Super Bowl that year, so it's not a equal comparison, but getting a little bit of revenge for losing the NFC title game, it sold your field, you know, 15 years ago, that was also nice, I definitely feel like,
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Green Bay is not the bogey man anymore.
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: After the last two years and say him home in the playoffs, I think ultimately, beating them in the playoffs is the biggest highlight of the year.
• 20:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: But if we look at regular season, I think it might be that filly game, just because that was like the most complete game all year.
• 20:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a game we all thought we were going to lose at the beginning of the year.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we going to filly on Black Friday with a huge audience and dominated the game on all fronts.
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that was maybe the peak of the regular season.
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 21:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: So just so you listeners know, we did not collaborate beforehand and discuss our answers.
• 21:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: No.
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but, and I didn't know you were going to go there, but Philly is my spot too.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just that was kind of a culmination for me of of us arriving.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: We, as you talked about, we did the schedule prediction, which we'll do again this offseason.
• 21:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, not pulling any punches here, but we correctly predicted the record.
• 21:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hold on, I still have the screenshot saved.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Here it is.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can notice Brian and I had 11 and 6 that was the night the schedule came out.
• 21:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Look at the screenshot title, May 14th, 2025.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got it right.
• 21:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Listen to bears overbears, what can I say?
• 21:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: But all of us picked the Eagles' loss, and at that point, we hadn't really beaten anyone.
• 22:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: The commanders turned out to be kind of mid.
• 22:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we beat the Steelers, and that kind of got people's attention.
• 22:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the Eagles were the real test, and for us on Black Friday, in Philadelphia.
• 22:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: to get that game.
• 22:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like you said, it was our most complete game.
• 22:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that that, you know, was the the prime glimpse as to what this team could do.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that was my highlight of the regular season.
• 22:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Also the last game the run game like really dominated.
• 22:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: We didn't have a 100-yard Russia the rest of the year after that game, but that was the game where our offensive line just tossed them around like the whole game.
• 22:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Nungai had 130 yards rushing in that game.
• 22:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he did.
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: He did.
• 22:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I would say, you know, it's tough because the, as far as a low-light, low point, like you said, the Detroit game was pretty low, just because that was an epic beat down.
• 23:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they freaking put up 52 on us, right?
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's unacceptable.
• 23:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it was week two.
• 23:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: We have such a new team, our offensive line, this brand new together, we
• 23:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we knew that was going to turn around.
• 23:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: We knew Ben was going to get the guys in working order as a seasoned progress.
• 23:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that wasn't quite the low for me.
• 23:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: To me, it's between that first loss to Green Bay because F Green Bay and we were coming off that high.
• 23:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I really feel like because that game ended.
• 23:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: That game, we still had a chance in that one.
• 23:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I was confident, even in that loss, I feel like the San Fran game might have been the low, you know, because because we think about that game, Sunday night football with serious number one seed implications on the line.
• 23:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we start that game with a pick six.
• 24:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we lose because our defense lets up 42 points even our offense score 38.
• 24:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I feel like that for me was a regular season low, just because they got my expectations.
• 24:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: My hopes up so high at that point only to
• 24:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, kind of let us down that and then the last week of the season also was was not cool, but but that that that Sam frame game, that kind of stung a little bit for, you know, seating when not obviously it didn't end up mattering because we had clinched the division, but we could have had, you know, the one seed and just would have been nice.
• 24:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know, it's tough.
• 24:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Man, this is a season.
• 24:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Gosh man, every season in the last 20 years, you could pick five, five lows that, you know, we're in the running, but this year was tough.
• 24:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, none of those were detrimental to my health or my, my marital status or, you know, any of that, you know what I mean?
• 25:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 25:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'll take these lows of anything, but it is kind of tough to say, but what about you?
• 25:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, when you have a record of 11 and 6 or not, that many low points, you're always going to look to the loss of the rivals at Green Bay crowd chant the bear still suck.
• 25:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, we got we got the finalizer opening weekend too.
• 25:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was low, you know, yeah, all off season for that game.
• 25:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about how suck it was to wait for the Monday night game after.
• 25:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 25:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: and that sucked.
• 25:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I kind of, I think we expected to lose the one at Detroit, just everything going into that game, them went in revenge for Ben and all of that.
• 25:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was a huge beat down that really sucked, but I kind of expected that to be an L. I did not expect to lose the Minnesota.
• 25:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we don't definitively know what JJ McCarthy's going to be yet, but going into that game was like, there's no way he should win this game.
• 25:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: right now he's just he's not good.
• 25:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: He might end up being good.
• 25:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's not right now.
• 25:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that that being his first start.
• 26:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like that sucked in primetime game at home to lose to him the way that they did.
• 26:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then like McCarthy ended up getting like player the week for basically one good quarter that was kind of it was you know looking back that was a little humiliating you know at the time.
• 26:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you know I don't know I might also look to that Baltimore game
• 26:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: you know, we were going up against Tyler Huntley and it seemed like a very winnable game obviously and we lose 30 to 16.
• 26:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, sure, it's a road game, but you know, you're not playing Lamar.
• 26:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was it was very winnable and we lost 30 to 16.
• 26:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, the division games are always going to rank higher with disappointment.
• 26:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I was more disappointed that Baltimore game than San Fran because like, you know, like, we lost San Fran and the ones he was there so that part
• 26:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I also felt like San Fran was a good team.
• 26:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've got a great coaching staff.
• 26:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was going to be a tough game.
• 26:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: And our offense looked really good in that game.
• 27:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we couldn't stop anything, you know?
• 27:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Caleb, two for three and a 30 yards.
• 27:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: A burden had a huge game.
• 27:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I wanted to win that one.
• 27:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I would say like I felt like the Baltimore game was one that really got away.
• 27:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we had one four straight going into that game.
• 27:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll go with Baltimore.
• 27:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Anything that was a game looking back, we should have won.
• 27:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but yeah, man, I mean, it's you mentioned the coaching staff changes the front office changes this is just something happens when you have a good team and it's something that I want him to have to get used to it on the other hand, it's a reason why good coaches are going to want to keep coming here because we're not holding them back from, you know,
• 27:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: moving on and in bettering their career.
• 27:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like Ben is said, you know, he wants these guys to get jobs like that and get opportunities.
• 27:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so like any hot coach that's on the rise, it sees himself climb in the ladder.
• 27:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like Ben Johnson's a guy they're going to want to work for because they have seen him elevate people from his staff.
• 28:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, soon we're going to be hearing about people talking about the Ben Johnson coaching tree.
• 28:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
• 28:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's the price of success.
• 28:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: We all knew that this was probably going to happen.
• 28:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not super worried about it right now.
• 28:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think that they'll get some quality guys in there and you know, I'm happy for people to get an opportunity.
• 28:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 28:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: To me, this is why you want an offensive hit coach.
• 28:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: who calls the plays because we like losing the offensive coordinator.
• 28:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, well, I mean, it's Ben's offense.
• 28:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's Ben's offense.
• 28:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Ben's team.
• 28:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Ben's offense.
• 28:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think and I think yes, number one, this is why you want an offensive head coach, especially when you got a young quarterback, right?
• 28:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's huge.
• 28:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we saw some teams as offseason, not follow suit, which I think is foolish, but that's a whole other topic conversation.
• 28:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then number two, who's our defensive coordinator?
• 29:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because as you talked about that playoff game, our defense stepped the F up when it comes to stopping the slowing down those ramps.
• 29:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure you saw the audio of the post game hand shakes.
• 29:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And there was no drama between McVey and Ben Johnson.
• 29:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just point that out as everybody was talking that one up.
• 29:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: But what did you notice?
• 29:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I noticed
• 29:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: make they giving his flowers the Dennis Allen, because of how well they played with an inferior, defensive roster mind you.
• 29:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's grammatically alone, Dennis Allen stepped up.
• 29:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, why is that important?
• 29:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, because Dennis Allen's a veteran coach, he's one of the, you know, back, back nine in his career type coaches, he's been a head coach.
• 29:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that he's going to get another shot as a head coach.
• 29:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: He may, and if he does, that means he is doing exceptionally well as defensive coordinator, which if we have been Johnson doing his thing to exceptional coaches with an improved roster over year, that means likely superboles.
• 30:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 30:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Dennis Allen has not gotten a single mention of a head coach interview this whole off season.
• 30:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we know that process would take some time.
• 30:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I go back to hiring an offensive coach, which was obviously the right move, but then the staff that he put together.
• 30:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we have talked about this all season, Ryan.
• 30:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Before the season, one of the main reasons we were so optimistic of our record was because
• 30:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's no coincidences here, but you're right.
• 30:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: We will lose coaches, you know, due to the success that we're having, but we can withstand that because Ben is the guy.
• 30:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is the guy that's going to call the offensive plays.
• 31:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to grow with Caleb and the team.
• 31:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we've got guys.
• 31:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm hoping we don't lose Al Harris.
• 31:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's the one I feel like with hurt, maybe the most, maybe even more than Randall L, I feel out Harris would be the most painful, but yeah, our coaching staff, we've already lost, you know, be enemy, that was huge.
• 31:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's kind of funny because of how naggy went down there.
• 31:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think be enemy is here.
• 31:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can't, you can't look at my non-guy season without thinking of air, be enemy.
• 31:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
• 31:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can't do it, sure.
• 31:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, and Swift, you know, I mean, he was very vocal.
• 31:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, basically Swift better, you know, put a foot in the ground and get going.
• 31:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Swift had one of his best seasons of his career this year.
• 31:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: So the enemy is going to be a tough loss.
• 31:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to seeing who they want to hire.
• 31:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you guys want to dabble here, I'll take half the price for running Mexico to job.
• 32:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: If anybody's listening for the bears.
• 32:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think the biggest thing is going to be this offseason in the players that we acquire and what we do with some of our vets, some of our higher price vets.
• 32:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of the question.
• 32:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's going to be most important because we've got the coaches in play still to do the job.
• 32:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And now it's feeling that team on the field.
• 32:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know what you're talking about, Dennis Allen.
• 32:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think we talked about in the offseason like you were saying.
• 32:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we liked the higher because it was like this is a guy who's not going to be moving on.
• 32:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's already done.
• 32:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's already done right.
• 32:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not inconceivable that he could be it, you know, getting head coach interviews, but like like you said,
• 32:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: That would be like probably the bear is coming off close to NFC championship loss or a Super Bowl winner loss.
• 32:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like if the bears next year go to the Super Bowl, I will not be surprised to Dennis Allen, you know, as getting people's knocking at his door again.
• 33:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you know, at the same time, maybe, you know, maybe this is not, maybe he won't want to leave.
• 33:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like if they go to the Super Bowl, they don't win.
• 33:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's
• 33:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, he might want to stay, you know, get that ring.
• 33:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, if they go to the Super Bowl, and they win, maybe it does want to move on, but like, that's a good problem to have.
• 33:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Look, if we're going to lose Dennis Allen, because we won the Super Bowl, give me that problem.
• 33:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, exactly.
• 33:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I could see the defense next year, because we're in talk here about like won't list in the Aussies, and they could have a big year if they make some big moves, and, you know, then he could be a guy that's in demand again.
• 33:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think we both agree probably that, you know, we want them to focus on the D-line and we want them to get young players in here.
• 33:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: We want them to mostly focus, I think, defense in the draft now because of some injuries it happened, probably you don't have to go online too.
• 33:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: But that D line is going to be paramount.
• 33:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going to throw this question at you right now, Brian.
• 34:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: So because there's been a couple of hell big names out there.
• 34:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm curious which way you lean.
• 34:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: We haven't talked about this at all.
• 34:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: If the bears were to make a splash on the D line, do you have a pre-written?
• 34:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: You would rather pay a trade than than trade from Crosby.
• 34:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I was going to ask you.
• 34:22
  [UNKNOWN]: Okay.
• 34:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: to me it doesn't make sense.
• 34:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, doesn't make sense to give, especially with what they're reported to be wanting to first.
• 34:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't get, I don't think I'd give a single first at this point.
• 34:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we had the same type of conversation with Tray, not me and you, but are you and I, but bears fans did prior to the deadline with Tray Hendrickson.
• 34:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: and people were willing to give up a first or a second or a multiple picks for him.
• 34:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, Hendrickson's sack numbers are far superior to Max Crossbees, far superior.
• 35:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now he's a little bit older but not much older.
• 35:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna say it's a weird thing because like,
• 35:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: When you watch the games, I would say Crosby is flashier.
• 35:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is the way he plays.
• 35:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: It seems like visually make more of an impact, but then you're right, like in the numbers, Henderson looks superior.
• 35:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I tend to agree with you.
• 35:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, look, if they traded for Max Crosby and they got a good deal, I would be thrilled.
• 35:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, me too.
• 35:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely thrilled.
• 35:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hendrickson seems less risky because you can get him in free agency versus giving up capital because I really want to see the bears continue to build this thing the right way with young core players that they aircraft and you know a lot was written and said about Ryan Paul's drafts in previous years but his last draft he hit out the park and some of that is because of Ben Johnson a lot of it's probably because of you know right work with Ben Johnson versus not working in the past.
• 35:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know, obviously bends an offensive coach, but you know, Dennis Allen do.
• 36:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, I hope that they can find some talent in the draft because obviously that's always going to be preferable to have in a pay free agents or make trades.
• 36:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, given up, given where the team is right now, I feel like they're in this window.
• 36:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously the Super Bowl window is now open.
• 36:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's for sure the case.
• 36:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
• 36:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, given how this season went.
• 36:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Man, if you can continue to get core young players that contribute, that's how you just keep extending that Super Bowl window versus yeah, you can push your chips into win now and make a short term move.
• 36:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, in multiple super bowls, you have those big drafts and I'm real, I'm, it's, it's weird because when your team is down, you're excited for the draft because you want it to turn around.
• 36:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm super excited for this draft just because I feel like we're so close.
• 36:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 36:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm curious who they're going to bring in.
• 36:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm with you.
• 36:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And
• 36:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm with you all the way around, everything you said I'm with you.
• 37:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: The only player that I would like close as much as Trey Hendrickson would be Jaylet Phillips.
• 37:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: He would be obviously much younger, more of an athletic specimen could grow with our team a little bit more.
• 37:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: But Hendrick Sim would be that Julius Pepper's type of player towards end of his career.
• 37:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's got some exceptional past rush ability.
• 37:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think he would be just an absolute massive.
• 37:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think he'd want to come here too.
• 37:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a whole another topic as well.
• 37:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: But then that gives us some flexibility.
• 37:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think, I think, D line is where we need to go on the first round, no matter what.
• 37:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: No matter what, you know, unless, I guess, unless a top tackle falls to us.
• 37:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: But even then, I would prefer D line.
• 38:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm thinking most likely it would be the tackle because typically tackles slide so you could get a top tackle.
• 38:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you get Hendrickson in the off season and you get a detackle like Kayden McDonald, which a lot of us bears fans have been talking about over at Wendy City.
• 38:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's some other guys too though, a lot of good talent on D-Line this year.
• 38:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if a stud defensive end,
• 38:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: falls to you, like a TJ Parker from Clemson who just tore up the senior bull.
• 38:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would take him even if I had Trey Hendrickson because you can never have too many past wrestlers.
• 38:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden Austin Booker is maybe your third or fourth or fifth defense event.
• 38:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is a great problem to have.
• 38:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, Grady Jarrett, we can't get out of his contract.
• 38:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: this year.
• 38:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be back in 26.
• 39:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Andrew Billings is gone.
• 39:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: We can resign him.
• 39:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we have Javan Dexter, Grady Jarrett,
• 39:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: at least.
• 39:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: And those are two of our starters.
• 39:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 39:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the way Jared played the end to end the season, it was encouraging.
• 39:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, giving a full off season, I'm not saying I would prefer a stud defensive tackle, I think, in the first round with tray Hendricks and I would.
• 39:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if it falls to where we get a stud defensive end and tray Hendricks in, then that's goes to what you're talking about
• 39:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Heck, we can maybe even add some more weight to Schmarturner and get him back inside, right?
• 39:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's another option as well.
• 39:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: But as far as as the offseason is concerned, we need to have our biggest splash in my opinion at Edge.
• 39:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's, yeah, that's, that's gotta happen.
• 40:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it feels like they're a superstar, a dresser away from being a legitimate Super Bowl picker by a lot of people.
• 40:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, and yeah, there's other issues here, obviously, with now we had a ton of issues with injuries this year in the secondary.
• 40:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So,
• 40:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't, I'm like, as far as corners go, you know, I think they probably need to look drafting there.
• 40:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we had a lot of guys that went down to injury, not going to be able to re-signation right.
• 40:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to get paid somewhere.
• 40:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Bears cannot commit money to him.
• 40:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad he had the breakout year that he had.
• 40:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: But he's just, he's a very boomer bus player, struggles and covers.
• 40:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to pay that kind of money to him.
• 40:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: We've got guys that can play there.
• 40:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's really going to be interesting what they do at safety.
• 40:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: you know, with brisker and biored, um, I would love to have both of them back.
• 40:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't seem likely though.
• 40:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, if you had to choose one of those guys, Brian.
• 40:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Who would you be throwing the money out to bring back?
• 40:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to go buy it.
• 41:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: He just had an all-pro season.
• 41:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a leader on the team.
• 41:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Got to turn leadership.
• 41:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you've got to go buy it.
• 41:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Although I loved Brisker had, I'm not looking at it right now, but he had one of his healthiest seasons.
• 41:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: He had all his career.
• 41:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he loves being a bear.
• 41:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: The bear's feel different when he's out there.
• 41:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but you got to go buy it in that scenario, uh, you know, um, I'm kind of optimistic that we can retain both of them, um, you know, the, the fan boy and me, you know, hopes that the success that we've had.
• 41:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: and tices some of these homegrown players to take less or even some of these newer players.
• 41:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like CJ Gardner Johnson, you know, he needs to be a priority over Brisker in my opinion.
• 41:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: In a lot of people who've been saying he needs to play, we need to move him to safety, which he has played some.
• 41:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 41:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't quite know.
• 41:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I think that's I'm open to it.
• 41:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've definitely open to it.
• 42:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: If Alhair is in this sound, think that, you know, he could step in for brisker alongside byered and, you know, get Kyler back in there because, you know, we've talked at Nazium about the chess, you know, peace advantage of having Gordon on one slot and CJ on the other and being able to move them around and play the lineback or safety
• 42:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so that kind of allows them a little bit more flexibility to do that, but I'm with you.
• 42:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I would like to bring it both back.
• 42:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things, man, that has been toughest for me, you're just sticking on the defense because I want to get to the left tackle spot with you as well.
• 42:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm a big fan of Tremade Edmonds.
• 42:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he has kind of been like the universal, everybody agrees we need to move on from him this off season.
• 42:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean you obviously have an idea of how I feel about that, but what are your thoughts on that?
• 42:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they got to move on, just because of the salary cap situation.
• 43:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like they got to free up some money.
• 43:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think if they cut him, it's like $15 million.
• 43:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 43:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they're going to need that.
• 43:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Especially if you want to go out for Hendrickson, I do feel that they really stumbled into something with Demarco Jackson.
• 43:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: like he was solid as hell when he played like best linebacker on the field solid as hell.
• 43:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 43:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was a luxury that we kind of stumbled into through injuries and he really stepped it up.
• 43:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I feel like having Demarco at linebacker now too, makes it.
• 43:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: more likely that they could feel better about cutting admins, you know, I just, I think just from a monetary perspective, they, I just feel like they almost have to do it.
• 43:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, now I hear you, you know, I've seen some numbers thrown around and I think there's some hope that he can get restructured along with DJ Moore that we have when we talked about, but he's the other one that gets brought up just as much.
• 44:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm not a salary cap savant, like a lot of our colleagues are over at WCG, but, you know, if they can, I think, I think they'd be wise.
• 44:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think Termaine never was healthy again when he came back.
• 44:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 44:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But early on in the season, man.
• 44:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was easily on an all-pro-terr with his turn.
• 44:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
• 44:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: We were talking about him every week on, he was like MVP, he won multiple my game balls this year.
• 44:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 44:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't have that same defense the first half of the season without Chermaine.
• 44:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's just, it's tough because I felt like he, he really, he, he's shown in Dennis Allen scheme and it'll be tough to replicate, but you're right.
• 45:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Marco absolutely looked apart and he could make it, you know, he could make it worthwhile.
• 45:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 45:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: But,
• 45:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm hoping we can retain them, but there's thoughts, this is a really strong draft for linebackers.
• 45:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's thoughts that we can maybe keep the Marco let go of Chamaine and pick up a stud.
• 45:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: My favorite is Jacob Rodriguez at a Texas Tech.
• 45:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, this guy dude gets his hands on every single pass out there.
• 45:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It seems like he is just a, uh, magnet for the ball, um, about six, three, I think 240, not quite as as big as as main, but, um, just, uh, just all around the football type of guy.
• 45:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he could have, you know, impact similar to a Carson Sweshingger that we spoke of on the Browns this year.
• 45:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was an early second round pick was, was Swedgehead.
• 46:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think Rodriguez is kind of in that same bow.
• 46:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it'll be a second round, maybe a third round.
• 46:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I could even see him going first round.
• 46:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't want to spend the first round pick on him.
• 46:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want Detackle, like I said, unless an ed falls to us.
• 46:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it's gonna be tough and that's what I'm talking about.
• 46:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you look at all these videos from the postking and that's number point of my of my highlights like I think the shirtless highlight, which was at the filling in I think it what yeah, I think so, you know, so I I feel like that was a highlight, but but for me, you know, his his post game Chicago.
• 46:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like he like he galvanized the team and the city.
• 46:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, and he was the leader of that defense.
• 46:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, and you go on the flip side to offense.
• 46:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: DJ Moore was arguably one of the biggest leaders of the offense.
• 46:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we over here as Monday morning quarterbacks can all day say, look at their price tag and how much cap we have and say, this guy needs to go, this guy needs to go.
• 47:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a locker room that Ryan Polls and Ben Johnson are very serious and protective about.
• 47:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: They brought in a buyer intentionally, a gritty Jared intentionally, a Joe Tune intentionally to make this sort of an impact.
• 47:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: So now are you going to let these guys go?
• 47:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know.
• 47:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm fascinated.
• 47:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just like you were saying, and I love that you said that.
• 47:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: We have been so fixated over the years on the offseason, because that's all we have to look forward to.
• 47:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: to get us relevant.
• 47:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, now we're relevant.
• 47:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: So now we're just a couple pieces away.
• 47:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if that means we have to cut some pieces to get more pieces, that's a little bit more like a one step forward, two steps back scenario potentially.
• 48:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not as fun, but we're in that relevant game now, so at least that's obviously
• 48:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, exciting, which is why you'll be hearing from us, you know, some more maybe this off season, but yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm curious to hear what you all think about this as well, but I also want to get to DJ, like I just mentioned, and the left tackle spot on offense, so I don't know how you want to do that.
• 48:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, I mean, I would say a DJ obviously makes a ton of money and, you know, being looking at the cap situation.
• 48:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to have to get creative with restructuring.
• 48:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's some guys in the old line.
• 48:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: They could restructured free up some money a little bit.
• 48:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen a lot of people out there, you know, proposing DJ more trades and, you know, it's not impossible at the same time the contract makes it harder, given how much money he has owed to him.
• 49:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: The people float that idea though because we are kind of loaded at receiver right now and you got also got close to the lovelin who can play like a wider receiver from the tight end spot.
• 49:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it seems like they have a lot of assets there and that the future is definitely burden and Rome.
• 49:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know, and then they got other younger guys who stepped up too.
• 49:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, like, John A. Walker.
• 49:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah, I don't really know what's feasible, DJ right now.
• 49:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll have to see, like, as we get into the offseason if there is a possible trade market there.
• 49:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but
• 49:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: He is a leader on the team as you mentioned.
• 49:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Once in a while, he's had issues like we saw in the last game where maybe he loafs on some plays a little bit, but he's also a game-changing guy who like caught the game winning pass against Green Bay.
• 49:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Twice.
• 49:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's so.
• 49:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Another guy, too, that I've seen people floating as like a cut candidate, which I think is ridiculous, is Cole Comet.
• 49:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't see them moving on from Cole Comet.
• 49:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's a valuable locker room, guys.
• 49:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Been on this team.
• 50:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's wild.
• 50:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's 26, and he feels like he's been around forever.
• 50:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, like he played in the previous last playoff game in 2020, that's wild.
• 50:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's still only 26 years old.
• 50:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a team that played 12 and 13 personnel all the time.
• 50:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just don't, I think he's way too valuable to give up.
• 50:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Cole's sticking around.
• 50:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if that's a situation where, you know, potentially there's a restructure or something like that or extended restructure.
• 50:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, I don't know.
• 50:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a cap guru, like some of our counterparts at Wendy Seagrad, either.
• 50:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, left tackle is a position where,
• 50:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, you know, I do think they're going to have to draft an O lineman for sure.
• 50:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think, uh, Trepello, we were very high on that injury absolutely sucks because it changes the now, the outlook on the O lineman in the off season.
• 50:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so I, I think they're going to have to look at the draft for that position, too.
• 50:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, what, what do you think about left tackle?
• 50:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if they were to get a draft pick that could start
• 51:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: start the season for Charpillo.
• 51:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: It would have to be a day one pick.
• 51:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that they can get a late second rounder.
• 51:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you could get lucky.
• 51:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Charpillo himself, I don't think was a late pick.
• 51:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I used more mid.
• 51:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember exactly.
• 51:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he was actually a third second rounder.
• 51:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it might have been a little bit later.
• 51:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: But he wasn't ready to start the season.
• 51:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a 56th overall pick.
• 51:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 51:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So at the end of the second round, but again, he was not ready to start.
• 51:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you get a guy, end of the second round.
• 51:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're lucky, he can start at some point.
• 51:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to get a guy can start early, which is where we need him.
• 51:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the best solution here is to re-sign Braxton Jones.
• 51:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Re-sign Braxton the one-year contract, get me healthy contract out of that minimum, get me healthy one-year deal.
• 52:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know,
• 52:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: prove it deal.
• 52:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's healthy, finally, because what was he not last off, he's healthy.
• 52:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: He knows the offence at this point.
• 52:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: He started the opener for us this past year.
• 52:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, give him another shot where he's healthy to make himself some money and shoot maybe even stick with being a bear for a longer time.
• 52:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think
• 52:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: run it back, because we haven't had Braxton pretty much all year because of his injury.
• 52:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So run it back.
• 52:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: You got Aussie coming back when he's healthy.
• 52:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I would do.
• 52:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't spend too much money there because there's not that many tackles available on the market, at least not that I would like, not more than Braxton, who seems like he really wants to be here.
• 52:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's another one of those guys that's been around a while, even though he's still young.
• 52:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's one thing people don't talk about.
• 52:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: these young bears want to win like my favorite movie, not your lead break.
• 53:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to win.
• 53:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
• 53:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't you ever want to get a feel with a taste like you want to win?
• 53:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've been losing for too long.
• 53:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 53:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And now they're winning.
• 53:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: So he wants to be here.
• 53:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: He sees everybody's been talking about, oh, they've got the quarterback.
• 53:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've got the coach, right?
• 53:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
• 53:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to see, we don't have all the money to spend this off season, but we're going to see free agents that say, yeah, I want to be with Chicago.
• 53:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be in Chicago.
• 53:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to see that finally.
• 53:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Braxton's the play there about DJ and I'm with you.
• 53:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: We got those young receivers.
• 53:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love John A. Walker.
• 53:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a huge Rome fan.
• 53:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Rome is a stud.
• 53:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: and Luther is our guy, but DJ has earned his spot.
• 54:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, I think it'd be best to trade him.
• 54:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think a team like Buffalo makes a lot of sense.
• 54:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if we could end up packaging him and a deal for Max Crosby, bro, I would be happy.
• 54:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love, I like Max better than Hendrickson.
• 54:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even though Hendrickson's stat numbers are better, I think Max affects the game in the run.
• 54:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: a lot a little bit more, but he's younger.
• 54:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we can do something like that then yeah, but, but man, like DJ has embraced being a bear.
• 54:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's been here past couple years to help us turn the corner, right?
• 54:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: He helped us with fields, turn the corner from a losing team to a winning team.
• 54:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: from losing against Green Bay, he literally won against Green Bay twice this year.
• 54:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, he, he, yeah, that's another, that's going to be tough.
• 54:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I kind of hope we restructure him as well this year.
• 54:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then maybe next year, you know, get rid of him, but um, I don't know, man.
• 55:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's tough.
• 55:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've teased, I have a body that's a big raiders fan and I've sent him a few text like, Oh, you need my need a big time receiver for it with that new quarterback.
• 55:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: What do you think about DJ out there?
• 55:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, that yeah, that would be like ideal if you could get the raiders to bite on that trade and work them to a cross be trade.
• 55:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I mean,
• 55:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: with the receivers, and I saw we had a chat here about how Rome, you know, in the Ram's game, I agree, Rome had a terrible game.
• 55:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: That drop on the TD and the opening drive was just crucial.
• 55:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was terrible.
• 55:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Rome was not the same after his injury.
• 55:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like the first,
• 55:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: handful of games of the year he looked like he was like in the top ten on every statistical category look like every bit of the number one receiver we wanted him to be you know they got hurt and he was just not the same but like the whole team and all right we can actually parlay this into the last topic we have tonight brand because we're we're almost at our these shows go so fast but I wanted to talk a little bit about the stadium situation
• 56:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: the bears struggled so much with drops in that game against the Rams, um, you know, with Colston who never dropped the ball all year, multiple drops in that game, Rome dropping a for sure touchdown, um, you know, for all the talk about bear weather and all this and yet did look cool on TV.
• 56:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not one of these people.
• 56:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen some people out there saying, oh, but, you know, God, that game looks so great on TV with the snow, do we really want to give that up?
• 56:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you look at that game.
• 56:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Our receiver struggle to hell with a lot more than the Rams did in the Cold Weather.
• 56:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not sure about bear weather.
• 56:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: If we catch those balls, we win the game.
• 56:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And our guys who are used to playing and practicing in it didn't seem to cope well, at least catching the ball in that game.
• 56:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: The stadium situation has been a huge topic over this last few weeks because obviously the Indiana legislature has been moving quickly to try to lure the bears across the border.
• 57:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, we know the bears have owned the Arlington Heights property now for several years and of, you know, but trying to get going on that and they tease their moving back downtown again, even though none of us really thought that that was a possibility.
• 57:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's been all this stuff with like the tax rate out in Arlington Heights and
• 57:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: The legislature in Indiana has been offering the bear is just like a crazy deal to move there.
• 57:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now it's not set in stone yet.
• 57:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's still moving through the legislature.
• 57:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: But they basically want to build the stadium for the bears and then have the bears lease the stadium from them for like the next three decades.
• 57:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then they can buy it out, right?
• 57:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I think the bears would get all the revenue from the stadium.
• 57:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just like a crazy sweet hard deal for the bears.
• 57:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: You got to move across the state border.
• 57:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, there's lots of teams that have done that with, like, in New York with the Jets and the Giants, of course.
• 57:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, DC, plan, and Maryland, and hell, where the Super Bowl is, I mean, that's, what is it, like, 40 or 50 miles from San Francisco, to Santa Clara, something like that?
• 58:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, like, it's not unheard of for the team to not play in Illinois.
• 58:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but we know from what's been reported that the McCaskees want to build an Illinois.
• 58:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's their first choice.
• 58:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's there's talk out there that Indiana can make the deal just too hard to pass up.
• 58:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we also know George is kind of like us.
• 58:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of a meatball.
• 58:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
• 58:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And like this George really want to be the guy that takes the bears out of Illinois.
• 58:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, maybe to save $2 billion he does, but I think that that weighs on his mind a little bit too.
• 58:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any preference on this Brian we haven't really talked about this either about like would you be bombed if they moved to Northwest Indiana do you think it's still going to end up in in Arlington any thoughts on the stadium stuff that's going on right now yeah to me if it's not downtown Chicago I don't care where it is it's all the same to me Arlington Heights Indiana it's all the same to me and and and that I say that
• 59:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: with the understanding that I would prefer them to be in downtown.
• 59:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I would prefer personally.
• 59:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: As an outsider, that's come in.
• 59:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll take a dome, even though I'd prefer retractable.
• 59:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's another whole topic is, how can you not say that there was home field advantage for these teams this off-season?
• 59:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: You could say that our receivers had it worse,
• 59:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't think we hold the Rams offense with Matthew Stafford, with his finger injury to, you know, what we held them to yardage-wise if it's not in those conditions.
• 59:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, and that's where I'm thinking is like, if you have, and this is not exactly you're asking, but if you have any measurable advantage to having an
• 59:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: a weather stadium without door elements.
• 1:00:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: How can you not at least consider the retractable roof at least any advantage you should be dialing up.
• 1:00:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: But as far as locations concerned, frankly, I mean, I think I'd prefer in the end because for me and Western North Carolina, that's a shorter drive.
• 1:00:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: You might say that.
• 1:00:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for me to go to the games.
• 1:00:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't care Arlington Heights Indiana to me.
• 1:00:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's all the same.
• 1:00:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd prefer Chicago if it's not there I don't care and and if it's gonna be a sweeter deal a sweeter situation in the end.
• 1:00:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll take it But it's kind of you know obviously drawn out knowing and open a little overwhelming, but But yeah, they make a deal too sweet to pass up.
• 1:00:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna complain about it
• 1:00:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's be clear here.
• 1:00:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Neither of us are Illinois taxpayers.
• 1:00:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, we were not talking about this with the same investment literally that some of you are.
• 1:01:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I live in eastern Iowa.
• 1:01:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, for me, Arlington Heights is closer.
• 1:01:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, I guess myself is one thing would be, I like Arlington Heights because it'd be an hour closer to me from going to downtown Chicago.
• 1:01:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just think with the bears as an institution, obviously, being an Illinois is ideal.
• 1:01:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, downtown is just not going to happen at this point.
• 1:01:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's either are like the heights or north-west Indiana.
• 1:01:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And
• 1:01:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I, I, you know, they got like three, they own 300 acres plus of land out in Arlington Heights.
• 1:01:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the stadium for what I heard would take up about 100 acres of that.
• 1:01:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they'll have a ton of space to cool stuff.
• 1:01:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's in a great location with access to the high one, everything.
• 1:01:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I actually heard of the Arlington Heights mayor was on water and so we today.
• 1:01:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't listen to that.
• 1:01:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, he was talking about he wants how us hauled him about there, too, right in the same complex because of all plenty of land to do that, which, um,
• 1:01:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: he said he's talked to him about that.
• 1:01:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I guess maybe that's in the discussion as well.
• 1:01:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think what it comes down to.
• 1:02:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, the bears are willing to pay for the stadium themselves.
• 1:02:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: They want to help an infrastructure and they want a lower property tax bill because like right now, there's something about how the property tax would be like over $100 million, which is like crazy.
• 1:02:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: So-fi stadiums property taxes like $8 million a year.
• 1:02:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So like $100 million, you just can't, you can't, you can't have that.
• 1:02:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they're looking to get a lower property tax rate and they want to help
• 1:02:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I don't want to get too political on here.
• 1:02:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I will say, I don't believe that any public money should go towards stadiums themselves.
• 1:02:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's ridiculous to have taxpayers subsidizing stadiums for billionaires.
• 1:02:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the infrastructure thing, though, is
• 1:02:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: is more of a reasonable ask like if you're going to build a two billion dollar stadium, you want some help with the infrastructure, it's just going to benefit the community as a whole.
• 1:02:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that that's a conversation that the Illinois legislature should be having with the bears for sure to get this done.
• 1:02:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, we'll see what happens, but it's interesting because a lot of us thought maybe it's just a leverage play within Indiana, but man, Indiana, I mean, they have ran with it.
• 1:03:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're trying to make it happen, so now the pressure is on the Illinois legislature, do something in the next couple of months, because I do think the bears want to be there.
• 1:03:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, silverman had that report that bears want to build an RM.
• 1:03:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's the number one spot, they want to keep it in Illinois.
• 1:03:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's ideal for all parties, so I hope that they can get the deal worked out.
• 1:03:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: We can stop talking about this for three years and we can get a shovel in the ground, and then they can actually build it for the next three years.
• 1:03:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
• 1:03:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: But obviously owning their own stadium would be beneficial to the team and making a lot of money.
• 1:03:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: It'd be a cool place to visit for us as fans have this whole like there's village area.
• 1:03:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it just would be more accessible and getting to the stadium and having all of that all around there.
• 1:03:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: They could build their own Hall of Fame there and all of that.
• 1:03:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: be super cool, something, and I think the fact that the team is good now also puts way more pressure in Illinois to make this happen, like you don't want to be a legislature governor that like let the bears move across the border.
• 1:04:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's, there's no, there's no coincidence that Kevin Warren was dropping his news nuggets in the playoff run, you know, like, yeah, which again, I'm not trying to get political to this, but they get paid for all that nonsense.
• 1:04:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, I think it's it's too bad.
• 1:04:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and I love the Indiana's doing it.
• 1:04:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Indiana is it's Indiana's helping this get done.
• 1:04:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's true because of how, you know, it reminds me of being back in high school, like, you know, kind of being at one of those parties and
• 1:04:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: and talking of the the prettiest girl on campus.
• 1:04:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she she's actually not turning me down.
• 1:04:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm going to I'm going to up this Annie, you know, I'm going to ask the prom.
• 1:04:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do all this.
• 1:04:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I'm like, do it do all, you know, all you can to to solidify that deal and I appreciate them, you know, taking that to the next level because it's a great deal.
• 1:05:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like you said, other teams do it too outside of the state borders, but they do have that land.
• 1:05:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think ultimately that's the betting play.
• 1:05:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the odds have to be in favor of Arlington Heights, I just wish they could, they could salvage the relationship with with Chicago, um, but, um, you know, it's unlikely.
• 1:05:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, I don't, I don't really care.
• 1:05:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I care more about a retractable roof than I do the location to go.
• 1:05:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 1:05:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Arlington Heights is in Cook County, at least still, but, um, yeah, you're not going to have the scenic views close up the lake for under the skyline as close to the least, you know, um, but.
• 1:05:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: you know yeah it's still in Illinois it's a Chicago Bears you want it you want it to be there ultimately again i'm glad you know i i'm glad personally that taxpayer money isn't being used to build the stadium you know i'm i'm fully in agreement people talk about that billionaire should build their own stadiums
• 1:06:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I think infrastructure is a different conversation.
• 1:06:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, we'll see what happens.
• 1:06:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not an expert on it though, too.
• 1:06:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, like someone could convince me otherwise, I'd be open to that.
• 1:06:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it's super complicated.
• 1:06:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully they can figure out a way to get this thing done and we can move forward with it because we want a winning football team with a nice new stadium.
• 1:06:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what I do want, Brian.
• 1:06:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want to redesign because as we talked about on this show, that first design they came up for Arlington Heights was trashed.
• 1:06:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 1:06:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: They need to make this stadium look more unique.
• 1:06:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: something cool like what they have in Minnesota, not a cookie cutter, allegiance stadium copy.
• 1:06:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: So if they do get a deal done, Illinois Legislature, tell them you can, if you agree to do the infrastructure stuff, tell them at least for us to redo the stadium design because that design was garbage.
• 1:06:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was garbage.
• 1:06:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was garbage.
• 1:06:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, we can't, we can't get out of here.
• 1:06:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: No one without finishing our drinks, but number two,
• 1:06:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: without some super bowl predictions, man.
• 1:07:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it's going to win and what do you think this score is going to be?
• 1:07:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know what, I'm rooting for a Seattle.
• 1:07:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not a Patriots guy, not a not a not a Robert craft guy.
• 1:07:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'll be rooting for a Seattle.
• 1:07:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I got to tell you though, man, I am not very interested in this super bowl.
• 1:07:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is.
• 1:07:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I have been this disinterested and quite some time and we could have had a longer conversation about this everything that I feel kind of hypocritical saying this because the bears were getting the comments about their easy schedule early in the year.
• 1:07:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, New England had a pretty easy walk to the Super Bowl for being the easiest.
• 1:07:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: The ever.
• 1:07:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's pretty ridiculous, you know, and at the same time on the other side, you know, you got Seattle who, you know, Sam Darnall, but he's made a, you know, he's made a second run that have an irrelevant career here, starting in Minnesota, and you know, he's had a, you know, they have a good defense, like we talked about before,
• 1:08:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 1:08:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not like super interested in either franchise.
• 1:08:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I guess I'm rooting for Seattle.
• 1:08:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I tend to usually root for the NFC teams and less as the Packers.
• 1:08:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm rooting for Seattle.
• 1:08:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say.
• 1:08:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
• 1:08:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go.
• 1:08:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: 2714 Seattle.
• 1:08:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now 2717 2717.
• 1:08:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll call the 10 point.
• 1:08:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So all right.
• 1:08:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we agree on the 17.
• 1:08:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go 33 with Seattle.
• 1:08:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: 33 17 Seattle.
• 1:08:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 1:08:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm coming with you.
• 1:08:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're with me on the interest level in the game.
• 1:08:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm not I'm not with you on there.
• 1:08:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not far behind you.
• 1:08:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not as interested in this as I've been in most others, but I but I do find interest in a first year head coach and Mike Rable a second year quarterback like Caleb Williams and Drake May.
• 1:09:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, they chose to get their left tackle with their first rompick, uh, Will Campbell.
• 1:09:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, they spent big money on a defensive tackle that played for the, the Super Bowl champions last year in middle Williams.
• 1:09:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I have really high on Christian Gonzalez, although I think Jackson Smith and Jigbo is a better player.
• 1:09:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think he'll win that match up.
• 1:09:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: had his savoness and route, running prowess.
• 1:09:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: To me, it comes down to Sam Darnlboro, which that's a whole another story.
• 1:09:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like the fact that he has been, he obviously was drafted high and then just run out of town, run out of town and then Minnesota, Minnesota's GM just got fired because of how he missed handled Sam Darnl basically.
• 1:10:00
  [UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
• 1:10:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so that story fastens me, but one thing is clear, though, if you can get to him, then he will make mistakes.
• 1:10:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if that past rush for the Patriots can break that levy, then it can be dangerous.
• 1:10:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're running back for the Seahawks.
• 1:10:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, I'm running back, you know, I'm just not surprised there.
• 1:10:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, and Travy on Henderson, running back for the Patriots.
• 1:10:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think, I think he could keep them in this game.
• 1:10:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like Drake May, I think the hype on him is a little bit overblown personally.
• 1:10:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 1:10:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's kind of come back down to Earth and he's playoff.
• 1:10:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's not looked that great.
• 1:10:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: he's kind of resorted to his physical abilities versus his intellectual and technical abilities.
• 1:11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a huge Drake may fan.
• 1:11:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a stud quarterback one of the the face of the
• 1:11:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think that Seattle defense is just too nasty, man.
• 1:11:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those detackles for Seattle, Byron Murphy, Leonard Williams, they just got, they just got ballers all over the place.
• 1:11:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nick M. and you already, the safety, he's gonna be problematic for that Patriots team, but I'm telling you, man, I've said this before I'll say it again last show the season.
• 1:11:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: running back to the best athletes on the field.
• 1:11:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: And both these teams have some awesome running backs.
• 1:11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ramandre Stevenson is kind of an afterthought, and he's had a great year.
• 1:11:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like Ramandre, but Traveon Henderson is a game breaker.
• 1:11:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kenneth Walker's a game breaker.
• 1:11:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think either one of those guys can turn the tide for this game.
• 1:12:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so with that said, my interest level is about it.
• 1:12:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, think about it.
• 1:12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've had the Patriots past 15 years.
• 1:12:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've had the chiefs, right?
• 1:12:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like my interest level with those games was not as high.
• 1:12:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: This game,
• 1:12:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: first-head first-year-head coach, the Seahawks for going to say Mike McDonald is not a, he's not been there a while.
• 1:12:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a defensive coach that's figured it out.
• 1:12:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think those, I'm higher.
• 1:12:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I was more interested in some of those other super rules though, just because of the star power, some of the guys there, even though it was like the same teams over and over.
• 1:12:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, look, they might, they might win it.
• 1:12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm still not that big of a believer in the Patriots.
• 1:12:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just think they had kind of like the perfect scenario this year, it's schedule and then they did.
• 1:12:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're getting injured.
• 1:12:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like can you give the brunt those win that game of boat next?
• 1:12:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I agree.
• 1:12:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
• 1:12:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't matter, man.
• 1:12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.
• 1:12:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why it's any given Sunday.
• 1:13:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: And all you got to do is get to the Super Bowl.
• 1:13:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Drake may is good enough to win it if it's on the line.
• 1:13:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the the problem is for for Seattle is they can't let it be on the line late.
• 1:13:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if the bears would have been able to beat Seattle in Seattle or not.
• 1:13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: It would have been a hell of a game.
• 1:13:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's possible right that would have been the tougher game in my opinion.
• 1:13:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: If the bears hold out the game against the Rams.
• 1:13:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: and they somehow beat Seattle and got to this game.
• 1:13:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would have been very confident picking the bears over the Patriots.
• 1:13:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm be totally honest with you.
• 1:13:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would not fear the Patriots at all.
• 1:13:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would be like, we're gonna win the Super Bowl.
• 1:13:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 1:13:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the Seattle game would have been the harder pick for me.
• 1:13:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: That would have been a super tough game.
• 1:13:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I wish so much we had that chance that we should have had the chance.
• 1:13:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's no good, but you know, on top, I just, I don't know, man.
• 1:13:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just not a, you've made me more interested in the game than I was going and just listening to you talk about it.
• 1:13:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I've just been kind of down on it as well.
• 1:14:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm not that like to watch it.
• 1:14:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm glad I have.
• 1:14:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but we'll see what happens.
• 1:14:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll probably talk about it in our next show.
• 1:14:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: So before we, before we leave,
• 1:14:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've mentioned this multiple times this year.
• 1:14:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it was off air with you.
• 1:14:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: But Super Bowl Sunday also coincides with something around these parts called Stouthog Day.
• 1:14:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: You remember?
• 1:14:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think you talked to me about that.
• 1:14:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: That brewery makes a bunch of different stouts, right?
• 1:14:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: 100 stouts, all dark beers.
• 1:14:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything browns to porters to nitros, you name it.
• 1:14:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they've got, probably about, I don't know, 15 to 20 taps.
• 1:14:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And 15 of them, roughly so 75% ish are all of their dark beers.
• 1:14:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: All the ones they ever make.
• 1:14:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then roughly five of them ish
• 1:14:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: their favorite guest Darkbears opens at 11 a.m. on Super Bowl Sunday.
• 1:15:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: The brewers themselves cook pancakes that are free until supplies run out.
• 1:15:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll just say this.
• 1:15:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've never stayed long enough for supplies to run out.
• 1:15:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because I can't I can't stand
• 1:15:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: longer than two flights of beers.
• 1:15:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: So eight, many beers of different dark beers before they all start tasting the same for me.
• 1:15:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: but they're so good.
• 1:15:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: And with pancakes and syrup, and you can pay like a food truck for some bacon and sausage and eggs and stuff, but it is my favorite thing to do, bro.
• 1:15:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And guess what, man?
• 1:15:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: We got babysitters this year.
• 1:15:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh, nice.
• 1:15:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: So my wife and I are going this Sunday with some friends, I am going to be tagging you and bears over bears.
• 1:16:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how many deep, but there are going to be some good beers had.
• 1:16:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's one of my favorite breweries.
• 1:16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's how there's coffee, stout, if you remember.
• 1:16:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 1:16:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the place.
• 1:16:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm sure I'm going to, I don't even know if I'll get that in the sample because they have so many other ones to choose from, but I'll probably come away with something.
• 1:16:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: But another thing I want to mention is I'm going my wife and I are doing a 30-day detox.
• 1:16:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: starting Monday after yes, of course.
• 1:16:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
• 1:16:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: So 30 days, no alcohol, no coffee, no allergens, no cheese, they're dairy.
• 1:16:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's going to be it's heavy, no gluten.
• 1:16:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: We used to do it once a year, sometimes twice a year, haven't done it in a little bit, but
• 1:16:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: My wife is like, you're more in flame now than you've been this the show you're drinking more than you've ever because it's show.
• 1:16:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: This damn show.
• 1:17:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 1:17:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I could probably do the cleanse with the beer.
• 1:17:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I could do a coffee for him off the coffee is the most difficult.
• 1:17:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you you replace it with with the herbal tea and you can add some caffeine to it.
• 1:17:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it it it it it it does work.
• 1:17:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: the next most difficult alcohols after those those to for me.
• 1:17:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 1:17:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we'll be doing that next next week.
• 1:17:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.
• 1:17:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if we do another bears overbears, I'll have one of my favorite non-alcoholic, which is fine.
• 1:17:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know we approve of all that.
• 1:17:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 1:17:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we appreciate you guys listening, but, you know, cool thing is, man, I think this is our longest show the year.
• 1:17:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is.
• 1:17:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I waited some catching up to do it, been a few weeks.
• 1:17:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: It has been a few weeks.
• 1:17:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 1:17:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you guys stay tuned because we'll be doing some fun stuff in the off season.
• 1:17:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like we said, appreciate all of you have been.
• 1:18:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: tuning in this year and enjoying the show.
• 1:18:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been really cool.
• 1:18:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: They hear from all of you.
• 1:18:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Love when we get feedback because sometimes you know, you're podcast, it feels like you're speaking into the void.
• 1:18:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we hear from you that makes it all worth it.
• 1:18:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, and we really appreciate that.
• 1:18:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you guys have guests that you would like to see on the show, we want to be more intentional with our guest next season.
• 1:18:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: We did that a little bit this year, but
• 1:18:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we, it was our first year, so we were just, you know, loving hanging out with each other and we still do, but it's cool to get different perspectives in here.
• 1:18:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, if you guys have anyone that you have in mind that you think will be great, you know, some of your personalities, I think Kyle long will be fun.
• 1:18:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, do us a favor and tag Kyle Long and us and all the tweets, you know, we'll get him on next year.
• 1:18:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: But people like that, you know, or anyone, any personality, any local, you know, brewer, or what have you.
• 1:19:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Arlington Heights, Gary Indiana, wherever it might be.
• 1:19:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we had fun with you guys, you have a great, great off season.
• 1:19:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be around, congrats on this off season.
• 1:19:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: and an absolutely an eternal cheers from us at Bears Overbears.
• 1:19:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, cheers.
• 1:19:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you everybody.
• 1:19:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll be talking to you all again real soon to stay tuned to the channel and we'll be coming at you again before too long.
• 1:19:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Until then, bear down and take care.