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Bears Over Beers: A "Swift" Turnaround Against The Saints · 2nd City Gridiron

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's up everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another edition of Bears Overbears Power by Second City, Gridiron.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Might be a little bears over Bourbon tonight, though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ryan Drosty here with my good friend, Brian Orange, Chuck, and Brian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We were optimistic last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We both predicted a win, but we didn't know for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so coming off of a big win against the Washington Commanders feeling pretty good tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How are you doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it was, it was one that we could see a scenario where we won, but we were texting throughout the game, and it got increasingly concerning as it unfolded for various reasons, but at the end of the day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we came down with the W and that it is all that matters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So stoked nonetheless, it did prevent some good sleep that night, I will say.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was worth it and I'm still riding high off that one looking forward to this week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man, same, same.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the thing, you know, like, how on earth do you go to sleep after a Monday night game, especially like that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: A walk off wind with the field cold, your adrenaline is pumping.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're trying to go to sleep and you just wide awake, you know, like, I was texting you a little bit later than usual because, you know, you're an hour ahead of me.
1:33
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, I bet he's not sleeping.
1:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's not sleeping right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, and I was not, I was not, I couldn't, my wife was not happy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I got in bed and she looked at her function.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Two a.m.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What are you doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just won, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was, it felt like sweet revenge.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know we had people in our comments saying, what are you talking about revenge?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a revenge game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was the way that that game went last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it just tanked the bear's season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, it ended up working out for the better Brian because, you know, if the bear's win that game last year without the Hail Mary, they're five and two and the odds that
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you actually get our new head coach and Ben Johnson probably not happening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, like, there's a good chance Eberfluous still coaching this team God for bits.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it ended up working out great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But for us to get the win there with a field goal, Jake Moody, who was just activated from the practice squad, the day of the game was just, I mean, I was already nervous about the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then when he's kicking the game winner,
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[SPEAKER_02]: They adrenaline like we said is pumping and then you're just trying to come down from it afterwards I'm watching post game as much as possible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm chatting with you, but in the end this team has started Owen too as a winning record with a great chance of another win this Sunday against the New Orleans Saints We're gonna be talking about it here if you're joining us alive on YouTube Please hit subscribe Hit the like button.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That'll help us out a lot It's time to have an adult-brev-beverage Brian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What do you got for us tonight?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I do not have any bourbon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't make it to the liquor store, but this is a special occasion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I do prefer bourbon to Scotch, but I'm breaking out my favorite bottle of Scotch right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if you've heard of Talusker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a single malt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: this age 10 years scotch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the only made on the only distillery on the isle of sky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it is said that with each sip you can smell and taste the mist as it crashes against the ocean rocks on the isle of sky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a very smoky bourbon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So obviously
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's got a lot of PD notes in it, which I prefer in my Scotch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some people can't stand it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love some smoke and I'll take all the smoke after that when it's Washington.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, bring it on man, what do you got?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think I may have teased this one in advance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When I said, I'll bring out a special bottle if we get the win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I got a couple of things to share here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So number one, let me just go full screen for a second.
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[SPEAKER_02]: bears overbears.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No scratch that bears overburban.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know that light is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's overburban rocks glass, which is tremendous.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then yeah, I only break this off for special occasions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At least here in the Midwest, this one is really, really hard to find.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I got the blans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: this is the top shelf right here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a local single barrel hands-selected pick from my local liquor store called Happies.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can see that right there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it is a special pick version of blends.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How do you like your whiskey?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you drink a meat or do you put a little ice in there?
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[SPEAKER_02]: How do you like it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it depends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do prefer it either neat or with a single scout ice cube.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please, I haven't done a good whiskey ginger in a long time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, as far as, if I'm going out somewhere, like we've talked about old fashion, we love some old fashions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if I'm drinking and sipping on, you know, good bit,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll mix it with some good ginger ale, I try to go with the organic, you know, not too sugary ginger ale.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I pick that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to be clear, I don't, I don't mix bottles because it is the plant with some ginger ale.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's good I like to appreciate the bottle for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the plant is good stuff and I have a couple times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I really like it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's my go to you have a try to check it out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Very good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I got it neat right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I might add some ice cube as we go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I usually like like one ice cube in it, but we'll, we'll drink a neat to start here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So cheers everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Three and two feels real good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Smooth, very smooth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I needed this after tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was telling you off air.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My wife set a conference right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm with the three girls on my own.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Took him out to eat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been chaos around here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's why we're a little bit late going on the air.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 15 minutes late.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Held it together though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Daddy needs some bourbon tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is, this is about as good as it comes when it comes to bourbon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Blans is so smooth, so good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you guys are drinking along with us tonight, even if it's not alcoholic, that's fine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let us know in the chat, we are streaming tonight on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nice, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Got the Twitter stream working.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So wherever you're joining us from, hit us in the chat, we'll get you involved in the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let us know your thoughts on the matchup with the New Orleans Saints.
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[SPEAKER_02]: this Sunday and any thoughts you have on the watching and commanders game as we get going talking about that when I guess Brian I mean any major takeaways I know I know the game has been dissected to death now over the last 48 hours but anything you want to get off your chest about that game.
7:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah you know a lot of us were concerned regarding how should the how the bears were going to respond after a by-week for the first time from new coaching staff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that unfolded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, granted, we saw some penalties.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of them were, you know, for another conversation, but what I was most impressed by was the way that they attacked with one game, the coaching staff, Ben Johnson, how he got them to run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they looked like a solid running team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They, they manhandled one of the top-third best run defenses in the lead, and Swiftie had
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[SPEAKER_00]: over seven half yards of carry over hundred yards on the ground, and that's not even taken to account his biggest play of the game, that's fifty-five yard reception that he clicked to the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was really happy the way they responded, there was some other adjustments on defense as well, but mostly on offense, you know, with the run game, opening holes in the run game, I think they've protected Caleb well, but that's something we've seen
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[SPEAKER_00]: but we had Theo start left tackle, which was a big deal, and I thought he did really well there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the run defense also did really well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we saw more of Schumark Turner, and I noted the day after and throughout the game, that saw awful lot of defensive end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize he played every one of his snaps there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was another adjustment that they made on the by-week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it paid dividends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you put a defensive tackle type guy at defensive end along with the other two DTs inside him Montes wet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a pretty stout formidable front right there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it worked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I love the adjustments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we had a comment on what he said
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, this article regarding bears and bears and some of these trap games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I absolutely could see how that's the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I felt the same way in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I could see that, but I don't, I don't fear those anymore because of Ben Johnson, because of the stack that he's put together and the culture that he's built.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is where you have tangible fruit of what culture
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you heard it in Caleb's presser, you heard it in Ben's presser.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not underlooking the overlooking, are you want to look at it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Undervaluing, undervaluing, I guess, is the best term that the saints, they are respecting them what they bring, and they're approaching this the right way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't have a fear of trap games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I would be surprised if I get bitten the butt on this one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was very pleased with the way they responded after the bi-week, the adjustments they made, and how it showed up on the field.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, we won a game despite losing the penalty battle big time, and all those sloppy conditions and stuff like that, so that was the most impressive takeaway for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How about you them?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how nice is it to finally have a coach, you trust like that, you know, they can make not just the head coach, but the, you know, defensive coordinator, they can make adjustments and fix what's not working.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We haven't had that in so long.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, just carrying off at that point, I was kind of thinking on Monday night as I was laying there trying to sleep about, you know, Ben Johnson is only five games into his career as Bears had coach.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And like, he may already be my favorite.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I like, I like Joe Madden a lot to as a Cubs fan, you know, I got to say, but you know, when I'm thinking about football basketball to had he's like already up there in the the upper tier of my favorite Chicago head coaches already, you know, five years and I mean, obviously you have Phil Jackson grew up watching the bulls, but post Phil Jackson I always go to like I really like tibs a lot as the bulls had coach and
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'd like to love you too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He would rank up there too, but like man, he's he's climbing pretty fast and I was sitting there refreshing my phone just waiting waiting for that locker room video.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm sure thousands of people were out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is tremendous content.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just absolutely awesome.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The way that those players take to him, you could just see in that little glimpse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in the locker room, you know, just the respect that he carries how into having him as a head coach.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They are, I mean, it's a night and day from what we had in the previous few years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, no he owns it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's right, you know, he said, you know, once we clean up these penalties and we have all three phases planned together, like watch out and that's, I agree, you know, the closest we've had to that so far was the Cowboys game and then we dominate the Cowboys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think you can see to put that together, I was only week three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can see to put things together with Caleb grown in the offense, the running game, jellying and producing consistent yardage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it really is, it's looking good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it brings up some pretty valid questions, which we'll get to later today, but are we in position to win right now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if so, do we make any moves before November 5th?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The trade deadline comes around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if we string off some more wins, you know, especially in the NFC here, then, you know, I don't know, man, it's a mixed name proposition, but yeah, I would agree, he's training in the right direction,
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think he's got what it takes, but talk to me after we played a package twice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's ultimately what I want to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I love about love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you came in, he said, that's what I'm going to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's the last time we actually beat the Packers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just kind of goes that way when you beat the Packers, you can tend for the division.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you can tend consistently for the division, you are in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you're in the playoffs, you've got a chance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's not as, you know, we abolish as it might sound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You beat your biggest rival, which is arguably one of the most consistent teams of the division, then all of a sudden did things happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in a year, like, as stacked as the NFC North is right now, Ryan, we'll all have winning records.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he had lost that first one opening night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But let's see how he plays the rest of the North, the rest of the year, because these are no,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, you look at what happened at the beginning and you know, blowing that game to the Vikings, which obviously we should have won that game and that was a bad look, but then in then you get blown out by the lions and yet he keeps the trust with his team and they're able to crawl back from Owen to after just two devastating losses when you think about it to three and two is pretty remarkable for Brandon head coach and yeah, I mean, like what you were saying about lovey.
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[SPEAKER_02]: the last time we were consistently beating Green Bay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think you had like a five game winning streak at Lambo Field.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If I'm not mistaken, like, a four to a throw eight, god if we could have that can help me incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's hope.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got to see what happens once we finally play them late in the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Chris is checking it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go to these chats really quick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Chris is drinking a single barrel jack tonight and he's drinking a neat no ice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Perfect drink to celebrate a resurgent O-line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we'll talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then James, he's interested in the injury and status of DJ Moore DJ was DNP and practice today, although they just had a walk through we know he stayed overnight in DC apparently for a grown injury, but he's considered day to day at this point according to Ben is press conference today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, um,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the the research and all line no question about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also kind of a ballsy move on Ben's part to, you know, make that change as early as he did not the racks is a bad player by any means, but coming off of that injury definitely didn't look the same.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, so for him to go to Theo, Benedict, you know, this guy from Canada undrafted throw him in at left tackle one of the most crucial spots on the online and for him to succeed like he has.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, you know, I was listening to Baron Balanced, Taylor was on there with the Lester yesterday, and Lester is, you know, the big O-line guy here at Windy City Gridiron.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, I mean, he was talking about how impressive he thought that it was in past protection.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he didn't really have any concerns about in the run game, but in past protection.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I thought the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he did a tremendous job, especially, you know, given where he's coming from.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then on the other side, you've all seen the clips out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Darnell Wright.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, despite having the cast or whatever on his right arm, for extra support on that injury, my god.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What he did and especially in the run game taken out two guys at a time by himself, he might push for the probal this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's possible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He has looking just, Darnel's looking amazing so far this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, the middle of the line,
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[SPEAKER_02]: We haven't been as concerned about Joe Tuney was phenomenal the other night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Played very, very well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We had some issues with snaps.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so hopefully, Dalman gets that together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Jonah Jackson's been up and down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was on the injury report today as a DNP as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he's mostly been up since that first week though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they are, and that's part of the
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[SPEAKER_00]: The cohesiveness of that line, they're complimenting each other where they'll finish combo blocks, you know, comboing on a defense alignment and getting to the next level without getting caught up and that's a big difference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And on that run, you mentioned Darnell Wright, which I love seeing it in live motion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I didn't see at the time, I did on the replays
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the media is like 185 pounds on a defensive end, and DJ Moore, I think, on outside linebacker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They sealed that edge so that right could pull around, and then obviously swept it as thing, but that's the bench on a fact, remember, you know, no rock or no block, no rock?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't said one word about his blocking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a testament to the effort he's been putting in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm concerned about that obviously the nature of it with him being in the hospital, even in the game, but at the same time, man, get Luther burdened in there.
19:07
[SPEAKER_00]: He looked explosive Monday night and Caleb has his best passer rating to Luther on the whole team, more than Rome, more than DJ.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Luther, you know, hopefully we'll get a chance to do more of DJ's out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's the one saving greatest, you know, don't rush him back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know DJ's one tough SOB, but don't rush him back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If he's not quite ready, then let Luther step up, you know, and then keep all the media in the stop, but move Luther in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They came more active, didn't get him, didn't that ball?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let us know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you decide to have that that neat bourbon before after you saw we were, we were better sitting on some brown tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let us know the time for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I, I noticed with DJ and then especially after the injury happened, uh, you know, watching back the tape, too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that guy was just out there blocking his ass off, right until the end, despite hurting, which was particularly incredible.
20:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you need to talk about Zacchaeus, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he did, he missed that catch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They could have been what a 90 yard touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that was, it was right there for the taking, but you're right when it comes to blocking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: he was phenomenal too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you got to give the wide receivers credit and, you know, yeah, if DJ is hurt, you hear it is, we got depth at that position.
20:38
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Zacchaeus has been a phenomenal pickup for this team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Really has, you know, right behind Rome has become kind of a go-to guy for
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[SPEAKER_02]: Caleb and then, you know, Luther obviously coming along as a rookie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, like you feel like in the past, if DJ would have been sitting out that would have been like disastrous for this team and like I feel like he could sit out and they offense would be fine, which is wild to say, you know, but like I feel like, you know, if you need to get right, I think they'll be okay right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's the that's the luxury with having him and Colson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lovelin brought in, you know, we have weapons now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we need to give them opportunities.
21:24
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you have these guys in front of them, just like we saw last year with Key and Alan and Rome, everybody thought Rome all of a sudden wasn't worth the pick.
21:32
[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't getting opportunities as much.
21:35
[SPEAKER_00]: And so yeah, let Roar DJ rest up, if he's not, if it's gonna hinder him at all, which is a question I would have for Mason
21:46
[SPEAKER_00]: bear bones, you know, what's that?
21:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess we don't know for sure given the nature of this specific injury, but you know, rest up, if that's an issue at all, and let Luther do some do some work, especially given our opponent this week.
22:01
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, which, you know, hopefully we can we can pound the rock on and take advantage of the passing game anyway with Caleb, but
22:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think I think you'll be okay, but I'm happy with what you've been doing so far.
22:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought you had a gutty performance and it made some plays when we had to.
22:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want to talk about the officiating or should we move on?
22:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's hard as a fan of the team that you feel like the officials are
22:38
[SPEAKER_00]: poorly doing their job against.
22:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I wish I was watching with a commander fan or somebody that wasn't a fan of any team, but I know that there are multiple plays that I not only question at the time, but the replay also did.
22:58
[SPEAKER_00]: And then hearing the booth also question, who was very anti-Chicago
23:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's a whole bunch of, you know, just mentions in social media about it and there's actually USA today article this week about officiating and mostly in postseason big games and how it has actually gone very clearly one direction in the chiefs favor lately and you know, I don't know if there's a connection between the chiefs and the commanders.
23:34
[SPEAKER_00]: but what I do know if it can happen with one team, it can happen for anything.
23:41
[SPEAKER_00]: And with Jade and Winning would give the year with it being the nation's capital, one day night in their home, I don't wanna be a conspiracy theorist, but I know that and I know coming into it that crew,
23:56
[SPEAKER_00]: they're known to call more penalties than the average crew.
24:01
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I don't like going that route, but we know there were a couple penalties I thought were super egregious.
24:08
[SPEAKER_00]: The touchdown reversal with the Theo.
24:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
24:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
24:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
24:12
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll come in and out and have some of those.
24:14
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they do from the chiefs who gets that call in time, Joanne Taylor.
24:18
[SPEAKER_00]: He's bad and is clearly he is off.
24:22
[SPEAKER_00]: But Theo was like,
24:24
[SPEAKER_00]: it looked legit at first glance and when you look even closer it still is a legit formation.
24:30
[SPEAKER_00]: So that one really hurt.
24:32
[SPEAKER_00]: The Colson one was tough to, I mean there's a lot of them.
24:35
[SPEAKER_00]: The brisker, you know, roughly the passer, where he like rolled off.
24:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it was rough man.
24:44
[SPEAKER_00]: It was rough.
24:46
[SPEAKER_00]: There were a couple calls and went our way, but ultimately it was bad and I don't think I was
24:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, we were texting about it and we were not happy.
25:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll just say that.
25:01
[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, the one on Theo was obviously the worst.
25:04
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't take points off the board for that.
25:07
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like the rule is his helmet is supposed to be like at the waist of the center, I believe.
25:15
[SPEAKER_02]: And like if you if you watch the replay, it looks like it is.
25:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's definitely not so egregiously bad that you would wrestle that and you know, take off a touch down.
25:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, it was disappointing because Rome has scored in every single game this year.
25:30
[SPEAKER_02]: And should have scored in this one too.
25:31
[SPEAKER_02]: But they and you made a hell of a catch, too, you know.
25:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was, it was bad, but you know, in the end, we got the win.
25:39
[SPEAKER_02]: So we don't have to talk about it.
25:41
[SPEAKER_02]: We can move on, but it was, I think it was egregious.
25:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was very, very bad.
25:47
[SPEAKER_02]: And they got, you know, you mentioned it.
25:49
[SPEAKER_02]: That was the crew that has the most flags thrown in the league this year, so maybe not that surprising.
25:55
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw that sag going into the game and got a little bit worried.
25:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:58
[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, it definitely seemed like they were trying to,
26:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Make the game about themselves, unfortunately, and you never like to see that, but look, in the end, I'm pleased the bears led for the majority of the game, blue the lead, and then somehow came back and won, and it's been a long time since we've had a team that does that around these parts.
26:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, going into the next several weeks, we talked about it on the program last week.
26:25
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a real opportunity to start stack in some wins, you know, with who we have coming up now, we've got the Saints at home.
26:35
[SPEAKER_02]: then we go to Baltimore, which Lamar is probably going to be playing in that game, Rhoquan probably back for that game too.
26:43
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll be a tough one at Sincy, a game you think the bear should win, but we'll see New York at home, and then we go with two Minnesota, or it's going to be a tough game.
26:53
[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, these next four, man, I'm Tanya.
26:57
[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like, you know, we walk out of there with a winning record.
27:01
[SPEAKER_02]: If we went three to the four, I'm feeling really good about this team, right?
27:04
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and we can be in the mix down the stretcher, which is all we've asked for.
27:09
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, I don't, I'll still say this, you know, it's tight right now.
27:13
[SPEAKER_02]: They still have a chance at the division, obviously.
27:16
[SPEAKER_02]: And I've got a good friend.
27:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Who is he has a sports betting podcast and this dude is really good at his job and he commented on the real I shared last week from our show and this was an Instagram on my Instagram page and he said the bears are still my pick to win the NFC North.
27:35
[SPEAKER_02]: He said he thought Caleb was going to have a good game and he picked him at the beginning of the year to win the NFC North.
27:40
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, I don't know if I'd bet on that, but I we all thought that in the mix for wild card spot this year, and that is definitely alive and after the next four or five weeks, we could be in a very, very good position.
27:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's super exciting.
27:53
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I don't want to get ahead of myself because last year we were sitting at four or two and we know what happened, but it just seems like a totally different situation this year.
28:02
[SPEAKER_02]: And so New Orleans is a game that, you know, it's got some added drama.
28:07
[SPEAKER_02]: You got Spencer Rattler quarterback.
28:09
[SPEAKER_02]: him and Caleb got that, that history at Oklahoma before they both transferred out of there.
28:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Same, same draft class, obviously, number one overall pick to the fifth round 150th overall pick.
28:22
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, routers looked pretty decent this year, Brian.
28:26
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think when the schedule came out, people were thinking New Orleans would be like, possibly the worst team in the NFL and that this should be one of the easiest games to win.
28:38
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't think they're the worst team in the NFL anymore.
28:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're one in five.
28:43
[SPEAKER_02]: obviously, but you know, they've had some chances to have, you know, like they've played some games close, the Patriots, they just lost them 25 to 19.
28:51
[SPEAKER_02]: They beat the Giants.
28:54
[SPEAKER_02]: They only lost to the Cardinals by seven.
28:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they got clobbered by the Seahawks.
28:58
[SPEAKER_02]: They lost by 12 to the bills, lost by five to the Niners.
29:02
[SPEAKER_02]: But they've been in some games.
29:04
[SPEAKER_02]: And again, like I said, Rattler has, has maybe looked better than people expected.
29:09
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, what
29:13
[SPEAKER_02]: jumping into talking about New Orleans.
29:16
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's wise to be cautious and definitely bring your A game and respect to the team, because like Caleb said, it's the NFL's professional lead and they're pro players on that side who play well.
29:37
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you look at their, they're only win.
29:40
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the only game off season that they won the turnover battle, and, and in that game, they actually, I believe, caused five turnovers, you're saying the same, I guess, some giants.
29:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think if we can, you know, like the, the Raiders game, for instance, was kind of an uncharacteristic game both for us and for them.
30:00
[SPEAKER_00]: They, they ran the ball well and had been running well all year.
30:03
[SPEAKER_00]: They stopped to run well and hadn't been doing that all year.
30:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And, um,
30:09
[SPEAKER_00]: And they didn't defend the past too well, but they did against us because of the pressure that they caused.
30:16
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it could be a weird game like that, or like Carl Granderson or Chase Young, you know, just reach havoc up front.
30:27
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, something like that where I could see, but if we just play within ourselves, establish the run, you know, and take advantage of the opportunities.
30:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I foresee this being our best offensive game so far over all well-rounded run game and past game in one dominating and I know, you know, I know rapper I think he's only drawn one
31:03
[SPEAKER_00]: coming into the game against us.
31:05
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're just on a roll right now with that.
31:07
[SPEAKER_00]: So if we can win that turnover battle because every other game, they've tied the turnover battle except for the last one.
31:15
[SPEAKER_00]: They lost that one, everyone.
31:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Every other game they tied, the only time they won is when they won the turnover battle.
31:22
[SPEAKER_00]: And that kind of goes into the overall caliber of team that they are in my opinion.
31:28
[SPEAKER_00]: And they can overcome some of that stuff and a lot of teams can't think it's like 70% when you win the tone over about it, you're going to win the game.
31:35
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think if we can continue our streak of turnovers, it's not going to be a nail visor.
31:41
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a blowout.
31:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Similar to the Cowboys game, kind of my prediction with a more well-rounded output overall.
31:50
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm looking forward to it.
31:52
[SPEAKER_00]: But I could see a Kamara going off
31:56
[SPEAKER_00]: someone on defense just vegan havoc.
31:59
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm optimistic that it won't be that sort of track game based on what I've seen so far.
32:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just looked it up.
32:07
[SPEAKER_02]: So Rattlers had two fumbles this year.
32:10
[SPEAKER_02]: He had one in the lost to Buffalo and one in the lost to San Francisco.
32:17
[SPEAKER_02]: So two fumbles, you're right, one pick, six touchdowns.
32:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it's passer eggs, something like 91 or something this year?
32:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man, I'm just really encouraged by what happened with the run defense this week, you know, because, you know, tomorrow's getting older, but he's still a very reliable guy with the rock in his hands, especially gets a bad rushing to hear.
32:42
[SPEAKER_02]: And TJ Edwards coming back and looking healthy.
32:47
[SPEAKER_02]: you know, like he played, he played in that Detroit game, but I don't think he was a hundred percent.
32:53
[SPEAKER_02]: And having that extra break with the by week, coming back, you know, him and Tramane both had really good games as doing the game balls article, and I was going back and before the between the two of them Brian, and I had your words echoing in my head.
33:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't give both of them the game ball, can't cop out, Brian told me I can't do that anymore.
33:12
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm like, all right, I'm going with TJ because I just felt like his presence, you know, again, you know, he's probably the best in run defense of our linebackers.
33:24
[SPEAKER_02]: You've talked about that on the show before.
33:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I just think he brought so much being back on the field.
33:30
[SPEAKER_02]: And so with him, healthy, hopefully our guy Austin Booker plays this week.
33:35
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.
33:37
[SPEAKER_02]: We're very encouraged and you can help out with the past rush.
33:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I also thought, and you talked about this last week, how Montez had his best game last year against Washington as old team.
33:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like he had a sneaky good game, like it didn't really show up on the stat sheet against the commanders as much, but there were so many times where he was getting into the back field and causing pressure and there was the one time where it looked like he had the sack.
34:03
[SPEAKER_02]: was that somebody undercut him and like took his legs up like friendly fire and that's why he didn't get snack on jaden but he was he was getting some serious jump and pressure in that game and he was starting to look like his old self a little bit too and if we get awesome book on the other side and he's bringing what we think he can bring
34:21
[SPEAKER_02]: The defense is 100% on the up and up, and if, you know, it'd be nice to see them hold the rushing attack to under 100 yards.
34:30
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like 120 or something, 126 something like that against Washington.
34:35
[SPEAKER_02]: If they can get that under 100, I mean, you're talking about a really good defense.
34:40
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, that's a heck of a turnaround from where they were at, not just a few weeks ago, but all of last
34:50
[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, I agree with your take on causing some turnovers with a young quarterback here in Spencer Rattler.
34:58
[SPEAKER_02]: They just seem to be on this run where his turnovers are happening.
35:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Ben talked about that in the post game to the team in the locker room.
35:06
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, some people think takeaways are lucky, but it's not luck.
35:09
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they're making this happen.
35:11
[SPEAKER_02]: So,
35:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm definitely picking the bears to win this game.
35:17
[SPEAKER_02]: I can see why people say it could be a trap game, but I think this team's going to be focused.
35:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think that this coaching staff's going to let them over look a team.
35:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm with you.
35:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was great to have TJ back and be healthy.
35:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he's, I don't think he's fully up to speed though after his first game.
35:44
[SPEAKER_00]: a number of plays and and that just goes to show how how imperative he is on our team if he can be it's declared it's still you know contribute that that much success on defense stop of the run and diagnosing plays like he didn't make plays but he forced them back into where his support was often and and that's critically important as well you know I'm a little concerned about no
36:12
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm a little concerned about that, but And using the step up of this absolutely not that I think there's the chance that we could you know trade for a death flybacker Potentially, but I think I think so it will be back soon the later hopefully that was a gruesome book in injury though And then you know obviously letting great e-geric it helped.
36:31
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been pretty critical in this year to be not played well, but
36:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, like we're talking about the DJ, let them get healthy and then, you know, contribute at full strength.
36:41
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, these are, are, are grizzled veterans and, um, they'll, they'll put their lives out there on the line or health on the line, but if you can't, you know, do your job better than the guy behind you, if you're not 100% and you should not be playing.
36:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
37:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I helped.
37:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I think having buildings in there starting.
37:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that was you.
37:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, we elevated Jonathan Ford who was the culprit of the friendly fire to know it's the world.
37:10
[SPEAKER_00]: And getting some more turner, more snaps out of defensive end.
37:13
[SPEAKER_00]: That's that, you know, it was just a, it was just a savvy move by the staff.
37:18
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we haven't talked about collar board.
37:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I think him coming back was with solid and run support
37:27
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, making tacos with big hits.
37:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think the biggest hit, I remember the whole game on a, I think it was a run.
37:35
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, getting those guys back up full speed, getting awesome book of that next to the views.
37:40
[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, we talked it earlier in the year against the fightings about their two headed monster running back.
37:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody talks about it and Joe, everybody talks about, I'm gonna come at it.
37:52
[SPEAKER_00]: What did I say?
37:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, Jordan Mason is the one
37:56
[SPEAKER_00]: This week, it could be Kendra Miller.
37:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Kendra Miller is coming into his own.
38:00
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a stud coming out of PCU a few years back.
38:04
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks healthy himself.
38:06
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy that I absolutely could see, rip it off some junk gains against us if we're not, if we're not, bit in our runs and rallying to the ball.
38:16
[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't get brought down by arm tackles and he's someone I'd be worried about.
38:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Kamara is a stud.
38:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't get me wrong.
38:23
[SPEAKER_00]: He's an absolute stud, but but don't don't sleep on Kendra that's better either.
38:28
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we're going to have our work cut out for us.
38:30
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you start running the ball, all the sudden asking so much easier.
38:34
[SPEAKER_00]: And Chris Alava has looked like his old self finally, and then you have Rashid
38:45
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he is a deep play waiting to happen.
38:49
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to be, we got to be sound.
38:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And our safety's got to play discipline, ball not letting anything behind them.
38:55
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be interesting.
38:57
[SPEAKER_00]: But, and they got nothing to lose.
38:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Now there's always danger in playing teams.
39:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I have nothing to lose.
39:03
[SPEAKER_00]: So, but most exciting thing, my man, you're going.
39:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I am.
39:10
[SPEAKER_02]: I will be there.
39:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's like three people on our staff at Wendy City Gridaire and they're going to be in the house.
39:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I know Jacob's going to be there, so I got to try to meet up with him at some point.
39:20
[SPEAKER_02]: You were joking about, you know, Jacob's post game show here on the channel, how he's not going to be able to do it.
39:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And we should just whip out the cell phone and the parking lot and give it a go.
39:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, nobody responded to me in that chat.
39:32
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was a great idea though.
39:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but yeah, I'll be there and so if you're out podcast listener and you see me around say hello, but I'm looking forward to it.
39:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Haven't been to a game this year.
39:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Try to get to one game a year.
39:45
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is the one that I chose and I was I was hopeful it would be a win.
39:50
[SPEAKER_02]: scene quite a few wins in a row now.
39:53
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a while.
39:53
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the last game I went to that the bears lost was that disaster against the dolphins in 2014 where Brandon Marshall almost got in a fist fight in the locker room afterwards.
40:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I was at that game and that was a disastrous game, but that was the last time they lost when I Okay, I believe it did you say you have a win streak going when you go to pops
40:13
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, so I'm going to him and he is he has never seen the bears lose with me every game I went to with him that he's going this weekend, right.
40:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
40:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
40:21
[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
40:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you got to tell our listeners what you're going to be wearing what jersey you know where you're going to wear jersey you're going to wear.
40:27
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what you're going to wear.
40:30
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be a jersey for sure.
40:31
[SPEAKER_02]: It's either going to be Peyton or Caleb because they did buy Caleb in the office.
40:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably Caleb home Caleb home Caleb.
40:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
40:40
[SPEAKER_02]: So well, you'll be one of the many so I know that won't make me that definitely will make a stand up Speaking of that, what jersey is that a neat vassured jersey?
40:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been trying to figure it out.
40:50
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a Sean so long.
40:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, wow Now that's vintage.
40:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Rashad so nice old school
41:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I had a bunch of his rookie cards.
41:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he was really going to be great.
41:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he was for the first year and then he tore his ACL and was never the same, but yeah, he's been trophy winner.
41:13
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he, uh, on their forgetman, he, it is breakout game.
41:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe was against the bucks.
41:19
[SPEAKER_00]: When they were still in our division, it had over 100 yards, and gosh, I was, I was in love with that guy.
41:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And when Curtis Conway back in the day with my faves, Kurt is like, yeah, the Shonselam, the late Shonselam.
41:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Cheers to a good life, Luke.
41:41
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's still fits you good.
41:42
[SPEAKER_02]: You must have been swimming in that one back in the day.
41:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, eight, 90s.
41:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
41:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
41:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so we get home.
41:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we'll see.
41:53
[SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, again, I'm optimistic.
41:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Love going to soldier last year is at the opener.
41:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Not the best game to attend for an offense of perspective, but they got the W. So I'll come one.
42:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
42:04
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was happy with that.
42:07
[SPEAKER_02]: didn't really go around COVID or the first couple of years after that.
42:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I was at the Vikings game in 2019 that they won with my dad.
42:18
[SPEAKER_02]: I was at Raiders, so I'll be the Raiders with my dad.
42:21
[SPEAKER_02]: This is probably, I want to say, 2016.
42:25
[SPEAKER_02]: home game too so hopefully we can keep that street going.
42:30
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the places I like to go when I'm in Chicago and I'm staying kind of in that area around soldier is buddy guys the blues club.
42:40
[SPEAKER_02]: You ever been there?
42:42
[SPEAKER_02]: So quick story not related to football because I'm going to try to convince my dad to go to buddy guys we've gone before.
42:50
[SPEAKER_02]: But I was in there with my wife one night and buddy guy himself walked in.
42:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know where got up on the stage played two songs and left Could not believe it.
43:00
[SPEAKER_02]: He walks in.
43:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like Pretty sure that's buddy guy right there and yet sure enough walked in with like an entourage of like four people I mean he's like in his 80s now.
43:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Well the the namesake of the blue club this blues legend walks in plays.
43:14
[SPEAKER_02]: There was our a guy like doing a set on the stage and he's interrupted him
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go, I own this place and play them up songs and left, man.
43:22
[SPEAKER_02]: So I might be around those parts too.
43:24
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see, we'll see what happens.
43:25
[SPEAKER_02]: But it should be a good weekend.
43:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I will, I'll let you all know what I did in Chicago next week on the show.
43:31
[SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully Brian, I can drag you out there one of these seasons.
43:34
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a while for you.
43:35
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to scope a place nearby to do a post game pot of our own bears on the Bears version, one of these years.
43:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just looked.
43:46
[SPEAKER_00]: The last time I played them was almost exactly two years ago, 2023 season.
43:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And this was one of Tyson Bajans' starts.
43:56
[SPEAKER_00]: They had Derek Carr under center over there.
43:58
[SPEAKER_00]: And they won.
44:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Jason Hill scored a rushing touchdown.
44:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Carr threw a couple of CDs, one of them do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: John Jackson or John Johnson who's going to be there, again, this week, who's actually probably a pretty good season.
44:17
[SPEAKER_00]: And we had Dante form it.
44:19
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, just looking at our offensive weapons from now to then is pretty remarkable.
44:29
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we've not had good success against
44:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think, you know, if we were playing them in New Orleans, I'd consider going just because I love going to New Orleans so much, and you know, the next time they planned down there, I might consider going, I feel, did we, was it, so that was two years ago?
44:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think, I think I was thinking about going to that game and then something came up, and I was, my wife and I were going to go on the way to the end of that going, but, um, God, I love New Orleans.
44:57
[SPEAKER_00]: That was in New Orleans.
44:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Our last, it wasn't, wasn't until 2008.
45:05
[SPEAKER_00]: my god.
45:06
[SPEAKER_00]: We have lost each street.
45:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my gosh, for beating them in the NFC title game.
45:13
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, including the 2020 playoff game to our last playoff game down at the Super Bowl.
45:20
[SPEAKER_00]: True.
45:20
[SPEAKER_00]: That didn't count.
45:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
45:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
45:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're due for a win to my opinion.
45:27
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what the stats tell me.
45:29
[SPEAKER_02]: So should we do picks because last week Brian, you predicted, and this was before people knew Jake Moody was going to be kicking, because again, we didn't know till the day of the game, but you were, you're like, I'm pretty sure he's going to kick.
45:42
[SPEAKER_02]: And you not only predicted he was going to kick, but predicted he would hit the game winner and the score was pretty dang close to what it ended up being to.
45:51
[SPEAKER_02]: So Mr. Carnac,
45:57
[SPEAKER_02]: for that you have a prediction.
46:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Have they kicked the extra points that have failed the two point conversion I would have been on the money with all my predictions.
46:06
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah.
46:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll ask, yeah, I think we put a 40 burger against them.
46:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd say, say, 41 to 13, I think it's a pretty, maybe 16, let's do 41 to 16 domination, start to finish, full game.
46:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And I really think it's going to set up a nice contest the fun week on the road against a healthy, finally healthy, brave and squad that I thought was going to win the Super Bowl beginning this year.
46:38
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be hungry.
46:40
[SPEAKER_00]: And they've got the talent, especially if they get real quann, the Marlin Humphrey back.
46:48
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be a good test, but you're all going to say 41, 16 with the W. You'll enjoy it.
46:55
[SPEAKER_02]: I will be out now if that happens.
46:58
[SPEAKER_02]: It will be a a fun drive home after the game.
47:01
[SPEAKER_02]: That is the case.
47:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah.
47:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say let's see.
47:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Why 40 burger would be nice.
47:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go a little lower.
47:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say 34 17.
47:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say we double them up exactly 3417 bears 3417 foreign to feeling good going into that big governor at Baltimore huge huge who has more passing arts Caleb or Spencer I think Caleb
47:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
47:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you get up that big.
47:37
[SPEAKER_02]: We can rely on running certainly.
47:38
[SPEAKER_02]: That could be a danger in that prediction, but I'm going to see Caleb.
47:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say they light it up early.
47:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Home fans are pretty happy about it.
47:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Places going nuts.
47:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll think we get two turnovers.
47:50
[SPEAKER_00]: One pick by buyer and I don't know if the other one's going to be, but the other one's going to be return for Tusha.
47:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Why not Kyler?
47:58
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'll say Gordon takes one back to the house if that happens.
48:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it Yeah, maybe thumbwork cover.
48:04
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see We're on getting the end zone this week.
48:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah Yeah, so what's another big game birds the Dominion swips can swips can do okay You do his job, but our run game will dominate
48:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, hey, we saw our guy Rochon get a carry and they kind of forgot about it.
48:23
[SPEAKER_00]: But you should have had another one, but bumble the snap.
48:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was happy to see him in there and hopefully we'll see him a little bit more, but when I look good too, you know, our whole wrong games, there's no complaints at all.
48:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just happy that people have chilled off with the swift hate because that's been
48:50
[SPEAKER_00]: frankly.
48:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, you've been leading the charge on that that Swip's been getting too much hate.
48:57
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, your your takes on this pod brine have been pretty much on the money this year.
49:01
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I hope the 40 burger is too much.
49:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was real quick before we end the show because you mentioned we were going to talk about this on a possible trade targets for the bears and you know people were talking we brought up some of the running back names a couple of weeks ago on the show but
49:21
[SPEAKER_02]: not saying the bears don't need to get another guy in here long term, but right now, you know, it's it's one game, but Swift looked really good last week, and also was great and receiving game obviously with the 55-year touchdown.
49:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Where would you like to see if the bears make a trade?
49:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And we know polls hasn't been shy about doing that since he's been here.
49:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Like what position group are you looking at is your primary target for a trade if that's the
49:51
[SPEAKER_00]: If, for me, I'm not interested in mortgaging the future for an asset and, you know, the worthwhile asset would be an edge, that's a, you know, game record, my comparsons type of a player.
50:13
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, max cross be, um, trade entrance in, but that's going to cost a lot and the trade is going to ruin your cat as well.
50:22
[SPEAKER_00]: So I would like something that costs a little bit a lot less on both fronts from a trade cost and then a contract cost.
50:32
[SPEAKER_00]: So I like a defensive tackle, this is what I would like a defensive tackle that can get after the the passenger.
50:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I've said it when you city good aren't now.
50:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I doubt that the giants are going to trade Dexter Lawrence but you guys I would love Quinn and Williams young guy.
50:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I love You know, I think I think maybe most likely which I think would probably be the lowest cost but he might be playing the best ball at all these guys and and that's over in Tennessee
51:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Simmson.
51:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Justin Simmson, Jeffrey Simmson, and he's got the connection with fire.
51:12
[SPEAKER_00]: They're rebuilding team.
51:14
[SPEAKER_00]: They need to get younger.
51:16
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to get any, you know, any championships and NFC don't bring him on over here.
51:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Let him dominate, give us some more
51:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it really kind of depends on how Austin Booker looked at me back if you can show up and even just be a Mark Anderson-esque presence on third-down pass rush specialist.
51:41
[SPEAKER_00]: You can do that.
51:43
[SPEAKER_00]: We're good.
51:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's dieo and Chemar hold down the fort on rundowns.
51:58
[SPEAKER_00]: and solidify that run defense with some more depth and then also give us a pasture.
52:06
[SPEAKER_00]: That'd be my preference.
52:08
[SPEAKER_00]: But, and it also kind of depends on theo.
52:11
[SPEAKER_00]: If theo continues to play well at left tackle, then I could see, you know, us being okay with that until next year.
52:20
[SPEAKER_00]: But again, what's going to cost get a bona fide upgrade at left tackle?
52:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're going to trade for a guy like Braxton Jones and I just don't think the cost analysis is worth it.
52:32
[SPEAKER_00]: So give me a detackle, man, that's what we need.
52:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can even argue a corner, which I'd be fine to bring a couple guys if it's not going to cost you more than a late-round pick, you know, fourth at the best, but ideally a fifth six-round pick, which a lot of these guys end up going for, you know, bringing some competition.
52:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do this thing.
52:52
[SPEAKER_00]: But what about you?
52:53
[SPEAKER_00]: What are your thoughts on you?
52:54
[SPEAKER_00]: You're still thinking about it back or what?
52:56
[SPEAKER_02]: No, not now.
52:58
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a lot more confident in this running game.
53:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Based on Rochon actually getting involved because we've been calling for that to happen forever.
53:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, they put him in, did he immediately run for seven or eight yards?
53:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
53:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Right away.
53:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
53:14
[SPEAKER_02]: So disappointed when, you know, that wasn't the call on the fourth down.
53:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Just give him a call.
53:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, overthinking it.
53:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought a little bit there, but no, I'm probably not going running back right now.
53:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you on D line and you know, Simmons has been the name that's been out there.
53:28
[SPEAKER_02]: There was rumors out there about DJ being involved in the trade with him.
53:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously DJ's health is going to be up.
53:35
[SPEAKER_02]: major concern and making that a possibility.
53:37
[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, yeah, like I don't want to mortgage the future either.
53:41
[SPEAKER_02]: If you can get a guy for a late round pick that you think that can contribute, I'm looking D-line for sure.
53:48
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, linebacker could end up being a concern with school.
53:51
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see what happens there.
53:53
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I think D-line and I love the Mark Anderson comp.
53:57
[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of what we've been talking about in the show for a while that that's what we want to see Austin Booker become.
54:02
[SPEAKER_02]: And that'll just be gigantic for this defense.
54:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we already saw it.
54:06
[SPEAKER_02]: It might not have shown up on the stat sheet as much like I talked about earlier with Montez in this game.
54:12
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, Jayden being so elusive and he broke off a couple of big runs, but still, they were getting pressure on him.
54:18
[SPEAKER_02]: And some of that doesn't show up in the stat sheet, but I just saw, I saw guys getting in there a lot earlier than we've seen in other games this year.
54:26
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you can add awesome bookers to that mix and he can bring something.
54:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're in a good spot and then you're looking at detackle because gradie just really hasn't contributed like we had we had hope at least so far right so I like I like the idea of getting a detackle in there someone like a Jeffrey Simmons so yeah we're in agreement there we're locked up there my friend.
54:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
54:48
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, guys, that is going to be it for Bears Overbears this week.
54:52
[SPEAKER_02]: We appreciate everyone of you who joined us out there and certainly everyone that joins us after the fact on the podcast feed or right here on youtube.com can support the show with some bears overbears merch or just second city gridiron merch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can get this bears overburping glass.
55:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been drinking out tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: believe it's 12 bucks on the store, high quality, awesome logo, drink with us every single Wednesday night for the rest of the year.
55:22
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like it makes the plans taste better too.
55:27
[SPEAKER_02]: It does.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going down well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
55:30
[SPEAKER_02]: But we got shirts too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got hoodies, getting cold, you know, all kinds of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you can support the show and all the other content creators here on the channel while you're at it.
55:40
[SPEAKER_00]: We should share the picture.
55:44
[SPEAKER_00]: we had a listener, share a picture of his own, and where in the, or the sorry, holding the pint glass up.
55:53
[SPEAKER_00]: So you put, you know, you get one of these, these items gone and share it and you might make the show be famous.
56:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let me share that picture because that was a phenomenal picture.
56:06
[SPEAKER_02]: So a couple of weeks ago on the show, you guys, it listened every week.
56:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, remember this, we did a giveaway for one of our pint glasses.
56:15
[SPEAKER_02]: And our guy who won, I, you know, I DMed him on my man, you got to share out a picture of that glass.
56:19
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, I got you.
56:20
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like Monday night football.
56:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to share a picture.
56:23
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is a great picture.
56:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it almost looked like it was professionally done.
56:29
[SPEAKER_02]: like, holy smokes.
56:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I was better than I expected.
56:31
[SPEAKER_02]: So let me zoom in on this picture of our friend, Bruno Dino here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here we go.
56:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully you guys are all seeing this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let me scroll down on this picture.
56:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Give him some airtime.
56:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, look at that.
56:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Bears over beers.
56:46
[SPEAKER_02]: We're in the bucket.
56:47
[SPEAKER_01]: It's here's the average.
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[SPEAKER_02]: phenomenal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely phenomenal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's got one.
56:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Looks nice and nice and cold.
56:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Love it.
56:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Get your own second city grid iron shop, support the pod, and help us in continuing to grow this audience and build this show up week after week.
57:07
[SPEAKER_02]: And man, this is a lot more fun to do Ryan than when the bears are losing.
57:10
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's keep this going.
57:17
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you should definitely bring some sort of merch if you can and throw it on a soldier field stall or something like that, bro.
57:26
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you guys see him, he's an easy auto-graph, that's for sure.
57:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there you go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a selfie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a selfie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A little selfie is all over Twitter and Instagram.
57:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have stickers this week?
57:39
[SPEAKER_00]: You should get some stickers hand them out to anybody that recognizes him.
57:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I did order some.
57:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they're going to be here in time, but I did order some.
57:45
[SPEAKER_02]: So you might get something.
57:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I gave you some of bears that will be a sticker the first.
57:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even have him.
57:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, get it before my co-host here.
57:55
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, guys, it's been a lot of fun.
57:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to go check in on those kids that are in the single parent whole household tonight.
58:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't wait for my wife to get home tomorrow.
58:06
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be much easier.
58:07
[SPEAKER_02]: So, props to all the single parents out there.
58:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how you do it night after night.
58:12
[SPEAKER_02]: But the, the bland certainly helped tonight and talking with Brian and all of you always does as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, we will catch you all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Our next Wednesday, go Bears.
58:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get that double over the Saints and bear down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now.