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Bears vs. Commanders Recap: Wrap It Up with Jacob Infante! · 2nd City Gridiron

0:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, you guys, oh my god.
0:11
[SPEAKER_00]: The bears did it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They found a way to come away with a win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's now three straight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears are three and two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've defeated the Washington Commanders, 25 to 24, expelling the demons from the Hail Mary game from last year.
0:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
0:35
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm not used to this.
0:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really not.
0:40
[SPEAKER_00]: This is something that as a bears fan, you're trained to, to temper your expectations, really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, because time and time again, something always goes wrong, right?
0:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Something always goes wrong with the Chicago Bears, but they found a way to win.
0:59
[SPEAKER_00]: They found a way to win.
1:00
[SPEAKER_00]: The bears are three and two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They came out of the by week with the win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a three game winning streak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Things are looking good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to wrap it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The official post game podcast live stream for Second City Gridiron.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am your fat host, Jacob and Fonte.
1:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, what the hell?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm truly at a loss for words.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't expecting this to happen.
1:36
[SPEAKER_00]: truthfully.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a lot to talk about.
1:38
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a lot of good to talk about.
1:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's certainly some bad to take away from this, but I mean, the bear's just won a game.
1:45
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to honestly focus on, you know, the positive because we have been as bear's fans and as, you know, in the the fake pseudo analyst role that I like to serve,
2:01
[SPEAKER_00]: We're so inclined to go with, you know, focus on the negative and just focus, you know, hardcore on what went wrong and a lot did go wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But a lot, a lot went right as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously in the most important thing went right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a victory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't even know where to start.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go through and as this show progresses, I'm going to pick a handful of comments here from the people watching live on Twitter slash X and we're getting some comments on the second city grid iron YouTube page as well.
2:40
[SPEAKER_00]: So please subscribe to that if you aren't already, which if you aren't, why the hell are you not you're missing out?
2:48
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: In spite of the screwiness that happens with the refs, the bears were able to come away with a win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to start with DeAndre Swift.
3:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that for so much of his time in Chicago,
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[SPEAKER_00]: DeAndre Swift has been, you know, much maligned.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like, honestly, I feel like a lot of it is, you know, it has been pretty warranted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'd say to this point, he hasn't lived up to his, you know, his, the salary that Chicago forked over within the first 15 seconds of free agency back two years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he showed up big time today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 14 carries 100-nate rushing yards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I had two catches, 67 yards receiving, including that 55 yarder for it touchedown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not very good at math, but that is 175 skirmajards for DeAndre Swift today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as I'm checking, frantically through ESPN, I can say that it's the second most,
4:04
[SPEAKER_00]: rushing yards that DeAndres Weft has had in his two seasons with the bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's his most yards from skirmish that he's had with the Chicago Bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was fantastic today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of kudos along to the offensive line as well, they did a tremendous job of providing opportunities for him right up the middle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's a, you know, been a focal point a lot of people are talking about where it's like, you know, oh, Swift can't, you know, diagnosed right up the middle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And historically, I mean, he hasn't been able to the last two years, but he did today, the offensive line did a hell of a job, Swift did a hell of a job.
4:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the big thing that really worked for Chicago is whether it was from Ben Johnson himself scheming it or from the offensive line providing him that opportunity, DeAndre Swift had a lot of space to work with.
5:03
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that,
5:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, I'm still riding the high and the adrenaline is going crazy my mind's all over the place.
5:16
[SPEAKER_00]: DeAndre Swift is at his best when he has a lot of space to work with, the bears gave him space and swift worked as magic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he deserves a lot of credit for how he performed the offensive line to the great job as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Especially run blocking, pass protection, little hit or miss, but not particularly bad at all.
5:37
[SPEAKER_00]: As I'm going through some of the comments here, I want to shout out Mason West here from one of our second city grid RN guys in the YouTube chat saying, hey, how the hell am I supposed to sleep now with bead.
5:47
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to get a man's scape sponsor to get you an electric shaver Jacob.
5:52
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how I'm supposed to sleep now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how you're supposed to sleep now either, Mason.
5:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm all hopped up on the adrenaline of the bears winning a game.
6:02
[SPEAKER_00]: In the fashion that they did, in prime time, finally something going Chicago's way, finally something going in our fanbase's direction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's awesome.
6:16
[SPEAKER_00]: As far as the electric shaver goes, I tweeted something out to, you know, that was gonna shave the mustache.
6:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I deleted it pretty quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I still have the mustache for it now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get a haircut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanna go a little bit shorter like it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's puffed out on the sides.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanna make it a little bit easier to manage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll figure it out with the mustache from there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jacob do not shave that mustache.
6:44
[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
6:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I think if anything that's all the validation I need that I'm going to keep this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how it goes with the because because of real life woman said that and I'm very flattered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you, thank you Natalie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
7:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get a haircut
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mustache is still here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, okay, you guys aren't here to hear me talk about my mustache for five minutes, 20 minutes, whatever the hell.
7:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, you're here to talk about the bears.
7:20
[SPEAKER_00]: So I, and now I've got people in the the Twitter chat telling me to go bald.
7:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So I, I'm not going to do that.
7:36
[SPEAKER_00]: I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mentioned on my tweet, so I wasn't able to post throughout the entire game.
7:42
[SPEAKER_00]: But I posted, I want to say it was, you're the end of the third or the beginning of the fourth quarter.
7:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Watch this, if this comes down to a last second field goal, I might go into cardiac arrest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, it did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, it worked out well for the bears in this specific case, which I'm flattered by.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ecstatic about.
8:06
[SPEAKER_00]: to leave it up to the last possible second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's been the case in a lot of the last few years, especially, is, I mean, under eberfluous, you know, a couple of times, under Ben Johnson as well, there have been a couple instances where
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the bears play competitive, but, you know, one reason or another, it goes into the last possible second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it worked out well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It worked out well for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm very, I'm very excited that things finally worked out all right.
8:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Austin Corbett says Jacob, let's get excited about Luther burden.
8:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so Luther burden came away from today with four catches for 51 yards, including a
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[SPEAKER_00]: 37 yard reception, I feel pretty good, honestly.
8:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel pretty good about Luther Burton and the ability that the Bears have to slowly but surely work him into their offense.
9:06
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's something that
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ben Johnson clearly wants to do.
9:11
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you're not using a second round pick on a wide receiver, especially given the needs that the bears have had at other positions.
9:18
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't want to get involved in the offense right away, and they found a way to do that slowly, but surely look, I don't think anyone's clamoring for Luther Berlin to get like 10 targets every single game, but hey,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if you get a guy with that agility, you get a guy with that contact balance, that peer playmaking ability to make a play, you know, get the ball in his hands,
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a valuable asset.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, shout out to Luther Burton as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Andrew Zangry shout out to him.
9:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Says, Jacob, what can we do to improve the D-line this year?
9:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I really wanted to see Booker out there tonight but felt like the D-line was better late in the game.
9:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
9:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the defensive line, I mean, look, it's not, it's not perfect.
10:02
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
10:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to say it's fixed by any means, but we did.
10:10
[SPEAKER_00]: The bears defensive line did a much better job down the stretch of putting pressure on Jane Daniels.
10:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if you're able to sack a guy like that three times, a quarterback who's that athletic, who does such a good job of making guys miss both in the pocket and out of the pocket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's something to celebrate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Von Dexter especially had a sack and a half
10:34
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think that that's something where, you know, there's there's part to be there there are parts to be encouraged about from that from the defensive line performance.
10:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're still an impact guy away.
10:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I still think that, you know, if you can get an edge ruster early in the draft that be huge, but I mean, like you said, what can you do to improve the defensive line this year.
10:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I think that now the bears are three and two, right?
11:02
[SPEAKER_00]: They're firmly, like at this stage, they're firmly in position to down the stretch compete for a playoff spot, hypothetically.
11:13
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at their next couple of games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's against the Saints who haven't been very good this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the Ravens, I mean, who knows?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, Lamar Jackson's probably gonna be back for that game, but that team's been a shit show.
11:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and then the bangles, they don't have Joe Burrow.
11:32
[SPEAKER_00]: That's been a disaster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Giants, you never know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, with Jackson Dart, uh, they've shown, you know, they can beat anybody, but they also lost to the Saints.
11:41
[SPEAKER_00]: So you never know.
11:42
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a serious stretch of winnable games that the bears have right now.
11:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you look at this and I'm like, I think the bears should be buyers at the trade deadline.
11:53
[SPEAKER_00]: especially after winning this game with the stretch of games that you have being extremely winnable, not saying it's a lock by any means, but in theory they're extremely winnable.
12:04
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a chance to stack up some wins and head into that tough spot where the divisional game
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trade for an edge rusher trade for a defensive tackle.
12:15
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that anybody you get in for agency at this point is going to be a needle mover, but I definitely look to the, you know, to the trade market to see defensive linemen who are available.
12:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I know just off of the top of my head, I check and see what Jeffrey Simmons, what his going rate is because they're I mean, the Titans just fired their head coach, their seasons tank, they're not going to be competitive this year.
12:42
[SPEAKER_00]: They know it, everybody knows it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeffrey Simmons has been phenomenal this year, see what it takes to, you know, see what their they're asking prices on him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Defense event, you can go in a couple of different directions and any of the Dolphins guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what the finances look like for Jalen Phillips, like my friend here says.
13:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna say his name because he's only Matthews.
13:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I know his real name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wanna dox him because I'm a good guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jalen Phillips, you're also looking at potentially Bradley Chub as an option that the bears could trade for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: interested in other guys as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Max Crossbee, look, I don't think the Raiders are going to trade Max Crossbee, but I mean it's worth checking in just because they haven't been great this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a long shot, but we'll see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tray Hendrickson, I think is also a realistic option.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that because of the fact that you're getting them at the trade deadline, you can get them for cheaper,
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[SPEAKER_00]: These are type of guy you pay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You pay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to pay a lot of money and you're going to give up some decent, you know, you're going to give up some decent capital for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the hope is since it's midseason at the trade deadline, you can acquire him for maybe a little bit less.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and go from there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't want to give up a first round pick by any means.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think if you're making a move at the trade deadline, you're not doing that for anybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Second round pick, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I still think that the bears are heading into next off season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have a handful of needs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like what all mighty man says in the YouTube chat, are we an edge away, though?
14:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Why buy the deadline when you can keep picks and add them for agency?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the debate goes both ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I was going to make a joke.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to make a joke there, but I can't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to hold restraint for the time being.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I said go both ways, come to your own conclusions from there, make some sort of joke about whatever whoever you want, sweet.
14:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Why about the deadline when you can keep picks and add a free agency?
14:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think the bears are going to be very active in free agency.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is the thing this year?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to make some sort of moves, obviously, because they have to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have as much cap flexibility, this coming off season as they've had, this past off season and the off season before that.
15:09
[SPEAKER_00]: So because off of that, I mean, there are guys you can cut in here and there are contracts you can restructure to save money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you have a lot of guys who are slated to hit free agency, a couple of guys that you need to retain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think they're going to be extremely active in free agency that might sign a couple of, you know, recign a couple of their own guys make one or two big moves.
15:32
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, at the same time you make the argument what you keep picks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears, I mean, on defense, I don't want to keep bringing up the negative in a win like this.
15:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the bears are winners of three straight, yeah, the winners of three straight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They just won off the last second field goal in prime time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't be mad at that at all, I can't be pessimistic about that at all, but I think that as the bears have shown their defenses in the finished product, they need, you know, a little bit more consistency in the past rush.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jalen Johnson being hurt is a huge blow to the secondary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, maybe they trade for like a one year rental veteran at corner back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect that that's going to be as expensive as an ad russia, especially if it's just like a one year sort of deal.
16:31
[SPEAKER_00]: but it's something to keep in mind because Nation Wright, he did have that fumble recovery, but in coverage he was pretty consistently getting burned.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's something where it's like, all right, if you're gonna be competing for a playoff spot, is that a guy you want to be like consistently in the starting lineup, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so we have, you know, a lot of questions here in the live chat reminder for those of you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we're just tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, this is wrap it up with Jacob and Fonte, the official post game recap show of the second city gridiron YouTube page.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to get into that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have an alter ego that maybe I'll share with the world one day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're 17 minutes in and we're about 8,000 viewers, which that isn't sane.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's more than the official press conference of the Chicago Bears right now by a considerable margin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's nuts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you guys for listening to this fact guy with a mustache that he may or may not shave talk about the Bears.
18:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Mark Callaway.
18:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if this is Mark Callaway the undertaker, like the professional wrestler, the dead man, one of the greatest of all time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it is, it's a pleasure to meet you, sir.
18:28
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pleasure to meet you as well, Mr. Callaway.
18:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Thought mononguei played huge tonight.
18:38
[SPEAKER_00]: So Kyle mononguei, he had five carries for 19 yards, also had a 25-yard reception as well.
18:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe that was a screen, yeah, it was a screen.
18:50
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears, I mean, they showed like in week one, I don't think Menonga, I got a single touch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're slowly but surely working him into the offense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be some sort of a rotational player for sure.
19:06
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that with a rookie, obviously, you're going to have a learning curve from time to time, but he's tough, he's shifty,
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy you want to get the ball in his hands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I got to give him a lot of credit as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He served in a pretty effective role player sort of contributed contribution.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that he deserves a lot of credit for that as well.
19:33
[SPEAKER_00]: So my father, Steven Fonte, coming into the chat, tight ends haven't had a role the last few games, what gives.
19:42
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good question, because, I mean, you're looking here.
19:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Colston Loveland, I mean, is Ms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tom due to injury today.
19:49
[SPEAKER_00]: He had three targets, two catches for 11 yards.
19:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Colcomet have one catch for no yards and only two targets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they've invested a lot in the tight end position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Only, excuse me, five targets between their top two guys.
20:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Only 11 yards of offense out of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd say to this point, I mean, sure, it's a little bit worried some that, you know, they haven't gotten the production out of their tight end, something want.
20:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that as time goes on, I'm, we're going to see, obviously, there are a lot of mouths to feed in the bear's offense.
20:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, you have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: room of dunes, a getting five targets, DJ, more getting five targets, uh, uh, allow me to use the keys, had six targets today.
20:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Luther Burden got targeted four times.
20:35
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there are a lot of guys that they have to target and just naturally, I think that some games, uh, other players are going to get focused on more than others.
20:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, but I am a little bit surprised to this point that the tight ends haven't been utilized entirely.
20:50
[SPEAKER_00]: My, if I put the tin foil head on and go all conspiracy mode, I get the sense that Ben Johnson isn't very high on coal commit, just because even when coalston lovelin was hurt, they didn't do much with commit.
21:09
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that they've been waiting a little bit to slowly but surely work, love-lend into a bigger role and have him take over the, like the Undisputed Titan, one role in that offense.
21:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, maybe I'm just going crazy, full conspiracy here, but I get the sense that just off of the lack of prioritization, I think that Ben Johnson is in a huge fan of Comet.
21:33
[SPEAKER_00]: And as a result of that, we, you know, leveling being hurt, you know, obviously you can't do anything with that, but now that he's back, there's, you know, ramp him up slowly, but surely to take on a little bit bigger rule in the offense.
21:43
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think things are going to change a little bit.
21:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect Lovelin to, you know, as the season progresses as he, you know, continues to work within the offense.
21:53
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, historically rookie tight ends usually don't do all that great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know everyone's going to be like, oh, Brock Bowers, but Brock Bowers is a
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[SPEAKER_00]: alien specimen from hell, he's incredible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not every rookie tie-dance can be Brock Bowers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I do think that they're going to work a way to ramp and love one up for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think that their usage of commit the last few weeks is even when Colson Loveland was hurt, I think that says a lot about what the coaching staff or at least Ben Johnson views him as a priority.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, again, we'll see, we'll see for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Nick, in the Twitter chats, a three turnovers talk to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that that, I mean, down the stretch, obviously, you know, things got a little bit rainy, things got a little bit sloppy from the weather conditions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think, you know, that played in the Bears favor well,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to have good situational awareness of where the, you know, of where the ball is at all times, and if you're a opponent messes up on that if he slips up, you need to be able to take advantage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they did exactly that jacquan brisker had to pick as well, which I think is huge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know brisker was a little bit shaky today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know he had a.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they utilized my handful of times as a blitzer and, you know, to, he got pressure, he got pressure, but he, you know, missed a sack and, you know, also got called for the low, low hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like that penalty to begin with, just the fact that it's a thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of hate, like I get it to some extent, it's like you want to protect the quarterback, but stuff like that, it's just, he wasn't in any more significant danger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That said, it didn't meet the criteria for the penalty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have more of a problem with the fact that it's a penalty to begin with, then what the refs call on brisker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought what the refs call on brisker in that case was fair.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't like the penalty being a thing to that strict extent to begin with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, brisker getting a pick though is huge and
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[SPEAKER_00]: having that ability to generate turnovers that it's I mean it goes without saying that played a big role in why the bears won this game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It really did because you watch over the course of the game, the coverage was spotty, it was inconsistent, and there are a lot of times where you know just underneath whether it was you know across the middle of the field and that you know that hook curls owner,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, maybe a little bit more towards the the boundary of the field side along the perimeter there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, you know, pretty spacious underneath.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had a lot of room to work with typically and I think that that's something that you part of that comes down to play calling being a little bit too soft.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know Bear's fans know that as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is anybody watching Matt Eberflue some of those defenses last couple of years, but I think part of it too is just you don't have the cornerbacks currently to process that quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're given up that much cushion offline scrimmage, you need guys who are going to be able to, you know, I can't snap, but oh my god, that's not bad, not bad for a guy
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luke and process quickly like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wouldn't say that Nation writes there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tyreek Stevenson has shown in flashes he can be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't think, you know, he's there consistently yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Kyler Gordon, I mean, naturally he's going to be playing a little bit off, you know, being in the slot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but yeah, I think that having the ability to pounce, having the ability to know where the ball is at all times to play with that relentless mentality, I think, is huge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I've got to give a lot of credit to the defense there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't a perfect performance in the defense, but they did a damn good job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Creams leave, reposted this stream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, cream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's favorite, janitor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow is going to be fun at House Hall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So very, I hope that they have like a pizza party or something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it cream if you, if they have something I'm expecting you to let us know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've had a couple people here, both in the YouTube chat and in the Twitter chat as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please talk about Theo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Theo Bennettett, did we find a new left tackle?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He played great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to give a lot of credit to Bennettett and I got to give a lot of credit to
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[SPEAKER_00]: Donnell Wright as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that the, you know, the commanders were, they're creative and how they dialed up pressure, but I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the both the offensive tackles upon initial review performed better than I was expecting, especially Benedict.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Darnell Wright is a good, a very good starting tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's established by now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just been the penalties earlier on in the year, you know, cutting down on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But snap by snap, he's a very good player.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Benadette, at least off of initial review,
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[SPEAKER_00]: looked pretty damn good, especially for a guy who didn't play it all as rookie areas and undraft of free agent out of Canada.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the youth sports, they played British Columbia, teammates with Giovanni Manu of the Detroit Lions, Manu got drafted, Benadette didn't, but Benadette looked good today, at least off of my initial viewing, and again,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to break this down in much more, you know, specific detail once the all 22 comes out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you hit up my Patreon, patreon.com slash Jacob and Fonte, cheat plug there, I do five scouting reports for every single bear's game, once the coach has filmed hits and I pick five players, there's strengths and weaknesses, I pick Caleb Williams as one of them every week, but I
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I definitely recommend checking that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as once that comes, I'll have a little bit more informed opinions to say on the offensive line individually.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But upon first glance, Theo deserves a lot of credit for stepping in the way that he did and looking competent all things considered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And don't outright deserves a lot of credit, too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole offense of
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's it's exciting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's not to say that the offensive line was flawless by any means.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, you know, Caleb got sack three times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He got hit five times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's not as bad as some of what we saw last year or some of what we saw with when Justin feels was the quarterback in Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the offense line is definitely improved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Still got room to grow, but it's a step in the right direction for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's very, very encouraging to see stuff like that for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're coming up on a half hour here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to say again, appreciate everything when you guys are tuning in here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're getting dangerously close to 10,000 viewers live on the live stream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're listening to this,
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[SPEAKER_00]: After the fact on YouTube or anywhere you get your podcast or on Facebook, we're also live right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can interact with me the Jakester, this fact guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In live time and ask questions and obviously as you guys are seeing, I'm answering these questions in live time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to try and keep this as interactive as possible, especially when the vibes are high, especially when the bears are coming off a win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Things are very good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very exciting to think about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I'm going to go through here and take a look at some of the other, some of the other comments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: live too far the house beer hall the friends house beer hall my guys rank the top five quarter back some Caleb's draft class okay so I'm gonna do it I'm gonna well I mean so keep in mind it's the you know it's a six you know there were six quarterbacks selected in the first round so I guess I'll go from there I'm not gonna put Caleb at one
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to put at least right now taking a look at how this season has performed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's obviously Jane Daniels was the best of lunch last year, but he hasn't been this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a lot of what have you done for me lately, at least in my eyes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going Drake May number one, he's been phenomenal this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that I
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was kind of the forgotten man with obviously how highly targeted Caleb Williams was coming out of college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly still is, there are a lot of eyes on Caleb Williams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a big market.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a very talented player.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's was a lot to focus on from a national perspective.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Jaden Daniels having the year that he had last year, obviously there's a lot of eyes on him too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Drake May though, I think is becoming one of the,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not just top young quarterbacks in the NFL, but one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how it progresses as the year goes on, but this season's been a phenomenal start for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Drake main number one, I know the bears just beat the commanders, but I'm gonna do Jaden Daniels too, and Caleb Williams three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that, I mean, the Bears are three and two, Caleb Williams is improving significantly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's still got a long way to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's still got a long way to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I look at that as the Bears are winning games and the offense is looking competent and Caleb isn't nearly at his final form.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I think that that's exciting to think about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, again, we'll see if he does fulfill his full potential.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he certainly can, uh, just, you know, might take a little bit of time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Jaden Daniels, I think right now is the superior quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to go hand it to, but, uh, I really like the, the upside that Caleb Williams has.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like some of the growth that we've seen out of him from year one to year two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's my top three from that draft class.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been a little bit spotty this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the Broncos, they have a good coaching staff in place, they have a good offensive system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I got to give him props for, he serves the game manager role well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not the guy that's going to elevate in offense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He can't do it in the way that a Drake may, or Jane Daniels or a Caleb Williams does.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have that upside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have those tools.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he's a little bit more consistent than,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, then Caleb or Jane, usually, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm just spitballing here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, uh, bone X number four, Panics number five, McCarthy number six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm gonna do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, and just because we haven't seen a lot of McCarthy and what we've seen hasn't been great, I'm a believer that in that Vikings offense, he can eventually be a solid quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Will it be amazing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but I think that, you know, just office such a small sample size, you have to rank him six and then pennies number five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Helia, I'm hoping that Caleb can overtake Jaden Daniels because I don't think Daniels has been amazing this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He played a solid game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He played a solid game against the bears today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He deserves credit for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Three touchdowns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears gave him a lot of soft coverage in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jane did exactly what you'd hope him to do if your commander's fan if you're a bomb that team and that's you know take advantage of it but he also had the pick also had you know the ball security issues with the fumble but yeah there you go I'm going to go here to the YouTube chat ability kid says Jacob you see moody maybe pushing Cairo for the job Cairo has been
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good question.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that naturally, especially you're coming off of a game winning field goal, it's very, sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just got a notification that the X-Chat isn't working right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Campos comes to some destinations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll take a look into that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think naturally coming off of a game-winning field goal, a lot of people are going to jump to conclusion about Jake Moody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that him coming through in the clutch was massive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They asked him to kick field goals five times, he made four of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of them was blocked, so that's not ideal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And 80% isn't like an ideal field goal percentage, but I think that Moody has a significantly stronger leg than Cairo Santos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not as consistent as far as as touch, you know, as consistency in between the hash marks and, you know, the, like the touch and the accuracy, the consistency of where he places the kick in between the goal posts, if at all, for that matter,
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think there's a reason that Moody got drafted as early as he did and I think a lot of that comes down to how strong his leg is naturally you saw it when he was in college just the ball comes off of his foot a little differently compared to how it does with Cairo Santos there's more power there's more velocity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's more instability for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I can't say definitively, if, you know, oh, you cut Cairo Santos, you're going to go for, you know, you're going to go for Jake Moody going forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's, you know, I mean, it's a conversation we're having.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't, I'm not going to go out here and say definitively that that's the case, but,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just, I think that that's it's worth considering at least.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say definitively one where the other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ryan shansler in the YouTube chat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, if not, but I appreciate the comment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lola, so I know some of you in the YouTube chat are, you know, they're coming to their, I've seen some comments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, you know, you're too crass.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I say, shut up, so I'm gonna say this, read this verbatim, the comment that I got on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you guys can't blame me for my naughty language.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jake, what's up with that fuck boy, Troy Acmon?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Troy Acmon was,
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[SPEAKER_00]: brutal today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Ryan follows up in the YouTube chat, not even close.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How how, but it's all good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll work on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll do, I'll read your name like 20 times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm putting in the reps here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm a grinder, but Troy Hakeman, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Normally, like I, I think that the the Joe Buck Troy Hakeman commentary team is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it gets a lot of flag sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Joe Buck is much better at his job than a lot of people give him credit for, especially recently in the last couple of years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think maybe 10 years or so ago he got kind of complacent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I didn't have the big game energy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's done a much better job of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Troy Ackman was very much, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was annoying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was very annoying to listen to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not to take away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's obviously, and, you know, he's had an incredible football career.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He knows more about he's forgotten more about football than I'll ever know, but at the same time, it was still just kind of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's not me saying, okay, the Williams is perfect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He absolutely wasn't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd say that all things considered this is probably on the lower end of games that he's had this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the time that the season ends, I think if you had to rank all 17, you know, knock on wood, he stays healthy for all those games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fewer to rank all of his starts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this will probably be a little bit near the bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But still, I think Ackman is still frustrating to listen to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, all right, dude, we get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, like, just, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to say anything that's going to get me in trouble, but that was not a,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a fun listen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad that I was a little bit late getting to the game and then once I caught up, I had the game, I had the volume on mute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I didn't hear the commentary or anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just watching the game, trying to catch up as quickly as I could at the lifetime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I missed most of it, but some of it I caught and I'm like, dude, just shut up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, Fredo asks in the Twitter chat, did you find out if your dad was cream?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, cream sleeve was in the chat earlier.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The greatest janitor in house all right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I tweeted out a little bit earlier today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Planned in the fact, oh, maybe someone said, oh, maybe I think Jacob and Fonte's behind the cream sleeve account.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I played it and it was like, oh, maybe I am, maybe I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then my my father replied in the post or maybe it's his dad or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I still haven't found out if my dad is responsible for the notorious janitor account cream sleeve.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll work on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll I'll I'll I'll do a little digging here once we get off the
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[SPEAKER_00]: No comment, no comment from Steven Fonte in the YouTube chat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll go from there, come to your own conclusions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, John Wayne in the Twitter chat, if that's your name, that's pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It says, six and two very much on the board.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're looking at their next couple of games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like I said earlier near the top of the show, Saints, Ravens, Bangles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the next three games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If they went all those, they're six and two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They beat the Giants too, that's seven and two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: look, do I expect them to win all those games?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's at least one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They probably drop somewhere just because that's how the NFL works, going on a massive winning streak like that doesn't happen very often.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think 6 and 2, 6 and 3, 7 and 2, it's realistic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's going to have, I think 6 and 3 is very realistic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: if they, you have, maybe say they dropped a raven's game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'd say that's the one I'm looking at.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they dropped that one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think they beat the bangles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lifeless team right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see it's in Cincinnati.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Saints, you never know, I'm going to be at that game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So by the way, I will not be doing the live stream for the post game show next week and the Bears match against the Saints because I'll be at Soldier Field.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you guys see me there if you're at the game, say hi, make fun of me, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I might still have the mustache by then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So tell me how much you've levered hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is very much on the board and that is going to that's going to transition me here into the final segment, which is Jacob and Fonte's happy ending because everyone, you know, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've gotten some pretty good feedback on that as the, you know, as the segment
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[SPEAKER_00]: And obviously there's a lot to be excited about coming off the last second when over the commanders the commanders are a good team I think that's something we're saying they didn't perform at their best, but they still that's a good team that you beat on the road in prime time that's something to be very proud of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of Kudos belongs to the bears for bouncing back, especially when you consider a lot of the guys on the roster this year, we're on the roster last year, or at least a decent amount of them, they know the sting of that loss, the, you know, the hail Mary, I'll say it a little quieter because I don't want people to, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people, they experienced the hurt they really did and now to come back and to the scene of the crime, so to speak, and it's a new coach, it's you know, a handful of new starters, but a lot of the same players who experienced that heartbreaking loss last year to be able to come back to march into a hostile away environment on a grand stage and to pick up the win was huge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I tweeted out right before the show went live.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also do the post game article over at Windy City Grid Irons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So definitely recommend checking that out once I get off the stream here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when I tweeted that out, I said something along the lines of so many times over the last few years, I feel like the bears have trained us as fans as
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[SPEAKER_00]: As, I mean, I'm not media, I don't want to, you know, I think that's the, those are the professionals, but the, the fan lists like me, we've been trained to have our, you know, to keep our expectations low and, you know, it's Murphy's law, whatever can go wrong will go wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's, you know, the kind of the mentality that bears fans have been forced to endure just because that's the way things have been, but looking at their last couple of games now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, obviously, the Vikings in a week one was a great, but the Raiders, they blocked a game-winning field goal, 25-24, commanders, they hit a game-winning field goal, 25-24, the bears have had a lot of one possession losses over the last few years and not a lot of one possession wins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm grateful to say, so far this year, they're two and one in one possession games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you can, that's how the Vikings make the playoffs every year, they don't dominate anybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They play competitive against everybody, but it's how well they're coached that allows them to secure those victories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what gets them into the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're a good team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Vikings are a good team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good organization.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So much of that comes down to the coaching of the ability to close in the big moments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears haven't been able to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've had a lot of opportunities to do that over the years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They just haven't been able to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ben Johnson's been able to do that two games in a row.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's very exciting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd have to go back and look.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's more than Matt Iberflu's had his entire time in Chicago, damn year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in the, you know, close to three years that he had, I think Ben Johnson's already proven that he's better in a, you know, in a late game scenario than Ebersoo's was, even off a such a small sample size.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not a high bar anyway, though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The winners of three straight, they have an incredibly manageable stretch of games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Saints next week on Sunday at noon at Soldier Field
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the Ravens the following week, Lamar Jackson should be back with that team is in a lot of disarray right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the bangles where it's going to be Joe Flacco, presumably, unless they go back to Jake Browning, either way, that's not elite quarterback play that you're working with there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the giants who have shown their very volatile hit or miss, and that's at Soldier Field as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to be excited about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was a huge, huge win for the Bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it could be overstated just how clutch that this victory was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because down the stretch, like I've maintained that the Bears need to do really well outside of their division to make the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I mean, it might be the toughest division in all of football.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it is if it's not then it's certainly top two or top three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you're going to face a lot of tough teams down the stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the more of these out of divisional games that you win, the better your chances are of making the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And even if you go like two and four within the division, even if you don't absolutely kill it in NFC North play, you can still make the playoffs if you do well enough outside of the division.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now, luckily, I can say the bears are three and a outside of the NFC North.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's something where if the bears continue to play like they have and develop the way they have, I think that's going to be very, very beneficial for them come December come January.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there we go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to leave it off at that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys to every single one of you who tuned in live and thank you to everybody who is watching this after the fact on You know YouTube Facebook Twitter acts Anywhere that you get your podcasts after the fact I truly appreciate every single one of you for the live stream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are 48 minutes here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're at I just surpassed 11,500 people, which is insane
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[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot more fun to talk about the bears when they're winning games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I am very grateful to be doing this and very grateful to be interacting with every single one of you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you to everybody who's tuned in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Friendly reminder, again, I won't be here next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're still figuring out exactly who that's going to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we will be going live per usual on the second city great-armed page on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely recommend you tune in for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know I'll be reposting it so you guys can all see it and everything for visibility.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we've got a great, we've got a great group at Second City Gridiron, great group at Windy City Gridiron.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's me here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I appreciate every one of you following along live, wherever you're listening to this stream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So bears are three and two, baby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to do it for wrap it up with Jacob and Fonte the Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Commanders 25 to 24.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears are three and two winners of three straight things are looking pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how to feel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how to feel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not used to this feeling of optimism, of winning, of competency.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not perfect, but it's a massive step in the right direction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you every single one of you for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be back in two weeks, but tune in with us next week on the second city grid on YouTube page for our live post game thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this has been Jacob and Fonte.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears are winners of three straight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels pretty damn good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So until next time, bear down.