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Is Bears mojo fading right before playoffs begin? · Da Windy City Sports Podcast

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Wednesday podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You see Alex Shapiro right there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I am kind of Davis.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is presented by fans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did bears lose to the lions on the lakefront.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 1916.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Two two point convergence offense three announced turnover on downs interception.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was murky until the end, basically.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And bears day would they've been doing all season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: stage and almost really come back and the lines reminded them that they are still at this point little brother.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's kind of what we picked this up at, frustrating.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bears backing into the second seed with the Eagles using to the Lions, the Eagles wasn't a monster.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got Jews into the community to appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: With their backups in, talk speaking of the Eagles, I believe it was 24 to 17 was to score out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bears back then was still at the second seed, meaning they will face the pits, oh man, the Packers.
1:04
[SPEAKER_02]: which, unfortunately, it fortunately is the best way for them to enter the playoffs, because we saw a happen to 49ers.
1:13
[SPEAKER_02]: You probably don't want any of that ram smoke.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think we can get some turn over to Sam Darnell, but the NFC West is kind of like leave me alone right now, as you enter the playoffs.
1:26
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to have to face them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If the Bears beat the Packers, but Alicia gives us a game to celebrate the season, all right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And stomp on the Packers faces as we go about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, this game right here, I know defense defense defense, Alex, and I'm a pitch to you because I know you were hot mad on the tech chain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just a really, um, if you're a bearer's fan, it's an extremely disappointing effort, especially when the bearers make the decision, the correct decision on my opinion, to go for the two seed, right?
1:57
[SPEAKER_01]: So first you're confronted with, hey, do we care about the two seed, or we find with the three seed, which is the, the Eagles made a very different decision.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Eagles decided to rest their starters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They said, whatever, even though we can lock up this two
2:15
[SPEAKER_01]: We're sitting everybody down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're doing the tantamagiche, and we're fine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're fine with our fate as a 3C, even though the 2C is available to us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bear said, no, we are going to go for this 2C, which again, I think was the right decision.
2:31
[SPEAKER_01]: There are plenty of benefits to having this 2C.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about it a bunch on past episodes, so you can listen to our past episodes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But then after making that decision,
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[SPEAKER_01]: to put forth the effort that we saw for three quarters was a little bit mystifying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the lions who had absolutely nothing to play for are the them pride, pun semi-intended, pride lions, lion pride, yada yada yada.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The the lions had way more juice out physicaling the bears seem to want it more than the bears on offense and on defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, like halfway through, if you, if you didn't know anything about football, you're said, one of these teams is playing for playoff seeding and one of these teams is getting ready to go to Cancun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I guarantee everybody watching that football game who didn't know would be like, oh, it's obviously the lions who are playing for the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You still have something to go for, and it's the bearers who are male in it in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's what it looked like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's to me what was a bit mystifying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, I know that they turned it on the fourth quarter and they tried to do their cardiac
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but but I am I think that was what was most discouraging again was just.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They looked underprepared, they looked like the effort wasn't there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't look like they wanted to be there, which is like, okay, if you're gonna fight for this thing, if you're gonna try out there, if you're gonna try out there and put your bodies in harm's way, you wanna be going 100% right?
4:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Because once you start me on it and that's when bad things happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, that was really my main takeaway, is that for a large, large portion of that game, it's like, bears, do you really want this?
4:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Why are you playing your starters?
4:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, okay.
4:18
[SPEAKER_02]: One, I'll set, I want to get to the decision part.
4:21
[SPEAKER_02]: The Eagles already had me in a Super Bowl champ.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and even if you look at last season where going forward, we kind of talked about this, the Eric Dickerson's record, say, Juan side out on that last game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They kind of done something similar last year when it's like, we don't care.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll play anywhere because they've won it and they've beaten people in different places.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bears haven't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bears need everything to stack up for them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they need the second seed because like I alluded to it to open, they don't need to play the NLC West, go on into the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need at least, bears need at least two playoff games, form maturity, sake, and the bill, I further build this program and that's if they beat the Packers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we'll talk about that later on this week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think one, we have to look at Dennis Allen with this one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because when looking at effort, I think the bears came out flat, but I don't think it was as much as effort as they may have just be emotionally worn down on top of everybody knows what they're doing on defense now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they can't hide the things that they can hide.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say this, they better go out and draft.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A nickel and pick up a nickel corner back, particularly with Dennis at particularly just for the NFL in general because you playing nickel majority at the time, all right, you have two linebackers out there and five DBs, but one because you can't count on California going to be healthy.
5:52
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know how Caligordin is going to be within this program.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We talked about that too, and you can't count on CJ Garda Johnson.
6:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I know a lot of people were referring to we need that type of attitude and that is cool, but it ain't cool in coverage.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know like it's not he's getting beat you can't hide him you know I'm saying even it's it's different if it's different be like you know what let's not put him in nickel maybe we'll move him you know back in and place the type of safety he can't hide him you know I'm saying he's he's getting eaten up and only way he benefits you in a way is if he's a of blitz and almost half the time of blitz and db which tells that the offense was coming and what side is coming from damn here you know
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think a lot of it is everything that we've been talking about with the defense is broken right now, if we're just being honest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's not terrible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they still were able to make sure that the Lions didn't score in the red zone as many times as they should have, but the bended don't break and the longer the season goes on, the more gets to break it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Particularly if you don't get pressure, Austin Booker flashed again in this game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't the same as the last game, but he had a lot of, a lot of near-precious attacks came from him, creating some pressures to send Jared golf in another direction, but the real problem is the front four, and then also, the lab actors haven't looked the same since they'd really been
7:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, so like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we can't expect for the offense at this point to do what it did last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We can expect for it to be better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not trying to give them an excuse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But at some point, you have to stop the opposing teams offense to get them off the field to one, give your offense more snaps at the ball when we're talking about the the amount of a ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The amount of time that the lines had to ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're talking about time of possession 35 to 24.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, the first half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the bears had like three series basically in the first half of the game.
8:02
[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, that's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The amount of time that
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[SPEAKER_02]: The lines were able to matriculate up and down the field on top of that, getting big chunks at times.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's one thing to have a team matriculate and they're getting four to five yards on the carry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're getting digs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's taking chunks out of you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that, yeah, to lie backers, don't know when receivers are sitting down in front of them, they aren't where they need to be at.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And again, the lack of pressure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's going to be the thing that blows up
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[SPEAKER_02]: in the playoffs against better offensive team, smarter coaches, and better players, but again, hey, there's a second seed and it's been a great season, but that loss, it could have been worse.
8:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you this, if they hadn't, they said in score to 16 points,
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[SPEAKER_02]: It would have been a some a little bit more fire coming out of us, um, just because then everything didn't work.
9:02
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, seeing that the team wasn't able to stop the bears, yet knowing that we're going for two is a good feeling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Knowing that the bears can look, we can we can do what we want to do in the situation moving forward.
9:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, Caleb has some miss shots.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Caleb had times where he need to get rid of a ball quicker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just get rid of that decision
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, another, another instance where I mean Maddox just bought his DJ more that's kind of like an opportunity was like, okay, Caleb maybe take the wide open guy in the middle rather than going for the home run there, but you know what he's a gunslinger, he's going to get let it rip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a perfect example of the line just like completely out physical and DJ more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: almost almost immediately.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Got a fight, you got a fight too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly exactly where it's like, okay, yeah, that was tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was really well-covered, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's really good defense.
10:00
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like DJ Moore was like, why it opened?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was, well, try to knock the ball down too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he just got like knocked, and then that was that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was out of the play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Caleb was 20 for 35, 212 yards, 2 TDs, 1 interception, and a passer rating of 86.9 on the flip side.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jericho golf was 27 to 42, 331 yards, 1 TD, 1 interception, and a passer rating less than Caleb's of 86.5.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I can, I'm good.
10:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Where are you about to say?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was happy like we got to talk more about the defense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do, you know, I definitely do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't feel like feeling bad.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's my evening closes out because, because Alex, it makes you think about, and I know we've been doing this the last couple of weeks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It makes you look to the playoffs and try to...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Figure out how things may play out, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in all fairness, the how well can they play out if the defense is playing like that and Dennis Allen isn't able to figure out something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, and again, I couldn't, I put it on him but the injuries have played a part and the personnel has played a part
11:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I mean, man to sit there and have Monti and and Gibson have a Gibbs game Gibbs had 80 Russian yards, David Montgomery have 42 neither scored a touchdown, but man that the power, the will that they was impunic.
11:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you had your mere Gibbs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He hasn't really had a good game in weeks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Believe me, I know he's been on my fantasy team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He hasn't had a good game in weeks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And this was one of the better games for him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just power rush and more than, of course, he had that, he scored that touchdown of who that was pretty too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when you're running back and pulled that off and do that, where are you about to say, go ahead?
11:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Not just tough, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I almost feel for Dennis Allen and it is tough, you go on Bear's Twitter right now.
12:05
[SPEAKER_01]: People are mad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dennis Allen is like, oh, how quickly you forget it's unreal.
12:10
[SPEAKER_01]: How much of a what have you done for me lately?
12:12
[SPEAKER_01]: City this becomes after Dennis Allen put on a masterclass for like 12 weeks of this season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, Dennis Allen likes to play man defense.
12:22
[SPEAKER_01]: That was no secret.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got talked about a lot
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's also no secret that Dennis, I don't like to blitz more than Maddie Refleus, no secret we saw it all.
12:35
[SPEAKER_01]: But it almost seems like things have started to catch up for the bears, especially enough, I'll throw the CJ Gardener Johnson of it all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: into this, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Dennis Allen was hitting the buttons and seemed to have the magic touch earlier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the feel for who to bring at what time and he was having a tongue success.
12:55
[SPEAKER_01]: And then CJ Gardner Johnson, I think joined this team at the absolute perfect time when they absolutely needed him.
13:01
[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned the attitude.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we felt that jolt, like coming through the TV screen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We could feel that jolt that he brought and he brought the blitzing that was so sorely needed and he brought some take away stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now he's still taking the fall away a little bit.
13:16
[SPEAKER_01]: But as you said, like secrets out on CJ Gardner Johnson and the Dennis Allen defense and the blitzing has been less effective.
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[SPEAKER_01]: CJ Gardner Johnson has done really well playing zone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: keeping his eyes in front of everything and giving himself the opportunity to undercut throws, make plays on the ball, et cetera, et cetera, but he's got to play man coverage as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now a few weeks in a row, we have seen that that's where this Achilles heel might be, which is
13:50
[SPEAKER_01]: where maybe some of the personnel and the scheme aren't lining up so much, right?
13:58
[SPEAKER_01]: The bears played a lot of man and it was CJ Gardner Johnson getting beat.
14:04
[SPEAKER_01]: It was Nishon, right, getting beat.
14:06
[SPEAKER_01]: It was Jalen Johnson getting beat.
14:08
[SPEAKER_01]: That's parmanrossing, brown, beating them.
14:12
[SPEAKER_01]: It was cally-framed, beaten them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Jamison, Williams, beaten them.
14:16
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've seen this.
14:16
[SPEAKER_01]: We can go back to, you know, Christian Watson with the Packers, et cetera, et cetera.
14:21
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, this is the issue, right?
14:25
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you see 3rd and 9th, right?
14:27
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where I'm kind of getting out where it's like, Dennis Allen, what do you do?
14:30
[SPEAKER_01]: OK, so the blitzing isn't working, right?
14:33
[SPEAKER_01]: 3rd and 9th, the blitzing.
14:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Vikings last week blitzed Jared Goff and the Lions to death.
14:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they brought it and it turned into five takeaways and you're probably thinking, okay, hey, blessing is how we've created pressure and takeaways are our thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's do the same thing.
14:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's bring the let's bring the heat and let's create some takeaways.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What happens, Jared Goff is much better against the blitz this time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They pick it up.
15:00
[SPEAKER_01]: he puts it right where he needs to be using extremely accurate quarterback to our golf is one of the remains one of the most underrated quarterbacks of the NFL.
15:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how beats the blitz.
15:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
15:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's try something different.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a third of medium this time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now we're going to rush four because the blitz didn't work and we're going to play zoned because that's a little bit better.
15:18
[SPEAKER_01]: But what happens?
15:19
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm going to Ross Saint Brown who is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: a great veteran, great slot receiver, great feel.
15:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, great, everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dude's a dynamite writer, seever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just finds the soft spot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jerrigov picks apart the zone.
15:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Where it's like, oh, as the bears start playing these highly accurate quarterbacks, Brock Party.
15:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Jerrigov, highly accurate quarterbacks, if they have to play Matt Stafford again.
15:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, it's a little bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't, these teams seem ready for the blitz.
15:51
[SPEAKER_01]: When when they do this mug look when they do this cover zero look that they that they've put on tape all your long and they're running back They're catching these guys out of place before they can run all the way back and coverage.
16:02
[SPEAKER_01]: I would just get the ball put the ball over the top of you Oh, you're gonna play zone now.
16:07
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll find this off spot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're gonna play man.
16:08
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna right run right by you where it's like I They had a lot of magic but at least recently at least recently
16:18
[SPEAKER_01]: If the bears aren't capitalizing on a mistake, if the bears aren't forcing a fumble, if the bears aren't taking the ball away, it's been a lot of, can't get off the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a lot of teams chewing up clock with long drives and keeping the bears offends off the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know what Dennis Allen should do if I was Dennis Allen right now.
16:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I would also be like, man, what okay, blitz and isn't working, all right, man coverage isn't working.
16:47
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Zones are working.
16:48
[SPEAKER_01]: What is this team supposed to do?
16:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And they miss Kyla Gordon, Jalen Johnson doesn't seem healthy.
16:56
[SPEAKER_01]: The linebackers aren't playing as well as they had been before their injuries.
17:00
[SPEAKER_01]: the front force been an issue.
17:01
[SPEAKER_01]: It just feels like a lot of stuff has kind of caught up with them where they finally get the interception and then on offense, they can't take advantage of it.
17:10
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when they were getting three, takeaways of game, they had more bites at that apple to take advantage.
17:16
[SPEAKER_01]: But the one, you know, it's like, okay, if this is your one takeaway, the bear's offense needs to take advantage.
17:22
[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't able to do that against the Packers once.
17:25
[SPEAKER_01]: And then
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[SPEAKER_01]: against why am I blanking with the hell of this team play the Lions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A little brain dead.
17:36
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a long year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't able to do that against the Lions and Jared Goff today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They had their one opportunity.
17:41
[SPEAKER_01]: They go three and out.
17:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So, it's just tough sledding sometimes, man.
17:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I think one, the Lions did have something to play for.
17:50
[SPEAKER_02]: That was their culture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and they they play for that and this goes back to them knocking Green Bay out of the playoffs a couple of seasons ago and that Dan Campbell has built a culture that it's it's it's it's stand-power is fantastic and that's what hopefully the bears have this season the lions have been beaten by injuries for several of the last years particularly on defense
18:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I want to say this about the Vikings game.
18:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Bryan Flores knows his personnel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been there for what now three years.
18:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe this is his third season.
18:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and every year they'd have more players, uh, talent added to that team.
18:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Because when the first year he got there, they didn't have as much talent.
18:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and I think I don't know if Danielle Hunter was healthy, much that season.
18:39
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's going to know, also he's been in the NFC North now for three years.
18:44
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's going to know how to go after Jericho off with his personal.
18:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm using that to explain Dennis Allen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One thing about this with Dennis Allen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dennis Allen does deserve playing at some point the blitz has to get home.
18:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Like how often do the bears blitz and send five if not six and nobody gets jacked
19:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm sitting them.
19:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sitting like, what do you want me to do?
19:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sitting them, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm doing it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That comes to effort and grit.
19:17
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I know they can't get home on their own.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sitting them more.
19:22
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
19:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sitting them more and they're not doing it.
19:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And then,
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[SPEAKER_02]: But meeting what you're talking about with the month, it leads more space underneath for them to be able to take advantage of that alone the team with the like the lines with I'm a rock same brown and everything that he can do.
19:39
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I'm upset with Dennis Island, but I'm going to say with these players like the front the all of the way the wavelength front for.
19:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, man, there was a play where.
19:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, they got a, they had, um, it was, it wasn't a screen.
19:57
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like a delay drift for Gibbs, I believe, and sweat could have, all sweat really need to do was get closer to Gibbs and stay in between him and Jericho, and he took a bad angle, and it allowed Jericho to get the body Gibbs, and it's like that where it's like, hold up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some of it is, you
20:19
[SPEAKER_02]: your football IQ has to be smarter, all right?
20:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Like this, this is ridiculous with when we're talking about the pressure and I didn't sound like can't strap a helmet on, all right?
20:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Like at some point.
20:33
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you can't play man, you can't play zone.
20:35
[SPEAKER_02]: What the hell is he supposed to do?
20:37
[SPEAKER_02]: What, we're talking about your physical corner is our Atari Stevenson.
20:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Then I was thinking as you were talking, you mentioned Dennis Allen liked to play man.
20:48
[SPEAKER_02]: The guys that you will want with a healthy Jalen Johnson and putting his hands on defenders, the same with Tyre Reak, giving no Tyre Reak can get beat and but still playing stopping guys, kind of knocked them off the route at the line of Scrimmageau right after their out.
21:04
[SPEAKER_02]: And Jalen has nowhere near the same.
21:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Right?
21:07
[SPEAKER_02]: So like it's some point, injuries are going to come home to roost and they've been roosty.
21:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Dennis Allen has had this defense play way above is talent, majority of the damn season.
21:22
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
21:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get that man at it.
21:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I look, but let's hold him.
21:26
[SPEAKER_02]: If this ain't better next year and they have a better down lineman and the same happens where we're going to get on his ass.
21:33
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, but I mean this right here like those guess what those guys just picked those some checks this past week You want them saying like yeah, they're bank accounts increased so they're not doing it for the love They're doing it for the check and they got to earn them damn chicks It's cats not earning them to keep on that line It's just and I don't even like talking like this, but it's just the it's been all year all season All right how many games is my test sweat missed this year
22:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if he's missed any.
22:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, how many, how many sacks does he have?
22:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I know it doesn't end in the game with double digits.
22:12
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
22:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Kenneth, what if I told you it does?
22:15
[SPEAKER_01]: How many?
22:15
[SPEAKER_01]: How many?
22:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Months and months, where does 10 sacks?
22:19
[SPEAKER_02]: It's, it's damn, it's damn, and y'all know what I mean.
22:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, have you seen today that gave him 10 seconds.
22:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, no, hey, hey, man.
22:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Shout out to the judge.
22:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Shout out to Mao's gear breaking the record.
22:33
[SPEAKER_01]: That's good.
22:34
[SPEAKER_01]: What should I do?
22:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Might be an extra bullet.
22:37
[SPEAKER_01]: But, uh, might be an extra point of mine.
22:39
[SPEAKER_01]: That might be my extra point.
22:40
[SPEAKER_01]: His miles Garrett.
22:41
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the weakest 10 sex.
22:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt as a bear's fan.
22:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
22:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, how many were situational, how many, how many, how many sex altered the game?
22:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
22:57
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's not even just the sex.
22:58
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the pressure.
22:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if you, you had a few strips.
23:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, if you had a few strips.
23:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Stop bailing or bailing water from months it's with.
23:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, all right.
23:07
[SPEAKER_02]: You're on the US and you are dumping buckets off of this boat.
23:12
[SPEAKER_02]: There was like a,
23:13
[SPEAKER_00]: There was like a four game stretch, and I know you're ready for some more.
23:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my.
23:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my.
23:21
[SPEAKER_02]: There was like a four game stretch in the middle of the season.
23:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I forgot.
23:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I forgot.
23:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me take everything back because I knew I didn't I forgot.
23:29
[SPEAKER_02]: He only gets paid for four weeks.
23:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I forgot about that part.
23:33
[SPEAKER_02]: He's check only clear for those four weeks.
23:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Why man.
23:37
[SPEAKER_01]: It to look from November man in November.
23:40
[SPEAKER_01]: He was real good.
23:41
[SPEAKER_01]: in November.
23:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody make a T-shirt for that.
23:46
[SPEAKER_02]: In November, he was real good.
23:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Because that's when it's easy to end it.
23:51
[SPEAKER_02]: So he was like, I did my job, I'll accept four weeks, do six, man.
24:13
[SPEAKER_02]: Do, gritty Jared is past his prime.
24:18
[SPEAKER_02]: same with Billings.
24:19
[SPEAKER_02]: The dexter thing.
24:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess he said he's around.
24:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think you need to listen.
24:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to know what that extension is going to look like because it better be crazy if you plan to keep them.
24:32
[SPEAKER_02]: And Austin Booker seems like he can have potential to be in a way but too.
24:36
[SPEAKER_02]: But man, this whole thing.
24:39
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
24:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I get a share some more of Montess what nonsense for you to bat down?
24:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Please water away.
24:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Please anger me.
24:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Please anger me.
24:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Montess what had nine games with the sack and eight games without.
24:49
[SPEAKER_01]: So he had more games with the sack than he had games without a sack.
24:55
[SPEAKER_01]: For those who are just listening on audio and not watching on YouTube, by the way, you can watch all our episodes on YouTube, if you're watching on, if you're listening on audio, Kenneth is sitting in silence with his hands, that the bridge of his nose tilted down.
25:07
[SPEAKER_02]: He, because I don't root against players.
25:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't like criticized the people making their money.
25:13
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not one of my favorites.
25:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I think some people go to that too quickly.
25:17
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, but this isn't a situation where you're the fourth dude on a defensive line.
25:23
[SPEAKER_02]: You're the number one guy.
25:24
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, and in central casting, your names at the top.
25:27
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, you're the star on his defense, you and Jalen Johnson primarily and you've had one good season.
25:35
[SPEAKER_02]: And that you're the light neurotic gets everybody else going because we've seen what the says the fact can do.
25:40
[SPEAKER_02]: We've seen if you get to go and other guys are like, I won't sum it up too, right?
25:45
[SPEAKER_02]: It's more dogs on the bone and it's been worthless the last two seasons.
25:52
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
25:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he helped in some games in November, but Thanksgiving has been gone.
25:57
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
25:57
[SPEAKER_02]: We're putting up Valentine's stuff now.
25:59
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
26:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Like that's that's the season where we skip Christmas.
26:03
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
26:04
[SPEAKER_02]: This man brought us no gift.
26:06
[SPEAKER_02]: He brought us coal.
26:07
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
26:08
[SPEAKER_02]: For how to get Christmas and come and quads.
26:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing but coal.
26:11
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
26:12
[SPEAKER_02]: The bags and bags of it.
26:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a
26:20
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, that's what he's brought us.
26:21
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, if you live in Chicago, them old, cold, concrete, built-ups, stone, brick things is in the internet backyard.
26:29
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, most of them are gone.
26:31
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's where he's delivering his ash in his coat toward a side of the house, has the milk thing, and has the cold thing.
26:37
[SPEAKER_02]: My test sweat is using those things.
26:39
[SPEAKER_02]: He chipped the paint free.
26:40
[SPEAKER_02]: That's where we got.
26:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty ass.
26:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I'm mad dude, I'm not because again, if this dude just balled out it will cover so much of what is going on with that D-line It would now do you know if he had and I mean like 15 sacks, but I meant like they would they would gain changing
27:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I would be all here giving him all the props in the world.
27:08
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not just talking about just finding more sex.
27:10
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the pressure, I mean, the example being set to the other players.
27:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, think about a few of those DBs and you're getting coverage.
27:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I ain't sees basically because how many of these I and T's say to have them in some, we're due to pressure, you know what I'm saying?
27:28
[SPEAKER_02]: At some point, I would love a difference that I'm gonna build me out, you know, if I'm sitting down in the back end.
27:34
[SPEAKER_02]: And that, again, all the Dennis Allen dislike, and I have to say that Dennis Allen doesn't deserve something, but no war and sap and Reggie White weren't walking through that door.
27:45
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, and be like, well, Dennis, you didn't put that man, then wake me up when one of them walks through the door.
27:51
[SPEAKER_02]: He had the same guys who was barely doing anything last year.
27:57
[SPEAKER_02]: doing the exact same thing this season with some sprinkler some guys that was on other people's practice squads basically balling out and we sitting here crying about his dinner's Allen's phone where why you like it served up man or zone because you're going to get a good anyway you're like it all right I like it when you face me I like it when you face the quarterback I'm not like it with your back to the whatever you still don't get a good is your opposing teams offense this is just
28:27
[SPEAKER_02]: it's frustrating.
28:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Entering the playoffs, it's really frustrating because this team could really have gone further.
28:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Not saying it can win at all because you still have a young quarterback that's learning.
28:40
[SPEAKER_02]: You still have a young coach that's learning and that's something too where one thing we go have to think about and we got to talk about this, how much this Dan Campbell
28:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, because the, you know, in Chicago, we dis Detroit a lot, but Detroit is the cream of the NFC North.
28:58
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not the Packers, it's not the Vikings.
29:00
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been Detroit.
29:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Detroit's been a team where, yeah, Green Bay seemed like they had a younger team a couple years ago ascending.
29:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Green Bay, just like when Aaron Rodgers there, they don't really fulfill what they have on that roster a lot of time.
29:13
[SPEAKER_02]: They want them MVP's Aaron Rodgers have five years ago, and they did, did, did, did at least what in the playoffs with it.
29:19
[SPEAKER_02]: That's still the Green Bay Packers for the most part.
29:21
[SPEAKER_02]: But Detroit, they'll just have a bad game or half a game in the playoffs, but as a, as a foundational program, their sound is hell under Dan Campbell.
29:32
[SPEAKER_02]: And Dan Campbell knows more of
29:36
[SPEAKER_02]: be Ben Johnson then Ben Johnson knows Dan Campbell to a degree because he was studying under Dan Campbell like for real for real and that's something where Ben Johnson is really going to have to look at undoing some Ben Johnson things that he learned while he was their offensive coordinator that clearly they know is you have a finest for and this is kind of what you enjoy doing throughout the game.
30:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, now I think it's time to talk offence as
30:05
[SPEAKER_01]: It does feel like the bears will probably be held back by their defense, but their defense has done a good job of Ben don't break to a degree except for, you know, and to that game, I know they gave up a touchdown, but the bears are now held scoreless in the first half zero points in the first half to the last three games, both divisional opponents.
30:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they did put up big points early against San Francisco, they did put big points up against the Browns early, but we before that slow start only three points against the Packers and the first half.
30:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, and then we we get to the Eagles game where they had 10 points, but to the the over the past few months over the past few things, especially got these divisional teams.
30:56
[SPEAKER_01]: And these divisional games are all important.
31:00
[SPEAKER_01]: The bears have had slow, slow starts on offense, and you know what, we should go back and I'll remedy it.
31:12
[SPEAKER_01]: The 49ers game obviously seven of those points came on an opening play pick six.
31:17
[SPEAKER_01]: So half of those first quarter points were provided by the defense where now whatever's
31:30
[SPEAKER_01]: They got to they got to figure out a way to to play more consistent offensive football throughout the entire game.
31:40
[SPEAKER_01]: The the run game is taking a step back.
31:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Commonungai against the Lions was extremely ineffective.
31:49
[SPEAKER_01]: The, you know, Deandre Swift has been held.
31:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Helped back, you know, he was held back again.
31:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is a situation where
32:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Today, today felt like a 2018 bears, some of it was like the 2018 bears, the defense was lights out and they were scoring on defense and they had all these flashy plays and it's just like somehow some way, the bears are finding a way to win another football game in the what happened in the playoffs.
32:19
[SPEAKER_01]: They,
32:21
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't have that magic.
32:22
[SPEAKER_01]: They were kind of exposed, interestingly, the bears' offense put themselves in a position to win that football game, right?
32:29
[SPEAKER_01]: They went up in the fourth quarter, Mr. Biscuit to Alan Robinson, but then the defense let them down and then the missfield go, we don't have to rehash all of that.
32:39
[SPEAKER_01]: But they were flaws.
32:40
[SPEAKER_01]: They were flaws in that 2018, they were flaws in that 2018.
32:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Offence that just got exposed.
32:50
[SPEAKER_01]: more and more as the year went on.
32:53
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, it just feels like if the bears aren't creating two, three takeaways on defense, they have not found a way to a get off the field, even though they had been dabbing so good on third down, which is so wild, which is so wild.
33:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, lately they have not been able to get off the field, and they have not
33:20
[SPEAKER_01]: on offense.
33:21
[SPEAKER_01]: They have been decent in half to have at moments.
33:26
[SPEAKER_01]: They've still gotten a fair share of explosives.
33:29
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been very explosive, but they are still missing the, hey, we put together a full 60 minutes here.
33:37
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, again, the Eagles game, they put together a full 16 minutes.
33:41
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to do in the NFL.
33:43
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to do in the NFL, but with health,
33:46
[SPEAKER_01]: at quarterback with relative help or health up front.
33:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, we talked about it in our last week's episode.
33:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Bears have an opportunity here where the Eagles don't look like the Eagles.
34:03
[SPEAKER_01]: The Rams are banged up.
34:05
[SPEAKER_01]: The Niners are banged up.
34:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Seattle looks awfully good.
34:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Seattle does look awfully good.
34:10
[SPEAKER_01]: But Patrick Mahomes isn't playing in these playoffs.
34:16
[SPEAKER_01]: It just it just looks like an opportunity and and the bears in it.
34:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, are we getting greedy because of the bears ahead of schedule.
34:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we're getting greedy.
34:24
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting greedy.
34:26
[SPEAKER_01]: But when the windows open, the windows open and the bears have shown that they are capable of winning this season and health is never guaranteed and these opportunities are never guaranteed.
34:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at the Washington commanders who lose jade and Daniels and go down look at the 2018 bears and how it all fell apart.
34:46
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Vic Fangeo got a job and left and I did not suggesting that something like that is going to happen.
34:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously Ben Johnson is here for a while.
34:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that Jen is Alan is going to be getting another coaching job.
34:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I would imagine Dennis Alan is still around.
35:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but my point is windows up and close.
35:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at the Detroit Lions who looked like shoe ins for the Super Bowl, right?
35:12
[SPEAKER_01]: They, they were so close to going to the Super Bowl.
35:15
[SPEAKER_01]: And then obviously, they get knocked out by those upstart commanders.
35:19
[SPEAKER_01]: And now this year, they will not be participating in the playoffs.
35:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Things change fast windows opportunities are rare opportunities are
35:29
[SPEAKER_01]: And it did seem like the bears might have had some sort of opportunity here, but they got a they got things that they've got to shore up.
35:39
[SPEAKER_01]: They've got things that they've got to shore up before before honestly I think they should be considered favored at all.
35:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be interested to see if the bears are favored against the Packers next week or not.
35:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that would be.
35:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Coastal Lovelin had 13 targets for timber sections, 91 yards, a touchdown and a long of 27 yards.
36:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll loop the bird and have four targets, three receptions, 35 yards and log with 13.
36:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Jow Walker, three targets, two receptions, 36 yards, one touchdown and a log of 25.
36:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Coastal Lovelin is really come on.
36:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just looking at his who he'll always be connected to.
36:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Ty Warren has 71 receptions this season.
36:27
[SPEAKER_02]: He had a hundred and four targets for 791 yards.
36:32
[SPEAKER_02]: And for TDs, the average 11 point one yards or reception.
36:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Cousin had 69 targets for 48 receptions.
36:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Almost, well, only like a 150, 140 yards difference, 622 yards, average 13 yards.
36:50
[SPEAKER_02]: He has more touchdowns by one.
36:51
[SPEAKER_02]: He has five touchdowns this season.
36:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Plus 11 really has been balling lately.
36:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, and co-comment took a while up when he caught that two-point conversion.
37:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a big boy catch.
37:06
[SPEAKER_02]: That right there, seeing what 12 and 13 personnel could be in the future for this team is they get better.
37:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Darnell, down there right, has to improve playing against top-right, top-flight defenders.
37:22
[SPEAKER_02]: That has to be the next step if he's going to be one of the better tackles within the NFL.
37:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Austin Booker, this last couple of games,
37:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, there's some questions, but there are some, some, some pluses.
37:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, again, we said this to last show, fantastic draft class.
37:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, fantastic draft class.
37:48
[SPEAKER_02]: You had, uh, tripload out the, you know, Benedict was in the day.
37:55
[SPEAKER_02]: But we look forward, I mean, again, I, I'm going to convey my anger because I think a lot of us feel like this, if I can come in and be phony, um, Nah, I'm not going to be phony.
38:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Such an interesting development kind of.
38:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I opened up two of the leading books, two of the leading books.
38:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I opened up draft Kings in Fandle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Draft Kings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bears.
38:19
[SPEAKER_01]: One and a half point.
38:21
[SPEAKER_01]: underdogs minus 115 minus 115 one and a half point underdogs at home to the green hackers Fandual bears one and a half point favorites, but that's paying even money
38:40
[SPEAKER_01]: So one and a half point favorites, but that's paying even money.
38:45
[SPEAKER_01]: So the books split books.
38:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe don't know what to do with this one yet.
38:52
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's mighty interesting to me.
38:57
[SPEAKER_01]: That's mighty interesting to me to Fando and draft King's are split on this one.
39:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we'll see.
39:03
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll have to see if the line changes throughout the week, depending on who's healthy, and who's not healthy.
39:10
[SPEAKER_02]: But again, they got the best thing they could possibly get as far as the matchups on the Bears have played the Green Bay Packers will this season even losing one game with that interception and then coming back to win the last game.
39:24
[SPEAKER_02]: And we saw what happened with the 49ers and I don't think that's throughout you want to go right of way into the playoffs.
39:31
[SPEAKER_02]: So they get they get the favorable matchup against their bitter rival.
39:35
[SPEAKER_02]: And at least then, not saying that that should be that be all end all, but if the best part of this post-season is that the bears beat the pack, and then we go into the offseason and after the next playoff game, we will celebrate, definitely, contextual league, how they lose if they lose the next game, we'll be discussed and banied about, but getting a victory in the playoffs for the first year before
39:59
[SPEAKER_02]: against one of the better teams that team those pick perhaps make it to the Super Bowl definitely after before making a big time trade with the big part of the season but definitely after making a big time trade.
40:11
[SPEAKER_02]: It says a lot about your program and there's been a ton to celebrate this year and we will get back to celebrating once whatever happens to end this year happens.
40:21
[SPEAKER_02]: But just this game and this loss against it seemed like the bears were doing a lot of paybacks and we didn't get a chance to pay the lines back for what they did to the bears and beginning to season
40:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Almost, almost pulled it off, but they weren't able to pull it off.
40:35
[SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting to say that.
40:37
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's a really important step back, kind of.
40:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a really important step back and a really important, like, context here.
40:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Because like, yeah, that was for, once again, for 45 minutes, a pretty pitiful performance by the bears, and then they turned it on in the fourth quarter, right?
40:56
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think if you asked anybody in the city of Chicago's bears fan, hey, by years end by the end of week 18, the bears will have 11 wins and we'll have won the NFC North every single person and it's like hell yeah, sign me up.
41:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Huge success.
41:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Huge success.
41:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll raise my hand.
41:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody, nobody was picking the bears to make the playoffs, including me.
41:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there were some people out there.
41:26
[SPEAKER_01]: It was not, it was not a popular choice for the bears to make the playoffs in the NFC North.
41:32
[SPEAKER_01]: First time head coach, second year, Caleb Williams, lots of question marks, lots of question marks.
41:39
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, step back year one of Ben Johnson, restarting a program 11 wins division title.
41:51
[SPEAKER_01]: first playoff appearance since 2020, in a vacuum, big picture, you obviously have to be thrilled.
42:00
[SPEAKER_01]: You obviously have to be thrilled.
42:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it frustrating?
42:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you can see the potential, it's there, right?
42:09
[SPEAKER_01]: When the bears are clicking, they're so good.
42:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, truly, when they're on their
42:15
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what makes it frustrating when they're really off, which sometimes they are really off.
42:23
[SPEAKER_01]: So there is a duality there, and I think that's really great context, right?
42:29
[SPEAKER_01]: If you just take, right, let's go back to July 2025.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 11 wins NFC North title.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People aren't even asking about what the bears do in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Huh?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hell, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mission accomplished, baby.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Start the parade.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the very way to put it, Alex.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great way to put it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anything else you want to say before we get to, you got game balls or the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, dude.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a boss.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No game balls from me and a boss.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm with, I'm fine with that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was just checking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was just making sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mucher extra point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My extra point, as we talked about briefly, Miles Garrett.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, hats off to the best season, the defensive end has ever had, I don't care that it happened in 17 games, one bit Miles Garrett.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is so good, so dominant, has been the best defensive player in the NFL since Aaron Donald retired and what a fantastic cap in a feather for a Hall of Fame player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And here's what I don't care that it took him 17 games because Michael Strahan, what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: This guy's played on a good football team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This guy's doing this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Brown's never playing from a friend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He never gets the opportunity to just pin his back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The third most run team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They like the third most run on team because everyone is sitting there playing with a Lee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they're not even throwing a ball when he gets his get.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He got all those sex.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this dude is doing it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on a bad team with few opportunities.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He is the guy everybody is focused on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He still got 23 sacks absolutely absurd and and I think we should also celebrate the man behind the player because he is also
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[SPEAKER_01]: one of the league's upright upstanding citizens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This guy is dedicated to philanthropy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Give so much back to the city of Cleveland.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's had his water boys campaigns where the in-year's pass he donated 5,000 bucks for every sake he had to provide in clean water for people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Often in Cleveland has his back to school drives where he's given all sorts of kids in Cleveland school supplies new clothes new haircuts to get them ready for the school year so wonderful man on the field wonderful man off the field Bravo miles Garrett on again the best season a defense event has ever had in NFL history and my extra point will go to the watch the commander's
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[SPEAKER_02]: because without you, it's a good chance of bears make it the ass kick next week if they're facing NFC West team and allowing the storyline of the season to go into a more favorable way of perhaps the bears beat in the pack, which that's a nice button on whatever may happen this season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So thank you commanders for any Eagles for Bench and their players.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me y'all so you're virtually shot out 10 on Mickey.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me put that out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, and also this is another thing too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Happy New Year's everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, point we made it another year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some of us didn't make it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've lost people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's lost people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pray.
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[SPEAKER_02]: for blessings on theirs, but we made it another year, make this year a better year than what last year was.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And give us support us, all right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Support us so hard that we just keep blowing up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, we'll be back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: this week to preview the bear's versus the pack and so do you feel in the playoffs?
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, in the play all play all three baby round three we're going three rounds three rounds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so within a month and a half three times this is this is the thriller in Manila.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's I believe that may have been a third one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it was a rumble in the jungle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You get what we're going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, you get what we're going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But we'll be back this week to preview the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, we'll be here with Bales on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's discussed the Bears victory after a set game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Takes place next weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We should know the times about a time we do to preview the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Again, happy new year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for spending this time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: After Bears wins, after Bears losses, with me and this guy talking some time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see you in a few days.