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Bear & Balanced: F the Pack, Bears advance · 2nd City Gridiron

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, welcome to Bear and Balance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Jeff Burkis on the other side of the screen, Lester A, Willfung, Jr. Lester.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Chicago Bears, the NFC North, Champion Chicago Bears, the last NFC North team standing, the last team standing that doesn't live in the NFC West.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Your Chicago Bears beat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the MFN Packers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, MFN.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's so good on the show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to get some guys from Green Bay clutching a pearl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How dare they MF the Packers?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my God.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They win the game 21 or 31 to 27.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ben Johnson comes in the locker room says, F the Packers, I hate those guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: sparks a little bit of a pearl collection hurt feelings around the social media with the that team of north and those that cheer for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it, Lester.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This rivalry has not had juice in a very long time, but this is a rivalry with
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[SPEAKER_01]: George Hallis, who was a World War I and World War II veteran, who knew more cuss words than any of you listening today and news them on the sidelines constantly, curly lambo, Vince Lombardy, would have clushed his pearls over the F word.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You think Mike Dicca?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What are we talking about here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dick Buckis, like Ray Nietzsche, like what are we talking?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What are we doing here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: These guys love that there's some juice back in this thing and Ben Johnson is bringing it and I don't understand the soft feelings on the other side of this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just that these guys haven't been punched in the mouth lately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're spoiled.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're spoiled
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[SPEAKER_00]: three decades, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have no idea how to deal the diversity as a fan, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So so now they get a little bit here, now they're upset.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, how dare they, you know, then you mentioned the the F5 mind locker room that happened earlier this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It may have been the Packers game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It may have been that game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was an F5 that kind of slipped through on the good better best.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the bears social media has scrubbed it like they added they've sent out an added version and I'm like what happened there right so so when I saw the you know when I heard it last night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This first thing I sent out on a tweet on my gay you know catch it while you can they're going to scrub this and center the F bomb and no they never did it left it in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then Ben Johnson was asked about today as press conference and George McCaskey's on the same page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the press conference, the press conference was pretty fascinating because the beat tried to give Ben Johnson a runway, not once, not twice, but three different times
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[SPEAKER_01]: response, maybe walk it back a little bit, maybe like say, you know, it's not personal, it's, you know, I, I'm just talking about the two French, I like give this kind of like more soft answer Ben Johnson, this is a rivalry Chicago Green Bay, you know, I don't like that team, and I talk about work and he's he's an agreement like this this guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This guy is rich eyes and earlier today called him a particular type of insane or something like that there was some paraphrasing and he's like, but you know, he's Chicago's crazy guy and and the bear's friends are all about it and it's like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got damn right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got damn right, which is, and it is that particular brand of crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he is the type of crazy that bears fans are going to get behind and they're going to love because it is directionally correct.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is exactly the type of guy that bears fans have needed at the head coaching position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, again, I was a Georgetown.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Georgetown, this was the owner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, you were actually read about this guy, like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just just a cousin maybe guy right like me he and he would have bet every single rule to get a W right this guy was insane okay and he did many many many times to to for the bears to get more wins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mike Dick, a firebrand, I mean, like, you know, obviously former player, firebrand, like in his rants are legendary, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a modern, mad genius, but he's also that particular kind of crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he's not already in your inner circle of favorite Paris coaches that maybe you never saw in history and those that you have lived through, I don't know what we're doing, like he is
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Loveysmith had that to a point, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or, you know, he talked about the Packers from day one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, you got that sense for his team, you know, they had that rivalry, Urlacker crew, you know, that era.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They really talked about the Packers, you know, and about they didn't like that team over there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, but, you know, it's different when the head coach drops an F-bomb, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's different when the head coach is the one saying that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's different when it's coming from the chairman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The chairman now is on board, of course, with this viral F-bomb.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't think Roger Goodell in the NFL office they'll not love what's happening here with the Bears Packers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a rivalry again, it matters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Bears are one of the final team standing here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Chicago, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Chicago Bears are good and I know a lot of our listeners are not as old as me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Chicago is good, it's just, it's a Bears town, you know, throughout, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be great to see if the bears keep us going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a tough match up against the Rams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what happens, but regardless.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ben Johnson's that particular kind of crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's got a quarter back this just as crazy because Caleb Williams right there with him right he's got that that cycle gene where he wants to be great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So these two paired up for the next decade plus I'm all for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm all for it too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's let's get into the categories.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of stuff to get through.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we want to make sure we cover it all, but we always start in the trenches trench tribute where do you want to go for the playoff win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: against the packers, who you want to give the trans tribute to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't count a few different ways, and I'll touch on this few guys later on in the hot bowl, but I'm going to go Azita Pillow, okay, left tackle, and I headed in my mind to give it to him when he hobbled off the field when he heard his knee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But tell her tendon rupture, something's bad, whatever it is, it's bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But this guy realized the situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: waning seconds of the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot cost my team of time out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He got off the field, the save is team of time out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, then, you know, you realize, man, he had a pretty good game of the local.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I never heard his name called once.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he was doing a good job in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to go Azi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that that that just shows from a rookie to understand the gravity of the situation to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when you look at the other side of the field, a packer player,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The same thing happened, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He went down, he got hurt, he caused the 10 second runoff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then it comes out today, he's got a bone bruise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then of course, Packer fans are livid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you, you are in social media, you read this, they're livid that this guy costs their team with 10 second runoff there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, sometimes it's, you know, the Navy North, you know, you're built there for an underben Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that psycho from him is kind of going through his players.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they know, man, you know, we got to go, I got to get off the field.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot cost my team a timeout.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't cost a 10 second runoff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Smart player right there from your rookie left tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I had two of my names written down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of them was Azze and wanted to make sure that we gave him one piece of this trans-tributive possible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the fifth offensive lineman, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the other four guys have been talked about much more than him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He has the fewest number of reps, obviously, since he was rookie and he took him a while to come on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Braxton Jones made the first starts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Benedict made the middle starts, and he made the end starts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think played probably a pretty solid game overall, but if that's not why you're given it to him, you're given it to him for that awareness, that toughness, that is a giant human being that
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's an eight, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've heard of one leg, and then hop over, I think, is just an incredible effort.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it is, that is situational awareness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's really understanding what you have to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that, I mean, that's some scary too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know something's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like something stops working and, you know, for you to be able to get up and know that you got to get off the field and I don't want to like rag on the Packers guy too much because like I'm sure he thought he was like, you know, and the reality is The 10 second runoff might have actually been
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[SPEAKER_01]: a gift for them, because they had to run down the field, get set, be set for a full second, and then snap the ball, that may have taken longer than 10 seconds, like that's one of those, like, that might have actually benefited them a little bit, but yes, it is funny that, you know, there's a stark difference between the two within, you know, very short amount of time, and one had a very serious injury, got off the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For him, like we don't want to speculate how serious that injury is, how long it's going to take for him to be able to get back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you want to look at it from, you know, the pessimistic perspective or whatever, there's a lot of guys that this really does impact their career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there's also plenty of guys that have been able to make a full recovery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This probably will be something we'll need to talk about in the off season because there's
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[SPEAKER_01]: are not going to be able to count on him for sure to be their week one, starting left tackle next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're probably going to have to make a move to either have a short bridge until he can show that he's coming back, maybe invest some capital in the draft, whatever that may be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it does have long-term ramifications.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously he's out for the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably going to see Theo Benedict step in for him in the next playoff game, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ben Johnson said, if his number is what is called, then he'll be ready, that opens the door for so speculation and maybe that's Braxton Jones who comes back, who was activated last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, it's unknown, it is good to that Braxton is healthy enough to be able to be active at this point, given that injury, but you had multiple stars from Theo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They felt good enough to play him at that point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was obviously playing in this game as well Doing some interesting stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna post out the clear out the thing and that right after our Post, you know, I got to love that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So good stuff from him as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to I wanted to give it to the defense Actually, I wanted to give it to Austin Booker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the long sack, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was just kind of a menace, he was doing the thing where, you know, he's getting after it and he's he's making a difference and you know, Jordan loves tough to tough to sack he's not not a guy that he doesn't take a lot of sacks he gets rid of the ball packers protect him pretty well so, you know, he did get home once but more so I think just the pressures and really everything just kind of got turned up in the second half and he was a big reason for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, this is the guy that you were hoping was going to be a situational past record this year, DE3.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's really stepped into a starter's role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And after Dale's injury, and I think he's been an overall plus for this team that doesn't have a good pass rushing out of the below average and sacks and all that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I wanted to give it to Booker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, real quick, I'm Booker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think part of the reason they signed Dale, they didn't think Booker was going to be able to make a leap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or you can't count on the leap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just say that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Dale was a guy they had to go out and say that we got to have a starter, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dale's a starter, he'll be the guy comes in here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But now I'll see him book her play here for the last, you know, however, how many games he's played here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure they're comfortable going to next season as Booker as your de-cross from sweat, because Booker has been pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The hustle, obviously he has the pressures, he plays with some speed, he fades some edge, and he plays to the echo of the whistle, and that's the kind of guy you want to have on your defense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's, we're going to get into our numbers game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's start there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So why don't you give us your stat for this game to pop that to you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: My stat this week is 0.86.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that is the yards per carrier for the packers in the second half of this boat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah point eight six seven attempts six yards and look that defense was was rough right first half, but they turned around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: whatever they did, whatever coach then sounded in the locker room, however they changed things up, you know, they were able to come out there and at least make Green Bay one dimensional and look, Jordan loves a great quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I know a lot of bearish ones on a rag on him, but he is a good
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pro Bowl ask type of player that's who he is right see you so he got some of his but when you're making team one dimensional and the package could not run in the second half that helps your defense overall we saw the bears get their hands on some balls some past the flexions and in the secondary and in your portion them to kind of do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, because you can't run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Josh Jacobs is a tremendous tailback too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the fact that they're all kind of bottle them up kind of change that kind of flip the narrative of the entire second half.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I had to shout out the the bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The line is is a whole there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a great poll too because I didn't know that but I knew that they weren't running the ball much and obviously they weren't having a lot of success.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's pretty incredible to average under one year to carry in the second half when you're up 21 to three coming out of the graph, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's one of those where you're trying, you want to just kind of run the ball take to take the air out of the ball and they were forcing those three nights, they were forcing punts
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, that that really helped turn the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, I think I know a lot of bear's fans were giving up even the ones that are usually the the the the the biggest bra raw people, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were tweeting out like us over great season guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank, you know, thanks for, thanks for coming and tip your way to staff, you know, they were, they were done they'd have time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the feeling was, well, even if this offense catches up, the defense
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it took all, you know, all three units to really step up and start this comeback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But so it had to happen on defense too, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they had to find ways to force the Packers to give the ball back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, good stuff there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number is six.
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[SPEAKER_01]: six different players recorded an explosive catch, a catch of 20 yards or more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Kalmanungai, the Andre Swift, Roman Dunze, Luther Burton, DJ Moore, all had an explosive catch, Colson Lovelin, my friend, had four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my God.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So nine total, but six different players had had an explosive catch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think a pretty incredible effort from Caleb to distribute the ball, from some, any like the Menanga, explosive catch was, you know, a lot of him doing that after the catch, like, you know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Swift was a nice coverage breakdown that he exploited, you know, the adunes I expose it was obviously the throw.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to ask you, what's your favorite throw of the year that Caleb has made this year?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, but the latest iteration that, you know, Rome was on the other side of that, you know, and then just loveland, loveland, loveland, loveland, like it just kept happening over and over and over.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in the biggest moments and most of these are towards the end of the game, you know, this is a lot of this was fourth quarter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought that really jumped out to me as not only was it dying explosive passes, uh, but six different guys on the receiving end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned that because I'm my drive home after physical therapy today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was listened to the score and they talked about Caleb's nine explosive plays, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: When did those all take place?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure, but there has to be some sort of record.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this was just a, you know, I mean, I'm not sure how much that has been tracked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you talk about explosives kind of a newer, newer thing that the league has kind of looked at, but yeah, that's why I'll nine explosives from this, uh, from this offense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, just a quick look at my chart that I've been charting all year, which I have everything color coded by a game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they came anywhere close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm seeing six against the giants, six against the Ravens, and five against the Saints, seven against the Niners, but yeah, nine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: nine clearly is the best of the year so pretty incredible job that's all by this by this up by Ben Johnson by this offense by hunting for explosives and this is this is also one of those those things too where I think I tried to make the point recently where
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[SPEAKER_01]: People add bears in their turnovers and they're, you know, they're not a, you know, it's all random and stuff is like, what's that like to just sit on a bunch of leads and they're just taking the ball away at the end, you know, you know, like, oh, that team is up all the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's how they rack up the sacks and the turnovers like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, these are just like bears are behind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're coming from behind here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so the bears are coming from behind, but the Packers are trying to prevent the bigger place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's the kind of mode you get into when you're trying to sit on a lead.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're like, I will give you the underneath stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bears are still hitting these.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're hitting them, late in the game when they're coming back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's an extra impressive, I think, in this particular game for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's let's head to social media.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you start us off?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I got a tweet today from Patrick Sheldon at P underscore shells.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that we have a QB who can make these throws.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he was quote tweeting, of course, that fourth and eight nice one to Roma Dunzey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the biggest stage against our biggest rival, GD, it feels good, hashtag bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you, yes, that earlier.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what's the best throw of Caleb's made this year?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, is this it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it could be it,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just one of many.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's in the team picture for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But man, there has been so many times this year where you see a throw by Caleb and you're like, that's the throw, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's ridiculous how good he's been this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's year one of this adventure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an offseason project.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to I'm going to absolutely have to like compile all these and no doubt about it, but this is this is the leader in the clubhouse because one, the game situation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's fourth and got to have it games over if you don't get this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The degree of difficulty of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: sprinting to your left with a russia, you know, trying to make the tackle, leading Roman dunes a to a spot where there's a bunch of people around like this is not like a he's just wide open sitting there he just got to get them a ball like this was like he'd had to it had to be in that spot and then he's one foot off the off the ground the other is
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[SPEAKER_01]: coming off the ground.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's all or like I just I'm not sure how he's getting anything torque wise in in he's fitting it in perfectly and then there's that moment that you know if you haven't seen it on social media whatever there's this there's this moment where it looks like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Caleb's got the Jordan jump in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, well, there's nothing more amazing in Chicago than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that that is iconic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it's against the rival.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's in its biggest stakes, it's the playoffs, all that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I do think that that one's going to go down as like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: the throw of the year, and there's been a couple of people that I saw, you know, Matt liners had had been thinking about this throw all day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's the best throw I've ever seen.
20:56
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Booker MacFarlane, I think, was out there saying this is the best throw I've ever seen.
21:02
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, there's some NFL guys that have been around for, I'm not saying Matt liners, like a historian or anything like that.
21:07
[SPEAKER_01]: But,
21:07
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, play professional football, play the quarterback position, probably through some good passes in his day as well.
21:14
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's looking at the going, yeah, I don't that don't think there's a better pass than that, right?
21:18
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is Chicago Bears quarterback that's doing this.
21:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Get like like pinch yourself guys.
21:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Like this, this is a real thing that's happening in our lives.
21:26
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty amazing.
21:27
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's only it's your one of the Ben Johnson offense, you're two of his career.
21:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty darn cool.
21:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty good.
21:35
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, mine is more fun.
21:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like Roger, Roger Sherman's really funny is at Roger, which like I'm sure he was like I don't know Twitter user number like 48 to to be able to get that, but He was quote tweeting the post game Post game program with, you know, Sherman and Whitworth and all those guys and at the end of the interview, they painted them all the greater the cheese greater hats and then
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[SPEAKER_01]: If it's Patrick Kansas, Caleb, an actual cheese grater and a block of cheese, and Caleb picks it up, and he starts going it going for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to tell?
22:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're like a crazy face, you know, the crowd's loving it.
22:19
[SPEAKER_01]: And so Roger says he grates like a quarter block of cheese, and maybe five seconds.
22:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Generational talent, the great tone.
22:27
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought, it's just fun.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's just some fun stuff going on.
22:33
[SPEAKER_01]: And this goes back to Ben Johnson saying, if the pack and going on is like, this was supposed to be a rivalry.
22:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you go back and you listen and you watch all of the old stuff and like you read books about it, like the guy seems hated each other, hated each other.
22:52
[SPEAKER_01]: And
22:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Recently, and I feel like I think there's a lot of friendlinger players and what to college together, they go talk to each other.
22:59
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of movement for agency, like there's it's less that and they're all making a lot of money, right?
23:04
[SPEAKER_01]: It's less, you know, antagonistic, all that stuff, right?
23:09
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's healthy to have these fan bases that embrace this rivalry, like, oh, you wear a block of cheese on your head.
23:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's the, we're going to, you know, our wide receiver is going to wear the cheese greater on his head after he catches a game winning touchdown pass.
23:26
[SPEAKER_01]: And oh, we're going to, we're going to embrace it.
23:28
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to, we're going to actually great cheese on the set here.
23:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's fun.
23:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, right?
23:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and the, and the packers will come back and they'll do something, you know, hopefully in 15 years when they win the next game.
23:39
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, never it is, right?
23:41
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that this is,
23:43
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fun.
23:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that was a fun segment.
23:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's having a good time.
23:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that this is only good for the game, for the sport, for both teams.
23:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's, look, it's a goofy yeah, it's goofy, but who cares?
24:00
[SPEAKER_00]: It's sports.
24:01
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't take it too seriously.
24:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, you've been when DJ Moore did it and he put the hat on in the locker room.
24:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, that triggered Packer fans, you know, then I used to it, you know, man, we just lost.
24:12
[SPEAKER_00]: And then this guy's wearing.
24:13
[SPEAKER_00]: He's wearing a foam thing on his head.
24:15
[SPEAKER_00]: That's so cringe.
24:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
24:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're identity has a fan base of these stupid ass cheese on your head.
24:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Who cares?
24:23
[SPEAKER_00]: You're looking like a dumb ass wearing a block of cheese.
24:25
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks like a dumb ass wearing a cheese grater.
24:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Who cares?
24:28
[SPEAKER_00]: It is what it is.
24:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a lot of fun.
24:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you said, Caleb was going to town on that cheese.
24:32
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw that tweet the great one.
24:34
[SPEAKER_00]: That's perfect.
24:35
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to stick.
24:36
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that's the hope that can add to the to the to the ice man and the Superman and let's get the great one put up there on profile reference.
24:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I need a t-shirt with him with that face with the, you know, I got one for you.
24:51
[SPEAKER_00]: My guys just sent me a thing earlier today.
24:53
[SPEAKER_00]: So a little when we get off the show, I'm going to tweet out a link to my guys.
24:57
[SPEAKER_00]: They just got a shirt drop and it's NFPA approves.
25:00
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's actually Caleb on there doing his thing.
25:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I got you guys.
25:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
25:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I definitely checked that out.
25:07
[SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully it's not a tease like Kyle Brantz, free manun guys,cepter t-shirt that sold out in like 30 seconds.
25:14
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know if he, I don't know if he offered like 20, good for Kyle Brantz.
25:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I bet that was cool.
25:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I did try to get one.
25:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I was like 45 seconds in.
25:23
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, no, that was dead.
25:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I even pre-loaded this.
25:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I was ready to go, I was insane.
25:30
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's head to Caleb's corner.
25:34
[SPEAKER_01]: 24 or 48, we've talked about completion percentage.
25:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I was actually, I was going to read Matthew Stafford's Stateline and then be like, oh, no, that was Matthew Stafford.
25:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty much he was at like almost from about 50% like quarterbacks across the league.
25:47
[SPEAKER_01]: It's play off football, right?
25:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the completion screen is just not, I'm not great everywhere, but obviously this has been Caleb's thing, 24 or 48, 361 yards quite a lot.
25:57
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about all those explosive plays.
25:59
[SPEAKER_01]: He had two touchdown passes.
26:01
[SPEAKER_01]: He also had two interceptions, which we'll talk about in a second.
26:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Took one sack for a nine-year-old loss, added four carries for 20 yards, had six big-time throws, which was the most that, you know, PFF has charted this year.
26:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was important to throw in there.
26:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to talk about the two interceptions real quick.
26:21
[SPEAKER_01]: One, both of them were on fourth down.
26:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
26:23
[SPEAKER_01]: The first one was a miscommunication with Luther Burden.
26:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I would imagine if they were on the same page that looked pretty wide open.
26:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that that was probably going to be a pretty big play there.
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: If they were on the same page, obviously Caleb was not happy.
26:37
[SPEAKER_01]: He was emotional on the side or let his anger show some people.
26:44
[SPEAKER_01]: called out the bad body language.
26:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Body language, police, if they can, they can go away forever.
26:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I hated that since the color day like it's just, I don't need to hear it.
26:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't, I don't need to do it.
26:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need to do the body language thing.
26:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but then again, like, you know, Tom Brady y'all on the sidelines, too.
27:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's Tom Brady.
27:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he earned that, you know, okay, let's take an over ownership of this team, right?
27:09
[SPEAKER_01]: And if I'm going to trust Caleb that he threw it where he thought Luther Burton was going to need to be like Ben Johnson pretty much confirmed that today and and that mistake turned out to be a good thing.
27:21
[SPEAKER_01]: In terms of like, if you're going to make a mistake throwing an interception throw it on fourth down and the dummy, you know, safety is going to take it to pad is stats fall down as he's catching it and make it easy for him to to be down right right where he caught it that was one the other one.
27:38
[SPEAKER_01]: This primary fell down, is secondary, got knocked off as a route, I think you had to just throw it up and it got intercepted on fourth down as well.
27:47
[SPEAKER_01]: So this was not like, oh, Caleb just, it's a new Caleb.
27:51
[SPEAKER_01]: He's now throwing interceptions.
27:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I think both of them can be explained pretty well.
27:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not worried about either of those.
27:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously you don't want to see interceptions ever, but
28:01
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, given the context, I'm not worried about it saying something bigger than what it is.
28:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Overall, with this amazing comeback, all these big time throws, all these explosive players, how did you take Caleb's performance in this one?
28:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I thought he had command to the game, right?
28:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's like, everyone wants to harp on the completion percentage.
28:23
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't fit like,
28:25
[SPEAKER_00]: When you watch the game, never once, do you feel to yourself, oh my god, he's missing too much, right?
28:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, as the, as the flow of the game happens, you mentioned me exposed.
28:35
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a part of it.
28:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you see the people's comparing Caleb's game to like Seth Curry and the NBA how, you know, if you, if you're, if you're, if you're,
28:43
[SPEAKER_00]: 30% on threes.
28:44
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the same as being 50% on twos, right?
28:46
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a difference, complete percentage where just the way he's playing football is at a different way that other quarter vector playing you mentioned.
28:54
[SPEAKER_00]: There's not a lot of thinking and dunking, you know, they're stretching the field, you know, they're trying to get these explosives, and that loosens a defense up and then, you know, who knows?
29:03
[SPEAKER_00]: This week we may see a different game plan.
29:05
[SPEAKER_00]: We may see things a little a little shorter.
29:08
[SPEAKER_00]: We may see them trying to run the ball a little
29:12
[SPEAKER_00]: The Rams are worried about the explosive, right?
29:14
[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe they kind of play off and see what happens here against the Rams, but I thought it was a good game.
29:20
[SPEAKER_00]: And look, if it's fourth down, it's a turn-off anyway.
29:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Interception is a matter.
29:24
[SPEAKER_00]: It's irrelevant at that point, right?
29:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's no reason to keep that holstered.
29:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Fire that ball, if it happens good for you, good.
29:32
[SPEAKER_00]: If not,
29:32
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a turn over anyway on down.
29:34
[SPEAKER_00]: So I had no problem with either one of those picks and like I said, the one was an arm punch, who cares?
29:38
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like I intercepted it.
29:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Even Ben Johnson made a little quick about that today saying that's good.
29:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Good for us that he intercepted it because it was like a 35-yard swing.
29:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I can't remember the exact tweet and who put it out there, but there was something about Caleb having basically very few throws near the line of scrimmage.
30:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And so his, his, you know, Ariard's birth tempt and all that kind of stuff was pretty high.
30:08
[SPEAKER_01]: But and which really does even out that lower completion percentage overall when you look at some of those other stats.
30:14
[SPEAKER_01]: But I wish I could find it off the top of my head, but it was like the lowest percentage in like five years or something like that.
30:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Like in terms of number of throws that were near the line of skirmish.
30:26
[SPEAKER_01]: So I just push in the ball down the field.
30:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And this was an aggressive game plan.
30:32
[SPEAKER_01]: You know Ben Johnson was aggressive going forward on fourth down.
30:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I mean everything was aggressive.
30:38
[SPEAKER_01]: like that brand of football, right?
30:39
[SPEAKER_01]: And it took a while to put points on the board.
30:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I get that, but overall, once this thing starts like really being tightened up and clicked and clicking in, we're gonna be seeing 30, 40 points.
30:53
[SPEAKER_01]: going to be pretty common, like we're going to be, yeah, okay, well, okay, up through five touchdown pass, like this is things, this things don't, like you can kind of tell the right direction.
31:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to give a little room here to to share something that someone tagged me in to, and I thought it was a probably worth sharing on the show.
31:12
[SPEAKER_01]: This was,
31:13
[SPEAKER_01]: So the tag, the handle is can't use Twitter, but then like instead of the E in Twitter, it's an underscore.
31:19
[SPEAKER_01]: So, and her, it's after me.
31:21
[SPEAKER_01]: There's an underscore in there.
31:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, they won't let them use the word Twitter.
31:25
[SPEAKER_01]: It is name all that exact.
31:27
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
31:27
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a thing I heard.
31:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a thing.
31:29
[SPEAKER_01]: So his name is can't use, you know, Twitter, E underscore R. Anyway, he, he made the observation that Caleb has as many wins against Green Bay as the bears had between the NFC championship game loss and him being drafted.
31:48
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I went back and I counted it up just to like confirm Caleb's three and two against the Packers.
31:56
[SPEAKER_01]: The bears record against the Packers after the NFC championship game lost it lost and before Caleb was drafted was three and 23.
32:06
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
32:10
[SPEAKER_01]: new era is upon us right new era for sure.
32:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
32:14
[SPEAKER_01]: It's ugly ugly thing.
32:16
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought that was worth mentioning in in Caleb's corner as well.
32:20
[SPEAKER_01]: So overall, I think you have to be impressed with it's not linear development, but it's darn close to linear development.
32:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I can always say the development is not linear with with quarterbacks that is like,
32:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is true, but man, this is pretty close.
32:38
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like he continues to just get better and it seems every week.
32:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just, I'm so excited to continue to be able to get to watch this guy.
32:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that this is like our future lives are going to be enriched by the fact that we get to have, you know, what's the throw of the year?
32:56
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got like 10 candidates that we've never seen before.
32:59
[SPEAKER_01]: This looks awesome, you know, like these conversations that we get to have here are gonna be pretty incredible.
33:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's, he's mentioned in the same breath, right?
33:06
[SPEAKER_00]: The arm talent and stuff.
33:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I did a radio spot this morning on a station Iowa, actually.
33:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, the guy is a huge cheese fan.
33:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I were talking to him.
33:14
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, he said, I'm a cheese fan, right?
33:16
[SPEAKER_00]: So, my homes, the stuff he said, the stuff I saw Caleb doing and have been doing this year, the only guy that he'd do it is my homes and then Josh Allen occasion.
33:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, those are just two good names we mentioned with, you know, yeah.
33:29
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, it's, it's like, yeah, as bears fans, you know, like it's, there's a lot of us still like, okay, we got a way to see.
33:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's make sure, but league wise fans of other teams, they notice they see the special talent that the bears have at quarterback and.
33:45
[SPEAKER_00]: So do pack her fans and that's why pack her fans are so triggered right now because they don't know what to do.
33:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Like can you imagine being a pack of fan for 30 years.
33:53
[SPEAKER_00]: You've had this rivalry.
33:54
[SPEAKER_00]: You've had two great quarterbacks and now you may have to be in the other side of it for a little while.
34:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there are an insane number of packer fans that have never lived a day of their life where they had a worse quarterback than the bears.
34:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
34:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
34:12
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, like you want to, Jordan loves still better.
34:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, whatever.
34:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think he's good.
34:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
34:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Jordan loves a good player.
34:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's really good in structure.
34:22
[SPEAKER_01]: like he's taken his game to the point where he is a incredibly efficient quarterback.
34:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Like don't think he's that creative, right?
34:30
[SPEAKER_01]: So you have this like difference of style right now, but to me, the love experience, if it's going to continue to improve, the rate of improvement is not the acceleration is not that much, right?
34:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Whereas Caleb can see it
34:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the arrow is just pointing up so, so much right now.
34:50
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, to me, even if you wanted to have that conversation fine, but if we're going to have this conversation at this time next year, I don't, I mean, please continue in this direction.
35:03
[SPEAKER_01]: No one's going to be defending love over overkill at this point.
35:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So at this point next year.
35:08
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's where I'm at.
35:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I think We are a very short distance away from everybody agreeing that the bears have the guy and that's that's really cool and all the quarterback experts have been like
35:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you know, I had it this, right?
35:26
[SPEAKER_01]: All the guys that are, you know, contact creators that really do know this stuff.
35:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they're always just a little bit, hey guys, like, what's happening here is real?
35:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey guys, this is impressive stuff.
35:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey guys, like this, I've got this guy, like, I think it was so lack that was on, was a couple weeks ago, and I think he was on with K Adams, and she said something,
35:51
[SPEAKER_01]: about it.
35:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember the quarterback, and he was like, I would absolutely have Caleb ahead of him.
35:57
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, what?
35:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, she was just shocked that this was theism and I'd have been jailing her.
36:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, it's not even close.
36:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what are we doing here?
36:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
36:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and he, like, laid it all out.
36:07
[SPEAKER_01]: And this was weeks and weeks ago.
36:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, this was still when he, you know, was kind of, you know, just starting to turn heads.
36:14
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
36:16
[SPEAKER_01]: It's coming guys like you just we'll have the off season to talk about it, but I think this is just another example of what he can do that very few others can so we're going to take a quick break other side of it we're going to do the three bears everybody's favorite segment stick with us.
36:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's say three bears hot bowl of porridge cold bowl of porridge just right let's start with the hot we got.
36:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going back to the defense of line.
36:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
36:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go Montes, who got a game ball, right?
36:46
[SPEAKER_00]: He got a game ball in the locker when some fans are like, why is he getting a game ball, right?
36:49
[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, what happened here?
36:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Three tackles, three quarterback hits, one past defense, and then again, we talk about pressure, it depends who charged them, but the thing I saw, I think it was PFF, they had a not for six pressure.
37:03
[SPEAKER_00]: So at the end of that game, in the second half, when the defense kind of came alive here, he impacted the game.
37:10
[SPEAKER_00]: He impacted a lot of Jordan loves throws, he was in there, he was harassing him, he was hitting him and look.
37:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to shout him out because the team did and I said some fans are like, what's happening here?
37:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's why.
37:23
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's not going to always have, you know, sacks every game, but there's other ways you can impact the game.
37:29
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought he did it.
37:30
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's a sweat and book.
37:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Both of you guys got to stay hot right now.
37:34
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going against the Rams and other, you know, the best offense in the league.
37:39
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and you've got to get at at Stafford.
37:41
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Stafford is he's at that level.
37:43
[SPEAKER_00]: He's an MVP conversation this year.
37:46
[SPEAKER_00]: and you got to get after him.
37:47
[SPEAKER_00]: So you sweat's got to pick it up this week too.
37:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Second of last play had the had the pressure, you know, you're able to, you know, just hit George Love's arm.
37:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Ball falls harmless to the turf.
37:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Have no idea what that play looked like in terms of if he had anybody open.
38:03
[SPEAKER_01]: If that was that had a chance.
38:05
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, he ended that, he ended that opportunity and then it was down to one play, right?
38:09
[SPEAKER_01]: So
38:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
38:12
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a reason why he got the game ball and he was a menace.
38:15
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he was, he was, he was bothering love in the second half and, you know, everything, everything matters.
38:20
[SPEAKER_01]: And Montess, what is the interesting player?
38:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Because, you know, you and I think I've been pretty firm.
38:26
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a good football player.
38:28
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, your team was better with him.
38:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of people are going to have a contract.
38:33
[SPEAKER_01]: They're paying him to be this and he's not and it's like,
38:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, the contracts, let's, let's, let's, let's talk about that in the Aussies.
38:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
38:41
[SPEAKER_01]: They made their team.
38:42
[SPEAKER_01]: This is how they divided the pie.
38:44
[SPEAKER_01]: This is, this is what they're going in with.
38:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing is, nothing is F for next year.
38:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing, like, if they're not in a bad cap spot for the next few years or anything, it's not like they're the, the, the saints, or it's like, you know, that nothing to worry about.
38:58
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's just cheer for this team as it is and who they are and respect the fact that month is what's a good football player and he's making a positive impact on your team and absolutely I think he totally deserved it.
39:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I would wanted to I wrote down two names like normal.
39:15
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I just want to make sure that we mention the Mark of Jackson stepping in.
39:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
39:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Thoughty played well.
39:22
[SPEAKER_01]: He had played well his first stint and I think he has played well.
39:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I hear you think he played well in this game as well.
39:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, always tough when you lose a guy to injury, especially a captain, much respect to TJ and what he's done this year for this team.
39:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, he wasn't able to finish off this game.
39:43
[SPEAKER_01]: any any won't be able to play through the rest of the year.
39:47
[SPEAKER_01]: However, Jackson, I think has played very well in his stead.
39:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is one of those situations where you're not, there's not a big drop-off, different skills, but he's played very well and I think the bears aren't really good shape with him, so I wanted to make sure we at least mentioned him.
40:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And then for me, I got to go to
40:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I got to tell you, I love how much we were just on the the loved one like chill the F out everybody like it's going to be fine and and he has just come on so amazing where everybody like Robert Mays this week and I know Robert Mays is a bear's fan, but he's normally like a like a self hating bears fan in a lot of ways like he's usually really negative about the team he said that
40:44
[SPEAKER_01]: this year.
40:45
[SPEAKER_01]: That was what he came on.
40:47
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, I don't think it's particularly close.
40:48
[SPEAKER_01]: This is my guy.
40:51
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to argue with that.
40:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bears absolutely nailed it here.
40:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Trevor Sikama on his NFL's stock exchange podcast that was out today.
41:02
[SPEAKER_01]: They were grading all the first round picks.
41:04
[SPEAKER_01]: He gave the bears in A plus for Colson.
41:07
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy who's going to be
41:11
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the centerpiece of the passing offense and Annie's a good blocker and he's got the best hands and like you need a bucket guy and like Also exposed to plays like this is a get your jerseys like if you're if you're like this is the type of guy We're like oh, yeah, this is real like let's go by any before right.
41:30
[SPEAKER_01]: This is this is a real guy like this is a guy that we're gonna be talking about a lot in the coming years And the first playoff game and he puts up over 100 yards as a tie-in
41:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, bring it on, love it.
41:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Colston loved ones last three games and I wrote this down because if you didn't mention Colston here, I was going to come back and give me one more hot.
41:47
[SPEAKER_00]: So last three games, 24 receptions, 322 yards, two touchdowns.
41:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Last three games.
41:56
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a different twaker.
41:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he is a guy that can change the game plans because as the defense, are you going to put a corner on them?
42:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to put a safety out of me?
42:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, a line back around him.
42:04
[SPEAKER_00]: How are you going to block him?
42:06
[SPEAKER_00]: The bears are going to come out and spread out.
42:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, no, what do you do?
42:10
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to come in with with three tight and sets.
42:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
42:12
[SPEAKER_00]: How are you going to max that up because he like you said he could block.
42:15
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not just a move tight end out there, you know, running around.
42:18
[SPEAKER_00]: He's he's he's down in dirty with it.
42:21
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I love this pick when they made it.
42:23
[SPEAKER_00]: And did you happen to catch and oh my god, this this this account, this should have their own wing and in the cold, what's that one that takes cold, the cold takes you?
42:36
[SPEAKER_00]: What the hell is that count?
42:37
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm talking about?
42:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Reasoning.
42:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so the ESP and Milwaukee site.
42:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, they have the worst.
42:43
[SPEAKER_00]: They have the worst.
42:46
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, they're, they're, they're, they're, yeah, they're all over bears, bears Twitter.
42:52
[SPEAKER_00]: They had to tweet out.
42:53
[SPEAKER_00]: They, someone tweeted it.
42:54
[SPEAKER_00]: They're take on loveland.
42:55
[SPEAKER_00]: They were just laughing at the bears.
42:57
[SPEAKER_00]: How could they take this guy.
42:59
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and it's not just them.
43:01
[SPEAKER_00]: There were a lot of people that questioned the pick of the time.
43:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Why not Tyler Warren, right?
43:06
[SPEAKER_00]: give me a break.
43:06
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy is, like I said, 21 years old, putting up these kind of numbers, historic playoff appearance is just a cold takes exposed.
43:16
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the thing I was trying to think of there.
43:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was freezing freezing cold takes man.
43:21
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but yeah, freezing cold takes.
43:23
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a hard enough time with names.
43:24
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember the Twitter name either.
43:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think everybody's favorite of Packers content creator blocked them years ago because he got sighted so often by them and so he blocked them on Twitter, which I think is particularly funny for that for that.
43:42
[SPEAKER_00]: That's another guy that has his own wing and in the, you know, freaks.
43:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
43:46
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'll just, I'll just say like.
43:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't interact with those people.
43:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't don't pay for their McDonald's.
43:53
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know.
43:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Ball.
43:55
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't.
43:55
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just, they're just, they're just, they're just trying to get you to, they're just trying to get you to get, uh, you know, help pay for their next meal.
44:02
[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, all right, turn it around, cold bull porridge.
44:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do you want to go?
44:09
[SPEAKER_00]: I had our time finding someone on this because the defense is bad as you were in the first half.
44:13
[SPEAKER_00]: They turned things up in the second half.
44:15
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so it's like, well, okay, where do you go here?
44:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I had two things written down and neither one is, I'm feeling really good about here.
44:23
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna go the same way I went last week, Tory Taylor.
44:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to do a damn thing to do nothing is he going to earn his paycheck.
44:33
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get a fourth round pick on a guy that doesn't even help you in a playoff game.
44:37
[SPEAKER_01]: He's holding for Cairo.
44:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Unbelievable.
44:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's our waste.
44:41
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
44:42
[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's what I got.
44:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Tori Taylor this week because you didn't do a damn thing.
44:47
[SPEAKER_00]: What a waste.
44:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Go and sit in the corner.
44:51
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, mine, I'm actually going to go to the same place I went last week.
44:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go to Dexter because that fumble recovery attempt.
45:01
[SPEAKER_01]: All is.
45:03
[SPEAKER_01]: awful as a as a as again as two guys that that spent our playing career, you know, with their hand in the dirt, you have to know what your limitations are as an athlete and and how you were like how many times did you do fumble drill right like what and it's not like you were the guy that was like hey man, scoop and score like that that wasn't what you were taught.
45:28
[SPEAKER_01]: It was you are diving on the ground and you are
45:31
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, cradling it in a very specific way, you know, on your side and then your teammates supposed to come in and cover you up, right, like so, so no one can get in there and I don't know what he was thinking.
45:43
[SPEAKER_01]: The last few weeks when the ball's been on the ground, you try to pick it up.
45:47
[SPEAKER_01]: The week ago or two weeks ago, whatever it was.
45:50
[SPEAKER_01]: And then this one, he, I don't know, like, body bounced it out of, like, what are you doing?
45:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, totally out of control.
46:01
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very disappointing from a big guy, right?
46:07
[SPEAKER_01]: The Packers put the ball on the ground three times.
46:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
46:10
[SPEAKER_01]: The first time Christian Watson fumble, like at the one yard line, went in the end zone, the packers were able to recover it.
46:16
[SPEAKER_01]: They, you know, in the end zone, they bring it back to the one, all that kind of stuff.
46:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Or whatever was, the bears didn't, you know, if the bears are able to get that one, seven points off the fort, because they score a few plates later.
46:27
[SPEAKER_01]: The second one was the ball that we're talking about here, that Dexter bounces out.
46:34
[SPEAKER_01]: They forced the fumble,
46:36
[SPEAKER_01]: of a lineman running the ball like he thinks he's you know like he thinks he's Josh shake it was like what are we doing here right like take advantage of that they put the ball on the ground and Dexter bounces it out of grab out of about absolutely unacceptable can't do it.
46:52
[SPEAKER_01]: The third one, Josh Jacobs act in like he's Devon Hester returning about know your role you're running back what are you doing returning kicks he fumbles
47:01
[SPEAKER_01]: and the packers recover that when I was around midfield so for all of the like turnover luck
47:08
[SPEAKER_01]: that everybody talks about.
47:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I think it's BS.
47:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Turnover luck is if you have, you force 20 fumbles and you recover at 18 of them.
47:17
[SPEAKER_01]: That's turnover luck because generally you're gonna recover about 50% of the fumbles.
47:21
[SPEAKER_01]: There's forced three of these fumbles and recorded zero.
47:26
[SPEAKER_01]: They have bad turnover luck here and they still manage to win.
47:30
[SPEAKER_01]: But they absolutely should have recovered this one that Dexter messed up.
47:33
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the one that they absolutely should have recovered.
47:38
[SPEAKER_01]: and really great field position to try to get back in this game a little quicker.
47:42
[SPEAKER_01]: It would have been probably around the 20-yard line or something like that.
47:45
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's my that's my coldball.
47:48
[SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy because I told you I wrote two things down, right?
47:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're both kind of tongue and cheek.
47:53
[SPEAKER_00]: So but but you just explained away like a real like I had written down no turnovers.
47:59
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the first time the bears had no turnovers since October 26 in a game.
48:03
[SPEAKER_00]: or the defense and had no takeaways since October 26.
48:06
[SPEAKER_00]: So out mine was more flagging cheek like, you know, the defense got to step up.
48:11
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's been months since they had, you know, it's a game that is this bad, but you explained perfectly what I was going to make a joke about, but yeah, no, that's true.
48:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Three times balls in the ground.
48:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Three times they had a chance to get it.
48:22
[SPEAKER_00]: And you see people mad at Kevin Bayard about he didn't recover that fun with the end zone.
48:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's he's not paying attention.
48:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's like a split second.
48:30
[SPEAKER_00]: That's because that fan something is just one I've been mad.
48:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he want to be mad.
48:35
[SPEAKER_00]: There was there was nothing wrong there.
48:37
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's the scrum on kickoff to you.
48:42
[SPEAKER_01]: It is what it is.
48:43
[SPEAKER_01]: That one, that one's a true 50, 50.
48:46
[SPEAKER_01]: The one on the kickoff.
48:48
[SPEAKER_01]: But the the Dexter one really is bad.
48:50
[SPEAKER_01]: And Gordon Gordon could have picked off two balls in the last drive.
48:53
[SPEAKER_01]: He was in perfect phase early on, you know, he turns around.
48:57
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a it's a great past defense.
48:59
[SPEAKER_01]: split second earlier Gordon's going to just pick that off games over the last one of the it's on like I mean it just bounces off his chest like why not pick that one off and instead and you know pad your stat a little bit so whatever all right that's a cold bowl obviously we're not mad at anybody with a play on victory uh how about just right where do you want to go with this again I'm going back to the defense okay how about how about the old veteran grated
49:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, five tackles.
49:28
[SPEAKER_00]: You had a quarterback kid.
49:29
[SPEAKER_00]: He had one of those force fumbles, right?
49:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Plan pretty good football.
49:33
[SPEAKER_00]: This is why you signed them, right?
49:35
[SPEAKER_00]: To come in and be a presence.
49:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the second half, he was a big part of the of that run defense of just shutting down Josh Jacobs.
49:43
[SPEAKER_00]: So look, if this is the greatest Jared that bears get for the next.
49:48
[SPEAKER_00]: for this playoff run.
49:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a good place to be in.
49:50
[SPEAKER_00]: And look, and then Ben Johnson talked about how the comeback, right?
49:55
[SPEAKER_00]: They showed the 28 to three Super Bowl clip, right?
49:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they had Joe Tuney.
50:00
[SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing.
50:01
[SPEAKER_00]: They have great a Jared on our needs side.
50:04
[SPEAKER_00]: And hey, can you guys both speak of your experiences in this game?
50:08
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was a preseason thing they did.
50:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's resonated this whole season.
50:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Because now these comebacks, they never out of it.
50:18
[SPEAKER_00]: And look, the two guys part of the biggest comeback in Superbowl history are on your team.
50:26
[SPEAKER_00]: One on each side.
50:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's got to be rough for Gratedjert to hear about the talks about because the obviously he was on the falcon side of things, but it's great perspective for this young team.
50:35
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's in there doing what he has to do.
50:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's get Gratedjert to rings.
50:40
[SPEAKER_00]: We can forget about it.
50:41
[SPEAKER_00]: 28 to three crap.
50:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, I love that.
50:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, do I come back from injury?
50:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Then it gets her dinged up a little bit earlier in the air.
50:51
[SPEAKER_01]: People are like, oh, guys, he's washed.
50:52
[SPEAKER_01]: He's out here.
50:53
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good football player, the football's tough.
50:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So, absolutely coming on at the right time.
50:58
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're gonna be playing your best football.
51:01
[SPEAKER_01]: play it play it when the weather's cold, right?
51:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Like good good stuff there.
51:04
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I want to give it to our guy, Cairo Santos.
51:08
[SPEAKER_01]: There it is.
51:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Three, three, and fuel goals, including a 51 yarder, two for two in extra points.
51:15
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me just read off his counterpart, Brendan McManus, over two in fuel goals, and three for four in extra points.
51:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
51:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that seems like maybe a pretty big difference.
51:32
[SPEAKER_01]: look we've we've talked about Cairo a lot because he comes up comes up in the comments section hey did the bears have a Cairo Santos problem did they need to get rid of Cairo Santos and we've been pretty defensive of of Santos and saying he's a good kicker he's accurate he's in he's solid within his range Ben Johnson note how to manage to that and he's been really pretty good on these kickoffs like you those dirty kickoffs and all that kind of stuff he's he's been pretty good at all this
51:57
[SPEAKER_01]: This is an absolute like extra point column here for for for why it's tough to kick in soldier field.
52:07
[SPEAKER_01]: And it bears fans should know this.
52:09
[SPEAKER_01]: There's plenty of examples of kickers on the bears that have not kicked well here.
52:13
[SPEAKER_01]: But here, Brandon Manus, I know he hasn't had a good year, but he's a professional.
52:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been around a week for a really long time.
52:19
[SPEAKER_01]: He was terrible.
52:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that the Packers fans are putting all of the blame on him.
52:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
52:25
[SPEAKER_01]: He deserves a big chunk of it.
52:27
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's tough to kick and soldier field in winter.
52:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And Carlos Santos made it look easy.
52:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was split in the upper rights right down the middle.
52:36
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean,
52:38
[SPEAKER_01]: like this is why you are pretty comfortable with with Cairo because you know what he's capable of and then he follows through with perfection when it matters most longest fuel goal and play off
52:59
[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny, because we're in a chat, right?
53:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the chat for the most part, they can't stand Carlos Santos.
53:04
[SPEAKER_00]: They want a big lay kicker.
53:06
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm watching these playoff games.
53:08
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've been watching these games the last few weeks, right?
53:11
[SPEAKER_00]: When it's tight, right?
53:12
[SPEAKER_00]: It's playoff time, a lot of these games are winter, go home in a later part of the year.
53:18
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm watching kickers miss kicks.
53:21
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm watching it happen.
53:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Every time it happens, I'm like sucks.
53:24
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have a guy like Carlos Santos.
53:26
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, look, I would love to have a guy that can nail a 65 yard kick, but there's like what two guys in there, you really, really, really trust doing that, and that's the guy for the jacks care for the Cowboys, right?
53:37
[SPEAKER_00]: There are some guys that you might try out there, but those guys have been pretty good this year on those kicks.
53:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Those guys don't exist for you often and then I watch.
53:44
[SPEAKER_00]: the Cowboys kicker miss a field goal in a short field goal in one of their must got to have games.
53:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I watched the jacks kicker miss a field goal.
53:53
[SPEAKER_00]: This this last week is like kickers miss no one is perfect.
53:57
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so I don't see Cairo Santa's going anywhere next year.
54:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Ben Johnson, like you said, he he trusts him.
54:03
[SPEAKER_00]: He believes in him.
54:04
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows his range.
54:06
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows where he is.
54:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And like we said last week, he does want to kick fields anyway.
54:10
[SPEAKER_00]: He wants touchdowns.
54:11
[SPEAKER_00]: So why not have a guy you trust that you believe in that when you have to have a kick you got him he's not kicking a 60 yard feel anyway.
54:18
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to go for that fourth and six.
54:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Iron midfield.
54:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're not going to punt this.
54:25
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not kicking a field goal either.
54:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's let's go for this.
54:27
[SPEAKER_00]: That's Ben Johnson mentality.
54:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Cairo Santa is the perfect kicker for that.
54:31
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, they may bring a guy in for a competition like a camp leg.
54:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Cairo Santa is going to be here next year in Chicago.
54:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure.
54:41
[SPEAKER_01]: It's good stuff, there's one a playoff game.
54:45
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't want to get into a situation where we're saying like, all right, well, you know, that's it.
54:53
[SPEAKER_01]: That's as much as we're super bold, right?
54:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say that, I don't want, I don't want to come off like that.
54:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I think in most bears, like let's transport you back to August just for a second.
55:06
[SPEAKER_01]: And you say, hey, here's the deal.
55:08
[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to win the north and they're going to knock out the packers in the wild card game and that's it.
55:13
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all you get deal.
55:14
[SPEAKER_01]: No deal.
55:16
[SPEAKER_01]: What percentage of bears fans jump and say, deal, deal, deal, deal, like absolutely right.
55:23
[SPEAKER_01]: So regardless of what happens in this game this weekend.
55:27
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a banner here.
55:29
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
55:29
[SPEAKER_01]: This feels like a little bit of bears back baby.
55:33
[SPEAKER_01]: The curses lifted, you know, all this all this stuff, right?
55:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel that bears can win this game.
55:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the bears can beat the ramps.
55:41
[SPEAKER_01]: The ramps are a really good team.
55:42
[SPEAKER_01]: They may win the Super Bowl.
55:44
[SPEAKER_01]: But the bears can beat up.
55:45
[SPEAKER_01]: And so like let's just sit the pressure's off this is I think my point the pressure's off.
55:51
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no like like do you know our brams fan like do you go to work and you're like oh god I got like four guys at work that just love the rams I don't know any brams fans like they're not in your life who cares right you know any 49ers fans I got I know one do you know any sea hox fans I know zero
56:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
56:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I got nobody in my life that cheers for NFC West teams.
56:14
[SPEAKER_01]: So like who cares, right?
56:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you don't have that.
56:17
[SPEAKER_01]: The pressures off.
56:19
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to, you know, you get to walk around with your chest out with all of the NFC North teams for the next six months regardless of what happens here.
56:29
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's really fun that all these national guys are now, like
56:33
[SPEAKER_01]: at watching the bears, the perspective and what they're doing.
56:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Like Lee has been put on notice.
56:38
[SPEAKER_01]: This team is not going to be overlooked next year.
56:41
[SPEAKER_01]: This team is going to come in with like a lot of love, but they've got a real chance to do some damage here.
56:47
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to play the Rams.
56:50
[SPEAKER_01]: If they beat the Rams, I think the likely go to Seattle.
56:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think the the Niners are pretty beat up and and they they just lost to the to the see hot in a pretty important game, right.
57:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Kittle Kittles hurt.
57:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
57:03
[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean like there's a lot going on with the that 49ers teams would have been great.
57:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, if the Eagles would have been able to take them out because I think the Eagles are a little bit more beatable of Rams, but
57:14
[SPEAKER_01]: If they're able to beat them, if the bears are able to beat the rams, probably go into Seattle for the NSC championship game.
57:21
[SPEAKER_01]: How cool?
57:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Like all of this is just how cool.
57:24
[SPEAKER_01]: The bears have arrived early, and they have a legitimate chance of continuing this.
57:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that there is a better situation that you could ask for right now as a bears fan.
57:36
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like 84 right when they were on the cusp like that's how they feel.
57:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think to be this good this it's quick, but it feels like they're already there.
57:43
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like 05 right when when they went to the playoffs and I think the Panthers knocked him out that year right and it feels like like they're on the cusp of winning a championship the NFC championship.
57:54
[SPEAKER_00]: And like you said, we've been on the ramp for months.
57:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh man, the ramps are good.
57:59
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a, this is an outstanding offense.
58:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Staff was playing at an elite level.
58:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Nicole is just a fantastic receiver.
58:05
[SPEAKER_00]: They have a good running game.
58:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, they have Sean McVay.
58:09
[SPEAKER_00]: This is clearly the best team in our eyes in the NFC.
58:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And it has been for the last few months.
58:14
[SPEAKER_00]: but they barely beat the Panthers in the playoffs.
58:18
[SPEAKER_00]: They got beat by the Falcons a few weeks ago, so it's like, there is no juggernaut in the NFC.
58:25
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, this, why not the bears, right?
58:28
[SPEAKER_00]: They got the Los Angeles Rams coming to soldier field, and soldier field is gonna be electric.
58:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I don't think the GBS quite as wild as they were against the packers when that literally with building was shaking, you heard people that have been there for for their whole life saying, I've never heard of this loud.
58:45
[SPEAKER_00]: That may not happen again, but it might, I mean, they might just be just as jacked up, you know, it's it's because it's there's more in the line is the divisional round you win this, like you said, now you're playing for the for the confidence championship.
58:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.
59:00
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an actual trophy game next week.
59:03
[SPEAKER_00]: So to get the hat and the hat and t-shirt game, too, right?
59:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a real thing.
59:07
[SPEAKER_01]: But they give, they give you a real trophy, you know, and that C championship game.
59:11
[SPEAKER_01]: So and you know, it's called the George house.
59:14
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, that's enough for us for the podcast.
59:17
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll stick around a little bit for the YouTubers and, man, we are just excited to be able to do at least one more of these.
59:27
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's pretty cool.
59:28
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59:30
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59:39
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59:41
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59:41
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59:55
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