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- 0:00[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to everyone for tuning in.
- 0:03[SPEAKER_00]: This is, I wish you were on a better circumstances.
- 0:07[SPEAKER_00]: For sure, this is the first episode of my post game recap.
- 0:12[SPEAKER_00]: Rapid Uple Jacob and Fonte were talking about the bears versus Vikings game, and it's not great.
- 0:25[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, for those of you who are keeping up with my feet, I wasn't able to tweet for the first half of the game.
- 0:33[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's my fault.
- 0:35[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's just, I should just never watch bears football again, and then I didn't get in until the second half and then the second half everything felt to shit.
- 0:45[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna take the responsibility for the loss on this one.
- 0:51[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you everyone who's commenting the Twitter slash x comments are flooding in everyone's mad I get it same old bears it's Yeah, I mean we'll get into it.
- 1:06[SPEAKER_00]: I mean Jesus Christ
- 1:12[SPEAKER_00]: really want an explanation on the force fumble by Sue will look like an obvious humble the guy wasn't touched.
- 1:16[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I will say this.
- 1:19[SPEAKER_00]: As a result, let me be in a way.
- 1:20[SPEAKER_00]: I did miss that play so admittedly I can't comment on that, but go through your own discussions.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Peter.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_00]: This
- 1:39[SPEAKER_00]: It was a great start for the bears for like a little bit.
- 1:47[SPEAKER_00]: It was, I think that you could see the bears I was not playing pickleball.
- 1:58[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'll tell it a later time what I was doing.
- 2:05[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, things started off great for the bears.
- 2:07[SPEAKER_00]: Offensively once they had a script in place, things were going strong.
- 2:12[SPEAKER_00]: Caleb Williams looked calm, he looked confident.
- 2:16[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
- 2:17[SPEAKER_00]: I think that Ben Johnson, at least from an offensive from a scheming people open, perspective, I think things look better.
- 2:25[SPEAKER_00]: Under Ben Johnson, then they did under Waldron or say Luke Gatsy.
- 2:32[SPEAKER_00]: I think that, you know, the defense obviously started off incredibly strong, uh, and they were strong for a majority of the game, you know, I mean, they held them to six points to the first three quarters that's got to count for something, uh, but I think it came down to a lot of the same issues that they faced last year and the year before that and the year before that,
- 3:02[SPEAKER_00]: it's like when when you have the lead like I mean I get it naturally you're going to want to be preventative you're going to want to expect the passing attack uh because you know you're winning by however much but at the end of the day right the Vikings were able to move the ball down the field pretty consistently and a big part that was the run game.
- 3:23[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't ready.
- 3:25[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't prepared.
- 3:26[SPEAKER_00]: The bears were thrown completely off guard by the Vikings going in in the fourth quarter and just pounding it up the middle and then by the time the bears experience, that they got shell shocked and it's like, oh shit.
- 3:43[SPEAKER_00]: Now we got to stop the pass or we got to stop the run rather and then by that time you know the Vikings caught them off guard again with the pass and it was just too easy for the Vikings to just move the ball down the field.
- 3:57[SPEAKER_00]: So that plays a role in it.
- 3:59[SPEAKER_00]: I see a lot of your guys comments here.
- 4:02[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people are talking about the offense.
- 4:05[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and I agree, I think that's the big takeaway here.
- 4:07[SPEAKER_00]: That's the big concern is the performance of the offense.
- 4:12[SPEAKER_00]: And I think especially, I mean, you look at it through, I mean, it's 10 points through the first 58 minutes of the game.
- 4:26[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's not going to be acceptable.
- 4:30[SPEAKER_00]: I think that, you know, say whatever you want about it's week one sure naturally things are going to be a little bit wonky in a new offense and a new system.
- 4:40[SPEAKER_00]: But I think what's concerning to me is the fact that Caleb Williams seemed to have a lot of the same issues tonight as he did as a rookie.
- 4:54[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that that's what concerns me is you know, the intermediate to deep accuracy wasn't where it needed to be.
- 5:04[SPEAKER_00]: There were a good handful of plays where, you know, he just outright air mail passes.
- 5:09[SPEAKER_00]: He just outright misguides.
- 5:10[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's.
- 5:12[SPEAKER_00]: If he's going to take the next step, if he's going to be the franchise quarterback, those are throws he needs to make.
- 5:17[SPEAKER_00]: And again, like for people who follow my feet on Twitter, X, I've said, like it's week one of year two, it's too early to say, oh, Caleb's not the guy.
- 5:27[SPEAKER_00]: It's too early to say that.
- 5:29[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm here a lot of you guys, you know, well, some of you at least commenting saying, you know, Caleb sucks.
- 5:36[SPEAKER_00]: It's over start pageant.
- 5:38[SPEAKER_00]: I can't get to that point yet.
- 5:42[SPEAKER_00]: And all things considered, if you told me that the bears were going to lose this game by three, like if you told me that like 12 hours ago, the bears were going to end up losing this game by three.
- 5:55[SPEAKER_00]: I would have been like, okay, yeah, that checks out.
- 5:57[SPEAKER_00]: But obviously what's crushing about it is the fact that this was a very, very winnable game.
- 6:07[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't a game that they should have lost.
- 6:11[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to pull it up because I have multiple tabs open.
- 6:13[SPEAKER_00]: At one point, the Bears had as good of, let's say I'm going through ESPN.
- 6:18[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like 94.2% is the best chance that the Chicago Bears had to beat the Minnesota Vikings.
- 6:26[SPEAKER_00]: That was in the third quarter when the Bears were up 17 to six.
- 6:37[SPEAKER_00]: And again, that's Maddie Berfluss shit, where you start off hot, you have this lead and you just can't hold it.
- 6:47[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's frustrating to say the least when you have a team that starts off hot, but it just can't execute.
- 6:55[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to check through some of the comments here.
- 7:03[SPEAKER_00]: Again, thank you to everyone who is tuning in.
- 7:05[SPEAKER_00]: This is the first time I'm doing a post game recap here for Second City Gridiron, the Wendy City Gridiron audio page.
- 7:19[SPEAKER_00]: Time to self release.
- 7:20[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 7:21[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I haven't yet.
- 7:24[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how the night goes.
- 7:27[SPEAKER_00]: new to leg kicker in Chicago.
- 7:28[SPEAKER_00]: I think that that's something that's definitely that needs to be talked about where Cairo, at this stage in the NFL, or at least where the league is at right now, kickers are like routinely hitting 50 yard field goals.
- 7:44[SPEAKER_00]: Most of them are, I should say.
- 7:47[SPEAKER_00]: And for Cairo to, you know, kick that wide right, I mean, I don't know, last year, I think that, you know, last year, he was a lot better from deep than people give him credit for, but historically, absolutely, that's something that needs to be improved is he doesn't have an elite leg and it came back to bite him on the kick off where.
- 8:08[SPEAKER_00]: All they needed was for Cairo to kick it through the back of the end zone, or even just kick it out of bounds, literally.
- 8:15[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you have one time out, it's, you know, a little over two minutes, the one thing that they couldn't allow to happen was to let the Vikings return that kick, and that's exactly what they did.
- 8:30[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I mean, you know, the defense did their job, but at that point, you know, that's an extra what like 40 seconds that you're killing off the clock.
- 8:38[SPEAKER_00]: There's no chance of the bears can win that game.
- 8:41[SPEAKER_00]: So.
- 8:57[SPEAKER_00]: We need to, you know, just kick it out of bounds except the penalty who cares if it goes out to the 40 yard line.
- 9:05[SPEAKER_00]: just deal with it, hope the defense says they're job, and then he should have like maybe 40 seconds to, you know, get something done.
- 9:13[SPEAKER_00]: That should be in theory, that should have been enough to get a couple of plays done.
- 9:16[SPEAKER_00]: I think that was, that was piss poor management from Chicago regardless, and I do think that, you know, Cairo Santos, not getting nearly enough power behind that kickoff is,
- 9:29[SPEAKER_00]: Concern for sure, Tyson looked more polished in the preseason.
- 9:33[SPEAKER_00]: The kids' studies and earns his contract, Caleb Williams is just athletic, so I'm going to say on that end, like I said at the top of the show, like I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh, we need to bench Caleb Williams.
- 9:47[SPEAKER_00]: The bears need to bench Caleb Williams.
- 9:48[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say that this early.
- 9:51[SPEAKER_00]: What I can say is I was expecting a lot more from Caleb.
- 9:55[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's completely fair to say.
- 9:57[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that he's here in year two, now, and he was this highly touted prospect who's entering a much more friendly situation.
- 10:11[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you need to be better.
- 10:13[SPEAKER_00]: You need to be better.
- 10:14[SPEAKER_00]: You need to be more accurate.
- 10:15[SPEAKER_00]: You need to be more consistent in terms of the reads that you're making.
- 10:19[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think there are some times where you're down the stretch outside of that one, really good script to kick off the game.
- 10:29[SPEAKER_00]: Caleb didn't really show much in the way of growth from your one a year, too.
- 10:33[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that it's one thing if you're doing this in week one of the regular season with a new offense, which that's the case here, but it's another thing if you're going to be doing this a month from now two months from now on acceptable so look, I'm not going to be the one to.
- 10:58[SPEAKER_00]: Credit or discredit, the whole tied done thing.
- 11:03[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I'm not a journalist.
- 11:04[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just a guy who watches football and talks about what he sees.
- 11:08[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want journalism standards, I'm definitely not your guy.
- 11:12[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say shit about whether that's all that stuff in that article is true or not, but it is kind of damning.
- 11:22[SPEAKER_00]: that all that stuff came out and then right after Caleb puts together a stinker.
- 11:26[SPEAKER_00]: So again, I'm going to, I can't stress this enough.
- 11:30[SPEAKER_00]: It's very early in the season.
- 11:32[SPEAKER_00]: They're, you know, they're positive things to take away from this game.
- 11:37[SPEAKER_00]: Not many, but yeah, it's, it's frustrating when
- 11:46[SPEAKER_00]: I, I, I expected the bears to lose this game, but at the same time, I didn't expect them to blow the lead in the, in the fashion that they did.
- 11:54[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, yeah, let's just, it's frustrating.
- 12:00[SPEAKER_00]: Does Bayjant win this game?
- 12:02[SPEAKER_00]: Does he make those throws Caleb misses?
- 12:04[SPEAKER_00]: Honest question.
- 12:07[SPEAKER_00]: I think he makes some of them.
- 12:09[SPEAKER_00]: I think he makes some of them.
- 12:10[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he makes all the plays outside of structure.
- 12:12[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he has the rushing touch down that Caleb had, or the ability to extend the play.
- 12:17[SPEAKER_00]: I think he'd get sacked a little bit more often, but I do think he'd be more accurate on the field.
- 12:23[SPEAKER_00]: That's enough, I'm gonna say, about the whole Caleb willing situation.
- 12:26[SPEAKER_00]: I hear you, you know, guys, there are decent amount of people in here who are complaining about Caleb.
- 12:30[SPEAKER_00]: I get that, he was not good.
- 12:32[SPEAKER_00]: He was not nearly as good as he needed to be to win that game.
- 12:38[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to take some comments here as well, uh, the penalties killed us.
- 12:43[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good point.
- 12:44[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I'm never going to be one to say that the ref's cost, the bears the game, you know, because it's a, it's a 60 minute game and clearly, if I, my belief is that if you point to one penalty or you point to two penalties, then,
- 13:06[SPEAKER_00]: that like turn the tide of a game, then why even be it, you know, you shouldn't be in the situation to begin with, where you will allow penalty to take control of the game.
- 13:17[SPEAKER_00]: That said, yes, I don't think the refs were very good.
- 13:19[SPEAKER_00]: I think that Phantom holding call on to Arnold Wright was brutal.
- 13:25[SPEAKER_00]: Initially, when I saw that the DPI on Tyreek Stevenson, I was pissed off.
- 13:30[SPEAKER_00]: After seeing the
- 13:36[SPEAKER_00]: The Darnell right one was just flat out brutal and that was, you know, the bears were moving on offense and then that, you know, the penalty came in and to rail the momentum and the Caleb had the intentional grounding and then did it and if I'm not mistaken, it ended up with Cairo, missing the 50-yard field goal.
- 13:52[SPEAKER_00]: So 12 penalties for 127 yards, it is ridiculous and I think that that's something where
- 14:00[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, that is something that Ben Johnson needs to preach.
- 14:03[SPEAKER_00]: I, my hope and my belief is that watching the way that he interacts with these players, watching the, well, even watching the way he interacts with the media, but also the way that he interacts with his players and training camp and practice in the preseason and the regular season.
- 14:18[SPEAKER_00]: I do believe that, uh, Ben's going to tell him, like, hey, get your shit together.
- 14:26[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's, you know, I get the vibe that he's very much that type of guy where he's just gonna, you know, where he needs to instill like you can't be making those dumbass mistakes like you just can't.
- 14:38[SPEAKER_00]: I think that it's.
- 14:41[SPEAKER_00]: There's too much talent on this team.
- 14:43[SPEAKER_00]: They've had too many lucky breaks.
- 14:46[SPEAKER_00]: I think from the.
- 14:50[SPEAKER_00]: Well, from the, from the Bryce Young trade in particular, I think that you end up with the number one overall pick you have Caleb Williams fall right into your lap, you know, you get all these high picks because the Panthers aren't very good.
- 15:04[SPEAKER_00]: The excuses are running out the excuses are running out and I mean, if you ask me.
- 15:13[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's way too early for the bears to extend polls.
- 15:16[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I get it.
- 15:17[SPEAKER_00]: I guess where you want to have him in Ben Johnson on the same timeline, but I'm not sold.
- 15:25[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sold at Ryan Polls is a good general manager.
- 15:28[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just say that.
- 15:29[SPEAKER_00]: And I can dig into that later.
- 15:32[SPEAKER_00]: If you guys want, that's not the point of this show.
- 15:36[SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk mostly about the game.
- 15:38[SPEAKER_00]: Mostly talk about bears' Vikings.
- 15:42[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Dane Boe, he had a great game.
- 15:44[SPEAKER_00]: He got a sack.
- 15:45[SPEAKER_00]: He was definitely better than I was expecting.
- 15:48[SPEAKER_00]: I kept my expectations very low on him.
- 15:53[SPEAKER_00]: Almost, you know, to a fault, but he had a sack.
- 15:56[SPEAKER_00]: He had two quarterback hits, curious about the pressures.
- 16:01[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, things slowed down for the past rush definitely in the second half, but the first half,
- 16:06[SPEAKER_00]: was the first half was impressive.
- 16:09[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll give them that.
- 16:10[SPEAKER_00]: If he, I'll say that, hold on, where's the comment?
- 16:15[SPEAKER_00]: It was invisible in the second half.
- 16:18[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but if you can get one sack and two quarter back hits out of an eddrossure every single week, that's a really good, that's a really good season.
- 16:28[SPEAKER_00]: Now, granted, you want more consistency here and there, but I'm, you know, happy he got the sack.
- 16:34[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the bears ended up with three sex, which, you know, they struggled a little bit with, you know, getting home last season.
- 16:41[SPEAKER_00]: So that was encouraging.
- 16:42[SPEAKER_00]: I believe.
- 16:43[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, obviously things slow down for one reason or another.
- 16:47[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of it just came down to just to get passive prevent defense in the, you know, when you have the lead.
- 16:56[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, it pisses me off.
- 16:58[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, because I'm not an NFL coach.
- 16:59[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, you know, I'm just a fat guy who talks into a microphone, not even a microphone.
- 17:05[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing this on my laptop on, you know, at home.
- 17:08[SPEAKER_00]: So, but at the same time, it's like, that's just way too, it's way too passive in coverage to be able to, you know, just let them attack you underneath.
- 17:21[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, oh, yes, sure, you know, we'll play,
- 17:25[SPEAKER_00]: off zone coverage.
- 17:26[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to run cover three run cover four.
- 17:28[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have these deep shells along the perimeter who cares if they consistently move the ball nine ten yards down the field.
- 17:36[SPEAKER_00]: I don't get that line of thinking.
- 17:38[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't.
- 17:40[SPEAKER_00]: I guess, you know, it's something Hebrew fluceded.
- 17:43[SPEAKER_00]: Something we saw from Dennis Allen today and it wasn't as much nearly as
- 17:53[SPEAKER_00]: a lot less refined, I guess, you know, some of the like the aggressiveness wasn't just wasn't there.
- 18:00[SPEAKER_00]: At least our end zones are cool.
- 18:02[SPEAKER_00]: Hell yeah, dude.
- 18:03[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 18:04[SPEAKER_00]: No, I love the, I do like the Navy blue end zones.
- 18:07[SPEAKER_00]: That's something positive to think about, I guess, whatever the hell.
- 18:14[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know.
- 18:18[SPEAKER_00]: Good thing we spent our first two picks on past catchers.
- 18:20[SPEAKER_00]: They went off tonight.
- 18:22[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I get that.
- 18:23[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I get that.
- 18:24[SPEAKER_00]: I get the concern of being like, oh, you know, why didn't Colston do more?
- 18:27[SPEAKER_00]: Why didn't Luther do more?
- 18:29[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I have more receiving yards in the NFL than Luther burden right now.
- 18:33[SPEAKER_00]: And that hurts me to say as the self-proclaimed fan account of Luther burden.
- 18:39[SPEAKER_00]: But I think you look at it from who else is out there?
- 18:43[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, doomsday got nine targets.
- 18:47[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the completions weren't all that deep, but Odunze was heavily targeted.
- 18:53[SPEAKER_00]: All means that Kies was heavily targeted.
- 18:56[SPEAKER_00]: It looked, I mean, we saw that in the preseason where he was the first team slot receiver.
- 19:01[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, that seems to be the case here to start off the year.
- 19:03[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that changes, I don't know.
- 19:06[SPEAKER_00]: And within the case of Colston, I do think that, you know, it's a young tight end.
- 19:11[SPEAKER_00]: He was the tight end to in terms of, you know, target distribution, Colcomet,
- 19:18[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's about fair, but I get that though.
- 19:21[SPEAKER_00]: I get that though, I do.
- 19:23[SPEAKER_00]: The concern about we're still seeing the same struggles and the trenches on offense, the offensive line, struggled down the stretch in that second half.
- 19:40[SPEAKER_00]: Two biggest positive takeaways and two biggest negatives.
- 19:44[SPEAKER_00]: This is a good question shout out Almighty Man in the YouTube chat.
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- 20:05[SPEAKER_00]: Two biggest positive takeaways.
- 20:06[SPEAKER_00]: I think that, I mean, again, the opening script look really good.
- 20:11[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that the defense came out firing.
- 20:14[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is kind of cheating to say, the biggest positive takeaways, the first half, biggest negative takeaways, the second half.
- 20:23[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, that's basically what it is.
- 20:25[SPEAKER_00]: I think that the offense, when it had a script, when it came out right out of the gate, they had a good plan and they executed it well.
- 20:38[SPEAKER_00]: It's just that once things got a little bit more, all right, now we need to go with the flow of the game was when Ben Johnson,
- 20:48[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
- 20:49[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't as big of a fan of his play calling again, you know, I know a couple people in the comments have talked about it a little bit, you know, a little screen heavier.
- 20:58[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, I think that it's kind of, it kind of limits your offense when Caleb Williams is struggling to hit those deep balls when he's struggling to hit those intermediate throws.
- 21:07[SPEAKER_00]: I think that the one in particular, I had trying to remember if it was the third quarter
- 21:18[SPEAKER_00]: I think that Caleb Williams, he had a throw to Cole like on a deep scene and, you know, Comet was open.
- 21:30[SPEAKER_00]: Comet was open.
- 21:31[SPEAKER_00]: He did a good job and he ran the route perfectly in the point where he adjusted the tempo of his route to work himself open against that zone coverage.
- 21:46[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's something Comet does really well across the middle of the field in particular where he senses those soft spots and he can exploit those to his personal gain and Caleb just missed him.
- 21:58[SPEAKER_00]: I mean he he made the right read he had plenty of zip behind the ball but at the same time if you can't hit your guy in stride then what the hell are we doing you know.
- 22:12[SPEAKER_00]: Again, again, it's early, it's literally week one, it's week one, but I think that the frustration we saw the inconsistency and the intermediate game and the deep accuracy, it was a problem last year, it's a problem again this year.
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- 25:19[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so here we are now, uh, what's next?
- 25:25[SPEAKER_00]: I guess is, you know, what's what's on my mind, at least.
- 25:30[SPEAKER_00]: So looking at this now and by the way, I will say we're at over 10,000
- 25:38[SPEAKER_00]: live on this post game show.
- 25:39[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that isn't nuts.
- 25:42[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys sincerely.
- 25:43[SPEAKER_00]: I know that you guys are all looking to find ways to just talk shit about the bears and just be, oh, we're fucking awful.
- 25:50[SPEAKER_00]: And like, yeah, I get that.
- 25:53[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, there are a lot of post games shows out there.
- 25:56[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate you guys choosing me.
- 25:59[SPEAKER_00]: So it's very much appreciative.
- 26:02[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking on X right now, the only show or the only stream that has more viewers is literally the bears live press conference.
- 26:08[SPEAKER_00]: So that's pretty fucking sweet.
- 26:10[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you guys.
- 26:13[SPEAKER_00]: The porn stash, yeah.
- 26:15[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that wasn't my intention with it.
- 26:18[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, hey,
- 26:20[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I look like a fat boy might as well look like a fat man, you know, so.
- 26:27[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's just my thinking behind it.
- 26:29[SPEAKER_00]: I'm currently, I left one job and I'm in the process of getting on board of for another.
- 26:37[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm like, hey, my as well.
- 26:38[SPEAKER_00]: Just grow up the facial hair.
- 26:39[SPEAKER_00]: So.
- 26:42[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
- 26:42[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you like it.
- 26:43[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't make fun of me, whatever, this kind of go tea things a little.
- 26:50[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
- 26:50[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
- 26:51[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, so what's next?
- 26:55[SPEAKER_00]: So next week is a match of against the lions.
- 26:59[SPEAKER_00]: You have a little bit of a quick turnaround at six days there.
- 27:04[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to be Sunday in Detroit at noon on Fox.
- 27:10[SPEAKER_00]: Detroit's going to be interesting to me because again, that's a game, you know, that's a game where the lines didn't look all that great against Green Bay, and I think part of that comes down to the interior offensive line in Detroit.
- 27:25[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, I'd say that this is I don't want to call it a bounce back game because Detroit is an extremely talented team, but I think that there's still there's potential to get things back on track in this game against Detroit because they're coming off a down game they got beat pretty consistently at the point of attack in the trenches.
- 27:46[SPEAKER_00]: After week one, I'm much less confident the bears win a game against the packers, let alone sweep them, but I had them splitting going into this season, but now not so sure.
- 28:02[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that something that's going to be key is again, starting off hot, but you need to learn from your mistakes and you need to adjust.
- 28:10[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's that's one thing that the Vikings did very well on both sides of the ball is they adjusted.
- 28:18[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that.
- 28:19[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores, that's a better coaching tandem, at least they coached better than Ben Johnson again, the salended.
- 28:30[SPEAKER_00]: They coach a lot better.
- 28:31[SPEAKER_00]: That second half, they turn things around.
- 28:34[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the bear's got a little bit complacent with the lead.
- 28:37[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, all right, let's take the foot off the gas a little bit.
- 28:40[SPEAKER_00]: That's the same shit, the last coaching staff did.
- 28:43[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what concerns me, and that's something I didn't think Ben Johnson would do.
- 28:47[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think as much that Dennis Allen would do admittedly leading up to the season.
- 28:52[SPEAKER_00]: I did more research on Ben Johnson being the head coach and his offensive philosophy than Dennis Allen on defense.
- 28:58[SPEAKER_00]: But still, I think it's, you know, a lot of the same concerns
- 29:12[SPEAKER_00]: So the next three games, it's Lions Cowboys Raiders.
- 29:15[SPEAKER_00]: And I think in theory, yes, I don't think they're going to win all three of them.
- 29:22[SPEAKER_00]: I think between the Lions and the Cowboys in particular, the Cowboys, I don't know.
- 29:28[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a little worried about that Cowboys offense.
- 29:32[SPEAKER_00]: going up against the bears defense when it comes down to it down the stretch.
- 29:36[SPEAKER_00]: Johnson's tried so hard to establish the run.
- 29:38[SPEAKER_00]: It felt like the drive just said zero momentum.
- 29:40[SPEAKER_00]: I do agree with that.
- 29:41[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that part of it came down to the interior offensive line didn't do as good of a job as, you know, many people that are deeply hoped.
- 29:51[SPEAKER_00]: It's tough to, at least in my opinion, it's tough to say to pinpoint exactly which offensive line been struggled on a consistent down
- 30:01[SPEAKER_00]: I'll know that tomorrow or Wednesday or whenever the all 22 comes out and I get the chance to look at it.
- 30:08[SPEAKER_00]: But upon first glance, I mean, it didn't seem like Drew Dalman or Jonah Jackson lived up to the contracts they had.
- 30:14[SPEAKER_00]: And again, I say that it's super early in the season.
- 30:20[SPEAKER_00]: It's totally possible that they rebound.
- 30:22[SPEAKER_00]: I expect them to look sharper in week 10 compared to where they do and week one of running this offense.
- 30:28[SPEAKER_00]: in J2K in the YouTube chat saying, darn, I'll write was horrible.
- 30:32[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I can't say one way or another on a down by down consistency basis, but there were some flashes that were a little bit concerning.
- 30:41[SPEAKER_00]: So that's all I'll say on that from an individual offensive line perspective.
- 30:46[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think the run blocking wasn't where it needed to be.
- 30:50[SPEAKER_00]: I think and Chris Armstrong says in the chat, we also got beat consistently in the trenches.
- 30:54[SPEAKER_00]: Twins is with the lions.
- 30:56[SPEAKER_00]: That'll be interesting because the bears are also, you know, the bears are coming off the game where they lost a little bit in the trenches down the stretch and sort of the lions this week.
- 31:05[SPEAKER_00]: So,
- 31:07[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see on that end, I think that, I mean, DeAndre Swift, I think it's pretty fair to say at the stretch, he's not a great downhill runner.
- 31:17[SPEAKER_00]: I think that Johnson wants him to be, and like a big difference between Jamir Gibbs and DeAndre Swift is, I don't think Swift is too far off in terms of his ability to make plays in space.
- 31:30[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, that's something gives us tremendous.
- 31:32[SPEAKER_00]: I think Swift is really good at that and making guys miss in the open field, making smart cuts, making explosive cuts, but gives us a lot more refined in between the tackles.
- 31:42[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's what separates in below average starting running back from an elite starting running back is what you can do in between the tackles.
- 31:53[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's where a lot of your runs are coming from in the end of the day.
- 31:56[SPEAKER_00]: And the ability to, you know, adjust your tempo to find the open running lane and then explode through the open running lane once you find it.
- 32:05[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, you quick, Schmartner did not play.
- 32:07[SPEAKER_00]: He was an active so if there's an elite number two running back.
- 32:10[SPEAKER_00]: He's not number one in a leading back.
- 32:13[SPEAKER_00]: I'd say Swift is a really good one B, which I guess is the same as saying he's an elite number two running back.
- 32:21[SPEAKER_00]: So.
- 32:23[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with you there.
- 32:24[SPEAKER_00]: I think that he works best as part of a running back by committee, but again, the only running back who got carries was DeAndre Swift.
- 32:35[SPEAKER_00]: Menongai didn't have any carries.
- 32:40[SPEAKER_00]: Rochon's hurt.
- 32:42[SPEAKER_00]: It was all swift, and I don't think that swift is good enough to take on that role consistently.
- 32:49[SPEAKER_00]: The hope is that eventually monungai or Rochon or somebody else that steps in and can provide a little bit more consistency in between the tackles because I do believe that Rochon's better in between the tackles than Deondere Swift is.
- 33:15[SPEAKER_00]: Also, creamer the house, shout out, cream sleeve.
- 33:18[SPEAKER_00]: He commented earlier, wherever you are, appreciate you tuning in.
- 33:23[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's favorite, janitor.
- 33:28[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think that's one thing I'm concerned, but the Undersmith had 53 rushing yards on 17 carries, 3.1 yards per carry.
- 33:36[SPEAKER_00]: And again, part of that comes down to the offensive line didn't do nearly as good of a job as it needed to.
- 33:42[SPEAKER_00]: But I can't part of that comes down to just Swift isn't making the right moves.
- 33:46[SPEAKER_00]: He's just, I don't know.
- 33:49[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like sometimes he's like a bull in a China shop.
- 33:51[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't even mean that in that he's physical because I think he's more of a finesse type of running back than anything.
- 33:57[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that you look at it from that perspective.
- 34:04[SPEAKER_00]: He's just, he is one tempo and it's go when you ask him to, are I be a little bit more patient, you know, writing the mesh point or, you know, once you get that hand off, you know, letting the play develop.
- 34:18[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't really show that ability.
- 34:19[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm a little bit concerned about that.
- 34:22[SPEAKER_00]: We have a pack of fan, everybody, we have a pack of fan in the chat, everybody boo, Evan, boo, boo, uh,
- 34:33[SPEAKER_00]: boo him and your team that's better than us.
- 34:37[SPEAKER_00]: God damn it.
- 34:40[SPEAKER_00]: Jacob, I think even you could have gotten 3.1 yards per carry.
- 34:44[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't have.
- 34:45[SPEAKER_00]: I say you can go back and try and look for my high school football stats.
- 34:53[SPEAKER_00]: You won't find anything because I fucking sucked.
- 34:57[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
- 34:58[SPEAKER_00]: Shoutout Benedict Academy, I was the best fourth string wide receiver they ever saw.
- 35:05[SPEAKER_00]: Really good in practice.
- 35:07[SPEAKER_00]: Well, not really good in practice.
- 35:08[SPEAKER_00]: I had one move and it was an incredible hitch and go because I cut back so slowly that everyone bit on it and then I just shot the ball, I just exploded vertically.
- 35:26[SPEAKER_00]: I was a one-trade pony, that's all I could do, and unless the offensive line could hold up for seven seconds, that wasn't gonna work it again.
- 35:32[SPEAKER_00]: So, I disagree that I could have gotten 3.1 yards per carry.
- 35:36[SPEAKER_00]: Reggie Bush has finished with negative rushing yards in the season.
- 35:39[SPEAKER_00]: I think I would have gotten demolished out there.
- 35:42[SPEAKER_00]: But if we took O'Line instead of a backup tight end and backup receiver, do we win this game?
- 35:47[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I don't think so.
- 35:52[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so.
- 35:56[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think the value on the offensive line was great at the time that the bears picked a tenth overall.
- 36:04[SPEAKER_00]: It made it especially a tackle.
- 36:06[SPEAKER_00]: I think when you bring in Joe Toney and Jonah Jackson, I wasn't expecting them to go for a guard.
- 36:11[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, Tyler Booker wasn't somebody that I really anticipated they'd have any interest in, especially that early.
- 36:17[SPEAKER_00]: But you look at it, the top tackles.
- 36:19[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Will Campbell went fourth, Armad Mmbu went seventh, Kevin Keldon banks went ninth.
- 36:25[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the top, the consensus top three tackles in the class.
- 36:28[SPEAKER_00]: They were all off the board.
- 36:30[SPEAKER_00]: The next offensive tackled and go off until, Conorally, at 29, Josh Simmons at 32, I think that's one that could come back to bite Chicago.
- 36:39[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously he fell, they're, you know, injury concerns and people were talking about maybe there's, you know,
- 36:46[SPEAKER_00]: personality concerns.
- 36:48[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
- 36:49[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say that I've never talked to Josh Simmons.
- 36:51[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't talked to his coaches.
- 36:52[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if any of that's true.
- 36:55[SPEAKER_00]: But I think the fact that Josh Simmons is starting at left tackle right away and you look pretty good for the chiefs, all things considered.
- 37:01[SPEAKER_00]: I think that that could.
- 37:05[SPEAKER_00]: that could come back to hurt them a little bit.
- 37:07[SPEAKER_00]: So Caleb Williams is talking right now.
- 37:09[SPEAKER_00]: I probably shouldn't advertise that because people might switch over to that.
- 37:14[SPEAKER_00]: What about Will Johnson?
- 37:16[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so that's an interesting one.
- 37:17[SPEAKER_00]: Cause Will Johnson, I didn't watch a ton of the Cardinals game but looking through individual clips and then obviously how we graded with PFF, he did, he was phenomenal.
- 37:30[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, that's another tricky situation
- 37:37[SPEAKER_00]: are they really willing to take a bet on a guy with those, you know, those medicals?
- 37:42[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I would have, but at the same time, I don't have access to all that crap, so I think Wil Johnson was phenomenal at Michigan.
- 37:49[SPEAKER_00]: He was phenomenal a week one for the cardinals.
- 37:52[SPEAKER_00]: Would he have been better than Tyreek Stevenson?
- 37:54[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
- 37:55[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a very high bar at all.
- 37:57[SPEAKER_00]: That's one thing I'm a little bit worried about.
- 37:59[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what happens when they Sean Wright.
- 38:00[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they're talking about it in the press conference or if one of the
- 38:07[SPEAKER_00]: later, but we'll see, time will tell, but grade the offensive line play, they didn't open up any holes.
- 38:18[SPEAKER_00]: So I think things started off very like well enough in past protection, but I think that the the run blocking was a major concern.
- 38:28[SPEAKER_00]: I think that in terms of allowing
- 38:32[SPEAKER_00]: Deondry Swift to have, and I think with someone like Swift who doesn't have very good vision in between the tackles, he needs to have really good and blocking up front for him to, you know, be a good running back.
- 38:43[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's why he worked well in Philadelphia because that offensive line was so damn good that even Swift with his vision issues couldn't mess that up.
- 38:54[SPEAKER_00]: That's not so much the case here in Chicago, unfortunately.
- 38:58[SPEAKER_00]: So the offensive line, again,
- 39:01[SPEAKER_00]: I'll go back and I'll watch it again in the all 22, I'll be able to identify individual performances.
- 39:10[SPEAKER_00]: And again, just a quick little plug.
- 39:12[SPEAKER_00]: You can check out patreon.com slash Jacob and Fonte.
- 39:16[SPEAKER_00]: I do five scatter reports for bear's players every single week.
- 39:20[SPEAKER_00]: I did it during the preseason.
- 39:22[SPEAKER_00]: I did it during the regular season last year, where
- 39:26[SPEAKER_00]: I head to the tape, I break down the strengths, I break down the weaknesses, what it each player do well in, I'll tweet it out here shortly, but I ask for who you guys want to see me do, scouting reports on, just so it's more enticing content for you guys.
- 39:44[SPEAKER_00]: But the offensive line is a whole, like a...
- 39:47[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I can't give it any higher than a C, C minus the pass protection was a little bit better, but in the same time that just wasn't, you know, it wasn't what it needed to be especially down the stretch, you know, you got to be along the interior.
- 40:02[SPEAKER_00]: There are a couple of times where Caleb had to scramble outside of the tackles.
- 40:07[SPEAKER_00]: Ideally, you don't have them doing that.
- 40:11[SPEAKER_00]: Ideally, you just operate, you know, businesses usual with a normal offense.
- 40:17[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
- 40:18[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going through the comments here.
- 40:23[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to-
- 40:27[SPEAKER_00]: wrap things up relatively soon, just out of respect for you all.
- 40:33[SPEAKER_00]: It's late.
- 40:34[SPEAKER_00]: It is during the week, but I want to touch back is Caleb Williams bad or what do you think about Caleb Williams?
- 40:40[SPEAKER_00]: So for those of you who are who are tuning in just now or missed like the first 10, 15 minutes of this show, I talked a little bit about how
- 40:51[SPEAKER_00]: This level of play from Caleb Williams isn't going to be acceptable if he's going to establish himself as the face of the bears as the franchise quarterback of the Chicago Bears, he can't be planned like this.
- 41:04[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to sit here and be like he's going to be bad forever.
- 41:09[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to sit here and say it's over.
- 41:12[SPEAKER_00]: Bench him right now, start Tyson, Bage and it's, you know, abandoned ship abandoned all hope, you whoever enter here, whatever.
- 41:20[SPEAKER_00]: I, whatever the fuck, I don't know, I'm stupid shit, but I think that Caleb wasn't nearly as good as he needed to be.
- 41:29[SPEAKER_00]: I.
- 41:32[SPEAKER_00]: duh, come on.
- 41:34[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, I think it's too early to declare this project as a bust.
- 41:41[SPEAKER_00]: But when you're having some of the same issues that you had in your one where you're going through and you're struggling to hit the intermediate pass, you're struggling to hit the deep wall.
- 41:49[SPEAKER_00]: You had a couple of throws that are just outright like, come on, you haven't opened man.
- 41:53[SPEAKER_00]: This offense is it did a better job of scheming targets open.
- 41:57[SPEAKER_00]: Then I mean, it's one game, but I think they did a better job of scheming targets open then the last offense did.
- 42:06[SPEAKER_00]: So I wouldn't quit on Caleb Williams.
- 42:10[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't for the record.
- 42:12[SPEAKER_00]: I think that there's a lot of time left in this season.
- 42:16[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, I mean, I tweeted out.
- 42:19[SPEAKER_00]: I think that I
- 42:22[SPEAKER_00]: with Justin Fields, it was somewhere around midway through year three with his lack of development where I was like, all right, this isn't going to work.
- 42:34[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, Kudos to Fields, he had an incredible first week that last drive wasn't great, but everything else was good.
- 42:43[SPEAKER_00]: Everything else was good.
- 42:44[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that he did everything that he could have done to keep the jets in the game in his own way.
- 42:51[SPEAKER_00]: Stickin' strictly with when he was with the bears.
- 42:54[SPEAKER_00]: I gave him until about midway through year three.
- 42:57[SPEAKER_00]: I think with Caleb with the fact that he's a number one overall pick, I think with the fact that he's a selection from this general manager.
- 43:07[SPEAKER_00]: I think the fact that he, you know, has now been Johnson as his head coach that he has all these targets to throw to that he has on paper a better offensive line.
- 43:16[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it wasn't perfect this week.
- 43:19[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how things go.
- 43:21[SPEAKER_00]: Point is, Caleb has a lot more going for him in terms of supporting cast than Justin Fields had.
- 43:28[SPEAKER_00]: And Caleb didn't look all that great.
- 43:33[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that naturally you have to accelerate the timeline of identifying, all right, when does it become an issue, when do we abandon hope, I'm not for I can't stress this enough, I wouldn't so what I want to do here is I'm, you know, this shows this is week one.
- 43:56[SPEAKER_00]: Struggles on my end, but I don't have banners set up to put down here in the little bottom of the comments, whatever, but I'm going to create one right now for you all and I hope that you all like this this ending segment that
- 44:20[SPEAKER_00]: have right now.
- 44:23[SPEAKER_00]: So my happy ending because you can't wrap it up without a happy ending.
- 44:31[SPEAKER_00]: So what I'll say, I like to try and keep things optimistic.
- 44:38[SPEAKER_00]: I realize that my tweets sometimes might not come off that way.
- 44:46[SPEAKER_00]: I get very locked into the emotion of the game.
- 44:49[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why I'd be a terrible beat reporter.
- 44:51[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I'd be a terrible journalist because I can't do that shit.
- 44:54[SPEAKER_00]: I just can't, but anyway, what I want to try and do for all of you is to give you something positive to go off of.
- 45:08[SPEAKER_00]: heading out of every single game.
- 45:09[SPEAKER_00]: And this one, obviously, it's going to leave a bitter taste in everyone's mouth.
- 45:14[SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes when you have a bitter taste, you just have to swallow.
- 45:22[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone, anyone, nothing in the comments, come on, those fucking hilarious, Jesus.
- 45:29[SPEAKER_00]: Tough crowd, but anyway,
- 45:33[SPEAKER_00]: Think started off great and I think that that's that's encouraging I think that you start off.
- 45:42[SPEAKER_00]: executing on offense, you start off executing on defense.
- 45:47[SPEAKER_00]: It becomes easier to win games when you start off hot.
- 45:52[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, granted, things are, you know, that doesn't sound like the truth to bears fans considering they blew this lead and they blew so many others with eberfluous, but historically speaking with a normal NFL football team, you start off hot and more likely to
- 46:11[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that the fact that they were able to do that is encouraging the Vikings are a very good team.
- 46:16[SPEAKER_00]: That's another thing.
- 46:17[SPEAKER_00]: They hung with them within three points.
- 46:20[SPEAKER_00]: They had the lead.
- 46:21[SPEAKER_00]: They blew it.
- 46:22[SPEAKER_00]: It comes down to inexperience.
- 46:23[SPEAKER_00]: It comes down to the quarterback is where it needs to be.
- 46:26[SPEAKER_00]: But the Vikings were 14 and three last year.
- 46:29[SPEAKER_00]: And they were 13 and four three years ago now.
- 46:33[SPEAKER_00]: This is a damn good team.
- 46:34[SPEAKER_00]: Kevin O'Connell is one of the best head coaches in the NFL.
- 46:39[SPEAKER_00]: Brian Flores is one of the best defensive coordinators in the NFL.
- 46:42[SPEAKER_00]: This is a very well coach football team.
- 46:44[SPEAKER_00]: And sure, JJ McCarthy was in his first, you know, regular season start and he wasn't perfect.
- 46:50[SPEAKER_00]: But this is what happens when you have an established coach, an established coaching staff and a talented roster.
- 47:00[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the Vikings are a really good team.
- 47:02[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that that's something to be optimistic about is that the bears were able to get out in front of a lead against a Kevin O'Connell at Vikings team.
- 47:16[SPEAKER_00]: In week one of Ben Johnson being the head coach, sure it ended poorly, but they got off to a strong start and for three quarters, they outperformed one of the most one of the best coached teams in the NFL with the very talented roster.
- 47:30[SPEAKER_00]: So.
- 47:32[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm going to leave you with.
- 47:33[SPEAKER_00]: That's my happy ending.
- 47:38[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you all for tuning in.
- 47:40[SPEAKER_00]: This is something I'm going to be doing every week.
- 47:44[SPEAKER_00]: At least most weeks that I'm not going to games, I'm probably going to go to two or so this year.
- 47:49[SPEAKER_00]: But other than that, every single week, I will be here immediately after the game to wrap it up with you all.
- 47:55[SPEAKER_00]: So,
- 47:58[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to do it for the opening edition of wrap it up with Jacob and Fonte.
- 48:03[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you all enjoyed this beautiful, sexy experience.
- 48:09[SPEAKER_00]: So you guys all know that game sucked.
- 48:12[SPEAKER_00]: So you know what I'm going to do next.
- 48:16[SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy that.
- 48:17[SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy that memory going in your head.
- 48:19[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably gross to look at and to think about.
- 48:24[SPEAKER_00]: But.
- 48:26[SPEAKER_00]: there you go.
- 48:27[SPEAKER_00]: So that's it.
- 48:29[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you all for tuning in.
- 48:30[SPEAKER_00]: We had over 13,000 viewers in our first post game presser that's not lost on me.
- 48:38[SPEAKER_00]: I truly do appreciate that.
- 48:39[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys all for tuning in and airing out your frustrations with me in the comments.
- 48:46[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you all for tuning in.
- 48:53[SPEAKER_00]: At the end of the day, it's good to have bears full ball back and it's a long season.
- 48:59[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of things can change and I'm hoping they will.
- 49:05[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you.
- 49:06[SPEAKER_00]: I hope my next ending is much happier.
- 49:08[SPEAKER_00]: I do, too.
- 49:11[SPEAKER_00]: I've got that, you know, like it's a it's a happy ending, but I still have like that weird feeling like, oh God, but I've done like you look at your like hands and you're like, oh God, I did this Jesus Christ.
- 49:25[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I'm going to leave on that note because I don't know how to segue out of that.
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- 49:57[SPEAKER_00]: Much love, I will see you next week, it's better.
- 50:00[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, appreciate you guys, bear down.