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Chicago Bears vs Cleveland Browns Postgame: Wrap It Up with Jacob Infante! · 2nd City Gridiron

0:03
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a game.
0:04
[SPEAKER_01]: The Chicago Bears needed to win and my God, they, uh,
0:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Boy, did they win?
0:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome everybody to wrap it up with Jacob and Fonte.
0:17
[SPEAKER_01]: That's me, the official post game show of the Second City Gridiron podcast network.
0:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host, Jacob and Fonte.
0:26
[SPEAKER_01]: The Chicago Bears have defeated the Cleveland Browns, 31 to 3.
0:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Now the Bears are 10 and 4.
0:34
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the first time they've had double digit wins in a single season since 2018.
0:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Ben Johnson becomes the third head coach in Bear's history to have double digit wins in his first season as the team said coach.
0:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And the bears are still firmly in position to end up with a playoff spot if the season ends today.
0:58
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot to be excited about.
1:01
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot that we're going to break down from this game.
1:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Both sides of the ball honestly, it's pretty.
1:09
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty hard to be pessimistic when your team wins, again, 31 to 3.
1:15
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter who it's against, so things are looking pretty good in Chicago.
1:21
[SPEAKER_01]: For those of you who are watching live, thank you for tuning in, whether it's on my Twitter page or here on the second city grid on YouTube or Facebook pages,
1:33
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're listening after the fact anywhere that you get your podcast, we appreciate you as well, let's just dig into it.
1:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So Anthony first, all right, out of the gate says bears could have put up 50.
1:45
[SPEAKER_01]: They had a lot of good feel positions.
1:47
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't capitalize on it.
1:48
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, look, I do think the bears could have as much as they won by picking up 28 wins or picking up 28.
2:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus Christ, what am I saying?
2:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Winning by 28 points in the win, I definitely think it could have been a larger deficit for sure.
2:10
[SPEAKER_01]: They could have sunk the Browns into.
2:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think that's neither here nor there.
2:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you celebrate the win.
2:20
[SPEAKER_01]: You celebrate the blowout victory in whatever case you can get it, but yeah, that's true.
2:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that there are a couple of penalties that the bears inflicted on themselves.
2:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the missed field goal by Cairo Santos was pretty brutal.
2:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure we'll touch on that as the show progresses, but yeah, obviously not a great look from 35 yards out.
2:40
[SPEAKER_01]: But still, I mean, even with a couple of, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: head scratching penalties.
2:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that the offensive execution was a lot better than I think maybe a lot of people anticipated going into this game.
2:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, because Caleb Williams threw for 242 passing yards, two touchdowns, no picks.
3:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And considering how cold it was, I was expecting the bears to run the ball maybe a little bit more.
3:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they still had, what was it, you have 33 carries to 28 passing attempts and there were three sacks in the mix as well.
3:19
[SPEAKER_01]: But still, you know, they ran the ball more than they dropped back to pass.
3:23
[SPEAKER_01]: And even still, I'm surprised with how much they threw the ball.
3:26
[SPEAKER_01]: But Caleb Williams did a really good job.
3:31
[SPEAKER_01]: of, you know, moving the ball down the field pretty consistently, Luther Burton had a great game, before he got hurt, you know, unfortunately, we'll have to see what the, you know, the injury reports say in the coming weeks.
3:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, seriously, obviously hope it's not the two serious because he's been, you know, he's been fantastic the last couple games.
3:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, six catches 84 yards for him, long of 40 yards, 14 yards per completion.
3:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Colston Loveland also has been tremendous in the passing attack as well.
4:01
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been a consistent force across the middle of the field.
4:05
[SPEAKER_01]: At first Chicago, the...
4:07
[SPEAKER_01]: really ever since the uh ever since the bangles game.
4:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean that was his is drink out game obviously he had the two touchdowns and the you know massive breakaway for you know the game winner, but uh he's also he's just been solid over the course of the year and today he had four catches on five targets for 63 yards.
4:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean that's what that's why they took him with the 10th overall pick.
4:30
[SPEAKER_01]: You have a guy who's that big who's that athletic who can stretch the field as
4:36
[SPEAKER_01]: that's that becomes really tough to stop and i mean obviously there are big tight ends but also and there are big fast tight ends there guys who go through the draft and they're always hyped up as oh this guy's a physical specimen but not all of them really know how to run routes and know how to exploit the soft spots in zone coverage how to exploit leverage against man coverage you know and just their stems to go after the db's blind spot or the linebacker whoever
5:06
[SPEAKER_01]: And Lovelin knows how to do that.
5:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So he was fantastic as well today, DJ Moore as well.
5:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously that, you know, the second touchdown he had was unbelievable.
5:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's an incredible throw by Caleb Williams, tremendous catch by DJ, four catches 69 yards on five targets, you know, probably his best game of the season.
5:29
[SPEAKER_01]: at DJ Morethro, as Captain Stern mentions that here in the Twitter chat, two and two weeks and saying throws.
5:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think obviously you're looking at Caleb Williams, you see just how much
5:56
[SPEAKER_01]: really a lot to be excited about with how the PASC attack is looked in, you know, less than ideal conditions.
6:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallows Beer Hall mentions as Joe Tree on show you ain't got better than Miles Garrett.
6:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, shoot.
6:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd say if there's a competition for who has more letters in their name, then Joe Tree on show you ain't got to definitely pick up the win.
6:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, shoot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had three tackles, he had a quarterback hit, you know, pressure a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While we're at it, too, the bear's past rush looked a lot better today.
6:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and I know Cleveland's offense line hasn't been fantastic.
6:29
[SPEAKER_01]: This year, I know Shader Sanders has a habit to hold on to the ball too long, but still, I mean, five sacks is nothing to scoff about, five sacks, 15 quarter back hits.
6:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there was consistent pressure up the middle of the field.
6:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was tremendous, honestly, you know, they're getting whether it was blitz anger, even just the foreman rush, I think that, you know, they did a pretty good job of putting, you know, putting the pressure on sugar with, you know, stunts and blitzes and, you know, mixing up the different looks that the browns offence alignment had to work with and made things tougher for sugar to kind of process.
7:12
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, this is who's going to be going
7:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And that the bears defensive performance was really interesting because I mean they gave up like what probably two or three really bad deep throes.
7:26
[SPEAKER_01]: But other than that, I mean they were stellar they were they rushed the past are very well they defended against the run very well.
7:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Judkins didn't even have two yards per carry his is a 12 carries and the longest he picked up on a single on a single carry was four yards.
7:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's, I think that's pretty nuts, and it says a lot honestly about just how.
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[SPEAKER_01]: consistent, the defensive line was against Cleveland.
7:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, look, it's the browns.
8:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is a game they were supposed to win and they did, but this is what you look for for a playoff team.
8:05
[SPEAKER_01]: When, you know, you play the team who's ahead of you, you need to be able to do a great job with that and you need to be able to execute and, you know, show them why you're the better team.
8:15
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Bears did exactly that.
8:16
[SPEAKER_01]: So, the defensive line in particular was just, it was fantastic.
8:22
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I got a lot of it.
8:27
[SPEAKER_01]: So we got a couple of people here in the Twitter chat talking about Cairo Santos here as well.
8:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Evan Lapo in particular says, I hate Cairo, he's gonna be Cody Parky all over again.
8:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I'm not gonna lie.
8:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely had like something similar kind of going the back of my head where
8:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Like right after Santos hit that or miss that 35-yard field goal which like what the hell like how did he miss that I'm wearing a hat today because my hairs are massive and where look at that look at that for those of you watching live look at what the hell is this haircut
9:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, it looks pretty, well, the haircut's fine.
9:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I've just, I've been wearing hats like all the time last couple days.
9:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I was wearing it for, you know, I was wearing it during the game and like all of yesterday I had a hat on too.
9:16
[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, Hellia, I guess, but anyway, no one wants to hear about my hat here at Cairo Santos.
9:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I definitely got into the back of my mind where it's like, oh shit.
9:28
[SPEAKER_01]: What if this happens in a playoff game or what if this happens?
9:32
[SPEAKER_01]: in one of the late games down the stretch this season where they need to pick up a win over the lions or the Niners or the Packers or something.
9:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And what if Kyro's in consistencies what ends up hurting them down the stretch?
9:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean,
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see, and I don't think that Cairo is nearly as bad as parking was in 2018.
9:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that Cairo right now is definitely a better kicker, but he's still not great.
10:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And Evan Lippo also mentions Gogett Jake Moody back.
10:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So I know Moody's on the commanders.
10:09
[SPEAKER_01]: He's
10:11
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like fully on the active roster.
10:15
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think they wouldn't be able to do that unless the commanders waved him and then they have to figure out if they could bring him back on the practice squad.
10:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Which, I mean, if they can figure it out, I'd be completely happy with that.
10:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I was pretty adamant on hey, Jake Moody's, he's younger, he's got a much bigger leg,
10:39
[SPEAKER_01]: He was a little bit, you know, he was in consistent during his time of the 49ers, but with the bears, I mean, he went eight for nine.
10:44
[SPEAKER_01]: He hit a game winning field goal against the commanders too.
10:48
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't miss any of his extra point attempts.
10:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
10:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
10:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to dwell too much on.
10:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Cairo Santos sucks in a game where the bears won by 28.
11:02
[SPEAKER_01]: But still, I mean, it's something to think about.
11:04
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know.
11:05
[SPEAKER_01]: But Captain Stern says Miles Garrett is a beast.
11:08
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a top three defense.
11:09
[SPEAKER_01]: We just stomped.
11:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I mean, I'm not even mad about Miles Garrett getting too sacks.
11:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, good for him, you know, like he's just a
11:19
[SPEAKER_01]: phenomenal player.
11:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's already a first ballot Hall of Famer and that's not even including whenever he does presumably break the single sack of single season sack record.
11:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And then gets another depoy along with it gets another all pro gets another pro bull appearance.
11:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean he's
11:39
[SPEAKER_01]: he's he's a special player and he haven't him lineup against Aussie Trapillo that's that's not a that's not a battle that the bears were going to be able to win consistently.
11:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean shoot even Miles Garrett over Donnell Wright like Donnell's a solid player but Garrett is just in another stratosphere like that that's something where you're not going to shut him down consistently one
12:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, sure, you know, he got two sacks.
12:10
[SPEAKER_01]: It is what it is.
12:11
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, getting consistent pressure, but I think what I'm focused on more is the overall performance of the offense.
12:21
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they did a pretty good job of getting the ball out quickly, especially early in the game where they started to get a feel of oh,
12:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Like Miles Garrett, you know, Garrett's going to be able to generate a lot of pressure right out of the gate, like just seeing how quick you got off the ball.
12:38
[SPEAKER_01]: They threw, they threw chip blockers at him, whether it was, you know, commit or love Lunderman on guy guys like that and then having tripello go up against them.
12:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All the power too long.
12:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's a tough assignment, especially the Browns had Garrett in like a white nine alignment, a good amount.
12:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you have that much space to work with, you really need to make sure you're adjusting your pass at depth, make sure you're quick going into your kick slide.
13:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Tripilla was all right, all things considered.
13:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's a rookie left tack we're going against the best defensive player in the NFL right now.
13:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what do you expect?
13:17
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think the fact they were able to dominate the, they were able to excel as far as the, you know, time and possession goes, the bears had the ball for nearly 33 minutes, the Browns had it for just over 27 minutes.
13:32
[SPEAKER_01]: They were able to move the ball down the field pretty consistently, create running lanes for mostly deandry swift.
13:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, menungai had a couple touches and there as well, but swift was really good against Cleveland today.
13:43
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
13:44
[SPEAKER_01]: That and the past protection did enough to be able to, you know, keep Caleb up right and to extend plays enough where they could throw the ball down field and more from the not Caleb hit accurate throws.
14:00
[SPEAKER_01]: a couple of drops in there.
14:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it'll it'll come out to maybe three drops on 11 in completions by the end of the you know the time that they go through and grade everything and there were a couple of throwways as well.
14:12
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that Caleb's the adjusted completion percentage is going to look really good.
14:18
[SPEAKER_01]: But even then he still finished with, what was it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was 60.7, 60.7 was the completion percentage.
14:26
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that it was, I think it's performance was a lot better than that percentage anticipates.
14:32
[SPEAKER_01]: That's been the case for a lot of the year as well.
14:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think like if you watch the games, if you actually pay attention to the context of what's going on, Caleb having a low-completion percentage isn't necessarily too worrying at this point.
14:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Like are there things he can clean up?
14:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
14:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I don't think he's at his full potential by any stretch, but I think he's definitely improving and
14:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if the completion percentage is lower than it was last year, I mean, the, the playmaking is much better.
15:06
[SPEAKER_01]: They're moving the ball down the field much more efficiently.
15:08
[SPEAKER_01]: They're scoring a lot more is getting sacked a lot less.
15:13
[SPEAKER_01]: This has been a much better year for Caleb than it was, uh, when his rookie year on read reflects so.
15:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Mark mentions Mark and here in the chat mentions Luther is the best wider receiver on this team, enough of Rome getting his targets.
15:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I think that some of the consistency with
15:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Rome can get a little concerning.
15:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously he didn't play today, you know, reactivated his injury.
15:43
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, he was in warm-up, he was expected to play, then he got hurt leading up to the game again.
15:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Luther took over as the top receiver.
15:51
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I think, I don't know if I'm all the way there with that take.
15:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and obviously I went to Mizzou, I'm a Mizzou fan, I've been
16:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'm Luther Bird never since he went to high school and he's St. Louis, you know, highly touted recruit.
16:12
[SPEAKER_01]: He was probably one of the one of the biggest recruits that Mizzou footballs ever, you know, ever brought in and he lived up to the height for sure.
16:19
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that Luther, you know, still has some room to grow, but you're really seeing some of that star potential come through whereas, you know,
16:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Rome's definitely had some of that star potential that he shown earlier on in the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Recent weeks it's been a little hit or miss before we got hurt and he's missed a couple of games.
16:42
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm not all the way there yet in enough of Rome getting his targets.
16:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Like Luther is still gonna get his targets no matter what, if Rome's in the game or not.
16:53
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's still fair to say that it would make sense for Luther to be able to
17:02
[SPEAKER_01]: keep up this level of, you know, how often he's targeted in the passing game, even when Rome comes back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think, you know, he definitely impressed me today.
17:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I think, you know, you see the downfield ability, you see his athleticism being allowed to stretch the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You see his agility after the catch, you see his power after the catch, just how well he sees the field with
17:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I at least going through and watching the old 22 over the course of the season, I do think there's been improvement as far as what he brings the table as a like a route running technician as far as how he sells these concepts and disguises what type of route he's running to keep the defense guessing I think he's improved there.
17:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's I think the effort has improved too.
17:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there are some plays earlier on in the year where it's like, okay, he's clearly not the first read on this play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he's not going a full speed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's done a much better job of bringing it on a consistent level regardless of whether he's the first read the second read third, whatever, which I think is really huge too.
18:13
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
18:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.
18:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Steven Fonte, my father, says, who gets the game balls this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to give, I'm going to give out to, I think I'm going to give out to one on both sides of the ball defense I'm going to go with Austin Booker and that's I mean it's tough to pick just one because they're a handful of guys who really impressed me.
18:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Demarco Jackson was fantastic as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He finished with seven tackles.
18:47
[SPEAKER_01]: He had a sack, he had an interception.
18:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was all over the place.
18:50
[SPEAKER_01]: had an impressive performance.
18:53
[SPEAKER_01]: So I definitely considered him, but Austin Booker came away with two sacks, two tackles for a loss, four quarter back hits, and you really got to see some of that athleticism and that high-modeered relentless style of play, helping get into the opposing back field.
19:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's
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[SPEAKER_01]: When you get to see a guy with those tools, start to piece it all together, I mean, it becomes really exciting.
19:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, take it with, you know, read into what however you want with it being the Cleveland Browns and not, you know, a more formidable proven offense, not a more formidable proven offensive line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Booker did what he had to do and he did a tremendous job.
19:41
[SPEAKER_01]: So that he ended up with two sacks
19:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, three sacks for the year, yeah, three sacks.
19:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to learn how to count for a second.
19:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I know he missed, probably like the good first half of the year, but three sacks having missed the first however many like six, seven games or whatever, I think it bodes welfare his development for sure.
20:08
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Austin Booker gets the game ball on defense on offense.
20:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with DeAndre Swift actually.
20:15
[SPEAKER_01]: So he finished the game 18 carries 98 yards 2 touchdowns 5.4 yards per carry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was he was tremendous genuinely and it's been a lot of fun to watch this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of night and day because, you know, you keep the looseness, you keep the athleticism that he's always had and you pair that with more confidence in between the tackles and you pair that with more aggression as a downhill runner and being more again being more confident more decisive in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: how we adjust as tempo.
21:06
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I found it open running lane.
21:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to explode through a number of hateful speed.
21:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a lot better this year than it was last year.
21:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Having that offensive line definitely helps.
21:18
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I mean, I think from a decision-making perspective, Swift looks a lot more comfortable, 100%.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So
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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw that today.
21:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the agility, the toughness, like he was a tough runner.
21:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And usually when you think of, oh, contact balance, you think of power, you think of a non-guy, what you're going through that bears backfield.
21:39
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, Swift really brought it today.
21:41
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm gonna give Swift the game ball on offense.
21:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, as far as skill position guys go, Caleb belongs in the conversation, Luther DJ.
21:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, DJ with the two touchdowns and that the second one in particular
21:57
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'll give it to Swift.
21:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he was tremendous as well.
22:01
[SPEAKER_01]: And now I'm looking through the chat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Evan LaPoe was asked my dad to grab a beer later.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So hell yeah guys, that'll be pretty sweet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to take a quick break here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When we come back, we're going to dig into a little bit more of this game and then what the rest of the season has for the bears.
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24:52
[SPEAKER_01]: So good question here in the chat, what if buying a sandwich is investing in my own headspace?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, every once in a while, it can be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good quick fix.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lord knows, I mean, you guys see some of the comments that I get here on Twitter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've definitely relied on food as a good bandage solution for my own mental health a good many times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So shout out to the guys at Rulo though for a, you know, more of a long-term approach, but I could use a good sandwich honestly after reading that I might, there's like a jersey bikes half a mile for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to say I might walk, but I don't know how many of you, I assume most of you listening are here in Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, it's like negative 15, negative 20, something like that with when you include the windshield.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I want to walk that, even being outside for 10 minutes, I think I might just freeze my balls off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't want that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Evillapot says, I believe that's a tax ride off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Keep that receipt for, you know, if you do, if you claim to your accountant that investing in a sandwich is investing in your headspace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's all about the loopholes, baby.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another one here, Evillapot says, have you tried the B.K.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Crabby Patty?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been meeting to try some of the, like, the new SpongeBob
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[SPEAKER_01]: burger king meals or whatever the hell.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been meaning to try one of those.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just haven't gone around to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That and the like the grinch fries or whatever where like the deal pickle seasoning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been meaning to try that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I might I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't live super close to a to a McDonald's or Burger King.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I might I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I might have to make a height for that,
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of those two that's probably going to be my next food review here on Twitter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, well, again, welcome back, everybody.
26:52
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Jacob and Fonte.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is wrap it up, the official post games show of the second city grid iron podcast network.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we are grateful to be here streaming to you live as the
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[SPEAKER_01]: So much
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[SPEAKER_01]: Linda Ciapeta is here joining the party.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is it too soon to talk about what the bears need to do next week against the Packers?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, not at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We can jump right into that and tell Uncle John, thank you again for taking me to the Black Oaks game yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a good time and I'm excited for Christmas in 10 days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had a count, but yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that going off a last week,
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[SPEAKER_01]: comparing, and obviously whenever you're playing at Lambo field, there's a little bit of that home field advantage, but obviously there's still a lot to clear up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's still a lot that needs to be fixed coming out of that Packers game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think, you know, the offense getting out to a hotter start in the first half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's one thing in particular that would be,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, a that that would be a difference maker for the bears going into this game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that it's easier to start off hot when you're the home team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you have that crowd behind you, uh, and you're not battling through the crowd noise, you know, which can lead to fall starts every once in a while, which can, you know, throw you off your game, depending on how, you know, affected you get by that kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think starting off hot is going to be huge because the bears it looked like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Their initial script coming out of the gate wasn't very strong against Green Bay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was against Cleveland.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I, I mean, Cleveland say whatever you want about the Browns, they still have a really good defense and I think, you know, that ability like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: very to approach as far as figuring out or we're going to run the ball through the ball mixing it up a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bears admittedly through the ball a little bit too much in the first quarter against the packers and you know it came back to bite them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They found a little bit more of an even balance as the game progressed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I said just coming right out of the gate being a
30:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think that right, you know, starting hot is making sure that you move down the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think with the way that the bears' offences played this year, they rely a little bit more on the run for those, you know, chunk yardage of, you know, five, six yards, something like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they rely on the past to stretch a little bit beyond that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, you know, if you rely on the run a little bit more, it's probably going to ensure you move the ball down the field, you know, might take a little longer on that opening drive, but I think it's worth it because that if you run the ball well enough, like I think the bears can do because they've done it well against a lot of different teams this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to set up the, you know, the play action that's going to set up, you know, the intermediate or the deep throws and I think that's when you can really execute.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't matter if you only complete like two out of your five passing attempts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you run the ball consistently and you keep the drives alive and you don't rely heavily on lower percentage throws.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what I'd say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'd say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's my long-winded answer of I think to beat the packers, you need to start off hot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you're going to be able to rush the passer as easily as what the bears were able to do against the Browns today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that, again, varying the looks that the bears show, the blitzes, the stunts, I think that's going to be huge to kind of manufacture some pressure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess against Green Bay against a better offensive line and a better quarterback and Jordan love.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's the direction that I'd go in personally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It should be interesting because the bears, again, literally were one play away from tying that game up before the interception.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's tough to look back on, but they did a lot of things right, especially in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think if they could build on that and kind of use what they learned from this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And
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[SPEAKER_01]: modify it, sure, because it's a different team, it's a better team, it's a, you know, a different approach, but, you know, take some of what you learned from, you know, starting hot from the ability to, you know, mix things up a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think there's a much better even mix between running the ball and throwing the ball to start off the game, especially on that first touchdown drive, I think was, you know, they did a much better job of, you know, varying that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As well as on that second drive, too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they started off with two runs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They finished it off with, you know, so it was four runs on the second touchdown drive that the Bears had in the second quarter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was four runs and one, two, and then three passes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think around that ratio is probably fine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stick to that, you should be all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so that's long-winded.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of just went going and on and on and on about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, there you go, but that's what I think I do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Captain Stern and the chat here says, bear success has come from being the aggressor.
33:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Take a quick sip of my diet coke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: not sponsored, but I'd love to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'll sell out for anything, but if you give me diet coke, I'll mention it 20 times in every single show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if anyone's listening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just pay me free diet coke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I need.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even need the money, but I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think a lot of that comes with, you know, the success coming from being the aggressor.
33:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of that comes on both sides of the ball honestly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think defensively they're more effective when they're.
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[SPEAKER_01]: when they're flying to the ball, when they're, you know, manufacturing pressure by, you know, blitzing five or six guys, when they have CJ Gardner Johnson coming off the edge, where they have Jacqueline Brisker coming in every once in a while.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now, I mean, you've got DJ Edwards back in the, you know, back in the mix, and he put together a pretty solid game, at least from a tackling perspective, I feel like every single time he was around the ball, he was able to wrap up and bring the ball carrier down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'd have to go back and check to see how he performed,
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[SPEAKER_01]: on a true down-to-down basis, but I feel like anytime I noticed him, he was performing well.
34:43
[SPEAKER_01]: But you have him, I mean, to Marco Jackson came through with the blitz, maintaining that aggressive approach can kind of rush the secondary does their job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It rushes the quarterback into making a rush decision either, either you get sacked or you have to throw the ball away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, sometimes if you're getting blitz, you don't have the time to get out of the pocket and throw the ball away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So sometimes you can get hit as you throw and that can result in bad decisions or wobbly throws, whatever the case might be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and when you have a secondary that, you know, can make plays on the ball as well as the bear's secondary can and how good they've been at getting interceptions and takeaways,
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[SPEAKER_01]: it's, that's a good combination.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think being the aggressor has really helped the Chicago Bears this year, uh, and then on offense too.
35:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that I know I mentioned relying heavily on running the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that something they should absolutely can, you know, continue to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's something they have continued to do throughout the course of the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Ben Johnson has been, uh,
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[SPEAKER_01]: known for essentially when you know he was in Detroit he had gives him a gummery that you were a lot on pretty heavily and then using the passing attack to kind of throw them off guard and move the ball down the field.
36:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's what we're seeing in Chicago too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: being physical in the trenches and then using that to wear down the defense and then stretch the move, you know, move the ball down the field vertically through the air.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the right approach 100% and then Johnson's a good enough schemer that he knows how to work guys open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The receivers are good enough and they're athletic enough that they can make that scheme work.
36:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you have a guy, too, like Colston Loveland, who could move the ball down the field, that's absolutely helpful for sure.
36:39
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, in all instances and offense and defense, I'm with you 100%.
36:45
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's blasts as need looter back next week.
36:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're looking at, I mean, like I mentioned earlier near the top of the show,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Roman Dunes is been a little bit, you know, a little hit or miss as the season's gone on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He started off, you know, on tremendous pace, things slowed down a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's missing time now due to injury.
37:08
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a bad season by him by any means.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think he's definitely been better this year than he was last year as a rookie, but I think loop having looped their back.
37:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd argue, you know, maybe the production isn't there because Luther was the wider receiver for, uh, to start the year, but I mean, especially in recent weeks, I'd argue that Luther right now is ahead of where Rome was as a rookie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, it's definitely debatable.
37:36
[SPEAKER_01]: You can, you know, argue whatever, but I think just from an I test perspective, the, the big play abilities there, the athleticism is there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's doing a much better job of, you know, making plays after the catch, uh,
37:50
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, I don't want to turn this into a Luther versus Rome conversation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to turn it into a Luther and Rome conversation because I think that those two guys can be your foundation, him, those two, and coals to the level and that can be your foundation of the passing attack for years to come.
38:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I strongly believe that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but yeah, I think you need Luther back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that
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[SPEAKER_01]: you have someone who's as good after the catch as Luther is in that wider sea of a room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, DJ Moore's been good, maybe not as good as years past, but you know, he's still solid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Luther's the most explosive, the most explosive of the group.
38:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a little brain fight.
38:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Did I say that right or am I tripping?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Luke there's been playing at a pretty high level the last couple weeks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know he had the one drop earlier, but all things considered six catches for eighty four yards is a pretty strong performance and he was able to get open pretty consistently and then whenever they just dumped them all off to him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was able to make magic happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'd love to have Luke their back next week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously that would be huge.
39:04
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what happens with Rome.
39:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope that that's not a serious injury and it's just, oh, he, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: aggravated his, you know, injury a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing too serious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope so.
39:14
[SPEAKER_01]: But my aunt comes in.
39:17
[SPEAKER_01]: My uncle's got a question.
39:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Uncle John wants to know, what do you think about the tight ends role in today's game and how they're being used more in the offense?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good question.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll I'll start with Colston Lovelin in particular because I think that's one where I mean,
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's really come into his own the last couple weeks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as Captain Stern mentions here in the chat too, tight ends are great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hope Comet is back next week.
39:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I know he also got hurt as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I love when I think looks a lot more comfortable in this offense than he was the beginning of the year.
39:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, naturally, just because he's a rookie, going into the offense for the first time, I think you're seeing those athleticism, those physical tools coming into fruition a lot more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, too, you have a guy who's that big, who's that fast who also knows how to get open, whether it's a good zone coverage, whether it's against man coverage, doesn't necessarily matter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Colson's been able to make it work.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm a big fan of the fact that they've ramped up his production and how often he's targeted, it seems like he's been a pretty big.
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[SPEAKER_01]: go to a target whenever they need to move the ball down the field, which I really love just because, you know, you watch them in college at Michigan.
40:39
[SPEAKER_01]: He pretty consistently was able to get open across the middle of the fields.
40:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you have the deep crossers, you have them, you know, maybe like running go routes, you know, seams, whatever the case,
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[SPEAKER_01]: just moving the ball down the field with those vertical route concepts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's athletic enough and he knows how to adjust his route depending on what type of defender he's going up against, what kind of coverage he's going up against.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He knows all that and Cole Comet, I mean, I hope that he comes back to
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[SPEAKER_01]: next week against Green Bay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see how that all turns out.
41:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I don't know with some of the injuries to these guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's in the real bummer coming out of this week is all, you know, the guys getting hurt.
41:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a doctor.
41:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, but I think you can look at it as I don't think any of them were super serious.
41:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think any of them looked insanely, you know, over the top.
41:41
[SPEAKER_01]: just a grieges injuries that'll keep him out for a long time, but again, I don't know.
41:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I think things look pretty relatively mild for Luther and Colcomat, so we'll see, but yeah, Comet, I think he's embraced his role pretty well.
41:58
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been physical blocking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's another guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He knows how to get open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not as athletic as Loveland is, but he also, he still has that same kind of, I know how to work myself open against zone to be a security blanket where if the first read isn't there, you know, Loveland's going to be there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think he's blocking hard and I think that he's really embraced
42:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe less of a high volume role in this bears passing attack, but he's they're relying more on his physicality and he's doing a pretty good job with that.
42:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So I got to give him credit for that too.
42:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm unrelated note, Kellan Monde, just like one of my tweets.
42:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I just got that notification.
42:45
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's pretty neat.
42:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Kellan Monde was on the Vikings for a bit and killed it over at A&M.
42:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So, hell yeah, I don't know if Kellan Monde, if you, I don't know if you tuned into the stream, probably not, but if you did, hey, how's it going?
43:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Grim Cuddy says, you're Kellin Mon mentioned.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't expecting that when we started this show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think he played for the Browns for a little bit, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have to, I think he did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: play for the Browns.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he did play for the Browns.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here you go.
43:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see Andrew's angry.
43:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry for joining late.
43:32
[SPEAKER_01]: My girlfriend's girlfriend made chicken curry with potatoes, rice and garlic non.
43:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel so fat.
43:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, bear the fuck down, love the win.
43:41
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you feel about the bear's packers next week?
43:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice to take care of business today.
43:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I mean, first of all, if she has any left overs or anything, like, hit me up, that sounds fantastic.
43:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd kill for some Indian food right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That sounds tremendous.
44:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd feel fat eating that too, but in a, in like a good way.
44:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, fucking, you can't be good Indian food.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I truly believe that.
44:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
44:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Looking me talking about food here on the stream, the Bears won by 28, and I'm talking about food.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fat, but anyway, that sounds awesome.
44:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Bears Packers next week, I do.
44:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty, I'm, again, cautiously optimistic, because you look at it, the last game they played, it was at Lambo, the Bears, like I said, there were one play, earlier the show at least.
44:39
[SPEAKER_01]: There were one play away from tying that game up,
44:44
[SPEAKER_01]: They managed to pull it all together with a shitty first half.
44:49
[SPEAKER_01]: So if they could play a more complete game in front of their home crowd, I think that would be just a total difference maker for Chicago.
45:00
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not gonna sit in that and say, oh yeah, the bears are for sure gonna win that game.
45:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's the Packers.
45:07
[SPEAKER_01]: They've had the bears number for Lord knows how many years now at this point.
45:11
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're a tough team.
45:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I have ESPN up in the corner here to so I can like keep tabs.
45:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the packers are beating the Broncos right now.
45:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Like as I as I'm watching this game, I don't know how that's going to age.
45:26
[SPEAKER_01]: but they're keeping things, you know, they're in scoring position against a difficult Broncos team in Denver.
45:33
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a good, that's a damn good football team.
45:37
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm confident they, the bears can at the very least be very competitive.
45:43
[SPEAKER_01]: If they can't win, I think that definitely playing at Soldier Field is going to be like a little bit of a swing in the
45:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I mean, in theory, if the bear's lost by seven, you move it to soldier feel, I mean, that's like a three four point loss, but I think the bear, I trust Ben Johnson enough to look at what went wrong early in the last packer's game and to be like, all right, this is what needs to improve, this is what needs to be fixed, right, and.
46:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe, you know, stick to a little bit more even of a run pass split right out of the gate and make sure that you're moving the ball down the field rather than relying on those explosive, you know, lower percentage plays right out of the gate.
46:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
46:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, that's just my opinion on it.
46:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd run the ball a little bit more to start the game out and then sprinkle in a couple of intermediate and deep throws.
46:44
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so that's what I'm thinking about the Bears Packers game next week.
46:48
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be interesting for sure.
46:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Definitely, I'm nervous right now just thinking about it.
46:55
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've got another week.
46:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's on Saturday, so we got time, but damn, that's gonna be a huge game.
47:03
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
47:05
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see a Packers Broncos play out.
47:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, as I'm recording this, that game's still going on.
47:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Lions, Rams still going on.
47:12
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47:27
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47:31
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47:33
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47:34
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47:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
47:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
47:43
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, anyway, now I'm hungry.
47:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking at that.
47:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I could kill for some Indian food.
47:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I know we were talking about sandwiches early in the show, but now I'm thinking, oh, do I go Indian food?
47:54
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know how to cook Indian food.
47:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be honest, that's the one cuisine where it's like, I have no idea how to cook it.
48:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I've even tried.
48:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I can go, I can go Chinese a little bit every once in a while.
48:12
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like the, you know, y'all mind if a white boy go Chinese or whatever.
48:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
48:19
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a thing now.
48:21
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, enough about my dinner plans, uh, we'll see, but I want to transition into everyone's favorite segment, and then homemade ricotta over here.
48:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, I remember, yeah, I was talking about that.
48:40
[SPEAKER_01]: with my, uh, I was talking about that with Uncle John, uh, shout out to him again.
48:46
[SPEAKER_01]: And you guys have, I think it was two pounds you're making today, two pounds of cheese, which I love.
48:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I, I'm pretty, I'm pretty sure he said that there's going to be some of Christmas Eve.
48:59
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Indian food will be our here, of Christmas Eve.
49:01
[SPEAKER_01]: So hell yeah.
49:04
[UNKNOWN]: Uh,
49:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I swear I'm not doing myself any favors to the people in my comments who would be called who have called me fat for the last few years.
49:13
[SPEAKER_01]: So wonderful choice.
49:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
49:15
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's see.
49:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to transition into the the grand finale my happy ending.
49:24
[SPEAKER_01]: So open wide everybody.
49:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Here you go.
49:27
[SPEAKER_01]: It's coming.
49:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm coming.
49:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Not like that.
49:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
49:39
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, this is a game the bears needed to win and they executed.
49:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only did they execute, but they won pretty decisively.
49:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think your
49:52
[SPEAKER_01]: If you win a game by 28 in the NFL, I mean, that's something to celebrate.
49:56
[SPEAKER_01]: They dominated on offense and defense.
49:59
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that that's exactly what the Bears needed.
50:02
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, coming out of that short, you know, the narrow loss to the Packers last week.
50:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, this was, you know, a good get right game going into that next game against Green Bay.
50:11
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a lot of G's that I just said there.
50:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I pull that all off, but
50:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, all right, I've been summoned to help clean the kitchen, but Jacob, we love you till next week, bear the fuck down.
50:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Best of luck, they're doing it right though.
50:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I think your friends, girlfriends, girlfriend's doing it right.
50:30
[SPEAKER_01]: If someone cooks for you, you got to help out in the kitchen.
50:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's the way that we do it.
50:35
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to clean up at everything, get out of it, get out of this wash and do what not.
50:40
[SPEAKER_01]: So hell yeah, love that.
50:43
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway,
50:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, this is a perfect get right game for Chicago.
50:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that this was, you know, as good of an opportunity is you're going to get to get back on the right page.
50:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Against a team where, you know, they've been pretty competitive in games.
51:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the offense.
51:04
[SPEAKER_01]: seem like they were, you know, trying to, you know, they're finding some footing last week against the Titans.
51:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, should our standards look really good?
51:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Not so much today.
51:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the defense deserves a lot of credit for how they kept him confused with exotic past rushing looks, how they kept things confused with, you know, coverage and stuff like that as well.
51:23
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
51:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps to him, honestly, perhaps to Dennis Allen, perhaps to the whole defensive unit and then the offensive execution, still some penalties.
51:32
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to clean up every once in a while, but you know, truly impressive, at least in my mind.
51:37
[SPEAKER_01]: So, going into the next three games, I think if you win one, you should be able to make the playoffs.
51:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I went back and looked through it since 2021 since they expanded the season that 17 games, there's only been one team to ever get 10 wins in a single season.
51:56
[SPEAKER_01]: That's missed the playoffs.
51:58
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the Seahawks last year.
52:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody, I mean, so far, at least, nobody who's won 11 games in a single season as missed the playoffs.
52:07
[SPEAKER_01]: In the expanded playoff, I think the last 11-win team to miss the playoffs might have been the Patriots in a weight in the the your Brady got hurt with Matt Castle.
52:18
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know, I don't know, I think that there is still far from a lot that the bears are going to make the playoffs, but I think things are trending in the right direction and this was a win, this was a win and dominating fashion that they needed to be able to get right going into this going into this difficult stretch for the rest of the year.
52:40
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
52:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I tweeted out, I think last week, there is a scenario where the Bears go 11 and 6 and still miss the playoffs, but a lot would have to happen for that to take place.
52:51
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see enjoy the win, enjoy the dominance while we have it.
52:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, Lord knows we've sat through some pretty bad bears football with last few years and things are turning around.
53:04
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
53:05
[SPEAKER_01]: One way or another, whether this ends in the bears, making the NFC North, or winning the NFC North, whether it ends in them being a wild card team, missing the playoffs entirely, whatever it is, I think a lot of us would have been extremely happy with a 10 win season this year.
53:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I was, I predicted 98 with 10 and seven as an aggressive, hey, I don't know if this can happen, but I think it's possible.
53:30
[SPEAKER_01]: They're 10 and four.
53:31
[SPEAKER_01]: They have three more games left to play
53:35
[SPEAKER_01]: things of turning around in Chicago.
53:39
[SPEAKER_01]: So whatever expectations you have for the rest of this season, just know that the arrow generally is trending on.
53:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry about that.
53:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to cough.
53:50
[SPEAKER_01]: So there you go.
53:51
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, that's going to do it for wrap it up.
53:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been your host, Jacob and Fonte.
53:56
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53:58
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54:10
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54:21
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54:31
[SPEAKER_01]: So bears pick up the win and prove to ten and four with a 31 to three win over the Cleveland Browns today.
54:41
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't get much better than that.
54:43
[SPEAKER_01]: So things have feeling pretty good going into week 16.
54:47
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see how the next few weeks play out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for the time being, let's celebrate.
54:52
[SPEAKER_01]: So I've been Jacob and Fonte.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you all for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bear down.