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Bears schedule predictions! Game-by-game picks and final record guesses. · Da Windy City Sports Podcast

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Winni City podcast, presented by a fan side at you know my guy Alex Shapiro.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am Kenneth Davis and this is our schedule release podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Woo!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Woo!
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[SPEAKER_00]: The schedule from H.E.
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[SPEAKER_00]: double L hockey sticks has dropped yesterday and we have to go over it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about six prime time games, everybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the schedule, our schedules are going to be janky but that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because that means our beloved bears are getting national attention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate to tell bit bearish fans just because they hate on the East Coast, but I tell them all the time when the bears are good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is good for everybody and the East Coast people that control television.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll put them on television because they know that they were kind of views.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here you see it right here after terrific season last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bears again with six prime time games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The season starts off with the Carolina Panthers, the team that keeps on giving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They gifted us stuff in the past and we enjoyed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will always love Carolina for what they did for us when it comes to our quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And helping us get out of a situation with another former quarterback due to the fact that Brian Poles had another year to evaluate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he cast off Justin Fields and brought in Caleb Williams and things have been peachy keen to say the least, Alex, how are you doing?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing wonderful, Kenneth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Should we say, okay, the Carolina Panthers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Should we just kick off this prediction?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go go one by one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You said the Carolina Panthers are the gift that keeps on given.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I've say, I got them given.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a gift of a week one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's kind of nice with all this prime time for the bears and the bear starting in prime time last year and looking unprepared for that prime time game last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They get to ease into things with a non-divisional game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Once the last time the bear started with a non-divisional opponent in week one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like they're always start with the hackers, always start with the lines or the
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[SPEAKER_01]: These aren't the Carolina Panthers of three, four years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a solid team, but it's not like big time, big fanfare.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's going to help the bears get a W to start off the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to go with you on that one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the bears are going to beat the Panthers, even as young starts to look good as their quarterback last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With the pretty good defense, that's not going to be as easy as game I think as we think it could be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That could definitely be a that could be an upset, but yeah, I'm going with the bears beating the Panthers to open up the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's on the 13th to follow in week, the bear starts their divisional games, taking on the bikes, the Minnesota Vikings nine probably won't be under center.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You probably will have a
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[SPEAKER_00]: a speedy little undersized guy, joystick playing, a quarterback that could be in stress and if nine is, and that's DJ McCarthy is under there, but I got the bear is definitely beating the vikes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though you know what, that could be early when when he's healthy Caleb Banks game, that where we complain they didn't take Caleb Banks,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then later on when Caleb Banks foot reminds us why he was questionable for the first round, we'll be back too well, we see why the bears
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[SPEAKER_00]: even though they didn't have the opportunity, but may have not take you him in the first round looks, because if you watched this show, you know Caleb Banks, the D.T.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we had pushed to the second round because of this foot issues ongoing foot issues.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could go either way, it's either the foot is fresh because it's been well-rusted and he's getting that NFL treatment, the really, really good treatment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's fresh week too, or it could be like there was a tweak in training camp and he'll he'll be ready in the second half of the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But either way, like you could see Caleb Banks missing one of these bears games either towards the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, at the end of the year or towards the beginning of the year, this is where I'm going to diverge from you, this is where the bears feel in good feeling their oats, hey, we we got stuff to defend we got the crown now we can't give it back, but we talked about it with Glenn, that the Vikings,
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[SPEAKER_01]: And to me, aren't even sneaky good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not even sneaky good, you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if there's some growing pains, as Dennis Allen continues to develop his defense with Don Thineman as that Marquis addition back there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if I'm gonna leave Muhammad is starting or Tyre Stevenson is starting
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they could be challenged by the numerous weapons that the Vikings have in their passing attack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Kyler Murray is going to be the starter and I think Kyler Murray is going to have a hell of a year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this might be his moment to be like, look out, Kyler Murray's throwing to Justin Jefferson, look out, Kyler Murray's throwing to Jordan Addison, I have the Vikings, I have the Vikings, winning this game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is in front of the bear's faithful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So bear's fans have to wait a little bit to get their first win in front of their eyes at Soldier Field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're muted, Kenneth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're muted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, all right, I want you to take the next one there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kenneth, you're not gonna like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Philadelphia Eagles Monday night football now now it's full now it's full prime time is the first prime time matchup The Eagles guarantee to have this game circled on this calendar after the bears absolutely Bullied last year last year that Eagles game was unbelievable and that was the game that really cemented like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whoa, something's going on here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This bears team might be legit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the first time they didn't have to rely on the last second heroics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the time where it's like, okay, they're beating up on bad teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the first one where it was like, hello, hello, hello, and they outfizzacold, the Philadelphia Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the Philadelphia Eagles were very physical football team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let that happen again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have the Eagles winning a decisive game against the bears and oh, the Chicago bears are one and two in my in my fantasy land prediction world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not the not the greatest of start through three games in the bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got the bears on Monday Night Football in week three, beating the Eagles, um, I'm going to tell you why.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think the one thing that we, we forget and we don't remember is where the offense had started to go by the Eagles game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the offense is closer to the end of the season than where it was at the middle and the first beginning of the season, particularly the passing game, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, if he, the passing game, what only, it was a two minute passing game, damn there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, all right, get Caleb to the end of the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna do something miraculous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're not factoring that into how this season may be and you then add in the fact that you brought in and save y'all Thomas and Sam Rausch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These guys are gonna be used.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You brought in a Khalifa Raymond.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're running back, remember they've been Johnson said it, it usually takes a year by week six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They kind of got what they needed to do in this system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, too, I'll say this, the Bears have the strongest schedule in the league with what 12 teams above, 500 and 8 made it to the playoffs I believe, but remember with football, teams aren't who they were last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, some of these teams are going to be better than last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of these teams are going to be the same.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them are going to be lesser than and with the Eagles, I think you and I probably expect and again, it wasn't like he was under utilized last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: AJ Browns not going to be there, you know, since chances are AJ Brown will be in another uniform after was July 1st.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The June 1st will never that cap money is in his arduous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: for the Eagles cap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Bears can beat the Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think a lot of this also depends and you mentioned Dennis Dallas Allen on Kenny scheme up that defensive line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna go with the stories that they've given us, even though because this program we haven't necessarily haven't tricked us with some BS, but yeah, I got the Bears winning their first three games at least and I'll go ahead and jump ahead of you and say I got the Bears winning their first
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[SPEAKER_00]: when the bears are facing the giants here in Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The jets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, I'm going to say that, the jets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to just suck to last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think they'll be a little bit better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, I think the jets are building up for next year in particular when they look to get a quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Smith will be their starter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go back to the team that he was labeled a bust with that drafted him out of West Virginia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got the bears winning there for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, I'll say this when I'm saying this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bears are forno and can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely, in my head, I'll tell you this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely could see them being 500.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could definitely see them being 3 and 1.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that could be the Eagles game and that could be the bike wins game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be Karen Lina to be honest with you So I'll probably would say My heart of hearts three or one would be disappointing, but none of these first four games M of you and them as like oh the bears are real trouble because they went and Look the bears had the Eagles number who's to say the bears won't have the Eagles number again
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying, who like, why can't they, you know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, and it allows say this too, it also depends on how and that it didn't really factor in as much how those DCs are planned for the Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Jalen Phillips is gone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll have to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they have a terrific general manager, but you know, you can only do so much in the salary cap error.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we don't have to belabor it too much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I also have the bears beating the
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now I will say this and I don't think I've written this prediction.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see how this show goes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to embrace its good vibes only time again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's 70 degrees outside.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a beautiful day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Summers about good vibes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the off season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why not have good vibes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I am turning back into good vibes only mode right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm wondering.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm wondering that said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is going to be a game that the bears are supposed to win that they lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It happens every team every year, every team every year, there is a game they should win 99 out of 100 times and then that one time will happen and they will lose to that team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That will happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's going to happen against the New York Jets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But one of these, one of these games, you're like, that's a lock W ain't going to be a W. But right now, I'm saying the jets that is about as it feels pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got the bear's two and two now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, take the next one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we got the green Bay Packers at Lambo Field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bears got back in the wind column, but listen, they were not very good in the division last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They only won two games in the division last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This division remains tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Winning at Lambo Field remains tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know Caleb Williams has done it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's already climbed that mountain and planted his flag at the top of Lambo Field Mountain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's going to be some growing pains.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be some, hey, some learning on the opponent side of, hey, this is what Caleb Williams does really well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's what that Johnson does really well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that learning continues, there's going to be growing pains.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bears are going to be to adapt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got the bears loosened to the pack at Lambo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bears are two and three and vibes are like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's similar to last season right through five games six games of it vibes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not great And then you also have to imagine there's gonna be some regression in terms of the crazy two-minute Immortal victories.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You also talk about teams that got the bears circle on their calendar Philadelphia Eagles won
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Green Bay Packers absolutely between the onsite kick win, the wild card win, I mean, the walkoffs, all the craziness that happened between the bears in the packers last year, the meme of Luther burden, Darth Vadering, you know, Packers, it's like choking them out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is billboard material all summer long all year long up until that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Packers win and now the bears are doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is my first L for the bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for me, they will be a four and one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have the loosened to the packages because they have to lose to somebody, bear's fans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, to me, I think the thing is, if we really believe, and again, there is, it's called any given Sunday for a reason, you can lose any given Sunday and you mentioned it to a team that you expect to beat, you can lose.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of these scenes between the Green Bay and Philadelphia, if not both of them, are going to get some get back probably in the first quarter and a half of this season, I'm giving it to Green Bay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it depends on the health of Michael Parsons at that point in a year, if Parsons isn't able to go, I would lean towards the bears defeating the packers, but yeah, I got the bears losing to the pack because it has to be realistic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going into week six against the Atlanta Falcons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have the Bears at Atlanta and the Mercedes-Benz dome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got the Bears beaten the Falcons while they're still trying to figure out what's best to do under center.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I got the Bears with a W in Hotlana and enjoy some magic city wings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter to me if it's like a panics or two-a-tagovaloa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, Kenneth Davis has been singing this guy's praises all off season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Neville Gallimords in town, baby.
14:38
[SPEAKER_01]: So the bears in Neville Gallimords can focus on Bijon Robinson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's going to be an all of me as a key is revenge game, even though he's back home in Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if this is a W for the bears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm up to three and three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, going into New England.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seven and thirds in our football game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really think the bears will beat New England.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm being honest with you, they had the easiest schedule last season with their
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know how if, if the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the migrable situation, um, allegedly with Diana receiving will affect the locker room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can see it not affecting the locker room, but I also could see it affecting the locker room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I'm going to go with the bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll go with the bears loosing to the New England Patriots, just because I think the bears will go through a rough patch during the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you got them loosing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See, this is one where it's like, okay, now it's a test.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm with you, you know, the in terms of the teams who could take a step back, I'm going to absolutely see that with the Patriots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The distraction with my variable should not be discounted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: eight growing pains, you know, as people figure it out, like the same thing I said about learning tape and learning how to guard against Caleb Williams, et cetera, like that also applies to Drake May and this offense.
16:10
[SPEAKER_01]: And then as you said, like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: there are no cake walks to the Super Bowl, but the path that the Patriots took to the Super Bowl was kind of ridiculous when you look at their regular season and then you look at their playoff path.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, they beat the chargers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Texans with CJ Stroud doing, who God knows what in that football game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, CJ Stroud basically went to the Patriots and said, please take this football and deliver it to the end zone for your team.
16:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want, I'm like, that was one of the worst football performances I've ever seen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on any level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was so bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the Broncos game was ridiculous, you know, with the Broncos who's in their QB and the weather, it was just this war of attrition.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the the past one, like 10 seven, that was a weird, weird, weird AFC championship game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just felt like nobody wanted to win that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I could see the pads taking a step back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bears back in prime time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be a lot of narrative about, whoa, the regression, whoa, you're too just that in the other thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the bears this time in prime time, silence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They silence the haters like me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will be a hater at this point.
17:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody will be, there's going to be lots of haters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're all going to be silenced on Thursday and I football against the Patriots.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this also is the beginning of a three-week run of plant-time games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thursday night Monday night and Sunday night, follow a new England game on Monday night.
17:50
[SPEAKER_00]: The bears will face the writing Super Bowl champions, the Seattle Seahawks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have the bears in a losing streak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They lose two games in a row.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, so right now, they are five and three with me and my record on their
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which I think is a good record to have at this point in the season looking at the scenes that you've faced.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that the schedule seems daunting, but if they're getting pressure from the front four, I think the schedule isn't going to be as bad as what we assume it's going to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just, for some reason, I have that feeling, and I could have the bears really beaten the Seahawks.
18:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there was a certain level that Sam Donald played at.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not a knot, but they didn't ask him a lot of times to go full superstar.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I could see them being able to pull it off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There have been some losses to that defense.
18:47
[SPEAKER_00]: We got Kobe brand on our team right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I got the bears losing to Seattle and at this point again, again, the bears are five and three for my schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, the seahawks are the class of the NFC until proven otherwise and unlike the Patriots who, you know, I just got done explaining I was an extremely strange road to the Super Bowl, the seahawks just dismantled team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they looked so good, they were so dominant that defense is wonderful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really intrigued by the Air Force Round draft picture, Daring Price, the other Notre Dame running back that was behind Jeremiah Love, good player, him landing in Seattle feels like one of those perfect spots for a guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I got this as in L to the defending champions who looked extremely good last season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got coming up for Sunday night football in America.
19:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, we used to talk about that a lot at NBC.
19:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, we have the Tampa Bay books and we can nine here in Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I got that as a bears victory.
20:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the loss of Mike Evans could be devastating to the books.
20:05
[SPEAKER_00]: and not just for what he brought on the field but what he brought off the field and in that locker room having that presence and it's one thing I think mentally that he brought a safety net but also on the field you had one of the best receivers over the last 15, 12, 15 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that Mike Evans loss will affect Baker Mayfield and that offense down there in Tampa Bay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I have this as a coin flip.
20:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I have this as a coin flip.
20:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I can absolutely see the bears losing this game.
20:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with everything you said about my govins.
20:44
[SPEAKER_01]: And look at a book that I was so good last season.
20:46
[SPEAKER_01]: It was Bucky Irving, Kenneth Gainwell, great running backs.
20:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe in Baker Mayfield.
20:52
[SPEAKER_01]: And they had Ruben Bane.
20:55
[SPEAKER_01]: They had a Rubin Bane to that defense, who is a serious, serious past Russia.
21:00
[SPEAKER_01]: And I can see how the bears lose this football game, but I just got done saying it's good vibes only right now.
21:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So guess what, the coin flip just came up bears bears W good vibes only.
21:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they're for what I have them at now five and four bears are five and four.
21:16
[SPEAKER_01]: They're on the plus side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they're on the plus side of 500 for the first time since
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got him at 6 and 3, answering a buy week that's not early this year, week 10, the bears will have their buy in the middle, basically, of the season, some of these games also kind of give them a little bit of buy weeks, when you look at the fact that they have a Thursday night then a Monday night following that Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they got actually within three weeks,
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[SPEAKER_00]: to make adjustments so far, looking at Ben Johnson, it seems like him and his coaching staff do well with those breaks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to something you always want to look at how coaching staffs are just during buys or when they get extra two or three days due to playing at Thursday night game, then to a Monday night game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think at six and three with this schedule, and I think also a great part about this schedule as it's daunting on the backside,
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't seem as bad as last year's daunting on the back side where you had, you know, the 49ers were in the back side of that and you had to play course the lines and green bay had play green braids with twice in the back end of that or whatever, like you do have those are murderers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a murder road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You do have you are finishing out with Buffalo Green Bay and Detroit and that that can be something that could be three else possibly, even though I would say I would they would at least go one and three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The pride of that you have in warlands Detroit Jacksonville.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All three of those could be victories Detroit has the bears number at this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the the lions we have to also say this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Delions are the team that the bears have not figured out yet, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that may be because their coach has figures out his old OC, but the bears really have to start making moves when it comes to Detroit to throw them off and prove that they can defeat the lions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Depend on a record, man, I'm out at a base collusion line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have a bit over our record still getting to the playoffs and the lines could be at home like they were last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I need to send the message to the Motor City kiddians that they're here to make some noise or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, coming off by.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, coming off the buy, coming off the buy, the bear's face, Dennis Allen's old team, the New Orleans Saints, and a full rebut of rebuild mode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely have the bears beating the Saints as it says, as a give me, even though that being a give me brace fear in some of our heart, because it's one of those situations where you may be looking towards the Thanksgiving Game Against Alliance next week, and you may not be necessarily geared up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or hyped up enough to defeat the noorless sites.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's especially coming off the buy coming off the buy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure everybody's going to be tempted to do a little lion's work over that buy because you got that extra time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This might be the one that is like the bear should absolutely win it and they lose because of something weird or something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I agree with you for these purposes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean Tyler Schug, Spencer Rattler, like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not afraid of those quarterbacks and I'm sure there will be clips of me saying that later and be on, you know, I feel they throw for four touchdowns against the bearers or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do like the Travis HN addition for the Saints is really interesting, but W for the bears coming off the by week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, going on now, you have Detroit lions on Thanksgiving day, continuing with the Thanksgiving theme with the bears are involved in like six of the last nine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually have the bears winning this game, but there's a reason to it, and I'll get to it towards the end of the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got the bears at this point at nine and three in an Detroit game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It Thanksgiving, defeating the lions while we're all scabbling or some turkey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, the lions have at least recently historically, stunk on Thanksgiving, even when they were like playing really good, they've been bad, except for the one year that Iber flu is completely like, forgot about the eber flu's fiasco.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel gets erased from Bears fans' minds, Ben Johnson finally gets his dub against his former team.
25:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you want to talk about games, the Bears have circled that Ben Johnson has circled.
25:51
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants that win against the lines.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this guy is so competitive, it burns his ass that he went on to against the lines last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to win that football game on Thanksgiving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, coming up after that, they are back at home, facing with Jacksonville Jaguar's team that has found itself that quarterback Trevor Lawrence had a really good year last year, looking like perhaps the guy that was drafted number one and what was thought to be a vaulted quarterback class, which fell on in space with the F word involved somewhere in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have them actually beating the jacks and at this point
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, I think the Jags are legit, Liam Combs, legit, um, this is another coin flip game for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to absolutely see the Jags winning, but guess what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The coin just came up bears again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good vibes only bears win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, following that, the bears are going to face at Miami, the Dolphins, a Dolphins team that is at the beginning of a rebuild.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have the fearful willous to play against, as their quarterback, if we saw, but the bears are ready because
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not coming in off of the bench.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to say the exact same thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that you said that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, when you know Malik Willis is coming, it's a lot easier.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, different, when you can see him coming, compared to you, thank you, playing with a mobile, but not as a mobile quarterback with Jordan Love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have the Bears winning versus Miami.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No Miami flu for the Bears.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They are 10 and 3 at this point for me on my schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am with you bears are I got the bears when I'm five games in a row now five game Wim Street for the bears can you believe it Kenneth feels good to you all after all of the Dispeptia is at the word of the early season Hickups and talk of the hangover and this at the other thing they're hitting their stride in the middle of season Getting ready for that late season push bears went five in a row with their winning against Miami
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right week 15 December 20th at Buffalo could be a snowy game new stadium looks nice though I don't know if you've seen any of it a new stadium looks pretty cool in Buffalo The bears are going up against Josh Allen and I don't know how good that defensive line is against
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[SPEAKER_00]: such a hard to bring down quarterback with a cannon on his arm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a prime time game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have the bears losing to Buffalo and Buffalo right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My bears are 10 and four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most importantly, they're playing Josh Allen and D. J. I was a gift for got to go there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I went to the gym.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, if there were futures for touchdowns right now, I would already have my slip for D. J. more three touchdowns against the Chicago Bayers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, honestly, like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can just see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: D. J. Moore is going to have 200 yards, three touchdowns.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See a later five game win streak.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a good run while lasted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Playing in Buffalo is no joke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Saturday night football is also no joke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: December football in Buffalo is no joke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Give me the bills.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, you got the bills five days later on Christmas day, the bidders at home face the green bay packers and this point I have this as an ale flip either packers game the way you wanted I think the bears split with the packers like they did last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have the bears right now at 10 and five after a Christmas day game the bears on a two game losing streak.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I had the bears losing in Lambo, and I agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they'll probably split.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think, you know, after the loss to the bills, there's going to be some serious playoff jockeying at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be a lot riding with these final gains.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do think the bear is find a will find a way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And since I had them losing in Lambo, I'm going to have them winning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And soldier field, but I agree with you, that could be flipped.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That could be totally flip flopped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, a couple days after New Year's day, the Bears faced the Lions here in Chicago, I have the Bears losing to the Lions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll split with the Lions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Bears closing out the back end of the year will be difficult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a three-game losing streak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have them all in the Bears are now 10 and 6 when you look at the record according to Ken Davis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, give me the sweep of the lions.
30:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me the sweep of the lions and I'm looking at the number that I got and I had kind of a number in my head and I'm gonna have to do something to get to the number and I know that's what you do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's what you do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's what you do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know you long enough to know that's what you do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking at the number.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, well, oh, oh, 10 already.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh oh, is there a tool in team?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
31:17
[SPEAKER_01]: But uh,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Give me the bears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, give me the bears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do think they're going to be better in the division this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: than last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do think that the Lions did made some moves to help them kind of tread water, you know, especially drafting the left tackle, but I do feel like it is a lot of like replacing a lot of trading water, a lot of like right tackle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I'm sorry.
31:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, because we're moving Penae's
31:51
[SPEAKER_01]: If, you know, losing David Montgomery can't be discounted also, you know, like, definitely.
31:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
31:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that, you know, there was a lot of like, oh, we got to fill these holes and try and keep where we were because they were playing such good ball and kind of were the class of the division for a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just don't know if they've been caught by some other people and maybe this is the year that we see the clients start to drop off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got the bears
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I like that you did that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that could happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I only went against it because it seemed like the bears really hadn't figured out this Lions team compared to past bears' regimes kind of having a Lions number.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, they still haven't figured out the offensive coordinator position, and even though he's not been a great hit coach so far, the Aaron Glenn departure expected them to last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Totally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and then.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now it's as long as he's gone to now.
32:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
32:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, when healthy, you know, he could keep up with anybody in the live back in core as far as receivers and tidings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a very mobile linebacker and a leader.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They brought him in when they brought him from the Saints to kind of be that that guy else before their defense started playing better or even before they had Aden Hutchinson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I could see them losing both games, but they got to be the line's first before I go along with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I do believe in what you're saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think one of these, these teams in the division won't be as strong as they were last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they may be one, I don't know if the green bay will be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think a lot of this still is all micro Parsons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The lion will Kyla Murray, not the lion's the Vikings will Kyla Murray.
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[SPEAKER_00]: can be, that can be scary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But this also a chance that they still may not figure out their quarterback position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a chance that Murray or McCarthy may just be made.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they could be good, but not good enough to wear the talent that they have on that roster that the quarterback is adding to he's just kind of, I won't say he's a hindrance, but he's not adding to the equation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to take them to another level.
33:57
[SPEAKER_00]: They do have a terrific, they have a terrific offensive line in their head coach and they have a terrific offensive defense line in their coordinator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do have the bears losing to the lines, but going to the Vikings, I have the bears finishing the season on January 10th, week 18.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have them beating the Vikings here in Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're going to go into the playoffs on a victory and my final record for the bears is 11 and six.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm already at 11 wins and I think the Vikings were 9 and 8 last season and they didn't look good at times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Vikings are going to be better this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And at 11 and 5 heading into this game, the NFC North title could be writing on this game.
34:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I do believe that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And last season was magical.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the steps the bears took undeniable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do not think the bears long term are going anywhere.
35:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bears are going to be competitive for a very long time with Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think there's going to be a little bit of a reality check that hey, repeating success in the NFL is very difficult.
35:22
[SPEAKER_01]: You might get better, but lots of teams in the AFL get better around you as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the Vikings, I just might, I think they might be better than a lot of people are expecting them to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got them losing to the Vikings and potentially losing the division in week 18 in a little bit of a sombering moment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, they could still make a wild card at 11 and six, but they might have to be a wild card team at 11 and six.
35:48
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
35:49
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
35:49
[SPEAKER_01]: But I got the bears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: going all in two against the Vikings this year.
35:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we so we both finished with the bears record set 11 and six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Draft Kings had the bears at nine and a half nine at nine point five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but analysts might play projected them at nine point three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We both say, though we did that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we have the bears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Watch them go now six and 11.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have the bears in double digit victory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They go 6 and 11, there's going to be some problems and or someone can somebody got hurt.
36:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, somebody, now what's going to say is Caleb, if there's somebody, but there you go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is our breakdown of the bear schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We both have them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With winning seasons, coming off of last year, they are 11 and 6.
36:35
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't complain about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With the toughest schedule, when you talk about teams, have all these teams with winner records from 22 to 25.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that still looks like a good season.
36:46
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be interesting how it plays out.
36:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I think
36:48
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna be closer to right and wrong.
36:51
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be 10 and 7.
36:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope most are right there wrong.
36:54
[SPEAKER_01]: And also FYI, 11 and 6 won the division last year.
36:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
36:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm projecting that it won't, but like 11 and 6 could win the division.
37:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, obviously it won't be the last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely could either, if you go either way as long as they make the playoffs is the most important part and it gives them a chance in the dance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If they have to go through the wildcard, they have to go through the wildcard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm not fearful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like when you have a quarterback that can do what Caleb can do
37:18
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have the same fear that you have when you don't have a quarterback that can do what Caleb could do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: right?
37:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Any game can be your game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We bears fans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't go into games with that feeling.
37:27
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we got him.
37:29
[SPEAKER_00]: So some of it, like, again, that's what makes even though this quote and quote difficult record because everything you said about teams will be better could also be where some of these teams are going to be worse.
37:41
[SPEAKER_00]: In the same way, we just said if the bears were 6 in 11 that a major injury happened, some of these teams are going to experience major injuries.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this
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[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't happen to the bears with their quarterback.
37:52
[SPEAKER_00]: The bears experience significant injuries last year and still perform well.
37:57
[SPEAKER_00]: What if they're healthier this year than they were last year?
37:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Like so it's just to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not, it's not, it has no starting linebackers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No starting linebackers, it's a life full game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm more, I'm more filled for, I was more, last year scheduled to me is more daunting than this year's schedule, but you know why it's nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't know that our quarterback was going to be that good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't know the head coach was going to be him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so like everything, yeah, this is hard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the FC North is crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, so again, I'm not, I'm not as concerned, but that's it, Alex.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got a shit point before we get up out of here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do have an extra point for you, Kenneth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So are you ready for more?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you ready to continue our journey through progressive guitar music around the world?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I brought you progressive psychedelic guitar music from Australia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I brought you progressive psychedelic guitar music from Quebec.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How about from Niger?
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[SPEAKER_01]: artists that I've recently been turned on to by my buddy Steve.
39:04
[SPEAKER_01]: We were listening to crazy psychedelic music.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he goes, oh, dude, if you like this, you got to listen to M do mocktar M do mocktar a I hope I'm pronouncing this right to our egg guitar player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also known as desert blues from Niger.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't, so good, very groovy, very rooverby, very out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like the sound of the language, I looked up some of the lyrics and it's like explaining what it's like to live this nomadic lifestyle in Central Africa, very cool stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: wonderful melodies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It reminds me a lot of, I'm sure you remember this kind of, remember when Bumbino was like, really popular in 2012, Bumbino.
39:54
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the exact same thing Bumbino was also a tour guide guitar guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's more of that if you were saying like, oh man, I remember Bumbino from
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[SPEAKER_01]: the early 2010s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want more of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, good news.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got more to our guitar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: More desert blues.
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[SPEAKER_01]: M. Do Moptar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you Steve for turning me on to M. Do Moptar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, like the reverb is cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's groovy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like doing this and in the kitchen while I'm doing my dishes because they're like nine
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, that's our extra point for this episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you check it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let us know in the comments your thoughts on this new psychedelic guitar from the Desert Nomadic Tribe, move in Central Africa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For Alex Shapiro, I am Kenneth Davis, and this is the Wendy city podcast on a fan side.