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Week 1, Bears Vs Panter Pregame Show 2026 · Bears Banter Talk Show

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SPEAKER_03: Bears Banner Talk Show by the Chicago Bears fans for the Chicago Bears fans.
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SPEAKER_03: Hey, don't forget to subscribe.
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SPEAKER_00: Friday is over.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey yo.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we live for the post.
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SPEAKER_06: NFL kickoff 2026.
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SPEAKER_06: More importantly, Bears Not a Talk Show season seven.
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SPEAKER_06: We are here.
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SPEAKER_06: We're ready to talk about our Bears.
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SPEAKER_06: We excited.
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SPEAKER_06: Bears versus Carolina, week one.
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SPEAKER_06: Let's go.
1:07
SPEAKER_06: What's up?
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SPEAKER_06: Fellas, fellas.
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SPEAKER_06: How y'all doing?
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SPEAKER_03: Excited.
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SPEAKER_03: Let's go.
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SPEAKER_03: Let's go.
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SPEAKER_03: We got Jimmy Red with us tonight.
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SPEAKER_06: Let's get it.
1:16
SPEAKER_06: Let's get it.
1:17
SPEAKER_06: Let's get it.
1:19
SPEAKER_02: All right.
1:20
SPEAKER_02: That'll work.
1:22
SPEAKER_05: I'm excited about this season.
1:23
SPEAKER_05: This is season seven.
1:24
SPEAKER_05: Welcome to Baz Banner Talk Show.
1:26
SPEAKER_05: Season seven, man.
1:27
SPEAKER_05: We started COVID year.
1:30
SPEAKER_05: Jay, I think it was Jay, myself, and Tammy just talking about it.
1:36
SPEAKER_05: Then we was like, yeah, it'll probably last about two or three weeks, and we'll be back and show be over.
1:42
SPEAKER_05: And then we start expanding and expanding.
1:45
SPEAKER_05: Plank came on, guy came on.
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SPEAKER_05: We added Dr.
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SPEAKER_05: Quick.
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SPEAKER_05: And here we are now.
1:50
SPEAKER_05: Season seven.
1:51
SPEAKER_03: Man, you know, Jay got way too much to save to only be able to do two weeks in the show, man.
1:56
SPEAKER_03: Come on.
2:00
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, y'all know and y'all know I talk a lot.
2:03
SPEAKER_06: I got a lot to say.
2:03
SPEAKER_06: I got a lot to say.
2:05
SPEAKER_06: And I love it because it's all up here.
2:07
SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.
2:08
SPEAKER_06: Yes, sir.
2:09
SPEAKER_06: Yes, sir, yes, sir.
2:10
SPEAKER_06: Yes, I'm excited.
2:11
SPEAKER_06: I'm excited.
2:12
SPEAKER_06: You know, I kind of like it because the Bears are starting out on the road, but at the same time, you know, as a season ticket holder, you always look for opening day, and you always want it to be week one.
2:24
SPEAKER_06: But this year, you know, we're starting off week two at home.
2:28
SPEAKER_06: Uh, but but this Carolina game, and you know, we're gonna get into it, but uh, I don't want people to be so confident about this week, but we're gonna talk about it.
2:40
SPEAKER_06: We definitely gonna talk about it.
2:43
SPEAKER_03: Well, you know what's happening there?
2:44
SPEAKER_03: You know, it's one of those old sayings where success has many fathers, but failure's a bastard because the bears are doing so well and everybody's reading about them, hearing about them.
2:57
SPEAKER_03: That bandwagon is extremely heavy.
3:00
SPEAKER_03: The second the Bears don't look as good or don't beat somebody 52 to nothing, you're gonna see people jumping off the bandwagon.
3:08
SPEAKER_03: But I think they've earned it.
3:09
SPEAKER_03: I think we've got one of the best uh offensive teams in the NFL.
3:14
SPEAKER_03: Uh, it still remains to be seen whether or not we're gonna have a serviceable defense.
3:19
SPEAKER_03: But I'm I'm hoping it is, and let's talk about it, fella.
3:22
SPEAKER_03: That's why we're here.
3:25
SPEAKER_07: That's one of the important things.
3:27
SPEAKER_07: Uh that defense, if we can get pressure on the QB, that's one of the main things I'm looking for this year.
3:35
SPEAKER_07: Uh, we've been lacking that.
3:37
SPEAKER_07: Uh, we haven't seen anything in the preseason, of course, is vanilla.
3:42
SPEAKER_07: But if we can get pressure on the QB, everything is gonna look lovely after that.
3:47
SPEAKER_07: And the defensive backs are gonna look better.
3:50
SPEAKER_07: Jalen Johnson is gonna look like himself again.
3:53
SPEAKER_07: So pressure on the QB is one of the important things I'm looking for.
4:00
SPEAKER_05: Hey, me, hey, Jimmy, Jimmy Redd, and hey, everybody probably like what guy didn't go anywhere.
4:06
SPEAKER_05: Uh, Jimmy Red sitting in for guy tonight.
4:09
SPEAKER_05: Uh guy had you know some personal business and quick could not make it tonight.
4:14
SPEAKER_05: So getting pressure on the quarterback is important, you know, for any defense.
4:19
SPEAKER_05: If you could get pressure, you got a chance.
4:21
SPEAKER_05: If you can't get pressure, you're in trouble.
4:26
SPEAKER_03: I absolutely agree with that.
4:27
SPEAKER_03: One of the other things that we have this year for the Bears is we we significantly significantly increase the speed of the team.
4:36
SPEAKER_03: You know, the the players that we replace are a lot slower than the players that we ended up getting.
4:43
SPEAKER_03: Dienerman, this guy has a 4-3 guy run playing safety.
4:46
SPEAKER_03: That's ridiculous.
4:47
SPEAKER_03: Uh, you also got uh Devin Bush.
4:50
SPEAKER_03: Devin Bush is a linebacker running 4-4s.
4:53
SPEAKER_03: I didn't even realize that um Sweat was as fast as he is.
4:59
SPEAKER_03: Sweat ran a 4-4 when he was in college at the combat.
5:03
SPEAKER_03: So the Bears are a lot faster this year.
5:05
SPEAKER_03: I'm hoping it actually translates to wins and translates to some of the things that Dennis Allen wants to do as a defense.
5:13
SPEAKER_03: We'll we'll see.
5:14
SPEAKER_03: Uh we'll wait and see whether or not that's gonna happen.
5:18
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and and you know, it's just one of those things where, you know, we have to keep our expectations intact because, again, you know, it is week one.
5:26
SPEAKER_06: You know, uh, I still look at September football as an extension of the preseason, just because the guys don't play together.
5:35
SPEAKER_06: I mean, we witnessed, you know, a rematch of the Super Bowl on Wednesday.
5:39
SPEAKER_06: What was the final 13 to 10?
5:41
SPEAKER_06: Um, and then you look at the Rams, who everybody has already crowned, you know, the Super Bowl champions.
5:48
SPEAKER_06: They scored seven points yesterday and looked just as rusty as uh as any team could look, as a matter of fact.
5:55
SPEAKER_06: And you know, Keith, you just said, you know, the 49ers with all the Gerital players that they got on their team, they actually looked, they actually looked pretty darn good last night.
6:06
SPEAKER_06: You know, Debo Samuel, you know, went back to uh San Francisco and you know, and he was able to be an impact, you know.
6:13
SPEAKER_06: Mike Evans, you know, a longtime Buccaneer is now with the 49ers.
6:18
SPEAKER_06: He was he had a big impact.
6:19
SPEAKER_06: George Kittle had a big impact.
6:21
SPEAKER_06: So, you know, it's it's it's gonna take some time.
6:25
SPEAKER_06: Uh, but what I don't want, and I know how Bears fans are, is like, oh my God, you know, they don't look, they don't look, you know, you still have to look at it as it's still preseason in my eyes.
6:38
SPEAKER_06: And that's how I look at it.
6:39
SPEAKER_06: It's still pre-season, first week, second week, third week, they still kind of like kind of getting the lumps out.
6:45
SPEAKER_06: But uh I'm looking forward to this game.
6:48
SPEAKER_06: I I think it's gonna be a challenge.
6:50
SPEAKER_06: You know, I I don't think uh Carolina is gonna be a pushover because they really kind of solidified, you know, their team in the offseason.
7:00
SPEAKER_06: But the biggest thing with them this week is both of their starting offensive tackles, right and left, are not playing this week.
7:08
SPEAKER_06: So as you said, uh Jimmy, it we should see some pressure on the quarterback uh this week.
7:14
SPEAKER_06: Uh shout out to DeAndre Swift for getting his extension.
7:17
SPEAKER_06: Yes, sir.
7:19
SPEAKER_06: I think it was a smart move.
7:20
SPEAKER_06: He was in the last year, his contract.
7:22
SPEAKER_06: And they didn't get in cheap, but they didn't they didn't overpay like most of the running backs that over this past summer has gotten some wealthy contracts.
7:31
SPEAKER_06: They've gotten some wealthy contracts.
7:33
SPEAKER_06: So to get him for three years at 33 million, so we're talking about 11 and some change a season, uh, that's gonna keep him in the house for the next couple of years.
7:42
SPEAKER_06: So um, but but this week it is gonna be it's gonna be a challenge.
7:46
SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be a challenge.
7:48
SPEAKER_06: The heat actually in Carolina is gonna be significant.
7:52
SPEAKER_06: So um I just want everybody to be patient and curb their lofty expectations as this team ramps up for the 2026 season.
8:01
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, some of the cap on uh no, sorry about that.
8:06
SPEAKER_03: To put a cap on the 49ers versus the Rams game, you can see the difference of good coaching and good decision making uh that that happened from the 49ers standpoint.
8:16
SPEAKER_03: They got their team and those geriatric guys out there so they can you know get their cookies and milk right before um the game or whatever.
8:25
SPEAKER_03: They had a whole bunch of Ben Gang available to them, and they came out and beat the team that was a hype-based team.
8:31
SPEAKER_03: So it's uh it's always a little bit scary that you can get too hyped.
8:36
SPEAKER_03: Uh, that's one that's why I like Ben Johnson.
8:38
SPEAKER_03: He tries to keep the Bears pretty level and he's like, hey, we didn't win anything this year.
8:44
SPEAKER_03: Last year's last year, we starting off, and we got to prove it, and let's see what we can do.
8:49
SPEAKER_03: So I think we got the right uh the right coach in the range.
8:52
SPEAKER_03: Um, however, he still needs to be a little bit better and prove his decision-making capability as well.
8:59
SPEAKER_05: Okay, yeah, hey, um, I want to thank Michelle for chiming in from Arizona.
9:04
SPEAKER_05: Hey, sis, sister law, right?
9:07
SPEAKER_05: Hey, sis, yeah, hey, sis.
9:08
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, peace.
9:10
SPEAKER_05: We appreciate everybody who tuned in and make sure you hit the subscribe button, like uh Plank has said at the beginning of the podcast.
9:17
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, these first games, uh Jay, I agree with you.
9:19
SPEAKER_05: They're almost like preseason.
9:21
SPEAKER_05: I mean, it kind of scared me work watching the first two games.
9:25
SPEAKER_05: In the first game, we had one quarterback through three three picks and one team.
9:31
SPEAKER_05: In the fourth quarter.
9:32
SPEAKER_05: In the fourth quarter, right?
9:33
SPEAKER_05: Then you then you had the other quarterback.
9:35
SPEAKER_05: So in that game itself, the first game, um, the Super Bowl rematch, you know, Drake May, who you know, they had been crowning that people have been making fun of the Bears until last season, that he was probably the best quarterback in the draft.
9:50
SPEAKER_05: And it's it's funny how that conversation is shifting to uh Caleb is rising, you know, in that stock.
9:57
SPEAKER_05: But anyway, the second game last night, you had both quarterbacks have turnovers right before halftime.
10:03
SPEAKER_05: But man, that second quarter, San Francisco put the uh what they put uh BTA.
10:11
SPEAKER_05: Uh they put the BTA to the Super Bowl, the already like uh what was the already crown super bowl?
10:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, go ahead.
10:22
SPEAKER_05: You want to go ahead and it was that Dennis, Dennis Green?
10:26
SPEAKER_05: Crown them, right?
10:32
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, they they didn't believe, they didn't believe that hype, but we know it's still early.
10:36
SPEAKER_05: But I just want to make one more announcement for uh uh move on to Jimmy, uh Jimmy Red.
10:41
SPEAKER_05: This year we expanded to uh a new show that's gonna be just a segment of Bass Banner, which is out of bounds by Dr.
10:49
SPEAKER_05: Quick.
10:49
SPEAKER_05: He'll probably have a mixture of maybe one or two of us on that show with him, and I think um Big Ed Johnkins and maybe some other guests will be on there with him.
10:59
SPEAKER_05: Then we also have another show called Pastor Pull Picks by Sean Thompson, where he talks about fantasy football, give you tips for the week.
11:08
SPEAKER_05: So we're gonna keep growing.
11:10
SPEAKER_05: We also on iHeartRadio this year.
11:12
SPEAKER_05: We on Buzz Spot this year, we're on, of course, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch TV, and you know, we we probably may end up expanding to Spotify before the year is over.
11:26
SPEAKER_05: So there's so many avenues, and that's gonna give people opportunities to broadcast or advertise on our show any products you may have, your business, and also if you want to advertise, uh maybe just events you got coming up.
11:43
SPEAKER_05: What you got, Jimmy?
11:45
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I just want to see how uh Caleb looks this year with uh without the beard.
11:52
SPEAKER_07: You know, sometimes when you change uh you know, you change your facial hair, you change your ideals, he slammed down, he said he muscled up, but he slammed down, started eating right.
12:03
SPEAKER_07: Uh, I want to see him do much better on those short passes, those give me passes, which he had a lot of problems with last year.
12:11
SPEAKER_07: I want to see him do better with that.
12:13
SPEAKER_07: You know, we know the uh off script stuff he's great at, but the the really the basic stuff, the layups.
12:19
SPEAKER_07: I want you to hit the layups, that'll help that percentage go up, but it also you know give everybody involved in the offense.
12:27
SPEAKER_07: You know, when you hit those things, that always gives the defense another thing to think about.
12:32
SPEAKER_07: So, you know, that's what I'm looking forward to.
12:34
SPEAKER_07: I hope he uh you know gets that percentage up uh on the on the on the easy stuff.
12:40
SPEAKER_07: Because last year we missed a lot of easy passes that were right there, and he overthrew them.
12:46
SPEAKER_07: You know, it's just like wow, you know, that's that was a gimme right there.
12:50
SPEAKER_07: So I'm hoping he gets the give me.
12:53
SPEAKER_07: I hope he takes, you know, that's what I'm looking forward to.
12:57
SPEAKER_07: And uh getting some pressure on that quarterback.
13:01
SPEAKER_06: Shout out to my shout out to my brother.
13:03
SPEAKER_06: He wanted us to know, like, hey, I'm watching on my sell's phone.
13:06
SPEAKER_06: I'm watching the phone.
13:10
SPEAKER_06: So he had to let me know.
13:11
SPEAKER_06: What's up, babe, bro?
13:12
SPEAKER_06: Miss you, man.
13:13
SPEAKER_06: Miss you, man.
13:14
SPEAKER_06: But yeah, you know, um uh, you know, going into this game, you know, as you said, Red, you you Jimmy, we we um uh Caleb.
13:25
SPEAKER_06: I think Caleb's confidence has grown over the year.
13:30
SPEAKER_06: Um over you know, coming into this season versus last year.
13:34
SPEAKER_06: I I you know, I really think uh Caleb put in the work.
13:38
SPEAKER_06: You know, he had those guys with him over the summer.
13:42
SPEAKER_06: Uh so I I don't I don't think it's gonna be what I'm hoping that we won't see some of the things that he did last year repeat itself, some of the things that wasn't good.
13:54
SPEAKER_07: Um well I would say let not to not to cut you off, Jay, but what I would think is second year in the system, now you can play more instead of thinking.
14:05
SPEAKER_07: Absolutely, you know, because you always step back when you're reacting and thinking about what you're gonna do instead of just doing it.
14:12
SPEAKER_06: Absolutely, and that's and that's what he talked about, you know, throughout training camp is how they are in the second year and they're not learning, they're adding to what they already know.
14:23
SPEAKER_06: So that's a good thing for them to be able to add to what they did last year is gonna be a big factor in how this whole entire season is gonna play out.
14:34
SPEAKER_06: You know, I just want to say before I get too mouthy, because y'all know I can just talk, you know, you know, people were talking about you know the schedule and all this.
14:43
SPEAKER_06: Oh, the Bears are playing a first place schedule.
14:45
SPEAKER_06: Well last year, the Bears played seven playoff teams on their schedule last year, and they were four and three.
14:52
SPEAKER_06: This year they got eight playoff teams on their schedule.
14:56
SPEAKER_06: So if they can mirror what they did last year, go five and three or six and two, or even if they go four and four, you know, as long as you are staying, as long as you are being able to stay in that mode, you're gonna be okay.
15:15
SPEAKER_06: So to me, it's not even about the schedule.
15:17
SPEAKER_06: I think the schedule, the way it plays out, is very favorable.
15:22
SPEAKER_06: Because if you look at their first four games, you'd be like, okay, hmm.
15:26
SPEAKER_06: If the bears are who they say they are, as Dennis Green would say, you know, the Bears could be the Bears could possibly be four and all.
15:35
SPEAKER_06: I mean, I'm I'm I'm going down the road real quick, but if you look at their first four games, and we're not gonna overlook Carolina, but if you look at their first four games, I don't see the schedule being as bad as people making it out to be.
15:52
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know, uh Jay, that that's uh always the subjective thing about the schedule because even when you just referenced last year's schedule, when the season started, when you look at it, you know, you seeing where they playing Pittsburgh, they um Cleveland, you know, you thought they would probably, you know, defensively that the Bears would have a problem with them.
16:12
SPEAKER_05: They played the Ravens last year, you know, they played that whole division.
16:15
SPEAKER_05: So kind of glancing at it, it seemed a whole lot harder than it ended up being because it ended up being the uh was that the AFC was that the AFC North.
16:27
SPEAKER_06: No, that's the North.
16:28
SPEAKER_05: The AFC North ended up pretty being pretty weak last year.
16:32
SPEAKER_05: So the Bears actually beat every team in that division other than the Ravens.
16:37
SPEAKER_06: And then you also have to point out, Bernard, uh every team that they played in that division, they played their backup quarterback.
16:46
SPEAKER_06: They shouldn't have Pittsburgh without without Aaron Rodgers, they played Baltimore without Lamar Jackson, they played the Bengals without Joe Burrow, and then we played Shador Sanders.
17:00
SPEAKER_06: So, you know, the Bears got some breaks last year, but when you look at your schedule, you play who's in front of you.
17:08
SPEAKER_06: Because if if Caleb get hurt on Sunday, week two, are the Vikings talking about well, we beat them because they didn't have Caleb.
17:18
SPEAKER_06: No, no, it's it's it's like Dr.
17:20
SPEAKER_06: Quick said, next man up, next man up.
17:23
SPEAKER_06: So it's one of them things where it's like, hey, you only play the people that's in front of you.
17:28
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and Jimmy had made a comment about the quarterback.
17:32
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna be quick on that.
17:33
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's it's interesting because Caleb did not have an accuracy problem in college, so you know it has to be some of it probably just a game moving fast and maybe not being decisive, right?
17:47
SPEAKER_05: And maybe not being decisive.
17:49
SPEAKER_05: He's looking at a pass that's look easy, but he really doesn't want to go to that pass.
17:55
SPEAKER_05: He really wants to go somewhere else, and maybe he's overthinking it, right?
17:59
SPEAKER_05: So I would say with footwork, mechanics, and being decisive on those short routes will probably pick it up.
18:07
SPEAKER_05: And Drew Brees, yeah, not Drew Brees, uh, yeah, Drew Brees made a comment today that he was talking to Caleb.
18:14
SPEAKER_05: He said, you know how you improve your passing rating?
18:17
SPEAKER_05: And basically he talked about improving what is that?
18:20
SPEAKER_05: He's like, complete three more passes.
18:23
SPEAKER_05: That's it, about three more passes a game.
18:25
SPEAKER_05: And some of it is also you're gonna have some of that in Chicago because of the winter weather, and also he does have to take some off on some of those balls because Caleb does throw that ball pretty hard.
18:38
SPEAKER_05: Kind of like back in the day when who was that?
18:41
SPEAKER_05: Uh uh Doug Williams when he played for Tampa, I'm going way back.
18:45
SPEAKER_05: He was breaking fingers almost.
18:47
SPEAKER_05: He was throwing so hard.
18:48
SPEAKER_05: What you got, Jimmy?
18:49
SPEAKER_07: That that was the that's what they used to say about Vince Evans.
18:53
SPEAKER_07: He could throw the fastball, he can never throw the change up, though, you know.
18:58
SPEAKER_07: But you know, it it it I mean, three more passes, that would be awesome.
19:03
SPEAKER_07: But it it just seemed like he had some kind of little block with the really easy passes, those were the ones he would miss.
19:12
SPEAKER_07: And you would be like, Wow, how you miss that?
19:14
SPEAKER_07: And he was overthrowing them, you know, a lot of them he was overthrowing them.
19:19
SPEAKER_07: So, you know, if he can get that down, like you say, he'll be more comfortable on the offense, better footwork.
19:26
SPEAKER_07: Uh, the game is slowing down since you know what to expect now.
19:30
SPEAKER_07: I'm looking forward to it.
19:32
SPEAKER_07: You know, I don't I I I want it to be I want the offense to run and be efficient.
19:39
SPEAKER_07: You know, big plays are nice.
19:41
SPEAKER_07: I just want to be fish in offense and scoring.
19:43
SPEAKER_07: Absolutely.
19:43
SPEAKER_07: That's what we want.
19:44
SPEAKER_07: We run time off the clock, as long as you can keep their offense off the field, it's better for you.
19:51
SPEAKER_03: I think we got to make a decision on what we want to be as an offense, okay?
19:57
SPEAKER_03: Of on one vein, we're talking about how we want to be the most prolific prolific offense ever, and we want to outscore everybody.
20:05
SPEAKER_03: That means you're a big game hunter.
20:07
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, as a as a quarterback, you're a big game hunter.
20:11
SPEAKER_03: You want to make sure you can go for the big uh chunk plays, as he says.
20:16
SPEAKER_03: If we just think about it from a mathematical standpoint, it's a higher percentage the shorter you throw the dog on the ball.
20:22
SPEAKER_03: The other thing that ends up happening, the number of drop passes we had last year, that if if we can just cut those down, uh one or two uh less drop passes uh a year a game, look at what Caleb Williams ends up looking like.
20:40
SPEAKER_03: So it's it's just interesting that you know we want everything.
20:44
SPEAKER_03: We want the highest percentage, most touchdowns, leases, interceptions.
20:48
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, give me a point.
20:50
SPEAKER_03: And another thing about uh being a quarterback and throwing the ball really hard, that was a guy by the name of John Elway.
20:56
SPEAKER_03: He threw the ball pretty hard and his receivers caught it.
21:01
SPEAKER_03: You can't have it both ways.
21:03
SPEAKER_03: Uh, my man Jay, he says, what you need to do as a receiver is catch the ball.
21:08
SPEAKER_03: You ain't heard no excuses, you ain't heard the ball missed me, it was too hard.
21:13
SPEAKER_03: He said, if the ball hits you in the hand, score to catch it.
21:16
SPEAKER_03: You gotta make the point.
21:18
SPEAKER_07: I'm sure all you guys heard this.
21:21
SPEAKER_07: You all played, and I know you guys heard this.
21:24
SPEAKER_07: You're gonna get hit anyway, you might as well catch the ball.
21:30
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, hey, make the hit worthwhile, right?
21:34
SPEAKER_05: I think you're absolutely right.
21:36
SPEAKER_05: If you're um deep ball hunting and stuff like that, and that's for your offense design, you do have to live with some uh inefficiency in passing, right?
21:46
SPEAKER_05: Because, like you said, the shorter passes are easy to make.
21:49
SPEAKER_05: And also, if we actually put last year in the proper perspective, the Bears' offensive line was not really good the first three or four games.
21:57
SPEAKER_05: They actually struggled, they rated pretty fast.
22:00
SPEAKER_05: And you had a lot of throwaways that happened as well.
22:05
SPEAKER_05: That was the trade-off, right?
22:06
SPEAKER_05: Do you want your quarterback sack, or are you going to have them throw it away?
22:10
SPEAKER_05: I'd rather have him throw it away than to take sacks because the sacks are uh it put you behind the sticks and his negative plays.
22:18
SPEAKER_05: Uh, you know, I just want to kind of parley over to another you can always pump the ball.
22:23
SPEAKER_07: You can always pump the ball.
22:24
SPEAKER_03: Some of that was based on um Ben Johnson, his aggressiveness, too.
22:29
SPEAKER_03: Not only, you know, I was okay with him going for it on fourth down or knew two yards, but the plays he recalled had nothing to do.
22:38
SPEAKER_03: That didn't make sense.
22:39
SPEAKER_03: If he wants to go for it uh fourth and one, fourth and two, you got Manon guy who's a banger, you got all these offensive linemen.
22:47
SPEAKER_03: It makes sense just to take the quick one yard.
22:51
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes you have to you instead of always trying to outsmart everybody, sometimes you have to be pragmatic.
22:57
SPEAKER_03: I'm just saying.
22:58
SPEAKER_03: So that's one of the things our coach can do to improve himself as well.
23:02
SPEAKER_05: And that's what I like.
23:04
SPEAKER_05: I like to see on the offensive line is last year.
23:08
SPEAKER_05: I mean, they got good over the season, don't so don't get me wrong by saying the offensive line.
23:13
SPEAKER_05: What I would like to say was for some reason last year on fourth down, they didn't block.
23:19
SPEAKER_05: It seemed like when they had those fourth down plays, it'll be a jailbreak.
23:24
SPEAKER_05: Because even if you look at uh some of those plays, um, even that play where Caleb does to jump man, that blocking that was a fourth, I think it was a fourth down play.
23:34
SPEAKER_05: I can't remember.
23:35
SPEAKER_05: The play there was a penalty before that play, and the blocking broke down immediately.
23:40
SPEAKER_05: And even the one where he throws the ball, matter of fact, I'm gonna run that clip where he throws the ball to the command in the end zone.
23:47
SPEAKER_05: I mean, they basically almost everybody who rushed actually was chasing him.
23:53
SPEAKER_03: Jailbreak.
23:54
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
23:59
SPEAKER_05: What you got, Jay?
24:01
SPEAKER_06: No, I was no, I mean, I just totally agree with you guys.
24:04
SPEAKER_06: Uh the blocking, you know, they didn't until they got to I want to say the Philadelphia game.
24:11
SPEAKER_06: It was right after the bye week, is when they was like, okay, because you know, we got to remember the Bears started off 0-2 last year.
24:18
SPEAKER_06: So, you know, we didn't know what to expect, you know, especially after week two when they when when uh Dan Campbell and the Lions hung up 52berg on us.
24:27
SPEAKER_06: We was like, okay, we don't know what's going on with this team right now.
24:32
SPEAKER_06: But they were able to turn it around, and again, like I said, I just hope the momentum from 2025 rolls over into 2026.
24:41
SPEAKER_05: Okay, here let me show a clip real quick.
24:45
SPEAKER_01: DJ Moore on the four field post.
25:31
SPEAKER_06: Yep, yes.
25:31
SPEAKER_06: When I tell y'all, the stadium was shaking.
25:36
SPEAKER_06: It hadn't been like that since we played the Rams in 2018 with Trubisky and Khalil Mack when the Rams came into Soldier Field.
25:46
SPEAKER_06: And again, for some reason, for some reason the Rams always wind up behind the hype machine.
25:53
SPEAKER_06: But everybody was talking about how good that Rams team was, and we held them to eight points that night.
25:59
SPEAKER_06: But when I tell y'all those last two games, that playoff game and uh those two playoff games and that last uh uh Green Bay game, man, Souls of the field, Sojafield was rocking, man.
26:12
SPEAKER_06: And and that's what you want.
26:14
SPEAKER_06: That's what you want just to be able to just stand there and just take it all in.
26:18
SPEAKER_06: It was great.
26:19
SPEAKER_06: It was it was it was just it was great.
26:22
SPEAKER_06: It was great.
26:25
SPEAKER_03: I take it.
26:27
SPEAKER_05: Hey, what I what are our expectations as we move to this uh Panthers game?
26:31
SPEAKER_05: I mean, we have a couple of guys that look like they battling some kind of I I can't say injury, kind of more discomfort or whatever they may call it.
26:42
SPEAKER_05: We just had another issue with Roma Dunze this week where it's uh they his foot, but it's not the same thing that was bothering him, you know, all last year.
26:53
SPEAKER_05: We got Kyler Gordon who actually doing something a little strange.
26:57
SPEAKER_05: He's going home um to work out versus staying with the team.
27:03
SPEAKER_05: I I'm sure it's home means here, but I do think a player should be there watching film.
27:08
SPEAKER_05: So it kind of reminded me of the Derek Rose situation at one point when Derek was in Chicago and he they thought he would come back the next season, and he ended up missing us the whole season.
27:19
SPEAKER_05: And the uh the bulls coaches were kind of saying we don't know why he's not back.
27:23
SPEAKER_05: That kind of got that feel with Kyler Gordon.
27:27
SPEAKER_05: I kind of get the suspicions that he may be one of those players that's gonna start asking for a trade.
27:32
SPEAKER_05: I I don't know, but then anyway, with the Panthers, uh, we look like Braxton Jones is gonna be our starting left tackle.
27:38
SPEAKER_05: He he like he he was the best of the bad guys that was available.
27:43
SPEAKER_05: So what do y'all think is gonna happen in this?
27:48
SPEAKER_03: First of all, Kyler Gordon.
27:51
SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry about that.
27:52
SPEAKER_03: Kyler Gordon, we're talking about he has the mentality of a remote employee, you know, where uh before COVID, nobody actually worked at home, everybody had to get up and go into the office.
28:04
SPEAKER_03: Now he got his contract, and he thinks he's a remote employee.
28:08
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes if your boss tells you you need to be in the office, you need to go to the office, man.
28:13
SPEAKER_03: You can't have it both ways.
28:15
SPEAKER_03: So I'm hoping Kyler Gordon gets a little uh, you know, gets a genie or something that actually heals him up.
28:23
SPEAKER_03: Um, that's gonna be that's gonna be an issue we're gonna deal with all year.
28:26
SPEAKER_03: I'm excited this game because we get to see exactly what happened in the Bryce Young sweet states.
28:35
SPEAKER_03: You remember a few years ago we had the Bears uh traded their number one draft uh choice, and it ended up being Bryce Young.
28:43
SPEAKER_03: I think this is the first time we get to face that young man with everything that we took from that doggone trade, which was pretty ridiculous.
28:51
SPEAKER_03: We're talking about we had we got DJ Moore out of it, Caleb Williams, Darnell Wright, Luther Burton, Stevenson.
28:59
SPEAKER_06: Stevenson, all of those, yeah.
29:00
SPEAKER_03: What we ended up getting for that one player was ridiculous, man.
29:05
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
29:05
SPEAKER_03: So that you know, that's an all-time haul.
29:08
SPEAKER_03: I'm looking forward to it.
29:10
SPEAKER_06: Well, I'm looking forward to this game just because.
29:16
SPEAKER_06: Again, as I said, you know, uh Carolina did some things in the offseason on their defense.
29:22
SPEAKER_06: And I'm looking forward to the Jaden Phillips and the Darnell Wright matchup.
29:28
SPEAKER_06: You know, both of them, you know, got their contracts.
29:31
SPEAKER_06: So we're gonna see who's doing the zoo on that right side.
29:35
SPEAKER_06: Um, and then you got, like I said, you know, you got the two starting tackles for uh offensive tackles for the Panthers are out.
29:43
SPEAKER_06: So let's see can our pass rush actually get to Bryce Young.
29:49
SPEAKER_06: But more importantly, uh Chuba Hubbard and a running game may cause a problem for the Bears.
29:56
SPEAKER_06: And if our interior uh don't stand up, uh this could be a problem.
30:02
SPEAKER_06: This could be a problem.
30:03
SPEAKER_06: So, you know, I uh I've been looking at all these predictions and these scores and people talking about 35 to 10, and it's week one.
30:14
SPEAKER_06: It is week one.
30:15
SPEAKER_06: I need everybody to calm your expectations.
30:18
SPEAKER_06: Calm your expectations and look at this in a re in a real lens.
30:25
SPEAKER_06: So that's what I'm looking for.
30:26
SPEAKER_06: I'm looking forward to the matchups.
30:27
SPEAKER_06: Um the all the other matchups I'm looking forward to, excuse me, is these defensive backs against our wide receivers.
30:36
SPEAKER_06: Uh Carolina got some first round talent on the edges at the corners.
30:42
SPEAKER_06: So you know, we're looking at our wide receivers.
30:45
SPEAKER_06: Is uh will um Rom Madunze and his calf, because they said calf injury today.
30:51
SPEAKER_06: Uh is his his calf injury is it gonna be a factor?
30:56
SPEAKER_06: Uh Luther Burton, we know it's healthy.
30:58
SPEAKER_06: Uh Roman Dunze, we need to see what you're gonna do.
31:03
SPEAKER_06: Um, so it's gonna be interesting to see these matchups.
31:07
SPEAKER_06: I think Coastin Loveland is, if I can make a prediction, I I think he's gonna have a good game this week.
31:13
SPEAKER_06: Uh I'm looking, I'm actually looking at two touchdowns for Cole uh uh uh uh uh Colston this week uh from Caleb Williams.
31:21
SPEAKER_06: But again, you know, this Panthers team, which was a playoff team, nonetheless, coming out of the NFC South, and it was an eight and nine team, they still made the playoffs.
31:32
SPEAKER_06: And they actually and they actually improved their roster this year.
31:36
SPEAKER_06: You know, they got guys on on the offensive side, you know, uh uh um TT McMillan, and then you got Coker.
31:44
SPEAKER_06: Uh so they got some this ain't no pushover team.
31:49
SPEAKER_06: But I want people to, I'm I want people to understand that.
31:52
SPEAKER_06: So, you know, let's curb the expectations and let's hope the Bears get off on the good foot.
31:59
SPEAKER_05: You know, you know what?
32:00
SPEAKER_05: Bryce Young has, I had to give him credit.
32:03
SPEAKER_05: He he was a guy that was bench early on in his, you know, I think they got some stars and it looked like they were gonna give up on him.
32:11
SPEAKER_05: Then um they fired their coach uh mid-season or whatever it was in that season, and then they gave him another opportunity, and it didn't start out too good for him to get into last year, but as the season went on, Bryce Young actually started looking pretty good coming down the stretch and was able to get his team in the playoff.
32:33
SPEAKER_05: And Bryce Young is doing some of the stuff that you would have hoped he would have done earlier than what he had done.
32:41
SPEAKER_05: Bryce Young, when he was at Alabama, just was a pocket passer.
32:44
SPEAKER_05: J Canada Steam refused to run the ball.
32:46
SPEAKER_05: Dude, you like 5'11.
32:48
SPEAKER_05: Uh I don't know well how tall you are, but you know what?
32:52
SPEAKER_05: You're not gonna have those clear lanes.
32:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you you gotta, and I I noticed last year he did start taking off more, you know, moving the chain when he had to, because when you undersize, what helps you overcome being undersized is normally you're more athletic than uh the guys, right?
33:14
SPEAKER_05: So that's part of it.
33:15
SPEAKER_05: So the band's gonna have to really, you know, maintain and get pressure on Bryce Young and keep him in the pocket.
33:23
SPEAKER_05: Because with him being a shorter guy, it's harder for him to see some of the stuff in the middle.
33:29
SPEAKER_05: So you you gotta kind of close the pocket in and don't overpursue him and don't let him step up, but don't let him get outside the pocket where he could see the field a whole lot better.
33:41
SPEAKER_05: My concern with the Bears is going to be I'm not sure what we did as far as linebacker.
33:48
SPEAKER_05: Uh, I like to see it play out on the field.
33:50
SPEAKER_05: Uh the I do got questions.
33:52
SPEAKER_05: Can we stop the run?
33:54
SPEAKER_05: And I was kind of disappointed that um Kobe Bryant ended up being injured.
33:59
SPEAKER_05: I'm just trying to point out some defensive things I'm concerned with.
34:03
SPEAKER_05: I hope Jalen Johnson has overcome what he last year.
34:06
SPEAKER_05: I know he was playing with an injury, but even when he seemed like he's better, he seemed a step slow uh out there.
34:14
SPEAKER_05: And man, it that's I got a lot of questions about that defense that I do think Brooker is gonna be a bright spot on his defense.
34:23
SPEAKER_05: I think he's gonna, you know, be able to, you know, show a whole lot more.
34:29
SPEAKER_05: But that's some of my takes I got right now about that this game coming up.
34:33
SPEAKER_06: I just think, real quick, I just want to say, I think this defense is gonna shock a lot of people.
34:39
SPEAKER_06: I really do.
34:40
SPEAKER_06: You know, it's been that's all that's been talked about this entire offseason is they didn't do enough on defense.
34:47
SPEAKER_06: But I actually think this defense is gonna shock some people, and I'm not just talking about this game, I'm saying as the season progresses, people are gonna be like, wait a minute, the Bears defense, because that's all I'm hearing.
35:00
SPEAKER_06: Well, I'm just worried about this defense.
35:02
SPEAKER_06: The Bears gonna have to win shootouts.
35:05
SPEAKER_06: I'm not I'm not there yet because we haven't, once again, that's why they play the game.
35:10
SPEAKER_06: We haven't played the game yet, so we don't know what uh uh another Gallimore is.
35:17
SPEAKER_06: We don't know.
35:18
SPEAKER_06: We know that they're on the team, but what kind of production are they gonna bring?
35:23
SPEAKER_06: You know, we got a healthy um uh Grady Jarrett, who was injured pretty much all last year, you know.
35:32
SPEAKER_06: Um you know, we got Montez Sweat, who had 10 sacks last year.
35:36
SPEAKER_06: We got an Austin Booker, so uh and I still think Bernard, our linebackers, Devin Bush, is a better fit for Dennis Allen's defense when we're talking about sideline to sideline.
35:49
SPEAKER_06: And then you know, we got the tactician and TJ Edwards, and then we got DeMarco Jackson.
35:54
SPEAKER_06: You know, we got some veterans that's gonna fill in for now in the secondary, at free safety, and at the nickel and Cam Lewis and uh Xavier Woods.
36:05
SPEAKER_06: So in Jalen Johnson, I think a hate a healthy Jalen Johnson is not gonna be a step slower this year.
36:11
SPEAKER_06: He's gonna, I think he's gonna form around Dr.
36:14
SPEAKER_06: Quick, as you like to get on Jalen Johnson all the time.
36:18
SPEAKER_06: I'm just letting you know, I think Jalen and Tyree Stevenson, he's in the contract here.
36:24
SPEAKER_06: Tyree Stevenson, as much as people want to talk about Tyree Stevenson, Tyree Stevenson can play corner.
36:31
SPEAKER_06: He can play, he plays the run very well.
36:34
SPEAKER_06: As long as he stays mentally focused in the game, I'm not worried about him.
36:39
SPEAKER_06: So I'm not really worried about what this defense is gonna be like uh for this game, game one.
36:46
SPEAKER_06: But what I am worried about is us overlooking the Carolina Panthers.
36:52
SPEAKER_06: Uh so it's a difference for me.
36:55
SPEAKER_06: Is the defense good or are we gonna overlook the Carolina Panthers?
37:00
SPEAKER_07: That's it.
37:01
SPEAKER_07: Uh just to jump on that, Jay.
37:03
SPEAKER_07: Uh, you know, I'm really excited to see the surprises that we had coming out of training camp with Vandenberg and uh Loving.
37:13
SPEAKER_07: I mean, because those guys came out of nowhere and showed a lot of potential.
37:19
SPEAKER_07: And uh, I think this may be a breakout year for Booker.
37:23
SPEAKER_07: I think this may be a breakout year for him.
37:26
SPEAKER_07: And uh, I think he put on enough muscle, enough weight.
37:29
SPEAKER_07: He's got it figured out now, and I think he's gonna take off, he's gonna take off this year.
37:34
SPEAKER_07: And you're right, I think our defense may surprise a lot of people.
37:39
SPEAKER_07: That's why I was really concerned about getting pressure on the quarterback.
37:42
SPEAKER_06: If if what I hope happens, happens, uh this is gonna be having people think of the 85 Bears on the defense, and then they're talking about slide, and then they talk about and then they're talking about sliding uh uh they all on the inside for pass.
38:04
SPEAKER_06: So then it's allen got some chess pieces to work with, so everybody just slow your roll when they're talking about all this defense is not this.
38:12
SPEAKER_07: We don't know yet, we don't know because they haven't field yet.
38:16
SPEAKER_07: Any of those linemen live up to the potential, now you can rotate them in and everybody's fresh, like we did back in the day.
38:25
SPEAKER_07: When you rotate those guys in, oh my goodness, he's coming in with fresh, he didn't been on the sideline, couple of plays come back in fresh.
38:33
SPEAKER_07: Bam! That offensive lineman don't have a chance.
38:37
SPEAKER_03: But Dennis Allen's a mad scientist, and I'm looking forward to him finally getting an opportunity to do some of the things that he wants.
38:44
SPEAKER_03: Uh, the truth of the matter is the Bears have drafted highly on the offensive side of the ball.
38:49
SPEAKER_03: Yes, they have kind of left him with slim pickings.
38:52
SPEAKER_03: But he got a first-round uh uh defensive back.
38:56
SPEAKER_03: That should make the difference.
38:57
SPEAKER_03: Uh Dennis Allen is a great safety coach.
39:00
SPEAKER_03: He knows how to put him in positions where you never know what they're gonna do.
39:04
SPEAKER_03: And somebody like Dylan Thinnerman, uh, he's a very good piece.
39:10
SPEAKER_03: And you know, traditionally, Dennis Allen's done really well with with uh DBs.
39:15
SPEAKER_03: Also, next these first two weeks of the year are the battle of the Bears versus the midget quarterbacks.
39:22
SPEAKER_03: I don't think either one of those quarterbacks can even see over the line.
39:26
SPEAKER_03: And the thing that's scary about that as a defensive player, you don't see the quarterback back there, then all of a sudden you just see the ball come out, and you're like, man, you know, that's you have to really be on your P's and Q's.
39:39
SPEAKER_03: So let's see what's gonna happen.
39:44
SPEAKER_07: You can't see out there, and you can't see him.
39:50
SPEAKER_03: I don't know if Bryce Young versus Kyler Murray is who's gonna win in the basketball contest, but neither one of my over five, six.
40:01
SPEAKER_07: Kyler Murray's quick though.
40:05
SPEAKER_04: Okay, well, we'll see.
40:06
SPEAKER_05: You know, I'm looking I'm looking forward to the Bears combination of that running game.
40:11
SPEAKER_05: I I I thought at the I thought late in the season they didn't seem to run the ball as consistent as they had at especially that that that game you mentioned earlier, Jay.
40:24
SPEAKER_05: That was the that was the ultimate running game where they did.
40:28
SPEAKER_05: But uh I'm I am happy for uh that you know um what the I'm saying, D'Andre Swift got a um a stench.
40:36
SPEAKER_05: I am happy for him because nobody beat his butt more than me.
40:39
SPEAKER_05: The first two years of him just kind of like sometimes he had just cut for no reason or he would run back into traffic.
40:47
SPEAKER_05: Um, thankful for that one year where Eric B.
40:50
SPEAKER_05: Enemy, he had to he should give him a personal call to thank him because he was significant in him being able to get that extension because Swift Vision to me got a whole lot better.
41:01
SPEAKER_06: What you gotta say if I say something because if you watch his tape from the first two years he was here and then last year, you would think it was a totally, totally different player.
41:13
SPEAKER_06: You would think it was a totally different player.
41:16
SPEAKER_06: So, whatever Eric B.
41:18
SPEAKER_06: Enemy put instilled in him last year, he took it to another level.
41:22
SPEAKER_06: And I tell you, I went back a couple of weeks ago and I watched that Philadelphia game because I was just so in awe that they ran for 280 yards in that game, and it was just handoff after handoff, and you could just see how that offensive line beat down the Philadelphia Eagles.
41:48
SPEAKER_06: Ben likes to run the football.
41:51
SPEAKER_06: Whether you go, you know, he's a man scientist, and like you say, Bernard, at towards the end of the year, he got kind of pass happy a little bit, right around the Green Bay-ish time, and then in the playoffs, he got kind of pass happy.
42:05
SPEAKER_06: But Ben likes to run the football, and I'm telling y'all, 13 personnel is gonna be so prevalent this year because they're looking at the schedule and knowing what they're gonna need to do in order to be successful.
42:21
SPEAKER_06: So it's gonna be, you know, it's gonna this is shaping up to be really, really good.
42:30
SPEAKER_03: I think the best room on offense for the Bears is that tight end room.
42:35
SPEAKER_03: So I'm thinking, you know, when we see what happens with uh, you know, what Ben Johnson does with those tight ends, I think that's gonna really surprise the people.
42:45
SPEAKER_03: Not only do they make us better uh from a runners perspective, but we're gonna see some things in the passing game too.
42:52
SPEAKER_03: So sorry about that, Bernard.
42:53
SPEAKER_03: Go ahead.
42:54
SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, I was just here.
42:56
SPEAKER_05: About the 4,000 yards I see and you address it.
42:59
SPEAKER_05: I think I think if you just complete one or two more passes and one or two less drops, you would have been at 4,000 this year.
43:06
SPEAKER_05: Matter of fact, if you just eliminate just a few of the drops that were kind of like easy plays, even where receivers just kind of dropped some balls, you already at it because what was he at 3,800 and something yards?
43:18
SPEAKER_05: So he was is the kid still in the NFL.
43:22
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, he signed with he he actually did sound with somebody.
43:25
SPEAKER_06: I can't remember off the top of my head, but he did, but he did sign with somebody.
43:34
SPEAKER_05: You know, one of the things I'm I'm interested in this year.
43:38
SPEAKER_05: Uh Jay had mentioned uh Xavion Thomas, and man, I think the Bears special team.
43:45
SPEAKER_05: Man, we may be looking at like and I hate to compare people to any other players, but I'm just gonna make it a turn.
43:50
SPEAKER_05: That's a term.
43:51
SPEAKER_05: We may be looking at some hesteras, you know.
43:55
SPEAKER_04: That's a word type of uh kick off reserve, yeah.
44:00
SPEAKER_06: But I'm gonna tell y'all, but but I'm gonna tell y'all by by mid-season we're gonna see some people in this offense that people ain't even talking about.
44:12
SPEAKER_06: Because when I tell y'all, I'm telling y'all, today is September 11, 2026, before week one, by week eight, John A.
44:23
SPEAKER_06: Walker is gonna have a big role in this offense.
44:28
SPEAKER_06: He's gonna have a very big role in this offense.
44:31
SPEAKER_06: And then you got Xavion Top.
44:33
SPEAKER_06: This this could, if everything plays out, this could be real scary.
44:39
SPEAKER_06: This could be real scary.
44:41
SPEAKER_06: This offense, what Ben Johnson talked about, yeah, we want to blow people out and we want to score these, it could actually probably happen if everything comes together, because they have some.
44:51
SPEAKER_06: This is the most stacked wide receiver wound I have seen in my lifetime in Chicago.
44:59
SPEAKER_06: And that's a lot to say.
45:01
SPEAKER_06: Because, you know, even though if you look at the combos that we had back in the past, we had Willie Galt and we had Dennis McKinnon.
45:09
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
45:10
SPEAKER_06: Then we had um uh uh uh Curtis Conway and I forgot who he was with, you know, they were special.
45:19
SPEAKER_06: And then we had Brandon Marshall and Alshan Jeffrey, and then we had Alan Robinson.
45:24
SPEAKER_06: Uh Booker and Robinson.
45:26
SPEAKER_06: We have Book and Marty Robinson, uh, uh, uh Marty Booker and Marcus Robinson.
45:31
SPEAKER_06: So we we've had some combos, but when you talk about receiver one through five, right?
45:40
SPEAKER_06: I'm telling y'all, well, in the words in the fifth receiver is the fast the fastest receiver in the room.
45:49
SPEAKER_06: Xavion Thomas is receiver number five, and he's the fastest one in the room.
45:55
SPEAKER_06: So this could get real, real scary.
46:00
SPEAKER_03: I think he's one of the faster receivers in the NFL.
46:04
SPEAKER_03: We're talking about it from our context.
46:06
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, four four two eight, that's gotta be one of the fastest receivers in the NFL.
46:13
SPEAKER_06: Jeez, man, who was who was Curtis Conway with?
46:15
SPEAKER_07: Because who he whoever he was with, he was he was really good too.
46:18
SPEAKER_07: Uh, it was uh the guy out of Michigan.
46:23
SPEAKER_02: Oh, he sucked.
46:24
SPEAKER_07: No, not David Terrell.
46:27
SPEAKER_06: It wasn't David Terrell.
46:29
SPEAKER_06: Oh man, I gotta I gotta remember he wasn't with uh Musheen Muhammad, was he?
46:34
SPEAKER_07: No, no, no.
46:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh Musine was after now.
46:39
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
46:40
SPEAKER_05: We're looking up, we get it, we get it to you.
46:42
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, because they was a they was a dynamic combo when they had uh Eric Kramer at quarterback.
46:49
SPEAKER_06: So you know, we've had some good combinations of wide receivers, but the whole room wasn't good like this, like this room is this year.
46:58
SPEAKER_06: This room is, and then you talk about people on the practice squad.
47:00
SPEAKER_06: You know, we got Scotty Miller on the practice squad who got a Super Bowl ring, you know.
47:04
SPEAKER_06: Uh then you got you, you know, your Alexander, who who's always been these preseason, you know, MVPs, and and so the the receiver room is stacked.
47:18
SPEAKER_07: Defram.
47:19
SPEAKER_07: Okay, just keep matriculating the ball downfield.
47:24
SPEAKER_07: Yep, that's it.
47:26
SPEAKER_06: Just keep matriculating it down the field.
47:28
SPEAKER_06: Jeff Graham, that's who it was.
47:29
SPEAKER_06: Jeff Graham, number 81.
47:30
SPEAKER_06: Jeff Graham.
47:31
SPEAKER_06: Yep, that's who it was.
47:33
SPEAKER_05: Hey, we won't have two for two, we won't have two for two tonight because uh, you know, we just kind of get nobody playing nobody yet.
47:40
SPEAKER_05: So yeah, yeah, so we ain't playing nobody, so we we don't know what the two for two.
47:44
SPEAKER_05: But I'm gonna tell y'all I'm gonna tell y'all.
47:48
SPEAKER_06: Atlanta and Miami, they're gonna be real.
47:53
SPEAKER_06: Oh is two a plan?
47:56
SPEAKER_06: Uh nope, nope.
47:58
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
48:00
SPEAKER_06: Atlanta is starting Cooper Rush this week.
48:04
SPEAKER_06: Yes, Atlanta is starting Cooper Rush this week.
48:09
SPEAKER_06: So that lets you know how bad this may be.
48:12
SPEAKER_06: Hooper, Hooper, yikes, yeah, yeah.
48:18
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I think Tua, I think Tua just fell off a cliff.
48:22
SPEAKER_06: Again, something happened with him, and something happened with him in practice yesterday.
48:27
SPEAKER_06: I think they say it was some backspasms or something, but he's been ruled out.
48:31
SPEAKER_06: Brock Bowers has been ruled out this week.
48:34
SPEAKER_06: Um, they said he might he's gonna be out a couple of weeks because he had to have some type of uh knife put to his body.
48:41
SPEAKER_06: So so he's gonna be out a couple of weeks.
48:43
SPEAKER_06: So it's gonna be interesting.
48:44
SPEAKER_06: Like I say again, it's week one.
48:46
SPEAKER_06: You know, everybody got the expectations of their teams and they want them to be this and they want him to be that.
48:51
SPEAKER_06: But like I said, as we saw on Wednesday night, a rematch of the Super Bowl wasn't that great.
48:57
SPEAKER_07: Uh well, like you said earlier, Jay, you know, like you were saying, uh, the first couple of games is like an extension of the preseason.
49:06
SPEAKER_07: Usually what I do is I I think the first four games, the first quarter of the season is like the fill it out process where you're seeing what works, what doesn't work, what your players can do, what they can't do, and what they're comfortable with.
49:21
SPEAKER_07: And after the first four games, then that's really when the season really starts.
49:25
SPEAKER_06: And we got some good matchups this week because man, Green Bay play uh Minnesota.
49:30
SPEAKER_03: I like that Minnesota.
49:32
SPEAKER_06: Okay, sorry.
49:33
SPEAKER_03: I like that.
49:35
SPEAKER_05: I don't like that.
49:36
SPEAKER_05: I'm like, okay, who's on the zoom?
49:39
SPEAKER_05: Man, nine hasn't moved to the third string quarterback.
49:44
SPEAKER_06: Emergency quarterback.
49:45
SPEAKER_06: You might not even dress, dude.
49:48
SPEAKER_06: You might not even dress.
49:50
SPEAKER_03: That's scary.
49:51
SPEAKER_06: First round pick, first round draft pick, first round draft pick, and and and he's he's actually the third string quarterback.
49:59
SPEAKER_06: They elevated Carson Wentz to be the backup for this week.
50:04
SPEAKER_06: So that lets you know.
50:06
SPEAKER_06: Carson Wentz.
50:10
SPEAKER_06: You know, uh Green Bay, you know, without Josh Jacobs, and we don't know how long that's gonna be, what they looking like, you know.
50:19
SPEAKER_06: So it's here for the taking.
50:22
SPEAKER_06: It's here for the taking.
50:23
SPEAKER_06: I mean, you got Detroit, who's gonna be Detroit, you know, they got they got offensive skills, they got a dumb coach, but they got they got personnel.
50:32
SPEAKER_06: They coach ain't really wrapped too tight, but they they do have the personnel on offense, but they also injured in their defensive backfield.
50:40
SPEAKER_06: No Brian Branch, uh uh uh what was the corner name?
50:44
SPEAKER_06: Arnold, they actually released him.
50:47
SPEAKER_06: So it's gonna be if the Bears want to be as serious, they need to take off and put their foot on the gas and don't let up because it's there for the taking.
51:00
SPEAKER_06: It's there for the taking.
51:02
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
51:03
SPEAKER_05: You're talking about uh point two nine.
51:06
SPEAKER_05: I'm sorry, Fine.
51:07
SPEAKER_03: No, you're talking about uh two of that reminded me of the Alabama quarterbacks versus the old Ohio State quarterbacks.
51:14
SPEAKER_03: Both of those teams ended up having a bunch of guys that suck.
51:17
SPEAKER_03: That's all I got.
51:18
SPEAKER_03: Sorry, Bernard.
51:19
SPEAKER_03: Uh didn't mean to cut you off.
51:22
SPEAKER_05: Oh, we're all good, Jay.
51:25
SPEAKER_05: What it what it does show with your comment is that uh coaches and management get full of what's currently happening, and that thing of the Vikings coach could coach anybody up, and so you let a guy walk out the door for this kind of false analogy of you really can't coach anybody up, you could coach guys up who has that they're right there, yeah.
51:55
SPEAKER_05: Correct, correct.
51:57
SPEAKER_05: And I and I think if you look at nine, you know, for those you know who don't know nine is that's quarterback for that's what they call him nine in the Vikings.
52:05
SPEAKER_05: But anyway, when you look at nine, nine was not really a passer in college.
52:09
SPEAKER_05: He probably's a great leader.
52:10
SPEAKER_05: I don't I don't know.
52:12
SPEAKER_05: But he he had games where he I remember one game he played in Michigan, I think they threw the ball less than five times and blew their opponent out, but they ran like almost 50 or 60 times in that game, which was kind of crazy.
52:24
SPEAKER_07: The new Jimmy D.
52:26
SPEAKER_05: The new Jimmy D.
52:29
SPEAKER_05: Right, right, right, right.
52:31
SPEAKER_05: So anyway, I wanted to move into let's get that drum roll.
52:39
SPEAKER_05: Hey, what what what what do y'all think that it takes for the Bears to win this game?
52:44
SPEAKER_05: What do they need to do?
52:45
SPEAKER_05: Who decide with Plank then?
52:47
SPEAKER_05: Work our way to Jimmy then Jay.
52:49
SPEAKER_03: Uh let's see, they got to be realistic about who they are, uh, get into their uh their plays, uh not make a lot of penalties early.
52:59
SPEAKER_03: Um talking from an offensive standpoint, that what's good what's that that's kind of what gets us out of sync.
53:04
SPEAKER_03: Uh doing that, I think the bears are actually gonna come right out of the gate.
53:08
SPEAKER_03: And when we go over predictions, uh Jay's gonna be mad at me, but I think the bears are in a good position to really come out and and and make an impact on this first game.
53:22
SPEAKER_05: Okay, just how you think the bears are gonna be to put us off?
53:27
SPEAKER_07: I think they're gonna pressure the quarterback.
53:29
SPEAKER_07: I'm praying on that.
53:31
SPEAKER_07: Pressure the quarterback, run the ball, and make the plays that are available to you.
53:36
SPEAKER_07: Run the ball, pressure the quarterback, and make the plays that are available.
53:41
SPEAKER_07: Take what the defense gives you and matriculate the ball down the field.
53:47
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
53:48
SPEAKER_06: Well, I'm actually gonna echo, I'm actually gonna echo Jimmy Jimmy Red's sentiment.
53:54
SPEAKER_06: But like I said, the Carolina Panthers, both right and left offensive tackles are down this game.
54:04
SPEAKER_06: So if we can't get pressure on the quarterback from our defensive ends, it's gonna be a problem.
54:12
SPEAKER_06: So again, as Jimmy said, we need to press her right young in the pocket, and we need to run the football and stay on script.
54:22
SPEAKER_06: We don't need to look for the chunk play when it's not there.
54:26
SPEAKER_06: Let's let's ease ourselves into the season and get lathered up, you know, start getting our bodies callused because you know, we really ain't did no hitting in the preseason, so we need to get callused and get lathered up and just get this thing off, get this thing off to a good start.
54:46
SPEAKER_05: Okay, yeah, I think I think the Bears to win this game that they they need to dominate special teams, run a good, efficient offense, uh, of course, play good defense, don't give up like big plays, especially like right before the end of a quarter last year.
55:01
SPEAKER_05: That was kind of like a uh Achilles Hills for them.
55:04
SPEAKER_05: That right before halftime, they would give up a big score of big plays.
55:08
SPEAKER_05: I think we got the speed to not give up those kind of plays that we were last year.
55:13
SPEAKER_05: So, with that said, I'm actually ready for my prediction.
55:16
SPEAKER_05: I'm I'm gonna start out with guy.
55:18
SPEAKER_05: Guy got the Bears winning 34 to 20, quick to give his prediction.
55:23
SPEAKER_05: I had the Bears winning this game 24-18.
55:26
SPEAKER_05: I I think they kind of I think it's a low scoring game at halftime.
55:30
SPEAKER_05: Then I think after halftime, you know, you start to get some scoring going.
55:37
SPEAKER_05: Who got a prediction?
55:40
SPEAKER_06: Uh my prediction, I'm gonna pick the bears.
55:43
SPEAKER_06: I'll it's funny because I almost wanted to pick Carolina.
55:46
SPEAKER_06: I I really did, but I just can't find it in my heart to do it.
55:50
SPEAKER_06: But I'm I'm gonna pick the Bears to win this game 21 to 17.
55:56
SPEAKER_03: Superstitious again, Hun Jay.
56:00
SPEAKER_06: Hey, y'all know me, I'm a realist.
56:02
SPEAKER_06: I keep it real.
56:03
SPEAKER_06: I keep it real.
56:04
SPEAKER_03: Okay, I go.
56:06
SPEAKER_03: I see, you know, the Panthers, you know, they are a young and scrappy team.
56:11
SPEAKER_03: They got a lot of good things going for them.
56:13
SPEAKER_03: However, then the number of injuries they've had on offense and defense, I don't see them actually standing up uh to the Bears in a full game.
56:22
SPEAKER_03: I see the Bears beating them 31-24.
56:27
SPEAKER_05: Okay, 31-24 playing.
56:30
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
56:31
SPEAKER_05: Well, what you what you're doing?
56:33
SPEAKER_07: I got them winning 20.
56:34
SPEAKER_07: I got them winning uh 20 27 to 17.
56:40
SPEAKER_05: Okay, 21-17.
56:42
SPEAKER_07: No, 27 27-17.
56:46
SPEAKER_05: Okay, 27-17.
56:48
SPEAKER_05: So Jimmy Reed has the bears winning 27-17.
56:53
SPEAKER_05: Jay has the bears winning 21-17.
56:57
SPEAKER_05: Plank has the bears winning 31-24.
57:00
SPEAKER_05: I had the bears winning 24-18, and guy has the bears winning 34-20.
57:06
SPEAKER_05: So one thing it looked like we have two consensus on the bears.
57:10
SPEAKER_05: Everybody agreed the bears are gonna win, and everybody believes the bears is gonna get more than 20 20 24 more points in this game.
57:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
57:20
SPEAKER_03: If they don't, can you imagine Johnson going off on people this week?
57:25
SPEAKER_03: If they get under 20 points, man, that guy's he loses, he's gonna have a conemption if that happens.
57:31
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
57:33
SPEAKER_05: Mike, hey, what's up, Mike?
57:35
SPEAKER_05: Thanks for chiming in.
57:36
SPEAKER_05: Mike had a bears winning 24-10.
57:38
SPEAKER_05: 24 to 10.
57:40
SPEAKER_05: Control the line.
57:44
SPEAKER_05: Okay, yeah, that's what that's what you gotta do.
57:48
SPEAKER_05: I mean, it ain't nothing like football season, man.
57:51
SPEAKER_05: Look, and I'm gonna say, like, what quicks quick said all the time.
57:54
SPEAKER_05: Man, don't y'all don't go to y'all don't give us no bad luck going out of Carolina.
57:58
SPEAKER_05: I see y'all getting on the bus, on the trail, y'all on Campbell's, you know.
58:05
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, one of my friends, she went down uh this morning.
58:08
SPEAKER_05: Y'all don't better not go down and take us no bad luck, man.
58:14
SPEAKER_06: Let's say stay y'all butt at home.
58:20
SPEAKER_05: It's nothing like football season, man.
58:23
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, man, it's here, it's here, it's here.
58:27
SPEAKER_06: You know what?
58:27
SPEAKER_05: It's something that happened uh before we close out.
58:30
SPEAKER_05: I wanted to mention, man.
58:31
SPEAKER_05: And I mentioned it to uh I seen Mo the other day, and he's a Michigan fan.
58:37
SPEAKER_05: And I was like, hold on, man, what was up with that play?
58:40
SPEAKER_05: That was like I just wanted to mention that before we close out.
58:44
SPEAKER_05: Well, they uh for those who didn't see it, Michigan.
58:48
SPEAKER_05: The game was a um the game was down to a Hail Mary.
58:54
SPEAKER_05: They threw the ball and it was an incompletion, looked like it went out of bounds, and they reviewed and reviewed and reviewed and reviewed.
59:02
SPEAKER_05: They ended up putting one more second back on the clock because everybody had run out on the field and everything.
59:07
SPEAKER_05: So then they put one more second on the clock, and then they threw the Hail Mary, and the guy catches the Hail Mary, and Michigan ended up winning the game.
59:20
SPEAKER_02: Knock the ball down on the last play.
59:23
SPEAKER_02: Quit trying to everybody catch it, knock it down.
59:29
SPEAKER_06: It wasn't even about knocking the ball down.
59:32
SPEAKER_06: The clock had expired.
59:35
SPEAKER_07: The clock had expired, but what was so amazing was while they were doing the deliberating, the announcer said, Hey, Michigan's got this transfer from Utah, they got him because he makes contested catches, and sure enough, he was the guy that came out the ball.
59:53
SPEAKER_07: I couldn't believe, I mean, they called it perfectly.
1:00:02
SPEAKER_03: The refs had money on the game, you know, all of this gambling is now in the college football, too.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_06: As back in the day as I watched the three stooges, they would say something is rotten in Denmark.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_05: Hey, hey, we appreciate everybody who tune in tonight.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_05: We'll actually be up on iHeartRadio in probably the next 30 minutes.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_05: So if you want to go there and recap and listen to the game, not the game, but listen to the show if you missed it live, if you're catching the end of this, we like said we'll be on iHeartRadio and within the next hour or so where they recap it.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_05: And the great thing about us being on some of that matter of fact, I forgot to mention we're on Pod Bing app as well.
1:00:56
SPEAKER_05: Podbean, yes.
1:00:57
SPEAKER_05: You it's like if you're at work or something and you can't really turn to YouTube or Facebook, but sometimes you could go to those music apps, you'll be able to listen to us, you know, like a radio program, right?
1:01:10
SPEAKER_05: Where you know, you you know, where they may let you go to Aha Radio at work, but you know, you can't go to maybe YouTube or Facebook or stuff like that because they may think you're kind of jerking off at work by not working, but that's one that they uh advantages us moving into that format.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_05: So, man, with that said, uh I'm excited about Sunday game when we come back to talk about the post-game show be 30 minutes after the game, and man, I'm looking for that W and man, and just get this started right.
1:01:41
SPEAKER_05: Like Jay mentioned, we started our 0-2 last year, 0-2, and so it wasn't looking good starting off, and then we just all sudden just start having these miracle games.
1:01:53
SPEAKER_03: Since we had all these uh beared universes, um, one of those universes, do I get to be Jay?
1:02:04
SPEAKER_03: There we go.
1:02:06
SPEAKER_06: That can only be one me.
1:02:09
SPEAKER_06: That can only be one me.
1:02:13
SPEAKER_05: All right, hey y'all, y'all got anything else for tonight?
1:02:18
SPEAKER_06: Nah, that's it.
1:02:19
SPEAKER_06: Go best, bear down, baby.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_06: That's it.
1:02:25
SPEAKER_07: That's all we can do.
1:02:27
SPEAKER_07: Hope, pray, pray, and hope for a win, and uh go out there and do our best, and hopefully, everybody goes home the same way they came to the game.
1:02:34
SPEAKER_07: Safe.
1:02:35
SPEAKER_07: I know that's right.
1:02:36
SPEAKER_05: There you go.
1:02:36
SPEAKER_05: Yes, hey, thanks for sitting in with us, Jimmy.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_05: You know, me and Jimmy had talked earlier.
1:02:41
SPEAKER_05: Um, try to get Jimmy on a whole lot more this year, you know.
1:02:44
SPEAKER_05: As like as we expand the platform, we we actually went to network, and I'm hoping to bring in people like Jimmy where we expand them into other programs, you know, that happens throughout the week.
1:02:57
SPEAKER_05: So you'll have a regular like format for this network where people talking about different things or giving their point of view on et cetera, you know, whatever it might be.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_05: But until then, next time, peace.