Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: About fourteen minutes you'll hear from Logan Wilson.
Speaker 1: It's here for my next guest.
Speaker 2: The most powerful voice in Chicago sports for going on
Speaker 2: four decades, Chicago Land Sports Hall of Famer talks Bengals
Speaker 2: or Bears each morning on ESPN one thousand and the
Speaker 2: recap on YouTube. That would be none other than my guy,
Speaker 2: David Kaplan. How are you, Lance, my guy?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm just out in the field giving you a reporter
Speaker 3: as I.
Speaker 4: Was telling your fine producer, uh, trick.
Speaker 1: Or treating with my grandkids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as I walk around the neighborhood and waiting to
Speaker 3: talk to you about the Bears and the Bengals.
Speaker 1: And I get to be on with you on the
Speaker 1: station of Tom Brenneman, who I love. Yeah, that's our guy,
Speaker 1: absolutely all right.
Speaker 2: So Ben Johnson was the hot coaching name this offseason.
Speaker 2: He picked you guys, they're four and three. How does
Speaker 2: that compare to how does that feel in relation to
Speaker 2: expectations for this team going in?
Speaker 3: I think people were thrilled when he said I want
Speaker 3: to coach the Chicago Bears because last year, if you'll
Speaker 3: remember the owners of the Commanders, the new ownership group,
Speaker 3: Josh Harrison Company. We're on a private jet flying to
Speaker 3: Detroit to offer him the job, and he got word
Speaker 3: to the pilot I'm out, I'm not interested. I want
Speaker 3: another year in Detroit.
Speaker 1: And then he said, two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: You know one of the reasons I wanted this job.
Speaker 3: First of all, we had unfinished business with the Lions,
Speaker 3: but I wanted.
Speaker 1: To coach that guy, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3: And he said, has been bumpy, got times, but he said,
Speaker 3: we're making progress and we're just going to keep grinding
Speaker 3: and keep working. And I think this is a really
Speaker 3: interesting matchup on Sunday because, look, you.
Speaker 1: Guys can put points up. I just don't know if
Speaker 1: you can stop anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't know either. I don't think they can.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Caleb Williams. Has has he been in your number?
Speaker 2: Has he been good? Has he been okay?
Speaker 1: How would you describe how he's been inconsistent? Up and down?
Speaker 1: You know, we play, we lose.
Speaker 3: The first two games the Bears, the first fifteen plays.
Speaker 1: You'll see it on Sunday. He's gonna look like a wizard.
Speaker 3: He is going to execute the script at fifteen plays
Speaker 3: will go right down the field and then do we
Speaker 3: get it in the end zone or do we kick
Speaker 3: a field goal? Usually is what happened last week against
Speaker 3: the Ravens. Two great drives and they stall inside the
Speaker 3: ten and they have to kick field goals and then
Speaker 3: the Ravens get a touchdown and we're losing seven to six.
Speaker 3: We end up losing that game thirty to sixteen. He
Speaker 3: threw one terrible interception from four yards deep in his
Speaker 3: own end zone and that was the ballgame. But then
Speaker 3: he plays the Dallas Cowboys. We're zero to two and
Speaker 3: he has four touchdown passes, and I mean he made
Speaker 3: it thrown last week. Lance that if you pull it
Speaker 3: up and look at the throw to DJ Moore, he
Speaker 3: gets obliterated and he flat foot throws it, you know,
Speaker 3: forty five yards in the air, rightness thing, and he
Speaker 3: catches it and gets down inside the five.
Speaker 1: He could do the wow. I don't know yet if
Speaker 1: he can do the checkdown.
Speaker 3: Ho just take the six yard checkdown of the running
Speaker 3: back and let's live to fight another day.
Speaker 2: Among the injuries, no running back dere Swift on Sunday.
Speaker 2: How significant is that.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's been good, he's been very, very good.
Speaker 3: But the kids that they drafted out of Rutgers in
Speaker 3: the seventh round, Kyle Mnung guy, he's gonna get the
Speaker 3: lion's share of the carries. Now, we don't have a
Speaker 3: very deep running back room. Manung Guy's good?
Speaker 1: Is he break away fast?
Speaker 3: And you look and go wow, I don't know how
Speaker 3: we're handling that guy. No, but we have a pretty
Speaker 3: solid offensive line.
Speaker 1: Look, this team is.
Speaker 3: Not without weapons and stars.
Speaker 4: It's not on the offensive side.
Speaker 3: You have the tenth overall picket right tackle. You've got
Speaker 3: a fourteen million dollar right guard. You've got a fourteen
Speaker 3: million dollar center. You have a seventeen million dollar in
Speaker 3: the last two years first team All Pro Joe Tooney
Speaker 3: at left guard. You've got the number one picket quarterback.
Speaker 4: You have the twenty seven and a half million.
Speaker 1: Dollar receiver in Dj Moore, the ninth overall pick.
Speaker 3: In rome A Duneese, another top ten pick and another
Speaker 3: wide receiver, tense pick overall Colston leveland from Michigan, a
Speaker 3: tight end and a twelve million dollar tight end. And
Speaker 3: Cole Kamenzi's going to play so this is not like
Speaker 3: they haven't put assets into this team.
Speaker 2: Bears have committed twenty eight more penalties than their opponents,
Speaker 2: three games with double digits. What's going on with the penalties?
Speaker 3: That is one of the things that is driving Ben
Speaker 3: Johnson insane. And he finally washed his hands with it
Speaker 3: after last week's game when we had eleven more penalties.
Speaker 1: He said, look, this can't happen.
Speaker 3: We're second most penaltized team in the National Football League
Speaker 3: twenty six pre snap, false start type.
Speaker 1: Penalties or illegal motion. And we have veteran players. It's
Speaker 1: not like we've got a bunch.
Speaker 3: Of you know, bums out there. Even Joe Tooney jumped
Speaker 3: last week and that's his first in two years. So
Speaker 3: he said, I'm calling the veteran leadership committee in and
Speaker 3: I'm putting it on them. They better figure it out,
Speaker 3: because you know, last week you have a huge opportunity
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden you have a big play
Speaker 3: down the field, illegal formation on the offense. What then
Speaker 3: we had a punt. We have a really good punter,
Speaker 3: Tory Taylor from Iowa. And whether you think they should use.
Speaker 1: A fourth thrown pick on a punter or not, the
Speaker 1: point is they did.
Speaker 3: He booms a fifty nine yarder that rolls down at
Speaker 3: the one, and there's a flag on the play. Yeah,
Speaker 3: illegal formation on the kicking teams, and we bring it
Speaker 3: all the way back and now that they get the
Speaker 3: ball at the twenty.
Speaker 1: Something, it's like, what are we doing here? Shooting ourselves
Speaker 1: in the foot.
Speaker 3: So they have a good team. They got to clean
Speaker 3: up the nonsense, all right.
Speaker 2: What I think Bears, One of the things that comes
Speaker 2: to mind is tight end, and I think Ditkun, I
Speaker 2: think Emery moorehead and I think Martellis Bennett. It doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like the tight end is as much of a
Speaker 2: factor as maybe it could be in this all drew.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent accurate. Well, last week you didn't.
Speaker 3: Have col Co Met he was injured, first game he's
Speaker 3: missed in his career since twenty twenty. And then Colston
Speaker 3: Leveland's the tenth overall pick and he has not made
Speaker 3: the impact that I think all.
Speaker 4: Of us expected.
Speaker 3: You know, we all see Tyler Warren killing it for
Speaker 3: the Indianapolis Colts, and the Bears took Colston Loveland ahead
Speaker 3: of him. I saw a quote from Sean McVay. We
Speaker 3: tried to trade up because we knew Chicago was grabbing
Speaker 3: him and we liked Colston leveland the best at that position.
Speaker 3: Right now, the numbers don't bear that out, and so
Speaker 3: he has got to be better. His blocking has really improved,
Speaker 3: but his receiving, and that's what he was drafted for,
Speaker 3: to be a Travis Kelcey style receiver. He gets separation.
Speaker 3: He's athletic. He can go up and high point a ball.
Speaker 3: We haven't seen that yet, so hopefully that's going to
Speaker 3: change here in.
Speaker 1: The next few weeks.
Speaker 2: All Right, once again, you won our yearly bet on
Speaker 2: who wins more games between the Reds and the Cubs.
Speaker 1: I sent you any.
Speaker 4: Greaters ice cream.
Speaker 3: Boldly bear Cat a night when I'm watching my Chicago
Speaker 3: Bulls try to get to five and zero.
Speaker 4: Yes, Boldly Bearcat is the greatest.
Speaker 1: Plavor they've ever made.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess that answers my question it was gonna be.
Speaker 2: I assume you're enjoy your Greaters. It sounds like you are. Oh,
Speaker 2: it is so good.
Speaker 3: And I said to my wife, Hey, there's ice cream incoming.
Speaker 3: She's like, boy, you just keep taking advantage of poor Lance.
Speaker 1: He's such a good person at all. He does is
Speaker 1: keep sending you ice cream every year. That's what Kelly
Speaker 1: says as well. She says, what are you gonna win?
Speaker 1: A bet? It's gonna take a while.
Speaker 3: We have a pretty good young team, the Cubs. I
Speaker 3: just don't understand how you could sit in our ballpark,
Speaker 3: have an amazing environment, beat the Padres, get to the
Speaker 3: next round, you lose in game five and not.
Speaker 1: Go all right, I'm pushing my chips in.
Speaker 3: Let's go get another elite starter. Let's go get another
Speaker 3: elite bullpen ar. No, we'll spend the most in the division.
Speaker 4: But that's you know, that doesn't say a lot.
Speaker 1: Let me put it that way here, all right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you making time during trick or treating my
Speaker 2: best to Mindy and the family.
Speaker 1: All right, best of Kelly and the family. And let
Speaker 1: me just tell you, I think you're.
Speaker 3: Not gonna like this, but I do think the Bears
Speaker 3: win this.
Speaker 1: Thirty one twenty one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could say I think we'll score a little
Speaker 2: bit more than that, but I also think we'll give
Speaker 2: up a little bit.
Speaker 1: More than that.
Speaker 4: Okay, thirty eight twenty.
Speaker 1: Nine, Now that would not shock me. There you go, thanks, Cap,
Speaker 1: you know the best I'll brought him in high all right,
Speaker 1: I will thank you sir.
Speaker 2: There he is David Kaplan checking in in the middle
Speaker 2: of trigger treating in Chicago with these grandkids.
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