WEBVTT - NFC North Full Division Preview 2026 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.279 Hey, Hey, everybody got your breakdowns of all the moves 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.320 made by NFC North teams ahead of twenty twenty six. 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.760 This is a game preview guy production, not DJ or 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.600 Bucky or AI. Look, I tried to get it to 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.000 do my thing for me. I'm just not smart enough 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.320 to figure out how it works. So here we are. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:19.920 You can make the case the NFC North is going 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.079 to be the toughest fight in the league. Chicago's buzzing 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.040 with optimism, Caleb Williams getting brought up as a possible MVP, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.600 Detroit's offense still loaded. They just need that defense to 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.040 stay healthy enough to make a bigger impact than it 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.040 did last year. Packers will have to wait on Micah, 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.760 but get him back and their defense will be on 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.040 par with their Jordan Love offense and Minnesota stacked on 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:58.160 defense equipped with Justin Jefferson. Minnesota Vikings nine to eight 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.960 and twenty twenty five more impressed. So then it sounds 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.880 kind of didn't have any business being over five hundred 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.360 with that headless horseman offensive theirs. But this is twenty 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.200 twenty six, Kevin O'Connell. Even year, you're in this with me, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:11.959 urn for. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.720 Me and buy me we're going for this bike together. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.600 Which have been pretty prosperous for school nation. That is 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.360 exactly what I'm talking about with O'Connell. Thirteen wins in 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.240 twenty twenty seven and twenty one, fourteen and twenty four 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.279 nine last year, that means fifteen wins this year right way. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.480 Just so you guys know, today, I'm going to consistently 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.240 stay above the line and be a positive force. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.000 Why not. No more vincent adult man at quarterback instead, 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.600 It's time for some Kyler Murray. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:47.560 Genuine, genuine fandom ran deep Vikings year through and through 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:49.040 a lot of. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.080 Purple my household. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.080 For the second time in three years, Minnesota is throwing 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.160 on a re tread tire. Worked pretty well last time, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.040 and as we saw, kept on working last year, but 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:06.040 for a different team that's stung. JJ McCarthy simply looked 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.720 like two kids inside a football uniform trying to pass 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.040 as an adult doing business stuff. I was really thinking 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:17.519 about just boomings the goal, No boom anybody. He went 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.520 six and four, but eleven tds against twelve Iantes only 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.400 averaged one hundred and sixty three yards per game, a 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:31.920 low seventies rate. Only Shador Sanders finished behind him, so 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.280 Murray doesn't have to do too much and they should 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:39.000 be more productive. Thumbnail backstory. Former number one pick Curriet. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.320 Trouble gets away from a defender that's up to a 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.519 run and he's loose near side. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.280 Of the forty five of the forty at the thirty 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.960 five of the thirty cut by the Cardinals this offseason, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.640 who were a sub five hundred team. Mind you, he 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.840 only played five games last year. Up and down seven 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.200 year career. But when he's on his dual threat skill 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.160 set plenty impressive. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.919 And it's a touchdown. What a darn. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.560 He's expected to do two things, jump start an offense 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.040 that was abysmal a year ago. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.120 Shy I couldn't get a juffee off boy. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.120 And reignite kid Dino might Hey, go. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.560 You and lead about you. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:14.600 We'll leave it all. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.320 On the heat so we can get back to some 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:17.080 good times. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.720 Please play cover too, bro, at least play too high. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.919 JJ put up another thousand yard year's. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.200 Field Jefferson fifty five. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.640 Just that's six straight to start his career. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.880 One handed catch by Justin Jefferson. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.680 But Jefferson is a dude capable of two k This 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.120 world is just a better place when he's grittying on 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.680 the regular touch. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.040 Showtime. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.920 If Marie to Jets offense has to be better than 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.240 the twenty twenty four version. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.320 Billy Bowman Junior coming up with the. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.800 Interception twenty points per game twenty sixth he hit it 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.000 didn't twenty eighth in yards per game. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.039 Coming deep Ray was twenty yard line in his intercepted 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.400 Man oftscos. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.000 Worst third down offense in the land. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.880 I just got out of some of the air and 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.719 the past is intercepted in the end zone. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.880 And gave the ball away more than any other team. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.920 You could go sell this to the exode. It's intercept 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:33.280 Xavier Watts. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.280 They're hoping for better O line play this year, too, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.680 hoping for better health within that he's head in sacked. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.800 Center Ryan Kelly only played eight games. Right tackle Brian 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.880 O'Neill missed three games. Stud left tackle Christian Darisow missed 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.320 seven games. His replacement, justin School gave up a team 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.360 high eleven sacks. Guard Donovan Jackson missed three games, still 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.480 allowed six sacks. Only guard Will Fries played all seventeen games, 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.000 and he gave up a fat nine sacks. Minnesota QBS 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.080 took sixty sacks total. Only one team allowed more. Walker 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.600 got it lots of vikings. Fans will blame the quarterbacks 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.440 for many of those backwards plays, and they probably have 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.279 a point. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.120 Looking any sacked James Bears Junior. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.760 If they cut back, their skilled playmakers can start making 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.480 plays again. Tight End TJ. Hawkinson four hundred and thirty 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.560 eight yards and twenty twenty five, four fifty five and 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.120 twenty twenty four, but he has two nine hundred plus 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:32.240 years on his resume. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:39.400 Fyers to the end zone touchdown, Henry Ryan Dude, Jay Hockinson. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.200 Jordan Addison went for six hundred and ten yards fourteen 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.720 games on total. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:46.400 Just believe it's of it. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.359 Bro won't be working with Jalen Naylor left after putting 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.920 up a career high four hundred and forty four yards 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.440 scored four times. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.920 The Jaalen Nayler's first touchdown. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.719 This year replaced by Juwan Jens, who scored nine times 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:07.039 for the forty nine ers last year. I've got Minnesota 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.520 will lean on Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones on handoffs again. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.240 Jones hit at four to a carry five hundred and 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:18.520 forty eight yards to the left touchdive Mason back to 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.440 back seven hundred plus yard years after posting seven to 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:26.760 fifty eight last year touch a nice four to eight 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.200 per carry sprint out to the left. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:35.200 He reaches for the zone touchdown. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.200 For eight plus all four years in the pros. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.479 Mason is in a Minnesota touchdown. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.080 If their offense is even just a middle of the 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.720 pack type O and their defense holds the line, this 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.080 turns into a scary club. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.800 These guys are gonna get us the ball right back, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:51.719 and we're gonna go score. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.719 They held teams to nineteen points per game last year, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:59.400 seventh top four and yards per game allowed. Oh smacked 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.840 one third down and in Scott Hansen's house that day. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:04.200 Again. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.360 Yes, Isaiah Rodgers might just have caused his third round 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.640 over this game. If this stands, this is unbelievable. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.960 No blind spots with this group held quarterbacks to an 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.320 eighty six rating in just one hundred and fifty eight 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.400 yards per game, second fewest. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.040 Murphy takes it away that he's out of bounds with 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.360 another major shift in favor of Minnesota. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.440 Dropping back to throw typically means the quarterback had to 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.440 dance the ballroom blitz. There are lots of purple people. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.960 Leader Vibes with this defense fourth most sacks with forty 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:40.080 nine wall Wow. And they are not soft against runners, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:45.080 holding them to four per try, I said Vibes. Alan 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:50.000 Page's group, the Ogppes Vikings twenty twenty six defense will 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.679 have a different flavor than twenty twenty fives. We should 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.480 see a full year of starts from Dallas Turner had 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.640 ten last year, blasted eight quarterbacks, eleven tackles for loss 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.480 in six D six tackles. He's the guy they feel 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.800 like is about to become a star pass rusher. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.440 Dallas Turner sacks Michael Pennix. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.880 Across from him the ultimate Viking. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.560 Days on fire. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.480 Andrew Van Ginkle was born to play in Minnesota, only 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.400 got twelve games in dropped seven quarterbacks in that window. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:26.840 Andrew defensive end slash DT. Jalen Redmond had a mini 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.280 breakout in his second year. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:29.120 Are ready for that? 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:30.600 Are you ready for that? 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.079 He didn't play much as a rookie, then when given 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.520 more opportunities over sixty tackles twelve for a loss in 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.200 a half dozen backs up. As to some of the 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.440 changes to their front seven, no more. Jonathan Grenard at 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.720 outside linebacker Bernard a ten plus sack guy in twenty 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.360 twenty three and twenty four, but only three last year. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:50.439 What's that prison? 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.839 No more Jonathan Allen at defensive end. He departed off 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.360 a sixty eight tackle, three and a half sack campaign. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.760 He got boys a hit and then he kept head again. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.680 Are supposed all around to him? 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.760 And no more. Javon Hargrave in the middle walked out 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.640 the door with a fifty two tackle, three and a 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:07.640 half sack season. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:08.720 Hey sacked. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.080 They finally sacked Caleb Williams. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.840 They replaced both chaps in the draft, Caleb Banks taking 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:15.720 the first round. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.600 I mean, there is a ton of ability there, but 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.199 he's had an injury with his foot. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:20.920 He reinjured. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.680 It didn't get to see him much this year, so 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:25.920 someone only played three games this year. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:27.600 He's a flash player. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:28.840 It's a little bit hot and cold. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.599 But when you see that on the screen six to 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.000 six in a quarter, you see that size at three 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.640 hundred and twenty seven pounds with thirty five inch arms, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.000 I mean, this is a swing for the fences. If 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.040 you hit on this one, you could end up with 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:41.800 an All Pro. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.040 In defensive tackle. Dominique Horne taken in the third. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.640 He was dominant in the Iowa game, the rivalry game. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.920 Very powerful guy plays that one tech nose in a 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.280 nose technique. He's going to be right over the center. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.280 I think you can kind of control the line of 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.480 scrimmage and he'll flash some of that lateral range. Not 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.240 just pressing guys back, but you'll see him get lateral 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:02.280 and make some tackles. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.840 So an interesting player pass rush. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.800 Look, there's no sacks, there's not a lot of production 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:07.800 to go off of there. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.440 You're drafting him to stop the runs for Levi Drake 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.720 Rodriguez a couple of sacks in his second year over 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.360 forty tackles and a nice eight tackles for loss, mostly 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:18.160 as a backup. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.079 Here's a blitz Goffice hit and Jared Goffis. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.200 Sacked the dudes at level two. What a year Eric 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.000 Wilson had so good may be hard to replicate, especially 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.280 because it came in his ninth season, but one hundred 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.360 and fifteen tackles, six and a half sacks, and he 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.480 led all inside linebackers and tackles for loss. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.840 Here's Bernard he got held Prova Black. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.080 Hen's damn Donald's. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.480 Is that fellow Vett Blake Cashman led the team with 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.160 one hundred and forty four tackles and he only played 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.520 thirteen games. He's cracked one hundred plus three straight years. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:56.520 He's going to be sacked down, goes Jared Goff. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.600 I believe that was Blake cash I have in pace 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.720 ross playing time to Wilson and posted the fewest tackles 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.679 he's had over his first three seasons. Still factored into 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.719 sixty plus, though packed. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.800 Once gets away from Grenard and finally is taken down 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.959 by Ivan Page Junior. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.560 And still not done. Linebacker Jake Goldey picked up in 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.040 the second round of the draft. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.160 When you're over six foot four, almost two hundred and 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.720 forty pounds and you can really run and carry guys 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.200 down the slot, to go along with some of that 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.400 range off the edge, you'll see him rush at times. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.400 That versatility backside. Salt and Peppa would remind them to 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.920 thank their moms for one that looks that nice. They're 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.800 plenty happy to run it back with these dudes. Corner 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.840 Byron Murphy still looks CB one ish woo over seventy 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.280 tackles held quarterbacks to a low seventies rate. Couple of picks. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.880 Hi'm mith woyette hi mith Woyette corner. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.880 Isaiah Rodgers comes off a breakout here, blocked a field goal, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:58.400 held his targets to a sub ninety rates. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:12.200 Rodgers over sixty tackles, four forced fumbles used, the first 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.880 NFL player with two defensive touchdowns and two forced fumbles 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:17.480 in a game. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.840 He scored twice in his fifth season. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:24.040 What's the football, It's Rogers again, off the running. Oh 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.520 my goodness, he runs a pack for a second touchdown today. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.559 And James Pierre, who they signed away from Pittsburgh, had 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.480 a career high eleven passes defensed a low fifties rating 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.000 ahead of his seventh year. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.160 It's picked up by Pierre racing down to the left sidelight. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.480 Will they have Harrison Smith Skull Legend hasn't committed to 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.360 playing again, but hasn't officially said he's done either. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.760 Polara assumption and number. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.000 Thirty eight taking his locker room stall. Jacoby Thomas, a 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.079 third rounder they had lots of picks in rounds one 0:12:58.120 --> 0:12:58.559 to three. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.520 Got the ability to see the future a little bit from 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.320 the middle of the field to drive and make plays. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.480 Here he shows you some of the pop he has 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.959 as a hitter. And then here's those ball skills. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.040 Did not catch the ball well at the combine CDA, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.640 which shocked us because you see all these ball skills 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:13.320 when you're watching him on tape. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.440 But he does play. He plays aggressive, he plays fast. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.400 You see it as a blitzers. He just dump trucks 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.199 the running back on the way to the quarterback. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.319 Josh mattellis a sub ninety rate and two i nts 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.800 and over eighty tackles win at home. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:26.880 But the fuck. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.520 And THEO Jackson low seventies rate, two sacks. Few dB 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.079 rooms have so many guys who seem to be grooving 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:35.520 at once. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:40.320 Drake bubble bumblemitch, that's vikings paw. THEO Jackson picked it 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:40.839 up at the. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.800 Thirty Nita toe. Will Reiker can get you a toe 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.680 by three o'clock thirty three for thirty five on field 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.360 goal tries, perfect on extra points. Believe me, dude, there 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:51.280 are ways and. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.000 Over end kick to give the biking the lead is good. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.480 So two new key faces added to the secondary Pierre 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.079 in a corner sort of takes the place of Jeff 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.520 Okudah and Fabian Moreau. Front seven banks for Allen Orange 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:11.000 for Hargrave gold A joining pace Wilson Cashman. That's a 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.600 deep inside linebacker room. They have the big riddle on offense, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:19.440 who wins the quarterback job Kyler or JJ Jennings replacing Naylor. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.440 Rest of the playmakers the same as last year. JJ, Addison, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.440 Hawk Jones, and Mason Vikings are a tough read, which 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.280 is why they've been tabbed with an eight and a 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:33.400 half over under. So much depends on Kyler. Their expected 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.520 strength of schedule, so basing it off their opponents. Twenty 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.920 twenty six expected win totals is middle of the pack, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.320 so not overly daunting at the very least. Let's look 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.640 at how they could do if Marie ends up as 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.000 Darnald two point zero and they shock everybody the way 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.600 he did in purple. Beat Green Bay at home, take 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.960 Tampa Bay, Miami, New Orleans, Indianapolis. They have a real 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.200 tough four after that on the road versus Detroit, Roy 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.560 Buffalo at home, road games versus Green Bay and San Francisco. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.080 But they get back on track versus Atlanta and Carolina. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.440 Beat Detroit at home, Defeat Washington and the Jets plus 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.160 Chicago at home puts them back in the playoffs game 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.080 preview Guy Logic says, if they can win nine with 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.160 that quarterback situation they had last year, their defense alone 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:34.680 can carry them to nine dubs. Based on the health 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.720 levels of the Bill Swirsky super fan club last we 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.880 saw them. No way they survived to Bear's twenty twenty five. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.920 Season cardiac Bear for a reason. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.840 They put even the healthiest of hearts to the test. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:48.520 Now for the follow. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.960 Up exam to pay man, let me Go, Let me Go. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.920 Which they hope includes more trips where you can just 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.360 put it on cruise control. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.920 The Quarner magic is somehow continuing. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.240 Twenty twenty five Chicago Bears football was must see TV. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.360 Allow it as the kiss touchdown Bears so Soldier Field 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:13.880 are rough? 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.800 Do you feel a shaking a little bit? 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.960 Two, it didn't matter who they were playing. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.120 Cot come back. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.280 Have the Bears tie. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.160 The game, whether they won or lost. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.320 Don't stop, what are you kidding me? That's growing j 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:30.120 day Walker. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.320 They did so in dramatic fashion week after week. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.640 You call him the comeback kids. They've been in this 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.480 position and it is tough. It's a postseason, but they 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.240 believe so. One thing about this team resilient and they 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:42.640 believe that they can find a way. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.640 They combined defense that led the league in takeaways. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:47.600 They're about to make a stop for you right now. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.560 You're gonna go win a t. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.960 Game with an offense first and giveaways. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.440 Where we are right now, what you guys are doing, 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:55.600 it's no flute. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.880 And with the iceman showing up at the very last second. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.600 Well we go two. If you have the leverage on 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:02.640 the safety. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.720 Go like all those superheroes Hollywood writes about. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:12.560 Catch may touchdown fars it's over at Soldier Field. The 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:17.560 Iceman cometh, The Iceman taketh twenty two sixteen pairs. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.240 That was one of four iconic throws made by Caleb 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.200 Williams Williams. 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:34.879 Chase Scrow, I mean, are you kidding me? 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.600 This is the kind of a secret sauce that makes 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:38.840 him so abiti. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.960 And it wasn't just any team he was building his 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.640 legendary status against. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.120 It's a rivalry that goes back one hundred and four years. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.080 Three of the four throws came against the team Chicago 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.320 loyalists loathed Bears Packers. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:53.960 Nothing more needs to be set. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:18:00.680 Against the team whose former quarterback boasted that he owned them. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.439 The legend of the Iceman was born by defeating the 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.080 evil villain snap. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.560 Back for mat rush Caleb with a double both thrown 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.080 down the fly DJ Brds. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:17.639 Then, Wow, what a play? 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.440 What what the fuck? 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.680 Bart? 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.400 And while his last heroic effort didn't lead to victory, 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.159 you will be hard pressed to find a throw like 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.600 it anywhere in NFL history books. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.159 Playing backing up, take chase, go way back down. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.920 Back to the sporting or tapes in this matter, well 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.080 suppressing to the ends up. It was the kind of 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.440 play you only expect to see in Madden Touch dab 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.480 oh god, with your defeated friend claiming it's what makes 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:51.280 the game fake. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.720 The Iceman did it, what more time. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.080 Because no real quarterback could ever do that. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:04.360 And the pumpback kids, my god, they continue to inspire 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:05.280 on bad base. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.119 Now the challenge of building off all of that. In 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:14.560 twenty twenty six, how about that bear weatherzone right right? 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:15.680 No wheel out. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.040 Caleb didn't hit his stated goals of thirty and four thousand, 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.960 but twenty seven tds only seven iron t's in this 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:22.560 year too. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.080 You thought that player was a throwaway and Caleb Williams 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:27.840 launched it to. 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:29.800 DJ Moore the end zone. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.399 First under Ben Johnson takes the snap. 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.600 Then I flipped it to a dude. Say back the 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.400 other way to DJ Moore, toss right up the quick 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.280 step down Caleb. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.760 Playing optimism level is as high as it gets. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:45.920 Dude, make your play. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.560 Chicago's offense popped for close to twenty six a game. 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:55.160 Throws to the end zone to Kias touchdown, touchdown. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.240 Bear top seven on third down and in yards per 0:19:58.280 --> 0:19:59.720 game throwing right side. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:00.560 Well, what U? 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.920 But the vibe is this is an offense about to 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.040 jump into top three Country. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.560 Rose deep. 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:10.720 Touchdown. 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.080 Caleb himself holds the key to elevation. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:17.160 Day. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:22.040 His well documented accuracy issues the second lowest completion percentage 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.399 in the league. The sir mix a lot, but Chicago 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.800 receivers had an eight point three percent drop rate, third 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.840 highest in the NFL. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.480 Era all of it maked Bruck. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:40.480 Johnson wants him near seventy percent. He jumps into the 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.800 mid sixties and they're scoring more often and earlier. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:45.240 Are you having any fun? 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.119