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Speaker 2: I am Jeff joniha whitz is.
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Speaker 1: What was like playing for coach Bogdom. I don't want
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Speaker 1: Now. Bears, et cetera, brought to you by Geico, with
Speaker 1: the voices of the Bears Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer.
Speaker 1: Surviving the uncertainty of a season opener is on the
Speaker 1: to do list of every NFL team, and the Bears
Speaker 1: did just that in comeback fashion, turning a seventeen point
Speaker 1: deficit into a twenty four to seventeen win over the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans at Soldier Field on Sunday with Super Bowl
Speaker 1: winning Bears guard Tom Thayer. I'm Jeff Jonahac, and welcome
Speaker 1: to episode ninety two of the Bears et cetera podcast
Speaker 1: that is brought to you by Geico. Total team win,
Speaker 1: Big Tom, and I gotta say highlighted by that suffocating
Speaker 1: second half defense with the game changing special teams plays
Speaker 1: and an offense that scuffled, but they finished and they
Speaker 1: didn't turned the ball.
Speaker 3: You know you got to be really be impressive with
Speaker 3: what you saw out of the defense, because a lot
Speaker 3: of us were thinking, are they going to be able
Speaker 3: to pick up where they left off last year? And
Speaker 3: they did that and more. They had some new pieces
Speaker 3: in place that really helped the rotation of the defensive line.
Speaker 3: The defensive backs played as well as we thought they could,
Speaker 3: and the linebackers were as impressive as they left off.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of super encouraging things there. And
Speaker 3: then Coach High Tower, the special teams coordinator, had his
Speaker 3: guys ready to play. They made super impactful plays. They
Speaker 3: created field position that I think as the season winds on,
Speaker 3: they'll be able to capitalize on it. And then when
Speaker 3: you take a look at the offense, there's some really
Speaker 3: correctable issues that can be done immediately, but it is
Speaker 3: going to take reps, it's going to take time, and
Speaker 3: it's going to take some practice efforts. So many there's
Speaker 3: a lot of encouraging things out there, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of correctable things out there coming up a moment.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from head coach Matty Refluce like we will
Speaker 1: each and every Monday right here from hallis Hall. The
Speaker 1: seventeen point comeback, by the way, ties for the fourth
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Speaker 1: And by the way, congratulations on the great job you
Speaker 1: did at halftime. That was a great ceremony. You nailed it.
Speaker 1: Nice speech about Steve McMichael. The presentation of the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame rings that all the Hall of Famers get
Speaker 1: in the home stadiums during the year that they are
Speaker 1: inducted into the Hall of Fame. The enshrinement of course
Speaker 1: back in August, and that'll happen again in October for
Speaker 1: Devin Hester. But it had to be a great moment
Speaker 1: for you because of your relationship and what that brother
Speaker 1: of yours means to you.
Speaker 2: See McMichael.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it was awesome.
Speaker 3: I got a really nice appreciation message last night in
Speaker 3: the middle of the night from his wife, Misty, and
Speaker 3: I appreciate that because she knows how much Steve means
Speaker 3: to me as a football player, as a person in
Speaker 3: my life and my and our after life together. He's
Speaker 3: like a brother to me, and so I would do
Speaker 3: anything for Steve. And listen, speaking in front of that
Speaker 3: many people is not putting in my comfort zone. However,
Speaker 3: when I have given the opportunity to speak on behalf
Speaker 3: of Steve McMichael, I would do it anywhere, anytime.
Speaker 1: Well, you did a great job. All of it was great,
Speaker 1: and so was the second half the Bears defense.
Speaker 2: Let's dig in a little deeper.
Speaker 1: You mentioned picking up where they left off, and they
Speaker 1: have and the three takeaways also picking up where they
Speaker 1: left off last year. They have really put together a
Speaker 1: stretch and it has led to, you know, dating back
Speaker 1: to last year, eight wins in the last fourteen games.
Speaker 1: So eight and six was a whole lot better than
Speaker 1: starting zero four last year. And so they're off to
Speaker 1: a good start. They got a Rody in Houston to
Speaker 1: deal with and a whole bunch of offensive weapons, but
Speaker 1: digging in. Matt Eberflus is doing a great job calling
Speaker 1: the plays, pressure when necessary, deploying Brisker, deploying Gordon on
Speaker 1: a blitz Brisker at ten tackles. You saw what TJ.
Speaker 1: Edwards did, limiting everything after the catch and everything after
Speaker 1: the run, and then just getting a variety of players
Speaker 1: having a say in the outcome of that game. We
Speaker 1: can go up and down the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: some underrated aspects including DeMarcus Walker who hit the quarterback
Speaker 1: four times.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, thank goodness for the fans support because
Speaker 3: the building has backend ownership of the Chicago Bears, and
Speaker 3: with that supportive of a crowd, with that type of.
Speaker 4: Defense, you can win a lot of games with that.
Speaker 3: And every single member of the defensive line had an
Speaker 3: impact in this game, whether it's on special teams or
Speaker 3: in regular defense. We wanted to see the maturation process
Speaker 3: of Jervon Dexter, and I think the second or third
Speaker 3: play of the game he made a play, had a
Speaker 3: couple of other big plays in the game. So it's
Speaker 3: super impressive that they've been able to put together an
Speaker 3: efficient and effective rotation on the defensive line because there's
Speaker 3: nothing as demoralizing to an offensive line with a solid
Speaker 3: rotation of fresh defensive linemen that can play in your
Speaker 3: home city as well as they did, but go on
Speaker 3: the road and play equally as well.
Speaker 1: All right, we got a lot more to discuss, but
Speaker 1: let's pick it up right here with the head coach,
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus today and had us haul. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: welcome back to our podcast, The Bears, a set of
Speaker 1: a podcast. We're already up to ninety two episodes of this,
Speaker 1: so this one celebrates a nice win Week one against
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 2: Congratulations.
Speaker 5: First of all, thank you, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Oh as always, we'll be here every week of the season,
Speaker 1: finding a way to win, obviously despite adversity, and which
Speaker 1: you mentioned even before the game, you got to overcome
Speaker 1: adversity as a bigger win in my book, because you
Speaker 1: guys finished and it's a good platform to work from.
Speaker 2: Is this how you look at this?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt. You know, we always look at performance.
Speaker 5: You know, you know right now after the game, you
Speaker 5: can't control the score. The score is what it is,
Speaker 5: and we look at performance, and that's about partnering up
Speaker 5: with your position, coach, and what you did well, you know,
Speaker 5: keep doing those sypes of things, and then really about
Speaker 5: what you can improve on. There's every performance you can
Speaker 5: you can get better, and it's our time now for reinvestment,
Speaker 5: going into this week and growing and improving on our
Speaker 5: fundamentals and improving as a football team.
Speaker 1: You mentioned after the game the look in the eye
Speaker 1: of the players at halftime. Was there something said by
Speaker 1: players that also peaud your curiosity in terms of any
Speaker 1: individual if you care to say, like what happened in
Speaker 1: there at halftime?
Speaker 5: No, it wasn't really an individual. I would just say
Speaker 5: that it was just the whole collective group, you know,
Speaker 5: in terms of looking at each other and say, hey,
Speaker 5: we can get this done. We believe in each other,
Speaker 5: we know how hard we've worked during training camp and
Speaker 5: since April, and just that belief that we're able to
Speaker 5: get it done.
Speaker 1: And I was listening to some analysts just looking at
Speaker 1: the league overall former players saying hey, there's alway an
Speaker 1: overreaction or week one win or lose. Right, there's so
Speaker 1: much to work out. Players are playing the most snaps
Speaker 1: they've played the entire offseason. It's a process all of this.
Speaker 1: You got to figure out who you are as a player,
Speaker 1: first of all. With your team, because every team's new
Speaker 1: every year and just where everything fits. Is this a
Speaker 1: proper way to look at the lens of a Week
Speaker 1: one in the NFL?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it is. And obviously coming out with
Speaker 5: a victory is good, yes, because you want to start
Speaker 5: fast and you want to do that and you're really
Speaker 5: just evaluate and you're winning formula you know, for success,
Speaker 5: and that changes a little bit every single week, but
Speaker 5: it's all rooted in fundamentals and then where can you
Speaker 5: improve And I think that's for offense, for defense, for kicking.
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of improvement that we can
Speaker 5: have from week one to week two, and we're excited
Speaker 5: about getting going on this week.
Speaker 2: All right, into the nitty gritty of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this and I don't know how you
Speaker 1: feel about key series. For me, it is in ninth
Speaker 1: possession offensively at your eleven you get two first downs
Speaker 1: on a six play drive to the Tennessee forty three,
Speaker 1: but your punt and pin the Titans at the eighteen
Speaker 1: yard lines and I got a long field to work
Speaker 1: with and sixty something seconds left in the game. That
Speaker 1: was an important offensive series and very.
Speaker 5: You know, it started with DJ you know, DJ, They
Speaker 5: threw it out to him and he obviously made a
Speaker 5: nice move and had that explosive to get it off.
Speaker 5: I believe it was the ten yard line, I believe,
Speaker 5: and really good to be able to flip the field there. Obviously,
Speaker 5: you know we have a punter that can do that
Speaker 5: and you know, make him go the long hard way,
Speaker 5: and offense did a really nice job there.
Speaker 1: Special teams was truly special. It was we can go
Speaker 1: down the list, but I'm fine to this player just
Speaker 1: getting to know him a little bit. Daniel Hardy. He
Speaker 1: played twenty four special teams snap. He got a snap
Speaker 1: on defense as well, got to tackle. But the black
Speaker 1: punt maybe you could say is the turning point in
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I'm very happy for him because of the
Speaker 5: kind of guy he is and the work ethic he has.
Speaker 5: He's our he's our kind of guy in terms of
Speaker 5: that he bleeds the hits principal and so excited for
Speaker 5: him to be able to go out there and perform
Speaker 5: the way he did in terms of his effort, his
Speaker 5: intensity and production. And it was good to see.
Speaker 2: Let's coach your point on how you block a punt.
Speaker 5: Well, his getof was outstanding, you know, and he's really
Speaker 5: strong at the point. You know, he was able to
Speaker 5: turn the shoulders of the protector and then be able
Speaker 5: to bend in there to the to the block point.
Speaker 5: And he did a really good job reaching out and
Speaker 5: putting his hand on the football, you know. And then
Speaker 5: Jo did a wonderful job with scooping and scoring. He
Speaker 5: worked on that obviously. You see the practices. We work
Speaker 5: on that fundamental skill every single day and doing it
Speaker 5: with full speed, you know, and then bursting for three
Speaker 5: hard steps and the guys did that and that's not
Speaker 5: a surprise when it happens in the game. You've already
Speaker 5: done it game speed, and it was a really good recovery.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I spoke to him after the game and he mentioned
Speaker 1: that very fact. We do this every single day, but
Speaker 1: that ball does bounce funny sometimes, so you know, I
Speaker 1: can't minimize the skill and the concentration. And just scooped that.
Speaker 1: He didn't even know he had a touchdown. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is too easy. He just scooped it, scored and
Speaker 1: that's it. He's looking around making sure. And conversely, on
Speaker 1: Tyreek's pick six, he said he blacked out, meaning he
Speaker 1: didn't hear anything. He just it's just like everything went quiet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is weird because everything was not quiet.
Speaker 5: Well, I think that's when you get into the flow
Speaker 5: of the game and he's was hyper focused on that
Speaker 5: particular play and he was just in the zone there.
Speaker 5: And Tybrek's got great hands and he's a really good
Speaker 5: corner for us, and we're excited about the rest of
Speaker 5: the year for him.
Speaker 1: By the way, on Owen's Tom made a great you know,
Speaker 1: a great call. There's a gold medal play, you know,
Speaker 1: in honor of his missus, Simon bile So, gold medal
Speaker 1: play by a gold medal player. DeAndre Carter got experience,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of trust there. His day overall, very impressive,
Speaker 1: sixty seven yard count kickoff, returning twelve point an punts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and again that goes to all the guys that
Speaker 5: are blocking for him too. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of good guys out there in terms of the effort,
Speaker 5: second effort technique, you know, sealing off blocks, double team blocks,
Speaker 5: working to the second level, you know, and freeing them,
Speaker 5: freeing them up. But you know, DC is a really
Speaker 5: good player though. I mean, he's got he's got quickness,
Speaker 5: he's got you know, burst, cut ability, burst, he's got
Speaker 5: all those, and he was able to take those part
Speaker 5: returns and and that one particular kick return to make
Speaker 5: something happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, a series of threes, three field goals, Cairo Sandos
Speaker 1: third place in Bear's history. Now with fourteen career fifty pluses,
Speaker 1: three inside the twenties for Tory Taylor, and a three
Speaker 1: tackle day for Jalen Jones.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good. Yeah, all three of those guys played well.
Speaker 5: And of course we know who Cairo is because he's
Speaker 5: done it for us for a long time. And then
Speaker 5: you know Tory coming in new on the scene. We've
Speaker 5: all watched him in practice and he performed well too.
Speaker 2: Ferocious second half defensively.
Speaker 1: I'm not minimizing what they did in the first half either,
Speaker 1: but they just really were on it.
Speaker 2: I look at TJ.
Speaker 1: Edwards, nothing after the catch, nothing after contact, just drilling
Speaker 1: guys down to the ground. He appeared to be very
Speaker 1: swift to the ball on every single one of those tackles.
Speaker 1: Fifteen over I think ten solos. What'd you think of
Speaker 1: that second half defensive performance?
Speaker 2: They were fiery.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to go to the first half, you know, we
Speaker 5: really we had three three and outs, you know in
Speaker 5: the first half, which is which is good. You know,
Speaker 5: we had a couple of drives there, the one big
Speaker 5: drive we gave up because of that third and fifteen.
Speaker 5: You know, we just got to do a better job
Speaker 5: of matching up those routes. Ridley did a really nice
Speaker 5: job of kind of tucking behind one of our defenders
Speaker 5: there so we could have gotten out of there. And
Speaker 5: then we also had another drive where we had a
Speaker 5: penalty on a four point play. It was a third
Speaker 5: and five or whatever it was, and we ended up
Speaker 5: jumping off side. So some of those were solf inflicted
Speaker 5: and we got to clean those things up. And then
Speaker 5: moving on to the second half. I love the way
Speaker 5: the guys responded, you know, coming out in the second half,
Speaker 5: the way they tackled, the way they kept leverage, the
Speaker 5: way they hustled. And again it's never good enough, but
Speaker 5: it was it was. It was pretty good yesterday in
Speaker 5: terms of taking the ball away when.
Speaker 2: We needed to, yep.
Speaker 1: And some of the hidden pressures, like people are not
Speaker 1: talking about as much, but DeMarcus Walker, including the last
Speaker 1: play that Jaylen intercepted, he had four hits on the
Speaker 1: quarterback ten ten overall, and we got to talk about
Speaker 1: Darryl Taylor too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. We had fourteen hits on
Speaker 5: the quarterback.
Speaker 2: He missed four, but official stats said ten. Yeah, coach,
Speaker 2: you say fourteen, I'm going with you.
Speaker 5: There you go. But yeah, it was it was good.
Speaker 5: You know those guys you know, applied some pressure there.
Speaker 5: And we're always working for e goos one with those
Speaker 5: with the four man rush and rush and cover was
Speaker 5: applied yesterday. We just got to keep working on it.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about how a guy can come in
Speaker 1: here in this scheme, uh and just play a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps and get eight tackles and two sacks and
Speaker 1: play some good football. On Taylor, he said he just
Speaker 1: loves the fit. He just go forward, go get the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And maybe he didn't have to do that in that
Speaker 1: manner at Seattle, I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he does a really good job with his energy,
Speaker 5: his effort, his attention to detail, his focus. Uh. He
Speaker 5: fits right in with us because of the way he plays.
Speaker 5: He loves football and he he's uh just one hundred
Speaker 5: miles an hour all the time, which is great. We
Speaker 5: always can work with that. We'll get that guy in
Speaker 5: the right direction as we did this week and going forward,
Speaker 5: he's gonna have a big year for us.
Speaker 1: Hard to win a game without an offensive touchdown, but
Speaker 1: it's a team game, all three phases, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was a team game.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: With that being said, Uh, we are close in your
Speaker 1: opinion on some big plays in the passing game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were. We were. I mean know, we had
Speaker 5: Keenan opened on that on that double move, very good.
Speaker 5: Our sideline there, I thought that was really good. We
Speaker 5: had DC on a mes zero pressure. I thought we
Speaker 5: could have really dumped it in there, you know, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, just dropped it right in there. So there
Speaker 5: was a couple of plays that we had missed opportunities on.
Speaker 5: But again, that all always comes down to the rhythm
Speaker 5: of timing, you know, continuity with the receivers and and
Speaker 5: us just having more time on task. And we're gonna
Speaker 5: do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and all things that you we were going to
Speaker 1: expect from a young quarterback, especially one being a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback to face with the speed of the game when
Speaker 1: a regular season hit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and again he's gonna keep getting better, you know.
Speaker 5: The things he did well was protect the football, and
Speaker 5: that was good. He was good in the pocket, his
Speaker 5: operation was good. His disposition in terms of his demeanor,
Speaker 5: his body language, everything through all that adversity was great.
Speaker 5: He responded well, came out there in that two point play,
Speaker 5: had a really good execution on that was a really
Speaker 5: good play call by Shane. You know. So there's a
Speaker 5: lot of positives that take There was a lot of
Speaker 5: rhythm and timing throws that were right on point. So
Speaker 5: there's a lot of positives that take away from it,
Speaker 5: and there's also things that hey, we can get better at. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, it's week one and we're going to go
Speaker 5: to week two and just keep on reinvesting in growing
Speaker 5: and improving every single week.
Speaker 1: And I looked at those thirteen third down opportunity there
Speaker 1: was a lot of third and threes, third and four third,
Speaker 1: you know, shorts, there were some big ones two third
Speaker 1: in the country mile. But I go back, and I
Speaker 1: know you and I have talked about this, I believe,
Speaker 1: but one hundred and ninety nine passing attempts at USC
Speaker 1: on third and fourth down his final two years, zero interceptions.
Speaker 1: So again, zero interceptions, Like you said, protecting the football
Speaker 1: and third down, cause that can get a little wacky,
Speaker 1: and third down that that's huge right there. How is
Speaker 1: his Monday morning demeanor after this?
Speaker 5: It was good.
Speaker 4: It was good.
Speaker 5: Same as he had last yesterday on the podium. It
Speaker 5: was good. We had a nice meeting with him today
Speaker 5: this morning and it was good. He was good. We
Speaker 5: just talked about what we could do better and what
Speaker 5: we learned and moving on to the next week.
Speaker 1: All right, The next week is a primetime matchup, certainly
Speaker 1: not going to be too big for a Caleb Lims.
Speaker 1: He's been in the prime time his whole life. Forget
Speaker 1: about just the USC and Oklahoma days. Really good football team,
Speaker 1: you know, we met them in Canton. Obviously there's no
Speaker 1: scouting going on, but you get a little familiarity with
Speaker 1: the roster at a minimum, all the way back to
Speaker 1: that point in August. Is that helpful in anyway? Because
Speaker 1: this is a really good football team, a lot of talent.
Speaker 5: It's a playoff team, you know, and they did a
Speaker 5: nice job in the first game of the year. Very
Speaker 5: explosive offense, got a real similar defense the way the
Speaker 5: way we operate in terms of the structure, so it'll
Speaker 5: be very familiar to him. To Caleb because it's it's
Speaker 5: very similar. But they got you know, good addressers, good
Speaker 5: inside pressure players. They got a nice secondary so and
Speaker 5: then their complement on offenses, they got a nice skill set.
Speaker 5: You know, their skill sets are really good. Acquired a
Speaker 5: couple of good players and it's going to be a
Speaker 5: big challenge for a whole football team.
Speaker 1: Run stuffing always important. Joe mixonhead himself a big day.
Speaker 1: We know what he can do, so I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: going to be job one during that right to rush
Speaker 1: the passer, no doubt. All right, mat congratulations talking next week,
Speaker 1: Jeria Prepp, yep, all right, he corrected me. As you heard,
Speaker 1: Tommy fourteen hits on the quarterback. The final stats said ten.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take every one of those quarterback hits, especially
Speaker 1: when you're talking about a second year quarterback like Will
Speaker 1: Levis where pressure really did affect him in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three and until further notice. You know, those are the
Speaker 1: kind of punishment you got to provide on a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're cloud in his windows, cloud in his
Speaker 1: ability to escape the pocket and force him into these
Speaker 1: errors where he's feeling the pressure and like he did
Speaker 1: when he just threw that, butll he was just trying
Speaker 1: to throw the ball away and he was going down
Speaker 1: to the ground and Tyreek Stevens in there for the
Speaker 1: pick six. But those are those are plays he'll learn
Speaker 1: from as a quarterback. But you want to force these
Speaker 1: second your young quarterbacks who don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: starts bankrolled into making these kind of errors.
Speaker 3: Well, even experienced quarterbacks. You want to be able to
Speaker 3: provide unpredictable pressure because even though you go to the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage as an opponent and you have your
Speaker 3: direction of your protection called and you know exactly who
Speaker 3: you want to protect against, the Bears have a wide
Speaker 3: variety of weapons that they can bring from a lot
Speaker 3: of different directions that sometimes they are unpredictable, and then
Speaker 3: that interferes with the timing of the play and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the win of the play is
Speaker 3: on behalf of the defense. So I like what the
Speaker 3: group of athletes are able to do here. And the
Speaker 3: worst thing as an ex offensive player is when you
Speaker 3: have a superstar in your defense and you know who
Speaker 3: exactly who you have to stop. But now you've got
Speaker 3: a variety of guys and the Bears there are eleven
Speaker 3: guys here that can put pressure on a quarterback at
Speaker 3: any time because they all have that type of versatility
Speaker 3: built into them.
Speaker 1: All right, are you surprised by the immediate impact of
Speaker 1: Darryl Taylor at all?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not, because you have to look at the
Speaker 3: other pieces that are in place on the defensive line
Speaker 3: and at the linebacker position, and then Kyler Gordon and
Speaker 3: Jakwan Brisker and such. So if everybody is influenced by
Speaker 3: making sure that you block Montest Sweat and you direct
Speaker 3: your protection towards him, that means somewhere along the line,
Speaker 3: somebody's going to.
Speaker 4: Get a one on one no matter what.
Speaker 3: And if you're the backside defensive end and you're getting
Speaker 3: that one on one and you win as immediately as
Speaker 3: he did throughout the course of the game yesterday. Now
Speaker 3: you're talking about the offensive coordinator trying to devise a
Speaker 3: new scheme of where to slide the pressure to, and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, then you look and you go, oh,
Speaker 3: you got Montes Sweat on the other side of the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: And then you got.
Speaker 3: DeMarcus Walker, and you got Darnell Taylor. You got all
Speaker 3: these guys switched on the opposite side of the field.
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm talking about, is the unpredictable pressure
Speaker 3: are because you have a group of athletes that are
Speaker 3: so well balanced that they can play out of a
Speaker 3: right handed stance as well as a left handed stand.
Speaker 1: Do you think they did a nice job of changing
Speaker 1: the pictures for Will Levis back there and taking away
Speaker 1: his deep ball game. I mean there was one, but
Speaker 1: you know, given what he did last year, he put
Speaker 1: up the ball quite a bit on deep routes. Granted,
Speaker 1: John Jay Hopkins probably wasn't one hundred percent ready to play.
Speaker 1: He just was out there. He really didn't get factored
Speaker 1: into the game at all, and not because the Bears
Speaker 1: are taking him away, I don't believe. But you know,
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley can make some noise obviously, and Tyler Boyd
Speaker 1: out of the slot is awful, dangerous, But I think
Speaker 1: they kind of clouded the pictures for him a little bit.
Speaker 4: You're exactly right.
Speaker 3: They clouded the picture for them because as he breaks
Speaker 3: the huddle and he knows the plays he called in
Speaker 3: the huddle, he goes to the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 3: maybe you have TJ. Edwards and Tremaine Edmonds up at
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. They have no intentions on rushing,
Speaker 3: but they got to be accounted for because where they're
Speaker 3: lined up before the snap of the ball and as
Speaker 3: soon as they drop back into their past coverage lanes.
Speaker 3: Plus you have the complimentary of the other defensive backs.
Speaker 3: Now the quarterback is in a thinking position as he's
Speaker 3: dropping back, and when you think your b and so
Speaker 3: that's the one thing about the uniqueness of the Bears
Speaker 3: and the athleticism they have from the edges to the
Speaker 3: inside that they can put a variety of fronts up
Speaker 3: there that would you say, the cloudsier of cloud.
Speaker 1: Change the pictures, change the picture, you know, change the picture.
Speaker 1: By the way three of fourteen on third down defensively
Speaker 1: by the Bears limiting the Titans, so didn't stack up
Speaker 1: a bunch of other plays because for a while there
Speaker 1: they had the time of possession advantage. Tennessee quite a
Speaker 1: bit a good running game, Tony Pollard early in the
Speaker 1: game of the Bears adjusted significantly in the second half,
Speaker 1: and the game is all about adjustments and adaptation as well.
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Speaker 1: Let's dig into special teams. There's so much here because
Speaker 1: and I talked with coach about everybody from the three inside,
Speaker 1: the twenty punts, the Jalen Jones on the tackles, to
Speaker 1: Cairo hitting all three of his to a new long snapper.
Speaker 1: You know, that's an introduction to think it's Scott Daily.
Speaker 1: Ten kickoffs combined in the game, just three touchbacks. So
Speaker 1: you know, let's get into that because thirty four percent
Speaker 1: up until the Monday night game, thirty four percent of
Speaker 1: the kickoffs will returned, up from twenty percent a year ago.
Speaker 1: In Week one one for a touchdown. In Week one
Speaker 1: only four for a touchdown all of twenty three. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how many teams are going to embrace this,
Speaker 1: but the Bears and Titans did, and when the Titans' perspective,
Speaker 1: it led to a turnover and Julius Chestnut recovering the
Speaker 1: Bayless Jones muff. So this is you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about this. There's gonna be some really big players. They're
Speaker 1: going to have an impact on the game. It's going
Speaker 1: to change tempo, momentum, field position, and I just hope
Speaker 1: that teams don't settle for that touchback and get the
Speaker 1: ball out the thirty yard line and be good with it,
Speaker 1: because there are built in there's built ten big moments
Speaker 1: awaiting either team in one of these kickoffs.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you're just willing to awar your
Speaker 3: opponent every single series that you're kicking off of them
Speaker 3: a free first down, now you're changing the influence of
Speaker 3: field position. And when you have a punter, say like
Speaker 3: Tory Taylor, that if you start at the thirty yard
Speaker 3: line and say you only get seven or eight yards
Speaker 3: out of a drive and then he's banging the ball
Speaker 3: from field position, that can reverse it. So I still
Speaker 3: like the fact that you're going to create more kickoff returns.
Speaker 3: I like the design of some of the returns by
Speaker 3: coach High Tower and Week one of the NFL. So
Speaker 3: then that's just going to increase the exploratory surgery of
Speaker 3: all these special teams coaches because they're not only going
Speaker 3: to look at their own or their opponent, they're going
Speaker 3: to look at them right down the line of every
Speaker 3: team in the league. If they say, wow, this is interesting,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna experiment with this because listen, offensive football is
Speaker 3: a copycat league, and so is the design of the
Speaker 3: new kickoff return.
Speaker 1: Your a little line about Jonathan Owens and I just
Speaker 1: saw him before we started the podcast. Here all smiles
Speaker 1: on his face about the scoop and score for the
Speaker 1: touchdown of the block by Daniel Hardy, Golden medal worthy.
Speaker 1: That was a great line by you. He's the professional
Speaker 1: football player, so Mombios is the superstar gymnast and multi
Speaker 1: talented gold medal winner.
Speaker 2: Thrilled.
Speaker 1: I think she was screaming at the top of her
Speaker 1: lungs when that husband of hers ran it into the
Speaker 1: end zone.
Speaker 2: That was a great play.
Speaker 3: Hey, she was screaming no louder than me because I
Speaker 3: was equally as excited when I saw that, because it's
Speaker 3: just not a play that comes up very often. And
Speaker 3: then you think of the combination of names. They weren't
Speaker 3: on the Bears last year, and here you got Daniel
Speaker 3: Hardy and then you got Jonathan Owens. You're talking about
Speaker 3: two newbies that have been brought aboard that. Wow, what
Speaker 3: the heck is going on here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Good, good, good guys that really play hard. That's one
Speaker 1: thing we saw in preseason as well. When Jonathan Owens
Speaker 1: gets a chance to get on the field at safety,
Speaker 1: he'll punch you, he will hit you. He leaves a mark,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna do that his chances. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: this is not an injury free league here. So if
Speaker 1: you have to come in for a series of player
Speaker 1: or a game when Jonathan Owens gets his opportunity to play,
Speaker 1: be ready, busy heart Seltzer flavors for every vibe, celebrate responsibly.
Speaker 1: Most in Coorse Beverage Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin should also mention
Speaker 1: DeAndre Carter a new Bear as well. Put together a
Speaker 1: nice line in punt and kickoff return. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the offense. I'm going to start from a
Speaker 1: point of positivity that I mentioned with Coach Flues. The
Speaker 1: ninth offensive possession of.
Speaker 2: The game by the Bears.
Speaker 1: It was only six plays, Tommy, but they got the
Speaker 1: battle of the Tennessee forty three and ate it up
Speaker 1: almost four minutes and left the Titans sixty five seconds
Speaker 1: in a long field which resulted in the game ending
Speaker 1: interception by Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 2: And you take the knee.
Speaker 1: The rest of the game that includes those two first
Speaker 1: downs might have made a difference in the outcome because
Speaker 1: you're talking about field position, you're talking about time on
Speaker 1: the clock, and I thought that was a very important
Speaker 1: series right there, given the fact they did not pass
Speaker 1: the ball to their liking and they did not put
Speaker 1: a ball on the end zone offensively, that was a
Speaker 1: big series.
Speaker 3: You agree, Oh, listen, there's a lot of plays that
Speaker 3: go untalked about that are big plays in the game
Speaker 3: that factor in the outcome. And you talked about you
Speaker 3: talk about those big plays in those first downs and
Speaker 3: getting that clock to continue to swine when you work
Speaker 3: on four minute drills and stuff. But as I was
Speaker 3: watching the tape, I was looking at the fumble recovery
Speaker 3: by Tevin Jenkins. Okay, so a ball gets batted by
Speaker 3: a defensive back, it gets caught by Roma Dunse, it
Speaker 3: gets stripped by a Tennessee Titans as Tevin's going downfield
Speaker 3: to help block if he has to, the ball's on
Speaker 3: the ground and he recovers it and then they end
Speaker 3: up getting three points out of that. As you were talking,
Speaker 3: maybe it was last night about the series that they
Speaker 3: ended up getting nine points from ye and that's three.
Speaker 4: Of the points.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking, Okay, the plays that you're just
Speaker 3: talking about near the end of the game, that play
Speaker 3: by Tevin Jenkins.
Speaker 4: There are big plays that will never.
Speaker 3: Get talked about, never get awarded or rewarded, but they
Speaker 3: factor in a win.
Speaker 1: It underscores the hustle aspect of the hits principle, and
Speaker 1: so that is important to be on this football team.
Speaker 2: We had the three series I talked about.
Speaker 1: I don't have them memorized at the moment, but one
Speaker 1: was an eleven play drive, another one was a nine
Speaker 1: play drive.
Speaker 2: It did not net a lot of yards.
Speaker 1: There was a one yard net series, but those three
Speaker 1: series rather led to nine points and you needed those
Speaker 1: nine points to win the football game. Caleb had great opportunities,
Speaker 1: some great throws to DJ Moore, really impressive rip at slant,
Speaker 1: the big catch on the sidelines when he had to
Speaker 1: take his helmet off and go into the tent, and
Speaker 1: some near misses because there were a bunch of third
Speaker 1: and shorts, third and three, third and fourth, third and
Speaker 1: five that they decided to throw it downfield as opposed
Speaker 1: to maybe an intermediate throw and it was just a
Speaker 1: little off. So it Actually, while we were doing our
Speaker 1: game night live show, I think I mentioned I was
Speaker 1: feeling as we were talking about the game, I was
Speaker 1: feeling more optimistic about the performance because he didn't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over. Caleb did not. The offense did not
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. So that's step one, step two.
Speaker 1: There are some near misses. Okay, the protection at times
Speaker 1: it did break down, and there was some big dudes
Speaker 1: up front that we know about. Jeffrey Simmons we knew about.
Speaker 1: Now he learned about dev Andre Sweat. Tough to deal with.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Another misnomer is just to address it because there the
Speaker 3: interior defensive linemen of the Tennessee Titans are going to
Speaker 3: give a lot of football teams a lot of problems.
Speaker 4: There are big mutt men.
Speaker 3: They compliment each other well, and they're good against the
Speaker 3: run as good as good against the pass. So the
Speaker 3: first tip ball that Caleb had so after Coleman Shelton
Speaker 3: snapped the ball, he got tripped by one of his
Speaker 3: own offensive linemen. As he was falling backwards. The guy
Speaker 3: he was blocking luckily put his hands up in the
Speaker 3: air and tip the ball. And then the second tip
Speaker 3: ball was the defensive lineman ran a stunt, the offensive
Speaker 3: line picked it up perfectly. One of the defensive linemen
Speaker 3: that got stale made into the line of scrimmage kind
Speaker 3: of guessed and put his hands up and it resulted.
Speaker 4: So it's not like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: He's thrown it into the back of the helmets of
Speaker 3: his own offensive lineman. It's defensive linemen being put in
Speaker 3: a fortunate position and then they put their hands up
Speaker 3: in a desperation move and they are able to get
Speaker 3: their hands to it. So I know that's something that's correctible,
Speaker 3: but you know it's you know, correctable more by the
Speaker 3: offensive line than the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, if you're a good defensive line, you're
Speaker 1: rushing the quarterback and your stalemate you got to put
Speaker 1: your hands up.
Speaker 2: That's the tout.
Speaker 1: So you know, this guy's for six or four across
Speaker 1: the board, including arden Key also on the edge, rushing
Speaker 1: off either side. So yeah, they did impress me. That
Speaker 1: defense did impress me. I think they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: pretty good defense to deal with. And this they got
Speaker 1: some names at every level of that defense. The running
Speaker 1: game longest run late in the game by a Swift
Speaker 1: with twenty yards, So again, a building block got to
Speaker 1: get better.
Speaker 2: A run of the football.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's a work in progress.
Speaker 3: And again, if they would have rushed for two hundred yards,
Speaker 3: it would have never been a finished product. Every single
Speaker 3: week you face a different type of talent against a
Speaker 3: different defense, and you have points of emphasis accordingly, and
Speaker 3: I think the better understanding that the offensive lineman gets
Speaker 3: with the rhythm of the cadence. Now this week's going
Speaker 3: to be a different monster because in Houston, they're not
Speaker 3: going to be able to hear the snapcomt because the
Speaker 3: noise will be so deafening.
Speaker 4: But again, you.
Speaker 3: Don't want to get away from the running game. I
Speaker 3: think that's always going to be your bread and butter.
Speaker 3: But after you go in and you watch a tape
Speaker 3: as a group, as an offensive line or as a
Speaker 3: running back group, you get a better understanding, a better
Speaker 3: feel how plays are going to open up, and then
Speaker 3: how to pre predict where your best chances of success are. So,
Speaker 3: like I said, any facet that needs improvement, the running
Speaker 3: game needs improvement, but I think it will with Chris
Speaker 3: Morgan at the helm.
Speaker 1: Blue crushing blue shield of Illinois right here at home,
Speaker 1: driving access toward healthier communities. Through it all, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Chris Morgan offensive line at right guard. Nate Davis
Speaker 1: played eighteen snaps and Baits played thirty eight snaps, so
Speaker 1: they rotated a bit. I think the first snap was
Speaker 1: the fourteenth snap of the game for Baits, or thirteenth
Speaker 1: or fourteenth snap. They're basically I don't know how to
Speaker 1: evaluate it other than you know, they're evaluating both guys
Speaker 1: and see what lands is the better option?
Speaker 2: Is this what you're thinking is here?
Speaker 3: You know, I would hope they're all being evaluated because
Speaker 3: no one ever has a job forever, and that's the
Speaker 3: when you have a group of talent.
Speaker 4: That you put out there.
Speaker 3: And Chris Morgan does a great job of playing guys
Speaker 3: in a variety of positions to see when their opportunity comes,
Speaker 3: who fits best where. And Ryan Bates was brought in
Speaker 3: here possibly to be the starting center, had an injury hiccup,
Speaker 3: he kind of was able to get more reps at
Speaker 3: right guard when Nate Davis wasn't in the lineup. So
Speaker 3: I think they're still going through the thinking and the
Speaker 3: development process because I think like guys like Amagaji, when
Speaker 3: he gets more practice time, maybe he'll you know, work
Speaker 3: his way into some opportunities and we'll see how it
Speaker 3: works up and down the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about the first snap offensive via
Speaker 1: the game because darneld right lined up on the outside
Speaker 1: of the left tackle, Braxton Jones, So that was an
Speaker 1: unbalanced line. What what is the point of that? What
Speaker 1: is the uh what is the scheme value of that?
Speaker 1: Especially on the first snap of the game.
Speaker 3: Point of attack advantage where you have better blockers next
Speaker 3: to each other and not necessarily taking anything away from
Speaker 3: the tight end position, but when you have two big
Speaker 3: offensive tackles next to each other and you know that's
Speaker 3: going to be your point of attack, which I think
Speaker 3: resulting in a six.
Speaker 4: Or eight yard six yeard.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's just may shifting the defense out of position,
Speaker 3: creating a stronger to the offense. That's bona fide declaration.
Speaker 3: Most of the time, where you're gonna run it, you
Speaker 3: don't have to. But now say they come out in
Speaker 3: an unbalanced line, the next time they run a play
Speaker 3: action to the opposite side. So it just provides more
Speaker 3: preparation for your next opponent, and it creates immediate thinking
Speaker 3: by the coordinator that's up in the booth looking down
Speaker 3: at the scheme. So the defensive coordinator now is starting
Speaker 3: to say, okay, the next time they're in this defense.
Speaker 3: Let's go with this type of defensive scheme, you know.
Speaker 3: And so I liked the variety, and I like the
Speaker 3: result of the play.
Speaker 1: I believe was it the only time they did it yesterday?
Speaker 1: So a little bait on the fish hook, that's what
Speaker 1: they leed. They put a little bait bait. This is interesting.
Speaker 1: Week one gets so much over analysis, but for those
Speaker 1: who researched these things, the lowest passing yard total in
Speaker 1: the league in a Week one, not including the Monday
Speaker 1: night game, ten passing touchdowns way down to thirty three,
Speaker 1: and last year I believe it was thirty six. From
Speaker 1: nineteen to twenty two, twenty nineteen, nineteen to twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: the touchdown totals passing touchdowns were in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you can derive from this trend down
Speaker 1: in passing yards and passing touchdowns?
Speaker 3: Well, I think of look at how many quarterbacks went
Speaker 3: to new teams. How many quarterbacks are playing for the
Speaker 3: first time at rookies. How many quarterbacks are in their
Speaker 3: second year. You know, whether it's Bryce Young or Will
Speaker 3: Levis that are their careers are still undetermined. I just
Speaker 3: don't think you have an extensive amount of quarterbacks that
Speaker 3: are senior leaders of their squad that are with a
Speaker 3: new with a head coach that's been around for a while,
Speaker 3: or coordinator in a system or coordinator so Jim Harball
Speaker 3: and Justin Herbert or else. You know, you look at
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins in Atlanta, you look at Caleb in Chicago,
Speaker 3: you look at Darnold in Minnesota.
Speaker 4: You can go up and down theo.
Speaker 1: Go to Pittsburgh with Arthur Smith and it turned out
Speaker 1: to be justin Field.
Speaker 3: Instead of and you know, and then you got you know, tonight,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have Aaron Rodgers who played four plays for
Speaker 3: the Jets last year, forty years old, coming off of
Speaker 3: an achilles and just like Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, ten new starters at quarterback in
Speaker 1: week one, correct ten?
Speaker 3: And then then if you look at those other teams
Speaker 3: that don't have the ten new starters, look at the
Speaker 3: coaching changes that they've had, or do you Deshaun Watson
Speaker 3: who is coming off of an injury.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of uncertainty.
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Speaker 1: Mattyberflus at the podium with the media today at househol
Speaker 1: did send up a flare at Roma Duneesay getting an
Speaker 1: armor on his knee. I don't know if you noticed
Speaker 1: anything in the game where that may have occurred. Something
Speaker 1: may have occurred with that knee, and it may have
Speaker 1: been on a blocking play according to Flues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't see a noticeable limp and I didn't
Speaker 3: have any time during the game that I was overly
Speaker 3: concerned about his well being. So you know, hopefully it's nothing,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's better to be, you know, take
Speaker 3: precautionary measures.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to check on Keenan Allen as well.
Speaker 1: He left the game and I don't believe he returned
Speaker 1: after coming up limping on an end zone throw that
Speaker 1: did not land. So things to always worry about injury
Speaker 1: wise each week in the NFL. Right, let's say quick
Speaker 1: sneak peak at the Houston Texans. They held off the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Coats on the road they won on the road
Speaker 1: twenty nine to twenty seven. We're going to be seeing
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson a week after and he had a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays, big throws. Alec Pierce, the local product
Speaker 1: out of Glen Allen one hundred and twenty some yards,
Speaker 1: including a sixty yard touchdown, and he ran Richardson ran
Speaker 1: for one.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had any chance to look
Speaker 1: at Houston yet, what are we seeing on tape?
Speaker 4: We know the names.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of big names on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 3: You know. I looked at him a little bit just
Speaker 3: to see kind of what they were trying to showcase
Speaker 3: on the road in Indianapolis. And they still featured the
Speaker 3: running game, you know, Joe Mixon thirty carries, oh you know,
Speaker 3: nine yards, three passes caught on, three targets. They have
Speaker 3: some big time receivers down there. They're coming in with
Speaker 3: a quarterback the CJ. Stroud that is just oozing with
Speaker 3: confidence and he's got accuracy.
Speaker 4: He's a big guy. Uh the He's got.
Speaker 3: An offensive line that played well enough on the road
Speaker 3: to get those guys a two point win. And then
Speaker 3: they have a defensive head coach who's got some explosiveness
Speaker 3: on the edge. And whenever you have edge explosiveness, especially
Speaker 3: when you're playing at home, you know that you can
Speaker 3: create a barrier around a young quarterback. That means that
Speaker 3: he's either got to stay inside the pocket and get
Speaker 3: the ball out of his hands or else your edge blockers,
Speaker 3: tackles and tight ends they got to play the game
Speaker 3: of their life without ever hearing the snapcount. So there's
Speaker 3: kind of a double edged sword there with outside rushers
Speaker 3: that are that's what they're known for by offensive tackles
Speaker 3: who are not going to be able to hear the
Speaker 3: snap count.
Speaker 1: Well, Anderson, the rookie of the Year last year from Alabama,
Speaker 1: and Daniel Hunter, they combined for just three tackles, so
Speaker 1: I haven't watched it either. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: kept stayed away from them, doubled them up. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they did.
Speaker 3: Well. A lot of their rushes contain specific to a
Speaker 3: guy like Anthony Richardson, because if you let him get
Speaker 3: outside the pocket, he could take at the distance no
Speaker 3: matter where he is on the field. So when you're
Speaker 3: specifically telling your great outside rushers upfield and then close
Speaker 3: in on the pocket, you're really giving that quarterback probably
Speaker 3: an extra three quarters of a second to a second
Speaker 3: in order to set your feet and get rid of
Speaker 3: the ball. And I just think that's the process because
Speaker 3: when you're playing on the road, the offensive lineman's getting
Speaker 3: off the ball before the defensive ends. When you're playing
Speaker 3: at home, the defensive ends are getting off the ball
Speaker 3: as at the same rate as your offensive tackle.
Speaker 2: Well, i'd imagine.
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't want Caleb Williams out of the
Speaker 1: pocket making his great throws on the run. He did
Speaker 1: yesterday he made a couple of nice throws on the run.
Speaker 2: Again. That's that's his big superpower.
Speaker 3: You know, Caleb the You know when you look at
Speaker 3: what is he new to you know, how can he improve,
Speaker 3: you know between one week and the next.
Speaker 4: And I think you know, when you have time, take
Speaker 4: your time.
Speaker 3: Don't hurry your mechanics because you think that things are
Speaker 3: coming they are closing too close, so you got to
Speaker 3: get rid of the ball too soon. And I do
Speaker 3: think the more reps that he gets at home and
Speaker 3: at away, he'll be able to get a little bit
Speaker 3: more relaxed. And I think that's when you're gonna see
Speaker 3: the best out of Caleb.
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Speaker 1: thatch of a weekend in Chicago for Bears fans. He
Speaker 1: had alumni weekend, a lot of old faces coming into
Speaker 1: town and reminiscing not only Saturday night at the dinner,
Speaker 1: but also on the sidelines before the game. And then
Speaker 1: it all results in a big victory for the Bears.
Speaker 1: I say big because everyone is and you're bank rolling
Speaker 1: the future. That's what you're doing by getting these tough,
Speaker 1: tough wins. And now you hit the road to take
Speaker 1: on Houston. That AFC South is a pretty pretty tough
Speaker 1: that AFC South is going to be, is it? Wait
Speaker 1: till the end of the year and see that is
Speaker 1: a tough division. That's a tough division of the Bears
Speaker 1: got three of those games in the first three weeks
Speaker 1: of the season, so it's going to be interesting and
Speaker 1: we'll recap what that might look like as far as
Speaker 1: the Bears in Houston on Thursday and our next podcast,
Speaker 1: I hope to have some guests of interest for you
Speaker 1: as well, and of course Bears Weekly on Thursday night.
Speaker 2: Jim Miller will join us on Bears Weekly this week.
Speaker 3: All right, plenty of talk about from Sunday, so I
Speaker 3: think we'll have that much to talk about leading up
Speaker 3: to this week's game.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, that's going to do it. We thank
Speaker 1: you for listening and we'll talk to you coming up
Speaker 1: later this week. For Tom there and for coach eber Blues,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. Bear down, everybody,