WEBVTT - Talkin_9_17.mp3 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:12.320 Cowboys. 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:20.400 This He's Talking Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.520 Tours at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:29.800 Don't take burners, Let's got kids ty paints in the Texdown. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:35.960 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.520 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.519 It's a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.160 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frasco. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.080 Texas in the s WBC studios. Welcome in, everybody. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.200 We've got Patrick Nosey Walker, Josh Rodriguez, and Tommy Yarish 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:59.120 to break down this Week three matchup for the Dallas 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.480 Cowboys again those Chicago Bears. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.040 Bears beam in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's glad you're 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:05.880 with us. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.040 It is a return to Chicago for one Matt Eberflus. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.119 And today we previewed the Dallas defense against that. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:15.600 Chicago Bears offense. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.000 And so we'll talk about Kayleb Williams, Romeya Dunz, a, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.679 Colston Loveland and a couple of those other guys that 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.920 they play in the Chicago Bears def or excuse me, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.480 offense going up against Matt Eberflus, their former head coach. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.560 Pat you got to matching blues on today, I'll do 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:33.480 I like it. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.039 So who is this guy? 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.480 So I we're going to get you up to speed? 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.840 Yeah, I feel like yesterday my mentions on Twitter were 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.000 nothing about like football, It was all about. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.280 Why how did you not know who macho Man is? 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:46.920 How did you not? 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.080 Just for reference, after the show was over, Josh made 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.320 me pull up a clip and I do recognize Randy Savage. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.400 Macho Man, Macho Man Savage. Right, Yes, that's how you're 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.000 supposed to say. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.600 Yeah, I just didn't know this specific. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.360 That's not how you're supposed to say it. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.760 Randy. Oh wait what is it? 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.760 Are you supposed to do the macho man voice? 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.840 Well, okay, so I can't do the voice cho. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:11.240 You're supposed to do the whole thing. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:12.359 I didn't know if you. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:18.560 Wanted like a PA like like you said announcer announcer Savage, that. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.160 You could do that. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.160 Yeah, that's how I'm going to introduce. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.680 I really want to hear Kyle as a heel commentator. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.679 Now, really, he would be excellent at it. He would 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.000 be a good heel commentator. Be Cody Graves, he'd be 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.519 weight Beard. I could I could see. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:30.919 I could see you getting stunned in the middle of 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.320 the ring. Not for any particular reason. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.800 After after the show, remind me to show you some 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.240 clips of Waite Beard and uh and Corey Graves. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.320 You will see what I mean. You would exist. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:40.200 I like it. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.400 So we do have one quick news and note Cowboy 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:48.280 Cowboys do have that active excuse me, available roster spot 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.800 on the practice squad after activating Ryan Flinoyd last weekend. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.520 They're looking to fill that today with offensive lineman Wesley French. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.320 He joins the Cowboys. He was previously undrafted free agent 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.120 signed out of Western Michigan to the Indianapolis Coats and 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.440 at the time, guess who was employed by the Coats 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.519 offensive coordinator Clayton Adams. So obviously French joins the Cowboys 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.320 to try to provide some depth with Cooper bb going 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.680 on IR for what could be up to six to 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.680 eight weeks, and he'll be behind Brock Kauffman and TJ. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:21.000 Bass. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.000 So just one quick little little note there. Transaction Cowboys 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:25.360 going to do. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.000 Today Tommy, what do you seen when it comes to French. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.960 Yeah, I think you know, I always think back to 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.679 Brian Schottenhamber told us a training camp is you know, 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.160 we saw TJ. Bass taking reps at center and it 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:37.680 was like, oh, you know, what do you see there? 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.440 And he just loves having guys who can snap the football, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.600 and he wants depth in that position because something happens 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.640 to your center. You know, that snap is not necessarily 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.880 the easiest thing to have down sometimes, especially when your 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.080 starter and your quarterback have things down pat So he 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.720 likes having depth in terms of guys who can play center. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.440 You've got that in Trevor Keegan, who was listed on 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.200 the unofficial Death Chart as the backup center to brock Hoffman. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.800 Now TJ. Bass will be another guy that's kind of 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.080 in the mix there. And now you've got Wesley French. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.080 He's undrafted twenty twenty two out of Western Michigan, spent 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.600 his first three seasons with the Colts. He's played in 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.040 seventeen games, I believe throughout his career so far. So 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.560 just another guy that you can have and and and 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.080 trust to snap the football. And now it's all about 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.240 building raport with Dak Prescott and the quarterbacks and getting 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:25.280 things worked and out well. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.720 And to answer your question with the other news. And 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.920 note this gentleman's name is Gokure. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:38.880 That cultured. It is the culture right here, all right there. 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.920 Yeah he's on the laptop. And oh that's right, I 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:42.600 remember that. Now. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.520 These are just different levels. Yeah, there's just different levels. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.400 This is like the powers. This is more powerful level. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.080 And the one on the laptop. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.120 Are you familiar with him? 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.240 No, I don't watch I don't watch backward cartoons, dude. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.960 I'm all right, dude, I said, go read your backwards cartoons. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:06.679 Should not to be able to read a manga from 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:07.679 right to left. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.600 I'm not priving to backs cartoons. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:09.800 Man. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.120 I called it a cartoon just the other day when 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.160 we were up top and we were talking about anime, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.280 and I was like, I'm not big in the cartoons, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.720 and they both whipped around so that he tried to tried. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.960 I winked at uh at Patrick so he didn't jump 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.360 off sides. Tommy was like, fifteen yards in the back, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:32.520 can we fire? 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:34.680 Yeah? 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.279 It was really fun. I was Sam Williams in twenty two. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.280 Not necessarily I was ready to jump there. Dragon ball 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.000 Z I can get down with for the most part. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.040 But like I started start, well, you talk about rare 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.320 in the go, Like we talked about right at the 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 beginning of the show, Maddy Iberflues makes his return to Chicago, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.520 and one thing that stuck out to me in Brian 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.240 Schottenheimer's early press conference this week, Josh is the fact 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.560 that he said it's not worth it. He's been in 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.440 this BOZI going up against other head coaches or other 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.080 spots where he's been. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.440 A part of that organization before. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.640 He said he he's been a part of teams that 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.560 have gone to Seattle, tried to do too much and 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:11.679 then gotten his butt kicked. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.919 Same thing with New York. Yeah, same thing with some 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:14.760 of those other stops. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.880 And he said he shared that message within the defensive 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:18.839 room this week. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:20.160 Do you agree? 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.640 Is this an opportunity for Matt Eberflus, coming off of 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.000 a down game for his defense to say, let's not 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:27.560 do too much. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:28.920 We got to get back to the basics. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.839 How could you not feel a little type of way 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.400 about going into Chicago, the team that fired you after 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.960 an embarrassing season, you know, in the middle of the season. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.520 Come on, man, of course, you're going to feel a 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.960 little bit of that. But I think what Schottenheimer is 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.160 saying is just stay focused. Just stay focused on the 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.600 job at hand, the task at hand, and make sure 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.520 your guys are ready to go. It's not necessarily about you. 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.680 It's about your guys that are on the team. But 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.400 we've seen it before, man, Like you know, McCarthy had 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.880 a few matchups against Green Bay that did not go 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.200 well for us. Obviously they had his number. It wasn't pretty. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.800 We've seen this a few instances of I mean specifically 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.280 that division. But I'm saying, like this is just too 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.640 critical of a game. This is probably one of the 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.600 easiest games you'll play over the next few weeks. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.480 Of course you're were it easy? 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.280 I mean when. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.840 You're looking at the schedule, that's what that's what you're getting. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:21.840 I know, it's a young season. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.480 I mean winnable. Yeah, let's not say easy. Let's say winnable. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.440 The more nothing's easy in this league. Yeah, winnable. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.960 Sunday was supposed to be easy, right, That's what I. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.160 Mean exactly exactly. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.560 So I just think there's a lot at stake here 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.120 and you just have to be focused on the task 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.640 at hand, That's where I'm at with this. Of course, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.640 the Refluce is going to feel a ways about it. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.840 What do you think, Tom, Yeah, I think naturally as 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.040 a competitor, you know, when you when you have the 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.800 three year stretch that Mattyberflues did in Chicago where really 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.920 there was no continuity, nothing went right. I don't think 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.000 the Bears did a good job hiring a staff around 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.480 him in twenty twenty four, his last season. There You've 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.760 got a rookie quarterbackers the number one overall pick, and 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.280 you feel like you've done a really good job to 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.640 surround him with weapons, but your offensive line isn't all 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.560 that great and you give up the most sacks in 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.240 the NFL history. You know, I think there is a 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.240 part of a part of this that you know, Maddieberflus 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.200 wants his get back in this game. But at the 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.960 same time, Maddiberflus is a really even keeled guy. This 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.880 is not a guy who gets too high or too low. 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.320 And I think him coming back in Dallas is kind 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.360 of just a big sigh relief because some guys, and 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.640 I've talked about this on the show before, this isn't 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.560 a shot at anybody's coaching acumen or what their ability 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.400 to do is. But some guys just aren't made to 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.800 be head coaches. And that's okay. You can be a 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.400 very successful defensive coordinator and stick around a long time 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.840 in this league. And I think that that's where Maddiberflus 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:45.520 has had the most success over the course of his 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.840 career in Indianapolis. He obviously did a good enough job 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.880 to earn the head coaching job in Chicago, so I 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.360 think he'll be even killed coming into this especially. I 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.000 think what he's more focused on is, Man, we just 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.880 gave up four hundred and fifty yards and Russell Wilson 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.000 and the Giants. You know, how do we take that 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.240 off of the board before we go to a big 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.640 game like this? So I think that's really where the 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.880 focus is. Of course, there's going to be a little 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.040 part of him that, as a competitor, says, hey, you know, 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.079 I want to I want to show him something here, right, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:16.800 I want to show him that they shouldn't have fired me, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.240 they shouldn't have let me go, they should have given 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.120 me time because in the NFL, frankly, you know, you 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.319 don't you don't have a lot of time as a 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:23.720 head coach. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.840 If you're sad to himself, He's say, we get fired 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.839 all the time. Yeah, it's just the way of the business. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.480 If you don't get things rolling in two three years, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.600 you know your seat starts to get hot, and and 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:33.720 that's just how it rolls now. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:34.839 So you got to figure it out. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.760 With all of that being said, I think the same 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.800 thing can be flipped on the other side, but it's 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.720 in the early stages for Ben Johnson, right. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.760 Same thing. Some guys are not meant to be head coaches. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:47.920 They're great coordinators. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.960 The jury is still out for an zero and two 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.440 Ben Johnson going into his third game, second game at home, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.880 he's trying to get his first win overall. And if 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:01.400 there's anybody that is familiar with Callie plays against Matt 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.360 eberflu So over the last couple of seasons, it would 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.520 be a guy who played him in the division and 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.200 was the offensive coordinator for the Lions going into that matchup. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.400 Right when it comes to you know, the emotional component 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.120 of it. These these guys aren't robots, so they can 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.559 say the right things, and we love to hear them 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:19.360 say the right things. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.440 But to Josh's point, there there's. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.280 Going to be that that feeling that kind of starts 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.319 still well up in you as the buses are approaching 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.000 the stadium. Right as you walk onto the field and 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.120 the other team's uniform, you're going to start to feel 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.440 a little bit of that trauma you felt when you 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.400 got pulled into the owner's office and you got the 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:44.360 pink slip. That being said, it is of no consequence. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.360 It should be of no consequence to this game because 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.480 it exists on both sides of the ball. So what 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.920 you hope is that when you look at the Bear 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.120 staff and they have guys like Al Harris, and they 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.679 can have guys like Kennon Matthews, these guys who came 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.600 over to Chicago from from Dallas, they hope that they 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.720 let their emotions get in the way. But you need 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:08.000 your coaches to stand pat and be as professional as possible. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.720 I'm of the mindset of when it comes to going 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.760 back to a place that you want so desperately to 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.840 prove that you were better and more valuable than they 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.720 thought you were or gave you credit for, just handle 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.000 your business as best as you need to get the win, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.200 and then then you take it in and say, yeah, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.720 now I showed you, but park that, park that until 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.679 it's time to get back on the buses and get 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.560 the hell out of town because you cannot afford to 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.360 go into this game. And I love what Josh is 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.280 intimating here. It would be selfish. And Mike McCarthy after 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.480 the green Bay game, after the green Bay homecoming, he 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.199 admitted and took accountability for that selfishness of over coaching 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.240 because he wanted so desperately to get that win and 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:51.760 what happened. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.439 Yes, they should have won that game. And then when 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:54.240 that game you dropped them. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.040 I don't want to they want to talk, But what 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.360 I'm saying is, don't over coach this based upon the 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.920 emotional component. Take what you did wrong, which was a 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.679 lot on defense if you're mad, evenflues. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:04.880 Take everything you did. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.240 Wrong and just key in on that and just focus 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.600 on that. It shouldn't matter if you're playing, if you're 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.160 in you know, the Bear Stadium, if you're in the 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.320 Lion Stadium, doesn't matter this week where you are. What 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.440 you should be focused on is the fact that Russ 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.840 almost hung five hundred yards on you and that you 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.440 narrowly escaped because of dak CD George Davante and Brandon Aubery. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.560 If not for those guys, it's a different conversation. So 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.120 what you can't do is go in, be selfish, be emotional, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.199 try to over coach guys because you want this win 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.320 so desperately, and then you fall to a team you 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.000 should beat, and now you're one and two with Green 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:40.600 Bay up next. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.160 Don't do it. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.400 You must be dangerous but in control. Looks like Piccolo 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:46.320 of Dragon ball Z. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.560 Wow, that was pretty good. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.280 Wow, which one? But you could the green or the orange? 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:51.880 Green? 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.000 You don't even know about the orange? Taum, the orange 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:55.520 is the villain? 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:55.760 Wow? 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.640 I thought that's the good question. That's mostly the oranges. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:01.640 The villain is all right, go ahead. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.440 So I'm just just looking back at the numbers, and 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.000 you know, the last six matchups that Ben Johnson and 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.640 Matti Brifluis's face have faced off agains, Yeah, play call callers. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.600 The Lions have scored thirty four, twenty three, thirteen. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:24.240 Hey there you go, Yeah, thirty one, forty one, thirty 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.320 one again, so thirty or more, thirty or more points 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.200 and one two three. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.240 Four of the six matchup. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.560 Here's where I would counter because facts are facts, right, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.480 But multiple things can be true at the same time. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.839 While all of that's true and most of that is ugly, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.800 the Bears don't have the artillery on offense that the 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.400 Lions did when Ben Johnson was calling. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:47.320 It's true. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.400 They don't have a minors Saint Brown. They don't have 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.240 Jared Goff playing at a high level. They don't have 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.280 Jamier Gibbs or David Montgomery or any of those. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:54.760 They have a veteran the. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.200 Best offensive line in football. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.600 Yeah, oh my god, do they have a veteran quarterback 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.880 that has pocket awareness and read defenses. Yeah, you can 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.080 easily panic Caleb Williams and get him off his spot 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.760 and then it's, you know, Saxville's turnles you know. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.079 So it's happened quite a bit. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.200 So, yes, Ben Johnson owns the matchup in a very 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.920 big way. But the artillery that he had in Detroit 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:14.319 is not. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.440 Very different, very different, not existing. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.480 And when you look at the Bears in their first 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.200 two games of the season, first team in NFL history 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.520 to start a season against two teams that won fourteen 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.800 or more games the year before. So they've had their 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.200 tough spot of the season right up at the jump. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:30.160 Welcome to the NFL. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:34.120 But Lions were fifteen and two, the Vikings were fourteen 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.720 and three last year, and they were able to go 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.840 up against those two teams and you kind. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.200 Of got what you expected out of them. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.760 Look decent against the Lions, I mean, or excuse me, 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.080 against the Vikings, kind of hung in there. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.280 Vikings are a tough Yeah. Vikings are a tough team 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:49.960 to read right now. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.640 They always are, though, Yeah, and they looked like garbage 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.800 on Sunday Night football man saying out that was one 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.200 of the worst Sunday Night football games. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.840 Don't McCarthy We do. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.240 But he went down last year and then Sam Donald 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.400 came out and have had an MVP caliber year. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.160 J J. McCarthy goes down again this year, You just 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:07.520 don't know. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.400 And apparently they were going to bench him and then 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.800 decided his body benched him. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:16.280 Yeah, So Carson Wentz, say Carson Wentz is starting there. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.720 Carson Wentz against Jake Browning and on I think it's Thursday. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.760 Quick clarifying point for Greg Hutchings. Uh, what I was 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.200 saying was don't over coach. I'm not saying don't send 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.840 guys and don't get after Kyle. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:31.640 Just don't coach at all. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.200 What I'm saying is, don't. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.840 Guys to press because they so desperately want to get 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:42.160 a win for your revenge attribute, Like that's That's not 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.560 what I'm saying. Call your game, Scheme your game, execute 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.160 your game, get the win, and then stand at midfield 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.400 and you can put up as many middle fingers as you. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.000 Like at that point. But just to stay the course, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.400 keep the main thing, the main thing. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.400 Yeah, just to clean up that stat to that I 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.960 had with the Bears playing against the Vikings and the line, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.440 can I give you k wise that. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.680 Of the day, let's do it? Is it time for 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.360 that in there? But this is wild. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.720 Only four teams in NFL history have started a season 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.600 against two opponents that have a higher combined previous season 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.400 win percentage than the twenty twenty five Bears. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:16.160 Does that make sense? 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.320 So out of the teams that they've played, the combined 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.440 win percentage between the Vikings and the and the Lions 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.760 from last year higher than all but four teams. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:26.440 You want to hear the. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.320 Four teams come on with it. This is wild. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:35.400 With nineteen twenty one the Rochester Jeffersons, you know that's 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:35.960 a real team. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.920 They still talk about those guys. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.640 They were moving on up that years a real team. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.400 Also in nineteen twenty one, the Cincinnati Celts. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.320 What is a celt with a sea or is it 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.080 a celt that's it is like Celtic. Okay, okay, cool, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:52.000 just making sure. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:59.440 Nineteen twenty seven, the Chicago Cardinals, the Chicago car Cardinals 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:00.200 not the Bears. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.200 Who not the paint wow. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:06.040 And then finally also in nineteen twenty one, the Columbus Panhandles. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.399 Those are the four teams that had to hire. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:10.680 Someone for Ben Johnson. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.240 I can't get pod lords. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.520 You talk about a you know, a core four like that. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.720 I mean we still talk about those teams to this day. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.359 You know, Chester Jet for Rochester Jefferson's. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:25.960 Man, that's insane. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.240 There you go, k WI stat of the week here, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.040 the smartest one in the room. Now, just I challenge 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.640 everybody that's watching or listening to this podcast, just try 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.680 and work Rochester Jefferson's into your fantasy football conversation this week. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.600 Somehow that's my famous football name. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.040 Actually, yeah, maybe switch your name. I don't know, figure 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:44.200 out if you will. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.080 And their schedule is not getting any easier. They've got 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:48.960 Washington in a couple of weeks and they go to 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:53.480 tow Baltimore. Then they go against Pittsburgh, Philly, Green Bay, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.760 Green Bay twice in three weeks with the Browns in 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:58.640