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Speaker 2: All I gotta say is wow, are we in for
Speaker 2: a show tonight and the first look at the newest
Speaker 2: Bears starting tomorrow at HAT. I saw two days of
Speaker 2: practice with the twenty twenty four rookie Class nine undrafteds
Speaker 2: and I think nearly what thirty rookies and Vet's getting
Speaker 2: try out. So we'll discuss tonight on a special edition
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Speaker 2: Wattle and Sylvie show right here at he It's been
Speaker 2: a one thousand Have the Bears readio network? My name
Speaker 2: is Jeff Joniek with Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom
Speaker 2: Bear Jim Miller off tonight but joining us Bear's radio
Speaker 2: network pregame host Mark Sylvie Silverman and with the Cubs
Speaker 2: Dark today, Jesse rochers Pin hitting for Tommy Wattle.
Speaker 3: Good evening, guys. How's everybody doing very well?
Speaker 4: Said, good evening to you guys.
Speaker 3: Ex ready for.
Speaker 5: Tom How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good? I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I think Sylvie also needs the introduction of the halftime
Speaker 6: host in the first halftime host in the history of
Speaker 6: NFL brought and I was reading an article somewhere a
Speaker 6: couple of weeks ago how they felt that was such
Speaker 6: a unique idea and how cool it was. And you know,
Speaker 6: it took me a couple of weeks to kind of
Speaker 6: get used to by standing in the back of the
Speaker 6: booth and listening to Sylvie take calls during halftime of
Speaker 6: NFL games. I'll tell you what, man, that that is
Speaker 6: an incredible feel.
Speaker 7: It'll be interesting to see as this team grows if
Speaker 7: the phone calls kind of peter out of the little bit,
Speaker 7: because you know, people call when they're upset more than
Speaker 7: than when they're happy. But hopefully they continue. If they're
Speaker 7: up thirty five to nothing and at halftime, I hope
Speaker 7: people are calling up celebrating that as well as sounding off.
Speaker 8: If things go wrong, Jeff, they better be calling with praises, right,
Speaker 8: I mean like I want love. Like like this is
Speaker 8: like someone said to me when you guys were doing
Speaker 8: the show after our show on draft night at the
Speaker 8: Bear's official draft party, and there was someone in the
Speaker 8: VIP section as I was walking out of there, and
Speaker 8: they looked at me and they go, Sylvie. And this
Speaker 8: was after Rome and Caleb Williams was drafted. What are
Speaker 8: you guys going to talk about now? You spent months
Speaker 8: talking about this draft And I paused and I looked
Speaker 8: at him and I said, wins, and right, I mean,
Speaker 8: that's what this is about. It's not about belly aching,
Speaker 8: it's not about complaining. It's about building a sustained winner here.
Speaker 8: And what Ryan Poles has been able to do is
Speaker 8: build a better roster and now hopefully this leads to
Speaker 8: lots of wins and hopefully happier phone calls at halftime.
Speaker 6: So Sylvie, we talk about the halftime phone calls. We
Speaker 6: talk about your pregame show. So the first time you're
Speaker 6: sitting out there Playoff weekend, I mean, I think that's
Speaker 6: gonna be some of the most exciting radio that there's
Speaker 6: been here and don't I don't know however many years
Speaker 6: that you know they would have a you know, a
Speaker 6: just a home field or even just a plus situation
Speaker 6: like that, be.
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, like to talk about a playoff game
Speaker 8: like let's go, Like I can't wait for something like that.
Speaker 7: The anticipation, you know, starting tomorrow is so cool and
Speaker 7: I'm obviously you two more than anyone, are going to
Speaker 7: be involved in this.
Speaker 4: Just everything Caleb and a Zoom you know from Dona.
Speaker 7: Everything they do is is for the first time, right
Speaker 7: first first mini camp tomorrow and then eventually first camp
Speaker 7: in general, then first game, and it just that's gonna
Speaker 7: be cool for the city to sort of follow this
Speaker 7: thing from the beginning, and you guys will be right there,
Speaker 7: you know, for every second of it.
Speaker 2: Obviously we've had first round draft picks before at the
Speaker 2: quarterback position, but just watching what's been going on on
Speaker 2: social media from just regular regular few people fans and
Speaker 2: podcasters and block whatever you want, the build up, I
Speaker 2: don't think we even understand yet just how much attention
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams is going to bring to the team. And
Speaker 2: for that, Matt a Roma Dunes, Uh, they're getting so
Speaker 2: much love nationally from every writer. In fact, the NFL
Speaker 2: dot com they came out with eleven band, Wanger band, Wangerons, Wagons,
Speaker 2: Yeah anyway, and the number one and that it could
Speaker 2: be a team. But this is his projection about what
Speaker 2: is going to be the top topics, and the number
Speaker 2: one is the Bears. Uh, it's Caleb Williams. It's everything
Speaker 2: that's going on with the Bears. Everything else is either
Speaker 2: a coach or a player, and the Bears are getting
Speaker 2: a ton of attention. Yes, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 2: of expectations, and deservedly so.
Speaker 3: I mean, we went through the paint.
Speaker 2: Everybody went through the paint, from the coaching staff to
Speaker 2: the front office to players that are not even here anymore.
Speaker 2: And it's it's a significant thing. It is a significant thing.
Speaker 2: We'll start to roll it out tomorrow. I got to
Speaker 2: say thanks to our producers as well, Dan Brilly and
Speaker 2: Jordan tread Up and in the ESPN studios we got Meller,
Speaker 2: we got Achi, and we got our executive producer Eric
Speaker 2: Ostrotski as well.
Speaker 3: No guests tonight.
Speaker 2: I tried to get I tried to get one more teammate,
Speaker 2: Sylvie and Tommy I tried to get Jason McKee aboard.
Speaker 2: He says, Hey, I'm about the t off. I'm down
Speaker 2: in Orlando golfing with the future Hall of Famer Devin Hester.
Speaker 3: So how cool is that?
Speaker 8: What's the countdown, Jeff on the Canton game?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 8: How many weeks away are we from our first kickoff
Speaker 8: of the season for Devin Hester getting inducted and the
Speaker 8: Bears taking on the tax set.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're inside of three months. I mean we're inside
Speaker 2: of three months. It's August first is the game if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, So yeah, we're inside of three months.
Speaker 3: Can't wait. Hopefully until that point, training.
Speaker 2: Camp will go as smooth as a uncrowded highway so
Speaker 2: that the Bears can just hit the gas and pick
Speaker 2: up where they left off for the second half of
Speaker 2: last season and roll.
Speaker 3: That's my expectation.
Speaker 2: I think there will be some growing pains, obviously with
Speaker 2: a Caleb Williams, a rookie quarterback, there always is. But
Speaker 2: I just think he's a little he's just built a
Speaker 2: little different, and that's what we keep hearing. How many
Speaker 2: people have you guys interviewed on Wattle and Sylvia or
Speaker 2: on the on ESPN that have just touched on that.
Speaker 2: The experts, everybody's digging into his past. He's just built
Speaker 2: a little different, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I love it. You know, some of the stuff
Speaker 8: that Albert Breer has written. I don't know if you
Speaker 8: read The Morning Quarterback, it's great and like what I
Speaker 8: liked to Jeff, and I didn't bring it up on
Speaker 8: Wattle and Sylvie today, but Jamal Murray from the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 8: who is a hell of an NBA I love Jamal Murray.
Speaker 8: He's a big NBA Finals games. I hope one day
Speaker 8: we could be talking about Caleb Williams having big Super
Speaker 8: Bowl games, having big playoff games. So I admittedly I'm
Speaker 8: talking about apples and oranges here, Jeff, where this is
Speaker 8: a very accomplished PROS one championships and has been there
Speaker 8: in the biggest moment.
Speaker 5: But something that was apparent to me from.
Speaker 8: That article from Albert Breer that Ryan Poles talked about
Speaker 8: when he evaluated Caleb Williams was dealing with adversity and
Speaker 8: what he analyzed with Caleb Williams was that Notre Dame game.
Speaker 8: And oftentimes we had fans call in, guys, what about
Speaker 8: the Notre Dame game? What about the Notre Dame game.
Speaker 8: I'm very disappointed with the way he played. That was
Speaker 8: a big red flag to me, and Poles took it
Speaker 8: that he liked what he saw from the Notre Dame game,
Speaker 8: because you've got to see what a quarterback does when
Speaker 8: he deals with his adversity, and never was he checked out.
Speaker 5: He was always looking for answers.
Speaker 8: Never did he hang his head, never did he choose
Speaker 8: somebody out in a bad way. And I bring up
Speaker 8: Jamal Murray because during that butt kicking that they took
Speaker 8: in Game two to the Minnesota Timberwolves, he starts throwing
Speaker 8: stuff on the core and then he doesn't get suspended,
Speaker 8: and then after the media comes down and they want
Speaker 8: answers two days later, instead of being accountable, he had
Speaker 8: a chance to say I'm sorry, I'm glad the league
Speaker 8: didn't suspend me. I made a really really big mistake.
Speaker 8: As a champion, you think a guy would do something
Speaker 8: like this. He never did, and so I thought it
Speaker 8: was very interesting that here's this battle tested champion who
Speaker 8: wouldn't even be accountable, wouldn't even deal with adversity in
Speaker 8: the same way where I draw this with Caleb Williams
Speaker 8: on One of the selling points that Ryan Poles talked
Speaker 8: about that they liked about him was the way he
Speaker 8: dealt with adversity.
Speaker 3: Right, body language is gonna say a lot.
Speaker 2: How many times have we over the course of our
Speaker 2: time a quarterback who sits by himself after a couple
Speaker 2: of rough series instead of working on answers with his teammates.
Speaker 3: Don't want to see that.
Speaker 2: And the other aspect of it is this particular individual
Speaker 2: has been thinking about this since he was ten years old,
Speaker 2: so he has been engineered.
Speaker 3: He engineered himself.
Speaker 2: He's had every aspect put before him, the proper training,
Speaker 2: the proper teaching, the proper footwork, and then the competitive
Speaker 2: spirits got to come. That's got to be organic. And
Speaker 2: I think we all see it and he's going to be.
Speaker 2: And I can only say this from watching him, just
Speaker 2: from watching him at the Combine.
Speaker 3: We touched on this on your show a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks back.
Speaker 2: I followed him around after his initial interview at the
Speaker 2: podium and he had to do another ten and just
Speaker 2: what he was like, what you know, hey, one time,
Speaker 2: I you know, at the combine. I went up to
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray right after and he wanted no part of me.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to say hello because he lived next
Speaker 2: door to my daughter Kelly at Oklahoma, and she was
Speaker 2: the girl on the white truck that was dropped off
Speaker 2: at Oklahoma's exercise facility every morning because she was working
Speaker 2: in sports science there. And then his face lit up.
Speaker 2: But you know, are you that guy? No, you can't
Speaker 2: be that guy. You're the CEO of this football team
Speaker 2: in one of the greatest football towns in America, the
Speaker 2: greatest football town in America. And this town is hungry,
Speaker 2: and he knows it. He knows how hungry it is.
Speaker 2: And and this has nothing to do, by the way,
Speaker 2: with what my predictions may be about his performance on
Speaker 2: the field, what he's going to be like in the
Speaker 2: locker room.
Speaker 3: All that's going to work itself out.
Speaker 2: But I appreciate a guy who also embraces the history
Speaker 2: of the game. Too often now with young players, you hey,
Speaker 2: you know, they don't know who anybody is. They walk
Speaker 2: in that building at hallasall now they purposely have that
Speaker 2: entrance with all the names of the great players. It's
Speaker 2: great they pounded in. I want them to embrace the history,
Speaker 2: and I think he embraced it.
Speaker 4: It's funny.
Speaker 7: I wrote an article about Bryce Harper recently and when
Speaker 7: he joined the Philadelphia Phillies, he dove into that franchise
Speaker 7: in the history of the franchise, he.
Speaker 3: Went, not how much they love him?
Speaker 7: Now, yeah, all right, he's mister Philadelphia. So if Caleb
Speaker 7: has that aspect to his personality, that is huge.
Speaker 4: That is a huge way to entear yourself to a
Speaker 4: fan base.
Speaker 5: I love Go ahead, Tom Good.
Speaker 9: Now you know the thing about it is is you know,
Speaker 9: a baseball locker room and what they need in order
Speaker 9: to show the reflection of good is different in a
Speaker 9: football locker room. And because a quarterback has so many
Speaker 9: things that he has to be incorporated in. He's a
Speaker 9: big part of the run game. Now with RPOs, he's
Speaker 9: a huge part of the passing game. He has to
Speaker 9: know the terminology and what it means to every single
Speaker 9: segment that he's saying it to and how he can
Speaker 9: benefit himself and the better he knows it. And then
Speaker 9: there's such an age variety inside in the NFL locker
Speaker 9: room that you have to make make sure that you
Speaker 9: know you become a part of it. And again back
Speaker 9: in eighty five and we're the youngest team in the league,
Speaker 9: and the role of the older guys in that locker room,
Speaker 9: how enormous their role was in the success of that team.
Speaker 9: So there's so many different elements that they all have
Speaker 9: to come together in order for Caleb and Rome and
Speaker 9: every one of these guys to benefit from it.
Speaker 8: Tom Jeff really quick if one thing that I noticed too,
Speaker 8: which I really really love, is that Keenan Allen, who's
Speaker 8: brand new, who's a veteran, and it's something that Tom
Speaker 8: just hit on, Like at the Cubs game, at the
Speaker 8: Sky game the other day, Keenan Allen seems to be
Speaker 8: with Caleb Williams where he's going and I love that,
Speaker 8: and I love that he's showing him the ropes and
Speaker 8: that even though it's it's it's Caleb who's getting the
Speaker 8: love and this is a future Hall of Famer, that
Speaker 8: there's Keenan Allen right by his side, and this scene
Speaker 8: to be something that's gonna work out very very well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll throw one more in there that, you know,
Speaker 2: the idea that Ryan Poles and we got to take
Speaker 2: a break has all these former Chicago high school stars
Speaker 2: that are now back at home, not unlike Tom Fayer
Speaker 2: and the eighty five Bears. But Cole Comet, they if
Speaker 2: Caleb has any concerns, questions, or as things go well
Speaker 2: or not so well from week to week, throughout his career,
Speaker 2: or just whatever may be the case, they can give
Speaker 2: him a little history. Listen on Chicago. Also, Hey, here's
Speaker 2: how it is here, this is the way it is.
Speaker 2: Here's how they're gonna embrace you. Here's where they're gonna
Speaker 2: get a little hot under the collar. And he'll get
Speaker 2: a real good impression of it. Because Cole Comet, TJ. Edwards,
Speaker 2: all these guys grew up huge Bears fans. All right,
Speaker 2: let's take a break here on Bears Weekly with Tom Bhayer.
Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Joniak, Mark Silverman and Jesse Rodgers on ESPN
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Speaker 2: Jesse Rodgers. Off the baseball we beat into football and
Speaker 2: it's never far from the front of your mind, isn't
Speaker 2: it right?
Speaker 4: Jess no, no, it's not.
Speaker 7: You're talking about football, right, yes, no, no, And I'll
Speaker 7: give you the fan perspective because I was thinking about
Speaker 7: this last segment as you guys were talking. I went,
Speaker 7: as a fan, I always do Opening Day, and I mean,
Speaker 7: the Bears throw a couple of great tailgates outside.
Speaker 4: You know, a bunch of us paid for that.
Speaker 7: We had a blast outside and you guys, you know,
Speaker 7: we had the radio on, revving us up everyone's and
Speaker 7: then we go in there and what a dud of
Speaker 7: an opening day that was. I mean that, And I'm
Speaker 7: just thinking fast forward to this one and the excitement's
Speaker 7: going to grow again, and I'm hoping it's different. But
Speaker 7: we've been more disappointed than than satisfied in the last
Speaker 7: few years, so hopefully that'll change.
Speaker 3: Who are we opening up against? Any guesses? Who were you?
Speaker 2: What's the what's the NFL and their magic machine gonna
Speaker 2: throw off their next Wednesday?
Speaker 9: They won't Retroit Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm wanting prime time. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 9: It, could you know, it could be a barn burner
Speaker 9: way to kick off the Sunday season by a noon
Speaker 9: start in Chicago of that division and so I think
Speaker 9: it would be pretty interesting. The Bears should have beat
Speaker 9: Detroit twice last year they beat him once, and if
Speaker 9: they did come out strong and beat Detroit at home,
Speaker 9: it would already start the conversation about what the future
Speaker 9: holds for the Chicago Bear. So hopefully we'll see it.
Speaker 9: And you know, there's no more emotionally attached coach right
Speaker 9: now that shows it than Dan Campbell. So's there's a
Speaker 9: lot of stories to live up to.
Speaker 8: Jeff, it's a it's that's a really good, a good
Speaker 8: one that a couple of people have guest or have
Speaker 8: there that it could be the opener. We know the
Speaker 8: Bears cannot open up against the Packers because that's the
Speaker 8: Friday night Brazil game against the Philadelphia Eagles, so they
Speaker 8: are off the table. There's a couple that I like,
Speaker 8: My guess was the Texans. Now there's a couple of
Speaker 8: flaws in that is because they do play the Texans
Speaker 8: in that Canton game that I said, would the league
Speaker 8: want them to play in the exhibition in season and
Speaker 8: then really quick in the opener. I know a lot
Speaker 8: of starters don't play anyway, but I think it's an
Speaker 8: intriguing matchup between a second year quarterback and the rookie quarterback,
Speaker 8: two wide receivers who are studs who just change teams. There,
Speaker 8: two really good up and coming teams. There's a rumor
Speaker 8: out there that the Texans could be the opener for
Speaker 8: the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: So but I like that game.
Speaker 8: And then someone said this to me, Jeff, what about
Speaker 8: the Bears and Commanders. It is the two the last
Speaker 8: two Heisman Trophy winners and Jaden Daniels and Caleb Williams
Speaker 8: and the number one in two picks going up against
Speaker 8: each other this year, and it's Caleb Williams returning to
Speaker 8: his hometown.
Speaker 2: Okay, now that's very good. That's a very good one
Speaker 2: as well. Uh yeah, that's intriguing. I'm thinking they'll wait
Speaker 2: down the Houston one just because, hey, let let Caleb
Speaker 2: get his experience in and that is going to be
Speaker 2: some holiday game or something. And look look how far
Speaker 2: he's come in year one. Look where the Bears are at,
Speaker 2: and look where the Texans are at. Because everybody's saying
Speaker 2: that it's low hanging fruit, right Tommy, that the Bears
Speaker 2: are poised to making Houston Texans type jump this season.
Speaker 3: I don't like those kind of comparisons. It's always what's
Speaker 3: happened last week?
Speaker 2: I can't Thank God, I'm not wait, I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not saying it won't happen. I'm just saying that's the
Speaker 2: easy answer all the time, Like what happened last season?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, It's a whole different situation.
Speaker 9: Listen that that that deal. It's like the Adrian Peterson
Speaker 9: of knee injuries. When knee injuries were so unrecoverable within
Speaker 9: a year and a half's time and you could not
Speaker 9: contribute to your team, and then Adrian Peterson came around,
Speaker 9: he got a knee injury, then the next year he
Speaker 9: goes for over a thousand plus and one of the
Speaker 9: best runners in the NFL. So listen when CJ. Stroud
Speaker 9: put the quarterback effort on display that he did last
Speaker 9: year with a new head coach and the enormity of
Speaker 9: pressure on him. When you consider Dak Prescott in Dallas
Speaker 9: and what the situation was with the Texans when they
Speaker 9: lost Watson, and now that now everybody's going to say, Okay,
Speaker 9: if CJ. Stroud did it, any quarterback that's a rookie
Speaker 9: that gets drafted after him can do that. It can
Speaker 9: do that as well. So I think that the CJ.
Speaker 9: Stroud pulled that engine cord on the quarterback position, people
Speaker 9: think if he did it, the next guy can get.
Speaker 3: Any three for four thousand plugs.
Speaker 8: Just can I give a counter though, Like I understand
Speaker 8: what you guys are saying. The only difference is, while yes,
Speaker 8: it's the rookie quarterback comparison is, let's not forget the
Speaker 8: Houston Texans were three thirteen and one and then they
Speaker 8: went on this run last year.
Speaker 5: The Bears are coming in at seven and ten and.
Speaker 8: We're a really different team in the back half of
Speaker 8: the season, so they wouldn't be coming out of the
Speaker 8: blue like the Texans were a year ago. That I
Speaker 8: think they're well ahead of where the Texans were a
Speaker 8: year ago.
Speaker 5: So my expectation for.
Speaker 8: Them to win ten or eleven games is not as
Speaker 8: outlandish is predicting what the Texans did from three wins
Speaker 8: to this year?
Speaker 9: All right, Sylvie point counterpoint Like that old show that
Speaker 9: you see on Sundays, I like it. So you're saying Sunday,
Speaker 9: I mean you're saying seven wins, Is you really think
Speaker 9: that's the catapult to success? You know, because you're saying
Speaker 9: three and thirteen for the Texans now that the Bears
Speaker 9: won seven, because I listened seventeen games, as you know, okay,
Speaker 9: and they lost three or four that they should have.
Speaker 9: To me, if they would have won those three or four,
Speaker 9: that they should have then, and I think we'd really
Speaker 9: be talking about, you know, a special surgeons from the
Speaker 9: from the year before. But you know, when when we
Speaker 9: walked out of there at the end of the season
Speaker 9: after a seven win season, you know, I think I
Speaker 9: was thinking, man, this team needs to make significant strides
Speaker 9: when you look at what Green Bay is going through,
Speaker 9: what Detroit's going through. And so seven games wasn't as
Speaker 9: exciting for me as it was some people.
Speaker 5: And I'm glad you're not satisfied. That's good.
Speaker 2: That man's never going to be satisfied the trophy, sure,
Speaker 2: but I got to talk about this because you know,
Speaker 2: also a lot of folks are thinking the NFC North
Speaker 2: is now going to be arguably one of, if not
Speaker 2: the toughest division in football. Some people have put that
Speaker 2: out there, maybe some of your guests have done the same,
Speaker 2: the experts, I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: Getting the Bears got to beat the Packers, and.
Speaker 2: The Bears got to beat the Lions and they got
Speaker 2: to take care of business against the Vikings. So that's
Speaker 2: a defensive team that has Brian Flores and he's got
Speaker 2: a little more pieces to his puzzle that he likes
Speaker 2: to do his pressure defense. The Packers are on a
Speaker 2: climb again, young and beafed up their secondary and a
Speaker 2: second year now with that offense.
Speaker 3: That really surprised a lot of folks. And we know
Speaker 3: what Detroit's doing.
Speaker 2: So you know, we're projecting like playoffs and talk like this,
Speaker 2: but are they're gonna Are you saying that the Lions
Speaker 2: and Packers are not playoff bound? Because are we gonna
Speaker 2: have three teams in the division going to the playoffs?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a legitimate question.
Speaker 7: I think this is a great point because I use
Speaker 7: the phrase fully formed, and when I talk about a
Speaker 7: lot of baseball teams, like the Dodgers are fully formed,
Speaker 7: the Phillies, the Braves, the Cubs are trying to be
Speaker 7: that fully formed team. The Lions and Packers are pretty
Speaker 7: fully formed. I'm no expert, but they look pretty fully
Speaker 7: I mean, certainly the Lions and the Packers may have
Speaker 7: been and the Bears.
Speaker 4: Are are Are they fully formed? I don't think so.
Speaker 7: We may know more about, you know, ten weeks into
Speaker 7: the season, but I think you guys would agree there
Speaker 7: are two more fully formed teams. And even you know,
Speaker 7: the Vikings, if they didn't have a quarterback issue, might
Speaker 7: be flipping more fully formed. So there are steps for
Speaker 7: the Bears to take that we don't know when they're
Speaker 7: going to take them necessarily.
Speaker 9: Hey, Jesse, you know where the Bears need to take steps.
Speaker 9: It's in the crowd. The crowd can't sell their tickets
Speaker 9: to Detroit fans in Green Bay fans that we've seen
Speaker 9: over the last couple of years, because throughout the amount
Speaker 9: of time we've been around the NFL, we've been to
Speaker 9: Detroit when it's more Bears fans than it is Detroit,
Speaker 9: and that's not the way anymore. And then you talk
Speaker 9: about Green Bay, it's still Green Bay fans that you know,
Speaker 9: cause the noise there. And then Minnesota with that inside
Speaker 9: stadium if they're in a good kick and a good role,
Speaker 9: they're also Viking full of Vikings fans. So Bears fans,
Speaker 9: keep your tickets.
Speaker 5: And he went all indeed on everybody, right, Hey, he did?
Speaker 3: I like it?
Speaker 2: He did so because I'm watching him on zoom, because
Speaker 2: that's how that's how we verbalize here through zoom.
Speaker 3: And he gets a little red faced, he gets a.
Speaker 5: Little things going, oh yeah, it's a.
Speaker 3: Good Yeah, he does. He does. All right, Let's take
Speaker 3: our second break here.
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Speaker 9: When that schedule comes on, We're not going to be
Speaker 9: suckered into going waddle and Sylvie show and having this
Speaker 9: big schedule prediction that came back to Haunus last year.
Speaker 2: Hell you will, Yes, I gotta tell you, you know, Sylvie,
Speaker 2: let's set the stage.
Speaker 3: Let's set the stage. A year ago. Schedule comes out.
Speaker 2: A few days later, Tom and I do a video
Speaker 2: for the Bears website. We don't make predictions, but we
Speaker 2: you know, we give you the deal and then you
Speaker 2: invite us. We had to go down to the studio
Speaker 2: and there I am on State Street, a rare appearance,
Speaker 2: and you guys say, okay, we're playing the schedule game,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm not doing this.
Speaker 3: So they shamed me into it and.
Speaker 2: It was fun, and I'll tell you you guys had
Speaker 2: me rolling Jesse.
Speaker 3: I was head to toe sweating, sweating. I'm not joking.
Speaker 2: I got so into it and I was talking myself
Speaker 2: in and out of Wins wound up with eleven, knowing
Speaker 2: full well in my heart that was not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But as Tom indicated in a previous segment here on
Speaker 2: Bears Weekly on ESPN, one thousand of the Bears ready
Speaker 2: at work. Should have been three more wins, so I
Speaker 2: might have been only one off.
Speaker 8: It's why this schedule game is fun. It is because
Speaker 8: you may want to say I think the Bears are
Speaker 8: gonna win ten games, but when you do the exercise,
Speaker 8: you may find yourself mapping out twelve because you're like, well,
Speaker 8: there's no way they're going to Arizona and losing this.
Speaker 8: So I've got this as win. And I think they've
Speaker 8: got Detroit in a good position here because Detroit's coming
Speaker 8: off of their yeah this, and so like I've got
Speaker 8: to win here.
Speaker 7: Any sentence that starts with there's no way, Yes, there
Speaker 7: is a way.
Speaker 3: This is the NFL, right, Jesse, Jesse.
Speaker 2: What happened was I kept trying to go back and
Speaker 2: erase my answers, and Sylvie said.
Speaker 3: You got to stick to the exercise. There's no there's
Speaker 3: no redo.
Speaker 4: We keep these shows on tape. We keep these shows
Speaker 4: on tape.
Speaker 2: By the way, they're stuck it on the window. I'm sure,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's just still sitting there.
Speaker 7: I mentioned you'll being the fan among the four of
Speaker 7: you here because I'm not working like you guys. I
Speaker 7: just want to go back to opening date. Do we
Speaker 7: think it could be at night because of the obviously
Speaker 7: the Kayleb Williams factor.
Speaker 4: What do you guys think?
Speaker 9: I mean, it could be conceivably, you know, they could
Speaker 9: want to put a you know, a marquee guy and
Speaker 9: a hopefully a franchise that has taken major steps forward,
Speaker 9: and the way they finished the season defensively, and how
Speaker 9: explosive the offense could be. Maybe maybe they will. You know,
Speaker 9: that's the thing about it, Sylvie, you should go back
Speaker 9: and check your schedule from last year, because when no
Speaker 9: matter what we had in our schedules and our predictions,
Speaker 9: at the result after the Green Bay game to open
Speaker 9: the season, I was almost inconsolable. And so even if
Speaker 9: we had, you know, and that was a game, I go,
Speaker 9: I'm they are gonna beat Green Bay. They got a
Speaker 9: new quarterback coming aboard, and I know this is the
Speaker 9: year for the Bears with Justin and everything. And then
Speaker 9: it just failed to work out that way, and it was,
Speaker 9: you know, one of the more disappointing days of the
Speaker 9: year for me. Honestly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you had thirty eight to twenty.
Speaker 8: And I think we say it every year, guys, Like
Speaker 8: I said, it before the end of the year Packer game,
Speaker 8: like this is the one where it turns like you
Speaker 8: can knock the Packers out of the postseason, you can
Speaker 8: end the season with a three game winning streak. And
Speaker 8: so I think we're gonna say it this year with
Speaker 8: the improvements, with a new quarterback, time to end the
Speaker 8: ten game losing streak, time to start a new way
Speaker 8: against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 7: So problem is, back then, we were doubting Jordan Love
Speaker 7: a little bit.
Speaker 4: We didn't know what he was gonna do right now.
Speaker 7: As I mentioned before, kind of using that fully formed phrase,
Speaker 7: he's a tough He's a tough nut. You know, he's
Speaker 7: a tough god getting cracked there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, But Jeff, so what with Montes sweat. He had
Speaker 9: a total of twelve sacks last year between the Washington
Speaker 9: Commanders and the Chicago Bears. But so what I I
Speaker 9: guess what the bigger thing was what I'm saying, if
Speaker 9: he has that combination, that double digit total of sacks
Speaker 9: by one guy, which the Bears have been missing for
Speaker 9: so long, that there's other guys that are gonna be
Speaker 9: that you have access to sacks, whether it's blitzing, whether
Speaker 9: it's the talented linebacker rushers that the Bears have, hopefully
Speaker 9: somebody that one of the other guys in the defensive
Speaker 9: line develops into an an honest threat. So you know
Speaker 9: that that's a key ingredient too. And if you can
Speaker 9: steal possessions away from your opponent and get them off
Speaker 9: the field on third down, create more opportunity for you offense.
Speaker 9: But you know, Montes Sweat said it in the offseason
Speaker 9: that they cannot lose the Green Bay anymore, and I'm
Speaker 9: glad he said it, but it's all about his production.
Speaker 3: Twelve and a half sacks.
Speaker 2: Hey, I want to talk about a different kind of
Speaker 2: production because I went and looked this up the other day.
Speaker 2: So what's the big thing that it hurt the Bears
Speaker 2: in recent vintage here? And it's it's like the struggle
Speaker 2: of struggles. It's the score points correct even in victory.
Speaker 2: And so do you see any potential for this team
Speaker 2: to hit their heads on scoring four hundred points? Because
Speaker 2: nine teams did last season, so it's not simple by
Speaker 2: no means, and those are I you know, most of
Speaker 2: those are playoff teams. But the Bears had four hundred
Speaker 2: and forty five points in twenty thirteen, they had four
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one and twenty eighteen, and they had
Speaker 2: four to twenty seven in their Super Bowl year and
Speaker 2: O six. That's it in the since two thousand, that's it.
Speaker 2: So that's too infrequent and too many years in between.
Speaker 3: Is the the.
Speaker 2: Offense set up right now? And I'll go around the horn.
Speaker 2: We'll start with We'll start with you, Tommy, if everything
Speaker 2: goes well. And another thing is as we pass our
Speaker 2: condolences to the Avellini fan family on the death of
Speaker 2: Bob Avellini, the only Bears quarterback to start every game
Speaker 2: in consecutive seasons in the modern era. He started fourteen
Speaker 2: and seventy six and sixteen. So you know, are we
Speaker 2: going to have Jay Cutler's first season with the Bears?
Speaker 2: He was sixteen for sixteen, but then that was it.
Speaker 2: So not many sixteen game starters at quarterback in bearsit.
Speaker 2: So can he play a full season?
Speaker 3: Can he?
Speaker 2: Can he learn as we go? Can the offense thrive
Speaker 2: what it needs to and clutch he key leverage situations
Speaker 2: as the season grows and success grows, and get to
Speaker 2: a point where we are threatening teams with our offense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, if you get these weapons to stay healthy,
Speaker 9: as in terms of the wide receiver position, if they
Speaker 9: have the input from the two tight ends, Gerald Everett
Speaker 9: and Cole Kmet in different short yardage, red zone types
Speaker 9: of scenarios that will face them. If you continue to
Speaker 9: have the running game contribute to the offense that it
Speaker 9: has over the last couple of years, you're going to
Speaker 9: be even more explosive downfield. The caveat is Caleb Williams.
Speaker 9: He can start seventeen games. Tell me how many games
Speaker 9: the offensive line is going to start together of those seventeen.
Speaker 9: Because when you talk about Nate Davis not participating in
Speaker 9: training camp, Tevin Jenkins getting hurt at the end of
Speaker 9: training camp, the situation they went through at the center
Speaker 9: position in the sort of its inefficiencies in Braxton Jones
Speaker 9: miss some time. If they can go throughout training camp
Speaker 9: and compliment and learn the cadence and understand the whole
Speaker 9: the way the quarterback works, and then the quarterback can
Speaker 9: understand how the offensive line works. I think as much
Speaker 9: as you want to talk about Keenan and DJ in
Speaker 9: Rome and the other guys, it's as much about the
Speaker 9: offensive line as it is Kaylee you.
Speaker 7: Know, it's interesting you mentioned four hundred points seventeen games.
Speaker 7: That's like a team total of twenty three and a
Speaker 7: half per game. You know, for better's out there, twenty
Speaker 7: three and a half is kind of like a number
Speaker 7: when it comes to a team total for a team.
Speaker 7: And this is the way I think of a Jeff,
Speaker 7: like twenty one is the floor. They gotta be twenty one,
Speaker 7: like that's a given, has to be twenty one, but
Speaker 7: that extra field goal is the difference maker. Can they
Speaker 7: average twenty four a game? If you start averaging about
Speaker 7: twenty four a game, you're gonna start winning a bunch
Speaker 7: of games, right, Yeah, But that's.
Speaker 3: The question from twenty It doesn't seem to answer model right.
Speaker 7: Twenty right, twenty one to twelve, because I think twenty
Speaker 7: one's got to be the floor with this kind of talent.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'm wrong, so, but twenty one to twenty four
Speaker 7: doesn't sound like much, but it is.
Speaker 4: It is. So I want to.
Speaker 7: Believe the answers, Yes, team total over twenty three and
Speaker 7: a half for the season, But I don't know. I
Speaker 7: just don't know because there's so much new on offense,
Speaker 7: especially with the quarterback.
Speaker 5: I love what Thayer said, and I think it starts
Speaker 5: up front.
Speaker 8: I think you get all the toys, and you get
Speaker 8: all the you talk about the quarterback, you talk about
Speaker 8: all the skill position.
Speaker 5: They're so important.
Speaker 8: We know that those are the guys who are gonna score,
Speaker 8: and it's up to Caleb to distribute the ball. And
Speaker 8: then Shane Waldron comes into it. What we mentioned, But
Speaker 8: I think the line is going to play a huge
Speaker 8: role in all of this. And then to get within
Speaker 8: the numbers, Jeff, on what Jesse was just saying, you.
Speaker 5: Covered Ron Harper, right, you remember harp.
Speaker 8: Ron Harper used to say this, to average twenty points
Speaker 8: in the NBA, it's not as hard as you think
Speaker 8: it is.
Speaker 5: You score five points a quarter. How hard is it
Speaker 5: to score five points a quarter?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Twenty right?
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, five points a quarter.
Speaker 8: It's twenty three and a half points again a game, Jeff,
Speaker 8: that's six points a quarter.
Speaker 5: And with this defense, who.
Speaker 8: Should score two should get you a good field position.
Speaker 8: We now they drafted Tory Taylor. You're flipping the field.
Speaker 8: You're getting good field position. This team better score four
Speaker 8: hundred points per per per season for the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because and.
Speaker 8: Then the years that you mentioned how many years were
Speaker 8: those that we didn't play seventeen games?
Speaker 5: I think those years were.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, sixteen games, so you're getting an extra game now.
Speaker 5: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: And six and eighteen were defensive touchdowns that they took
Speaker 2: the ball away, which this team it's capable of. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what has me excited when you put it all
Speaker 2: in a pot. The shorter fields potentially taking the ball
Speaker 2: away if they continue to thrive defensively, and this offense
Speaker 2: has a lot of spark plugs on it.
Speaker 3: We got to take a break.
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Speaker 2: Juata and Sylvie Extravaganza. Hey, one more thing on the
Speaker 2: point thing, So all the nine teams that scored four
Speaker 2: hundred or more all made the playoffs. Oh no, wait,
Speaker 2: with the exception of the Saints. Saints didn't make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: so that's eight of them. But Dallas scored five oh nine,
Speaker 2: Miami four ninety six, San Francisco four ninety one, Baltimore
Speaker 2: for eighty three, and Detroit four to sixty one. So
Speaker 2: I mean, by no means does this mean that's an
Speaker 2: automatic to get to the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But I just want to see the Bears score more.
Speaker 2: Whilst they have had problems scoring points, Kansas City averaged
Speaker 2: twenty one to eight a game and was fifteenth in
Speaker 2: the league, scoring their three to seventy one and their
Speaker 2: champions a second consecutive time.
Speaker 3: So you know, that's the last thing I'll say about that.
Speaker 7: I think if if Sylvie's taking phone call about the
Speaker 7: defense halftime, I think you'd be happy about that, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean? Like, we have never come out
Speaker 7: of a season where it's where it's thirty points a game,
Speaker 7: even if they went seven and ten. So what like,
Speaker 7: we just don't see great offense around here, So let
Speaker 7: the defense be the focus. If the offense can be great,
Speaker 7: that's fine with me.
Speaker 9: You know one of the So Jeff and I did
Speaker 9: a podcast the other day with Mark Carrier, and here's
Speaker 9: a guy that came in ten interceptions. His rookie year
Speaker 9: was defensive Rookie of the Year, and he talked and
Speaker 9: we are kind of comparing notes about the speed of
Speaker 9: the game initially, and I think the speed of the
Speaker 9: game affects offensive linemen, it affects quarterbacks, and it affects
Speaker 9: defensive backs the most. And so, yeah, Caleb is going
Speaker 9: to have those growing pains that go through even though
Speaker 9: you have multiple weapons, you got to be able to understand.
Speaker 9: You know, accuracy is complimented by speed, and the windows
Speaker 9: of opportunities are different in the NFL. So I think
Speaker 9: when they go through training camp, they're going to have
Speaker 9: to have elevated speeds in preparation at training camp because
Speaker 9: there is a different speed of preseason to the first
Speaker 9: game of regular season and then so on through the season.
Speaker 9: So I think if we're talking about an offense that's
Speaker 9: going to be able to use all of its assets
Speaker 9: and it's going to be able to score over that
Speaker 9: twenty three point threshold per game, it's going to be
Speaker 9: because Caleb is already understanding the speed of the game requirements,
Speaker 9: and you know, as an offensive lineman practicing in against
Speaker 9: the eighty five Bears, it took a couple weeks and
Speaker 9: I didn't know if you were able to accomplish that. However,
Speaker 9: that is going to be some of the growing processes
Speaker 9: that we watch Caleb go through in practice, because you
Speaker 9: think of the Bears defensive backfield their experience now, and
Speaker 9: when you think of the beginning of the year last
Speaker 9: year with Tarik Stevenson, he was going through a little
Speaker 9: bit of speed of the game growing pain, and then
Speaker 9: at the end of the season he was playing as
Speaker 9: well as anybody.
Speaker 8: I'm interested, and we talked about this earlier on the
Speaker 8: waterlind Sylvie Show. To hear from Shane Waldron this weekend too,
Speaker 8: I really want to hear how he plans to put
Speaker 8: all these parts together. He's got a big task, really
Speaker 8: because he's got a lot of these skill position players.
Speaker 8: Not only are there a lot of people to keep happy,
Speaker 8: but there are a lot of new people to put
Speaker 8: into this offense. So Dj Moore is here, but he's
Speaker 8: got to learn the offense. I heard you guys interview
Speaker 8: him on draft night and hear him talk about the
Speaker 8: differences between the languages and how hard it is to
Speaker 8: learn the offense, and he thought it was not so.
Speaker 3: Hard, right, said it was simpler.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And then.
Speaker 8: You got DeAndre Swift who's got to get in here.
Speaker 8: You've got another new tight end who's got to get
Speaker 8: in here.
Speaker 5: You've got a.
Speaker 8: Couple of new wide receivers who's got to get in here.
Speaker 8: You've got to develop a new quarterback. So I think
Speaker 8: the pretty big for an offensive coordinator who is starting
Speaker 8: with a brand new team.
Speaker 2: Tom who gets lost in the shuffle in a situation
Speaker 2: like this, therese those weapons he just rattled off. For
Speaker 2: all talented, they've all had the ball in their hands
Speaker 2: a big amount in their respective careers where they've been before.
Speaker 2: Is there a risk that somebody gets, you know, lost
Speaker 2: in the shuffle a little bit?
Speaker 9: Well, the thing about it is about the installation of
Speaker 9: the offense. From the first day of rookie minnie camp
Speaker 9: out through OTAs and in the training camp. Well, you're
Speaker 9: basically doing is you're taking and you're thinking about all
Speaker 9: the weapons you have at your disposal while you're installing
Speaker 9: the offense, and then repetitiously you run these plays a
Speaker 9: number of times to get everybody comfortable, and then week
Speaker 9: one of the regular season, you start studying tape and
Speaker 9: you think, Okay, where is our opponent's deficiencies. Is their
Speaker 9: deficiencies at the slot coverage? Is their deficiency at the
Speaker 9: number two corner? Is they do they have linebackers that
Speaker 9: cut and can't cover. And I think that's going to
Speaker 9: be the the coolest thing about this offense. Caleb and
Speaker 9: Shane and Chris Morgan is weak in and week out.
Speaker 9: Going to the evaluation drawing board and get the reports
Speaker 9: that their scouting department is given to them and say, Okay,
Speaker 9: when we break down the analytics and we study tape,
Speaker 9: this guy can't play or this segment of their team
Speaker 9: it can't work against the Bears offense. So I think
Speaker 9: that I think all of us are going to have
Speaker 9: to study the Bears more this year according to what
Speaker 9: their opponents are going to allow them to be and
Speaker 9: allow them to do.
Speaker 7: To Tom, I have a question for you, because I'm
Speaker 7: curious about the relationship from its inception here between Waldron
Speaker 7: and Caleb Williams.
Speaker 4: Have you seen maybe.
Speaker 7: This is a naive question, have you seen quarterbacks and
Speaker 7: offensive coordinators kind of not bond as things go, like
Speaker 7: even from the beginning, like they're just not on the
Speaker 7: same page and it just doesn't work because of that,
Speaker 7: Like what's that relationship like and what should it look like?
Speaker 9: There are examples of that throughout the NFL history, But
Speaker 9: you know, NFL offensive coordinators probably become more aware of
Speaker 9: it when they're sitting in meetings with these guys and
Speaker 9: they're asking him to respond to either new installation or
Speaker 9: play that they've ran a hundred times already, and then
Speaker 9: if they don't come back with an answer in a
Speaker 9: timely fashion, you kind of understand going, look, maybe I
Speaker 9: need to put more of a learning emphasis for this
Speaker 9: for this guy to grow. And but you know, Caleb
Speaker 9: has got a lot of experience in offenses that he's
Speaker 9: been able to play at in college. He's been able
Speaker 9: to go from one college to another and have success.
Speaker 9: He you know, it seems like he's got to you know,
Speaker 9: learns football well in the classroom. But you know, it's
Speaker 9: the same thing as an offensive line. You know, you know,
Speaker 9: you can't hesitate, you can't think. So evaluation of a
Speaker 9: quarterback and how that relationship is going to develop comes
Speaker 9: from the classroom as much as it does the practice field.
Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna hear from Caleb Williams tomorrow. Roma Doonzay
Speaker 2: coaches the next two days, Friday and Saturday, up at
Speaker 2: Hallis Hall. I know Sylvia will be there. I think
Speaker 2: Tommy Watta'll be back in town. He'll be there and Sylvie.
Speaker 2: When we used to work the beat together when we're
Speaker 2: you know, reporters and having some fun watching things, he
Speaker 2: used to kick my tail, Jesse. I'll tell you that
Speaker 2: right now. He had his eyes on air. How did
Speaker 2: you see that? When did you see that? I didn't
Speaker 2: see that, and you know, and he got the special
Speaker 2: interview that I didn't get. He was always kicking my
Speaker 2: room anyway. It is true.
Speaker 3: However, his big thing, tom and Jesse was sight scene.
Speaker 2: So what are you looking for tomorrow when you're out
Speaker 2: there watching practice, hopefully in non rain conditions over there
Speaker 2: at Halisall.
Speaker 3: What sites are you going to be looking to see?
Speaker 8: I am going to be looking to see everything from
Speaker 8: the quarterback, everything, every action, every move that he makes,
Speaker 8: how he reacts with all of his teammates, not just
Speaker 8: the throws, because I think everyone wants to see the
Speaker 8: throws are the accurate.
Speaker 5: I want to see the interaction. That's what I want
Speaker 5: to see.
Speaker 8: Like everyone said, is he this is he that I
Speaker 8: want to see how.
Speaker 5: He's working with his peers.
Speaker 8: These are the rookies, so I think that that's going
Speaker 8: to be very, very important. But of course you want
Speaker 8: to see Roma Duneesa. You also want to see who
Speaker 8: sticks out because there are there's always Jeff someone that
Speaker 8: you don't expect to stick out in these things that
Speaker 8: you have no clue that will. Like Tyson Bagent was
Speaker 8: not on anyone's radar a year ago, there will be
Speaker 8: someone who is not on your radar tomorrow that will
Speaker 8: make this football team. Jack Sanborn wasn't on anybody's radar
Speaker 8: two years ago. John Jackson is his best friend.
Speaker 5: He played at.
Speaker 8: USC a year ago. I think he went to Nevada.
Speaker 8: He's getting the invite, so he will be there. So
Speaker 8: just look, keep your eyes open for anything, and if
Speaker 8: you're just fixing on one thing, you will miss something
Speaker 8: that you're you're probably supposed to see.
Speaker 7: Well, I have a long drive tomorrow, so what I
Speaker 7: want to hear about because I am driving to Iowa
Speaker 7: City to pick up my daughter from school. And she
Speaker 7: tells me this kid was the second biggest celebrity on campus.
Speaker 5: After you know you're looking for podcasting.
Speaker 4: She wasn't kidding. Tory Taylor was like a fan favorite.
Speaker 7: I mean it was in a sarcastic way in a
Speaker 7: lot of ways because I couldn't score. I want to
Speaker 7: hear about Tory Taylor's punts tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Good Hey, Philby. You know one thing that's kind of
Speaker 9: neat when you go to practice, and so if you
Speaker 9: say you're watching offensive defensive line one on one, so
Speaker 9: you're watching seven on seven and you're watching the defensive
Speaker 9: backs rather than the receivers. Are these different types of drills?
Speaker 9: Take one whole drill and only watch feet, don't watch
Speaker 9: the upper body, because that's going to tell you a
Speaker 9: lot more if they have the athleticism to live up
Speaker 9: into their job requirements. If you're watching in an offensive
Speaker 9: lineman and he backs up and his second steff heat
Speaker 9: gets tripped up, or he gets his speed too wide,
Speaker 9: or a cornerback when he tries to make the exchange
Speaker 9: in coverage if he can't make it. And I think
Speaker 9: it's always neat to follow a position and watch the feat.
Speaker 2: It's great he'll be watching Theo Benedette, the offensive tackle
Speaker 2: from British Columbia sixty seven, two ninety five outstanding athlete.
Speaker 2: He paired up with Giovanni Manu, the fourth round pick
Speaker 2: of Detroit. They called him Geo and Theo over there
Speaker 2: in university. They're both six seven and great athletes. The
Speaker 2: Tonguan and Theo Benedette. They're good friends. We'll keep an
Speaker 2: eye on that. I'll be interested to see all of it.
Speaker 2: And it's always a lot of fun. Hey, we appreciate it, guys,
Speaker 2: thanks for letting us up barge into your night.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Great was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: You guys are always welcome the best.
Speaker 2: Appreciate Jesse, keep doing a great job as you do
Speaker 2: on the baseball beat for Tom Thayer, Mark Silverman and
Speaker 2: Jesse Rogers. Thanks to everybody our producers, and that'll do
Speaker 2: it for us. Will report from Bear's rookie camp tomorrow,
Speaker 2: a memorable one with Caleb Williams, the number one.
Speaker 3: Pick right there.
Speaker 2: White Sox Baseball coming up against the Guardians next. Connor McKnight,
Speaker 2: take it away, Good night, everybody.
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