WEBVTT - Discussing Bears' potential heading Into rookie minicamp 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome in to Bears Weekly, a Chicago Bears Network production. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.119 Download the Chicago Bears official app brought to you by 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.320 Verizon to follow the team on the Jove. Bears Weekly 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.240 is brought to you by Advocate Healthcare, Athletico Physical Therapy, 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.520 bet Rivers, CDW, Connie's Pizza by Gens Energy and Miller 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.599 LIKEE Kira, Your hosts Jeff chilneyak aka the Mayor of 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.080 Bearsville and his sidekicked Tom the surfmaster there. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:36.519 All I gotta say is wow, are we in for 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.760 a show tonight and the first look at the newest 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.519 Bears starting tomorrow at HAT. I saw two days of 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.880 practice with the twenty twenty four rookie Class nine undrafteds 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.200 and I think nearly what thirty rookies and Vet's getting 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.880 try out. So we'll discuss tonight on a special edition 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.400 of Bears Weekly. We are welcomed and absorbed into the 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.760 Wattle and Sylvie show right here at he It's been 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.880 a one thousand Have the Bears readio network? My name 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.800 is Jeff Joniek with Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.319 Bear Jim Miller off tonight but joining us Bear's radio 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:11.080 network pregame host Mark Sylvie Silverman and with the Cubs 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.240 Dark today, Jesse rochers Pin hitting for Tommy Wattle. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.839 Good evening, guys. How's everybody doing very well? 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.199 Said, good evening to you guys. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:20.840 Ex ready for. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:21.640 Tom How are you? 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:23.640 I'm doing good? I'm doing good. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:23.840 You know. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.600 I think Sylvie also needs the introduction of the halftime 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.679 host in the first halftime host in the history of 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:34.800 NFL brought and I was reading an article somewhere a 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.759 couple of weeks ago how they felt that was such 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.600 a unique idea and how cool it was. And you know, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.160 it took me a couple of weeks to kind of 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.679 get used to by standing in the back of the 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.960 booth and listening to Sylvie take calls during halftime of 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.840 NFL games. I'll tell you what, man, that that is 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:53.800 an incredible feel. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.320 It'll be interesting to see as this team grows if 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.280 the phone calls kind of peter out of the little bit, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.840 because you know, people call when they're upset more than 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.840 than when they're happy. But hopefully they continue. If they're 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.360 up thirty five to nothing and at halftime, I hope 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.320 people are calling up celebrating that as well as sounding off. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.679 If things go wrong, Jeff, they better be calling with praises, right, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:18.040 I mean like I want love. Like like this is 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.120 like someone said to me when you guys were doing 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.000 the show after our show on draft night at the 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.040 Bear's official draft party, and there was someone in the 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.280 VIP section as I was walking out of there, and 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.560 they looked at me and they go, Sylvie. And this 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.480 was after Rome and Caleb Williams was drafted. What are 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.880 you guys going to talk about now? You spent months 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.760 talking about this draft And I paused and I looked 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.880 at him and I said, wins, and right, I mean, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.000 that's what this is about. It's not about belly aching, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.359 it's not about complaining. It's about building a sustained winner here. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.520 And what Ryan Poles has been able to do is 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.480 build a better roster and now hopefully this leads to 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.160 lots of wins and hopefully happier phone calls at halftime. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.640 So Sylvie, we talk about the halftime phone calls. We 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.799 talk about your pregame show. So the first time you're 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:15.240 sitting out there Playoff weekend, I mean, I think that's 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.240 gonna be some of the most exciting radio that there's 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.400 been here and don't I don't know however many years 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.160 that you know they would have a you know, a 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.280 just a home field or even just a plus situation 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:29.120 like that, be. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.560 Oh my goodness, like to talk about a playoff game 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.840 like let's go, Like I can't wait for something like that. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.160 The anticipation, you know, starting tomorrow is so cool and 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.720 I'm obviously you two more than anyone, are going to 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:43.640 be involved in this. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:49.440 Just everything Caleb and a Zoom you know from Dona. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.680 Everything they do is is for the first time, right 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.680 first first mini camp tomorrow and then eventually first camp 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.560 in general, then first game, and it just that's gonna 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.720 be cool for the city to sort of follow this 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.680 thing from the beginning, and you guys will be right there, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.560 you know, for every second of it. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.240 Obviously we've had first round draft picks before at the 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.920 quarterback position, but just watching what's been going on on 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:18.440 social media from just regular regular few people fans and 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.720 podcasters and block whatever you want, the build up, I 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.800 don't think we even understand yet just how much attention 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.040 Caleb Williams is going to bring to the team. And 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.920 for that, Matt a Roma Dunes, Uh, they're getting so 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.920 much love nationally from every writer. In fact, the NFL 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:42.839 dot com they came out with eleven band, Wanger band, Wangerons, Wagons, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.400 Yeah anyway, and the number one and that it could 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.800 be a team. But this is his projection about what 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.200 is going to be the top topics, and the number 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.560 one is the Bears. Uh, it's Caleb Williams. It's everything 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.960 that's going on with the Bears. Everything else is either 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.599 a coach or a player, and the Bears are getting 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.480 a ton of attention. Yes, there's gonna be a lot 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.680 of expectations, and deservedly so. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:07.480 I mean, we went through the paint. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.080 Everybody went through the paint, from the coaching staff to 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.080 the front office to players that are not even here anymore. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.440 And it's it's a significant thing. It is a significant thing. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:17.880 We'll start to roll it out tomorrow. I got to 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.080 say thanks to our producers as well, Dan Brilly and 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.760 Jordan tread Up and in the ESPN studios we got Meller, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.080 we got Achi, and we got our executive producer Eric 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:29.480 Ostrotski as well. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.039 No guests tonight. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.520 I tried to get I tried to get one more teammate, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.800 Sylvie and Tommy I tried to get Jason McKee aboard. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.320 He says, Hey, I'm about the t off. I'm down 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.239 in Orlando golfing with the future Hall of Famer Devin Hester. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:45.800 So how cool is that? 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.920 What's the countdown, Jeff on the Canton game? 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:49.159 Here? 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.680 How many weeks away are we from our first kickoff 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.240 of the season for Devin Hester getting inducted and the 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.680 Bears taking on the tax set. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.599 Hey, we're inside of three months. I mean we're inside 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.560 of three months. It's August first is the game if 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.279 I'm not mistaken, So yeah, we're inside of three months. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.440 Can't wait. Hopefully until that point, training. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.280 Camp will go as smooth as a uncrowded highway so 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.599 that the Bears can just hit the gas and pick 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.240 up where they left off for the second half of 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:18.560 last season and roll. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:19.800 That's my expectation. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.919 I think there will be some growing pains, obviously with 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.320 a Caleb Williams, a rookie quarterback, there always is. But 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.080 I just think he's a little he's just built a 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.840 little different, and that's what we keep hearing. How many 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.560 people have you guys interviewed on Wattle and Sylvia or 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.440 on the on ESPN that have just touched on that. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.679 The experts, everybody's digging into his past. He's just built 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:40.760 a little different, right. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.279 Yeah, I love it. You know, some of the stuff 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.520 that Albert Breer has written. I don't know if you 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:50.040 read The Morning Quarterback, it's great and like what I 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.760 liked to Jeff, and I didn't bring it up on 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:58.279 Wattle and Sylvie today, but Jamal Murray from the Denver Nuggets, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.480 who is a hell of an NBA I love Jamal Murray. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.080 He's a big NBA Finals games. I hope one day 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.080 we could be talking about Caleb Williams having big Super 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.160 Bowl games, having big playoff games. So I admittedly I'm 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.480 talking about apples and oranges here, Jeff, where this is 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.240 a very accomplished PROS one championships and has been there 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:21.160 in the biggest moment. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.960 But something that was apparent to me from. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.440 That article from Albert Breer that Ryan Poles talked about 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.800 when he evaluated Caleb Williams was dealing with adversity and 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.560 what he analyzed with Caleb Williams was that Notre Dame game. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.680 And oftentimes we had fans call in, guys, what about 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.720 the Notre Dame game? What about the Notre Dame game. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.160 I'm very disappointed with the way he played. That was 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.680 a big red flag to me, and Poles took it 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.600 that he liked what he saw from the Notre Dame game, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.560 because you've got to see what a quarterback does when 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.440 he deals with his adversity, and never was he checked out. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.440 He was always looking for answers. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.840 Never did he hang his head, never did he choose 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.080 somebody out in a bad way. And I bring up 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.440 Jamal Murray because during that butt kicking that they took 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.400 in Game two to the Minnesota Timberwolves, he starts throwing 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.400 stuff on the core and then he doesn't get suspended, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.520 and then after the media comes down and they want 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.400 answers two days later, instead of being accountable, he had 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.520 a chance to say I'm sorry, I'm glad the league 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.480 didn't suspend me. I made a really really big mistake. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.760 As a champion, you think a guy would do something 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.480 like this. He never did, and so I thought it 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.040 was very interesting that here's this battle tested champion who 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.160 wouldn't even be accountable, wouldn't even deal with adversity in 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.280 the same way where I draw this with Caleb Williams 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.760 on One of the selling points that Ryan Poles talked 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.000 about that they liked about him was the way he 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:57.760 dealt with adversity. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.080 Right, body language is gonna say a lot. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.439 How many times have we over the course of our 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.560 time a quarterback who sits by himself after a couple 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.880 of rough series instead of working on answers with his teammates. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:09.679 Don't want to see that. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.559 And the other aspect of it is this particular individual 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.440 has been thinking about this since he was ten years old, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.520 so he has been engineered. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:20.960 He engineered himself. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.160 He's had every aspect put before him, the proper training, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.120 the proper teaching, the proper footwork, and then the competitive 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.439 spirits got to come. That's got to be organic. And 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.200 I think we all see it and he's going to be. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.520 And I can only say this from watching him, just 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.000 from watching him at the Combine. 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.880 We touched on this on your show a couple of 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:42.440 weeks back. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.520 I followed him around after his initial interview at the 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.440 podium and he had to do another ten and just 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.720 what he was like, what you know, hey, one time, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.599 I you know, at the combine. I went up to 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.880 Kyler Murray right after and he wanted no part of me. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.680 I just wanted to say hello because he lived next 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.240 door to my daughter Kelly at Oklahoma, and she was 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.040 the girl on the white truck that was dropped off 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.920 at Oklahoma's exercise facility every morning because she was working 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.920 in sports science there. And then his face lit up. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.360 But you know, are you that guy? No, you can't 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.679 be that guy. You're the CEO of this football team 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.520 in one of the greatest football towns in America, the 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.080 greatest football town in America. And this town is hungry, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.640 and he knows it. He knows how hungry it is. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.440 And and this has nothing to do, by the way, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.760 with what my predictions may be about his performance on 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.040 the field, what he's going to be like in the 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:36.600 locker room. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.280 All that's going to work itself out. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.079 But I appreciate a guy who also embraces the history 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:46.160 of the game. Too often now with young players, you hey, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.920 you know, they don't know who anybody is. They walk 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.400 in that building at hallasall now they purposely have that 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.720 entrance with all the names of the great players. It's 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.040 great they pounded in. I want them to embrace the history, 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:00.360 and I think he embraced it. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:00.880 It's funny. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.920 I wrote an article about Bryce Harper recently and when 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.040 he joined the Philadelphia Phillies, he dove into that franchise 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.760 in the history of the franchise, he. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:10.960 Went, not how much they love him? 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.600 Now, yeah, all right, he's mister Philadelphia. So if Caleb 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.280 has that aspect to his personality, that is huge. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.360 That is a huge way to entear yourself to a 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:19.920 fan base. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.360 I love Go ahead, Tom Good. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.040 Now you know the thing about it is is you know, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.160 a baseball locker room and what they need in order 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.240 to show the reflection of good is different in a 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.720 football locker room. And because a quarterback has so many 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.680 things that he has to be incorporated in. He's a 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.120 big part of the run game. Now with RPOs, he's 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.600 a huge part of the passing game. He has to 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.880 know the terminology and what it means to every single 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.719 segment that he's saying it to and how he can 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.079 benefit himself and the better he knows it. And then 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.280 there's such an age variety inside in the NFL locker 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.400 room that you have to make make sure that you 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.520 know you become a part of it. And again back 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.080 in eighty five and we're the youngest team in the league, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.440 and the role of the older guys in that locker room, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.400 how enormous their role was in the success of that team. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.600 So there's so many different elements that they all have 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.240 to come together in order for Caleb and Rome and 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.520 every one of these guys to benefit from it. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.800 Tom Jeff really quick if one thing that I noticed too, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.120 which I really really love, is that Keenan Allen, who's 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.080 brand new, who's a veteran, and it's something that Tom 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.120 just hit on, Like at the Cubs game, at the 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.160 Sky game the other day, Keenan Allen seems to be 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.079 with Caleb Williams where he's going and I love that, 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.240 and I love that he's showing him the ropes and 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.080 that even though it's it's it's Caleb who's getting the 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.120 love and this is a future Hall of Famer, that 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.920 there's Keenan Allen right by his side, and this scene 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.040 to be something that's gonna work out very very well. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.200 Yeah, I'll throw one more in there that, you know, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.040 the idea that Ryan Poles and we got to take 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.760 a break has all these former Chicago high school stars 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.000 that are now back at home, not unlike Tom Fayer 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.600 and the eighty five Bears. But Cole Comet, they if 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:22.240 Caleb has any concerns, questions, or as things go well 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.400 or not so well from week to week, throughout his career, 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.240 or just whatever may be the case, they can give 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.440 him a little history. Listen on Chicago. Also, Hey, here's 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.400 how it is here, this is the way it is. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.880 Here's how they're gonna embrace you. Here's where they're gonna 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.080 get a little hot under the collar. And he'll get 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.200 a real good impression of it. Because Cole Comet, TJ. Edwards, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.600 all these guys grew up huge Bears fans. All right, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.920 let's take a break here on Bears Weekly with Tom Bhayer. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.760 I'm Jeff Joniak, Mark Silverman and Jesse Rodgers on ESPN 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.400 one thousand of the Bears Radio Network. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.240 This is Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:02.000 for twenty three years, Jeff Jony on the Bears Radio Network. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.520 This segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you by 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.520 Igs Energy, Jeff and Tom and Mark Silverman along with 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.440 Jesse Rodgers. Off the baseball we beat into football and 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.000 it's never far from the front of your mind, isn't 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:16.920 it right? 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:18.760 Jess no, no, it's not. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.760 You're talking about football, right, yes, no, no, And I'll 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.040 give you the fan perspective because I was thinking about 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.440 this last segment as you guys were talking. I went, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.920 as a fan, I always do Opening Day, and I mean, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.760 the Bears throw a couple of great tailgates outside. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:34.360 You know, a bunch of us paid for that. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.360 We had a blast outside and you guys, you know, 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.360 we had the radio on, revving us up everyone's and 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.120 then we go in there and what a dud of 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.080 an opening day that was. I mean that, And I'm 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.680 just thinking fast forward to this one and the excitement's 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.280 going to grow again, and I'm hoping it's different. But 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.400 we've been more disappointed than than satisfied in the last 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.120 few years, so hopefully that'll change. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.640 Who are we opening up against? Any guesses? Who were you? 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.760 What's the what's the NFL and their magic machine gonna 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.640 throw off their next Wednesday? 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.520 They won't Retroit Detroit Lions. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:16.480 Yeah, that's what I'm wanting prime time. Maybe I don't know. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.960 It, could you know, it could be a barn burner 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.040 way to kick off the Sunday season by a noon 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:27.640 start in Chicago of that division and so I think 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.960 it would be pretty interesting. The Bears should have beat 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.080 Detroit twice last year they beat him once, and if 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.120 they did come out strong and beat Detroit at home, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.160 it would already start the conversation about what the future 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.440 holds for the Chicago Bear. So hopefully we'll see it. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.960 And you know, there's no more emotionally attached coach right 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:51.160 now that shows it than Dan Campbell. So's there's a 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:52.640 lot of stories to live up to. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.520 Jeff, it's a it's that's a really good, a good 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.640 one that a couple of people have guest or have 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.000 there that it could be the opener. We know the 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.640 Bears cannot open up against the Packers because that's the 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:11.200 Friday night Brazil game against the Philadelphia Eagles, so they 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.840 are off the table. There's a couple that I like, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.000 My guess was the Texans. Now there's a couple of 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.720 flaws in that is because they do play the Texans 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.440 in that Canton game that I said, would the league 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:30.000 want them to play in the exhibition in season and 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.960 then really quick in the opener. I know a lot 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.880 of starters don't play anyway, but I think it's an 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.520 intriguing matchup between a second year quarterback and the rookie quarterback, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:45.200 two wide receivers who are studs who just change teams. There, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.160 two really good up and coming teams. There's a rumor 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.480 out there that the Texans could be the opener for 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:52.160 the Chiefs. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.360 So but I like that game. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.440 And then someone said this to me, Jeff, what about 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:02.520 the Bears and Commanders. It is the two the last 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.679 two Heisman Trophy winners and Jaden Daniels and Caleb Williams 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.359 and the number one in two picks going up against 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.919 each other this year, and it's Caleb Williams returning to 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:14.840 his hometown. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.520 Okay, now that's very good. That's a very good one 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.840 as well. Uh yeah, that's intriguing. I'm thinking they'll wait 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.000 down the Houston one just because, hey, let let Caleb 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.480 get his experience in and that is going to be 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.680 some holiday game or something. And look look how far 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.120 he's come in year one. Look where the Bears are at, 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.520 and look where the Texans are at. Because everybody's saying 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:39.120 that it's low hanging fruit, right Tommy, that the Bears 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.280 are poised to making Houston Texans type jump this season. 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.640 I don't like those kind of comparisons. It's always what's 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:48.640 happened last week? 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.680 I can't Thank God, I'm not wait, I'm not I'm 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.280 not saying it won't happen. I'm just saying that's the 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.960 easy answer all the time, Like what happened last season? 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.960 You know what I'm saying, It's a whole different situation. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:06.240 Listen that that that deal. It's like the Adrian Peterson 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.560 of knee injuries. When knee injuries were so unrecoverable within 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.760 a year and a half's time and you could not 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.359 contribute to your team, and then Adrian Peterson came around, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.800 he got a knee injury, then the next year he 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.520 goes for over a thousand plus and one of the 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.680 best runners in the NFL. So listen when CJ. Stroud 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.960 put the quarterback effort on display that he did last 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.320 year with a new head coach and the enormity of 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.680 pressure on him. When you consider Dak Prescott in Dallas 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.560 and what the situation was with the Texans when they 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:45.360 lost Watson, and now that now everybody's going to say, Okay, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.639 if CJ. Stroud did it, any quarterback that's a rookie 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.960 that gets drafted after him can do that. It can 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.840 do that as well. So I think that the CJ. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:19:00.520 Stroud pulled that engine cord on the quarterback position, people 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.119 think if he did it, the next guy can get. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.440 Any three for four thousand plugs. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.040 Just can I give a counter though, Like I understand 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:11.200 what you guys are saying. The only difference is, while yes, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.720 it's the rookie quarterback comparison is, let's not forget the 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.880 Houston Texans were three thirteen and one and then they 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.680 went on this run last year. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:25.240 The Bears are coming in at seven and ten and. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.840 We're a really different team in the back half of 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.439 the season, so they wouldn't be coming out of the 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.520 blue like the Texans were a year ago. That I 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.159 think they're well ahead of where the Texans were a 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:37.720 year ago. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:39.680 So my expectation for. 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.800 Them to win ten or eleven games is not as 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.920 outlandish is predicting what the Texans did from three wins 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.080 to this year? 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.560 All right, Sylvie point counterpoint Like that old show that 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.960 you see on Sundays, I like it. So you're saying Sunday, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:20:01.200 I mean you're saying seven wins, Is you really think 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:05.160 that's the catapult to success? You know, because you're saying 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:07.639 three and thirteen for the Texans now that the Bears 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:13.280 won seven, because I listened seventeen games, as you know, okay, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.879 and they lost three or four that they should have. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.440 To me, if they would have won those three or four, 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.240 that they should have then, and I think we'd really 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:27.159 be talking about, you know, a special surgeons from the 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.320 from the year before. But you know, when when we 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.280 walked out of there at the end of the season 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:36.560 after a seven win season, you know, I think I 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.080 was thinking, man, this team needs to make significant strides 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.880 when you look at what Green Bay is going through, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:49.040 what Detroit's going through. And so seven games wasn't as 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.280