October 31, 2025 • 9 mins
Lance talks Bengals vs Bears with ESPN 1000 Chicago host David Kaplan
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Coming up.
Speaker 3 (00:01):
About twelve minutes, you'll hear from Joe Flacco. About fourteen
minutes you'll hear from Logan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's here for my next guest.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The most powerful voice in Chicago sports for going on
four decades, Chicago Land Sports Hall of Famer talks Bengals
or Bears each morning on ESPN one thousand and the
recap on YouTube. That would be none other than my guy,
David Kaplan. How are you, Lance, my guy?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm just out in the field giving you a reporter as.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I was telling your fine producer, uh.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Trick or treating with my grandkids.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes, as I walk around the neighborhood and waiting to
talk to you about the Bears and the Bengals.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
And I get to be on with you on the
station of.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tom Brenneman, who I love.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, that's our guy, absolutely all right. So Ben Johnson
was the hot coaching name this offseason. He picked you guys,
they're four and three. How does that compare to how
does that feel in relation to expectations for this team
going in?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I think people were thrilled when he said I want
to coach the Chicago Bears. Because last year, if you'll
remember the owners of the Commanders, the new ownership group,
Josh Harrison Company. We're on a private jet flying to
Detroit to offer him the job, and he got word
to the pilot I'm out, I'm not interested. I want
(01:26):
another year in Detroit.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
And then he said, two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know one of the reasons I wanted this job.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
First of all, we had unfinished business with the Lions,
but I wanted to coach that guy, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And he said, has.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Been bumpy, got times, but he said, we're making progress
and we're just going to keep.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Grinding and keep working.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And I think this is a really interesting matchup on
Sunday because, look, you guys can put points up.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I just don't know if you can stop anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, well I don't know either. I don't think they can.
You mentioned Caleb Williams. Has has he been in yournumber two?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Has he been good? Has he been okay? How would
you describe how he's been inconsistent? Up and down?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know, we play, we lose the first two games
the Bears, the first fifteen plays.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You'll see it on Sunday. He's gonna look like a wizard.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
He is going to execute the script at fifteen plays
will go right down the field and then do we
get it in the end zone or do we kick.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
A field goal?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Usually is what happened last week against the Ravens.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Two great drives and they stall inside the ten and
they have to kick field goals and then the Ravens
get a touchdown and we're losing seven to six.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We end up losing that game thirty to sixteen. He
threw one terrible.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Interception from four yards deep in his.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Own end zone and that was the ballgame.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But then he plays the Dallas Cowboys. We're zero to
two and he has four touchdown passes. And I mean
he made a throw last week Lance that if you
pull it up and look at the throw to DJ Moore,
he gets obliterated and he flat foot throws it, you know,
forty five yards in the air, right in a and
he catches it and gets down inside the five.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He could do the wow.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know yet if he can do the checkdown.
Ho just take the six yard checkdown of the running
back and let's live to fight another day.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Among the injuries, no running back DeAndre Swift on Sunday.
How significant is that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I mean, he's been good, he's been very, very good.
But the kid that they drafted out of Rutgers in
the seventh round, Kyle Mnung Guy, He's going to get
the lion's share of the carries.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Now, we don't have a very deep running back room.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Manung Guy's good?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Is he break away fast?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And you look and go wow, I don't know how
we're handling that guy.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, but we have a pretty solid offensive line. Look,
this team is not without weapons and stars.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's not on the offensive side.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You have the tenth overall picket right tackle. You've got
a fourteen million dollar right guard. You've got a fourteen
million dollar center.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
You have a seventeen million.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Dollar in the last two years first team All Pro
Joe Tooney at left guard. You've got the number one
picket quarterback.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You have the twenty seven and a half million.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Dollar receiver in Dj Moore, the ninth overall pick in
rome A Duneese, another top ten pick and another wide receiver,
tense pick overall Colston Leveland from Michigan at tight end,
and a twelve million dollars tight end, and Cole Kamenzi's
going to play. So this is not like they haven't
put assets into this team.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Bears have committed twenty eight more penalties than their opponents,
three games with double digits. What's going on with the penalties?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That is one of the things that is driving Ben
Johnson insane. And he finally washed his hands with it
after last week's game when we had eleven more penalties.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He said, look, this can't happen.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We're second most penaltied team in the National Football League
twenty six pre snap, false start, tighte penalties or illegal motion.
And we got veteran players. It's not like we've got
a bunch of you know, bums out there. Even Joe
Tony jumped last week and that's his first in two years.
So he said, I'm calling the veteran leadership committee in.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And I'm putting it on them. They better figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Because you know, last week, you have a huge opportunity
and all of a sudden, you have a big play
down the field, illegal formation on the offense.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
What then we had a punt.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We have a really good punter, Tory Taylor from Iowa.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And whether you think they should.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Use a fourth throne pick on a punter or not.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The point is they did.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
He booms a fifty nine yarder that rolls down at
the one, and there's a flag on the play.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, illegal formation on the kicking teams, and we.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Bring it all the way back and now that they
get the ball at the twenty something, it's like, what
are we doing here? Shooting ourselves in the foot. So
they have a good team. They got to clean up
the nonsense, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What I think Bears, one of the things that comes
to mind is tight end, and I think Ditkun, I
think Emery moorehead, and I think Martellis Bennett. It doesn't
seem like the tight end is as much of a
factor as maybe it could be.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
In this drew.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
One hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Well, last week he didn't have.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Col Cobetti was injured, first game he's missed in his
career since twenty twenty. And then Colston Leveland's the tenth
overall pick and he has not made the impact that
I think.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
All of us expected. You know, we all see.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Tyler Warren killing it for the Indianapolis Colts, and the
Bears took Colston Loveland ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I saw a quote.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
From Sean McVay, we tried to trade up because we
knew Chicago was grabbing him and we liked Colston leveland
the best at that position. Right now, the numbers don't
bear that out, and so he has got to be better.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
His blocking has really.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Improved, but his receiving, and that's what he was drafted
for to.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Be a Travis Kelcey style receiver. He gets separation. He's athletic.
He can go up and high point a ball. We
haven't seen that yet, so hopefully that's going to change
here in the next few weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
All Right, once again, you won our yearly bet on
who wins more games between the Reds and the Cubs.
I sent you a case of Mening Greaters ice cream
Boldly bear Cat a night when I'm watching my Chicago
Bulls try to get the five and zero.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yes, Boldly Bearcat is the greatest.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Flavor they've ever made.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, I guess that answers my question it was gonna be.
I assume you're enjoying your Greaters. It sounds like you are.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh, it is so good.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And I said to my wife, Hey, there's ice cream incoming.
She's like, boy, you just keep taking advantage of poor Lance.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
He's such a good person at all he does.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Is keep sending you ice cream every year.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That's what Kelly says as well. She says, what are
you gonna win a bet?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
It's gonna take a while. We have a pretty good
young team, the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I just don't.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Understand how you could sit in our.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Ballpark, have an amazing environment, beat the Padres, get to
the next round, you lose in game five and not
go all right, I'm pushing my chips in. Let's go
get another elite starter. Let's go get another elite bullpen arm. No,
we'll we'll spend the most in the division.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But that's you know, that doesn't say a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Let me put it that way here, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I appreciate you making time during a trick or treating
my best to mindy in the family.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All right, best of Kelly and the family. And let
me just tell you, I think you're not gonna like this,
but I do think the Bears win this.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Thirty one twenty one.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, I could say I think we'll score a little
bit more than that, but I also think we'll give
up a little bit more than that.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Okay, thirty eight twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Now that would not shock me. There you go. Thanks Cap,
you're the best.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I'll brought him in high.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, I will thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
There is David Kaplan checking in in the middle of
tricker treating in Chicago with these grandkids. We'll come back.
We hear what Joe Flacco said this afternoon. You'll hear
what Logan Wilson has said about a trade that next
RNL carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevalete seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
He'll be a think twelve fit iron jem. When you
see heads west and tackle you. Our football Bearcats look
to annihilate the altitude and up in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's a conference clash.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Catch the call live Saturday at nine fifteen pm on
seven hundred WLW or string for free on the new
and improved iHeartRadio app.
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Coming up.
Speaker 3 (00:01):
About twelve minutes, you'll hear from Joe Flacco. About fourteen
minutes you'll hear from Logan Wilson.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's here for my next guest.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The most powerful voice in Chicago sports for going on
four decades, Chicago Land Sports Hall of Famer talks Bengals
or Bears each morning on ESPN one thousand and the
recap on YouTube. That would be none other than my guy,
David Kaplan. How are you, Lance, my guy?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm just out in the field giving you a reporter as.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I was telling your fine producer, uh.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Trick or treating with my grandkids.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes, as I walk around the neighborhood and waiting to
talk to you about the Bears and the Bengals.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
And I get to be on with you on the
station of.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tom Brenneman, who I love.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, that's our guy, absolutely all right. So Ben Johnson
was the hot coaching name this offseason. He picked you guys,
they're four and three. How does that compare to how
does that feel in relation to expectations for this team
going in?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I think people were thrilled when he said I want
to coach the Chicago Bears. Because last year, if you'll
remember the owners of the Commanders, the new ownership group,
Josh Harrison Company. We're on a private jet flying to
Detroit to offer him the job, and he got word
to the pilot I'm out, I'm not interested. I want
(01:26):
another year in Detroit.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
And then he said, two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know one of the reasons I wanted this job.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
First of all, we had unfinished business with the Lions,
but I wanted to coach that guy, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And he said, has.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Been bumpy, got times, but he said, we're making progress
and we're just going to keep.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Grinding and keep working.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And I think this is a really interesting matchup on
Sunday because, look, you guys can put points up.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I just don't know if you can stop anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, well I don't know either. I don't think they can.
You mentioned Caleb Williams. Has has he been in yournumber two?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Has he been good? Has he been okay? How would
you describe how he's been inconsistent? Up and down?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know, we play, we lose the first two games
the Bears, the first fifteen plays.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You'll see it on Sunday. He's gonna look like a wizard.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
He is going to execute the script at fifteen plays
will go right down the field and then do we
get it in the end zone or do we kick.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
A field goal?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Usually is what happened last week against the Ravens.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Two great drives and they stall inside the ten and
they have to kick field goals and then the Ravens
get a touchdown and we're losing seven to six.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We end up losing that game thirty to sixteen. He
threw one terrible.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Interception from four yards deep in his.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Own end zone and that was the ballgame.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But then he plays the Dallas Cowboys. We're zero to
two and he has four touchdown passes. And I mean
he made a throw last week Lance that if you
pull it up and look at the throw to DJ Moore,
he gets obliterated and he flat foot throws it, you know,
forty five yards in the air, right in a and
he catches it and gets down inside the five.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He could do the wow.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know yet if he can do the checkdown.
Ho just take the six yard checkdown of the running
back and let's live to fight another day.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Among the injuries, no running back DeAndre Swift on Sunday.
How significant is that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I mean, he's been good, he's been very, very good.
But the kid that they drafted out of Rutgers in
the seventh round, Kyle Mnung Guy, He's going to get
the lion's share of the carries.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Now, we don't have a very deep running back room.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Manung Guy's good?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Is he break away fast?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And you look and go wow, I don't know how
we're handling that guy.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, but we have a pretty solid offensive line. Look,
this team is not without weapons and stars.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's not on the offensive side.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You have the tenth overall picket right tackle. You've got
a fourteen million dollar right guard. You've got a fourteen
million dollar center.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
You have a seventeen million.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Dollar in the last two years first team All Pro
Joe Tooney at left guard. You've got the number one
picket quarterback.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You have the twenty seven and a half million.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Dollar receiver in Dj Moore, the ninth overall pick in
rome A Duneese, another top ten pick and another wide receiver,
tense pick overall Colston Leveland from Michigan at tight end,
and a twelve million dollars tight end, and Cole Kamenzi's
going to play. So this is not like they haven't
put assets into this team.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Bears have committed twenty eight more penalties than their opponents,
three games with double digits. What's going on with the penalties?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That is one of the things that is driving Ben
Johnson insane. And he finally washed his hands with it
after last week's game when we had eleven more penalties.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He said, look, this can't happen.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We're second most penaltied team in the National Football League
twenty six pre snap, false start, tighte penalties or illegal motion.
And we got veteran players. It's not like we've got
a bunch of you know, bums out there. Even Joe
Tony jumped last week and that's his first in two years.
So he said, I'm calling the veteran leadership committee in.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And I'm putting it on them. They better figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Because you know, last week, you have a huge opportunity
and all of a sudden, you have a big play
down the field, illegal formation on the offense.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
What then we had a punt.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We have a really good punter, Tory Taylor from Iowa.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And whether you think they should.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Use a fourth throne pick on a punter or not.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The point is they did.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
He booms a fifty nine yarder that rolls down at
the one, and there's a flag on the play.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, illegal formation on the kicking teams, and we.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Bring it all the way back and now that they
get the ball at the twenty something, it's like, what
are we doing here? Shooting ourselves in the foot. So
they have a good team. They got to clean up
the nonsense, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What I think Bears, one of the things that comes
to mind is tight end, and I think Ditkun, I
think Emery moorehead, and I think Martellis Bennett. It doesn't
seem like the tight end is as much of a
factor as maybe it could be.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
In this drew.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
One hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Well, last week he didn't have.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Col Cobetti was injured, first game he's missed in his
career since twenty twenty. And then Colston Leveland's the tenth
overall pick and he has not made the impact that
I think.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
All of us expected. You know, we all see.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Tyler Warren killing it for the Indianapolis Colts, and the
Bears took Colston Loveland ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I saw a quote.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
From Sean McVay, we tried to trade up because we
knew Chicago was grabbing him and we liked Colston leveland
the best at that position. Right now, the numbers don't
bear that out, and so he has got to be better.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
His blocking has really.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Improved, but his receiving, and that's what he was drafted
for to.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Be a Travis Kelcey style receiver. He gets separation. He's athletic.
He can go up and high point a ball. We
haven't seen that yet, so hopefully that's going to change
here in the next few weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
All Right, once again, you won our yearly bet on
who wins more games between the Reds and the Cubs.
I sent you a case of Mening Greaters ice cream
Boldly bear Cat a night when I'm watching my Chicago
Bulls try to get the five and zero.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yes, Boldly Bearcat is the greatest.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Flavor they've ever made.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, I guess that answers my question it was gonna be.
I assume you're enjoying your Greaters. It sounds like you are.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh, it is so good.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And I said to my wife, Hey, there's ice cream incoming.
She's like, boy, you just keep taking advantage of poor Lance.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
He's such a good person at all he does.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Is keep sending you ice cream every year.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That's what Kelly says as well. She says, what are
you gonna win a bet?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
It's gonna take a while. We have a pretty good
young team, the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I just don't.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Understand how you could sit in our.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Ballpark, have an amazing environment, beat the Padres, get to
the next round, you lose in game five and not
go all right, I'm pushing my chips in. Let's go
get another elite starter. Let's go get another elite bullpen arm. No,
we'll we'll spend the most in the division.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But that's you know, that doesn't say a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Let me put it that way here, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I appreciate you making time during a trick or treating
my best to mindy in the family.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
All right, best of Kelly and the family. And let
me just tell you, I think you're not gonna like this,
but I do think the Bears win this.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Thirty one twenty one.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, I could say I think we'll score a little
bit more than that, but I also think we'll give
up a little bit more than that.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Okay, thirty eight twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Now that would not shock me. There you go. Thanks Cap,
you're the best.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I'll brought him in high.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, I will thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
There is David Kaplan checking in in the middle of
tricker treating in Chicago with these grandkids. We'll come back.
We hear what Joe Flacco said this afternoon. You'll hear
what Logan Wilson has said about a trade that next
RNL carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevalete seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
He'll be a think twelve fit iron jem. When you
see heads west and tackle you. Our football Bearcats look
to annihilate the altitude and up in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's a conference clash.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Catch the call live Saturday at nine fifteen pm on
seven hundred WLW or string for free on the new
and improved iHeartRadio app.
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