A Bears win? A Bears blowout? Let's talk about it

The Chicago Bears won their first game of the season Sunday when they beat the Dallas Cowboys 31-14. Shaw Local's Michal Dwojak and Joe Aguilar recap the win and what it means moving forward.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Shaw Locals
Bears Insider podcast. I am Chicago Bears reporter Michael dwell
Jack here with the Northwest herolch Joe aguilar As. We're
joining you on Monday morning, a day after a Bears victory.
The Bears beat the Dallas Cowboys threety one to fourteen
on Sunday at the lake Front. A big win for

(00:23):
the Bears, and it kind of happened in an unexpected way.
A big performance from the offense and picking up a
bunch of stops show just what It's kind of what
you expected heading into the season, and that Bears team
finally showed up on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Michael, I never lost faith, boy. I believe in this
team from the get go, which is not the case. No,
it was nice to see a win at Soldier Field,
and it's been almost a year since they won a home
game for crying out loud, and we figured it'd be
an offensive shootout and I'm just surprised the Bears held

(01:00):
him the four team. But you know it started early
with that strip takeaway from Tyreek Stevenson. We'll get into
him later because what a game he had, But because
that first, you know, the first two plays like here
we go again, there we go again. They just gashing
the Bears front seven, and it turned around quickly. And

(01:20):
like I think we both did. We both picked Caleb
as our player of the game going in or maybe
you had Colson Lovelin, but we figured Caleb would have
a big game, and he certainly did.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
He definitely did, and it was a big response for
the Bears in general. Right, Like Ben Ben Johnson, you know,
two weeks into the season, was not happy and he
challenged his team. He said that the practice happens were bad,
that nothing was looking good, and and the team took
that to heart. They they responded to his to his uh,
to his challenge. And that's really important to see, right,

(01:51):
Like it's it's good to see that they took that
to heart and came out with the dominant performance. The
way they were able to you know, move the ball
down the field mostly on and then defensively to come
up with four turnovers, three interceptions. That's a big that
that that's a big, you know, response from a team
that started the season oh and two when was really
staring at an oh and three start to the year.

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be talking live, and we try to do every Monday
morning after a Sunday game and every Friday morning before
a Sunday game as well. So a lot of stuff
to break down. But yeah, Joe, I I agree. I
think it's a it's a big response for for the Bears.
I think it's a big you know, I don't I
don't have to tell you that, you know, oh and

(02:54):
three would be a bad start the year and we
would be having a very bad different, you know, different conversation.
But I know, I think that this this win just
shows you that this is a week to week league,
right Like this Bears team does not look like did
not look like the Bears team we saw in the
first two weeks and you know, you saw that around
the league. You know, Green Bay loses and all these

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kind of crazy last minute wins and losses that happened
that in the noon window. But it's a week to
week league, and that's why I feel like, that's why
we're also hooked to the NFL, where we just don't
know what we're gonna get each and every week.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Absolutely, the Green Bay game, I would have bet the
mortgage everything on the Packers beating in Cleveland yesterday, right,
But you know, it also shows you that as much
as we want to see perfection if you're a Bears fan,
from the offense, from the defense, from the coaching staff
to the GM, there are a lot of bad to
mediocre football teams in the league. You know, there are

(03:50):
only so many Bills and Ravens and Chiefs teams in
this league. So Dallas, yeah, they're not good. They're not good.
We've I've seen that defense before. We saw I mean,
it's Matt Eberflus's defense. That zone you're gonna get picked apart,
and they did. And I gotta tell you, I mean,
I you know, we knew, you know, watching the game,

(04:10):
Caleb didn't get sacked the whole game. I didn't realize
that's the first time in his career he didn't get sacked. Yeah,
it's nice not to face Micah Parsons when you're playing
the Cowboys. That helps. But it was, you know, playing
at home. You think the home crowd should energize you,
it should be easier for your offense with the cadence

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and everything. But you know, again, they had and won
at home in almost a year or so. It was
much needed and they really shined. I gotta tell you, Michael,
you know, we do the column I do for Shaw
with the you know, the three things that didn't work,
you know last weekends the Lions. I had about ten
I could have chosen from. I had trouble coming up

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with the third. I mean, that was that's how good
they were in every aspect. Special teams actually wasn't much
of a factor at all because the defense was taking
the ball away, vending but not breaking, and the offense
was very efficient.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
It was very efficient. And I think the biggest thing
is you saw listen, you saw Caleb Williams look like
the quarterback that you hoped he could become right under
Ben Johnson. He was efficient, he looked confident in the pocket,
he was going through his progressions. Was it perfect. No,
he missed some throws, but I've come to see, you know,
even watching some of the best quarterbacks, it just kind

(05:24):
of happens. And I'm not trying to explain away some
of those misses, like he airmailed a couple of throws,
he was just off. But for the most part, he
was an effective thrower. He looked confident in the pocket,
he was going through his progressions. He had some nice passes,
and that's got heavy feel like that. That's the biggest
part of the season, right is whether Caleb can be
that star for you and at the center of attention

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or the center of you know, your offensive success.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
And he was.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
He threw four, you know, four touchdown passes. He had
no interceptions. He threw for two ninety eight. He completed
sixty seven point nine percent of his passes. You know,
I think, you know, if they maybe didn't go on
and we'll talk about this later, then that had nineteen
play drive where they basically just ran out the entire
third quarter, maybe some of those passing numbers would have

(06:10):
been a little bit higher and he could have touched
those career numbers, but you didn't need him to throw
for four hundred yards. It became clear that he was
just running the offense effectively, and that's what you've been
looking for. Threw two games into the season and you
finally saw that on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, he didn't need him to throw for four hundred
because he was on pace to throw four hundred and
fifty at halftime. You know, you had like two thirty
six or whatever it was in the first half. You
knew that was gonna assuming they kept the lead, he
wasn't gonna have to do that. But uh no, I again,
you're right, he missed some throws. You missed the first
throw the game. We said, you know, he look, he's
gonna They're gonna try to make Colston level and a

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factor in this game. And I think it was him
he targeted on the first throw, and I thought the
throw is off. It was probably you know, Colston was
open on that play. But we don't even think about
that play really when you think about the game of
the whole, because he responded so well. Uh but certainly
and the deep balls too. Certainly the flea flicker play,
but some deep throws downfield, which we hadn't seen a

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lot certainly the you know, the first two weeks, especially
against Minnesota, it was dinking and diming and you know
down the field, it's like, let's throw can we throw
the ball down the field? We never saw that last year,
last couple of years or so. So it was nice
to see some deep balls catches. And I gotta tell you,
like even on that Luther Burden catch the flea flicker. Uh,

(07:30):
there are receivers who've been on this team. The pass
who dropped that, I know he was wide open, but
it still had to up and catch it. Your your
tight rope in the sideline there there, guys. So again,
the talent is better at the receiving spots, you know,
including the tight ends. And it was all on display yesterday.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
All right. Every week we like to do our three
winners and three losers when we recap a game. Obviously
there will be a lot of winners in this week.
If you guys have any winners or losers that you
guys want to chime in the chat, make sure you
check them out. But Joe, you get started, who is
your first winner from Sunday's game?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, it's the obvious one. We just talked about it.
It was Caleb Williams best game probably of his career, right.
I mean, I he had some more you know games
last year that here he threw for more yardage. Uh,
but that was again he missed him throws. But that
was really a complete game effort. The passer rating was
what one forty six six I think, career back, right,

(08:26):
And I just liked pretty much everything he did there.
And I thought his we always talk about with him,
the processing, getting the team organized on the line of scrimmage.
He just looked more poised. No sacks, didn't throw an interception. Again, yeah,
one deflected that it almost was, but every team has
those two. So I thought he was outstanding, and I

(08:49):
honestually think there's more to come from him. I don't
think that that's going to be, you know, his best
game of the season. It might be, uh when all
of a sudden done, But I still think he's got
more there. He took it.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
I think he did what he needed to do right
like we had it. We went into this game saying
that this is probably going to be a shootout, right,
Like we thought that this was going to be a shootout.
We saw what the Cowboys were able to do last week,
and and uh, you know it just you needed him
to put up a performance like this, and that's exactly
what he did. He looked efficient, he looked good. He
looked like he was, you know, making his reads the

(09:21):
right away, He was making the simple passes, he was
making the adjustments. He was effectively running the offense. Everyone
knew what was going on. There were no presnap penalties
in this game either, which was which was big. Obviously,
there was no setbacks and like you mentioned earlier, no sacks.
I mean, it was just he ran the offense really
well against the defense that he knew really well, and

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that you know, it just seemed like the game plan
was perfect for it and he ran it really well.
And that hasn't always been the case, right, Like you
that you've seen Caleb sometimes maybe you know, for lack
of a better term, you know, played down to his
opponents or maybe you know, not put up the performance
as much as he needs to be. And so I
think that's an encouraging step. You know, obviously he wasn't

(10:05):
taking on the Minnesota defense, he wasn't taking on Detroit's defense, right,
like you saw how he did in the first two
weeks of the season. But he did make it look
good against the struggling defense, the defense that he knew well.
And that's exactly what you need to do and to see.
And I think that's why it's such a big step
for Caleb in his development under Ben Johnson this year.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, and you know people will keep saying that it
was Dallas's defense, they're bad. Well, the Bears are bad,
and the Bears are still bad until they prove otherwise
and not just you know, one game is not going
to erase that. So, yeah, he did what he should do.
It's like any sport when you beat a bad team,
well they should have beat him, Well not everyone does.
So you only play was on your schedule, and no
one's you know, saying, well they played you know, they

(10:48):
played Minnesota. They're really good. They still give the Bears
a break. No, you expect them to win. You want
to win, so they do what they had to do yesterday.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
All right, I'll move on to my win. And that's
kind of playing off of Caleb's. But it's Ben Johnson
in his play scheming. I feel like you finally saw,
you just saw why Ben Johnson was the top guy, right,
Like you just saw in all senses of the of
what he brings to this team. The scheming, the flee
flicker was a perfectly called play at the time. You know,

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the Dallas goes down the field and you know, they
get a field goal to make it a seventy three game,
and then you catch him off guard and that flee
flicker just kind of ignited that offense. I feel like,
you know, it was a kind of felt slow motion
for a little bit when DeAndre Swift got bumped at
the line and then he kind of shot the ball
at Caleb instead of passing to the ball back to Caleb.

(11:39):
But to call that play, you know, I just love
that play. That was just such a great moment to
get Luther involved in, you know, just him getting everyone involved,
Like you had four different guys catch touchdowns, right like
you were getting different playmakers involved. And that's what Bears
fans have been asking for for the first two weeks.
Get your playmakers involved and only focus on Rome. And

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you know, and and you know, Ben even talked about
how like he knew he knew what the defense was
for Maddy Abraflus. He looked at Chicago's tape and he
took advantage of that, and that's exactly why you hired him, right, Like,
he dissects the tape, He looks at all the different
things that you know, the tendencies that a particular defense has,
and he exploits them. And that's what you saw right

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Like you saw him, you know, go after Coast and
Loveland down the middle of the field. Like we talked
about that tight end special. You know, he hit the
out routes, he like hit those short passes. He went
for the long passes and some of his playmate you know,
he was able to create some routes where guys were
wide open. I mean both DJ Moore and Cole Comet
on their last two touchdowns were wide open in the
end zone because of the scheming that Ben Johnson did.

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So that's a big win for me because I think
we saw a little bit of it in the first
two weeks, but I think that this was really a
game where you're like, that's the Ben Johnson I remember
from Detroit. That's the you know, it did look the
same way and obviously wasn't the same offense, but it
was the same you know, kind of taking advantage of
what the defense gives you and just exploiting it.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, No, I love it too.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
It.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I love that he's aggressive. And I know some people
don't like the fourth and for you know, a fourth
and goal from the four play. I like it, and
that's gonna be. That's the way he coached in Detroit.
I think that's why he's gonna do it here. And
sometimes it's gonna backfire, but I just like his aggressive nature.
And I love the two minute drive at the end
of the first half. I that was textbook, even when

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they were like at midfield and it was about a
minute on the clock or were used to thinking okay,
let's go because they look very patient, but they knew
you don't want to score too early there, and I
just thought, I love that. I love that a lot
more than the nineteen play drive. We can talk about
that maybe later, But I just liked his aggressive nature.
We've seen that through three weeks. And he's gonna get

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better as being a head coach too, as smart as
he is and his creative he is. But a great
call there, I think with you and I'm Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, I mean, and you you saw what that meant.
You know, I'll just kind of lumping in with what
you know he kind of meant to that team. I
don't know if you've seen the video of him in
the post game, you know, obviously giving the game balls
and you know, celebrating and you know that I don't
know if he you know, for those who don't know,
look it up on very social media, but they shared
a video about you know, breaking it down and Ben
Johnson getting the game ball after you know, his first

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win as an NFL coach, and you know, Ben kind
of goes through this chant that very clearly. I don't
know whether this is like a life model for him
or something like that, but something about being you know, good,
better best and having kind of like a call repeat
like you can just see in that moment that those
guys are bought in, Like those guys are into him there.
They bought into his mentality, they bought into everything that

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Ben Johnson is. And that's exactly what you wanted when
you when you started the season, and that's what you
wanted when you hired Ben Johnson. He's a he's a
gritty guy who is going to do whatever it takes
to win and wants the best out of his players
and wants the best out of his coaching self or staff,
and wants the best out of himself. So that that
that was just a very very cool to kind of watch.

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I mean, you kind of got an inside look into
who Ben Jonson is as a play caller and as
a coach. Joe, who is your second winner?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, gosh, there were so many to choose from, Michael,
imagine that after last week. I couldn't come up with
more than two. I had to go to the ball
boy or kid. Now, I'm gonna go defense. I'm gonna
go Tyrek Stevenson, who's been getting a lot of love
since yesterday and deservedly so. Did we ever think Tyreek
Stevens who would be one of the stars of the game,

(15:31):
But man, oh man with a secondary so banged up
and they were you know, showed some of that week
this yesterday. But he had the big strip fumble, you know,
on the first series of the game for Dallas's first series,
and then two pass breakups, one in the red zone.
Boy oh boy, that's that's the guy who we saw

(15:51):
potential two years ago. And then we know what happened
last year with the failed Mary and all that stuff.
But good for him because they needed especially if Jalen
Johnson is going to be out for an extended period
of time, maybe the whole season. We'll you know, we
don't know, but they need corners who can play instead
of just band aid guys. And he looked like a

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professional cornerback yesterday that first half. Man, that's what you need.
But so he was dialed in and there's still a
ceiling here for him. It's not like this is good
as good as he's gonna get. He's just, you know,
he's a borderline guy. I think going into the game,
I think he had the word the highest passer rating
against for the corners like he was he was the

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worst of football. It was like almost perfection. So that
was huge. And he's going to get going up against
Dak Prescott and I know Ceedee Lamb got her early
well too bad. Jalen Johnson and Catherer Gordon were out
for the Bears. So I'm not gonna feel sorry for
the Cowboys. Uh, but Tyreek Stevenson way to go.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's the guy you expected right
to That's the guy that you kind of expected to
have after you kind of drafted him in the second
round a few years ago. I know, I know the
Commander's game. You know everything about that last week. We
don't need to rehash all of that, but the first
two weeks didn't look good. I mean they, like the
Lions bullied him last week, like they got after him,
they targeted him, and they took to full advantage of him.

(17:14):
And you know, I talked to Jakwon Brisker after the game,
some of the guys after the game, and they talked
about how, you know, Tyreek kind of took that personally,
Like he got into practice early, he came into the
facility early. He came and worked hard to kind of
get back to that level. And you Tyreek was a menace.
I mean that that you know that that play where
he just comes out of nowhere, rips the ball out

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of William's hands and you know, stays in bounds to
you know, get the fumble. It's just an insane play
and it's a momentum booster, right Like it's just such
a crazy play that kind of gives your team a
momentum because Dallas was moving the ball down the field.
That was a twenty nine, twenty two yard rush by
Williams that was going deep into Bears territory and you know,
Stevenson took away and you know, Stevenson Field finished with

(18:00):
two past disruptions. I know he there was another one
that he could have intercepted. I feel like he made
a really good play on it. I forget it was
in the second quarter, but he had a really good
read on it and almost had a Jaquanos almost you know,
had it on the bounce. Bet he just looked like
the He looked exactly like the corner you expected him
to be. And that's a big response for him. Now
it'll be interesting to see whether he'll be able to

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do that against the Raiders and obviously moving forward, but
that's a big response from a big Cornerstone guy, especially
with Jalen Johnson out for the indefinite future and we
don't know how long Calier Gordon's going to be on
for either. My second winner of the day is going
to be just the situational stuff I loved. You know,

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it's ironic that it happened against you know, Maddi Eberflus
and I don't want to play that too much. I
don't know, like I feel like the guys that moved
on everyone's kind of moved on from the Matti Eberflus
era at this point, but that tune in the drill
at the end of the first half, that was just
masterclass stuff. That was just outstanding. The Bears run off,
you know, three I think it was three or four
run plays, burn a minute off the clock, and then

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they get the pass game going. Then you know, you
find cole Comt wide open in the in the in
the end zone for a touchdown with like twenty five
seconds left, and you make it a two score game
instead of a one, you know, a few three point game,
and that's that's huge. And I loved that nineteen play
drive in the third quarter because you not only did

(19:29):
you kind of establish the run and you guys different
guys involved in that play, but you burn nine minutes
and fifty four seconds off the clock. You you didn't
let the Cowboys on the field for such a long time.
And you know, the players talked after the game about
how you know that that that's grueling, man, that that
really makes you question stuff and that makes you cole
Comett said, it's it's an identity identity builder. Just to

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be able to go on a nineteen play drive like that.
That's hard work, just consistently, especially running the ball for
eleven straight plays, and that was huge because that made
it a thirty one to fourteen game with one quarter left.
If you score earlier in its thirty one to fourteen,
it's the mid third quarter, you still got a bunch
of time. Then maybe you can play a little catchup,

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but with one quarter to go and that big of
a deficit, you kind of have to rely in the
past game and it really makes the things. It really
makes defending the Cowboys much easier in the fourth quarter
because you know they're going to pass it. So that
situational stuff was just perfect. I love that two minute droll,
and that was effectively done. You didn't get the Cowboys
too much time at the end of the half to score,

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and you didn't let them double dip because they had
the ball to start the second half, and then you
just destroy them with that nineteen play drive. I mean
that I know that they still had a chance later
on in the game, and Tremaine Edmonds got a big interception,
but that really felt like a backbreaking drive for the Bears.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, what I liked about the nineteen play drive was
it kept ELS's offense off the field because DA was
just kind of even though they weren't getting the deep
plays and you know, the explosive plays, they were just
going down field and you know, again it gas. It
becomes this this race back and forth, who can score,
who can score again quicker And so that's good because

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that defense, Look, this is gonna be the Bears defense
probably for the rest of the year. Hope it gets better.
They'll have their moments of good. They'll hope there will
probably have more moments of bad. That's just what it is.
So it's good in that regard. It's good that they
finished it, not with the field goal. But on the
other hand, what I really didn't like it, like but
and first of all, and they ran the ball, but

(21:32):
it was running. It wasn't just like straight up the middle,
up the middle, you know, pounding ground. It was reverses.
It was DJ Morgan in the carry, was Luther Burden
on the reverse. It was all those kind of gimmicky
stuff because the running game we'll get to that later,
wasn't effective. Again And honestly, like last time I saw
a nineteen play drive, I think it was about fifteen
years ago, Carmel Katic playing at deal a Sale. But

(21:55):
that's option, high school option football. You know, it's not
the pros. I mean Josh and Lamar Jackson and Patrick
Mahomes and you know the list. They don't have nineteen
play drives because they get you early. If you're a
dominant football team, if you're a dominant offense, you don't
need nineteen plays to score. But the Bears, with the
situation they're in, because they're not the Bills, they're not

(22:16):
the Chiefs, they're not the Ravens, they've got to figure
out a little maybe some other ways. If that was
what Ben Johnson's thinking was, I'm sure you'd like to
score every time you snaff the ball, but you can
keep your defense off the field. Maybe where down Dallas
is already bad defense a little more. Okay, maybe that's
where the Bears are right now. But when they're humming

(22:36):
and they're a playoff caliber team, whenever that may be,
whether it's later this year or next year or whatever,
they won't be needing nineteen plays to score.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Sure, and I agree with you, obviously, you know you
want to score with you know, two or three plays
you would want to go do the flee flicker all
the time. But I do think it says a lot
about this team just to be able to go on
to driving for Johnson to recognize. Sure, so Johnson could,
and he wasn't directly asked, you know, did you specifically
do you know, design a thirteen play drive. I don't
think he would have told you that he did, because

(23:08):
I don't think many coaches to design twenty play drives
these days in the NFL. But I do think that
he recognized, all right, the run game is working, Let's
get a couple of run arounds, Let's get a couple
design runs for Kleb, and let's just keep this thing
moving because this is working effectively right now, and Dallas
isn't on the field. And I agree, I think you know,
for you know, they didn't have CD Lamb, but Dallas

(23:31):
is still moving the ball down the field effectively, like
they're still doing a good job for how much the
Bears were still you know, fending but not breaking. But yeah,
I would agree, I think you would obviously love to
have that. But that's Ben Jonson knowing what his situation
is and what his team is at this point. And again,
again that's kind of I feel like for him, that's

(23:51):
just kind of you know, knowing your personnel and you know,
putting them in the best position to succeed. All right, Joe,
I know you've said you had a lot here. So
who's your final winner? Who you're choosing his number three?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, I'm gonna go with tremate Edmunds because was that
his best game as a Bear? I mean, we know
the guy's good. I mean he was a Pro Bowl
player with Buffalo. I think he maybe went twice to
the Pro Bowl for Buffalo, but we really hadn't seen
as much. I didn't think he was good last year,
but yesterday and I didn't realize until I saw the
final stats. He had like fifteen tackles, I don't know
how many solos, sixty seven solos. Then the two interceptions.

(24:24):
One was kind of a gift by George Pickens right
through his hands. It's funny George Pickens makes the great
one handed stab and then with two hands he can't
catch the ball, but it but you know Edmunds was there,
made a nice athletic play to corral the ball and
uh and catch it. Because a lot of guys, you know,
they what do they say about DBS even though he's
a linebacker. That's why you played defensive back because you
can't catch, because that's why he couldn't play wide receiver.

(24:46):
But he caught the ball and then the then the
the interception in the end zone there at the end
when you know, Dak and Dallas are a little desperate
there and just trying to make him play, but he
made it. So two interceptions. He was all over the field.
Ben Johnson even pointed him out when they had that little,
you know, postgame huddle in the locker room by themselves
there about he was all over the field. And so

(25:09):
that's good because especially with TJ. Edwards out hopefully they
get him back at some point soon. But you need
we talk about it every week. You need defensive guys
to start making some plays. And he's paid a lot
of money and that was a football game he had yesterday.
So again, if you can, if you can get this
out of Tyreek Stevenson and Tremaine Edmonds, not every game,

(25:30):
well the majority of the time of the rest of
the season, there is hope for the defense.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, you needed someone to step up, you know, obviously
with all the injuries that we've talked about and Tremaine did.
He was all over the field getting those fifteen tackles.
He played the he played the TJ Edwards row up
really well. Like obviously TJ is always the guy I
feel like, who's at, you know, at at the ball
at all times. But he did a great job. Fifteen
combined tackles, like you mentioned, six solo tackles, two interceptions.

(25:58):
I agree that's second one was just kind of a
I uh, you know, I can't imagine what the Dallas
radio was like today. Obviously, I think that I think
Dak is a really talented quarterback, and I think that
obviously ceedee lamb. When you lose your top, you know, target,
that's going to affect you. But some of those interceptions,
I was kind of like, I don't I don't know,
like it was not great decision making on his part,

(26:21):
but I know that you're kind of scrambling at that point.
But yeah, I agree, you needed someone on this defense
to step up and Tremaine as your captain, as your
you know, guy that you kind of brought in a
few years ago. You know, one of the first signings
that Ryan Poles made as a GM with the Bears
he he's been a good captain. I think he had
a good first year. Last year he kind of fell
into the background. You didn't really hear him too much,
but it was good to hear his name a lot,

(26:44):
and it was good to see him have a big
performance like that. All right, Joe, my final one. There
are a bunch of different guys, but I'm going to
go with one of the big things I mentioned last
week in my preview in a preview podcast was getting
the rookies involved, and Ben Jonson recognized and he talked
about it, and that's exactly what he did. You know,
he went after Colston Loveland. On that first pass, Caleb

(27:05):
overthrew Loveland, but then he you know, on the second drive,
he hit him for a thirty one yard played up
the middle. That was a good recovery from Colston because
he was he got hit earlier on that drap on
that route, he got jammed up a little bit and
he recovered well to make that catch to heke a
thirty one yard catch and that obviously led to the
realm of dunes. They touchdown. But and then obviously Luther Burnen,

(27:28):
you kind of got you got him involved, right like
the flee flicker was amazing. That was great and big
confidence in him in order to be able to do that.
But then you know, Luther caught a couple of nice
passes where he got a I think it was around
a twenty yard pass or fifteen yard pass that set
up a touchdown later in the game. You know, he
had one hundred and one receiving yards. He made the

(27:48):
most of his targets. You know, he had three targets,
he had three catches and obviously scored his first touchdown
on that flee flicker. Kyle mcnung guy rushed for sixteen
yards on six carries. You just got the rookies involved
and that was big, right, And I think that's going
to be really important for this offense to succeed because

(28:10):
we kept saying you got a bunch of different playmakers,
like don't be stagnant, don't focus in on one guy.
And that's what you saw, right, Like you I think
it was one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
different guys were targeted yesterday, and that's huge, right, Like,
you're getting different guys involved into this game, and you
make it really hard to defense you and that's how
you end up with two wide open touchdowns. So I

(28:32):
think it was great for Ben to get the rookies
involved because you drafted them with high draft picks. You
you expect the most out of them, and you finally
gave him a chance to perform. And I feel like
those guys really showed out. I know Colston obviously, you
know he had the hip injury that kind of kept
them out for the rest of the game. We don't
have an update on Colston. We'll probably learn more this
afternoon when we meet with Ben Johnson. But when he did,

(28:54):
when when when he was out there, you saw why
he was a first round draft pick for you for
the Bears.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, I'm glad you picked the rookies because that was
almost gonna go with them as I number three. So
I'm glad that we didn't have to repeat each other here.
But absolutely, I mean, I know the numbers mean Burden
three catches, Loveland won, but then he got the hip injury.
So but to me and I wrote it and for
Shaw that you know, they were unleashed. That's what we

(29:21):
That's why they were drafted as high as they were.
That's that simple. And Loveland two on the one catch
or after he catches, He's lowering the shoulder and boom
and let's go. He he looks the part, he is
the part. So I just want to see more of him.
And I want to see more of Luther Burden, my
pick for Bears Rookie of the Year. Every time he's
touched the ball, unless I'm missing some place, going back

(29:43):
to the preseason, he's looked good. He looks like a dude,
and he plays like a dude. So I want to
see more of him. But again, we got so many
different guys who want the ball. I knew this is
gonna be a problem, but hopefully it's not a good
hopeing it's a good problem. There's so many guys who
are good here. This is a great stable of receivers.

(30:04):
With the tight ends and the receivers combined, that how
you gonna get You know, you're not gonna have like
three guys with eight or more catches every game. He's
just not, but they're they're good enough. I want to
see more of Rome. I want to see more of DJ.
I want to see more of Loveland. I want to
see more of Burden. Those guys are players, and to
see those guys we saw a glimpse. I think there's

(30:26):
a lot more there, but it's certainly exciting when you
when you think back, oh my gosh to the stable
of receivers they've had in the past. And any Bears
fan older than fifteen knows what I'm talking about. I mean,
it's been bad. This is a good group, and I

(30:47):
want to I just want to see more. I'm I'm greedy.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, for sure, you definitely want to see more. And
I you know, it goes back to the challenge that
Ben Johnson had it right like he when he was
asked about the rookies, he said, it's a it's a
big week for them. They need to get into competition
and they need to show that they can do it.
And very clearly Luther Burnon showed to practice this week
that he can compete and he was worthy of the
targets and you kind of saw that this week, right,
like you're gonna It's very clear to me that for

(31:13):
Ben Johnson, if you're putting in the work, if you're trying,
if you're blocking as a wide receiver, if you're doing
the little details right, He's going to reward you with
looks in the game. And that's exactly what Luther did.
That's not exactly what Colston did. Kyle did as well,
So it was good to see those guys kind of respond,
you know, to that challenge as well and kind of

(31:34):
get the opportunity and make the most of their opportunity
on Sunday, All right, Joe, some losers? Who what? What
are some you know, I know we're all happy here
and all that sort of stuff, but it wasn't a
perfect game. So what what what are some of your losers?

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Well, these were probably the losers most weeks. I'll start
with the run game still not there. They gave the
baltim a young guy more you mentioned his numbers. He
played pretty well other than that play where he kind
of caught got caught up trying to make more yards
and he kept getting spun back and trying to break
a tackle and now that take that play out thought
he looked pretty good. But you know he's not.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
He's not.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
He's not. Walter Payton for crying out loud, John dre Swift.
I love the screen pass, but they're just still not
running the ball more. And I you gotta run the
dang football. I mean Dallas is running it with Javonte Williams,
who was pretty good as a Bronco, but I don't know,
didn't they get him off the scrap people. I don't
even know they got him. I mean, we've got to
run the dang ball more. And I look, I want

(32:33):
Caleb to throw for four hundred every game, and I
want to see all the weapons. But you got to
run the football, especially against tougher teams, and want to
when when you really need to run the football, like
in the Minnesota game in the opener where you got
to run the football. Right now, they're three games in
three bad running games. So the running game, yeah, I
would agree with you there.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I don't think it's now where you want it to be.
And I forget whether it was. I think it was
after the first three maybe we even got to halftime,
but I think they gave a Zikaias like a run
around that kind of picked up a bunch of yards there.
But they're at negative one yards for a while there.
And I know that. You know DeAndre Swift. DeAndre Swift
dealt with the quad injury all week. He was limited

(33:13):
all week. I don't know how much that affected him,
but it's very even if Deandre's not there. You should
be able to rely on your second and your third
team running back. And I just I, you know, I
don't know looking at the tape, I'm you know, halfway
through rewatching the the rewatching the game, and there's just
a bunch of times where Deandre's like handed the ball

(33:33):
off and he's met by a couple of guys already
in the backfield. So it's kind of like you're not
you can't really do much with that, right, Like you
can't really what are you supposed to do in that situation?
Maybe you play call it better and that sort of stuff.
And so it comes down to the running back some
of the some of his decision making in his routes
I still have question about. But you saw, you know,
it's frustrated because you saw in this screen pass how

(33:54):
explosive of a player DeAndre can be, you know, when
he gets into space, like he's a playmaker, man, and
you just want to I don't know how you kind
of do that with the running game, whether it's you know,
stacking one side more, maybe you're just pulling an offensive
lineman you know, to where DeAndre is going, but you
kind of block better for them, and then for the
rest of the guys. You know, I thought Kyle, you know,

(34:17):
in that second quarter, I think he did a good
job picking up a bunch of yards. You know, he
had a couple of five yard runs, six yard runs,
which was good to see. But I like the d
I like I think I like putting Dj Moore in
there sometimes, but that can't be a running attack, like
you're running attack can not be Dj Moore back there
and just doing running like run arounds. It can't just

(34:38):
be on Lemit as a chaus like you need an
establisher running attack. And it's kind of clear to me that,
you know, it doesn't work one hundred percent even when
Deandre's you know, healthy, and it's not working when he's
injured or too. Like Roshawn Johnson very clearly seems to
be a special teamer for the staff. Like he's got
a no look so far after he's come back from

(35:00):
the foot injury. I don't know if he's not one
hundred percent and he can do stuff on special teams,
but he can't run the ball, but you're not really
getting much out of him. And Kyle's you know, starting
to get into a group there as a rookie in
his third game. But you need to figure something out
with this running attack, because, like we've said earlier, if
teams know they're not going to run the ball successfully
and you're gonna get into, you know, these passing downs,

(35:22):
you're gonna be a lot easier to defend well.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
And I don't know if just gets back to the
interior of the line. You should be able to run.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
You should be able to run.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
And it also gets back to the draft, and we
don't have to go through that again.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
But there were guys there.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
They were got you know, camp Scatabu looked pretty good
for the Giants last night and out of the lion stink.
And I'm not saying camp Scatabu or someone else like
that makes them a Super Bowl contender, but there are
guys there, and you Schimar Turner dressed yesterday. I heard
did he play? He did?

Speaker 1 (35:49):
He was with the second wave of guys for a
couple of a couple of those drives.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
And Ozie Trapillo was a healthy scratch. And I got
to ask you not to digress, but did I think
I saw Darnell right at left tackle on once snap?
Maybe too? Did he were you I don't know if
that was brought up. I don't know if it was
because of an injury situation or what. But was Darnell
Right on the left playing left tackle for extended snaps?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
I don't think I remember that. I remember Darnell got injured, Okay,
and from what I remember, I can look at the
stamp counts and you know, see where guys were. But
I think you know Darnell was. He got injured later
in the second half. He kind of had like an
elbow injury. He got back into the game later, but.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
They didn't see that, right I I don't know. But
then I'm thinking, maybe is that a thing. Are they
remember we talked about way back, you know, months ago.
Are they gonna move him maybe to LA don't don't
move him from right tackle. He's good at right tackle.
Move don't do that. Maybe they're gonna do that. Maybe
they I don't know. That's a conversation for another day.
But anyway, they got to run the ball better. Bottom line.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Yeah, well, you mentioning that kind of goes into my
second loser. I think Darnell Right had a tough game.
I think he had a tough game. I think he
you know, he had that holding call that took away
a big you know, I think it was like a
seventeen yard scramble by kleb or you know, to pick
up a first down. And I know he got injured
later on in the game, but it's just you know,

(37:20):
for your for a top ten pick a couple of
years ago, you you need that to hit. And I
feel like in a big year, in a third year,
it's his third year. This is a big year for
any you know rookie who was drafted in the first
round where they got that fifty year option. Like this
is a year when you start thinking about, all right,
are we going to pay Darnell, Are we going to

(37:41):
give him you know some top some top money, or
like what are we doing with the right tackle spot?
And you know, I think he's been He had a
couple of penalties again, and I feel like it's been
a reoccurring thing for him so far. Three games into
the season. You know, at this point, I don't know
what you like. I I'm not calling for him to

(38:02):
be benched or anything like that, but you need to
see a better, better stuff. You need to see better
stuff out there. And I don't know whether that's you know,
putting Ozzie in there at a right tackle and then
you maybe put Darnell at levens. Because it's very clear
to me that this staff believes that Ozzy is a
right tackle. Like it's they went with what Ryan Poles did.
They gave him a shot at the left tackle, and

(38:23):
they're like, he's a he's a he's a right tackle.
You know, Ben Johnson complimented him on his development. He's
looking really good at right tackle right now. So you know,
I don't know whether that's that's the thing at all,
whether it's not, but they just to kind of get
back to my original point, you need to see more
from Darnell right now, Like he's doing too many penalties.
He's you know, creating, he's hurting the team at this point,

(38:45):
and he's not playing at a top ten level that
you expected him to three years into it. Like his
rookie year. He looked good last year, he had some moments,
but this year so far, I mean, if you're worried
about extending him, I would have some hesitation about giving
him a lot of money because I don't know if
he's been a net positive for you so far this year.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
No, And I want to make it perfectly clear, like
I don't I don't watch game tape on offensive linemen
and I'm watching them throughout the game. It's obvious. So sure,
but if he's gonna end up being a solid pro,
that's not good enough. Again, you drafted him tenth. You

(39:26):
passed on you know, Jalen Carter. I mean a lot
of teams, did I get it? And we can and
every team can say, well we passed on that guy.
You can second guess, but you need him to be
a All Pro caliber player. Maybe he doesn't make it
every year, but he needs to be. If he ends
up playing in this league seven, eight, nine years and

(39:47):
he's a solid player with no Pro Bowl verstus that
a good pick for for ten, For the tenth pick,
I'd say no. So maybe again this is we can
be talking about this for the rest of the year,
couple of years. We'll see where this goes. But it's
just something to think about. What are they gonna do there?
And maybe they are saying not now, not next week

(40:09):
against the Raiders or whatever, but Ozzi's gonna be the
right tackle and Darnell Wright will figure it out. Maybe
it is on the left side. I don't know, but yeah,
he also had the inn eligible down field play and
I know that's tricky sometimes for lineman, but it's not
good enough. I expect him be before performing at a
Pro Bowl caliber player when you're the tenth pick in

(40:32):
the draft. And if he's not that guy, it's not
on him. It's you know, it's the guy upstairs, not God.
It's it's it's trying Poles, the guy who drafted him.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I don't know if we can blame him for It's
not It's not God.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's man upstairs in the front officer at Alas Hall.
That's right, Poles, that guy.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yeah, I'll be really interested to see what they do
with this bye week here coming up. It's an early
buy and it's it was very clear to me. You know,
we heard from Ben Johnson before after we recorded Friday's podcast,
and he has some interesting stuff to talk about the
offensive line. He talked about how, like I mentioned, Ozzie
Trapillo has been developing really well at the right side
and they like what he's been doing so far. And

(41:17):
you know, when he was asked about Braxton Jones at
the left side, he said he looks good for the
first half, but then the second half has not just
been what's been desired. And listen, Ben's been clear since
we start a training camp, since the end of training
camp that this is an open competition every single week
and they're not afraid to move guys. So I'm really
interested to see whether And we'll get into the preview

(41:38):
stuff with the Raiders on Friday, but this will be
a big week of practice for the offensive line for Darnell.
Is Darnell right going to be pushed at all by
Ozzie like as Ozzie Tripello like, is Ben Johnson like, Listen,
you can't have holding calls. You've had pre snap penalties.
I know that he was he shouldn't have been called
for that holding call against who was against the Vikings
a couple of weeks ago, that the phantom holding call.

(42:00):
But he's just more of a negative than a positive
for you right now as your right tackle as a
former top ten pick, So I'm not I wouldn't be
surprised at all if Ben Johnson is like, we've got
a competition here this week, I'm putting Ozzie in at
right tackle. Darnell, you got to figure it out whether
it's at right, whether it's said left, because Ben's not

(42:21):
afraid to challenge guys, and I'm really interested to see.
We'll hear more about it from Ben today. But maybe
that's the thing. Maybe it's not. But I think over
the next couple of weeks it'll be interesting to see
whether there's any shuffling or whether there's any movement at
all on this offensive line, because I thought they had
a good day. They obviously didn't let Caleb get sacked
for the first time in his career. He was hit

(42:41):
maybe once. So the offensive line as a whole did
a good job. I liked the interior and I didn't
Braxton Jones wasn't too much of a problem for me.
But you need to sure up both sides. And you
didn't see that from Darnell on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
No, it's unfortunate, but that's why. If that if Ben
Johnson comes out and says there's a competition at right tackle,
or of Ozsi Trapillo gets a surprise start when they
play the Raiders or whatever, that's a major story. You know,
you know that, so there'd be something again. It's not
like the news of the day, certainly, but it's certainly
worth putting on the back burner for now.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, And I'm not predicting that it's going to happen.
I'm not here saying that Ben Johnson's gonna announce that,
but I'm just I'm saying that's something to watch for, right,
Like Ben is very clearly if you're not doing what
I want you to do, like, I'm gonna put in
someone who is right. And he was very vocal about
his support for Ozzie on Friday. And you haven't seen
the performance out there. So it'll be interesting to watch

(43:40):
this week, whether if there's anything at all or you know,
heading into the bye week, that'll be good to watch.
Any other Losers failures for you, Joe before we say goodbye, Well.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
The pass rush, you know, I know they got they
finally got a sack Dominicue Robinson. Dominic Robinson hadn't had
a He had a half a sack two years ago
his rookie year. I think he had one or two
of him maybe the same game. So but they didn't
had a sack since the third quarter against Minnesota, so
it was good. And then finally Montese got the monkey
off the back there he got he got a sack

(44:09):
in the fourth quarterback most of the game. No pass
rush again, and they I mean good, good for for
Dennis All and I picked on him last week. I'll
give him credit this time because the Bears played that
bend but don't break. But Deak had a lot of
checkdowns the tight end. Ferguson caught what thirteen passes yesterday? Fine,
take that, You'll take that all day. And I know
again Ceedee Lamb was out. But you know, so the defense,

(44:34):
you know, it's funny because the defense with you know,
four takeaways, great, but I didn't think they dominated by anything.
To me, that was like old vintage Bears defense at all.
You know, they still Dallas ran the ball well. Their
offensive line is pretty good even without their center. They
ran the ball well. Dak still threw for what two
fifty ish, you know, So I don't know, but I

(44:58):
need to see more pressure more. It was better, couldn't
been worse than the previous week against Detroit, but it
needs to be better. But at least they got two sacks.
But I just still need to see more of that
and more from the running game for the Bears.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah, you didn't. You didn't have a pass rush until
the fourth quarter when the Cowboy, when the Cowboys were
obviously going to pass, and that's when you finally were
able to land on some stuff. You need to do
that in the first quarter, you need to do that
in the second.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Like, I.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
I hate picking on him, but like Montest got his
first sack of the season in the fourth quarter of
Week three. He's your top paid guy. Like I'm sorry,
but like I know it's not on one guy, but
like when you're getting that kind of money and you're
getting you know, when you are very when the team
invested in you that much, like you got to be
more of a presence. And he had a couple quarterback
hits and you know, he looked better. But I feel

(45:47):
like a lot of it happened when you knew that
Dallas was going to throw the ball. It didn't happen
in the first quarter when you're trying to create some
pressure when it's a fourteen fourteen game. Like, I think
the secondary did a lot of It's like the secondary
did a lot of you know, carrying of the load
on Sunday, and you know, I feel like that they
came up with a lot of big plays when your
pass rush didn't really land as much, So that'll be

(46:10):
interesting to watch, you know how much that changes this week.
It's a it's it's not a short week by any means,
but it'll be a quick turnaround and then you have
to buy a week and I think there will see
a lot of evaluations there. But yeah, I agree, and
I'll piggyback with that on just my last loser. The
run defense is still not good. I mean, James like
Javonte Williams made it look easy, like you're lucky that

(46:32):
ty like Tyrek Stevenson made a great play on that
long run. It seemed like he was going to bully
you all day. That run defense needs to get fixed.
It's it's not doing so hot right now. Dallas ran
for one hundred and twenty one yards on twenty carries.
They were averaging six yards of carry. You know, Miles
Sanders came in and rushed for forty one yards on
nine carries. You you need to defend the run better,

(46:55):
like the defensive line as a whole, I feel like
the needs to play better. You need to stop the
run and you need to create any sort of pressure
on the quarterback early in the game so you can
kind of dictate the game for your for your secondary.
So yeah, I mean that that's a big area still
that I feel like needs to be improved on, and
if they want to do better, I think we'll we'll

(47:16):
need to see that. Matt now chiming in saying his
winners were Caleb Tremaine and Tyreek. His losers were the
run game, Darnell Wright and the run defense. Uh CJ
chiming in saying that right got picked on a lot.
Uh Sports Chicago style Canadian eagle out there swinging at tackle.
He's obviously talking about the opendeditt he came in for

(47:37):
Darnell Wright since Ozzie Trapillo wasn't there. Let's see what else?
What else do we got there? Uh CJ's saying, I'm
curious why they didn't at least explore options off right
at the left tackle. I was interested about that too.
I wonder if that was a situation where you're just like,
we know he can't play left tackle, or maybe that
was a situation where you're just like, no, we drafted

(47:59):
him to be our right tackle a number ten a
couple of years ago. We're not moving him, like, let's not.
I think the thinking was let's not create two position battles,
Let's just create one bud that might be something that
you might have to explore.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yeah. Again, I don't think he's been bad the first
two years as a Bear, Darnell, Right, I don't think
you know you want no, you know you almost say
he's been good. Again. I'm not an offense O line expert,
but I think he's been You could probably say he's
been good, but I don't. I don't want good to solid.
I want to a guy you run behind, a guy
like you just count on. And I don't know. I

(48:35):
feel bad for the kick because he didn't draft himself tenth.
He would have had a first round pick game for
the Bears. Pass down, he would have gone on the
first round.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Yeah, with that was a he was a surefire top ten,
top fifteen pick.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Absolutely, But he's he's got to be a better period.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Uh CJ also saying if you could use a short
pass like Brady did to supplement the run, fine, I guess.
But if people know you're going to be doing that,
I feel like that's kind of going to become easy
to defend. Right, Like, I I feel like you got
to you gotta get some sort of a running attack
going then CJ. Last comment here, but if anyone else
says anything, not to be a Debbie downer, but trick
plays can't be a normal for this team. A special

(49:11):
player play here and there, but can't be the norm.
I don't know if it was the norm. I don't
know if I agree with you there, CG. I think
it's not like they kept doing trick plays and like
fleet flickers.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Like.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
I think they tried one more trick play in the
second half and it kind of just got blown up
at the line of scrimmage and he just kind of
dirted it. I think I think that trick play was
used perfectly. Dallas wasn't expecting it. They got momentum after
the scorre and field goal. You get them. You saw
a deficiency in Maddy Perflus's defense and you picked on it.
I think that was the perfect use of it.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Yeah. I don't know if CJ. I don't want to
speak for him that maybe he's thinking to like the reverses,
which sure, okay, I can see that trick play, but
it's you know, you don't see that like in every
other series, and the Bears seem to be using it
because they can't get the running game going, so like
just pounding it down, you know, through up up the
middles working so well, we got to get some yard

(50:02):
each other. We can't just be dropping back and throwing
every single play and be too predictable. So let's try
a little more of this until we can get this
figured out. Unfortunately they're still figuring it out in week
three here. But again, this is not a finished product.
We knew that going into the season. So you gotta
do it until you can just give the ball to
a running back, whether it's DeAndre Swift or Roshawn Johnson,

(50:24):
Ann Guy or anybody who made someone they pick up
and pound pound pound where you can get three and
a half four yards every single play. Because they don't
have that now, So then you gotta do the reverse.
You gotta do DJ Moore in the back feel like, yeah,
get again, I don't want to see that either. And
when they're really good, when they're humming, when they are
a legit playoff contender, we won't be seeing that.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Yeah, I think you'll have to be on rare occasions,
but I think it's not going to be the main
focal point of your offense, right. I think it'll be
a supplemental thing they you do in order to kind
of catch the defense off guard. But I feel like
that's a good point to kind of leave things off. Obviously,
this is a week two week league. Everyone's as you
saw in week three, everyone is still developing, everyone is
still becoming. You know, there's a lot September has really

(51:08):
become like an extension of the preseason. I feel like
a lot of these teams are figuring out who they are.
So that's why you saw a game like that in
Chicago on Sunday, and in Cleveland and in Tampa Bay
like a lot of great finishes, a lot of great stuff.
So we'll see what the Bears are able to do
this week. But that's everything that we've got for this
week's episode or this episode. Thank you so much for

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