Kap & J. Hood

8/21 7 AM: Hard Knocks Episode 3 Recap

Hour 1: The guys discuss the latest episode of Hard Knocks featuring the Bears. Should it be on PBS and not HBO due to the lack of swearing? Caleb Williams says he doesn't get nervous before games and the players love Matt Eberflus. Michelle Smallmon picks between the Bears and the Steelers as a finalist in her search for a new team.

Duration:: 47m
Broadcast on:: 21 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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We got another installment of hard knock yesterday on HBO Max and we really got a chance to look at some insight on the bears on the field and behind the scenes. We did. I thought it was an excellent episode. It was the best of the three we have seen so far and while the gentleman, not named Jay Moore on the other side of the glove, he was okay. Heavy by his suck. That's his life. I chose to sit there, have a little something to eat, pour myself a little bit of bourbon and sit back and go, there's my favorite football team right there. That's my quarterback. That's Caleb Williams. That's my rookie receiver right there. That's Roman Dunezay. There was so many cool moments, so many cool moments when I watched that show, Hoodie and you and I growing up in this town, cheering for this team, seeing the highs and the very, very lows. That's our football team there and when Ryan Paul sat at his desk, it said, "Man, I really like this team. I just like the way we're coming together. I loved it. I absolutely loved it." Boy, you can sit on the other side of the glass, go ahead, be by his sucks, showing that good. I choose to live a life of positivity. Take that. Well, when it comes to this cap, let's rewind, even before we got to Hard Knocks, you and I were on the same page by talking to Ryan Paul's, seeing what the Bears are doing on a daily basis, on a yearly basis and we said to ourselves, "Self's, the Chicago Bears look like a solid operation, running it like, not just like a business, but like a football operation." We've seen the Bears run like an organization that's about trying to increase sales in multiple revenue streams and from a business side, but from a football side cap. What we're seeing here on Hard Knocks and over the last few years is a Chicago Bears front office that is just doing what it can to be able to win and what I saw yesterday was a glimpse into the Matthew Judon sweepstakes. Polls and his staff, they see what you see and I see in the rest of the Bears' fancy is that if there's an upgrade that's possible, the Bears will pick up the phone. Now Judon chose to go to the Atlanta Falcons, it's from the South, Atlanta and Chicago are two teams that's on the rise, but here's the thing. You like the idea that we got a chance to see it, just a little glimpse on this episode yesterday of Polls and his staff saying, "What can we do to get Judon here?" Yeah, that was super cool where he really gave you some insight, like you learned something. I don't think past Bears' regimes would ever, ever be that honest. I can guarantee you Ryan Pace wouldn't. Yeah. There's no shot Ryan Pace was sitting there and talking about, "We'll give up a three, but we've got to have a contract," that was almost like a memo to Joe Douglas, the GM of the Jets, like you're going to trade for Hassan Redick and you're not going to have a contract that if we don't agree to a deal, I'll get my second round pick bag or my third whatever it was that they gave up. He hasn't been in their building since April the 1st, Ryan Pulse says, "Hey, the deal's contingent on getting a contract done," and he wants to go to Atlanta, 32 coming up a bicep, have at it because we got something cooking down here, something special. He's from the South, it all makes sense, no shade thrown at Matthew Judon and all he's had a really good career, but guess what? I like looking, Waddle said this on the Dr. Pepper comment post-game show last night and I thought it was absolutely spot on. For the very first time, I'm looking at the bears, whether it's on hard knocks, whether it's on an interview with us, whether it's on an interview on TV, whether it's on an interview somewhere else in the booth during a pre-season game, and I look and go, "My team's being run competently." Do you know what I mean? Like, when Theo came and went, "Okay, blank's about to get real here," and you were the first one that said to all of us, "You're winning the World Series. You got that dude? You're winning the World Series." And I don't feel that way about the Bull's front office, didn't feel that way about the previous iteration after a while of the Bull's front office. I can't tell you anything about Kyle Davidson, seems like a good guy, but he hadn't proven anything, the other regime that won, they're gone for a multitude of reasons. I never felt that way about Rick and Kenny that we got the best front office in Chicago. No, a jet hasn't earned that yet, 100% hasn't earned it. But this dude, and the way that it runs, and the way that things look like they're being managed from Kevin to Ryan to, I'll tell you, Eberfluze comes off really, really good in episode number three. Like all of that together, I feel better about my football team than I have since coach Dica. It's the hard-not-life, hard-not-life, powered by the ComEd Energy Efficiency Program partnering with your business to save money and energy, and also our friends at Dr. Pepper's. We talk about the hard-notch show. If you got a chance to watch the show yesterday, Cap and I will take your phone calls at 312-332-3776. That's our telephone number. There's a number of things that I see with Ryan Polls and his staff, Cap, in which he's on the phone, and kind of overseeing this team, trying to figure out, "Okay, we feel like we're good here, but we could always make upgrades." That's the thing I take salsa, and there's been so many years, Cap, where you could watch a regime and a general manager would just lie to you, or lie to the fan base. It's not about me, it's about the fans, saying that we're fine, knowing that you're not fine. I still think even this morning, I think that Ryan Polls is rabbit about trying to figure out, "Are we good, or could we add something else?" I like that because he knows that he doesn't have the finished product. No matter how many predictions we throw on this show and talk about where the Bears are going to be this upcoming season, all that, Polls knows that we're good, but we've got to do what we can to cement an opportunity for us to get to the playoffs. There's no reason, again, health is a big thing in the Nashville football. There's no reason this team's not a playoff team. If they get blessed with reasonable health, no one's going to go through the season with every guy playing all 17 games. That's just not reality in a violent sport like that. But there's no reason that if they get blessed by the football gods with reasonable health, that that is not a playoff team. They look like they want to play for this coach and he looks like he is a different person. He's got a roster full of talented dudes, the GMs on top of everything. You've got an elite player at quarterback, albeit a rookie, and there's veteran leadership in that room from Mercedes Lewis, to DJ Moore, to Tremaine Edmonds. I mean, Kevin Bayard, there's some really good leaders in there. So Caleb Williams, obviously, is the tip of the spear when we talk about the Bears because not just here, but everywhere. People are wondering about Caleb Williams and what he's going to be like in his first year as a Bears quarterback. Well, you've got some insight on what's going through his veins before games on hard knocks last night on HBO. And if it gets too high, it's still the one that's in there, I don't get nervous. Not since my first game of high school versus Gilman, I fumbled two snaps other than that. And I came back and threw like an out and up down the sideline other than that. Hey, ball. Since he doesn't get nervous before games, well, I've always been of the opinion cap that you never let them see you sweat to be stone face. You might have condors, not like not like a nervous stomach, but condors in your stomach. But you never let them see you sweat. And for Caleb Williams, as he was on this, you know, before the game of this past Saturday, he's like, I don't get nervous before games. Yeah, that was cool to see just to see his confidence level and, you know, they tried to make and I some of the guys last night on the post game of hard knocks that we did on our YouTube page on ESPN Chicago. They tried to make it, they didn't say it, but they intimated because the communication in his headset wasn't working and they had to change helmets. They tried to make it seem like that's why the first three or four drives struggled. Did you get that? Yes. And he said, okay, I've lowered this one. I fix this. Here you go. And he puts another one on and then leave Schreiber says now with the, you know, the communication thing fixed, Caleb and the offense are ready to roll. And it was like, well, that isn't exactly how I took it. He missed a couple throws. He got pressured on one. Yeah. No, it wasn't just that the headset in his head, in his helmet wasn't working. I'll say this though, about that part of it. It pissed me off. It pissed me off because this is something that's been a problem. It's told your field time, you know, time and time again, now with every quarterback, but the communication for the helmet to the sideline, I don't know if it's because the wifi or whatever, but I do not want that happening again to Caleb Williams. I do not, but it's going to because it happens in other stadiums. I understand that I don't want it to happen to him though, because he needs to be able to communicate this garbled in his headphones. We can see that on the broadcast. I'd rather for that not to happen to him. And I know. And so because that's not necessarily the reason why it was three and outs, but I mean, if you had an excuse at a reason, that could be because he's still learning the playbook. I want that to be nice and clear for him so he can hear what the hell's going on. No question, but it's going to happen. I'm fine. I'm good. It's going to happen. Oh God. It is that that is just reality. Tech is not going to work a thousand percent of the time. It's just not. I just didn't think that was the only reason that the Bears offense struggled the first three or four possessions. I also loved the confidence he showed when he came to the sideline after the Roma dunes a catch that ridiculous off platform throw and he turned to the referee and he goes, that's pretty sweet. How rough? I love like he didn't say it in an arrogant way. It was just like, that's pretty sweet. Huh? That was super cool. I like that there is a feeling of fun that he's having right now. You just hope that that fun permeates throughout the team and that the team can ride on his back as a rookie quarterback for this football team. So if you're on hold, you will be on the air. We're going to get your thoughts at 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN, 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 is our phone number. Hard Knocks taking place on HBO yesterday. You got a chance to watch you want to get your thoughts on it. There's something that Matt Eberfluze was talking about at Hard Knocks as well that we'll get to as well. But we're talking about Hard Knocks and the Chicago Bears on the hold of the Bears, Captain Jhood. This is Cap and Jhood. They beat in the traffic commute, so you don't have to. It's a waddle Wednesday on the Cap and Jhood morning show on the ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. We're hoping that you're going to have a great Wednesday 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN, 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 is our phone number. Cap and I are talking to you about Hard Knocks. If you got a chance to watch it again, if you're a Bears fan, it's for you because you got all your favorites on there. You get a chance to see behind the scenes. If you've never been to practice, you get a chance to see the practice field. So Cap, once again, rated G, a door that explore followed by Hard Knocks Chicago Bears. That's what we've seen over the last few weeks. You're just going to see the Chicago Bears, the way the Bears want you to see them portrayed. You're not going to get the blood and guts and the naughty talk, the salty language. You're just going to get the Bears having fun and working hard. Yeah, I was on social last night during Hard Knocks and I saw the tweet from my friend Adam Hogue and Adam Hogue said, a quote from the director of Hard Knocks, Shannon, and she said out of respect for the McCasky family, they have indeed edited out the profanity. It's not as though the Bears have a monastery that they're running up in Lake Forest and that they are all good guy, golly, gee, I missed that receipt. No, that's not how it is because you and I are on the sideline. You're down there. Oh yeah. And you hear just like in every other NFL training camp, you hear the salty language and the guys going at it. What I really, really liked, like I've told you, players keep telling us and I say it every day to you, players believe we are so misinformed about Matt Eberflu's. But Peggy said last night on the post game show, she's like, it's amazing how the perspective that the fans and the media have about Eberflu's is so diametrically opposed to the perspective that current former players have for Matt Eberflu's like, you guys are ridiculous because you have no idea. He is not the way you guys think he is because he's not good at the podium and he's gotten so much more comfortable and so much better. And the appearance is so much better that we have this perspective. If you're upgrading the quarterback in the receiver room and the this and the that, why don't you upgrade head coach? These guys, and I told you this, current players are to upgrade. We got the guy. We love playing for this dude. And when he stood up in that room that you and I have been in at Hallisall and he said, if anybody fights in here, you're gone. I will send you back here. You can condition with the people that can't practice. I'm not messing around. It will not happen. Period. Like it was, come on guys, don't fight. There was none of that. That dude's in charge out there and I hope he wins because he's got a win to keep his gig and he understands that. He's paid a lot of money. He's a professional football coach. He gets the drill. But I'll tell you what. That dude has impressed me this offseason, how he's handled things and hard knocks has solidified that. That's great. A lot of that I don't agree with because I only look at the one that wins in the losses. Along with the struggling came the struggling head coach too. As if I could say that the Chicago Bears as they were trying to build this thing up and going through their doldrums and going through their struggles, so did Iberfluce. I'm not going to turn a blind eye to the last couple of years because now he's got a beard and a mustache. Just like Caleb Williams, just like the Chicago Bears, he has something to prove. That's the whole point is if I don't care about bedside manner, I'm a fan. What I look at is whether or not Matt Iberfluce, the head coach and the football team are all rising at the same time. That's what it comes down to. No matter what the fan sea cap, no matter how they feel about Iberfluce, they have to be right to feel that way. You know why? Because it's been a slog the last couple of years and along with that slog, Iberfluce has made his share of mistakes. We've documented it on the show. So the hope is that in this year that you can turn the page and that the team and the head coach is better. That's only fair. Along with the losing came the losing from Iberfluce as well. I don't disagree with you, but I think it's important that people listen to what the players in that locker room are saying about their head coach. They believe, and this is a quote from a current player, it would be a catastrophic mistake to change head coaches. He didn't say, okay, he said, quote, catastrophic mistake if you guys change head coaches. That's how good and how important this dude is in the room. And you know, I'm a rider dive with Ryan Paul's guy. He, that guy's awesome. Love Ryan Paul's. He has the same record as Matt Iberfluce too. He does. So he, Matt had no chance two years ago, none zero. There isn't a coach alive that would have won with that football team. Last year till they got Montez sweat, that thing was not in a great place. Montez had a huge impact on what that defense was the last third of the season 100%. They're trending in a very positive direction. And so while his record is what it is, and he has to wear that record, so does everyone else that was there during this regime. They all had the same record. But when I hear players tell me catastrophic mistake, if we change head coaches, okay, now you got to go win. All I care about is whether or not the team can be able to get better and no matter what the player, here's the thing, similar to Justin Fields in the conversation we had just by Justin Fields, in which fans said, and some players said, no, we shouldn't trade Justin Fields because we like him because he's a good guy and he's good in the room and blah, blah, blah. You know what happens in the National Football League? Things change. Yeah. The idea that the Bears can't exist as a franchise and can't get the ball down the field out Justin Fields is nonsense because time moves on, the NFL moves on and the same thing you met, he reflues, it would not be a, it would not be catastrophic. That's nonsense. It is. Because if there was a player said that's not me, that's a player, and I'm giving you my perspective. That's what I'm doing. My perspective is is that if they made a head coaching change this off season and it was a significant upgrade of Matti reflues, what would the players do? Revolt? No, they play obviously. Obviously. Well, that's my point. But when you've got a guy who hasn't really had a fair shot to win, he has not. By any stretch, his roster has not been competitive. They've been in a rebuild, massive rebuild. Now if you tell me they got win four ball games this year, yeah, he's gone. He's going to get fired and he understands that. I don't think they're going to win four ball games, but if they don't take a step and you don't see a competent offense where you go, we got our guy and oh, we got a bad break there with that injury. If they play the way they're capable of playing, he's going to be around a long time and he's going to have the last laugh. That's fine. But here's the thing. If that's going to be the case, you make sure that we give the flowers to Ryan Polls net regard because he's setting this up as he says the right way. And so I just never been just this over the top about a head coach, especially when it's a head coach that has a losing record. It's like the organization had a losing record along with some of the mistakes that he made it as a coach. See, it's one thing to say we're tanking, but as a head coach, as far as his time management and the things that he was doing, it was not good. And so as a, and all I'm saying is is that as the, as the bears rise in which we believe that they will rise, hopefully you were flus can be able to rise as well as a head coach. Yeah. And I think he is taking a lot of steps. All I'm telling you is hard knocks has been very good for Matt Iberfluze. He looks very much in control. And what I really liked and again, we talked about this on the Dr. Pepper hard knocks post game show powered by Caramette. When you see him sitting in the office with Caleb or he's on the field, tell me what you saw. What was the defense aligned as before the snap of the ball? Well, I saw man to man. And then I saw this and then I saw that and then when they snapped the ball, here's what I saw like Iberfluze is we it's always been well, he's a defensive coach or Sean McDermott to defensive coach in Buffalo, the offensive staff develops the quarterback. Not so much here. This guy's involved when he has him in his office and they're going through different plays where Caleb's looking at the big screen and Iberfluze is controlling it on his computer. It's super cool to watch how they're trying to work through him learning the system. 312-332-ESPN-332-3776 is our phone numbers. We talked to you about hard knocks taking place on HBO Max yesterday in local square. Here's Terrell. He's with us here on cap and Jada as we talk bears. Terrell. Good morning. Hey, what's up guys. I just talked to you again. Hope you guys have a good morning. Yeah, I just wanted to say I think I'd like to see Caleb and flu's grow together, you know, all be it if he keeps winning, flu will be there, but I like their vibes together. It seems like, you know, they're really working well together. Also cap, I do want to after seeing that last episode on the pod's eyes for my week one take the first episode with a QB2 competition. Yeah, there isn't one. I think I'll just get a little get a little spicy there, but it's definitely faces show, but yeah, I thought I got to you guys man, but I want to know what you guys think about that. See, we appreciate the telephone call. I'm glad that they were able to kind of get into the Tyson Beijing story, to talk about his dad who was just a world-class arm wrestler and just the idea that Beijing, here's what you like cap. He's not wide eyed and just like I can't believe that I'm in the National Football League since he came to Chicago based on the way what he says, there's confidence there is a level of confidence that says, yeah, I could start, but you know what, in my role, I'm going to be the best I can be. And when I was telling you about the preseason so far is that the operation does not drop off when Caleb sits on the bench, you know, I like that. And the other thing that was super cool, and it goes back to some of the discussion we have with Che yesterday, this dude played for complete college years where he took a billion snaps. Like he was a developed quarterback who knew how to look at a defense. His passing numbers were again at Shepherd, I get it, but they were, he understood how to run an offense. And when he sat in the room and there's Caleb and he just the two of them in the quarterback room and he says to Tyson, how you doing, I'm good. He said, man, year two, it's so much easier because he's been through everything. I was like, man, I wish we could get Caleb to year two. Yeah, I, I really like what I've been seeing there with, with Beijing and the dynamic of Beijing and Williams together as well. That seems to work when they're together in the meeting room or on the sideline. That's really cool. I like that. Super cool. So, better about the direction of my favorite football team than I have in decades. Like when the coach was here and they had all the talent and they're destroying Green Bay throughout the 80s. That was awesome. Yeah, it was. That was awesome, man. And for, you know, the younger generation who wasn't around for that, they have no idea this city. Like we knew every Sunday we were going to win. It was like a devastating thing when they lost. And then to go through the wilderness for 30 years, to be that poorly run. And then to have a man come in and George gets the credit. He does for getting Ryan polls and getting out of his way because I was told when they had their interview and you've referenced this, Paul said, I'm tearing it apart. It's flawed. It's fatally flawed. We're going to move Khalil Mack. We're not re-signing Row Clon Smith. We're doing this. We're doing that. And it's going to be painful. It's going to be ugly, but I'll build you something on the other side. And it's come quicker that I think even he thought. 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-P-N-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number. Matt Eber flew the head coach for the Bears Has News about the Bears in a match of against Kansas City. You'll hear that next on the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000. Here's to Dave's headline, headline with Captain James. Yes! Well, it was a mixed bag of baseball success for Chicago teams on Tuesday night. The Cubs beat Shea New Orleans Tigers. He's a Detroit baby. That's where he's from. He was in attendance and while Harvey Baez got a standing ovation, deservedly so for what he did as a cub, not so much as a tiger. Baez gets the Golden Sambaro, strikes out four times, including, as the tying run at the plate in the top of the ninth inning. He strikes out on a ball way down and outside, drop third strike, throw him out, Cubs win, Dansby Swanson a home run, Cody Bellinger a big two run double, Cubs win 3-1. They are still alive in the wild card, Chase, two teams back at it again tonight at the confines. The White Sox lost their 97th game of the season. This one, 4-1 in San Francisco to the Giants, okay. And the Giants and the Sox this afternoon here at ESPN 1000 to wrap up the three game West Coast series, Sox will get tomorrow off and then they'll play this weekend with a chance by Sunday to be at unthinkably 100 losses already and we're not yet in September. And the Bears announced that their key starters will not play against the Chiefs on Thursday night at Arrowhead in the final preseason game of the season. We are back baby, we are back, we are back, last on Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. Captain Jay Hood on a waddle Wednesday here on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago Apple here from Tommy coming up at 835 or with you until 10 and then Mike Greenberg comes in at 10 followed by Carmen Yerko 12-3, Waddalyn Sylvie 236-30, Blacken Abdullah at 630 right in the White Sox baseball to take on the Giants at 8 right here on the home of the White Sox ESPN 1000. So we heard from Matti Reffluse the head coach for the Bears, that only on hard knocks but also yesterday to the press, Matti Reffluse on if the starters will play on Thursday. In terms of the game on Thursday, the majority of the starters will not play in that game. We feel really good about our process, the plan that we've had in terms of the range of plays for certain players, the range of competitive reps, in terms of competitive reps, we feel really good about that with our joint practices and going ones on ones the entire time. So we feel really good where we are there. So there you have it, Cap, it's kind of what we thought we were wondering whether or not Caleb would hand a ball off three times against Kansas City, not necessary because of all the practice time and the install that they've had offensively and all the time that he had damn near the whole half this past Saturday against Cincinnati, that'll be all from Caleb Williams until the Tennessee game. Yeah, and again, did you hear the line? I know you did. You watched the show like I did last night. And Caleb says, yeah, practice is actually more difficult than the games because he's going up against our defense. And while he knows he's not going to get taken to the ground, those windows closed, man. Jalen Johnson, even Keenan Elton, I can't catch a ball in this guy. So yeah, super cool to see where it's trending. Now we need good health. I hope that's not a whiteboard for another team. That's a big statement, by the way, on the record saying that the practice is more difficult than the games. I don't think that's a whiteboard thing because if he said, it's way harder playing our defense and that lousy bangle unit, that's a different thing. We don't play them in the regular season thing goodness, but he just made a comment and that's more praise for his team. I don't think that's a whiteboard thing. I don't. You know that these teams, Cap, we'll take any bullet. We used to call a bulletin board material clip, you know, getting the clippings out of the newspaper and then put it up on the ball on the board of people to see. Yeah, I had a player once. I'll not use his name because he listens to the show. There was no social media back when I was coaching at NIU, but he happened to tell I think the DeKalb Chronicle, and of course it made its way to the other side. Wait a second, the DeKalb Chronicle, is that what it was, the paper? The paper. The house organ? The house organ. And it wasn't the northern star of the school paper, it was the DeKalb Chronicle. And he happened to say, whoever the player was, it might have been Dan Marley who played against us. It was Marley Harper, Kenny Battle and Dan Palombezio at Ball State to transfer from Purdue and was a monster. And I ran into him at a UIC game I was doing with you, he just came to launch basketball. And one of our ridiculous players went, "Ah, he's not that good, I'm not even worried about it." Well, we'll have his lunch with his line, we'll have his lunch. And yeah, he got like 37. Yeah. And then go for you. Oh no. Yeah. I remember Coach McDougal coming in and going, "How's his lunch taste?" Yeah. Oh man. There's no need to run your mouth like that. Yeah. There isn't. Just play with confidence, have fun like Caleb to the ref. That was pretty sweet, huh? But there's no need to demean another player talking to you, Shay. Guys that get to that level have accomplished a lot. Here's Shay Norley. I'm just a sports fan. That's all I am. And you have every right to boo-hobby for striking out four times and being a bad signing for your Tigers to stand there on video and call him loser. No guy that finished second the MVP won a World Series and played a crucial role in it. That's fine. He's a loser. I'm very happy for you and I'm very happy for Cubs fans. I don't know how we got onto this at this point, but whatever. Oh yeah. I'm very happy for Cubs fans and for you, Capy. He is a villain in my story. He has less wins above replacement with the Tigers than Anthony Rendon has with the Angels. I get it. Anthony Rendon doesn't play. You can boo him. I get that, Shay. Don't ever call him a loser. He's not a loser. That's wrong. Well, well, it's wrong to you because he helped your team win a World Series championship. His viewpoint is different because you've seen bias as a Tiger. If that's his viewpoint, you know, he's not even close to being the kind of play he was with the Cubs cap. So he's entitled to his opinion. He sees it every night. You know, but it's terrible. Yes, and I have no problem booing a player on his product. No problem with it. The loser part is what bothered me. No, but you know what? He's making star money, $26 million a year. He goes up money. I don't care. He goes up there every at bat wearing that uniform, swinging at stuff with, you need a water hose to even have a chance. 15 feet off the plate. Basically, the pitch is going to hit the pitch clock. He's just swinging away out of his shoes. DGA F at bats every time F that the death that can bother me as a fan. I see a dude getting paid millions to play a kids game and he's just phoning it in. Why can't I call him a loser? He's not phoning it in. He's trying. What would you say? He's not even slugging 300. He keeps, it's been three years of swinging the pitches and the opposing batter's box. Again, bad productivity. I get it, boo away the productivity. If you told me he was being a jerk to little kids, being a jerk to the media, not signing on. Dude, that guy plays with passion. He has fun playing. He plays hard. He's, as said, it's killing me how bad I'm playing, but he's trying. That's my point. Losers don't compete. They don't hustle. They jake it going down the first baseline. He doesn't. He's not a loser. If he were trying, he would have changed. If he were trying, he would have changed the approach at some point in three years. He would have stopped swinging the pitches that are landing in the other batter's box. Like come on. If he were really trying, he would stop doing this. You're better than that, Shay. You're better than that. Back to the football discussion already. Anthony and Schumburg on Captain Jacob. Anthony. Good morning. Good morning, guys. I don't know what all the hatred for the PG episodes of Hardback is for, because I watch it with my family now. Like my fiance like said, I get to watch it with my eight year old, you know, that talk with Nick Saban. I think that's like dynamite for the kids to watch. I watched, I watched the Miami Dolphins by myself because there's every other word as a cuss word. And it's just like it's, you can't watch it with your family. So I actually like it. Who's hating on the Bears hard knocks? The guy on the other side of the glass, because he needs to be able to hear F bombs. I just tell you about the PBS version. But no, it's nice. And then also Mike McDaniel's is a little awkward. Great coach. He's a genius. But watching the Miami Dolphins hard knocks, he's a little awkward. Okay. This speeches are off. Okay. We appreciate telephone call. I don't, I don't think this players feel that he's awkward. They think he's kind of cool and kind of, yeah, what's his name? Brian Flores. Yeah. He's cerebral compared to Brian Flores. But we'll get into this. I thought it was interesting. He had two of his current players flanking him, like show and support. Like dudes love playing for Brian Flores. And he, what did he say, hoodie? What was his quote? I've evolved. Yep. I said to you yesterday, this is a crisis moment for him. Like he needs Dennis Cullerton to be up there, the crisis man, and go, here's how you got to handle this. Because if he came out, I got no car, man, I coach hard. If I'm an owner, I'm like, that dude hasn't learned at all. Toa called him out and it might be the best thing for Brian Flores's career. Because he had thought he handled himself very well at the podium, very well. Many are looking at the Bears as a playoff team. Does everyone feel that way? We will get a strong opinion about where the Bears could be in the hearts of one, someone very special to us. We will get to that coming up next on cap and Jhood. Welcome back to cap and Jhood. You're officially like this. On Chicago's home for sports ESPN, Chicago. It's a cap and Jhood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app like to remind you coming up at eight o'clock. We'll give you a shot or no shot and then we'll go around the NFL and right into a waddle Wednesday at 835 right here on ESPN 1000. So Michelle Smallman from Unsportsmanlike, the show that takes place before us cap between five and seven, Evan Cohen, Chris Canty was on yesterday and Michelle Smallman. You know, she is going through her NFL bachelor rep teams. And this morning, she's been shedding teams and throwing teams to the floor like no, no, you can't get a rose. You can't get a rose, but it looks like cap that we've worn her down. I think that the Chicago Bears are in the mix for the team that she could follow. Remember, she's from St. Louis. So she doesn't have a team. Let's go, Michelle. So she's looking for an NFL team to root for this year and beyond and Michelle. The Pittsburgh Steelers feel like the St. Louis Cardinals. And that feels like home to me, right? They have that history of winning. They have a fan base that is so passionate. You're born into it. It's such an important fabric of your life to be a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. And that feels like home to me, but Illinois is quite literally my home. Give it to the Chicago Bears. I'm an Illinois girl through and through while I am not a Chicago fan. I don't like the Cubs. I certainly don't like the Blackhawks. I'm willing to give the Chicago Bears a try here to see if it fits. Van lifted. She's we're in the mix cap. We're in the mix. Michelle Snowman from St. Louis doesn't have a team because her team is in Los Angeles. And she's looking for a team to root for. And I think that we've got her to a point where I think she's going to pick the Bears. Van lifted. Even if she doesn't end up choosing them as the winner of the one rose or the ring or whatever you want to call it, I don't want to show. Van lifted. Van lifted. She's an Illinois girl. She is putting a lot of thought into this. So the only member of unsportsman like that remains on the do not fly list is named Evan Cohen. Only Evan Cohen will be remaining. We had Chris Canty on yesterday. You could hear a great conversation about the Bears with him on our on ESPN Chicago on our podcast page. But yeah, Evan Cohen, the only one left that has not been on the show lately because of the ban that you've implemented on him. He's on the do not fly list till the end of the month. And then once the page of the calendar turns, we still have calendars that we turn pages on. Yes. And on my wife has one. As soon as it says September, ban lifted. All right. For show. That'll be all good with me. Cap, I have to do a me a culpa based on what we saw in hard knocks yesterday. Oh, let's hear it. Well, based on yesterday in the episode, I've been trying to cut this guy for three weeks, and it looks like he could stay now Austin Reed seeing Keisha Cole in front of the team. That was awesome. He's in the high notes too. And I love the whole team is in there. The coaches, the executive, all of them. And they're all participating in in Hollywood. It was awesome. You got to love it because it's good nature. It's a good nature, nature rib and the coaching staff, the most of the players knew the song. And it's not what you expect, right? It's Austin Reed coming up there. You think he's going to sing something else. He sings Keisha Cole and then I figured Western Kentucky, he's going to do some kind of country song. And he didn't. It was super cool. And so here's a football question. Yeah. What's the second here? Do they keep Austin Reed much like a Tyson Beigeant signing where undrafted free agent? We'd like to keep him. He'll be the number three, obviously won't get a lot of reps, he'll work with the practice squad guys, but we're going to keep him because we know what Brett Ripon is. He's been around six years. Or do they keep Brett Ripon because he's been around six years? Like, if you see anything in Austin Reed, you got to keep him, right? If you do see something, yes. But I just think that, you know, for Brett Ripon, he knows he's not going to play here. Beigeant is locked in at number two. If you're Brett Ripon, you're looking for an opportunity to play someplace else and maybe be a backup there, like a number two, if possible, but there's no room in the end cap. It's pretty tight. All these rosters and the depth charts of these rosters. It's tight. It is. And they're going to be scouring it for hmm, that guy hit the street. And when you, that's the thing that polls told you and I, it's going to be hard to make this roster, which means whether it's Miami or Kansas City or Baltimore or the Rams, like the really, really good organizations, they're going to have to let guys go that will be big time upgrades on other rosters and we're still in the upgrade mode yet. Yeah. So, so Shay, I think that Ripon goes someplace else. That's a veteran. And for Austin Reed, he's just clinging on. Like I've said the last two, three weeks, like I know Hard Knocks is looking for stories. Austin Reed's parents have been on the show last couple of weeks, not yesterday's episode. I mean, you know, the old adage, the Ron Wolf theory is to draft a quarterback every year, if you can, because you just never know. But in this case, cab, Caleb Williams is the guy. And then you have a backup there. That's not a huge drop off. He was two and two last year, wasn't he? Tyson Beijing. He was two and two. And you know what I thought was cool too. He's not just along the cash, a few checks. He's making 900 grand this year, great money. But if his NFL journey ended today, it's not like he's made enough money that he never has to work again, the rest of his life. He said, quote, there are things I want to accomplish in the NFL too, like he gets it that he's the backup to Caleb and it's about Caleb. He gets all of it. And he's a great influence in the room. And he said, there's any insight because I've already done this for a year that I can provide. I'm all in to help him. But there are things I want to accomplish in a national football league. And I thought that was super cool. So the big question is, do you keep a developmental guy who's not ready to play in Austin Reed, or do you keep a six year NFL vet who has never proven that he's an NFL regular season starting quarterback? He's an emergency thing at the best. Break glass in case of emergency, all right, we got a third guy. What do you do? I'm really, I'm not trying to be flippant, I just, I don't think it matters. We're talking about the third quarterback on the roster. If you're in a position where that guy's starting your season's over. Tom Brady, your childhood hero said, I was seventh on the depth chart. If you were covering Michigan back then you had said, well, who cares about the seventh guy on the roster? Turn into the goat. You never, Kurt Warner was bagging groceries. You don't know what you have. Yeah. I get it. It's just like the exception, not the rule, like if we, but what if the exception happens to be that dude or a bagent? Well, I'll cap to answer the question since you asked the question. My answer to the question is not to be, not to be this guy, but you can kind of find Brett Rippin on the scrap heap like that's why I keep Austin Reed. Yeah. I'm not there for every drill in every meeting. If they feel at all, hmm. Not bad, needs to be developed, got a shot. Like I'd rather keep him then than Brett Rippin. I always have a young guy on the practice squad if he can. I actually, if we can do this later in the show, I would like to go through some of the backup quarterbacks in the league because I think we are elevating like the Brett Rippin Austin Reed value a little bit much. Nobody's dying to pick up Brett Rippin. If Brett Rippin hits the scrap heap, he's probably going to be on the couch. You just have to quit. I'll just ask the question. You're just making the, I'm kind of answering it in my way is I really don't, I really don't think it matters. No, but I think it's the same thing like Austin Reed. If he hits, if he gets cut, nobody's dying to pick up Austin Reed. One of the backups or a third string guys someplace else would have to get hurt to make that something. You don't know that because if, what's his name hoodie, Tyson Beijing had gotten released last year? Yeah. Somebody might have said, I'll take that kid and try and develop him. out of no shots in two minutes on CAP and JHUT.