Kap & J. Hood

9/6 7 AM: Bears Friday!

It's a Bears Friday on Kap and J. Hood! The crew breaks down this weekend's opening matchup versus the Tennessee Titans! How confident are the guys going into Sunday? Also, Jesse Rogers joins the show to discuss Anthony Rizzo's return to Wrigley Field.

Duration:: 47m
Broadcast on:: 06 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

This is your morning routine, this is respectable me, Captain G Hood. That's right, that's right, we're bad, uh-uh. Watch the show on Twitch, follow ESPN1000Chicago. Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app, and on in there. 100.3 HD2, and on ESPN1000Chicago. Now, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Bring 'em out, bring 'em out. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, God. Welcome in to the Captain J. Hood Morning Show. On ESPN1000, and we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood with you, we've got J. We've got Jack. We've got you. For three hour ride on this Bears, Football Friday with open phone lines for you, 3-1-2. 3-3-2 ESPN, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number reminding you that the first game of the regular season takes place Sunday with the Bears and the Titans. Our full coverage starts at 7 AM with Jeff Miller, with his fantasy football show moving forward throughout all of our pregame with Sylvie and Lance Briggs and Dion Miller. Make sure that you're locked in to the home of the Bears all season long. ESPN1000 starting Sunday at 7 AM and CAP cannot wait. We've been waiting for a long time and we're finally here with the Bears and the Titans. And I just think that this will be one of the most interesting seasons that we've had in a long time. Think about it. We've had some seasons where he said, "Oh, this won't be the year. They're going to kind of tank or boy. It's going to be underwater. They're still trying to build toward something, but this season will tell a great story about Ryan Polls, about Mattie Refluce, and what they've built here in the off season is we get ready for the Bears and Titans." Everybody's so excited and rightly so. Now, there are the Eddies from the North Side and others out there who are like, "Well, we were excited last year too." I think there was excitement, buzz, but there was more trepidation because we hadn't seen it yet from Justin. I think he might be the guy and we were as guilty as anybody to go, "Okay, that's our guy. He was our guy. Great athlete." This is different. The Bears have never, ever had the pick of the litter. They walked into the draft and went, "We get the best guy. Who is it? Do the homework." They studied everything about this kid. Then they surround him with DeAndre Swift, Keenan Allen, DJ Moore, Roma Dunes. They add some upgrades to the offensive line. "Dude, I have not looked forward to a Bears opener in a very, very, very long time like this." Now again, Tennessee's gotten good players. I don't know if we'll love us as the guy. They don't know if he's the guy. It's read an article last night where they said, "We're going to give him this year and see if he is the guy. If he's not, they're going to pick near the top of the draft and they'll get their quarterback." But I cannot wait for Sunday to see our team, to see our quarterback, let's freaking go. As you well know, when it comes to home shopping cap, you can go to many homes in many different neighborhoods. I think that when you're looking for a home, you want to get a 10 out of 10 if you can, right? Get the curb appeal, the big size bedroom, make sure that you have enough desk space for your office, make sure you have a basement or whatever you need as far as extra rooms. You feel like if it's not 10 out of 10, it's 8 out of 10. But for your wife and you or your partner and you, you're thinking, "This is perfect. This is exactly what we want." But and there's always a but and we've heard that but a lot this summer where people say, "You know what? I like what they've been able to do. This home looks good, but is it because your gym is 20 minutes away? It's because the public transportation is not where you want it. You know, is it too far away from where you work? It's always something. It's like, "I like it, but," and when it comes to the bears, I think a lot of the calls we've had. I'd say the majority of the calls is like, "Yeah, you know what? I'm looking forward to the season." But because there's so many that look at the curb appeal of the Chicago Bears and say, "I like this team, however, I've been there before." Well, wait a minute. We haven't been there before because of what the Bears have been able to build. This home is exactly what you want. You should move into this home that Ryan Polls has built. You know why? Because it's built to last. You don't have to worry about flooding, Cap, when you've got DJ Moore and Roma Dunze and Ken Allen. You don't have to worry about the brick and the issues as far as the tuck pointing when it comes to several tight ends and cold commit and Joe Everett. You don't have to worry about the structure of the home, Cap, when you think about the defense, especially the secondary that this team has. Again, you have not been there before because many years leading into a season, you know, we've seen holes in a roster. That's not right. That's not... Okay, well, we got this, but that's not right. It's very few things that you circle on this depth chart where you say, "I'm not ready to move into this home." Yeah, again, would I love to have an all-pro Trent Williams, a left tackle? Sure. Would I love to have Creed Humphrey from the Chiefs playing center for us? Sure. Yeah. Sure. But like you said, when you go shopping for a home, you got to do it on your budget. Sure. I can go look for a house with Mindy and I can't afford what Matt Iber flew spies up in a lake forest. He's got a lake and a forest. Yeah. He's got both. Yeah. Yeah. He's right off the lake and it's multi-millions in his home. We're not at that level, okay? But you got to find what works for you. And the Bears did, I think, a magnificent job of upgrading their roster and putting a support system around a young quarterback. Do I think they're at the level of the Chiefs and the Ravens yet? I don't. Can they get there? Maybe. Maybe they're another draft and free agency class away, but it's here three now and in the National Football League, when you go from three to seven, you better take the next step. If they go out and win five, six ballgames, there's going to be a lot of people going, hang on a second now, King Paul's. What's going on here? Iber Flus, get out. I believe this is a 11-win football team. I do. I really do. I really look at that kid totally different than any quarterback I'd looked at. I hoped Mitch would be the guy he wasn't. We missed. I hoped Justin would be the guy he wasn't. This kid, if this one doesn't work, I don't know how you fix that. You've done everything right from how you studied him, from how you brought him here, how you got him to playbook early, like Albert Breer talked about. In March, they're doing install. He hadn't even drafted yet to getting Keenan Allen and all these other dudes. If this doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you. Yes, what Damien Woody said is like, if the Bears can't get this right, they'll never get it right. I know that was polarizing when he said that on Sports Center, but that's the thing. Cap, I think for perspective, you go back to those other quarterbacks that you mentioned. Mitchell Travisky, as well as Justin Fields, and look at those rosters. Just take a look at the roster. Look at the depth charts of when they first started with the Chicago Bears, and then compared to what Caleb Williams has. See, infrastructure is big when we talk about this, right? With Mitchell Travisky, again, yeah, you hoped it worked out, but it was, he supplied with everything that he needed. Like Caleb Williams says, everything he needs, he had three wide receivers cap. He has three rookies of his ilk, only get one, maybe. Right? As Price Young was happening in Carolina, let's go through the, look at the rookie quarterbacks and look at the lack of weapons that many rookie quarterbacks have. I mean, God bless CJ Stroud, he got everything that he needed enough to be able to get to the playoffs last year. But my point is though, is that think about Mitch, I think about Justin, and then now think about Caleb Williams as far as the roster around him. Big difference. Correct. Like when they go, like, Alan Robinson was with Mitch. It's fine. Fine? Yeah. I remember he won a 20 million a year, Brian Pace, the old GM said, absolutely not. He never got paid and he's, I don't even know if he's on a roster anymore. He got waived this summer by the Giants. When you have Keenan Allen, like, look at what CJ Stroud had last year. Nico Collins, Tank Dell, good players, but you didn't start the season and go, wow, look at that wide receiver room. He made them really good players. Our guy, he's rolling in with DJ Moore, who just got paid one of the highest contracts in the NFL wide receiver. The biggest, the Bears have ever paid, Keenan Allen, a six-time pro bowler, Roma Dunezay, who was a top 10 NFL draft pick, an all-American at Washington. Tyler Scott, it gives you a great speed. He's your four. Yes. World-class speed. Right. Mm-hmm. I'm ready for Sunday, man. Let's kick it off and let's find out where we're at. So a lot of things that we've been reading over the last, say, six weeks or so as far as previewing the Bears season is based on people looking at the roster and saying, hmm, this could be this year's Lions or this year's Houston Texans, meaning that you can't get away from how good this roster is as far as difference makers on a cap. Again, three wide receivers and two tight ends and a strong, strong is a rock secondary where they could be opportunistic and turn the field over for the offense. So I like that comparison and if that is the case where the Bears are like the Lions of last year or the Houston Texans, that's a playoff team. Now you have 11 wins and I'm locking it in at nine and eight and the reason why it's nine and eight and a playoff team is because if it's a supersede nine wins, you know I'm happy, right? I'm happy. Mm-hmm. But I always think about how everything gels in the first year of all of this happening at the same time. It's a crucial year for Ebert Flus, but it's a season that I think that he can survive because this will be the first time ever as a head coach that he will coach a team that's over 500. I can lock that in. That's going to happen. He can do that. Unless there's injuries that we don't know about it and they become a mass unit, this team should be built to last to be one of the playoff teams in the NFC. I don't think there's any question about it. The roster says so. I agree with you. However, as I will stand on this as well, because it is a rookie quarterback, a rookie wide receiver, a first time offensive coordinator with this team with Shane Waldron, I just think that there's going to be growing pains here or there. It's just, that's what it is. I would love for it to be perfect, but I know that there's always going to be growing pains. We talked about this a couple of days ago about Caleb Williams. And I said, you know, and you brought the point up, you said, there's going to be times where he's going to scramble and he's going to revert back to his time at USC. Like, oh, I got time. I'm just going to run backwards for 10 yards. Damn. Yeah. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere, he sprawled out and it's like, oh, Caleb got hit with the, he got knocked the F out. How that happened? Well, because you can't just do loopy loops. Hey, only one guy in the NFL could do that. And that's Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. I watched him do loopy loops last night when, oh my God, yeah, he's because he's special that way. Everyone wants to reach that level at Steph Curry in cleats. That's who that's who we see in Patrick Mahomes. And I hope our guy becomes that, but you got to earn that. That's why I'm saying that there's going to be games cap. We're going to come in here on Monday, like, how do we lose that game against that team? How that happened? There's a quarterback reverted back to his old ways and his old individual tendencies. And it's always fine for college, but there's a difference and you're going to see it. Correct. And we all see it every year with rookie quarterbacks cap. They revert back to, well, I got time. I'm just going to draw it up in the dirt. I got time. We're going to rip the playbook up. We don't need to hold on a second. You have to be able to be what it to your playbook and what you're doing. If you got to throw the ball away, throw the ball away. I never did that in college. I'll just run around. I'll find a guy open. No, you won't. Those doors close. Correct. I fell quickly. Jeffrey Simmons is coming to eat on Sunday and if people out there are like, who? That guy's one of the best past rushers in the national football league and he has made it public. I'm coming for Caleb better get the football out. Yeah. 2.5 seconds with Tom Brady says, if it's more than that, it's the QB's fault. No one else. All the practices and the scrimmages in the world, cannot be able to give you exactly what he's got. Got coming up on Sunday against the Titans, right? Because I was with Thayer last night and a huge shout out to Jule, their 125th anniversary. They did a huge event with the Chicago Social Club. There was a volleyball event. Tom and I were the hosts of it. It was awesome, awesome, but I was talking to Thayer and he made it. Thank you, Tom. And I learned some things about Thayer, oh my goodness, wait till I tell you. He made a great point, great point. He said, there's no more red jersey on Caleb. Caleb could drop back and if he held the ball for 5 seconds in training camp, no one's hitting him. They'll get his face, but they know they have to pull up. The red jersey means you can't be touched. No red jerseys on Sunday. Yep. They may play you in the ground and they'll take the 15 yard penalty. They're going to send a message. What are you going to do about it? So all I can tell you, Cap, is that to me, this is a winning team, this is a playoff team. Now what are they going to do about it? It's all about what you're going to do on the field. It all looks good. It's in a nice package, nice bow on it, nice blue and orange bow on it. Now what are you going to do about it? It'll be one of those teams where you have talent and it never manifested itself. That would suck. That would suck. That would suck because time's running out on Matty Reflow's and a number of these players if they can't get it done. This is year three. Got to win now. Yeah. So I love our GM. Sure. He'll tell you. Got to win. Because if not. I don't stand still, man. No it doesn't. No it doesn't. So how confident are you in the Bears that they can get a win on Sunday against Titans? Let's talk about it. 312-332-ESPN-3323776, our phone number Shayla's over the phone lines and talk to you, the Bear fan, coming up next on the home of the Bears, Cap and Jay Hood. Follow Chicago's Home for Sports on Twitter at ESPN1000. Cap and Jay Hood are back on ESPN Chicago, Chicago's Home for Sports. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. It's the Bears. Football Friday on the Cap and Jay Hood Morning Show on ESPN1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Here's hoping that you have a great weekend. 312-332-3776, our phone number. How confident are you that the Bears will get a win on Sunday? So we're talking to you about the Bears fans. Our last time that Cap and I could talk to you about the Bears until we get to our Bears Monday. So if you haven't called this week, what a great opportunity for you to talk about the Bears, your prediction and also your confidence level and whether or not the Bears can win their first game. We reflect back to last year where we thought, okay, this is the time to change and the time to change was not there for the Bears because they fell flat against the Packers. What about the Titans? The schedule also, Cap is also setting up nicely for the Bears almost collegiate for Roma Dunes A and for Caleb Williams. You're playing all your non-conference early and then you start getting into the division in mid November. So unusual. I cannot remember a schedule like this for the Chicago Bears where they're taking all these non-division opponents until November. It's not saying it's softer. It's just different. It is. But look, they're all, you get to the NFL, your quality football. Quality football player doesn't mean your team's going to win the Super Bowl. But every week you're going to face some players that are going to make life very difficult for you. Sure. Tennessee, no exception. Well, let's go. I mean, Lagerius Sneed came over from the Chiefs, got paid, Calvin Ridley, got paid, the Andre Hopkins. He's a stud, Jeffrey Simmons, who I mentioned. There's good players there. As we go to the phone lines, we got you guys to talk to Tom Thayer. If you miss it, we talk to Tom Thayer every Thursday at nine o'clock right here on Cap and J-hood. And he gave his letter grade for the offensive line. Again, a big conversation piece every year with the Bears. But what about what we've seen from training camp into preseason, his official letter grade for the offensive line going into the Titans game is, you know, I'm going to give you a solid C right now. And as a C, but with the curve and all that, I could probably give you a B minus at the end of Sunday. If they're able to control Tavondre Sweat in the middle 6-4, 3-6-6, Jeffrey Simmons is one of the best defensive tackles in the league. And he's healthy now that Aaron Donald is no longer in the league. And Denard, the defensive coordinator, he's creative, man. He's going to bring blitzes that are going to outnumber the amount of blockers that the Bears have available to them, either in the middle to the right or the left. So if the offensive line can get that running game going like Cap wants, and then when it becomes down to the obvious second long, third and long, and if they can provide the realistic amount of protection time for Caleb, then the offensive line has a chance just to upgrade their C that I'm giving them before the season starts. See, Cap, that bothers me just because I want to get Thayer on the record with this. We asked him before training camp, what do you think of the offensive line? Ah, it's incomplete. Okay. So now, now what it is. Now that you've seen him in practice and through the preseason game of C, a C is not good enough with a rookie quarterback. It isn't. Agreed. My hope is that we're not marching in here every day talking about how the offensive line didn't hold up for this rookie quarterback. C is not good enough. Like, so we're talking about Braxton Jones, Kevin Jenkins, Coleman Shelton, Nate Davis and Darnell Wright, okay? It's got to get better. Maybe it's not good now, but hopefully by the time we get to week 18, it is better. The one thing I would tell you is Caleb could also help his offensive line by getting the football out on time. Yeah. He forces them to hold, if he holds it, like Justin did, you're going to hear Thayer yelling, throw it. Ball's got to come out. It has to come out on time. I'll say it again, Brady says two and a half, he goes, I can give you two, two and three quarters. Anything more than that? I don't care what the O line did. It's on me. You know, the difference between like the secondary and linebackers and offensive line? Well, the secondary, I'm sure that that is the strength of the team. The linebackers you don't hear a lot about and that's a good thing because they're just doing their job. Yep. We're not complaining about the linebackers every week because it's a receiver room. Why receiver running back room? Those are good. I receive her on paper. We haven't seen them together, but on paper, that should be excellent. It should be very productive. Could be the best room in the building. Now the offensive line. Look, you get what you pay for, Roman Shelton's on a one-year deal for $3 million. Now the optimist says, well, he started all 17 games for the Rams last year. The pessimist says, and then why didn't they bring him back? The optimist says, well, he started 30 games in two years and the optimist says, the why isn't he still there if he's that good? The pessimist will also tell you, do you see the center last night for the Chiefs? Yeah. My name's Creed Humphrey. He just signed for $70 million. Our guy's getting three. There's a difference. The guy for the Ravens, Tyler Linderbaum. He's really good. Young, spry. Yeah, we don't have one of those. We got a journeyman. That's what that guy is. He's a journeyman. He's okay. It's in a tough spot at the center, though, as for a journeyman. You understand what I mean, like you want someone that's anchor there, where they're tied together for years. Well, we had that when Olin played. Yeah. How about now? Right. You, at some point, you're going to have to go out and draft a really, really accomplished center and you're going to have to grow them or you're going to have to go pay a fortune in free agency, a fortune. Dammit, Doug Kramer, what are you not doing that you can't get on the field? Kramer. He's a roster, so he must be getting better because they let him go last year. Then the Bengals pick him up and then they released them and we took him back. Hopefully he's getting better. Come on, Doug. But you've got to find an anchor in the middle there that identifies everything and helps a young quarterback. We got a journeyman. That is a fact. The Doug Kramer family is listening right now and they're unhappy with me. All I'm saying is, come on, Doug, you've been in the Bears uniform now twice and you're still behind on the depth chart. Let's go. Yeah. Exactly. Doug. Let's go. Geez. If you're any good, we have to worry about that position for five years. Kelsey, right there, Jason Kelsey up doing TVs on our monitor right now. He was one of the linchpins to why that team has been so good for so many years. When they ran the Tush push, everyone in Philly said, because that guy's the single best center in football, he knows how to do it. Okay. He was making $15 million a year. You get what you pay for. Still the tone we'll hear from Matt. He refludes the head coach for the Bears as we get ready for the Bears and Titans. Our coverage starts at 7 a.m. on Sunday right here on the home of the Bears. ESPN 1000. Let's go. The phone lines to talk to you. Tony is on the South Side. He's with us on Cap and Jay Hood. Hey, Tony. Good morning. Tony, what's up, man? Tony Radio down, Tony. Sorry about that. What's going on? What's up? Nothing. I just wanted to reiterate the fact that I do think the Bears is going to win. And I think we're going to win more than nine games and that's not giving us a number. He said more than nine. So what is that? 13. That means 10 or 10 or more. Okay. I mean, that's what normally more than nine means. No, they actually, if you're going to give more than nine, it would be either 10 or 11. You actually give a firm number. Yeah. Pick a number. Okay. Okay. More than nine means 10. Okay. So I think we can actually win 11, but again. So which is it? Is it 10 or 11, Tony? I'm going to go 11 now. I'm going to go 11. What about 12? That's a good number. That's it. That's how confident I feel about this squad. So what about 12 wins 12? You know what? It was like, you know, I was, you guys were talking about Patrick Mahomes and I was saying to myself, you know, Patrick Mahomes at the time of learning, if he comes in and do something similar at the time of coming in, starting, I think he can do 12, I guarantee you if he comes in and you know, God is going to have a blessing with a little luck and, you know, kicking with the scheme and the scheme actually working and then they don't call these, you know, I know you're seeing some of the, um, but who calls up players that they use last year. Yeah. You know what? You know, because of the soft schedule early, I would say maybe 13. Would you have about 13 wins for the Bears, Tony? What do you think? Wow. And you said soft schedule and you and I also heard you say earlier about you haven't seen a schedule of this, of this difference. And I thought they'd be at that on purpose. So we can see how we compare outside the league and then we go to the black and blue division and we, and, you know, that's when we have to start showing up. So 13, that sounds good. Right? Good round number 13. Yeah. You know, I'm, I'm going to say 12. I'm looking better on 13, but I'm going to say 12. Almost had him. Kathy. I thought you were going to get him a 17 and again, I could not be more excited. Cap. Cap. He called in with 10. We got him. He called in with a little flippin. It's more than nine means 10. Okay. We'll pick a number. Okay. Okay. 11. All right. I'll go to 12. 13 is going to be tough. I thought you were going to get him a 17. I couldn't get him there. You went to 13. Carol, you're premiering and all the old dolphins are all sweating. Oh my God. Okay. I want to read you something. I tried Jack, but I think 13 was unlucky for me. I got a tweet from Chris Nardi. All right. He listens every day. You guys are bringing negative energy that Caleb's going to get hurt. Caleb's going to get smashed in his first game. Jesus. What negative energy? I just told you screaming from the mountaintops that I've never been more excited for an opener. That's our kid. That's our guy out there. Let's go. Well, no, first of all, first of all, no one said that. If you want. Here's the one thing I always give a little bit of advice for our listeners. If you're going to listen to the show, turn it on and actually listen to it. Right. Like Chris, if you have negative energy, you're the one channeling it. You're the one bringing it. Just put your heart on the freaking table. Get yourself some good vittles. Get ready for the game on Sunday and let's freak and go. Man up. No, no one said anything. We're talking about positivity with the Chicago Bears and we're talking about the good and the questionable about the team, but again, you hear what you want to hear. Just keep listening. Try to listen. Since you have the show on, just turn on and listen. Like Chris, you're better than that. I'm Tony. Isn't that right? Yeah, yeah. All right. We go back to the phone. I have to talk to you. 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN is our phone number. Brooklyn, New York listening on the ESPN Chicago up here's Derek on Captain Jay Hood. Derek, good morning. Hey, Cap, hoodie. Good morning. How are you, man? I'm doing great. Family. I'm doing great. Just want to. I'm trying to remember real quick. Listen, Cap. Cap, hoodie, man, let's say something. You, you absolutely correct these listeners. They don't listen. You know, they don't. They hear you speak, but they don't listen. You know what I mean? So, but let me say this real quick. I think the bears are going. This is just my pain. I think the bears are going to win 27 to 13. That's just me. Sure. And here's the thing about Caleb. I'm just a quick comparison between him and Justin. When the whole training campaign the couple of years Justin was there, we always will get negative reports with the Caleb situation. We always just heard about him getting better. The only knock as far as, you know, coaching is that he has to make sure he gets the ball out in two point, whatever seconds. 2.75 max, Brady says. Correct. And I'm sure he's working very hard on that. He's being very diligent. He's a very hard worker. So comparing Caleb's football IQ to Justin's football IQ IQ is night and day. His is much better, but there will be mistakes made. And my last little thing is a kind of a off topic real quick. Yeah. I wanted you to comment on what you think about Jalen Johnson. His conflict being more motivated because of the situation with Patrick Sertane getting a bigger deal than him. So I just want to hang up and listen and see what your common is as far as like, do you feel he will be more aggressive as far as his play because of the fact that somebody else signed in his position that's making more? Listen, love you guys. Go bears. Let's go win Sunday, baby. Peace out. I'm not. All right, Derek. We appreciate your cell phone call. I love that guy's passion. Jalen Johnson's motivated by anything that's negative against him is what we talked about before about young players, cap, social media, feeling slighted. I mean, from an ESPN 100 list and him not being on the list, he's slighted by that. And he should be. Yeah. I mean, so whatever it takes, right, Sertane or what we're talking about here within the NFL 100 list, he's always thinking like, no one's thinking about me. No one's thinking about the bears. Whatever it takes. Let me ask you a question. If they came out today with a list of the top 10 morning shows and we weren't on it. Dude, I'd be again, everyone knew that stuff should just roll off your back. Who cares? Guess what? That wouldn't motivate me. Sure. I'm motivated every day, every single day, but that would motivate me. There's no question. However, that NPR show, pretty good in the morning. Pretty solid. Pretty solid. Yeah. It's a very wispery. By the way, nice job by the mix going 0 and 6 in this volleyball tournament last night. They had a team that mix. Yeah. Good luck to you. Mix 0 and 6 out first round. Oh, God. Seacrest. Horrible and volleyball. Horrible. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, ESPN, 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 7, 6 is our phone number. Hey, Shay. If they said you weren't in the top 250 morning show producers in Chicago, wouldn't you be bombed? Jesus, man. I stopped 250. I'd be lucky if I made it to the next day. Yeah. I'd be looking to probably euthanize myself. Outside the top, there's not to go 150 shows. On way to climb, kid. Yeah. On way to climb. Holy cow. Keep grinding, kid. More of your phone calls coming up. I'd be selling insurance. 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, ESPN, 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 6 is our telephone number. How confident are you that the Bears will get a win on Sunday? In just your win total, it's our last time that we talk about the Bears and Titans before Monday. So check in with us on the cap and Jhood morning show. Follow Chicago's Home for Sports on Twitch at ESPN1000Chicago. Captain Jhood are back on Chicago's Home for Sports. ESPN Chicago. What? Dirty piston song. Remember that, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, god. Final countdown. Europe. God. Take that out of the system. This song. Jesus Christ. Detroit. Joe Doomer's. Oh, god. That was your theme, is you remember the pistons? When you saw that, when you heard that song, it was like, oh, god, I'm going to get beat by the pistons again. Bruno. Captain Jhood on ESPN1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Jesse Rogers will join us coming up in our next segment. So let's get your calls in on the Bears. 312-332-3776 is our phone number, Simon in Houston, Texas, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. How confident are you that the Bears will get a win on Sunday? Simon, good morning. Morning. I'm very confident. I'm feeling good about this team. You know, every year I feel the same way that we don't have any elite stars or explosive players that could change the game in one play. Like, always solid players, but never that top five player that could take it to the house. This year feels different. It feels like, on offense, we should finally have multiple guys. You should be able to be much better than the guy matching up against them and be able to have explosive plays and explosive play should be the norm, not the exception. So that's what I'm really excited about. And I feel like that defense could be good enough that even if Caleb has some games where he doesn't play great or looks like a rookie, the defense should at least keep us in the game. Not necessarily will win every game like that, but they should keep us in ball games, even when Caleb doesn't have a day game. Simon, you know, Cap is in a survivor pool. Do you think you should take the Bears first and week one? Yes. There you go. You can only use a team once and my brother and I are doing this and it's in Vegas. It's a big deal, like a big deal. And I really want to use the beloved bear, like, we don't know yet the percentage of who took what, but there are a billion that are going to take the bangles to beat the Patriots because they don't, there's no point spread. You just got to win. Yeah. Yeah. But if the somehow not saying it'll happen, but if somehow the Patriot upset them, like 70% of one of the pools I was in, when the bear beat the 49ers a couple of years ago, we won three games. We won opener against the 40 knocked out 70% of the pool in week one, because everyone went, well, there's a guaranteed win. Not so much this NFL, man. You just never know. This is why you're in the pool because you'd never know. You just because the bear or the bears are going to win on Sunday, but I'm not sure if that's the pick. I think you agree with that. It didn't have to be. Right. It didn't have to be, but I mean, I know you go with your heart and week one, you could always wait until week six or seven. You can kind of find out where the bears are. Right. Yeah. They're all the pens. Right. There's no wrong. Like I like Seattle to be Denver. I don't know. I mean, that's tough, man. So what's with money on the line? Dallas, Texas, listening on the ESPN Chicago ad winner only pays 12 million. What do you want me to tell you? Here's Cornell on cap and Jhood Cornell. Good morning. Good morning. What's up, guy? Hey, man. Where are you at? Cornell. We can't hear you. I mean, Dallas, Texas. What's going on? Man. So I love you guys a list here every morning. I believe that our offense is going to, we're going to see a bear's offense. I was 11 when we won the Super Bowl. We're going to see a, we're going to see a bear's offense that has the best third wide receiver in the league. There's no corner back in this league is going to be able to hold Rome ever. So I got it at 12 wins, I'm in a fantasy football league, everybody trashes us every year, but every year they pick our players. So to me, that's the sign of respect is you have a fantasy league and everybody is picking Caleb and Keenan and DJ and Roman. I got our defense. So I got it at 12 wins. I love you guys, man. And I listen every morning and some of the callers upset me. Some of them don't. That's what I got. I want to let you guys know that Rome, Rome, Rome, I love that as the next factor. I picked them in my fantasy. I'm in two leagues. I picked them in both. That's lovely. All right. Cornell, we're preaching the phone call. We mentioned at Matt Eber Flus, the head coach for the Bears. He gives his thoughts on the excitement from Caleb Williams debut. It's exciting. It really is. I'm excited to see him and I'm excited to lean on his teammates, you know, lean in and lean on his teammates, because that's what you have to do as a quarterback. No, he's got guys around them that have played a lot of years and again, he's a rookie. So he's just been leaning on those guys and, you know, getting to borrow those guys and let them do their work. We have to do a good job of protecting him and, but yeah, he's just leaning in and leaning on his teammates. He's got to lean in on him, right, Tony, got to lean on his teammates. Exactly right. Thank you, Tony. John and Sycamore on Captain J. Hood. John. Good morning. Morning, you guys. Love the show. Appreciate you. I appreciate you. All right. Hey, thank you. You guys keep it real. And you know what? This is Chicago. This is the Chicago Bears. Okay. Cubs fans, Sox fans can sit together, the team unites the city. Okay. Governor. That's right, John. That's the best skyline in the U.S. of A, baby, right there on the lakefront. So be proud because, you know what, Ryan polls is finally building a team that's getting to be a complete team. That defense is going to get after it. Montez said yesterday he is hungry. He is. He's not there yet. He's ready for the defensive player, the year type stuff. Okay. But the big thing is we have a quarterback that has so much promise. When I watched that game last night, you see the difference between the two. What makes Mahomes elite is that that improv, you can't teach it. But it's so dependable. He's waiting for the plant to develop and then boom, sidearm finds the hole. I've seen Caleb do that. And I'm not saying he is Mahomes, but he has those traits. Not many people have come out yet that have those traits. So for me, I'm through the roof, baby. Let's go. I'm ready to drop 30 on these guys and I'm ready to make a statement. Week one. Bear down. All right. Good game on point for Sunday on point. That right there is the most Chicago Bears call that we've had all that guy was great. That dude right there laid it out. John from Sycamore. Hey, John, you got to call us every Monday. You still there, John? Oh, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere every Monday. We need you Sunday. Hey, listen, I ride into work every morning. I listen to you guys. They made a poll. You know your number one. You're the break. Best. What do you do? Millions of listeners around the country, baby. What do you do for a living? I'm in sales. Nice. Oh, well. All right. You know you live in the same town as George McCasky. All right. That would be fine. We turn now to Jesse Rogers coming up. Maybe he's safer. Probably. But hopefully not. We turn out. We turn now to Jesse Rogers, the latest in the Cubs and their pennant push. It's coming up next. Yeah, we'll live on the hood. Okay. It's about that time. You're tuned in to the Captain Jay Hood show. Everything ain't hardcore. You know, you know. On Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. Anytime we have Jesse Rogers on as brought to you by West Coast Men's Health Helping Men with ED and chronic pain for over five years, go to westcoastmenzhealth.com. Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom. We turn now to Jesse Rogers who covers the Chicago Cubs and White Sox MLB. He joins us now on Captain Jay Hood. Way to wake up on time, Jesse. Guy gets paid six-figure money, big money for six months. I'm on an eight-thirty and then all of a sudden you switch it to 750 so I'd like my phone. You've been collared. If Sports Center asked you to be on its own 50, 50 on its 750. You've been... That dog wanted me on it. Be there. Exactly right. You've been ignited. Your team's irrelevant. We moved you to 750. I know. I know. Isn't that sad? Isn't that sad? Good beat. Not the bare beat. Let me tell you something. After last night's game, I'd moved me to 750 and that wasn't even the Bears game. I mean, that was some fun last night. That was some good stuff. It was amazing. Yeah. So having said that, any sax news? Well, I mean, here's the thing, any Yankees news, because I think I'm going to be spending a lot of time on that side of the field this week and unfortunately because the Cubs are at 1 percent and here we have a World Series team and this is that annual, a few times a year we see it at Wrigley. What does the other side look like? What are the Cubs missing? And I will tell you, they're missing huge mammoth athletes that the Yankees have always had starting with Aaron Judge, guys that can just destroy the baseball and do a lot of things on the baseball field. Those cost money. I know they do. I know they do. And just the more we think about this thing, the more the way the way to advance it is to find that star. And I know we've talked about it all year. That's the answer to this thing. I don't know if he's going to do it. I think he's going to try. Let's start with that. I do think he's going to try to take that bit swing. It is a final year of his contract. This thing can only advance very slowly doing it the way they're doing it to move it quicker to get into the 90 win range or higher. You need a thumper or two in the middle of the lineup. I think he's going to try. I don't know if he can get it done. How about Rizzo returning to Chicago? That's the big story. I mean, it's super cool, man. Super cool. He's the final 16 cub to return. I mean, you believe that he hasn't hasn't been back here. I mean, greatly. Obviously, he's been to the south side. I mean, he's first of all, he's amazing because what did he do yesterday? I could tell you right now, he had offers to do appearances and things like that. He went and saw cancer patients and he's bringing, I think it's 200 kids, that might be less. I don't know the number. He's bringing cancer patients to the game. This is what this guy is going to be remembered about as much as what he did in the baseball field. And he was pretty darn good on the baseball field for the Cubs. One of five left handed hitters in the history of the franchise to reach 30 home runs or more. And I think he did it five times. Not an easy feat. We really have talked about that before. But yeah, it's going to be a hell of a weekend, his family is here. Like I said, he's bringing these kids to the park because this is who he is. So I think he's going to get one of the biggest ovations of any of those former Cubs. Oh, it's going to be electric. I won't be out there disappointed, but I'm going to be out of town. But let me tell you something, this guy someday will deserve to get a statue of everyone on the 16 team. I'm not talking about Joe Madden, not talking about Theo, talking about on the field. That's the number one guy. I agree. He was the face of it in a lot of ways. I know Brian won the MVP. But I agree with you. He was kind of that Mr. Cup, right? Yes. He was the de facto captain. You know, he's not the leader leader kind of thing. You know, I mean, he was a different kind of leader is kind of a fun leader more than anything. But he was the face of it. And I will say as a reporter, he was probably available, good or bad as much as anybody, as much as anybody. Maybe not more than anybody, but definitely not less than anyone. And even when things went bad in 18 and 19, he was available. And you know, I think that's something fans need to know as well. So yeah, he was kind of that face of that era, in my opinion, I think most people would probably agree. Jesse, the Yankees or the field in the American League, they've been up and down this season. But again, those big boppers in the middle lineup, if Cup fans or Chicagoans have not seen the Yankees, they are a dangerous team when they're right offensively. Yeah, they are. I mean, I would take the field because anything can happen in the playoffs, but I think you said it right. They are really good when when Soto and even when Rizzo is in there, you know, I talked about the balance of a lineup, acquiring Soto was absolutely Brian Cashman's best move in years. It balanced that line up out. If Stanton's healthy and judges in the, you know, it's just deep. It's just deep and dangerous. So I would take the field because of the playoffs, Jay Hood, but I do like the Yankees better than anyone else in the American League. If Gary Cole is doing his thing, you know, they have a true number one, they have guys behind him, like, well, Don, so yeah, I mean, I like it as much as anybody, but it is the playoffs. So just say, Hey, you've got six other five other teams, whatever, that's, that's kind of easier on easier answer, but I do love the Yankees. Cap, if you have any late inning magic, you got to do it against the Yankees. They don't have a closer in place. It's terrible. So if you have any late inning magic, you got a chance. Yeah, that's true. Jesse, I'm holding you personally responsible. I need two or three this weekend for the Yankees of the Cubs for the Cubs, kid. We're still alive. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, that I've got a big wager. I got to get to 86 wins and Northern has to take me to Chicago cut. Oh, I'm rooting for you because I've never seen shape pull a dollar out of his wallet. Yeah. Yeah. 86. Let's not forget when I have to hound you for the $5 Venmo on the coffee I paid for. I never pulled a dollar out of my pocket. I bought you coffee. It took you two weeks to pay me back. Well, there's a reason why he's the fastest man in Northbrook. Well, by the way, my son and I did, we're in the office pool. You guys are in as well. Same one to you. I don't know. But the survivor pool, the survivor pool that you guys are in. Sorry. You're making one. It's Catman one. Catman two. Catman three. Oh, yeah. Peter from Miami. That's our guy. Yeah. Yeah. So I entered that and it took a long time for me to send that Venmo. But anyway, 86 is going to be tough. That's going to be tough, but not impossible. I suppose. Okay. Well, you got to get ready for your eight o'clock call with Steve Phillips. I know you're ready for that. So as always, we appreciate your time. All right, boys. Talk to your Monday at 758. All right, we'll see. Okay. See you. Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom. I hit her. Don't worry about the correct snare. Shout out no shot in two minutes and we got a big Captain J. Hood station announcement at nine on the at nine o'clock on the Captain J. Hood morning show.