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Live from State Street in the heart of Chicago. You are listening to the new home of the Chicago Bears. ESPN Chicago. And this is Captain Jay Hood. W-M-V-P-W-T-B-C-H-D-2 Chicago. A good karma brand's radio station. Checkmate 1-6, landing a suppression on target. That's why I see him in a shot. Shot or no shot with Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and ESPN Chicago. Good morning and welcome in to the Captain Jay Hood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. Now time for a shot or no shot. Here's Shay Norley. Good morning boys. NFL football is back. Season opener tonight. I bid a due to my wife last night when I told her goodbye. I'll see you in five days, five straight days of football, how are we feeling? Wow. Feeling great. How about that? He's not going to talk his wife. He bid a due to her. Yeah, I mean, super cool that he gets to do that. I'm not going to really pay attention. Saturday, it's one of the last Saturdays of gorgeous weather. Might be a little chillier than my taste. Probably much more for Shay's taste. You're more with me. You like the heat. It's going to be like 61 on Saturday. Great. But it'll be sunny. I'm not going to be cooped up inside. Watch your college football. No. How about that? He bid a due to his wife, you know, an honesty cap. I haven't spoken to my wife in four years. I know that's comes to a shock to you. I haven't spoken to her four years. I don't want to interrupt her. Here's Shay Norley. Shay. Wow. Is that Rodney Dade? No, just. No. Wow. That was good. Here's Shay Norley. Okay. Good show. All right, Adam, John's of the athletic wrote up yet a conversation with Bears defensive coordinator, Eric Washington and defensive backs coach John Hoke about Eber Flus. Both guys compared Flus to Lovey Smith and both guys worked with Lovey Smith. They said Eber Flus in film rooms is holding quote unquote loafs accountable. Loafs basically meaning lazy players. If you look lazy on film, we're going to blast you in front of the team. We're going to get up on you about it and hold you accountable. They said that's what Lovey Smith used to do when he was coaching the Bears. We have seen some of the impact of this. I think this was the most intense training camp, like more energy, more intensity out of the Bears at Alice Hall all off season shot or no shot. Matt Eber Flus has revived the Bears locker room. That's a shot. Just talk to the players. These guys really, really like playing for him. They said he'll hold you accountable. He is fair. He treats you like a man. If you watch the other day, I watched the hard knocks like you guys did where he said be on time, be respectful. What was the third one? Play hard? I think that was it. He goes, that's it. We don't have any other rules here. Don't disrespect the organization and play hard. Period. It's easy. It's not like, well, make sure you don't have sunglasses on in the facility. Make sure your hair is cut to the-- he doesn't care if you grow your hair down to your ass. Play. I think that's a shot. Also, I would say that better players in there can help him hold the team accountable as well. Like when you have-- you add more veterans to the team and you feel like you've got a team that you like as a base, but when you add a new veteran to the team cap, that also helps hold the team accountable. And Hebrew flu is being part of that, I think, is-- that's a positive. He's like, you know what? I feel like I'm empowered now because I have veterans that know me and I think they'll heed what I have to say. Yep. I agree. I think that all helps. I think that's all a shot. Shay? Last season, we saw something really rare in the NFL. A rookie quarterback worked his way into the MVP conversation. CJ Stroud led the Texans to a division title that nobody expected. And at the end of the year, obviously didn't win it. It went to Lamar, but CJ Stroud was right in the conversation around the most valuable player award, not just offensive rookie of the year. The athletic put out some bold predictions for the season 2024, including Caleb Williams will repeat CJ Stroud's accomplishment and be an MVP caliber player at the end of the season. Shot or no shot. Shayla Williams will be an MVP contender. That is a no shot. And the reason why is because, again, he is a rookie and he's going to make some mistakes. For it to work sonically all together, at one time, that'd be awesome. That means that he and Waldron are on the same page. That means Caleb Williams and Matt Ira flew some of the same page, that all of his weapons and the offensive line, everything works in concert. And I don't know if that all happens in one season. MVP candidate, I don't think so, rookie of the year, that was my prediction, because I think he'll be that good, but MVP, I think that's a little bit of an overstatement at this point. What makes you an MVP candidate? Top 15 in the voting, top 10, where you got to be? Oh, top 10 at least. I mean, you got it. Like we have to get to December and be having similar conversations to what we were saying about Stroud, where it was like, he might not just win rookie of the year, he might win MVP. Yeah. I'm going to say shot. I'm going to say shot. A, and again, every week, it's a week to week league. You can look at the schedule and go, Oh God, we've got to play the Titan or the Texans in Houston. Isn't it a Sunday night game? It is. Okay. And all of a sudden, CJ Stroud pulls his hamstring and he's not playing. The game is a totally different game, or you may be playing a team that you feel like the Patriots. Oh, we're going to crush them. Oh, wow. We're missing seven starters because Andrew, like that's the difference in this league, the margin of error. But I'm going to say, if he's healthy shot, he finishes top 10. All right, Jay. I mean, again, we're talking about Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen and CJ Stroud and Jalen Hurts, maybe there's Jared Goff, there's Dak Prescott. Is it Prescott your guy for MVP? Yes. Okay. I mean, Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey. I mean, it's a long list. What you're saying is that the reason why I would not have him in the top 10 cap is because it's such a talented league. It is. Oh, God. It just everywhere you look, man, there are cornerstone athletes that are difference makers for the team. And I'm just saying that Caleb Williams, if it's not going to be this year, I think eventually it'll happen, but this is just me saying, I just want to see him be able to navigate his way through the NFL to be able to learn defenses and to be able to help the Bears get to the playoffs. MVP. I don't need that right now from him. I got to need 4,000 yards. What I need for him is to stay healthy and not turn the ball over as much and learn on the job and excel at this position as quickly as possible. All right, Jay. All right. Yesterday in baseball, Matt Chapman signed a six year, $151 million extension with the San Francisco Giants to be their third baseman going forward. Chapman has a 121 OPS plus this season, 22 home runs. He is a six war player at a position where the Cubs have a full season of zero point zero war in 2024. Chapman is also a guy David Kaplan railed against the idea of signing in the off season, but shot or no shot. It's time for cap to admit the Cubs should have signed Matt Chapman. No shot. I'm not. He's 30. He'll be 32 next year in April. I'm not giving us. What did he get? Six years? No shot. He'll want a 32 year old third baseman who offensively he's very average, 69 RBIs. He hit 240 something. He's elite defensively. There's no question about that in elite defensive third baseman. Six years, $151 million hard pass for me. That's a great job by Scott Boris's agent. I don't know how he got that that many years, if you said he got a three year deal, he's going to be 35 at the end, okay, six. God bless him. Being a six war player pays again. It's because of his defense, not his offense, but I mean, that's still a positive on the on the field though, Cap plus the other problem is just go ahead. What were we told by multiple people in the game? One of whom being a GM that you and I talked to, yeah, yeah, he said the problem with the city of San Francisco, they've got such problems in the city. They can't give people to take their money. Everybody that they've gone after, they've got a grossly overpay to get him to say that's part of this deal here. Yeah, I, you know, again, what, what she has is the numbers and he's going to put side by side parades against Chapman again, that war number with his offensive defense, that's good to have. No question about it. Like if I told you Chapman or Chris Morel, Chapman's a better player, but again, I'm not given a 32 year old next April. Six years. I'm not. How close do you think you are to winning with the Cubs? What I should be a contender next year, but this winter's important to saying like, you know, again, you do side by side numbers with those. You get understand that Chapman does bring a lot to the table. Now, again, maybe $151 million in 60 years is too much for you to swallow, but someone's going to pay them just because he's a Boris guy and he does have value. But I would bet you there's not another team in baseball that would give him that deal. I don't know that. Yeah, I don't know that either. And I'm not even making that. I'm making the point of the Cubs who'd signed him to the one year deal that he got signed to in the off season. I think they'd be a playoff team right now. I do that. You'd get six wins above replacement at a position where you have zero point zero for the season. You still have a closer you still blue 23 saves. It didn't matter blue 23 saves, but you didn't lose all 23 games, you lost 16 of them. Okay. So let's reasonably convert those into wins instead of just going at 23 more W's if you don't blow all the saves. I'm not saying 23 more wins. They'd be a hundred win baseball team then at the end of the year. But if you had saved eight of the 16 games that you ended up losing when you blew one of the 23 saves, eight more wins would be a totally different team. The fact you did not have a closer is unconscionable and I'll scream it from the mountain tops. That's true. I also would say your seventh eighth and ninth along with your ninth inning, you're seven and eighth or anything to write home about either. They have been the last two months. Yeah. But the first three months terrible. Let's just meet in the middle. Okay. Let's just meet in the middle with this. But Matt Chapman, if you felt like the Cubs were close and you can get a deal that is better than six years, 151 from your standpoint as a Cubs, right? If it wasn't 151 cap, you'd signed Chapman because you don't have to worry about that position. Parades has been underwhelming at third. He has no question. He's been underwhelming and you say need some seasoning. I don't know if that gets better offensively because it's like, well, you made the deal because you felt like Morrell was a minus player. I get it. Jesse got Morrell out of here. I think we all know that. Wow. Well, he did. I mean, going back and forth with counsel about swinging for the lake, that was that was off of Morrell. At that point in time, done when Jesse says that Morrell is swinging for the lake and counsel said that's a bad take, Jesse. He was done after that. Okay. So what I'm telling you is, is that at the hot corner, you want to have someone you can rely on. And despite the numbers, Shay, again, 247, 333, 445 as far as his line, there's still good things about Chapman that she'd like to have. You don't have to worry about third base. His offense is not bad at all. He's a 121 OPS plus. He's 21% of 11 OPS plus and a zero point zero four. I'm just making the play. He's actually a 2.2 war this year. Not at the Cubs. I don't care what he did in Tampa. You don't get the two wins that he got for Tampa. My point is, is that if you had a better deal, you would consider Chapman too. No, not. Yeah. If I got a better deal, yes, but I'm not, I'm not signing a 32 year old player to a six year deal. I understand your point about a better deal, better deal. And if you felt like you were close, right, but the better deal didn't exist to saying, I'm just saying, I said, if the night you did and I'm looking, if you look at last year, for eight is 31 home runs, 98 knocked in a year before he had 20 home runs in his first full time job as a starter played 111 games in Tampa, right in Tampa. Then last year, 143 games. He hit 250 31 98 and an 840 OPS a 131 OPS plus a gap. Sometimes the bright lights are wriggly or too much for players. Could be. That's why I want to see what he does. Hey, that 35,000 or 40,000 sometimes over there, wriggly. Sometimes as we know, a little bit too much for the player. Don't disagree. Don't be Tampa in front of 5,000 people and dogs. Yeah, he's doing well. And he's just saying, he's 25. He turns 26 February 18th and next year's a big year for him. He's got to make the adjustments in the off season and come in ready to roll. He just does. Jackaloo's like you on the, on the baseline watching the game. Hey, parades. Oh, God. Right. Shaking hit. I mean, telling you that this, that's pressure now for the Cubs pressure. I told you Doug Melvin, the old GM of the Brewers and the Rangers. I went up to him and I said, Oh, this closer you got Derek Turnbull, that guy's phenomenal. He said, we're 18 games up the track. Real easy to close games out when no one really cares. He said, stick them Friday afternoon at one 20 at Riggly where it matters with 41,000 people screaming at him. We'll find out what he's made of true, man. He's right. And that's, listen, I know that the, the heat's turned up. It's not as hot at Riggly, but you know that the fans are like, I know we're four, four and a half games out, but they expect some excellence here. They expect good baseball. If nothing else at the minimum, they expect positive solid baseball. Yeah, he plays hard. He has not had a good transition to Chicago by any measure. Handshaking. But I like this kid. There were a lot of teams after him, the Yankees and others. They got him. So guess what? He's got to come in ready to roll and have a good season next year, but I don't want the Matt Chapman contract six years, 151 hats off Scott Morris, you're a wizard. No question. The best. All right. We've got around the NFL. We've got big bold predictions for 2024. That's next day on Captain Jhood. You're listening to Captain Jhood. Follow the show on Instagram at the Catman and at IGJhood. This is ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. We all have to make choices in sports and in life. It could be running on third down. You ran the same third down situation and you ran the same plate twice. You're getting paid for that. I cannot believe the call. We're managing finances. It's concrete. You've got to make the money for it. Or it could be a deal breaker. Time for deal breakers on the Captain Jhood morning show on ESPN 1000. And we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app, providing you to check out the Captain Jhood YouTube channel. Can't listen all three hours. Shame on you. But if you can't listen all three hours, we've got the YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com, look for Captain Jhood. Hit that subscribe button. That way you miss nothing from the show. Deal breakers. Here's Shane Worling. Shane? All right, let's get started. Your brother lost his job and is going to struggle to make rent for the next few months. You recommend some things like taking unemployment. You hook them up with some services that can help them find a new place of work. Help them reach out to services that can help people out maybe financially or figure some things out for people who've lost their job. Your brother, though, is showing no effort in looking for a new gig. And when you ask him about it, he says he needs the time off to, quote, recharge. After a couple of months, he hits you up asking if you'll give him $5,000 from your savings so he can make rent for the next few months. Are you giving him the money? Love the brother next to you. Absolutely, yes. And because, hold the curtain back on my life because I'm an open book, many, many, many years ago, when I was a different person going through a divorce, my brother was and my sister-in-law, right there to help me. Hey, we got you till you get back on your feet. It's a tough process. Anybody out there right now who's listening goes to you, I've been through it, it sucks. They were right there. Whatever you need, we got you. It wasn't like they were flushed, they were paying off student loans, raising kids. We got you. So yes, 100%. I would take care of my brother as long as I had to. I would say yes, that's not a deal breaker, Shay, however, it's the way that you phrase it, talking about how the brother knew they, quote, reset, is that, now what you said? He's taken time off to, quote, recharge, recharge. But he lost his gig, has no money, has no employment, hasn't worked for months, and he's telling you it needs time off to recharge, and then hitting you up for money. Now here's the thing about that, and again, all of that, as someone who is kind, more times than not, of course, I would be able to give the money. But the idea that you're just laying up on the couch, because I just, I just need to recharge my recharge cap. That's not how, that's not where we're from. Well, that's not how we were raised. My brother wasn't raised that way. Recharge. Grind through it. Power through it. I mean, I understand, like, there was no such thing as mental health when you and I were coming up. Those two words were not together. Correct. Okay. However, this idea that he needs a recharge, okay, I'll give you the money, but you got to get off my couch, like, you end up watching more because you need to recharge, that doesn't get the job done. If he said, give me, I need to take, like, a 10-day recharge stay, okay, you're going through a horrible time, you're two months, you're sitting on the couch, watching more bonbons, no, no, no, no, we're going to talk. That's the issue. Like, I'm good with giving the money, but you're not going to sit up and just watch TV all day, getting the money and needing a recharge, recharge. Months on end, that's a problem. Like, today, and it's a good thing. We're not casting any inspiration. No, no. My daughter-in-law is a psychiatrist. We got into this debate. My great daughter-in-law, Jen, Jen and I were having this debate the other night. I said, I was raised, you power through. She's like, well, make that your next tattoo, because mental health matters. Well, of course, it matters, and she's a psychiatrist. That's what she does, but we weren't raised that way. That was not a thing in the '70s. You know, some people cap just don't want to have the perspective. When you give the perspective of, hey, when we were raised, this happened, we're not saying that today sucks, because that's progress, it's different, the world changes. Correct, but it's funny, you could say something like that, and then they're just like, well, that's not how they, well, we understand that. We're just telling you that the mental health process, those two words together, we're not a thing. Mental health was, get your ass to work, get to the unemployment office, fill out the forums and do whatever you have to do to make ends meet. Right. The literature's picking on me, I'm feeling this, get to school, that's up, right? Yes. I don't want to hear about your feelings. You're the coaches and this, and I've got to talk to my therapist. It's a great thing that we have that today, not casting any as person. That was not how it was in the '70s, thought, make it right, that's what we were raised. Bob Hood would come in and go, hey, what did he call you? John. I'm getting your ass out of bed and get to school. Yeah. I'm feeling attacked by the teacher. I've got to, you know, get Reece grounded. What? He'd grab you by the ear and get you right out on the bus. They can only give their perspective of how they were raised, and so that's how they raised us. Agree. So, 100%. But that's the issue here for me, like, whatever your perspective, however you were raised, if it's acceptable in your mind that you take a reset and a recharge, don't use my money to do it. That's my issue. Like, if my sister, God forbid, loses her job. And two months later, she's hitting me up. She's still unemployed, and she's going, all this time off, I'm recharging. Can you just help me out with rent for a couple months? But you better hope waiting tables is re-energizing, because that's enough. Yeah. Again, 10 days, you need to kind of clear your head, you're just going through a divorce, you lost your job. I get it. Months? Months? Couch? No. No, I'll help you, but I also want you to get back on your feet at some point here. Hey, how was your day? Oh, it's my day, it's been great. This Judge Jean, boy, she makes a lot of good points. You're sitting around watching Fox? Get out of there. Let's go. Right. No one asks you to sit around and watch TV. It's time to work, time to get back on the horse. Come on, man. Gotta be better than this. Agree. If I'm going to tell college quarterbacks like DJ you to get a job, I would tell my brother in this situation to get a job. More deal breakers next on Captain Jay Hood. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Captain Jay Hood are back on Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. Deal breakers, here's Shane Orling, Shane. All right, this is straight from the deer Abbey headlines this week. Oh, God. I did a newspaper quote. My stepdaughter is now an adult and I want to date her. Imagine if you will, your father passes away and your stepmother now widowed starts coming on to you. Your single she's single, she's pretty, you're you. Would you go on a date with your widowed stepmother? Hold on, I'm lost, explain it again. Your dad dies. My dad. He had married a new woman. This is my biological father. Correct. So his wife was your stepmother. Your dad dies. Yeah. And your stepmother wants to shack up with you. No, how does she well, you can't do both either know or how hard is she want to know that first? Don't you? Okay. How hot is she? Charlie, how hot is she? She's good looking. All right. So she's seven. And what's the age difference like am I 21 and she's 50? No, let's have some fun. Let's say your dad married young. Okay. So I'm how old? 30. You're both in your thirties. Oh, God. Your same age. Wow. You hit it once. Like am I hooking up just like on a Friday night at 11 30 want to come over or are we dating? Yeah. No, you got to take her out to dinner. Maybe a movie. Have a nice time. And we might start a relation. A couple of glasses. Oh, where did you go to me? She was married to my late dad. He's looking for reasons to say yes here. Indictable. And and she's like a really I had a good relationship with her when she was married to my late father. I love rubbing and that where we're going here. Make me feel better. Okay. Oh, yeah, I would I would date her. Oh my God, do you do you freaking hillbilly? He spent the last two minutes laying the groundwork to say yes, he just watched his brain in real time. He started at no chance. No shot. No shot. How hot is he? And then just talk to it's I believe in our 30s. No cap. No. You can't start with no shot. How hot is she in the same breath? I handed I had to think through the whole process, ask some questions. Once I thought about it, we're both in our 30s. Yeah, all in. That's so that's so sloppy and so lazy. Why should I let someone else have all the fun? If she and I already have a good relationship, you don't know if it's fun until you've been there. Well, I've been around her and I know that I like her. She's a good person. Yeah, but but sexually, I don't know right now. Take a spin and see. Spin. That's your means. Spin. It's not a car. What are you talking about? Get the test drive. Take her for a drive. That's disgusting and you're just a disgusting old man. That's what you are. Hold on a second. It's not me at my age. If I was in my 30s, let's say I'm 36. She's 39. What's wrong with that? Not related by blood. Wow, dad. Now I get it. Take that. Put the hammer down and laying the groundwork that your dad already put there. That's that's good. What? That is dead. That's disrespectful there. Is he not dead? He is, but you don't have to put it that way, Cap. You're just a bad guy. You're 30 years old. You're a swinging single. You can get anybody in the city. Oh, she's hanging around. What do you think? Well, again, I'm extrapolating this out to say I always liked her. We had a good relationship. She was married to my dad. There was nothing going on there between her and I. Now dad's gone. He's taken a dirt nap. And guess what? She and I, we vibe. Let's see where this goes. Oh my god. So lazy. If your stepmother comes on to you, even if dad's long gone, you've got to shut that down immediately. Why? All the women in the world. It's her. And by the way, not even a 10. We're talking about a six or seven. Oh no, that's different. Well, what I asked Charlie said she's attractive. Charlie says that good looking, good looking. OK, that's just a seven. It's a seven to an eight. Depending on where you are. Of course, how many drinks I have. No, again, if we vibed and I liked her and I'm like, yeah, I'm really happy for dad. Oh, dad died. That's a shot. That's horrible. I would do it. This is what daytime televisions for shade scenarios like this. I really can't believe the thought process happening, hoodie, right in front of our eyes starting from the point of this is ludicrous and then just continuing to talk himself into it was incredible to make me feel better, loving, rubbing and touching my meat. That's him with the Cowboys. That's that's how he ends up betting Cowboys Super Bowl every year. Is he? But I was with that. Not again. And then he talks himself into it for 10 minutes and then he bets on the Cowboys. That's him hooking up with his stepmother. I need the table. That's what you're doing with her again, I didn't propose. I'm not married to her. We're not having kids yet. We're just going to have a date and see where it goes. I enter. Oh, all right. Here's Shae Norley. Shae. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it first bit. I would not. That's disgusting. Here's Shae Norley. I always forget that we have the job. I feel like we need to put a stop to this and get to the airport. I didn't hear that one. Play it again, Charlie. All right. Nope. Nope. Play it, Charlie. What's that? I don't have it. Nope. Play it. Play it. No, please don't. I wanted to be Mike. Is that what you want? I don't know which one he's referring to. This is Smokey Robinson. That. Nope. Oh, you mean this one? I enter. Oh, that's okay. Wow. I don't know what it says. You can tell me it for it. You two are off and we had Carmen and Waddle in and they could not believe that drop. I don't know how they found it. They could not believe that was real. I always forget we have that one. Who's saying that? Is that Danny saying that? Yep. Yeah. That's what I thought. That one caught me off guard today, hoodie. Good job. All right. That's deal breakers. Is it? Yep. You're just a disgusting old man. I mean, of all the women in the world, it's got to be the widowed. She's available. It's not like I'm taking her from my dad. Hey dad, she's breaking up with you to go out with me. No, that would be weird. Yeah, you are in bed. It's a pointy skywork saying, you know what? I get it. I get it. Now I know why you were so happy in your final years. She's awesome. Speaking of awesome, here's Tom Thayer with us in two minutes as we talk bears and titans on Chicago's home for sports, we are tour and we're doing it better than anybody else on Chicago's home for sports ESPN, Chicago, it's the cap and J Good morning show on the ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN, Chicago, as we go streaming our video streaming on Twitch, twitch.tv/esp1,000, and on YouTube is brought to you by Buffalo Wild Wings, score six free wings when the bears forced to take away all season at B dubs. So we expect the defense to take a step. Think about that score six free wings when the bears forced to take away all season at Buffalo Wild Wings. Tremendous. And we get that bears minute that they sponsor each week here on the station, tell you what's going on with the Chicago Bears. And it's hard to believe that tonight we're going to literally whether you're streaming it, whether you're in front of the big screen in the hood cave, football back. It's insane. Oh, it's great. Like real football. Charlie, you bevins, we're going to need a little football music here because we are going to give our hottest take for the 2024 NFL season. Now, again, I am not one to give takes. I've never given a take in my career. We just do a show. We have fun. I've given. This is going to be rare for me, Shay. I don't do takes. I just give just those old fashioned homespun opinions about sports. That's what I do. Just a homespun opinion. So Charlie, I'm going to need a little something to get us going and that's perfect. It's this NFL, Phil. It's great. Charlie. He knows. He knows what I like. My goodness. I love it. So here's my old homesplend opinion about the NFL. How about this cap? We will have a trade at the deadline for Devonta Adams. He will not be a Vegas Raider the entire season. That's one of them for sure. Again, we're talking about a guy that has played well with Vegas. But you know what? He signed through 2026. Yeah. To me, I think that Adams, even though he said I never said that, I don't know what he's getting that from when he heard from Deshawn Jackson. Right. Deshawn Jackson said it on Colin Coward Show, Devonta Adams will not be a Raider all season. That's one. Las Vegas receiver, Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver, Devonta Adams took exception to former NFL wide out Deshawn Jackson's recent claim that Adams was not happy in Las Vegas. This is yesterday at the press conference quote, "At the end of the day, the facts are the facts and that is not a fact," he said as the Raiders prepare for their season opener at the Chargers on Sunday quote, "I've probably spoken to Deshawn Jackson maybe three or four times in my life and I never had a conversation with him about this ever and I put that on my kids. I've never spoken to him about anything." He said, "The only person with whom I share my feelings is my wife and she ain't out there leaking anything and dropping stuff like that in the media," he said. If it ain't from the horse's mouth, it's probably bullboying. All right. He will be traded by the time we get to the deadline. We're going to find out, kid. Cap? Your how does take for the 2024 season? I don't do takes. I just give opinions. Some people think I'm nuts and I'm cool with that. Dak Prescott is your 2024 NFL MVP. Take that shape. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. All right, Shay. What do you think? Dak Prescott NFL MVP. What's more likely to happen between the two that we just gave? I divide that out. I'm just getting traded. All right. I think. I'm going to throw a card out. Ready? Here's my next card. My next card I'm going to throw out is Marvin Harrison is going to be better than Pukka Nakua's rookie season. Now, again, how's he going to get the ball? Colin Murray will be running around left and right like he does with his little legs and be able to get the ball down the field to Marvin Harrison, but Harrison will have a better year than Nakua's rookie season. How about that? Cardinals still going to be last place now, but I'm just saying like that's I think that's going to happen. Nakua had 1,486 receiving yards last year, 105 receptions. Yeah, I think that Harrison could do that throw a card out give you a car. Yeah, just throw a throw out of prediction out there for yourself. Bonix will have a better rookie year than Jaden Daniels. Hey, you listen to me. I didn't know he listened to me. I listened to him. You agree with him? Bonix will be better than Jaden Daniels. He's got a better tutor of quarterbacks working with him. He's more of a classic NFL style quarterback. And while I think Jaden Daniels is wonderfully gifted. I'm not telling you he's not a talented cat. I just think he's in a rough situation. They're a long way. They've got to rebuild their odd sentence there. All right. More classic NFL quarterback. What do you mean by that, Cap? Because he's going to a coach that throws the football. He is a classic dropback guy. He's not anywhere near as athletic. African-American quarterback. He's not a good guy, he's a good guy, he's a good guy, he's a good guy. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. A good guy. Good guy. Go ahead. Do it. Lamar's fast, but this kid here. First one to leave. We're first one to get there. Last one to leave. He's got a two-parent home. Right. Right. What do you really think is through the game? There you go, Cap. There you go. I just was not that huge on Jayden Daniels. That's fair. I'm not drafted. I wasn't. No, I'm not telling you how to take in Bonix at number two and Jayden Daniels is an incredibly gifted guy. I mean, his deep ball accuracy at LSU was outstanding and he's a way better athlete that Bonix throws Justin Fields. Justin, I didn't feel did a very good job at surveying the scene, but I thought Caleb Williams was clearly the number one quarterback in the draft. Bonix, I think, is in a better situation for early success, especially with Sean Payton. And a high motor. I don't know about his motor. High IQ though. I don't know about his IQ. I just know smart. What I've watched in the preseason, what I've read about him. Smart with the football. And I listen to Shay, I trust Shay's football acumen. How about Jayden Daniels? Shay doesn't like Jayden. I don't. I do not like Jayden Daniels. Do you still trust my football acumen when my hot take of the 2024 season, so the giants are going to contend and potentially win the NFC East? And I fade the Duke and say that the ball will be fired if at the end of season. That's what I go. That's my biggest bold take. Yeah, I don't think that they have enough offensive weaponry. Neighbors is a really good football player. I'm not a huge Daniel Jones guy, but their front four of Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns, Kayvon Thibodeau, those three maniacs up front. That's as good as it gets in terms of a pass rush from your front four. They're loaded up there. And I think their offensive line is vastly improved. They went out and got Devin Singletary who's a break and mistackled machine. Here's another one. Those into the take category cap. This is not like the homespun just run the mill football opinion. How about this? I think we can almost say it now. Charlie, how about this one? You ready? I think on the board here for our predictions, I think I have Cleveland last in the AFC North. I think I do. I think I have the Browns. Cap, let me tell you something. If the Browns don't make the playoffs this year, shout out to our teammates at ESPN Cleveland. If they don't make the playoffs, this will be the biggest worst deal, the worst biggest deal that we've ever seen in the NFL. And I'm talking about Ricky Williams and the coach in New Orleans or the big deal with Minnesota and Dallas. I want you to think about how much money is on the line with DeShawn Watson. Oh, God. And it's all guaranteed. It might be the worst contract we've ever seen. I want you to think about the deal. Yeah, I mean, like the Ricky Williams deal that the coach did with the New Orleans Saints was ridiculous. He put it all on Ricky Williams who smoked his way out of the league. He did. He did. Okay. Okay. So then the big deal, the deal that built the Dallas Cowboys, all those players, the Herschel Walker deal, wasn't that Minnesota? That was the Herschel Walker deal. You got the polls trade with the Carolina Panthers and that, I don't know exactly what they gave up. It was a lot, but the contract is onerous because you can't get out of it. You got to pay all that $230 million in money. Cap, this might be the worst thing we've ever seen. It's one of them. They better win this year. Because for that money and you paid for his legal bills and all that too, if you can't win with DeShawn Watson, then what are you doing? Like this is done. If they can't get to the playoffs, that'll be all. Then the fans get fired. We know how their owners operate. The Haslams, Jimmy and Dee, they are not patient people. So we'll say, what do you think worst this? This is probably going to be a shot or no shot for you sometime this fall. This could be the worst deal we've ever seen. Two and three millions guaranteed and not make the playoffs again, especially when you consider the quarterback that they had got healthy, got an opportunity, and won a division and a playoff game last year. Oops. Fully guaranteed money, owners are furious at everybody involved. They're angry that the contract even happened. It could result in some serious problems with the CBA. Yeah, this might be one of the worst deals, if not the worst deal in NFL history. Seriously, man. They can't get it done again. As a refresher, the Browns traded first round picks in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and exchanged for Watson, along with the third rounder in 2023 and fourth round picks in 2022 and 2024 and gave him a massive contract. That's a lot. That's a ton. I understand you're looking for that franchise quarterback, but did you know that the massage king that the oil rig that is the Sean Watson was going to be in all this trouble? It's not just that he hasn't lived up to the contract. It's that he's been one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL since he's been on Cleveland. Like he's been borderline unplayable. The Warren Sharp the other day posted his highlight reel, low light reel, and it was like the dumbest throws ever in the history of the NFL. The Sean Watson, like on his back foot, falling backwards, just lofts it to a defender. The Sean Watson climbing in the pocket, delivering everything he had on a football that just came out of the hand slow and was about 10 yards short of his receiver, like he might just stink. Love the brother next to you. Just saying. Okay. So let's test the cap and J. Hood nation. Big football fans. You guys talk too much. Okay, so we have laid out all of our big, bold predictions or mick, bold takes. All right. 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN, 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 cap and I want to find out from you out of everything bears or anything else NFL. What is your hottest take as we get ready for the 2024 season starts tonight. We got Kansas City and we got Baltimore starts tonight on Thursday night football, the Lidlifter. We're asking you, what is your biggest takeaway? Your biggest take for the bears or the NFL season. Call in right now before we get to our cut of the day. We'll take your phone calls in that next big football fans. Listen, huh? Let's hear your big prediction on cap and jail.