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Live from State Street in the heart of Chicago, you are listening to the new home of the Chicago Bears. E.S.T.F. Chicago, and this is Captain J. Hood, W.M.P.P. W.T.B.C., HD2 Chicago, a good Karma Brands radio station. [♪♪♪] Good morning, and welcome in to the Captain J. Hood Morning Show on ESPN-1000. And streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. Now it's time for Shot of No Shot. Here's Shane Orleng, Shane. Good morning, boys, on a Tuesday, the first regular season game week Tuesday of the year. How are we feeling? Well, great. Just to see football back on the television is just outstanding. It's great. Now here's the thing, I need to know, Shane, from your standpoint. So how are you handling, you know, we got our first game of the NFL season is on Thursday night, Thursday night football. How are you handling Friday? Will you watch live? Will you follow on your phone? What are you doing Friday night? Because it's a game in Brazil, correct? Packers and Eagles, I'll be watching live. I'll have it on the second monitor while I watch SMU and whoever they're playing on the main screen Friday night. No, you won't. You're not that stupid. No, I'm going to honor tradition and treat Friday as a college night. I'll have the NFL game on a small screen individually, also because it's exclusive on Peacock. So I have to stream it. I'll have it on a smaller streaming device. Is Apple Watch? These are down here. Yeah, exactly, hoodie. I'll be watching the NFL game on my phone. I'll have it on a little platform mounted on the coffee table with SMU BYU on the big screen. He cares about SMU and BYU. Nobody except the people whose parents have kids down there. Apparently me and Jay and Charlie. SMU BYU. I'll be watching NFL, I'm sorry. Pony Express, baby. Yeah, I'll be watching NFL and baseball. Thank you, Charlie, for going along with the bit. We move on now to... There's snorling. Now, if you've seen Eagles players, they don't even want to play this game. I've got Darius Slay going on a podcast saying, "I don't want to go to Brazil. Can't wait for week one. I don't want to do this." They're being told they cannot walk down the street there with their phones. Do not bring your phone with you. Do not bring cash. People are getting mugged on the streets all over Brazil. Wow. So a bunch of Packers players, I was up in Wisconsin. They were saying, "We're not leaving the hotel. It's a business trip." Understood. Understood. By the way, shout out to Northwestern. Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium in Evanston saw some of the highlights. They're a game against Miami, Ohio. Let me tell you something, Cap. That is a beautiful, temporary stadium that they got going there. Yeah. Got it done. Beat Miami of Ohio. Let's go. Sure. You don't want to keep that? Yeah. I mean, that thing that sells itself. Hey, here's our facilities. Is that the lake? Yes. Holy God. Is that Pepperdine? That is amazing. Super cool. At least it looks beautiful on TV. It's really nice. Super cool. Hoodie, I was watching that game live because I'm a sick individual. Sicko. And NBC was really getting their rocks off on the drone footage. Every other shot was from the drone over the stadium with the lake in the background. It's beautiful. As temporary stadiums go, that's the best I've ever seen. You sure you don't want to keep that? It's pretty cool. Yeah. It's unbelievable. Yeah, it's super cool. As much as you and I and many of our listeners have take pride in the city or just like the Chicagoland area, that Chicago right there. Yeah. The lake sun beaming in that place. Football might not be very good, but it still looks good on TV. Hey, they went to a bowl game last year. Let's just say it. Eight o'clock, by the way, for Duke Northwestern on Friday. All right, where? At Lenny and Sharon Martin Stadium. The Duke games here too? Yeah. Ooh, I might go to that. Uh oh, how are you going to watch Eagles Packers? Uh, my, my streaming. Oh, whoa, now who's taking cock? I'm going to a game, see. Hold on. I'm going to a game. Like Friday tailgate. Get some hackies barbecue or mustard's last stand and go over to the Lenny and Carol Stadium and be. Lenny and Sharon. Sharon. Sharon. Lenny and Sharon Stadium. Yes. Yeah, that's way different than laying on my couch, watching BYU play. Who'd you say Cal State Northridge? I, he said SMU. Yes, old timer. That's what he said. 69 degrees on Friday. Here's Shay Norley. All right, over the weekend, the Bears made a roster decision with Caleb Williams that should silence any remaining doubters of who he is as a person and a player. The Bears players voted Caleb a captain. He is the first rookie in Bears history to achieve that honor. Shot or no shot? This was a surprise. Uh, may have been a surprise to the general public. It was not a surprise to the people in the building. They've seen this building since he got there. Mm-hm. He has done everything right about how he's developed relationships with his coaches and his teammates. They love this dude. But hoodie, I thought the locker room was going to fall apart. Guys, we're going to demonstrate that we're not going to have a roster or a franchise. Wow, that's uh, that is wrong and completely exaggerated. Of course, um, that is, uh, as a no shot. I, um, you got to have leaders. It doesn't have to be guys that are tenured, like a Lewis who's been in the league for 40 years. Mm-hm. Didn't have to be him. I mean, Caleb Williams, like here's the C man. You're, you guys, you got to be a leader. Yep. Start now. Yep. So I think that for me, it's not a surprise. There's no shot for me. That thing, that's good. He was a leader in college and grew up before our very eyes at USC. He's ready for the task. Now we got C wins. That's it. Let's go. All right, everyone. And I do mean everyone was critical last year of Matt Eberfloose's late game decision making. But a report over the weekend suggested that Eberfloose was intentionally making conservative decisions late in games last year because he had no faith in Justin Fields to make a positive play. He was too concerned about Fields potentially taking a third or fourth down sack or making a turnover to be aggressive in late game scenarios. So shot or no shot with Caleb Williams. Matt Eberfloose will be much better in late game scenarios. It's a shot. Now you got to let that develop. He's a rookie. Rookies can make decisions like, oh god, I can't believe you threw that there. What are you thinking? With Justin, I told you this. There were members of the coaching staff that wanted to keep Tyson Beigeon in and not go back to Justin Fields. Our offense runs better. That's how they were thinking. They were done with Justin in November. Like that whole discussion for so many months was so stupid and pointless and not based in reality. I think eventually that becomes a shot. I'd like for you to ask that question in December and January to see where we are through 18 weeks. We have to play offs. But I think eventually that is a shot. And again, you can be a Justin Fields fan. But I think that we were able to like you turn the lights on and the road just start to scatter. We saw exactly what was going on with Bears fans. Some Bears fans just became Justin Fields fans and that's not the same thing. Being a fan of just a quarterback because just because is different than being a fan of the Bears. You do realize that your favorite bear could be around for maybe two years. Three years. Four years and then they're gone. But still you have to root for the blue and orange if you're a Chicago Bears fan. If you're an individual Justin Fields fan, you must feel horrible today because your favorite quarterback is the backup in Pittsburgh. Correct. If he was that good, he should have been able to beat out a guy that's at the end in Russell Wilson and he could not. Correct. So the idea that the Bears mishandled Justin Fields or it's not fair. He should still be a bear. Well, if he was that good, he'd be starting on Sunday. He's not. Well, all you have to look is what the Bears got and trade for him. A sixth round pick. Four if he ends up being the starter, 51% of the snaps. That's it. The league was not beating their door down. I got to have him. Nope. Having said that, I have nothing against the young man. I hope he gets 51% of the snaps. Yeah, I'd love to get a four. Here's Shane Orlett. Well, on the topic of that, Justin Fields getting 51. Was that a cranking a beer back here, Chardog? Oh, thank goodness. All right. Care to share? Charlie, here. Here's Charlie. Here's a caffeine right there. All right. 51% of the. Yeah, well, with hops, but a foamy head, but that's your business. Espresso martini in a camp. That's your business with your foamy head. Here's Shane Orlett. All right. We need an extra fourth round pick from Pittsburgh for the Justin Fields straight. All he has to do is take 51% of the snaps. We just talked. He's not the starter right now, but Albert Breyer of the Monday morning quarterback rode up the situation in Pittsburgh. Apparently, the decision to start Russell Wilson was far from unanimous. People in that building were pushing for Justin Fields to be the starter. The eventual decision was, if we're going to take two chances at this, meaning eventually Fields will start, we might as well give Russ the opportunity to just cement himself. Shot or no shot, Justin Fields will take the starting job from Russell Wilson this season. That is a shot. Yeah, I agree. That is a shot because I have them picked dead last in the AFC North, and I don't think that team's very good. Russ is getting old. He could struggle. They'll give just in a chance. This we can rewind the clock. This is what happens when you don't, when you no longer have a franchise quarterback cap. After Ben Rothelsberger, they have just been spinning their wheels. We know Ben at the end wasn't very good. He had the lateral quickness of a rose bush. We understand that. But this was what happens. Ben's gone. What are we going to do? How many quarterbacks they've been through since Russell's burger retired? It's just tough. It's tough. Justin Fields is not the answer. He's not, not for the long haul. And neither is Russell Wilson. These are all stop gaps until they can figure out what they want to do. It's like the Steelers, and I know Tom does want to do this, you have to go backwards several steps to move forward to get the quarterback. You want, you're correct. They don't want to do that though. There's less anybody. Middle shelf used to be top shelf, bottom shelf. Just win. Okay. And this is what pisses Steelers fans off upstairs and then the weather center over here. They get pissed off. Crazy. Yeah. And upstairs with Maggie Sketch. Because they get so pissed off like, yeah, well over 500 butt. Yeah, we get to play off butt. It's only stop gaps. You're just trying to keep it, keep the train room. I'm moving, but you're never in the mix. Mitch Mason Rudolph, Kenny Pickett. Yeah. Try. But this is where you are. This one Ben, great quarterback for his time. And you haven't been able to replace him yet. And you know what it is? Honestly, as Mike Tomlin has been too good for them as a franchise. Like the fact that they just put nobody quarterbacks in and win nine games every year, you're never going to pick high enough to get a guy. See? He's just been too good. And he's not, he's a guy that's got pride now. He's not trying to take a step back. We're not tanking. I didn't come here to tank. We're going to win. And I believe him yet you want to win, but you're staying still in that division. You're standing still in the NFL. You're just there. Not good. You know, so the middle sucks cap. Just remember that it's like you can be the worst. You can be the best, but the middle sucks in sports. Yeah, the middle is awful. The middle is absolutely awful. Shane Orley. All right, Ryan polls. Talk to Jason leisure over the weekend revealed a somewhat surprising reason. He took the bears job. His quote, it was going to be a huge challenge, but there's a legacy part of this to get the Chicago bears back on top. It's going to be hard. It's going to be a lot of pressure. It's going to be a lot of noise. But if you get that right, that's legendary stuff that quote from Ryan polls on why he chose the bears as his first GM job shot or no shot. Ryan polls should have said he's chasing greatness. Yes, but then there'd be a copyright problem. And then Ryan polls office. Yes, tell him David Cavill's attorney. That's enough. That'd be a problem. He can say that. Hey, now wait a minute. Ryan, you can't say that. I'm chasing greatness. Take a look at the t-shirt. Recap on YouTube. Take that. That means come on now. Want a hoodie? Me, seriously. But can you imagine that phone call? Hello. Hello. Hello. Who's this? Who's this? This is Chicago Bears, man. How you doing? I'm good. But chasing greatness is mine. Chicago Bears. How about that? Use another phrase. Take that. I could license it to you. For a nominal fee. Hmm. Correct. Take that. And let's do it on a monthly basis. Dr. Brew. I got him on the hook. Million dollars. We're in, kid. We're good. You got to get him the hoodie. You got to get him a chasing greatness hoodie after a quote like that. I do. 100 percent. In hindsight, David Kaplan should have given it to him in the spring. Because that thing would be on hard knocks. I'm just saying that that'd be on hard knocks. Imagine that. And that would be our way of getting on hard knocks. It says apparently sports radio is not going to get on it this year. No, not this time. What happened, Shay, to the VU meters on the board? Showing us talking about the Chicago Bears. That show's still on. What happens to the, hey, tonight's the last one, right? Yeah, it is. Oh, it's still on? Yes, it is. And by the way, I did a poll question the other day about hard knocks. I will give you the final results because we didn't work yesterday. Hmm. Okay. We'll check. I haven't checked the final, but I think Shay's going to be happy. So there you have it. I believe last time I looked at it, the majority said they either aren't enjoying it. Or aren't watching at all. I'll check it out. I think there's a reason. Well, it's no secret that we did not want to be on the program. Having been selected, we want to be professional about it. We want to do it the right way. We want to be cooperative. If the fans enjoy it, great. My gut Kevin said it very well. It's one lap around the track and we got four more to go. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football evaluator. Around the NFL is next on Captain. You're listening to Captain Jhood. Follow the show on Instagram @thecatman and @igjhood. This is ESP at Chicago. Chicago's home for sports. It both sucks. He sucks. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football evaluator. I love the Green Bay Packers. The guy is front, but there he goes. This is not Detroit, man. This is the Super Bowl. I will win him. He starts to come and he will win. This is a really thickly built guy. I mean, what's the answer you're looking for on these things here? It's time to go around the NFL. Right here on ESPN 1000 and streaming of the ESP in Chicago app. With utensils and a clock and then my Greenberg attend, followed by Carmen Yerko at 12. Whatland Sylvie at 2.30 into White Sox baseball against the Baltimore Orioles at 5 o'clock. Black of Dala on the YouTube channel. Look for Black of Dala channel on youtube.com. Here's Shay Norley. All right. We are 58 hours and 39 minutes from the start of the NFL season. Yeah. That means it's time for the cap and Jhood NFL picks. Jay Moore is off this week, so Charlie has his. We will give all of the division winners the NFC AFC champion, Super Bowl champion and some individual awards. Let's start right here in the NFC North hoodie. NFC North, the Detroit Lions at the top of the NFC North. The Chicago Bears top of the NFC North. Wow cap sticking with it. Bears winning the North. Hoodie, I'm also going with the Lions back to back. I think this is a tough division, but 10 wins can do it. And I think the Lions are a 10 win team. I'm just taking chalk with the Lions winning the North. Sure. Jay Moore is going with the Bears. Of course. Is that the Kool-Aid for cap and Jay Moore there? Definitely for Jay Moore. Anything bears anything blue and orange? He's down for it in. He loves them. Do you have two teams making the playoffs out of the North like I do? I have the line three teams rather. Lions bears Packers all in the playoffs. In that order. Yes. In the NFC North, followed by Minnesota fourth. I have the bear, the lion, the packer, the Viking. Yeah, I believe three teams will make the playoffs in the NFC North. I think the Bears are two wins better than they were last year. Hopefully more. I'm just my floor is two, which gives them nine wins, which means the playoffs for the Bears. Jay Moore is also going to go with caps lineup there. He's going to have three NFC North teams on here. I think everybody's kind of going to fall into that in the preseason. The NFC South division champion. Oh, the Atlanta Falcons. I think they've added a lot as Kirk Cousins. He'll get you there. Don't tell me what happens afterwards, Jay, but he'll get you there. We know what happens afterwards, hoodie. Oh, this game's by and large or prime time events. Yeah, I just just try to give you the benefit of the doubt there. Atlanta will make the playoffs. There will be plenty of glitter and baby oil to go at the Cheetah Club for the Atlanta Falcons. Kaplan, I go Falcons bucks panther saints. Wow, I have the exact same order Falcons bucks panther saints for me as well. Falcons division champions go get Kirk Cousins. I thought they were a quarterback and a head coach away last year and they fixed both things. I should go through all them. Yes, Atlanta Tampa, New Orleans, Carolina. Carolina will be a better football team, but they still will be last in the NFC North. Yeah, I think the Saint is about to undergo a rebuild. And I really like the Carolina coach. I liked him in Tampa. Dave Canales. I would even say the Saints head coach Dennis Allen will not be their head coach by week 10. He could be the first one fired. Let's go to the sidelines and Dave Canales, Dave. That's Lou Canales. Oh, Sam. Sam Rosen. Wow. Jay Moore is going with you, hoodie. He's going Falcons bucks Saints panthers. Bucks make the playoffs, right? Maybe not. I don't think so. Yeah, I mean, if I got three teams, the NFC North, I think Atlanta is the one that's going to the playoffs in the South. Let's go to the NFC West. Big news out of the NFC West today. Trent Williams is signed to deal. Will be on the field for Monday night football against the Jets for the San Francisco 49ers. Hoodie, Ricky Pierce. I'll be back in a month after being shot. Yeah, we hope. Ah, he's out with a shot. So he'll be available the month. Thank God. So I think it's going to be 49ers Rams Seahawks, Arizona. Pull up the rear in the NFC West. I have 49ers Rams Cardinals Seahawks. Wow, I'm 49ers Seahawks Rams Cardinals with the Seahawks making it in as a wild card. Could be. Yeah, could be. What does Jay Moore think? Jay Moore's got 49ers Rams Seahawks Cardinals. Yep. So he's the same as me. Does that mean the Seattle Seahawks don't make it all short? He's got three in the North. Only one other team can be a wild card if you got three in the North. I'm going with Seattle. Interesting. Let's hold the Rams back for you. I don't think Matthew Stafford's going to be healthy. I just think guys been injured throughout his entire career. He's older than he's ever been. I still don't love their offensive line. Their defense is still like a bunch of day two, day three picks. Year two, year three guys, nowhere in Donald anymore. They lost their center. They just traded their defensive captain. I liked what they did last year. It just it's a lot of Stafford's going to be healthy and be an MVP candidate. I'm not buying that he's going to be a picture of perfect health all of a sudden. Marvin Harrison asks out after week 11. Here's Shane Orlett. Made me NFC East NFC least maybe this year. I hate every team in this division hoodie. Go ahead. Dallas is the best in the NFC East. They've got the best personnel followed by Philadelphia followed by. Okay. The Giants Washington still learning on the job with your head coach with his hat turned backwards. Take that. I am going the Dallas cowboy. The Philadelphia Eagle, the giant and the commander. It's like you giants. He has the giants improving. Okay. Parable ball club. The tissues the matter is okay. Shane Orlett. I love doing at least one controversial pick and I hate this division. He likes Washington second. The New York Giants win the NFC East. Oh, come on. How? They're the only team in this division that I'm positive on. I think they've been slandered. Their offensive line is fixed defensively. Find me a better pass rush. Cave on Thibodeau Dexter Lawrence. Brian Burns like seriously go through the league. Find me a better pass rush. Okay. And how will they get the ball? The end zone. Exactly. Carry a pigeon. How are they gonna get there? Maybe. I think Malik neighbors is awesome. All the camp stuff. He's lighted it up. I just I hate this division so much. Giants win it. He was then Cowboys who I think are just toast and commanders last. Brother that I think that you you and I will get the same thing. If you believe that the Dallas Cowboys are third on that list, then everyone's gonna get fired. They could be in first place and then the playoffs in fall short and everyone's gonna be fired. Correct. You we're gonna get our way either way. If they underachieve the playoffs, if they are third in the division, everyone's fired. And then Jerry Jones will find someone else he can manipulate because he's never gonna have a strong personnel like Jerry Jones or Parcelle. Or Jimmy Johnson or like you know. Parcelle when he. Parcelle's very Switzerland. That's done. Done. He'll find someone else he can manipulate. That's what he do. That's why I'm a car. He's in a position. Beat cop. So what he is? Yep. Keep the rig out of the road. Shay. All right. For the AFC. Let's just. Did you give a. Oh yeah. I did not. He is the opposite of Shay. Jay Moore. He has Cowboys winning it. Eagles. Washington and the Giants finishing last. Giants last. Okay. Jay Moore. Not a pretty picture. Okay. Not a pretty picture. Not a pretty picture. Five wins for the Giants. Okay. Daniel Jones is terrible. It's what I thought. Okay. What about the ball? Oh boy. The ball slimmed down. Okay. But still fine. Okay. Easy for me to get out the door. Okay. Wow. He was shooting all of it. All right. For the AFC. Let's just do division winners and playoff teams. We'll start in the AFC East. Bills will win the division for me. Dolphins make the playoffs, Hody. Uh Miami Buffalo. Jets Patriots. Jet win the division. You're jet. What are you talking about now? They're loaded. I don't care. Jet win the division. Bills are second. Dolphin third. And the Patriots. You relegated. They're horrible. Yeah, they're awful. I actually took an alternate win total under on New England at three and a half. Under three and a half wins. Wow. Charda, go ahead. Bills winning it. Dolphins making the playoffs. Jets on the outside looking in Pat Patriots and last. Next. AFC North Hody. Cincinnati wins the AFC North followed by Baltimore. Cleveland and the Steelers are last. I have the exact same order as Houdra. Yeah, I have Baltimore winning the division again. Bangles in second. Vibes real bad at training camp there. Then Browns and Steelers in last. And Jay Moore is going to follow that exact order with the Ravens. Winning it and the Bangles making the playoffs. AFC South Hody. Houston is the class of the AFC South followed by Indianapolis. Jacksonville and Tennessee's last. I have the Jags winning the division. Houston second, Indiana place. Third, Tennessee fourth. I have the Texans winning the division as well. Colts in second. Hody, I'm right there with you. Titans in third. Jags pulling up the rear. Oh, you're out of here. Jay Moore's got the same thing. Texans winning it. Colts getting that last wild card spot. And then Tennessee in third. Jacksonville in last. We'll train going off the tracks in Jacksonville. Hmm, Peterson fire. Yep. Okay. How about the AFC best? To the AFC West? Any controversy here? I think we're all going to just pick the Chiefs to win the division. Um, well, what I like in AFC West, I like Kansas City. Um, alibi. Los Angeles, Denver, Las Vegas is last. I have the Chief winning the division. I have the Raider finishing second. The Charger third and the Bronco fourth. I have Chiefs first, Bronco second, Chargers third, Raiders fourth. Chiefs Denver, Vegas L.A. Jay Moore and I in very similar spots on a lot of us. He's got Los Angeles last. Yeah, I don't think the Charger going to be very good. I don't either. Uh, NFC champion. Let's just do Super Bowl matchup and winner here. Detroit, Detroit against Kansas City. We can't city win the Super Bowl. Three Pete. San Francisco against the Jets. San Francisco wins the Super Bowl. This jet love man. Oh, no. That's just redemption. Oh my God. Jet. What the hell? Okay. Do you have a sleep with Aaron Rodgers? It's unbelievable. Okay. I almost went Dallas in the Jets. Yes. Oh, no. I can't. You're a jet. You're a jet. Okay. On the other way. Okay. From embarrassment to the top of the heap. Things have turned around. So long is the class of New York. Okay. He's the man. From fired to the best in the league. A bag after that. Pretty good. I have the Lions and Texans in the Super Bowl with the Lions winning at all. Oh, we need Mr. Norlin to call in the day after the Super Bowl. He might have a stroke. We need him on the air. 750. Jay Moore has got a rematch and a 3P. Chiefs over the 49ers. 49ers. Okay. MVP. Hoodie. Joe Burrell. Wow. Dak Prescott. Look at your face. Dak. This guy can barely contain himself. Dak MVP. You're kidding, Cap. I'm not. Oh my goodness. I go back. Drove for about 5000 yards. Hoodie. Don't get angry with me. I'm going back to the cheese. Josh Allen MVP. Well, one of these days he'll knock it down. Not this. Not this day. Jay Moore again with you. Jake and Josh Allen for MVP. We knew what that is though. Wow. That's the friendship. All right. I mean, only black men. I know this touting Wyoming gear. He's Jay Moore. Next. Coach of the year. D'Amico Ryan. Interesting. Back to back for D'Amico. Did he win it last year? I don't know. Coach of the year. Matthew Eberfluis. Yeah, I'm with Cap. Matt Eberfluis. And thank you, Chardox. Tefansky, one coach of the year last year. Matt Eberfluis is winning it this year. Next. Kyle Shanahan for Jay Moore. Defensive player of the year. Miles Garrett. Again. Back to back. Very nice. Capy. Defensive player of the year, Michael Parsons. You and I in lockstep there. I think Michael Parsons, the best player. In football, non-quarterback division. He's the DPOI. Chardog. Going off the board here. Jalen Johnson. Defensive player of the year. I think Steph Gilmore was the last corner to get it. Yeah, you're going to need about 12 interceptions. You're coming to boot. And then our rookies of the year. Offense and defense. Caleb Williams. Offense and Latu defense. Yeah, I have the Caleb Williams winning the rookie of the year. And the offensive side. The defensive rookie of the year. Latu. Latu. Dallas Turner. Jared verse. Oh, hoodie knows my pick. Offensive rookie of the year. Caleb Williams. Defensive rookie of the year. L.A. Ram. Jared verse. My guy. And Jay Moore takes Terry and Arnold. Big corner was over here. No, Caleb Williams on offense. Latu on defense. Oh, he's got the same one I got. Latu. Okay. All right. You didn't want to take Dallas Turner? No, I can't be dead. Yeah, I took Dallas Turner. Okay. So no Chop Robinson, huh? These uh... No Chop Robinson. Yeah, Chop Robinson. I'm sorry. I don't like him at all. I don't think he's very good. And Edger and Cooper. Not him either. All right. All right. Coming up. No Austin Booker. No. Oh, okay. Byron Murphy. We will hear from Albert Breyer who covers the National Football League for SI.com and Money One and Quarterback. It's all part of the mix on the Cap and Jay Hood morning show. Cap and Jay Hood are back. And you know this, man. Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. [MUSIC] It's the Cap and Jay Hood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming of the ESPN Chicago app. Now let's turn to the hotline. That would be the car X tire. And out of hot. [MUSIC] Good morning, Jesse. How are you? I am good. Good morning to both of you. Good to hear you guys back together. Yep. Good to be back. It's game week for the beloved Bears. But I'm a little angry with Jorge Lopez. We'll get to him in a moment. What is going on with Justin Steele? Yeah. I mean, they're going to find out today or tomorrow. But look, elbow soreness. That usually doesn't go away within a few days. Now he had a little bit of this last year, but it took a little bit of time to get back. It doesn't mean their surgery on Horizon or anything. Like that. But I can't see him pitching in the next week or two, or maybe even the rest of this month. So you have to expect that he won't be back. And then hope that he will be. I mean, the imaging will tell the story. But imagine they're going to give him at least another turn through the rotation. So we're getting late at that point. So we'll see. Hopefully it's not anything serious. But he did have a little something like this last year. And he did come back pretty quickly. All right, let's talk about last night's ball game. They've got a three-nothing lead. I'm going to read you this step. This is from Optistats. Tonight, that was last night, marks the first time that Chicago Cubs were up three-nothing or better. In the eighth inning or later at Wrigley, only to blow the lead all in one inning and lose the game since. Do you remember? I don't. Game six of the '03 NLCS against the Marlins. That's a good one. That is a while, I guess. Ground ball is short. Wow. Trust me, you know me. I have the bad takes with Craig Council all the time. I can't fault him though. I know he was at 89 pitches after seven. Now, if it was after six and he pulled him, I'd be all over him. Seven innings. I mean Jorge Lopez had a .87 ERA in August. He had a hell of a month. You're trying to get six outs. And it's not a one-nothing lead. It's a three-nothing lead, which is, you know, if it's one-nothing, you might leave your starter in. Because no margin for error with a reliever. But three-nothing, I don't mind the cushion. Six outs to get. He just screwed it up. He threw some bad pitches. Look, they're walking a tightrope. They just came back huge against the Pirates. Other teams are allowed to come back on them. And that's what happened last night. It's a killer loss though. It's my editor texted me this morning. Cubs wildcard, you know, contenders. September 2nd to September 3rd. Because it like, it really felt that bad. That, you know, they lost that game last night. And they're just behind the eight balls. Why do you call him your editor? Just say Danny. No, actually my editor in Bristol is Danny as well. So I have two dannies that we're thinking the same thing. Exactly right. So I don't want to. Jesse, it's a bad take. Jesse, the Pirate Series. And then I consider this a gauntlet. This is going to be very difficult. This will tell the story about the Chicago Cubs the next week to 10 days. Want it? I mean, Yankees come in here on September 6th, 7th, and 8th into the Dodgers on the road. So even though the Cubs have played well against Pittsburgh and Washington, how difficult is this stretch? Will this tell you by the time we get to September 11th, who the Cubs are? Yeah, I mean, I already think that they're back to 3.9% according to ESPN making the playoffs, Jay Hood. So I think I already know. I think we already know it was a nice little surge. It's still a very, very much of a long shot. It just is. And look, the strength of schedule is now flipped. Remember, it was one of the easiest because they just knocked off all those games. They're now mid-pack strength to schedule the rest of the way because of the guys, the teams you just mentioned. Atlanta's strength, the schedule ranks 25th. I mean, they have nobody for two weeks here. So it's really, really a long shot, Jay Hood. I don't really need to see the next week unless they go undefeated or something crazy, like they just did on the road trip, going 8-1. So it's not that big of a deal. I mean, it is definitely a step up in class. It's just too bad because, you know, there were so many good vibes yesterday before the game. I had a long conversation with Danby Swanson. And I asked him, was that one of your best road trips? He goes, I actually told this to the team as we embarked on it. In '21, the Atlanta Braves won nine in a row on the road, including games and series in DC and Miami, where the Cubs were. And he's like, I reminded our team, it is possible. And then they went out and won, you know, eight of nine, but then lost last night. So it's just a killer loss. I know it's just one, but everyone is meaningful. Now, Jay Hood, I just don't see it happening. - And the great council, by the way, Cap, the great council, you think he's top five as manager? Taking on Boone and also was after Los Angeles, with their manager, tough. - Dave Roberts. - Dave Roberts. - So I'm going to the game tonight, Jesse. - And when I'm-- - I'll see you there. - I'll see you there. - I'll see you there. - Geek and bought two tickets, I'm taking my son. I was looking for skeens and steel. Now I get skeens. And my guy, Kyle Hendricks, what are you expecting in this matchup? - Well, what we see last week. I mean, the pirates got out to a big lead and the cubs stormed back. You know, Kyle's going to probably give up some runs. The pirates have hit him well. The cubs have done well against skeens, but at some point, you know, he's probably going to get their numbers. So you've got to survive to the middle innings. You know, skeens isn't throwing 110 pitches. They're not going to abuse him. So try to keep it close to the middle innings. And your bullpen, which has been good until last night, certainly can out pitch the pirates bullpen. It just didn't happen last night. So that's what I expect, like at best you're hanging in there. At worst, you know, we saw what happened last week. They kind of got to Hendricks. Now, I don't think counsel pulled Hendricks quick enough last week. They were lucky to get that comeback because counsel would have been in the cross here. It's like, you've got to manage like it's the playoffs. And if you see Hendricks on the ropes, you got to make a move. You've got Drew Smiley, who's pitched well, you know, as a long man there. So I wonder if Craig will have a quicker hook this week than he did last week cap. So for you, is it skeens or is it the field for rookie of the year? Because I think Jackson Merrill has been terrific for San Diego. My god, there's some good NL rookies. There's some really good NL rookies. Jackson Cheerios, 20 years old up in Milwaukee and leading them with Yellich. He's a monster. He's an absolute 20 years old cap. Think about that. How did they get him? Cheerio, they drafted him. So that was not an international signing thing. I don't believe so. I have to check that for sure. Small market Milwaukee getting past the club. And already signed the kid to a billion dollar extension. Yeah, huge deal. And he's only gotten better since Yellich went down. That is just unbelievable. The NL is stacked. Pass and took schemes. I'm taking Merrill. I'm taking Merrill. What he has done in clutch moments is unbelievable, by the way, for a 20 year old. For a 20 year old. He was international. Not draft. Yeah, that is waiving up. My bad. I'm blank for a second there. I'm going to take Merrill. Padre's going to be in the playoffs. Pirates won't be. Schemes is great. He'll have his day. I'm going to take Merrill just because he's done in clutch moments. If anybody looks under the hood, Jackson Merrill's numbers are incredible when the game's on the line. That doesn't always transfer one year to the next. So yeah, maybe he'll be bad next year, but he's good this year. I'm going to give it to Merrill. But a lot of people are going to vote for schemes. I know that by the way, last December hoodie, this dude signed an eight year 82 million dollar deal. We have two options for 2032 and 2033. Did you say eight year 82 million? Yeah, for a song. 20 year old kid. He was 20. Isn't it interesting? It feels like the smaller market teams. Hmm. Are able to sign up their stars quicker than the bigger market teams. You know, Bobby Witt signed cheerio. I don't know. Maybe it's me. I'm thinking. Yeah, how'd that work out for all those 2016 Cubs? Well, I don't want to take an extension. How'd that work out for any? Yeah. You know, but who knows? Maybe right. Exactly. But who knows? Maybe if they'd signed earlier in their career, they would have been able to relax and just play ball. There's something to that. The closer you get to free agency, the more you start squeezing the bat sometimes. Sometimes. So I don't know. I don't know what the answer is. We can't go back and replay. You know, what if Chris Bryant signs after 17 or something? Maybe he has a better career. I don't know. But yeah, I mean, the brewers are set up with this kid for a bunch of years. Any sax moves? Just starting to count the days when it's going to happen. 31 and 108, kid. Just starting to, again, when's the next win? When is the next win? They don't face anyone special on the mound the night. Povich unbilt. They're still going to lose. Maury, Povich is pitching. Maury, Povich is pitching for the Orioles. He'll still beat the white side. You want to father. Still beat the white side. There's no question about that. So do you believe that they will eclipse the Mets record? Yeah, I mean, it's just a matter of when, not if. And it's probably going to happen mid-month, not end of the month, which is just insane. You know, I wrote a story about the Rangers today and their inability to repeat. And their GM was really honest about basically what Theo used to, a broken offense, the Rangers offense broke. If you look at all the underachieving teams this year, the Reds, the Cardinals, the Rangers, it's all about their offense. And even the White Sox, I knew their pitching staff was going to be bad, but their offense is really underachieved. And that is perplexing when you consider at least some of the names on there, right? It should be better. And it just hasn't been. And that's why I think Chris Getz is looking for anything, anybody that has an offensive background, a good hitting background, whether it be coaches or manager, and that you're going to see is the big change in the offseason. They're going to leave their pitching stuff alone. But hitting-wise, they've got to change things up. Listen, Jesse, I know that they're going to be bad, and they're going to be bad next year. The only thing I need from you from the Sox is to find out what sucker is going to take the next opportunity to be the manager of this ball club. And it's not Grady, because a size more, I think just from this sample size, he's had enough. He's already graying like a president already. You just got to do that. So just all I want to know from you is moving through the winter, what sucker is going to take this job? It's going to be fired in two years or less. I think we'll have a better idea throughout this month of September. But I think it's really going to be one of those young coaches that you can grow with that maybe has a hitting background. It's certainly not going to be a major established manager. Now, I'm going to go throughout Skip Schumacher, because he's the versus guy. I mean, there's a chance, I suppose. But otherwise, I see it as a third base coach hitting coach, someone with that kind of a background with some gravitas, at least, with somebody that's done something a little bit in the game and coming in to grow with the team. Why would they take this job? It's one of 30, Cap. And if you're, if you can get a five-year deal, that would help. Yeah, but if you're any good, you're going to have other teams that want you. I'm not giving away five-year deals. Are you kidding me? We're not going to get any good. Jesse, five years. Right, he probably won't get the five years. I mean, you're right. I mean, Seattle and Seattle and there's a good chance in Cincinnati are going to be open. Those are much better, attractive jobs. So they probably won't get the cream of the crop, like the first guy, you know, available. But you got to find the right guy for this situation. God almighty, taking this job. It's got to be some system hitting code somewhere in double A they can get. Yeah, right in your system. Yeah, he's with the ball club. Now, virtually, put him in there. He's the third base coach. Yeah, fine. Just slide him over. That doesn't matter. This team is dead. It is dead. It's dead. By the way, I gave you one positive on the way out. I wrote the elevator at Wrigley with one George McCasky last night. Oh, what? He was wearing a number seven jersey, but no name on it. No name on it. And he was getting off on the fourth floor where the suites are. And I gave him a good luck this Sunday, George. And he said, thank you, Jesse. And that was our parting weight. That was it. Yeah, that's my encounter with George McCasky. Did he say anything about his segment on our show, Letters to George? He did not mention that. He did not. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football evaluator. OK, well, there you have it. And hoodie, hoodie, mad dog in an hour. Give me a little. Oh, Jesse Rogers is going to be on the high heat. MLB Network Radio, you're on the TV. I'm going to be the Jesse. I'm on the White Sox. They're putrid. They're horrible, horrible to me. Jesse, give me a few minutes on. Just a sec. Size more terrible. Go. I love it. That's going to be an hour. You're going to be on Mad Dog on high heat on the MLB television. That's exactly right. Tell him tell dog we said hello to will do will do and hoodie. You do better him than him, I think. So it's going to be confused. You'll be flustered about the White Sox. It's going to be over here. Cobs are still in the mix, three and a half out. Still in the mix. Give me a few minutes on that. Go ahead, counsel. How's it going? Go ahead. So good. For a minute. So good. That's the best. All right, boys. I'll talk to you later in the week. All right, Jesse. Jesse Rogers. Karak's tire. And I don't have it. Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom, boom. You feel that? Don't worry, call the Karak's name. Snorpom. Is next. On cap and J hook. Follow Chicago's Home for Sports on Twitter at ESPN1000. Cap and J hood are back. On ESPN Chicago. Chicago's Home for Sports. You are looking live. Downtown Chicago. The Windy City. As we get ready for our new installments of Snorpom. I'll look around the college landscape. And we turn to a host here. Shane Orling. Shane. This music, by the way. S-E-C on CBS. Enough with the big 10 on CBS garbage. Enough. This will always be S-E-C on CBS. Brad Nestler turned to Gary Daniels and has said, "Oh God. We got to deal with this every week." Dude, what the hell? I mean, did you see the CBS late? New Work Television. We're doing Ohio State Akron at 230. What? Yeah. No wonder Verne got out of the game. He saw it coming. Holy cow. That big 10 package. Yeah, he's that 230 on CBS cap. Was a must watch. You turn it on. You get your best S-E-C game. Oh my God. Here we go. Now they've got horrible big 10 action. Okay. So long, Gary Daniels and Minnesota Purdue doesn't do it for you. Just. Oh man. I turned to Peacock all the time. I was like, oh, that's right. You got the NBC package. You got the big 10 package too. That Saturday night, and it's Minnesota and Purdue and Iowa. I was scoring 40 points though. All right. We turn now to Shane Norling with the first installment of Snorpom Shake. Yeah, I've got my top 12 for college football, the power rankings, if you will. How about that cap? Week one. Power rankings, there we go. Pro power rankings every Wednesday, college every Tuesday at 9.35. I have 12 of them because we have a 12 team playoff. I'll run through these fairly quickly. At 12, a new entrant. The biggest riser in the rankings for Maine. Boston College. University of Southern California. Impressive. Hoodie, they play defense now apparently. Well, that team is good. Impressive. Yeah, I was I gave Chris Black a little fight on after that because even though they're his coach, still don't understand time management, they found a way to win the ball game. Yeah, that was and Miller Moss at the end of the game, needing a touchdown drive down the field. He was really impressive. That team just looks good. Yeah, you see Caleb tweeting about him. Yeah, he's still here, man. So that's 12 SC 11. 11's Utah. No longer a literal pig farmer at starting quarterback, they get cam rising back. And if you don't know, I'm not making a joke. Last year, they were so injured. They pulled a guy off of his pig farm and had him play quarterback, Bryson Barnes. This is correct, sir. This year, they have a real quarterback. They were impressive in week one. They should win the big 12 Utah's 11. All right, 10. 10. Missouri. Longer returning players on offense. Heisman candidate, a wide receiver, Luther Burden. He's this year's Marvin Harrison, Jr. 51, nothing cruiser over somebody. Murray State. There we go. Uh, week one, I love Mizzou. I have all off season 10 for me. All right, a drink wits to him. Number nine, Miami, the Hurricanes. They walked into the swamp and they ended Billy Napier's career. Goodbye. That dude's done. Dead man walking. Billy Napier's gone. Cam Ward looked great. He did. I don't know how you walk into the swamp and just be that calm. Did you notice on every play, he was like 50% speed? Yeah. I think it was because he's calm and very good. I also think he might have been on Quayludes. Well, I'm not sure what it was. I'll tell you this though. It was so bad for Florida. Usually I would troll Alex Brown as a Georgia guy. I didn't even pick up the phone. He didn't even bother him because I know he's suffering. Captain closer to 111 than a bowl game. We should get him on this week and we could troll him while he's on and get his thoughts on the bear. I mean, that's fine. I just, I felt so bad for him. I didn't even, usually after every loss, I'm giving it to him, giving him the business. Didn't even do it. I felt so because that team is in tatters. It's Florida. Florida. The co-eds, the ocean, the campus, the tradition. And that's what you do? Oh man, that's horrible. Two and a half point dog at home. They lose by 31. Good night. 31, yeah, blown up. Captain, they're really bad. Poor Dan Mullen's on TV. He should be on the sideline of four. What the hell did they tell me? They were good. Mullen was there. Yeah. Number eight, Shay. Alabama. They're five in the preseason poll. I'm lower on them than that. It was a freight train win over Western Kentucky. I still don't know if the bore is ready for the SEC. They have the most potential of these bottom four and the power ranking teams to move into the top four. Let's go, Abdullah. Number seven. Penn State. Nobody just walks into Morgantown and wins like that, man. Not when West Virginia's good. They looked very impressive. And the biggest thing for me, Drew Aller, the quarterback. Yeah. After last year looking like a spaghetti noodle trying to throw the football, he looked confident. I was around a number of West Virginia fans over the weekend and they were just sullen. And just couldn't believe that they got not just lost. Shay, they just got blown off the line of scrimmage. They got destroyed. Yeah. I mean West Virginia at home. So you know, I'm not a Penn State guy. Give them credit. Number seven. Number six. Ole Miss. They scored 100 points, week one, if they wanted to. They're a team this year that might score every time they touch the football. That offense is incredible. Number five, Shay. Five falling out of the top four. My Oregon Ducks. Yikes. Here's Charlie Bevin. Charlie? Not good. Charlie? Look, get ready to realize kind of how annoying Oregon fans can be now that they're on such a national big 10 level. We're going to get a lot of this. Brother, you're not supposed to play like that. You're better than that. Aren't you? That's too tight. It wasn't even at the kibby dome. It was in Austin. I know it wasn't. They're kibby. The vandals play. I know. Do you have a one and one with them? Do you have a two and one with the vandals? That's horrible. And by the way, the guy at the bar could not find the game. And I said, hey, by the way, Oregon's in the big 10 now. Okay. I'll find it. Oh, seriously? Seriously, the adjustment. This one's on Fox. It wouldn't have been able to find a pack 12 network. So it's like, yeah, I couldn't find the game. Because Oregon has changed. Number four, Shay. Top four teams in the country. Cap, we owe an apology to the people of South Bend. I said on Saturday, if Notre Dame walks into Kyle Field at night, week one, to open the season and walks out with a win. I will tip my cap and call them one of the four best teams in America. I will go one step further. That is the single best defensive secondary in the country. It is incredible. Cap to win in front of 105,000 people. Some of your fans, sure. But mostly at Kyle Field, 105,000 people and win on the road like that. Give them credit. Give the Irish credit. That was a signature win for them. And it would be hard for us to find another loss on that schedule after this one. They're in the playoff today. They're going to lose to USC. They're in the playoff today. I would agree. I mean, I was impressed by the resolve of that team to win on the road in that environment. But Marcus Freeman also has to prove he doesn't stop his toe in a game where... Oh, God, they lost him. Oh, you're right. Can you believe this is the same dude who lost to Marshall in his first game as that coach? Yeah. Can I give the brother a chance? They look good. And then see if he can get past Northern. That secondary is unbelievable. Let's go Huskies. Yeah. Shot the world, baby. Saturday as it gets to NIU. Let's take a look. Can you see NIU over the weekend? They won. They put 60 up. Classic NIU. Against Western Illinois. All right. Number three, Shay. Texas. His back folks. 52 to nothing win. They covered their spread by 17 points against Colorado State. Things start right where they left off. When yours looked awesome, Archman and got in the game. He looked good through his first touchdown. They're really good. No cap. You can't have Archmanning too. We got our franchise quarterback. I know you're going to stick your beak in there like, "Hey, Arch, because he's going to be good." Oh, I don't want Arch. I got Caleb, man. And I got Beijing. We're good. Why do we need Archmanning? We got Tyson Beijing. Yes, exactly. Number two, Shay. Ohio State moves up one spot, because Oregon peed down their leg against Idaho. Come on, Charlie. Ohio State's awesome. Two-name Halva team. Two names to become very familiar with. Ryan Williams from Alabama. Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State. Jeremiah Smith, my brother's texting me. The next generational freshman receivers are going to be wreaking havoc on college football for the next three years. Ohio State, I'm still questioning a little bit. The offense just didn't look as good as I thought it would. Two defensive scores. So win 52-6. We'll see. They are nowhere close to the number one team. Hoodie, your team. Crown me. Oh my god. Crown me. You might as well let them in as the national title. Holy smokes. Beat the fighting devil Kaplan's on Saturday. Easy. Now here's the thing. Here's the thing. Give Clemson credit now in the first half. That defense was swarming. Give him credit. But it's a four-quarter game. We beat their ass without any problem. I had no problem with this game. I knew that Clemson could be tough in the first half of the cap. That'll be all for Davo and Clemson. What was it? Six-six at the half? Six-nothing. And they won 34-3. Give their defense credit. When was it six-three at the half? It was six-nothing. George is awesome, man. Yeah, no. No bleep. We got the job done. It's just in. But I'll take the buck guy to win the national title. Of course you will. Got old Midwestern flavor. That's right. There we go. Tell your buddy Davo it's time to take a transfer or a GTFO. Yeah. Things might have looked a little different if you took some transfers. Maybe you take some transfers. Maybe get dabbled in the port a little bit. Maybe spend a little money. Maybe you don't get your ass beat 34-3. You can get your ass beat but it won't be 34-3. 'Cause sick 'em, got the job done on Saturday. Coming up next. It's gorgeous. Oh, doctor. What a win. And a neutral side game in Atlanta. 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