Kap & J. Hood
9/3 8 AM: Kap & J.Hood NFL season picks
Live from State Street in the heart of Chicago, you are listening to the new home of the Chicago Bears, ESDF Chicago. And this is Captain J. Hood, W.M.P.W.T.B.C., H.D.2, Chicago, a good karma brand's radio station. Checkmate 1-6, land here suppression on target. That's why I see him in my shirt. Good morning and welcome in to the Captain J. Hood Morning Show on ESPN 1,000 and streaming on ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan Jonathan Hood with you. Now it's time for Shadow No Shot. Here's Shane Orling, Shane. Good morning, boys, on a Tuesday, the first regular season game week Tuesday of the year. How are we feeling? We're great. Just to see football back on the television, it's 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 that's the game in Brazil, correct? Packers and Eagles? Yeah. 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 were down 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. Yes, cares about SMU and BYU. Nobody except the people whose parents have kids down there. And Charlie, 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 a 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. You'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? I mean, that thing. That sounds itself. Hey, here's our facilities. Is that the lake? Yes. Holy God. Is that Pepperdine? That is amazing. Super cool. It looks beautiful on TV. It's really cool. Who do you, 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. 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 into that place. Football might not be very good, but it still looks good on TV. Hey, they went through a ballgame last year. Let's just say eight o'clock, by the way, for Duke Northwestern on Friday. All right. At where? At Lenny and Sharon Martin Stadium. The Duke games here too? Yeah. Ooh, I might go to that. Oh, how are you going to watch Eagles Packers? My streaming. Oh, now who's taking cock? I'm going to a game. Let's 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 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? He said SMU, yes. Old timer. That's what he said. 69 degrees on Friday. Here's Shane Orley. 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. 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. 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 med trade. We're not going to have a roster or a franchise. Wow. That is wrong and completely exaggerated, of course. That is, I said, no shot. 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. It doesn't have to be him. I mean, Caleb Williams, like, here's the C man. You got to be a leader. Yeah. Start now. Yep. So I think that, for me, it's not a surprise. There's no shot for me. I think 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 to see wins. That's it. Let's go. All right, everyone, and I do mean everyone, was critical last year of Matt Eberfloos's late game decision-making. But a report over the weekend suggested that Eberfloos 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 Eberfloos will be much better in late game scenarios. It's a shot. Now you've 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 were you thinking? With Justin, I told you this. There were members of the coaching staff that wanted to keep Tyson Bajan 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, in January, to see where we are through 18 weeks. Pass the playoffs. 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. - Correct. - Three years. - Correct. - 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, and 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 gotta 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 Orley. - Well, on the topic of that, Justin Fields getting 51. - Was that a crack and a beer back here, Chardog? - Oh, that's not fair. - Goodness, all right. Care to share, Charlie, or? Here's Shane Orley. - Here's a caffeine right there. - All right, 51% of the- - Yeah, yeah, well, with hops. But a foamy head, but that's your business. Espresso martini in a can. - Yeah, that's your business with your foamy head. Here's Shane Orley. - All right, we need an extra fourth round pick from Pittsburgh for the Justin Fields trade. All he has to do is take 51% of the snaps. We just talked. He's not the starter right now. But Albert Breer 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 Rothensberger, 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. Like, but this was what happens. Like, Ben's gone. What are we going to do? How many quarterbacks they've been through since Rothensberger retired? - It's just tough. - Yeah. - It's tough. Justin Fields is not the answer. He's not, not for the long, 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. - You're correct. - 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 piss the Steelers fans off, upstairs, and then the weather center over here. They get pissed off. - Brosy. - Yeah, and upstairs with Maggie Sketch. Because they get so pissed off like, yeah, we're over 500 butt. Yeah, we get to play us butt. It's only stop gaps. You're just trying to keep the train room moving, but you'll never in the mix. - Mitch Mason Rudolph, Kenny Pickett. Yeah. - Try it. But this is where you are. This is when Ben, great quarterback for his time, and you haven't been able to replace him yet. - And you know what it is honestly? It's 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're going to win, but you're standing 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 Paul's 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 Paul's, on why he chose the Bears as his first GM job. Shot or no shot. Ryan Paul's should have said he's chasing greatness. - Yes, but then it would be a copyright problem. And then Ryan Paul's office. Yes, tell him David Cavill's attorney. - That's it. Say no, 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? - That means seriously. Can you imagine that phone call? (phone ringing) - Hello. - Hello. (laughing) (phone ringing) - Hello, man. - Hello. - Hello? - Who's this? - Who's this? - Who's here? (laughing) - 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. (phone ringing) - I could license it to you. For a nominal fee, hmm. - Correct. - Take that. - And let's do it on a monthly basis. (laughing) - Dr. Brew, I got him on the hook. Million dollars. We're in, kid. - We're good. (laughing) - Ken, you gotta get him the hoodie. - I got it. - You gotta get him a chasing greatness hoodie after a quote like that. - I do. 100%. - In hindsight, David Kaplan should have given it to him in the spring. Because that thing would be on hard knocks. - Boy. - I'm just saying that that'd be on hard knocks. - Imagine that. - And that'd be our way of getting on hard knocks. Since apparently, sports radio's 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. - Mm, you're okay. We'll check the-- - 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. - Let me, 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. I thought 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. - It's the hardback, hard, hard, hard, hard. - Around the NFL is next on "Cappin' Jhood." [upbeat music] - You're listening to "Cappin' Jhood." Follow the show on Instagram @thecappman and @igjhood. This is ESPN Chicago. Chicago's home for sports. - It both sucks. It sucks. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football evaluator. I love the Green Bay Packers. - The guy is front, but there we go. This is not Detroit, man. This is the Super Bowl. - I love winning. He starts to come any more. - This is a really thickly built guy. - I mean, what's the answer you're looking for? These things here. - It's time to go around the NFL, right here on ESPN 1000, and streaming of the ESPN Chicago app. With YouTube's at a clock, and then my Greenberg at 10, followed by Carmen Yerco at 12, Waddland Sylvie at 2.30, into White Sox baseball against the Baltimore Orioles at 5 o'clock. Black of Dalla on the YouTube channel. Look for Black of Dalla channel on YouTube.com. Here's Shay Norley. - All right, we are 58 hours and 39 minutes from the start of the NFL season. 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 him. Do you have two teams making the playoffs out of the North like I do? I have the 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 line up 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. - 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, Shay, but he'll get you there. - We know what happens afterwards, hoodie. Playhouse games by and large or prime time events. - Yeah, I'll just try to give you the benefit of the doubt there. Atlanta will make the playoffs. There will be play of glitter and baby oil to go at the Cheetah Club for the Atlanta Falcons. Kaplan? - I go Falcons, Bucks, Panthers, Saints. - Wow, I have the exact same order. Falcons, Bucks, Panthers, Saints, for me as well. Falcons, division champions, you 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 of 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 Saints 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. - Okay, he could be the first one fired. - Let's go to the sidelines and Dave Canales, Dave. - That's Lou Canales. - Oh. - Sam. Sam Rose. 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 in the NFC North, I think Atlanta's 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 has signed a 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 in a 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 did. Guy's 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. No Aaron Donald anymore. They lost their center. They just traded their defensive captain. I liked what they did last year. It's 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. - Raid me. NFC East. NFC East may be 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's still learning on the job with their 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, Giants. Parable ball club. The Titian's the matter. It's 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. - Oh, oh, oh, oh. - They're the only team in this division that I'm positive on. - I don't know, Shane. - They're 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 to the end zone? - To the end zone. - To the end zone. - Carry your pigeon. How are they going to get there? - Maybe. - I think Malik neighbors is awesome. All the camp stuff, he's lightening up. I just, I hate this division so much. Giants win it. Eagles. - Nice. - Then Cowboys, who I think are just toast and commanders last. - Brother, I think that you and I will get the same thing. If you believe that the Dallas Cowboys are third on that list, then anyone's going to get fired. They could be in first place and then the playoffs in fall short and everyone's going to be fired. - Correct. - We're going to 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 going to have a strong personality, like Jerry Jones. - Or Parcels. - Can we Johnson or like, you know. - Parcels when he does. - Parcels. Very Switzerland. That's done. - Done. - You'll find someone else he can manipulate. That's what he do. That's why McCarthy's in a position. Beat cop. - Sweetie is. - Yep. - Keep the rig out of the road. - Shay. - All right, for the AFC, let's just. - Did you give, oh yeah. - I did not. He is the opposite of Shay, Jim, where he has Cowboys winning it. Eagles, Washington and the Giants finishing last. Giants last. Okay. Jay Moore. Not a pretty pension. Okay. Not a pretty pension. Not a pretty pension. 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 that. 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, hoodie. - 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 Patriot, 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. Chardah, go ahead. - Bills winning at Dolphins making the playoffs. Jets on the outside looking in Pat Patriots in last. - Next. - AFC North hoodie. - Cincinnati wins the AFC North followed by Baltimore. Cleveland and the Steelers are last. - I have the exact same order as Hoodra. - Yeah, I have Baltimore winning the division again. Bengals 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 Bengals making the playoffs. - AFC South hoodie. - Houston is the class of the AFC South followed by Indianapolis. Jacksonville, then 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 hoodie, I'm right there with you. Titans in third, Jags pulling up the rear. - Oh, you're outta here. - - 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, LA. - 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 gonna 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 with Kansas City winning 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 ridiculous. - Oh my God. - Jet. - What the hell? - Okay. - Do you wanna sleep with Aaron Rodgers? - It's unbelievable. - Okay. - I almost went Dallas in the Jets. - Jet. - No, they can't. - You're a Jets. - You're a Jets. - Okay. - On the other way, okay. From embarrassment to the top of the heap. Things have turned around. Sola is the class of New York. - Okay. - He's the man. From fire to the best in the league. Back after that. - Pretty good. - I have the Lions and Texans in the Super Bowl with the Lions winning at all. - Oh, we need Mr. Norling to call in the day after the Super Bowl. - He might have a stroke. - We need him on the air. 750. - J. Moore's got a rematch and a 3P. Chiefs over the 49ers. - 49ers, okay. - MVP, hoodie. - Joe Burrow. - 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'm going back to- - I'm going back to- - For about 5,000 yards. - Keep going! - 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 day. J. Moore again with you. Jake and Josh Allen for MVP. - We knew what that is though. - Wow. - That's the friendship. - All right. - You know what I mean? Only Blackman, I know. This touting Wyoming gear. He's J. Moore. - Dak. - Coach of the year. - D'Amico Ryan's. - Mm, interesting. Back to back for D'Amico. Did he win it last year? - I don't know. - Coach of the year, Matthew Eberfluce. - Thank you. - Yeah, I'm with Cap. Matt Eberfluce. And thank you, Chardog Stafansky, one coach of the year last year. Matt Eberfluce is winning it this year. - Next, Kyle Shanahan for J. Moore. - Defensive player of the year. - Miles Garrett. - Again, back to back. Very nice. - Cappy. - Defensive player of the year, Micah Parsons. - You and I and Locke step there. I think Micah Parsons is the best player in the football non-quarterback division. He's the D.P.O.I. - 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 going to boo. - And then our rookies of the year, offense and defense. - Caleb Williams, offense. And Lotu, defense. - Yeah, I have the. Caleb Williams winning the rookie of the year. And the offensive side. The defensive rookie of the year. - Lotu, Lyatu. Dallas Turner. - Jared verse. - Oh, hoodie knows my pick. Offensive rookie of the year. Caleb Williams, defensive rookie of the year. LA Ram, Jared verse. Micah. - And J. Moore takes Terry and Arnold. (laughing) - Big corner was over here. No, Caleb Williams on offense. Lotu on defense. - Oh, he's got the same one I got. Lotu, okay. - All right. - Did anyone take Dallas Turner? - No, I can't be dead. - Yeah, I took Dallas Turner. Okay. So no Chop Robinson, huh? - 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, okay. Byron Murphy. We will hear from Albert Breyer, who covers the National Football League for SI.com and Money Wanting Quarterback. It's all part of the mix on the Cap and Jhood Morning Show. - Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Cap and Jhood are back on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. - Hello. - Football on ESPN 1000. - Hello, Bert. - Albert Breyer. Hey, Bert, senior NFL writer for SI.com. joins Cap and Jhood. - Bert's it? - What? - You're it, Bert. - On ESPN 1000. - What do you mean I'm big? - We see that's the game. I just tag you, and you're it until you tag somebody else. - Albert Breyer. - No, no, I'm not playing a game. I'm reading, and I'm not big. - Okay. - On Chicago's home for sports. - What bird is it? - Now time for Albert Breyer. Money Wanting Quarterback, SI.com. That's where you go as we have our conversation, and Albert is on the hotline. - Carx, turn on the hotline. [MUSIC PLAYING] - Rattle, rattle, thunder, clatter, boop, boop, boop. [MUSIC PLAYING] - Don't worry, call the Carx name. - Good morning, Albert. How are you? - Good morning, guys. How are you? - Well, thank you. - We are awesome. It's football game week. Prep started yesterday. I was watching you with Rich Eisen, and when you said they gave Caleb the playbook and started the install in March, and Eisen's ready. What? That has them, I think, prime to get off to a quicker start than maybe a rookie quarterback usually does. Is that fair? - Yeah, you know what's weird about that? It's like, I said that to Rich at the end of July. And I don't know, like, someone in Chicago must have picked it up, because all of a sudden, like, I got all of these, like, likes, like, all these notifications on my phone about this many people liked the post on Instagram or whatever. So somehow someone got a hold of it, as if I had said it yesterday. - Right, I was like, I thought, Albert, said that, like, when camp opens, long summer. - Yeah, at the end of July. Yeah, that's right. But that's all right. Someone repurposed it. That's okay. It's obviously also a truth, and also a factor. And what's gone on here, you know? And I think the Bears, again, deserve credit for accelerating the process. And part of that was forced, right? Like, so, you know, I think Ryan Pauls and Matieber Flus wanted to get ahead of this, and wanted to be in a position where they'd be able to move Justin Field at the beginning of free age, you know? And she didn't exactly play out that way. But because they had accelerated the process, because they did their vetting of Caleb Williams really early, they, like, came to a quicker decision that, yeah, this is the guy. This guy's different than everybody else. And, you know, once they came to that conclusion, now all of a sudden, okay, like, how do we allow our time? And the right way to do it for them was, well, like, if we're planning on starting him, and we're not, you know, we're not this, you know, like, we're not this sort of, you know, like, start up here. We've been here for three years. And so we're not going to bring in, you know, a middle of the road guy to hold the fort for half a season. Like, we need to have, like, a really good starting quarterback right away. It made sense to accelerate the process with him. And so, you know, again, like, for anybody who didn't hear it, like, and I think I've been over a few times on your show, right? But they put it in the terminology and the, on the formations and the cadence. And, you know, and some of that stuff, and the, I'm trying to remember all of it, but, like, they put in that stuff. And I wrote a whole story on it in August, too, on the site, in the Zoom meetings. And then, you know, they worked on him getting in and out of a huddle at the 30 visit. And so, like, by the time they got around to bring him in the building for the Rookie of Many Camp in May, he already had a pretty good baseline of what the offense was going to look like. So the onboarding was very aggressive, and began much earlier than it dies from our rookie quarterbacks. Albert, we were looking at the NFC and just trying to figure out how the Bears can get into the playoffs. Do you see the Bears being one of the top seven teams in the NFC? Big as possible. You know, I've been lucky to be in the NFC. It's funny, I'm doing this quarterback poll where I, you know, I reached out to over 100 guys, you know, GM's head coaches, offensive coordinators, quarterbacks coaches, personnel directors, and just asked them who they think the top five quarterback's going to be at the end of the year. And a lot of comments I caught, like, after a guy's went to his exercise, he was like, oh, wow, they're all ASC. You know, like, a lot of guys had all five of their quarterbacks in the ASC. And I think it sort of illustrates the imbalance and power that there isn't in the league right now, where, you know, you have Josh Allen, and Patrick Mahomes, and Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson, and now Aaron Rodgers, you know, Justin Herbert. I'm probably missing somebody here, right? Like, because there are so many of them. It's a gauntlet. C.J. Stroud, you know, like, it's a gauntlet in the ASC, you know? And the NFC, it's a little easier to sneak into the playoffs as a six or seven seed. So, you know, there are a bunch of teams. The Bears are one of them that I think have a chance to come up and surprise people and get into the bracket. You know, the Bears B1, the Cardinals, the Seahawks. I think there are other teams out there that could surprise some people and make it in the NFC, a part of that, again, is due to the fact that a lot of the strength of the league is in the other complex. In terms of looking at the Tennessee Titans, they're rolling in here. The Bears are four and a half point favorites. I'm not asking you to handicap the game from a gambling perspective, but take us through your thoughts on what the Titans are rolling in here. So, like, obviously, they've reset a lot of things. And I think they're in the midst of a pretty extensive rebuild right now. So, well, what does that mean? Well, you know, the Mike Brable teams made the playoffs a few times, got to an AFC title game, and in time aged out. So, like, some of the guys they had there that were, you know, really kind of the tone setters for the entire program, Taylor LeWann, Derek Henry, Kevin Beyer. Those guys are gone now, right? So, they're building around a different group of players, and they're young in a lot of spots. So, you know, like, you know, Peter Skaronski and J.C. Latham on the offensive line. First-year guy, second-year guy, right? You know, the receiver group, they bring in Calvin Ridley as sort of a stopgap, because I believe he's either 29 or 30 years old. So, he's a little older, right? On the defensive side, they're going to be relying on young players all over the place, yes. They have Simmons in the middle of that defense, and Jeffrey Simmons is one of the best players in all football. But they're very young everywhere else. So, I think that's the first thing you notice, is that this is a team going to a very extensive rebuild, probably where the Bears were a couple of years ago. The other thing that you need to know is they are trying to get an answer on their young quarterback, right? So, part of that is, you know, is going and bringing inherently, and bringing back the Andre Hopkins, and, you know, signing Tony Pollard over from Dallas, like where it's like, okay, we're rebuilding, but we also need to figure out if Will Levis is the guy, because if he's not, and we have a high pick next year, then we're going to have to probably have to take one. So, and even in that way, I guess they're sort of where the Bears were, right? When the Bears had to find out what Justin feels. So, I think, you know, people in Chicago probably see some parallels to where the Titans are now, where the Bears have been the last couple of years. Albert Breyer joins us every Tuesday. So, we talk Bears in the NFL right here. On Cap and Jhood. Follow Chicago's Home for Sports on Twitter at ESPN1000. Cap and Jhood are back on ESPN Chicago, Chicago's Home for Sports. Albert Breyer is with us every Tuesday at 835, right here on the Cap and Jhood Morning Show, on ESPN1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Albert, are you going to love this? You just wrote recently about Aaron Rodgers, how he opens up to rehabbing his injury. This is, by the way, go to SI.com and read Albert. He just wrote about this a week ago. My partner here to my right loves the Jets out of the AFC. I have the Jets going to the Super Bowl. It's ridiculous. Okay, I don't have the stomach to do that, but I think they're in the running, and I would tell you right now where the Jets are, reminds me of where the fucking years were in 2020. And what I mean by that is they've got the older quarterback, who's a superstar, has been a superstar, and you're not maybe like 100% sure what you're going to get from him, but they don't need him to be Superman. And like when I went and saw that team, I just, I really like how aggressively the attacks fixing the offensive line and going and bringing you to the entire in Smith and Morgan, Moses and Olaf Hashanu, you know, and then John Simpson over from Baltimore. And then the defensive line looks terrifying with, you know, seven former first round picks up there. I just don't see a hole on their rosters. There's not like this, not anything where you look at it and say like, okay, like they need to fix that. Like, they're good. So, you know, I think at baseline, like even with like B plus B plays from Aaron Rodgers, they should be a playoff team in the AFC, and that's change plenty. Because the AFC, like we said earlier, is going to be tough. We'd tough made the playoffs out of that conference. You know, but I think that they got the potential to go much further than just that. It just, it looks to me, it has a look to me of, you know, again, the team that Tom Brady had in Tampa, where they don't even need him to be Superman. But if he is Superman, again, they've got a chance to win the whole thing. In terms of looking at our division, Green Bay obviously has a really good young quarterback. They're paying 56 million dollars, too. How good is there roster around him? I really like the Packers roster. Now, I, you know, I think part of what you're going to be looking for from the Packers is some improvement on the scheme defensively. And, you know, what I think is going to be to tell is like what they're getting out of Kenny Clark and, and Rashan Gary and, and Devontay Wyatt, all those guys up front, right? Like, so they got a bunch of high draft picks, well-paid guys on their front, where, you know, they felt like they weren't getting quite enough out of those guys. So now, Jeff Haffley comes over from Boston College and is going to be putting in a much more aggressive scheme, one that's more like the San Francisco scheme. Well, guys are going to be getting upfield and into the backfield, right? So like, are they able to get more out of like, what I think is a pretty talented defensive baseline, you know, that way and bringing over Xavier McKenny from the Giants should help as well. You know, and then I, what I like about what they are offensively guys is just, they have a bunch of players who are going to grow up together with, with Jordan Love, right? And it's Romeo Dobbs and it's Christian Watson and it's, you know, it's Don Tavy and Wix and, and Jayden Reed and Luke Musgrave and they just, like, I don't know if there's a superstar in the group, but they've got really good balance among all those players. They've done a good job developing offensive linemen and then Josh Jacobs comes in as a guy, kind of be the head of the snake. And it was interesting to me seeing some of the stuff out there on Jacobs this week where, you know, Chiefs had made a real runner down and, you know, I just think it's, like, I just think there are, there are another one where you look at it and it's like, I don't know, if they can shore up like the interior, they're offensive line, I don't know if there's a real, like, glaring hole in the roster. So, you know, again, like, they, they, they look like a team that I think should be able to challenge the lines and be in a senior, then I actually think, you know, I think the North is probably the strongest division in the NFC right now and, and one of the two or three strongest divisions in football, just because of the depth and, you know, what the Bears can be and, and, and how I think Minnesota is going to be able to navigate so much challenges ahead of them too. What's hot on your phone right now, something you haven't told anyone else? Oh, geez, well, I've been kind of, like, I've been kind of buried in this quarterback poll, honey. Um, so I'll give you guys in Chicago a little something. Um, got a couple ballots with Kayla, like, so I do this every year that you guys know this, right? So, um, way after the cut down before the season, so everybody has a full context for the offseason. I, I send out ballots and I say, give me your top five quarterbacks, um, at the end of the year, right? Like not the top five right now, who you think the top five quarterbacks are going to be at the end of the year. And I'm looking at my grid right now. And, uh, my home is going to be a number one. Oh, like, runway number one, obviously. I, I, I burrow Alan, Jackson, those guys will probably, those guys will be two, three, four, I think, in some order. Um, and then Stroud is actually, Stroud might actually wind up being number five. Um, Kayla Williams landed on a couple of ballots. So, there you go. Kayla Williams has gotten on a couple of ballots, so, um, and this is executive telling you this? I can say, I can say he's the only, he's the only rookie that has shown up on any ballots. And he's gotten on a couple of months, saying he's going to get, I'm not going to, I'm not saying he's shown up on 10 ballots or anything like that, but I have, I think it's like, I think I have 59 in right now. And he's shown up on a couple of them. So, um, you know, like, in this day and age, and with what there is in the league right now, for a quarterback, um, this act that he's shown up, um, on a couple of them, I think is a good sign for what people are seeing on tape and how, um, you know, like how they see a situation around it in Chicago too. And this is executives and scouts in the league, coaches? So yeah, it's like, I, basically what I try to do, Cap, is I try to, I try to like, it's, it's got to be somebody who in some way touches the quarterback, right? So it's, um, head coach, offensive coordinator, um, head coach, offensive coordinator, um, quarterback coach, or people who evaluate them. So WGM, pro scouting director, assistant general manager, director of player personnel, I send them out just to people who I think in some way are charged with evaluating quarterbacks, right? So it's, it's a, it's a wide range of people, but whoever it is is a relatively high level person who, in some, in one way or another, you know, has evaluating quarterbacks on this flight. Albert, as always, we appreciate the time. Thanks for coming on the show. All right. Thanks guys. Have a good week. Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom. Don't worry, call the correct snake. Yeah, I have a career for our money morning quarterback and SI.com every Tuesday on the cap and jayhood morning show.