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(crunching) - Chicago. - This is your morning routine. - Listen to respect my name. - Cap and G hood. - That's right, that's right, we're bad. - Uh-uh. - Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1,000 Chicago. - Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app. And on Insta, 100.3 HD2, and on ESPN 1,000 Chicago. Now, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. - Good morning, everyone. - Hey, whoa. - This is Bales Victory Monday. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - Pick up Flowey, Andre Carter, a yard deep in his own end zone comes out, five, 10, and seven, numbers 15, 20, half of the 25 to 30, hits the gas with a point, to the 45 to 50, into Tennessee territory, and knocked out a bounce. - To our left, the Andre Carter. - Fresh block, on the ground, picked up, to the 10, to the five, to the end zone, for the touchdown, on the black part by the Bears. Jonathan Owens, welcome to Chicago. - Levis, swallow it up, gets rid of it at the last second, and it is intercepted, down the sidelines for the 20, then a 10, to the five, to the end zone. Tyreeks Stevenson, for the lead. - Snap is back, four-man rush, pressure coming, and down goes Levis. Seth made out of play by Jevon Dexter Sr. and the Bears celebrate with the South End Zone fans here at Soldier Field. - Here comes the ball, the ball. - It's a Bears Victory Monday, on the Captain Jay Hood Morning Show, on ESPN 1000, and we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, we've got Jay, we've got Jay Moore, and we've got you, for a three-hour ride here, on this Bears Victory Monday, as the Bears defeat the Titans by the score of 24-17. Full lines open for you, the Bear fan, 3-1-2-3-3-2 ESPN, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our telephone number. And cap, the Bears defense provided the magic to help the team win yesterday. The strength of the Bears, the secondary, the defensive line, the Bears, down 17, found a way to win a football game, and that was the Lidlifter on Sunday at the lake front, 24-17 the final. - You find a way to win a football game. Was Caleb great? - No, obviously he was not. Was the offensive line good enough? No, obviously they were not. In the end, you find a way to win a football game. No panic from that team. Second half, I did, you know, look at the film last night, or the replay, sat down and just watched and looked, and that Tennessee front four is top five in the national football league. They may not have the best quarterback. They got a good wide receiver room, but they're defensive front four. That kid, Devondre, Sweat, holy cheese. What's that guy weight, 360? The monster up front. But again, Coleman Shelton, you better be better. And I know that kid's 360, and I know they've got all Jeffrey Simmons and all these dudes that come to eat, Harold Landry, those are good football players. But that's your job, and you better find a way to block better Sunday night when you go to Houston to take on a really good Texans team. But Titans did not cross midfield in the last two quarters. Didn't get past the 50. Bears defense pitched a shut out in the second half. Demarcus Walker, four quarterback hits, Billings, two hits, Dexter, two hits, Taylor, two sacks, a forced fumble, and the Bears find a way to win a football game forcing three turnovers, the fumble and two picks in the fourth quarter. And despite a poor offensive performance, they win. - Yeah, the strength of the Bears was a secondary. We talked about this all summer, Cab. We talked about how we couldn't wait to see what the Bears' secondary would look like. And guess what? That first game yesterday, we saw Jalen Johnson and Tyree Stevenson make big plays. Right there, folks, if you're looking for the strength of the football team at this point in time is what we've talked about leading into the game. It was in and showed up again with Stevenson and Johnson. And then in the trenches cap, the Demarcus Walker is in the Billings and the Dexter's and the Taylor's. TJ Edwards and Brisker, they all stood out. The defense more times than that was stout for this team. And because the offense was so anemic and so poor yesterday, it took the defense to be able to flip the field, to be able to score touchdowns. What we saw yesterday was the same football game that you and I and many of other Bears fans have seen for decades. Same game we saw yesterday, we've seen for decades. The defense having to carry the load for the offense. Special teams played well enough to be able to help the Bears as well. But ultimately, cap, it comes down to being able to score points. The defense did their job and also the offense's job. It's about time for the offense to carry the male and do their job too. Once you have that balance, you have a really good football team. Right now, not yet. Not yet. Again, was Caleb good? Nope, I'm not going to come in here and tell you, well, he was good enough. No, he wasn't. And he would tell you that. I really was impressed with him on his post-game interview by they with Christina Pink. And then when he talked at the podium, hey man, all the love to the defense, they're the ones that got the job done. I've got to be better and I will be better. The post-game stuff with Coach Eber Flus and Kevin Byard speaking to the team. Look, through a long season, there's going to be a day where they score 35 points and bail out the defense. There's going to be many days where the defense is going to bail them and their rookie quarterback out. The bottom line is, you want to know. Somehow, some way, not the way you drew it up, find a way to win a football game. Nate Davis, you better look in the freaking mirror. You better look in the mirror. He played 18 snaps. He was so bad, Olin put out a tweet of a video clip and there's Nate Davis, completely lost. Lost, not touching a guy. I know Caleb's got to get the ball out or take the sack earlier on the 19-yard sack, but holy cow. Guys, can we stop somebody, slow somebody down? They were not great on the offensive line and that's got to get fixed now, not tomorrow now. Caleb Williams, giving credit to the Bears' defense for the victory. Keenan and all of us, we always say that we can't wait to watch these guys go out there because we know how good they are. We can't wait to watch these guys go out here and do that thing. And obviously, it shows the brotherhood bond that they have. They've built over the past couple of years. The guys has been playing here and obviously, a couple of new guys, Ryan and Ryan Polls and Coach and everybody's done a great job getting all these guys here. But the guys go out there and execute the way they do and the way they did. We couldn't wait and it shows you all their hard work that they put in. So thoughts there from Caleb Williams. So, Cap, you and I both believed that the Bears could beat the Titans in our predictions on Friday. Now, again, down 17 to three at the half, you're looking at this game, you're saying, OK, how can the Bears get back in this game? And here's, let's talk about your game plan. You talked to me, brought this up on Thursday and Friday, leading into the game. Hey, guys, you got to be able to run the football more. And I agree with that wholeheartedly because it's a rookie quarterback. You got to get him comfortable in his first game. He says he's not nervous. But the point is, though, is that it's your first game. And you know the Titans defensive front, and they sent four a lot. They were getting after Caleb Williams and hurrying him. Big time. So my whole thing is, is that here's the difference between the Bears in Tennessee. Callahan stayed wedded to the run. When he ran into a brick wall with Pollard, he's like, oh, three and out, three and out, three and out. And they kept running the football. And they finally got through and got to touch down for Pollard. They stayed wedded to the run. The Bears started off running the football, and then they decided to go with the short passing game, which is the equivalent of running the football. I think that 22 carries us fine. I expected more. I actually expected more because this is what we talked about last week. Completely agree with you. Yeah, great point. I thought the Bears would stay more committed to DeAndre Swift running the football. But boy, oh boy. When you started watching the penetration and the trouble they were having, blocking all those dudes, they said, OK, we're going to have to try and use either a shorter passing game. Caleb wasn't great. Again, if Allen doesn't drop the touchdown, I mean, that was a dime. It was right in his hands in the front left corner of the end zone. And Vailus doesn't fumble a kick to give them three points. You feel better about what went on in the game. But Caleb can't miss a wide open Keenan Allen down the left sideline. He missed an open Tyler Scott, streaking down the field. You cannot miss on those throws. Cap, so I'm watching this. And the Keenan Allen thing bothered me even this morning when I woke up because that was his first touchdown of his NFL career. Correct. It was. And the short-handed Keenan Allen, who didn't drop anything, dropped that pass. And I'm like, come on now. Listen, it's been a rough day at the office offensively. You have to be as close to perfect as possible. When you're having a rough day and you're that close, you got to catch the football. Got to catch the football. You just have to do it. But you know, yeah, we talk about the offensive line. It's funny that we not play the soundbite last week of Tom Thayer, color analysts for the Chicago Bears right here on the home of the Bears, ESPN-1000. I put his feet to the fire because he was not committed early in camp. I said, what's the letter grade for the offensive line? Remember what he said? Incomplete. Yeah. I said, before this game now against Tennessee, Tom, what's the letter grade for the offensive line? C, and that's the best that he can do, is a C. Guess what? It was even less than that on Sunday. So not only Caleb Williams, not comfortable enough to be able to get the ball down the field, not only the drop pass from Kean Allen, but the offensive line. It could have been a tsunami. Thank God it was just two sacks. It could have been a tsunami from that defensive line going after Caleb Williams. It was just two sacks, but I'm saying that that's got to get better. But keep in mind coming in. It wasn't a unit that we were 100% confident in. They ever said C. That's not good enough with a rookie quarterback. Completely agree. Not good enough. They were not good enough. Caleb was not good enough. Again, that is one of the best defensive front fours they're going to face. Not the best team, but that unit among the best in the National Football League. But guess what? You get paid too, man. You better do your freaking job. Coleman Shelton was terrible. And then he read a play where he went and they tripled a pass rusher 'cause they were having a tough time stopping him. And here comes a stunt. And there goes Harold Landry. I think it was right through the unguarded center. You're like, oh God. Dude, you better make sure your responsibility is taken care of first and foremost before you go help somebody else. So you gave the resume last week about Coleman Shelton and you talked about how, look what he's paid versus other centers in the league. Or even in the division. You get what you pay for. You buy a center that makes $3 million on a one-year deal and you go, okay, go get a big guy. Well, guess what? See the chief center? Creed Humphrey, what he just said for 70 million? What did Jason Kelsey make before he retired? 17 million a year. You get what you pay for. You go buy a little Hugo or a smart car and you're like, hmm, it's not as quick as fast as some of the others out there. My Corvette. Well, guess what? You didn't buy a Corvette. That's my one issue with them up there. I don't think they put enough into their offensive line. Now, do I got my glad Roma Dunes days here? I am. Absolutely, absolutely glad. But you better this off season, prioritize that group in front. Again, what we saw on Sunday was like a lot of games that we've seen in our lives as Bears fans where the defense gets the job done. I will give the secondary credit and it's fortunate that the Bears won the game. They earned it, but it's also fortunate because Will Levis throwing the football away like a three-year-old right into the hands of one of our secondary players for a touchdown. That also helped the cause. Like Will Levis, there's a semblance. You could kind of see it if you squint. That guy could be a pretty good football player, but just for him to throw the football away like that and just give the Bears seven points, that'll be all. You put a little mayonnaise on it. He did. You put some dukes on it. That's male. Yeah, male and an unpeeled banana. Isn't that what Danny said? Yeah. I mean, thank goodness. Thank goodness. Right? Because, I mean, either take the sack or throw it in the ground. He just flips it right to one of our guys. I was like, Stephen said, I'm like, what? Yeah. What are you doing, Levis? Like if I was the coach there, oh my God. Better air him out and he better understand ball security. So you had Darryl Taylor. That one paid dividends. That was a great day. I mean, two sacks, a strip sack and the fumble recovery, I think, by TJ Edwards. You had the pick by Jalen Johnson that sealed it at the end. And then the big play was the pick six by Tyreak Stevenson that gave the Bears the 24-17 lead after they went for two and got it with the Andre Swift. And then you had the block punt. Daniel Hardy, who some thought, I don't know if this dude's going to make the roster. Glad he's there. Man, he just came up with a huge play. And Jonathan Owens, scoop and score. And I'm Simone Biles is tweeting about it. Like, there was a lot of cool stuff yesterday. And the coolest is, you wake up 1-0. That's what good football teams do. Find a way. I don't care what happened. Find a way. It's a team sport. I just think that, you know, watching this game, again, Bears went 24-17. And I'm sure as Matty Rifflous, and we're going to hear from Coach Rifflous coming up at 8-20, right here on ESPN 1,000, here on cap and J-hood. I'm sure he will go through the tape. He looks at some of the mistakes, checks them off, and says, man, we've got to get better. Like, we're happy to win the ball again. We've got to get better. Especially on special teams. Biles Jones was a bit of a polarizing figure this summer. Who is polarizing? Should he not be on the team? What's his role? And I just know that there is no specific role for him. It's not special teams. It's not right in the football. It's not wide receiver. He's just a good athlete. But that dropped cap. Let me tell you, cap, for us, for me to come to the consensus, finally, and say, cap, he's a good enough athlete. If you cut him, how can you replace that speed? Again, there's nothing wrong with having that speed on the football team. But you've got to be able to capture the football in a big spot. It was special teams. You got to catch the football. He gave the Titans three points because of that play. And fortunately, it wasn't seven. So again, he ran a ball hard a couple carries. He caught a pass. He's a talented cat. But not that, though, cap. That cannot happen. It can't. You gave away three points. A friend of mine already made a mistake. No. No, no, no, no. That can't happen. Can you drop a pass? Yes. Get blown up on a run. That happens. I'll kick to you right to you. It's not like it was driving rain or sleet and snow. It's a gorgeous day. And you handed them. Fortunately, it was only three. Let me quickly give you a stat. This is-- I set up, sends an airborne. End over end to the near side. Bayless Jones camping out over at the one. Drop the football and kick it forward inside. And it's covered by the Titans across the 20-yard line. Moffat kicked it right into the hands of the Tennessee Titans. Big turnover in the first quarter on his first touch in the kick return game. And it blows up. They are just worse. He wears his heart asleep, don't they? He's the greatest, man. I love Tom Taylor. Let me give you a stat. Teams since the year 2000, OK? Since the year 2000, take this one to work with you today, folks. Teams that were down 17 points at the half and failed to score an offensive touchdown in the entire game were 2 and 306. They're now 3 and 306. There you go. That's what they overcame yesterday. That's what good football teams did. Down 17, the Bears win 24-17. Watch our show on YouTube, YouTube.com. Look for the ESPN and Chicago channel and hit that subscribe button. The same thing is on Twitch, twitch.tv/ESP1,000Chicago. Coming up, you'll hear more from Caleb Williams, a quarterback for the Bears. And we'll get to your phone calls. Bears fans, 312-332-ESPN, 3323776, our phone number, Captain J. Hood. On the home of the Bears, ESPN 1,000. I don't like our team. [MUSIC PLAYING] Captain J. Hood on the back. Oh, Captain J. Hood's big fan, man. [MUSIC PLAYING] Ba-ba-ba-ba. Watch out, fellas. All Chicago's home for sports. ESPN, Chicago. Don't house. Back deep to our left, the Andre Carter. Watch what? On the ground, picked up to the 10, to the 5, to the end zone, for the touchdown on the black punt by the Bears. Jonathan Owens, welcome to Chicago. That's right. Hardy blocked a punt in the third quarter by powering through the block of linebacker Jack Gibbons to reach Stonehouse, the punter. Safety Jonathan Owens picked it up. The free ball to go to the end zone, a 21-yard touchdown. And the Bears go on to victory, defeating the Tennessee Titans. It's a Captain J. Hood morning show on ESPN 1,000. And we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app here. It's hoping that you have a great Bears victory Monday. 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 6 is our phone number. Cap, again, it's a game that has two stories to it. The story is that the Bears, one, thanks to the defense. But the other side of that story is that the offense was anemic. The offensive line, along with the quarterback Caleb Williams, they were not in concert. As you mentioned earlier, just some throws that could have been a little bit more spot on from Caleb Williams. But again, I go back to what I've been saying all this time leading into yesterday's game. There's going to be groin pains with the rookie quarterback. There's going to be groin pains. We heard from Tom Thayer said that the offensive line is just decent. It's just OK. It's just going to take time for it all to work. I saw on social media a lot of this. Well, the play calling was poor. The play call-- no, no. We're not doing that today. We're not doing that today. Every time the Bears look bad offensively, it's always on the offensive coordinator. No, no, not today. You do that. There's going to be games where we can take a look at the offensive coordinator and say, yeah, maybe this, maybe that. No, it just-- this was a solid game plan. It just was not executed well all the way around the offensive side. Correct. Caleb was not great. We just talked in the last segment. He missed a wide open Keenan Allen down the left sideline. Keenan dropped a dime. I mean, right in his hands for a touchdown. He had a fumbled kick off. I mean, there's a lot that has to be cleaned up. Go back and look at the snap counts. It was supposed to be a rotation of Davis and Bates. Nate Davis played 18 snaps. Yeah. Get out. Well, Bates played 38 or 37. Oh, it was 38. That's got to get fixed now at Coleman Shelton. Got to be better. I'm not expecting him to be Jason Kelsey. He's not. He's never going to be. But sweet mother. God, you've got to be better than that. Caleb Williams on the offensive performance. Obviously, we didn't perform how we wanted to. We wanted to be the most efficient team out there, myself included. We didn't perform the way that I wanted to. I missed a few passes that I know I may don't miss. All of these other things. And so I think there's small things that always lead up to big things, make those moments and things like that a lot bigger. They make games a lot closer, just a small things, whether it's a pass play that I had to DeAndre Swift and the flat, that I missed a little bit in front of them, whether it's missing DJ a little bit on that in round on the backside a little bit, right in front of them. All these small moments that happened throughout the game that felt like I was in the right place, the right time. And I would say I was seeing it well. Just missed and misfired and placed in the wall where I wanted to. You complete a few of those. Dray down the sideline on the left sideline. They end up going cover 0. Ended up missing him on a different page and things like that. And so I think that was the name of the game for today for the offense. It's just not been the same page passing wise. And then run game. We'll be better. Obviously, it's great to get this first win. And we're all excited when to the locker room celebrate. I sat down and enjoyed the moment. And just watching all the guys celebrate, understanding that I need to be better. I will be better. And then just take it in the first win. It's unbelievable. Jon and Sycamore with us on the cap and Jhood boarding show. Hey, Jon. Good morning, you guys. How are we doing? We're awesome. It's a victory Monday. Again, it wasn't how you draw it up. But guess what? It's like getting a five-card 21. You're like, oh my god. I got to keep getting this. Oh, I got 21. I'm telling you, last year, I don't think we win that game. A grand. Great teams find ways to win. And that's what we're trying to build. Buyer kind of mentioned that post game in the locker room. The culture that as a team, certain groups are going to carry the way towards that victory. And hey, I am still so pumped for what Caleb can bring. I could see, look like some rookie jitters. Those throws, the one he missed a Keenan. Like, that's a layup. I think 9 out of 10 times, he hits that one. That out patterned a Keenan for the touchdown was on the money. And Keenan probably catches that, 99 out of 100 times. So I'm watching him with my pop. And we're going, we played about as bad as we could us at the beginning of the game. And for us to come back and win that game, that defense, just they stood up. We were getting after Levis. And we were thinking him. They were putting the key on him. So I mean, that's a testament. I think Flus is really holding this team together. And if this offense catches up, everybody better look out. Because our guys come with swag. That defense knows it too. And I'm pumped. And I got one more thing. You're talking O-line. Everybody kind of-- it didn't address it. It was a big concern. You can't address everything at the same time. But think back to this. When Mahomes and Casey had Tampa in that Super Bowl, and Mahomes was running for his life, they got a big boy there too. Vida Vaz, like 350. And they were making his life just, you know what? What did they do the next year? They got your boy you just talked about. They drafted Creed Humphrey. And they drafted the guard. Trey Smith out of Tennessee, I believe. So I mean, that's-- and now look, now it's one of the best units out there. So with our decent pieces, Kevin played really well. Darnell, he missed a couple blocks. Braxton wasn't a problem. He wasn't exposed. John, we got a run, man. But thank you very much for your phone call. 312332 ESPN 3332-3776 is our phone number. We want to make sure we get everybody's voice in here this morning, Kat, because the Bears win their first game by the score of 24 to 17. Jay and Lockport on Captain Jay Hood. Jay, good morning. Jay, what's up, man? What's up, fellas? Bear down, baby. Bear down, baby. Hey, look, you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking, what if hold is a little bit old line loyal? And that's why he don't want to get rid of these guys? It's obviously a problem, you know, and he's a great GM. So he sees it. You know, I'm something-- What do you mean by old line loyal? You know, it's hard for him to let go of the old line, guys, because he was old line, you know, like, I know he'll do better, like, there's my bull, you know? You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't think he had options. You know, when you-- and thanks for your call, Jay, when you use the ninth pick, you could have taken another offensive lineman there. You could have. You decided you had to have Roma doomsday. And I love that he's here. Sure. But guess what? When you make sacrifices at the old line consistently on the interior, especially, they have not prioritized. Kevin Jenkins was here when he arrived. Nate Davis has turned out to be, at this point, maybe it'll get better. A signing he would not make again. He drafted Braxton Jones, albeit in the fifth round. It's OK. Darnell Wright's a work in progress, drafted high, tenth pick overall. Great. Your center position leaves a lot to be desired. It did. The last two years with Lucas Patrick. It does this year so far with Carl Mitchell. Yeah, Jay, I would say just because polls was a former offensive lineman doesn't mean he's going to keep this unit around for 10 years, just because he used to play the position. He'll do what's right for the Chicago Bears. You mentioned he's a great GM. That also is still to be determined. He's able to make some really good moves. As for sure, I would not classify him as a great GM just as of yet. And guess what? Ryan polls would say the same thing. 312332 ESPN 32 football games. 3776 our phone number. If you're unhold, you will be on the air. As we talk to you about the Bears. On the home of the Bears, cap and J-hood. Check, make 1-6 land here suppression on target. That's why I see him in my shot shot. Or no shot with cap and J-hood on ESPN 1000 and ESPN Chicago at. That's why I see him in my shot. Good morning, and welcome in to the cap and J-hood morning show on ESPN 1000. And streaming on the ESPN Chicago app on a Bears victory Monday with David Kaplan. Jonathan Hood with you, not time for shot or no shot. Many will lose the head coach for the Bears at 820. Here's Shane Norling, Shane. Good morning, boys on a Bears victory Monday. Want to make sure I make that clear victory Monday. You wouldn't know it from some of the callers in the first hour, but it is what it is. Big win at Soldier Field yesterday. How are we feeling? It's great. We're good, man. We found a way to win a football game. We did. A couple of years ago, they beat the 49ers, and then they ended up winning two games the rest of the year. They were like, oh, wow, look at that. Here come the Bears. And they won two games the rest of the year. It's one week. Clean up your mess, get on the road to Houston, and find a way. Yeah. Imagine if they were to loss Sunday. Houston almost lost yesterday. One by two over the Colts in Indy. And they're a seven point favor. Let's go. Shout out to the running game and the defense for holding things up, but again, it has to be-- And I like that the Bears talk about team, why team is important. If someone else is not getting the job done, someone else has to. If a unit's not getting the job done, another unit has to. You've got to have more of these players and units to be able to come together to help win a ball game if someone falls flat, like the quarterback in the offensive line. Agree? I'm like, you have to piece me together the best you can to win a game. Thank God it was the Titans. Now it's Houston coming up on Sunday. That's a much better football team. Look forward to seeing that match up. You have a Fluz at A20 here, Shane Orling. All right, there's a lot of concern already about Caleb Williams after yesterday's debut. I would just tell people, R-E-L-A-X, please, relax. Thank you. Including yesterday, the last 30 rookie quarterbacks to debut in week one in the NFL are 5, 24, and one straight up. That is a 20% win percentage. That also includes quote unquote generational talents, like Andrew Luck, who threw three picks in a three touchdown loss to the Bears in his debut as a rookie. Trevor Lawrence, who was 28 of 51 with three picks. Some garbage time touchdowns after trailing. Wait for it, 34 to 7 in his debut. What about the best rookie quarterback we ever saw last year, CJ Stroud, his opening game. 28 of 44, no touchdowns, no picks, five sacks. 25 to nine loss. Rookie quarterbacks, week one, debut, always look terrible. Shot or no shot. There is no reason to be concerned about Caleb. Shot, there is no reason to be concerned. Look, this kid did not have a good game. Donovan McNabb's first game, 60 yards, sack three times. Walter Payton, eight carries, zero yards. You remember that? That's a bad offensive line. Terrible, but he's Walter Payton, his first game. Zero yards and eight carries. Never away. Oh, God. What is it? Fourth overall? Well, he became the greatest running back in the history of the sport. Some would say the best player ever. So there's no panic. You found a way to win a football game. The only time that there's panic shade is that if it becomes a trend, it's just the first game. And again, if people just helicopter into our show or ESPN Chicago for game week, that's one thing. But we've been talking about this all summer. The reason why that I think that the Bears are a 9 and 8 football team coming into this is because of the rookie quarterback. There's going to be ups and downs. He's going to have to learn. I'm sure he learned a lot about what happened yesterday, that you cannot hold the ball so long, that you cannot go backwards and think that you can escape. There's a lot of things there. You cannot under throw good targets like the Bears have. You got DJ Markine Allen, Roma Dunezay, and Cole Komet on the field at the same time. You got to find a way to connect to them. You do? And so, again, if it becomes a trend, now you have concern. After the first game, no. Just glad that the Bears won. I would bet you that Caleb was watching that film last night late into the night going through his stuff. Punching clouds. Yes. About opportunities that were missed by his arm in that offensive line. Well, great. Shane Orley. Even John Elway. They flashed that during the Seattle Denver game, because Bonex was not playing especially well. John Elway was one of eight in his rookie debut. He got benched. He turned the ball over twice. Sure. Honestly, the best thing to take away yesterday, Caleb didn't turn the ball over one time. No question. And most rookie QBs will. Like Matthew Stafford played last night, was a number one pick. His rookie debut, three picks. Rookie quarterbacks in week one are pretty much universally bad. I would not overreact to it yesterday. Speaking of yesterday, the Bears won with defense and special teams. Completely absent offense. Scored zero touchdowns. Got under three yards per play over the entire game. But shot or no shot. The Bears winning the way they did. Proved how scary they'll be once the offense clicks. Oh, it's a shot. Because of the strength of the defense, Cav, it's what we've talked about a lot. And that is that the secondary is airtight. They're opportunistic. They're ball hawks. They have speed. They can go step-by-step with many wide receivers in the National Football League. From there, you take a look at the linebackers in defensive line. Again, the defensive line also still not just like a working pro-- it's not the best defensive line you find in the NFL. But boy, they're opportunistic. Hats off to Taylor. Hats off to Dexter Sr. Hats off to TJ Edwards, who had the most tackles on the team. Hey, man, if the offense can be able to catch up to what the defense does, you have a complete team. You have a team that can compete for the long haul. What's amazing to me is like our caller Fernando, who-- he's taking a shot at Eber Flus. Oh, who called the defense? I mean, just-- Silence. Silence. Silence. I mean, come on. I mean, Fernando, that was just a dumb call. You woke up this morning and just said, let me think of how I can really sound like a jackass on the radio this morning. He chose violence. He did. He chose violence. That's fine. And it's OK, as one of our tweeters said, it's OK to be critical of Caleb. He's a big boy. Yeah. He makes millions of dollars. He would tell you if he was sitting here with us, I was horrible. I've got to be better. And he will be better. Che. So, shot or no shot on that cap. Theirs showed how scary they're going to be. Shot. Once he's better. Shot. That defense came to eat, man. They did not get into the past the 50 in the second half. Past the 50. Here's Shane Orland. Vailus Jones did something yesterday that I don't think I've ever seen in my life watching football. He not only fumbled the kickoff, he then kicked the ball back to the opposing team. Like, it hit the ground. And he made sure, connect with his foot, ball goes back to Tennessee and they recover it. After that, the Andre Carter took over as the kick returner, gave the Bears tremendous field position on his first return. He looked explosive. Every bit as explosive as Vailus Jones. Shot or no shot. Vailus Jones should probably be done with the Bears. That's a no shot being dealt with the Bears. That's a no shot. I think that's taken a step far. This is a step too far. However, I will say this about Vailus Jones. I love that you come prepped. I wish people could see. What do you mean? You're right, like a doctor making a prescription that no one else can read, but you can read it. And that's the point. Like, you come in with a yellow pad just filled with info. I love that you do that. We had a Bears game, pal. We did. You think I can remember this upstairs? Absolutely not. You want to know what I do? I carry my little recorder. No. Are you there? The Andre Carter had 67 yards in kick returns, 67 yards. And after Vailus Jones had his opportunity, Carter, as Shane mentioned, did very well. Here's the one thing that I would say about Vailus Jones. If he's not going to be on special teams, how often are you going to sit Tyler Scott and Roshan Johnson? You know they were inactive yesterday. Yeah, Roshan's been banged up. He was not healthy enough to play. Tyler Scott, was he inactive yesterday? He was inactive. It was DeAndre Carter that he missed on the long pass. I said, Scott. But that matters as far as roster composition. No question about it. You sit down, good. I mean, there's a number of guys that got toe injuries. And I know that. Dominic Robinson was out yesterday. Non-injury situation, but he was inactive. I'm just saying that Vailus Jones or Tyler Scott, Vailus Jones or Roshan Johnson. That matters. That matters because you don't give snaps to Tyler to-- you're going to give snaps to Vailus Jones and not give it to Roshan Johnson when healthy? Or Tyler Scott when healthy? I don't know. I don't think that's-- I don't think that's-- That's why I said to you last break. If you had told Paul's and Eber Flus, and I could see the future, you're going to bench Vailus the first game after he fumbles a kick and you won't go back to him. They probably wouldn't have had him on the roster. I'm just saying, like, he had-- let's see, Vailus Jones had two carries, good for 11 yards. His loss was 6. You know, Herbert could have done that if healthy and active. Tyler Scott probably would give you more. Yeah, Herbert ran the ball a little bit yesterday. Roshan Johnson is banged up so he did not play. But yeah, Vailus ran the ball well. Two solid carries, caught a pass. You can't fumble a kick or you won't have a job here. If you can't be trusted on special teams and you get the ball just a couple times in the running game and you're not going to line up as wide receiver, then, like, I like the speed. But again, it's about time and place. Where is he-- where can he flourish? When we talk to Matt, I want to ask him if we get-- we're so squeezed for time. Yes. I want to ask him if we have a chance. What do you do with Vailus? Shane Orlin. All right, we heard all off season about the growth of Gervan Dexter at the defensive tackle. Yesterday, we finally got to see some of that. A third down sack on a late three and out that really changed the momentum of the game after the Bears got the special teams touchdown. Levis comes back out. Gervan Dexter gets the third down sack. That goes with two quarterback hits. Shot or no shot. If Gervan Dexter can become a serviceable defensive tackle, this is a top five defense. It's a shot. It could be a top five defense. Absolutely a shot. They have a lot of dudes on that defense. If you're going to tell me Darryl Taylor is going to be in the backfield and Demarcus Walker, who had-- what did I tell you? Hold on, my notes. Demarcus Walker had four. Four quarterback hits. If I'm getting that and they're triple teaming the Montez sweat over there, let's go. Yeah, I think that I asked you over under 30 sacks. And you said over for this upcoming season. Yes. Well, he'd be part of it. Again, what did you say, J-Moor? It's Montez sweat and the-- Drops. In the drops. Drips. Yes, Montez sweat and the drips. Sweat and drips. Yes, because that's the name guy that's on there. But you get like, I thought that Dexter played well. I thought that Billings played well. He's the number of guys that really got to the court about it. I wrote those guys down. I shot it out. Billings, Dexter, Taylor, Demarcus Walker. That does not mean I'm not shouting out sweat. But when he attracts that type of attention, oh, doctor. 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And Cap, when you take a look at the Bears as far as their game plan versus Tennessee's, Tennessee's game plan was to be able to run the football too. Again, they have a young quarterback as well, and will love us. I thought that Callahan was wedded to the run. Cap run the football until they were finally able to break through with a touchdown for Pollard. They ran the football 140 yards for 26 carries. I think the Bears did that initially. That's where the DeAndre Swift, they kept feeding them. 10 carries for 30 yards. It ended up with 84 yards rushing. But you expect more of a balance, I think, moving forward. Yeah, and I talked to you on Friday, and I said, one of my keys is got to run the football. And they tried to establish the run. Look, if he hits the Keenan Allen pass, it doesn't get dropped for a touchdown. Or the Keenan Allen down the left side, or DeAndre Carr-- those are plays that he's going to make, and Keenan's going to make. I just thought it spoke volumes about the culture, and Kevin Beyer talked about it in the locker room, the culture that they're building in that room to get that thing turned around at halftime. All right, here we go with Coach Maddy Reffluse. Max Eber Fluse. Reffluse. Hey, Coach, up there, Chicago Bears. It was really good. I mean, there was a lot of good situations that we had. Breaking down the Bears and the latest updates, all season, all season. You know, there's some really good players on both sides. Can that person function with that maximum? Max Eber Fluse, with Kevin Jayhood on ESPN Chicago. It's the Captain Jayhood Morning Show on ESPN 1000, and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app, and Coach Eber Fluse is on the hotline. Abby Descartes, tire not a hotline. Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom, boom. Don't worry, call the car next night. Good morning, Coach, how are you? Good. Coach, congratulations on the victory. Hey, after reviewing the film, Captain I've been talking about all morning. After reviewing the film, what was the overall view of Sunday's game? I thought it was a good test of resiliency. I thought the guys did a really good job of coming back in the second half, holding together and executing better and doing the things necessary to win the football game. I think it was a great lesson for our football team. Coach, when you watched the film last night and you knew it half time, we're going to make a couple defensive adjustments and they did not cross the 50 in the second half. They did not score a point in the second half. Your defense forces three big turnovers in the fourth quarter, a strip sack in recovery at two interceptions, one that goes to the house. What adjustments did you guys make defensively to put that type of heat on Will Levis? Yeah, the adjustments we made were just, first and foremost, playing with better fundamentals. And that sounds easy, but yeah, certainly we made some different calls and did some different things to put us in some advantageous positions. But it's really about the guys focusing on running our defense the right way. And they did some really good things. We had three, three and outs in the first half. We know we give that long third and long third and 15 and kept that long drive alive. Got them down in the red zone in the one area there and then had a penalty. So we had some things that we had some self-inflicted wounds there in the first half a little bit, but we also played some good football. We had three, three and outs. And then second half, they came back and did a nice job of just doing basic football well. And our guys are ball hawks and they do a good job with that. Kevin Byard talked in the locker room, Flus, and said, "We are changing the culture here." He was addressing the entire team, the coaching staff. I saw Ryan Polls back there and Kevin Warren. It was super cool. But he talked about changing the culture and he said, "There's going to be days offense. It's going to carry us. There's going to be days like today." Where the defense carries us. Can you just take us inside that room and what that vibe was like when Byard was speaking? - Yeah, Kevin's talking about our whole mantra of being one. So B1 means that we're one Chicago football team. We're not offense, we're not defense. We're not special teams. We're the Chicago Bears. So it doesn't really matter what side you are, what position you play. We're all pulling on the same rope. And that's what he was referring to. - You know, Kev, we were talking about running the football. We just thought that with a Ricky Quarterback in Caleb Williams, running the football was paramount. Coach, what did you think of the running game as far as what you guys want to accomplish? Because we thought that would be your game plan coming in, getting Caleb comfortable, setting up the run to eventually get the pass down the field. - Yeah, I thought when you look at the tape, we had some really good efficient runs. If you look at the runs, we had some six or seven yards. I thought when we had the game that we were trying to waste some time at the end, what we did at the end of the game, we also had some good efficient runs there too. So again, you've got to avoid the negative plays. And that's why the numbers at as good as you'd like it to be. But again, I thought we did some good things there. - You know what, and we talked about earlier, Kev, Tennessee, the same thing, right? You got Will Levis as a young quarterback. They ran the football. They stayed wedded to the run until they finally broke through with a veteran like Pollard. But again, you got two young quarterbacks. You want them to get comfortable. And both teams ran the football pretty well, I thought, right? - Yeah, the I thought they did. And then I was seeing the second half, we did a really good job of stuffing out the run. I think they had, you know, point eight yards or whatever that might be. But it was a good test for our defense. - Coach, hoodie and I were talking about Caleb Williams. Look, rookie quarterbacks, we asked regular employees in the world. They started entry-level positions. We asked 22-year-old quarterbacks. Hey, man, a lot is expected. We're putting the whole city on your shoulders. What is it like dealing with him after the game? I thought he was great in his interview with Christina Pink and in the podium where he said, "I've got to be better and I will be better." What is that discussion like with him? - It's really just that. He's got a positive upbeat attitude, but he's also understanding that he's got to improve and get better every single week. And as I said in the post-game at the podium, you know, we have to play well around him and we got to continue to do that, meaning the protection's got to be good. The receivers got to do a great job of running catch. You know, and the defense has to play well and special teams, you know? Special teams made a lot of nice plays yesterday and packed full plays in the game. And so that was good to see as well. - Mattie replaces the head coach for the Chicago Bears. He joins us, Cap and Jay Hood on the radio home of the Chicago Bears, ESPN-1000. You know what we love, Cap, is we love the unsung hero. We can go through the depth chart. Coach, every morning we've got the depth chart open. Let's say there's going to be a change. It's just right there. It's one of our tabs in our computer. - Always. - And so you see an unsung hero like Taylor coming through, right? He's new to the football team. We know about the defense, you know, backwards and forward. But when you get a guy like Taylor coming in there and what he was able to do to help the football team, that I'm sure that that was a lift to the team. - Yeah, we were excited to do it. Two sacks and a fours fumble which turns into a big turnover at the Titan 31. - Pretty good. - Yeah, yeah, really good by him. He's got great energy and excellent impactful plays that he had in the game. You know, he just got here. So, you know, we're working hard with him to delay. And coaches are working hard in terms of alignment, the assignment and he's getting that done. And what a positive attitude he has. And I would also say, Hardy. Hardy did a great job in the game. Special teams had the block punt. Had a really nice tackle on one of the cover teams. So, I thought he had a role in the tackle game as well. - Coach, what was it like at halftime? Because, you know, the fans are not happy as you're leaving the field. And, you know, the announcers are like, "Wow, the Chicago doesn't look very good." What was it like in the room at halftime? - Yeah, at halftime, the guys were upbeat, you know. And that's what KV was referring to at the end of the game. We were just, you know, we just looked at it and he turned and said, "Hey, we got this." You know, there's a couple of plays there here and there that happened, you know, we had the valus punt, the MAFA, the defense just responded well on that kickoff return and holding those guys to a field goal. And so, I thought overall it was really positive in there. Just correct the mistakes. Understand we got this and the guys went out and executed. - I'm gonna ask you about Caleb Williams, quarterback for the Chicago Bears. You got a chance to go through the tape again. What stood out most about Caleb? The good and the questionable to you. - Yeah, I thought it was, like I said, afterwards, it was a good operation. You know, I know we had a delay and I call it time, but that's, you know, pretty decent for the first time out and operation was pretty good. And then really just him, you know, he made some really good throws, had some really good, you know, spot on throws in terms of rhythm and timing. You know, in some of the other things, he just got to clean up. You know, he was off on a couple and he knows that and he's got to start from the ground up and just got to work this footwork. - You can see the glimpses though, Cap, right? I mean, there's some elite throws there. And it's just like, you know, moving forward, that's only gonna get better. - Yeah, like the one, that was a dime he hit Keenan Allen, who's a six-time pro baller. But he's a human being, it happens. He dropped it, that was a dime right there. - Yeah, like I said, he had some really good passes. You know, he was calm, cool and collected the whole time. So his demeanor and his disposition was really good and that sucked him, him that I'll talk about, like we talked about it after the game, he'll come in here in about 45 minutes and meet with me, we'll go over the tape and discuss that. - Coach, I got to ask you about Vailus Jones. You ran him a couple times, I think 11 yards on two carries and he caught a pass, but he did fumble a kick and you guys did not go back to him. Your thoughts on Vailus moving forward? - Yeah, I thought his response was really good in terms of him coming back in there, like you said, and being productive for us on offense. And to me, that shows his character. And again, we'll evaluate where he is in terms of the kick return game, as we discussed this throughout the day and moving forward. - How's the injury report? - I mean, look, I haven't really, I've gotten preliminary, it looks okay, looks decent, but again, I'll get more of an in-depth report. Once the player is report, they're starting to report now and I'll get an in-depth report after that's finalized. - Simo, Chris Borgen, your old line coach, did use a rotation at right guard and Ryan Bates got the lion's share, I think 38 snaps to 18 for Nate Davis. Can you take us through that evaluation after watching the tape? - Yeah, the guys were really rotating there in practice and they both haven't been injured throughout training camp. We thought that was the best way of really to get the guys to play at a maximum in terms of their effort, in terms of their technique fundamentals because they both were out there in training camp to maximize that position. And then going forward, we're gonna look at the tape and see where it is and go from there in terms of rotation or who's in and who's out, who's starting. - Okay, we know that you're going to Houston next. So what are you eating in Houston? Like that's, they got great barbecue in Texas, but what are you going after? You've been there before. - Oh yeah, I used to recruit down there when I was back at Mizzouc, so, you know, back in the day, at least let me get a lot of players down from Houston the way. So yeah, barbecue is unbelievable down there. So I won't have any this time, it's a business trip, but I'm sure they will like that. - What did we have last night then? You had to have something good. - Oh, last night afterwards? - Yeah. - Yeah, I had pizza, it was good. I splurged. - All right, you're such a Chicago guy now, you were flus. I mean, this is what happened here. You're digging right into the peaches. It's like the rest of us eating pizza after the game. We all did that. (laughing) - Why not? - Man, have a good week of practice, and we'll be looking forward to talking to you next Monday after a hopefully Sunday night football win. - All right, thanks for having me on guys, appreciate it. - All right, we'll see you. - Maddie Reflow's the head coach for the Chicago Bears. - On the Car X. - Tire. - And Auto Hotline. (alarm blaring) ♪ Rattle, rattle, thunder, clatter, boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Don't worry, call the Car X name ♪ - Captain Jay Hood on the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000.