Kap & J. Hood

9/9 9 AM: Lance Briggs

Hour 3: Former Chicago Bears Linebacker Lance Briggs joined Kap & J. Hood to give his takeaways on the Bears 24-17 victory over the Titans on a Bears Victory Monday!!! The guys recap the game, thoughts on Caleb Williams first game performance and what's next for the Bears and The Kap & J. Hood Cut Of The Day.

Duration:: 43m
Broadcast on:: 09 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

[MUSIC] >> Andre Carter, a yard deep in his own end zone trumps out five, ten and seven numbers, 15, 20. Half of the 25 to 30 hits the gas of the 40 to the 45 to 50 into Tennessee territory. And knocked out about to our left, the Andre Carter. >> Fresh block on the ground, picked up to the ten to the five to the end zone. For the touchdown on the Black Park by the Bears. >> Jonathan Owens, welcome to Chicago. Swell it up, gets rid of it at the second, and it is intercepted down the sideline for the 20, then a ten to the five to the end zone. Tyreeks Stevenson for the lead. >> Snap is back, Foreman Rush, pressure coming, and down goes. >> Let us sack made out of play by Javon Dexter Sr. And the Bears celebrate with the South End Zone fans here in Soldier Field. [MUSIC] >> Welcome in to 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, and we got Jay Moore, and we got you as the Bears. The Titans, 24 to 17. Full lines over for you, the Bears fan, 312-332 ESPN-332-3776 is our telephone number. Make sure you hit us up on YouTube as well, youtube.com. As well as on Twitch, twitch.tv/esvionwithout in Chicago, watch the show. And all the shows here on ESPN Chicago as we talk about the Bears. First one of the season against Tennessee and cap. And it was a mixed bag, like anything else, right? You got a rookie quarterback out there, first game, big spot, loud crowd at Soldier Field to check out the Bears and their victory. And Caleb Williams and the offensive line did not play well. But you know what did come to fruition, what did come out was a strong defense, an opportunistic defense. And this game was a microcosm of a lot of games we've seen over the years, cap. The defense doing their job and also doing the job with the offense. Ultimately, it ended up being a team win with the Bears winning 24 to 17. So as I watched the game again yesterday, last night I had the Sunday night game on, I had my laptop going and as I watched how that thing shook out. Was Caleb good? No. There's no measure where I could say to you that guy was really good. He wasn't putting the ball on the deck. He didn't throw any picks. He didn't lose you the football game. The guy on the other team absolutely did. So that is a positive. He threw a dime to Keenan Allen, six-time pro baller dropped it. It's going to happen. He's a human being. Got to catch that football. That would be one. He had Keenan Allen down the left sideline wide open. He airmaled him. You've got to hit that pass. He had DeAndre Carter open down the scene. Got to hit that pass. But in the end, the Bears battled history yesterday. Listen to this, going into yesterday's game, teams that were 17 points down and did not score an offensive touchdown the entire day since the year 2000 were two and 306. Now it's three and 306. That's the type of history that they were facing. Cap and battling. I've been battling this with you for a while. And I think if nothing else, the game yesterday is a microcosm of real adjustments in the National Football League. There are players that you know, ex-players that would say, "No, we would just get a drink of water, take a pee, maybe talk to some of the players." But there's no adjustment. No, no, no, no. You're down 17 to three. The adjustments is not like the attributes you see in a movie or a TV show of the dry race board of saying, "This, this, you've got to do this, this." And run that ball in the up, no, no. The adjustment is to also be a refresher. As a coach, you know this. I don't know why you let players talk you into saying that there's no adjustment at halftime of games. Because that's BS. That's not true. The adjustment may not be exes and o's. It could be refreshers. Remember what we talked about in practice? Remember what we talked about before the game? We have to do this to be able to win. There were adjustments made, Cap. Four players will tell you like, "No, no, we just did, went out there and we just played better." No? Coaches, if they're worth anything, can be able to tell the player, "Remember when we talked about this," because you're not doing that. That has to happen in the second half of a game for us to win. Adjustments were made. That's why the Bears won. The adjustments were made. There was some conversation. We talked to the Evil Fluce about it last hour, we get you checking out on the ESPN Chicago app. Look for Cap and Jay Good. Adjustments were made because sometimes a refresher is needed. You're down 17 and 3. You feel like, "Oh God, how are we going to come back in this game?" We're down 17. They found the way to win the game, Cap. The adjustments and the execution all came together for them to win. There are adjustments. Yeah. I think there, obviously, teams will adjust. Let's try this. It's not working, but I will tell you, I think a half-time adjustments are vastly overrated. Wrong. Vastly. That's not correct, Cap. The idea that a coach can't say, "Hey, here's what you've got to be able to do. Remember what we talked about?" Or because it's not working, "Why don't we try this because this is also in the playbook?" It's always adjustments. That's completely false. You did it. You want to say it's overrated? It is. Okay. I believe it. It's totally overrated. Now, you could say, "Hey, you know what? This guy is killing us here in the middle, so we're going to slide a second guy over for protection." That can happen. But in terms of making massive half-time adjustments, it does not happen. Never use the word massive. Not once. I didn't say you did. Yeah. But I'm saying that if you're down in a game like this one, and I'm not saying that, you know, Maddie Rifflous is Newt Rockney. I'm not saying that. What I'm telling you is, Cap, is that you can be able to look at you not executing in some facets of the game, and then the second half, things start to change. You may not win the ballgame, but again, it's a reminder, this is who we are, this is who you are. You've got to be able to do this in order for us to have a chance to win. That's the adjustment that you can make. Yeah. It's part of coaching. Usually, more of the adjustment is not talking to the players about adjusting. It might be the coordinator saying to the linebacker coach, "Hey, we're going to try and change this on our play call, or we're going to do this offensively, or we're going to do this." Like they took Nate Davis down and gave more reps to Ryan Bates because Nate Davis was horrible. Adjustment. But in terms of, they do not sit the players down and go, "Okay, let's get the white board out there." No, no. That stuff's very, in my opinion, very overrated. There are some things done, but not as much as people would think. You've got to play better. And then Kevin Bayard, Mercedes, these guys talked as veteran guys about, there's no panic in here, settle young guys down, and they go out and take care of business. Some thoughts from Michaela Williams. What happened at halftime in the locker room down 17 to 3? It was a frustrating game, but the most important thing is that, and it shows a bunch of the personality of this team, I would say. The fight, the resiliency that we had, when Coach got into the locker room, he got into the locker room. And the first thing he said was, "Guys, we don't, this pass, this pass, how much every time that we had when we got into the locker room, I think it's around 15 minutes." We got in there, and coaches like, "Guys, and most teams that I've been on, all these other things, y'all walked in here and said to each other that, "No, we're not going to lose this game. We're going to go out there. We're going to keep fighting. We got this. We got this. We weren't shaming on anybody. We weren't, no defense, no being on offense, all these other things." And so it shows this personality, how much everybody believes in ourselves, the Chicago Bears, defense believes in offense, offense believes in defense, special teams, and so forth. And so, you know, we're great to get this win, happy to get this win, celebrating the locker room. It was pretty cool. First time celebrating in here. You want to prove a point here, what this halftime adjustment thing, you got something that you want me to play, says it's right here on the board, what do you want to set up here? Is it Peyton Manning? Yeah. Is that what you want? Yeah. You want this? You don't have to. All those halftime adjustments, it really paid off right there, that I don't know about you. I don't know if I've ever made a halftime adjustment in my entire 18-year career. I think it's the biggest myth in football, the halftime adjustments, right? You go in, you use the restroom, you eat a couple of oranges, and then the head coach says, "All right, let's go." Yeah, I know quite, I mean, you're in there for like three minutes. There's no time. Yes, Peyton, he played at a high level, didn't need a lot of adjustments. He didn't, but I think his point is it's more the coaches, like if you're my linebacker coach and I'm the DC, hoodie, here's what I want you to do, and I want you to do this. Or you say to me, "Hey, when we call this defense, let's try this." But in terms of sitting the players down, that stuff doesn't really happen. But the game, you remember the game in '06, when they didn't score an offensive touchdown and they beat Arizona. The only adjustment they made at halftime was that all the crew went insane in there with the greatest speech ever, and everybody ran back out and they won without an offensive touchdown. Usually you put your game plan in, you can't just change on a dime like that. And of course, never said any of that. I'm not saying you did. I'm just telling you, halftime adjustments are vastly overrated, in my opinion. And I don't believe that's true. The idea, if you go into a game plan and you're getting your brains beating, I was like, "No, we'll just keep staying to the same game plan." There's some college coaches that can name that can do that, that just like, "Yeah, we're down dirty nothing." But this is what we put, this is the install, so we're just going to keep going forward with that. No. No, not true. And by the way, every team doesn't coach the same way. It's Peyton Manning, what are you going to tell him? He knows exactly. He's a coach on the field. But there's teams that need to be able to have a refresher here or there, or even like a man he refused to say, "Hey, remember who we are? We have a chance to win this ball game. And hey, remember this game plan?" Mental adjustment, mental reset, yeah. But in terms of changing... No way you're playing. No way you're playing. I'll say it again, because clearly it's not getting through. My thought is, is that when you are down in a game, or if something is not being executed, you can tell a player, not necessarily the whole team sitting him down like you see in a movie, you can tell a player, "Remember what we talked about in practice, especially if someone is struggling, or if a unit is struggling." There's nothing wrong with giving a reminder. That is an adjustment for what you did the previous half. That's not overrated. That's coaching. That's doing your job. Yeah. But I will disagree with you, because I don't think that's an adjustment. I think that's a reminder of, "Hey, remember what we worked on?" Yeah, that's fine. I just don't. You don't have the time to change the way we're going to do this, and the way we're going... You just don't. You run the football exclusively, you run into a wall, and you keep doing it the entire half. Should we do it in the second half, or should we adjust to be able to have short passes to set up a long game? That it's in the playbook, but you don't completely make wholesale changes, but you make an adjustment from one half to the other. We can... There's nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I just think it's vastly overrated. In my opinion. Peyton Manning says it, so it must be true. No, Peyton Manning was better than the coaches he's working with. He knew what he was doing, and he lied to. But I've had other players tell me, "Dude, we don't really adjust it half time. We don't." They may call the game a little differently. That's the coaches. He goes, "The players, we go into the bathroom, and we come back out. Get re-taped. There's just not much time there. There really is it." We go to Libertyville. Here's Jim on Captain J. Hood. Jim, good morning. Jim? Hoodie, Hoodie, Cap, how are you doing? What's up, buddy? Not much. Just wanted to say, well, yesterday's game, if I was the coach, specifically offensive coordinator to get our man Caleb going, I'd start him out with some RTOs, little down and out left, down and out right, something easy, something small, get the team motivated. Get everybody going and see what happens. And definitely keep on pounding the ball, keep on pounding the ball. But we need to get Caleb some motivation, a couple of Tom Bragey, how he used to start his games with some little dink and dunks, and then hit him with someone down the left sideline or the right sideline. I'll hang up and listen. Jim, thank you. It's not as easy as Jim would like to portray it. First of all, we were getting manhandled up front. That is true. Nate Davis was terrible. Coleman Shelton was worse. And again, I'll say it for the 50th time. That's one of the best front fours in football, Tovondre, sweat and Jeffrey Simmons and these dudes. They are a bunch of monsters up there. You're not going to face many front fours that are as good as that, but they got a block better. Caleb's got to throw better. They try to pass down the left sideline. You saw it. Keenan Allen was wide open. He missed them by four yards through it too far. He missed DeAndre Carter. Again, he has to be markedly better, markedly somehow they found a way to win a football game. Sean and McHenry on Captain Jay Hood, Sean, good morning. Morning, guys. Do you guys feel the disservice to the first team offense to not play more in the preseason, especially with the amount of rookies and first-time guys on the team? I think that Caleb Williams played enough preseason. I will tell you this, Sean, to your point, watching around the National Football League, some players that didn't play in the preseason or played very little, it showed up in Game 1, where their tongue was down by their knees, tired, ineffective, missing tackles. I would say that by and large around the league we saw some guys that could have used some more preseason action, but for Caleb, I think you played enough snaps. Yeah, I don't think he was bad yesterday because he didn't play enough in my opinion. He's a rookie. It's going to take time. I think we did not expect him to play in the Houston game, the Hall of Fame game, but he did play going back, he played in the Bills game and the Bengals game, they're not playing the Chiefs game. Correct. So, I mean, two out of four games, then the first one you usually don't play is the Hall of Fame game. You were involved in it because of the Hall of Famer Chicago Bears. Correct. But two out of, say it was two out of three, that's the ratio, two out of three games. And you need him available opening day? Mm-hmm. Again, would I like to see more, sure, anything that makes you more ready to play Chris Collins were said last night, these guys are not ready to play 60 minutes. They're just not. And you saw Detroit impose their will when they got the football and overtime. They ran it down their throat. I love David Montgomery. He's a stud. And a stool. Oh, doctor, that guy is insanely good. I know that that's not like your number one pick and fantasy, but I just love Montgomery when he's a bear and even more so as a Detroit line. He runs the ball cap like it's his last run. He does. I'm just runs hard. Just runs hard, just cares. I said this when the bears are losing with Montgomery on the team. I said he plays like his hair is on fire feeling like if I carry the ball this time, this might be my last career. So I'm going to run it hard. I appreciate him. Always have. So we have a family fantasy league going. All the daughter laws, son laws, all I was sons, all of it. And I was picking David Montgomery. I had him in the queue ready to go and the person picking one spot in front of me. My wife. Oh, I'll take David Montgomery. I'm like, what? I don't even know. You know who David Montgomery is. She's sly. All of a sudden, woman who doesn't watch other than when our son played college, but doesn't watch much pro football, locked in, I mean, on all the games. Yeah, it's like frustrating. Hey, man. And she won and I'm about to lose. Cap, she's very smart, but very savvy with the sports. She lets you do your recaps on YouTube and just go over the top of bot Chicago sports and she just goes upstairs, type, type, type, type, type, type, type, type, but she knows what's going on. I think when the door close, I think that she's gambling on sports, heavy, she's locked in somewhere. I think she is. Away from you, though, but I think that she's I think she has some secret TVs because how would she know? I'm looking at all the games and there she is winning her team is going to win in their game. I'm going to lose my freaking daughter-in-law who doesn't know a center from a guard, but you know what? Cap is just week one. It's okay. I'm believe right. Yeah. Yeah, week two. Yeah, a lot more time. Just like the bears got a lot more time to go. It's just this week, but you know, we're moving forward. The guys that know the sport, they come out on top you or Mindy, 312-332-3776 is our phone number. We're going to hear from Lance Briggs coming up at nine thirty five and take more of your phone calls. We're talking about the bears on a bears victory Monday on cap and J.hood. Yeah. And J.hood. Our first time collar. Huge fan of your guys. Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. Livas. Swell it up. Gets rid of it. It was intercepted. Down the sidelines for the twenty to the ten to the five to the end zone. I reach Stevenson in the fourth quarter. Jeff and Tom on the call right here on the home of the Bears ESPN, one thousand three one, two, three, two, three, seven, seven, six is our telephone number. Let's get on the phone lines and talk to you as we talk to you about the Chicago Bears and their victory against the Tennessee Titans. Let's say hello to Eddie from the north side on cap and J.hood. Eddie. Good morning. Guys. So the way I looked at it is the Bears didn't win the game. That Tennessee lost it and Will Levis lost it for him. It was. Yeah. It was bad. But the most impressive person I've seen NFL yesterday was Baker Mayfield. I can't believe that, you know, he's performing that way and everything came up. As I said earlier, I know you guys didn't agree with me is he's undersized quarterback. That's why you got a lot of tip balls and that one tip ball, they were lucky to even got that one back or it have been even a more of a disaster. When you put the pedal off the metal in any game, when you're up, that's exactly what happens. You'll end up losing at the end just like the Falcons did to the Patriots and the Super Bowl. When they were up that much, they could have kept pouring it on and Brady would have never came back in that game, but when you let off that pedal, you can forget that teams always find a way to win. And by the way, Eddie, hoodie and I would just like to call your attention that Baker Mayfield is almost two inches shorter than Caleb Williams. Caleb is on. Caleb is only finna. No, Eddie. Let him finish. Caleb Williams at the combine measured in at six, one and seven eights. Okay. Baker six, one. No, Baker six feet. And they say, well, when I go look on ESPN, they say six, I don't tell you what he measured in at six feet. Okay. That's the only thing. But my best bet yesterday, I was trying to call into black and up dollar was I had one Sherlock Brett was Tony Pollard over rushing. I mean, over receiving in rushing at 59 and a half. And that was done by halftime. God bless you. Boring it to him if I was 70s coach, I would have kept beating Tony Pollard because they had no answer for him to bears. Now we're from Michael Jackson. Yeah. Yeah. He's sleeping. Don't worry, Michael. He's just black. Is that a new employee here? Black and J or black and a dollar. I'm not familiar with that show black and a dollar new program on the ESPN 1000 day parts black and the board of action sports sports sports. Yeah. And he says the bears didn't win the game. The Titans lost it. So I guess that's zero zero and one and Eddie's record book. They didn't get the ball past the 50 in the second half, Eddie. The typical Eddie from the north side. Not good enough. We know that the bears have to have some things to work on. It was not a perfect game. The idea that the bears didn't win the game. The Titans lost it. No, the bears earned that victory, especially from the defensive side of the football. Well said. Come on, man. James and Gurney on Captain Jay Hood. James. Good morning. James. James, you there or not? Damn. Damn. Damn. He's going. James as I'm calling six months. And now look what happens, Cap. Damn it. Instead we go to Jeremy and Buffalo Grove on Captain Jay Hood. Jeremy. How are you guys doing today? Good, Jeremy. Hang on a second, please. Could you do that? Sure. Jeremy, we turn over to Jeremy from New River, Arizona, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Jeremy, say hello to Jeremy. Morning. Hello. What's up, buddy? Say hello to Jeremy. Jeremy. Somebody be the only one here. No. Jeremy, you there? Jeremy from Buffalo Grove. Okay. Hello. We got to Jeremy. Go ahead, Jeremy from Buffalo Grove. What are your thoughts? I just want to talk about a shot or that they talk about Jay didn't Jayden Daniels. Jim Daniels was 17 for 24 for 184 yards. He had 88 yards rushing. The only reason he lost that game was because Baker to shredded the defense of the commanders. Okay. And it was at a winner a loss for Washington in that spot. It's still a loss, but going forward, Jayden Jayden and Caleb will be will be compared throughout the whole career. Okay. Jeremy, what do you think of what Jeremy said? Well, I'm not 100% sure what he said, but I'll tell you what I feel like we just said that he says that Jayden Daniels and Caleb will be compared to one another and thought that Jayden Daniels had better numbers than Caleb. Do you agree with that? Jeremy from New River, Arizona. Well, he probably did have better numbers, but I tell you what Caleb just looked too excited, and then once they got down by 10, you could tell he went into that, I got to win this game, you know, I got to, I got to make it happen. He needs to rely on his team. I think he's going to calm down over the next few games. He has the talent and that offensive line look terrible. Jeremy, do you agree with that from Buffalo Grove? I actually do agree. The offensive line is going to cost them the playoffs and Washington will sneak in there, right? Don't know yet. It's only the first game. Didn't say anything about the commander's taking the playoffs. No, I asked you, do you feel like Washington, because you believe Jayden Daniels was better than Caleb today, do you feel like Washington will have their chance in the NFC playoff pitcher? He said the bears won't, so someone's got to be in that last playoff spot. Won't be either team now. Okay. Who will be in that spot instead of the bears? Um, Packers, maybe Packers. Okay. Good. Quarterback's dead for six weeks. Yeah. It's not good. All right. Thanks, Jeremy. Which Jeremy was better in that spot? Cap? What do you think? Oh, boy. That's it. It's that tight. I'll go with the new river air or something. Okay. He thought that care was overly excited. Never put your feelings on the feelings of a quarterback. You don't know what was in the helmet of Caleb Williams. He says he's never nervous. Of course, everyone's excited because it's the first game. That's not why the offense sputtered. No, completely agree. Look, did he miss throws? Absolutely. I can't wait. Lance is going to be in here with us in a moment. I want to hear his thoughts. That front four for Tennessee is really good. That 366 pound dude to Vondre sweat. That guy's a monster, but guess what? If that's the guy you got a block, you got to find a way, man. You got to find a way and Caleb has to be markedly better. I'm just interested in the the in actives every week, the inactives, like what do we talk about down with Dominic Robinson? Like we thought we saw some good things last year inactive this Sunday. I look forward to seeing how that works. Yeah. Some of the guys that we think are good players or up and comers and if they get a chance to play or not, they find out. We'll find out. Lance Briggs is next on Cap and Jay Hood. Welcome back to Cap and Jay Hood on Chicago's on for sports ESPN Chicago. Lance Briggs, former linebacker and seven time pro baller of the Chicago Bears. Super Bowl 41 in-tacklet. Lance Briggs. Number 28 on the 100 greatest bears of all time left. Briggs with Cap and Jay Hood, every bears Monday, left, left, right, right. ESPN Chicago. Lance Briggs. It's a Cap and Jay Good Morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Now time to talk to Lance Briggs. The way Lance Briggs joins us in studio right here on Cap and Jay Hood. Good morning. How are you? Good morning, man. That's pretty intro music. Love it. Like that, huh? Yes. Clean it up a little bit and Jay Moore put something cool together. So let's talk about yesterday's game. It was a Bears type game. Yep. Quarterback wasn't great. Offense wasn't great. The defense. Oh, doctor. Thank you through big time defense and special teams in Chicago. Yes. Um, I think the best thing about the game yesterday is that we're we're building off of a win. Not a loss. I think that's more important anything. We all know that offense takes longer to develop than especially a new offense. New players, new camaraderie takes longer to develop than does defense and defense was humming by the end of last year. They're going to allow more chances for our offense this year to develop and eventually offensively. We will. Well, we'll get there. You know, the pieces are there. You know, when the when the opportunities are there, we have to seize them. We kind of thought that going into the game, Lance, that the Bears are trying to run the football as much as possible just to get the young quarterback comfortable. I mean, so it ended up being 22 carries for 84 yards. DeAndre so have 10 for 30. Did you expect them to run a little more yesterday? I've. Well, it's tough, you know, when you're when you're facing, you know, sweat and Simmons up front, you know, that just, you know, that that that defense of front is is tough. Oh, man. That's that's that's hard. That's a hard defense to to run against. So you're you're kind of you're kind of limited on your run plays and what you can do in the run game, but yeah, you always want to try to run run as much as possible to to take some of that stress off of the the Ricky in terms of how you block and everyone's upset me too with the offensive line play yesterday, Nate Davis only was out for 18 snaps and they yanked him and put Ryan Bates in Coleman Shelton had his hands full trying to handle 366 bond to Vondre sweat. That dude is a monster. So are you as down on the O line as all of us are or that was a product of who they went up against? It's a bit of both. You know, you always you know, you should never be satisfied, you know, with with the sub offensive line play, you know, you they've got to they've got to stand up and they've got to make the make it happen for the offense. However, sweat, I mean, he he swatted Kevin Jenkins like he was a fly, you know, at least on one or two plays and I and I was actually impressed with how quick his feet were for a man his size. He can move. Oh man. You see him? Holy cow. But we got to move guys out of the way. We have to move guys out of the way offensive offensive line where there's a lot of money that got put into this offensive line. We meet them in order to be number one, be successful running the ball number two, having given Caleb enough time for that ball to run in the football. What about the Bears defense of line or the defense against Tennessee, you know, you saw what Tennessee was trying to do. They kept trying to run the football. They ran to a wall. The parlor finally broke through. We got a touchdown. What do you think of the run defense early for the Bears? Well, it was a tough early, you know, it looked like Swiss cheese early early on, Tennessee, they have very good coaches. They had a very good game plan and what I really love about the Bears is the adjustments that they made during the game. That's what he's all over that week. Week one is going to be heavy on adjustments because you're dealing with a new coaching staff, you know, so they're coming from different places. You're going to have to find different tapes from where they were from the teams that they were they used to to coach at and you have to put them all together and say, okay, he's comes from this coaching tree. This is what they're going to try to do against us. But when we see how they're going to attack us, then we're going to start to make our adjustments and Bears defense adjusted extremely well. Remember old man, Calla has like one of the best offensive line coaches that we've seen, right? He's off. Yeah. From somewhere right? He's a Chicago guy. Yeah. Yeah. So who he was talking about adjustments? I don't. I think they're a little overrated at times. The paint man, it came out and said, um, I never made an adjustment 18 years. I got an orange slice, went to the bathroom, went back out on the field and we just played better and we executed better. How much in terms of a, like technical adjustments that you guys make you and lack and waric hold men, all these different guys you played with. Well, we made adjustments, you know, it's, and, and adjustment doesn't have to be, you know, okay, we're, we're going to run this call. We're going, we're going from cover two to cover three and that's, that's not, that's, you know, it can be something as small as when I saw a lot of movement from our defensive line up front, up front, especially in the pass game, I saw two threes, which were two tackles and the B gaps. I saw them slide one of the, the nose back over into that A gap opposite of the B opposite of the other tackle. So they were doing, we were trying things in that first half and then you start to, you know, you say, okay, this is working. This isn't working. We're going to keep this tackle out on third down and we're going to allow those guys to rush. So, when you talk about adjustments, it doesn't have to be a, a, a, a defensive coverage per se. Maybe it's just moving one guy over a slightly, you know, I mean, because we're stronger there. So that, you know, and so what I mean by adjustments, whatever they did, adjustment wise, you know, even just like you just said, it, maybe they just fit better. You know, they understand how they're trying to block you. They're trying to kick out the defensive end or they're trying to, trying to, um, trying to wam the, the, the detackle, you know, so this is how we have to take it on. So by adjustments, I think they did extremely well and, and it showed because they obviously defense got in the end zone. They didn't get over the 50 in the second half the Titans. Right. So that's, so whatever, uh, uh, shellacking or talking to they had in the locker room, it worked. Lance, um, how much is that defense, especially how opportunistic they were, how do you remind, how much that reminds you of your defenses being able to have takeaways kind of carrying the game? Well, you know, I, I didn't think of it as, as a reminder. I just look at his as, as this is, you guys are all over the field. You know, I was like TJ Edwards, he's, he's starting the year off. It, you know, he's the top five linebacker right now. You know, um, um, Edmonds was in position and not only was in position, but he was making the plays, you know, the, these linebackers last year when the defense started playing well, but it was the linebacker play that really stood out and the linebacker play is standing out in game one. So that, that brings a big smile to my face. In terms of watching the offense, that again, we talked with you already about the offensive line, but are you all in that Caleb is the guy watching you and Alex Brown together? Alex is like, Oh, relax. This guy's got it. He is the guy. Are you there? Well, he is. Yeah. I believe that he is the guy, but you know, it's, it doesn't, it doesn't change my thought when last year when we were talking about him, I said, listen, he's, he's a smaller version of Justin Fields, you know, and, uh, the game was very, it felt, it had a very Justin Fields esque feel to it, you know, um, I, I also think that with the, with the players that are around him, you know, he's going to develop, he's going to be fine. He's going to be fine. You know, I mean, I'm not worried about the, this game, it's game one as I'm not worried about it at all. And he's got so much talent around him that in a great defense and great special teams that it's only going to be a matter of time before it starts clicking. More last breaks right around the corner on the cap and Jhood morning show. 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If you go to the Chicago Bears podcast, click that and boom, you're right in to check out Pat the designer and Lance Briggs right here on ESPN Chicago and the app. So again, again, on the defensive side, what stood out most for you, some of the other things that stood out, um, as far as the bears are concerned, of course the, the, of course, the, the DV play, you know, taking the ball away, uh, that, that huge third down stop, uh, you know, just, uh, to me, they were, they, they were back to normal in the, in that second half, uh, and they were having fun, uh, the best thing about when you're doing things like that, they were having fun and that, you know, and you, you mentioned, you know, does that remind you of when we played, you know, it really looked like they were having fun playing with their brothers, you know, and, uh, and that feel, that feeling, um, is very reminiscent of, um, of my days and our days playing back in, uh, five or six. So the stuff that has to get cleaned up, obviously, Vailus Jones fumbling a kick. Yep. And as I said, the hoodie, again, look, again, they liked this dude's athleticism. He ran a ball twice for 11 yards. He caught a pass. Uh, Hebrew flus was on with us a couple hours ago and said, yeah, I thought that was impressive that he bounced back from that mistake. But if you can't use him on special teams, then you probably can't have him on your roster. I really, the guy's been on the fence for, for years now. It is, I think it's surprising to all of us that, uh, that he's still on the roster. Um, he must bring something to the table that, that, that the coaching staff and, and, and the front office really believe that they need to hold on to him. So, um, it is what it is. We don't, we don't make those decisions, uh, but you, you, you stick around with, with a player that has shown you who he is time and time again. And he's going to buy, he's going to bite you in the ass eventually. You say we don't make those decisions. We don't, but, but general manager Lance Briggs would do what? Oh, he wouldn't, he wouldn't have made the roster this year if he's general manager Lance. You would have traded him because they were getting calls. We watched it. None of you saw it on hard knocks. He said, I'm not giving up for less than a fourth, but they were getting calls from other teams that like it. And, and, and, you know, for, for this, this type of situation, sometimes, uh, a new team, a fresh start is good for a lot of players. You know, you know, you get a fresh start. You know, you, you know, maybe you're in Atlanta and you, and, and you start returning kicks and you're taking them to the house. Maybe that's good for you. Who knows? So, in '06, putty and I are fans. We're watching this. Okay. Don't score an offensive touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals and you come back and you win the football game and Denny Green has that classic meltdown. They are. Who wins? They were. Yeah. RIP. Uh, but in that game at halftime, all in crutes gave a supposedly an amazing speech. Did Kevin Byer talked at halftime and after the game and said, we're changing the culture here. There'd be days off offense carries days defense. Do you see similarities between those two games? Yeah. I mean, I, I, I definitely understand what Kevin Byer was, was explaining there. I mean, listen, we, we carried the, the offense today. There are going to be times where the offense is going to, it could, it could have a next week where the offense is carrying us, you know, and it's going to be a high scoring game. This is the way it goes. You know, what we really want is for both team, both, both sides of the ball to excel. You know, we have a low scoring, a low scoring opponent with a high scoring home offense, you know, so we're working progress is what he's saying, but we are in this together. So now the next game coming up is Houston. Much tougher test. We're going to need that offense to show up there. You have to put some points on the board. You know, this, this Houston team is tough. They're very, very good. They're well coached and they're going to, and they're not going to take their, their, their foot off the pedal. And Joe Mixon had a big day yesterday. Yeah. We got to figure out this whole depth chart thing with the, with the running backs. So it's DeAndre Swift first. So that does that mean that Killel Herbert gets more time? Does that mean Val's Jones gets time? Like to me. So, because we had some inactives here, Rochon Johnson is hurt, right? With the toe? Okay. So he was not available. Will he be available for this game against Houston? See that? That's a big question. I think that, I think the same, the game plan is the same Lance. Tell me if I'm wrong. Like, even on the road, I like for the bears to run the football some. See, take the pressure off at Caleb to set up the pass. Well, I think you should do that for a rookie quarterback. Take a lot of the pressure off of him, you know, and, and run the ball. Now, again, you're going against a Tennessee Titans run defense with, with a 366 pound guy right there, smack dab in the middle in Simmons, who's a dog on dog. You know, it's going to be very tough. You're limited on the runs you have now going against Houston. I don't think you're going to be as limited as you were against the Titans in the run game. It's the focal point when we're running, there are probably going to be more options than, and we should see more of the Andre Swift and Khalil Herbert. I would think the over is the play next weekend. I would think there'll be a lot of points scored. Oh, Lord. Like, DJ Moore, is he getting a touch and Bayles Jones getting a touch and Travis Homer getting like, I just want to know like how this works, like, you know, if we're hitting home, you know, up front defensively, there will be, there will be some opportunities. And if we can keep them in the long drives, make them go the long hard way, we can create some takeaways, long, long, long those lines and get the ball back to our offense or score get on defense. This portion of cap and Jhood brought to you by Chicago Cut Steakhouse. That's right. It's on the sale north side of the Chicago River. Great looking week. Weather wise will sit on their patio. So what are you going to do now? What are you going to do for the rest of the day? You got back to designer, and then what else do you have? And then I'm heading over to the CHGO offices, we're going to talk about professors grades today. You know, professors grades. I used to do the grades. Yeah. You did it. Right. Shoot. I'm going to wear the glasses. I'm going to wear some glasses. I'm definitely going to wear some glasses. Professional. Yes. Yes. Indeed. And then it's going to be some nonsense with your grades as usual. It's going to be something, something nonsense. I mean, it's going to be something that somebody doesn't agree with. This is nonsense. The office is not going to get a high grade. Okay. All right. Am I everybody agree? Okay. All right. Deaf is going to get a high grade. Special teams is going to get a almost high grade downgraded from the fumble. Makes sense. And you'll be in studio with us a day after every game. Absolutely. Do you need us to wake you? No. No, no, no. I'll get my cup of Joe and I get on the L train. Let's roll. Let's roll. All right, we'll see you next Monday after Sunday Night Football. There he is, member of our team. All right. We thank you for listening and calling in and being part of the program here on Captain J. Hood. Our thanks to Shay. All right. 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