Kap & J. Hood
9/13 8 AM: Courtney Cronin
(music) Good morning and welcome in to the Captain Jay Hood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. Now time for shot or no shot. We've got Courtney Cronin at 8.35 to give us the latest on the Bears, but first here's Shane Orland, Shay. Good morning boys on a Bears Friday, Sunday night, football, bears and Texans coming up this weekend, full slate. We get to enjoy Red Zone with the Bears on an island. It's going to be great how we feeling. We're doing very good. Thank you very much. Excited, man. Let's go. Another beautiful weekend weather-wise, I believe. We'll find out from Tracy Butler at 9.50. Look forward to it. I'm trying to figure out the game of the 12 o'clock slate that you're interested in the most that you'll keep your eyes on. Shay, when you look at this, is it Vikings 49ers? No. Is it Packers Colts? No. Lions Bucks, that's it. Probably? Yeah, I think so. It's a Fox game. Gonna circle that to see, again, Baker Mayfield, playoff rematch, and the Lions. Yeah. I think that's the one-year circle right there. I think that's going to be the key match. For me, it's the Packer game. I want them to, and again, I don't wish any ill will the Jordan love I hate seeing guys get hurt. Wake up and find out what it's like to have a crappy quarterback. Good luck. Wake up like the rest of us did for decades. Oh, God. Who are we got out there? Quarterback? Jonathan Quinn, Mitch Trebisky, whoever it is. Oh, you don't have Aaron or Farver love. Take that. I want them to suck on it all weekend going, this sucks. That's the game. So you like the Packers, Shay? We'll find out. We'll find out in about 15 minutes when we go through the picks. All right. That would be Cap's biggest nightmare. Kaplan suck on that. And then was it off Malik? Well, this goes out and throws for three touchdowns at 295. Yeah, I'll be sick. Yeah. Here's Shay Norlin. All right, don't I want to start with Ryan Paul's. He talked about one of the worst moments of his professional life over a job that he didn't get. Take a listen. One of the hardest moments I had was not getting the Carolina job. That was my first interview. And I thought I did really well. I prepared really well. I was, I was, you know, you kind of fill in the zone when you go through the interview process, you've started with Zoom and then it was in person. It's a really, it's not talked about much, but you come up with this philosophy based on your experience and you share how you want to go about changing this organization and put them in a really good position. And when you don't get the job, you go back to your old job, you've already mentally put yourself in a leadership position, especially in the GM job. And then you have to go back to the old philosophy where you basically were like, all right, I took these good things from what we do now. I don't like these things. So I'm going to toss that out, but you got to go live in that and you got to be supportive to your group. It was the first time I felt like mental health, disappointment, frustration. Like I had a lot of that when I returned back to Kansas City and it was eye-opening. And it allowed me to start to put structure together an executive coach clinician to tap into to express some of these feelings that I was going through. Because I didn't feel like I was a great teammate to my group. When I got back, I was more angry and frustrated because, you know, I had this great plan and now I don't get to do it. The other thing is my agent challenged me to say, Hey, where are your blind spots? So you look at your interview and you obviously didn't know everything, the things that you felt like you felt short on. Let's go attack those. It just the personal growth and development process kicked off. And it was always there, but it took another step for me where I have to go find answers and things that maybe I don't have in Kansas City, you know, that didn't allow me to have the answers to those questions. I got to go out and figure those things out. So from a performance standpoint, from analytics standpoint, I got to go seek that information so that I have answers and I can put a team together when I have the opportunity to. There you go. Ryan polls on the personal toll he took from not getting the job in Carolina, shot or no shot. Ryan polls nuked the Panthers franchise out of revenge. That's personal pride. That's a shot. I don't think that's number one on the list, but I think that he takes sauce in the fact that, yeah, you know, I'm running the Chicago Bears, probably lucked out more times. Think about it. He's with the Chicago Bears. Carolina, that ownership, he actually is in a much better spot. No question. Things happen for a reason. I'm going to say no shop because whoever he was doing that deal with for the number one pick, he was going to nuke their franchise because he had multiple teams coming after him. Does he take some revenge factor where he's like, yeah, take that, that it was them? Certainly. He's human, man. You get turned down for a job. You want to beat the people that turned you down. But I think if he had dealt with the Saints or the Raiders or the Seahawks or the Rams, he was going to nuke whatever franchise it was because he had the number one pick. Here's my side of it, though, because I think the revenge did play a factor. If he's doing the deal with the teams you mentioned, he doesn't have the inside knowledge on their operation, potentially, that he has with Carolina. And he also doesn't have the little added motivation to really stick it to them. Carolina, he would know, having gone through the process, has a lunatic owner and David Tepper and probably knows the GM at the time, Sean Fitterer, a little bit. I think he was like, look, I've got other offers. I can trade this pick to anyone. You are who I want to work with. And I'll stick it to you a little extra because you didn't give me the gig. Absolutely. There's a little personal pride with that. And luckily for Ryan Polls that he's with the Bears because he was with Carolina, he'd be out on the street. Here's Shane Orlick because he would have overruled them and said you're taking breaks. Yeah, absolutely. And you're giving up a fortune for him. I'm just saying, Shay, that he has full autonomy with the Chicago Bears. He's got a clean slate that even Jerry Angelo didn't get. Clean slate, and dealing with George McCasky, which is totally different than dealing with Ted Phillips. What year did Jerry Angelo join the Bears? I was at late 90s or early 2000. I think it was late 90s because 2000? I'm going to look because we people forget we didn't have a GM till Jerry Angelo got did not have a GM. Nope. Which is just insane. He joined the Bears in 2001. 2001 through 2011. So he's here 10 years. You know, people won't believe you when you say that. They think it's hyperbole. They're like, what do you mean they didn't have a GM? They didn't have a GM. They had one Jerry Vanissi. That was did because guy. Mike McCasky rest in peace fired him out. See you later. Thanks for coming. And then he was intimately involved in the day-to-day operation. Like he was a lousy version of Jerry Jones as an executive. And then finally they got so much. He had Mark Hatley, Rod Graves, good guys running personnel, but they weren't the GMs. He was. So that's horrible. That's something. So, you know, I would say that is a shot over regarding polls. All right, Jay, what else do we have? And Matt Eberflu's talked about his confidence that Caleb Williams is progressing. So the progress is there. He also said the first three or four weeks will be a learning experience for Caleb just to learn what the Bears offense wants to do in any given situation. Get up to speed with the rest of the NFL three or four weeks. Shot or no shot. Eberflu set a timeline four weeks and we'll see it from Caleb Williams. That's a shot sooner than later. Yeah, he's a good football player, man. And it's going to take a little time. I don't know if they're going to win on Sunday, but yeah, four weeks I'd better see progress. Agreed. Fair enough. Shay. Concussion aside. I want to ask about two of because last night before he got hurt, he was terrible. And that might be in poor taste because of how the game ended. But it is what it is. He threw three interceptions. The pick six was atrocious. You're pouring the facts and I wrong with that. It was awful. Yep. He also made big news in the off season. Big splash financially became one of the five highest paid quarterbacks in the sport. He also joined some of the highest paid quarterbacks in the sport who are very disappointing early this season, including Trevor Lawrence, Joe Burrow, of course, Deshawn Watson. As the price goes up, it feels like the caliber of quarterback weighted against how much they cost. That gap just keeps getting wider. Shot or no shot. The quarterback market is a bubble that's going to pop. That is a shot. Got the owners are going to get tired of paying insane money for mediocre play. They're going to go, no, not doing it. You know, Dak Prescott puts up huge numbers earns his contract. Great. But they are not going to give the Danny Jones and some of these other guys who are less than stellar quarterbacks. They're not going to pay him. Okay. Well, then fine. You don't have to pay him. But you know what? Then you got to start developing better. No doubt. I mean, I'm serious now. Like, if you're not going because this is, you know, Dak's got his money and tools got his money and all that. Daniel Jones got his money. All right. Fine. So if you're not going to pay through the nose for the quarterback and you want to be able to pay for quarterbacks on a lower rate, then if you can't keep them, then the next guy in the pipeline has got to be ready. This is the problem with this lead cap is so many really good quarterbacks are getting paid a lot that that's not getting you to the Super Bowl. Okay. So from college to the pros, you just can't say he's our backup and he's expendable. No, you have to take solace in the fact that we have a quarterback that we like. That's our backup. And he's going to be the next guy. That's how it used to be. That's how it used to be. Agree. So if you don't want to pay through, you know, big time salaries to quarterbacks and you say, well, I can't pay that. Well, then why is your backup sucks? Why are they? Why is your backup so bad? Because you don't develop your backup. Correct. That's why that like the Jayhawk, our boss, the Jayhawk Danny, he sent us a text last night after two got hurt. Could you trade Beijing down there? No, absolutely not. I got a Beijing locked up for this year and next year at like 900 grand, like nothing in NFL terms. And he looks like he's got a chance to be a pretty decent football player in the national. Maybe even better than that. Why would I do that? No, that's Tana Hill. And he's waiting for the call. Yeah, go back to Miami, have Tana Hill do what you want. I would extend Tyson Beijing. I would. In this league, we see guys get hurt all the time. I need him. knows my systems well liked in the room. Looks like he's a player. I would extend him this season. There's a number of teams we could look at this national football league that don't know what they're going to do next year with the quarterback. And one of them was like Pittsburgh. Justin's not the long term answer. And neither is Russell Wilson. So what are they going to do? You got anybody in the pipeline? You try with Kenny Pickett for a year. That didn't work. So what are you going to do? Well, we'll just find someone from the scrap people. We'll just put them in there for a year. No, develop a quarterback, have a system and develop your quarterback. And then when it gets to a point where you don't think you could pay them, have someone else in the pipeline and get that ready. Correct. That's why I was glad they brought Austin read back on the practice squad. Maybe he'll never make it. But guess what? Keep running these guys out there and trying. By the way, Tom Waddle texted the two of us. You want to read that? Oh, I have my phone on me. Go ahead. It's my bad. Hey, Cap, after hearing the polls sound, I think you need to put your pants back on. It's an HR violation. Okay. I mean, yeah, I love Ryan polls. I'm a big Ryan polls fan. And that was great audio, Tommy. I had a cigarette in the studio. Sorry. But my pants were on. I see it here because I'm wearing shorts. We will give you the picks that is coming up next on Captain Jay Hood. Welcome back to Captain Jay Hood on Chicago's ombre sports ESPN Chicago. It's time for the pick fix featuring David Kaggle. Mike, Texas goes into the big house and no Connor stallions. No JJ McCarthy or Blake quorum. It's an ass whipping Jonathan Hood. Jets plus four and a half. I'm very confident in that one. I believe they are Rogers will light up the San Francisco Bay Area sky. Bang back in California. Feeling comfortable. Spry. It'll happen. Jets plus four and a half. Go ahead. See you normally. Yeah. I mean, it's going to be Sam Darnold against that pass rush with Eddie's Hopkins and still hurt. Jordan Addison might not go like that. It's just, there's too much going on with the Vikings. I'll play the point of half. Giants and also tell you, they're going to win the game. Hey, pal. You're just blowing from stupid down. And Jay Moore. Jay Moore has taken the Eagles as well. I want to take in the Packers. Oh my god. I think it's a toss up game. And if you're giving me two and a half with the Packers, I'll take the Packers. Neutral sights to the chest on all of Jay Moore's pit is the best. The picks on Captain Jay Hood. ESPN Chicago. Even AI Jack getting into the fray and week one. And spraying shotgun pellets all over Jay Moore who actually had the best week. Yep. You wouldn't say that to Jay Moore's face and know that AI Jack because he's not programmed to do so. It is now time for the picks right here on the cap and Jay Hood boarding show. All right. What do you have to stand in front of you, Jay? I do Jay Moore and cap tied at the top seven and three each hoodie six and four. Me at the bottom five and five need to bounce back week two. All right. Let's go through the college slate first. All right. Three college games to pick from in a brutal slate this weekend. Number 17 Notre Dame off of the loss nine and a half point favorites as they travel to Purdue. Purdue quarterback Hudson card is set to have an FBS record for completion percentage. He did that against Indiana State. He's going to take on a very good Notre Dame team though that secondary is headlined by Xavier Watts. I still think that Purdue is going to be able to get this job done. I like Purdue plus nine and a half. I think Notre Dame can went outright but I think closing the experts think I like Purdue plus nine and a half. Shay, how are they prognasticating the Boilermakers in the big 10 this year? Bad. The quarterback that Hood mentioned Hudson card. Good for him. FBS record completion percentage. He stinks. He's horrible. Yeah, I was afraid you were going to say that because my numbers have Notre Dame win in the football game by about a dozen. I'm going to lay the points much as I hope Purdue crushes them. Let's go Boilermakers. Boiler up. But I will lay the points and take Notre Dame. Since 2012 teams off of a loss is 20 point favorites or more. Notre Dame are 38 and 66 straight up only 38 percent against the spread. Boiler up Purdue. Jay Moore, I'm rolling with cap. I'm going to take Notre Dame. I think they'll rebound nicely after that terrible $1.4 million loss. I love that. That goes all in the hammocks pocket. Nice weight room. You know, some paint on the wall. Helping out. We're recruiting. I think that's awesome. All right. What's next? All right. Number 24 Boston College. First time ranked this season at number six, Missouri. Mizzou, 16 and a half point favorite. So Mizzou is riding a two game winning streak after his 38 point win against Buffalo. The defense earned its second shutout of the young season. The Tigers out gain the Bulls 5 18 to 169 in total yards. I like Boston College plus 16 and a half in this one. I think Missouri is going to win the game outright. I think that's obvious. But I think Boston College can hang in there. This game could be 26 and a half. Boston College is going to get the ever living H beating out of them. BC gets destroyed at Missouri. Lay the points. Yeah. This is my favorite play of the week. College or pro ranked match up with a home team favored by two touchdowns or more. They're about 80 billion and oh on the favorite there. The book is telling you one of these two teams is not top 25. That's BC Mizzou rules. I'm rolling with Mizzou as well. All right, Rudy Bama number four in America going up to Madison is 16 and a half point favorites at Wisconsin. Crimson Tide were led by quarterback Jalen Millrone is 199 yards passing with two touchdowns. He's has it have not looked sharp, but he'll be good enough against Wisconsin. Give me the tide minus 16 and a half. Alabama is a great program. It's a program in transition a bit because they have a new coach. Nick Saban era is over Kaitland Boer is there, but they still have top flight talent. They may not be the Georgia Bulldogs, but they are really, really good. The Wisconsin Badgers have their fifth quarter and they have their jump around in the Bucky Badger. It's all cool. It's all going to suck to be a badger on Saturday afternoon. Alabama rolls later points. Cap them with you. Once again, Wisconsin, I think stinks. You mentioned Bama's being in transition. I think Wisconsin's going to end up firing Luke Fickle and being transitioned at the end of this year. The air raid offense just doesn't work there. You need big old lineman, you need to run the ball. Alabama goes up, shows them the meaning of the word respect. Roll tide. We're all in one accord. I'm rolling with Alabama. Let's go. Onto the NFL, hoodie. The LA Rams go to Arizona to play in that cemetery of a building, that mausoleum. Cardinals one point favorites. Yeah, Rams make a bounce back again, very close against the Lions. I was saying I football the Rams find a way to win that ball game with a heavy LA crowd in Phoenix for that one on Glendale. Rams plus one. Cardinals are an improving team. Their quarterback is healthy. They've got Marvin Harris, a junior who's a stud. The Arizona Cardinals battled Buffalo, but fell short. But they won't fall short this weekend. Give me the Arizona Cardinals to win that game. I actually think the wrong team's favored here. I would have the Rams as about a point and a half or two point favorites. I'm going to go with the Rams. Same here. Go on with the Rams. I'm very confused by that line. Yeah, I think it's an overreaction. Rams back up offensive line kind of, but Matthew Stafford was incredible in the Lions game. So I'm going to take the Rams. Saints going on the road to Dallas caps Cowboys six and a half point favorites, hoodie. I like the Cowboys in the six and a half again. Regular season juggernaut are the Cowboys. The numbers may not have been great for you. When you look at Dak Prescott in that game against the Browns, but I still like the Cowboys to be able to get the job done at home. Jerry World against the Saints. Yeah, not a problem. I'm with hoodie on this one. Give me the Cowboys to lay the six and a half and beat an OK Saints team. They played a division two by opponent last week in Carolina. Now they step up in class. Dallas wins big. Yeah, Cowboys are going to win the game, but six and a half feels crazy to me. I think this should be Saints as about four point dogs. Don't do that. Don't do it. Hoodie. I'm sorry. Don't do it. Don't do it. I'm taking the Saints to cover the spread. I'm taking the Saints. Why? Don't do that. Same dude. It was over the panther last week. Don't do that. She else was all over the panther. You. That'd be me. Hey, who are you picking and survivor? Probably probably going to take the Seahawks. I think only you've done that last week. Please. Please. Just take the Cowboys. They just change. I can't do it. I got to go Saints. Saints actually look pretty good last week, but they're going up against a better defense in the Cowboys this week. So I'm rolling with the boys Cowboys. Go. Go ahead, bangles. Well, yes, there's that too. Jay Moore's rolling with the boys. The Brown and Goldie said. There you go. Wyoming. Bengals at Chiefs. Chiefs lay in five and a half at home. Hood. The wrist of Burrough seems to be a problem as he was flicking it and shaking it this past Sunday. Don't know how if he's going to be 100%. It doesn't matter. It's the Chiefs at Arrowhead. That'll be all. Give me the Chiefs minus five and a half. I'm with hoodie on this one as well. Burrough's wrist is an issue that team has got some problems internally. Give me the chief. Yeah, Burrough's hurt. Beggles last five years, weeks one and two against the spread two and seven. I don't think that gets a whole lot better when you're going on the road to Kansas City. I'll lay five and a half of them homes. I'm rolling with the chief as well. I think these guys are going to three feet. So that's my pick and I'm rolling with those guys. Hoodie Buccaneers on the road in Detroit. Lions lay in seven and a half points. Touchdown and a hook against Tampa. Yeah, I'm going to pass. That's too hard. I can't do it. Got to make a pick. This is the most difficult one I've had all week actually. I don't. I mean, the Lions win the game, but I've had a hard time with the point spread. Seven and a half. I was impressed by the Lions being able to eat out that game on Sunday night. But are they a touchdown plus favorite against the Buccaneers? I'll just roll with the Lions. I will. I just, but I was not sure all week what to do with that as far as a point spread. So I'll take the Lions minus seven and a half. So I was all over the Buccaneers until I came in here and Nordling said to me, kid, look at the injury report for the Buccaneers. They are banged up here in week two. I am holding my nose and taking my goddamn Campbell and the Lions, but I'm not feeling great about it. I'm also going with the Lions cap. I told you yesterday you should look at the injury report. Another defensive back has just hit the Buccaneers injury report. Antoine Whitfield, Jr. is not going to play in this game. Lions are covering seven and a half points. Yeah, it's tough for the Bucks, man. So I'm rolling with the Lions. We're all on the same page. 49ers lay in five and a half on the road in Minnesota hood. Give me the Vikings plus five and a half in this one. Um, I think that the Vikings, I think, I think they can win the game outright. Quite frankly, I do. Even though I still think that the worst team in the NFC North, I just think in an upset the Vikings will find a way. Kevin O'Connell might, I didn't say he is, might be the better coach in this game. Oh, Sam Darnell played his tail off last week. They got some dudes up front on both sides of the ball. Give me the Viking to cover the number. I'm going opposite the two of you. I have this at San Francisco, minus a full touchdown at seven. I'm going to lay five and a half with the Niners. See, she is the smart one. How's that? Last week, everybody went for the Jets except me. Didn't take the 49ers last week. Can I interrupt just like, did Michael Vick play for the Steelers ever? I don't think so. This dude is walking down the street with a big two. He worked here in the building. Got to break him in. He's got a Steelers two jersey. I went, oh, there's a Justin Colt member. He ended his career with Pittsburgh. I thought so. Oh, he's wearing Mike Vick Steelers jersey. Tyler, bring your phone on Jersey. I know that's his section. He does a great job with that part of creative on his TikTok. I think he would definitely run up to that guy and say, why do you have a Michael Vick toward the end Jersey? Right. Number two with Pittsburgh. It's pretty good because that's Justin's number, right? I think it is. That's a good jersey. I got to want to have to shell out for a Fields jersey. So I just wore the Vic, but I really am a Fields Colt member. All right. Where are we, Shay? Are we at the Colts Packers yet? No, it's still me. I'm going with the 49ers. I think Jordan Macy will have another good game against the Vikings. All right. Colts lay in three and a half on the road, Lambo Field taking on the Packers hoodie. Malik Willis is a quarterback. Even though the Packers are at home, I like the Colts minus three and a half and win the game outright. I can't stand this team. I don't want them to ever win a football game, but they're covering the number at home because Matt LaFloor has a really good team. He's a really good coach. The quarterback may not be any good, but he's getting an opportunity. Give me the Packers. Malik Willis is terrible, but with Jordan Love in the game, I made this number Packers minus six and a half at home. I don't know that I buy. Jordan Love to Malik Willis is a full 10 point swing. I'm going to take the points with the Packers. I'm going with the Colts. I don't think Malik Willis is going to do anything. So I'm just, I'm rolling with the Colts, man. I got to. Final game Sunday night football bears at Texans. Texans lay in six and a half footy. Give me the Texans minus six and a half in this one at home. Big spot against a rookie quarterback for the Bears. I think the Texans find a way and give me the Texans minus six and a half. I think it's closer than people think. I think the Bears come to compete. I think Caleb's better. I'm not telling you they're winning the football game, but it's going to be tight, tough. I think what did I say yesterday for a score? I can't remember 27, 23, something like that. Bears cover the number. I hope they win. They cover the number. Give me the Bears. Yeah, his number on its face is outer space to me. I think it's Houston minus three and a half, not six and a half. I think this is way off. I'm going to take the Bears. I'll roll with the Bears as well. I feel good when Jay Moore likes a pick that I like. Jay Moore is going to take the Bears from now to the end of the world. And he should every single week. I was a part of the Brown bag club, man. I was in stands with the brown bag on my head. That means something different, but OK, I understand. I'm like a bottle of crown royal paper bag. That means something different. But nonetheless, he will always arrive with the Bears and that's the picks right here on cap and Jhood. All right, coming up, we will have Courtney Cronin with the latest on the Bears and their match up against the Texans. Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 also on our YouTube channel. If you missed something, get the podcast on the ESPN Chicago app. Cap and Jay Hood are back on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. Keep your beak out of it. Click on me, Cronin. Nashville, Chicago Bears reporter for ESPN. You have to temper expectations. If you are a Bears fan, just given everything that this team had to kind of undo. Breaking down the Bears and the latest NFL storyline. Holes was given the flexibility and the freedom to take this thing down to the ground floor, down to the studs to be able to build it back up. Courtney Cronin with Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 Chicago's home for sports. Courtney Cronin joins us as we talk about the Bears and our match up against the Texans and Courtney's on the hotline. Garret Steyer, not a hotline. Courtney, how are you? I'm great. Happy Friday, guys. Happy Friday to you. First of all, let's start with the health of the football team. Keenan Allen, Roman Dunes, they did not practice this week. They've had some guys banged up. Can you take us through the injury report? Who you think plays? Yeah, I don't think Roman Dunes Day is going to play. It's an MCL sprain. It was originally reported as week to week. I know that Eber Flus said day to day as we know day to day sometimes means week to week and bear speak. And it just doesn't feel like it's something that you risk this early in the season for a rookie. And for a rookie who hasn't been able to practice this week as we saw last week, the communication, the chemistry, all of those things that are necessary between a receiver and a quarterback. If he hasn't been able to get out there, I think they slow play that one. Now, Keenan Allen's different just because he is a vet, where I do think that veterans get a little bit longer of a leash to determine how they're feeling. And if this is a taintolerance thing versus, hey, I really re-aggravated my heel on that overthrow. Maybe it's something today. If he gets a little bit of work in, they list him as questionable, but two days of not practicing for somebody who's 32 years old, do you want him effectively playing from behind all season? Like if this is something that if he thinks he can play through, but it gets worse and then he sets himself back, I think they'd want to avoid that. But again, you look at the depth chart at receiver behind DJ Moore, kind of looks a little similar to last year when they don't have a do and say an Allen out there. So I guess a do and say I'd say completely 100% know. And then Allen will see today if he is indeed able to get some work in if that affects his status for Sunday and how he's going to be designated. Yeah, you're speaking of the depth chart. Let's talk a little bit about valus Jones because we saw what happened on Sunday with the fumble. And then we saw more DeAndre Carter. What is the likelihood that valus Jones is inactive on Sunday against Texans? You know, I think it's a good question because it's it feels likely at this point. You listened to Richard high tower yesterday and I get it. You don't want to, you feel for the person, but as a football player, the play was unacceptable. You can't muff a kick, kick off return and kick it 20 yards and that hurts your football team. Regardless, I don't think he's going to be the kickoff returner anymore. I don't I think that DeAndre Carter showing that he can handle both part return and kick return in the way that Richard high tower talked about it yesterday that he is capable of doing both. And he'd be comfortable with him in both of those roles going forward. That's probably where that job ends up going. It's just it becomes a numbers game because there are a couple other injuries that we're keeping an eye on. I mean, CARI blazen game doesn't look like he's going to be going this week. Ryan Bates had a setback apparently at practice looks like he might be out this week after being DNP yesterday. If if it's based on other injuries that make him active, I could see him at least having a game day roster spot for that reason. But I don't think in terms of the return game, he'll have much responsibility when it comes to fielding balls. But you know, if he is active, he I guess he's good for a couple of carries on those outside zone nuns. They want to continue to try to use him in that role. In terms of Caleb Williams and then the personnel groupings. And I know you watch a lot of film. I put the tape on the other day. I just where's Cole come at? Why are the top five offensive weapons, including Caleb? Are they only on the field for 10 plays? Is that Matt Iberflu saying to Shane Waldron? Dude, you better get this fixed. And Waldron admitting that yesterday. What do you think was going on there? Cole come at playing way less to Gerald Everett and Mercedes Lewis. Not out there enough in the run game. It's a couple things. So number one, I think it, you know, for as much as we talk about this is Caleb's debut and it's going to take him some time to get used to playing in the NFL at NFL speeds, figuring it all out. I know that Shane Waldron's been an offensive coordinator for three years, but this is his first year in this system. People don't want to give that credence to why you're five best skill players. So DeAndre Swift, if you throw him in there too, Cole met in the top three receivers only on the field for 10 snaps. Yeah, that's not great out of 53 plays that you run. But I think some of it cap is Waldron getting into a rhythm and trying to figure out, all right, how do I get my best guys on the field at the same time? Certainly, it's way too low of a number. He admitted as much when I asked him about it yesterday and then the follow up on Cole commit. He knows commit needs to be on the field more than 40 some snap 40 some percent of snaps that he was last week. That's just not a big enough number. I do think Gerald Everett is going to be more of a weapon in the passing game than they would have had in previous years with the with the tight end playing opposite Cole commit. You didn't see that with Robert Tonyin. You didn't see that in previous years. Now you have a viable move tight end. They didn't have that. So they're going to have to figure out a way to get both of them on the field. This might be a good chance though this weekend when you think about all of the two tight end sets that they ran in Seattle, but the caveat within that how little they passed out of those. That's the challenge for Shane Waldron. If the two other receivers that we talked about at Dune say and Alan can't go, like this is a good opportunity to get those red zone targets for Cole commit to haven't be a presence down there. I mean, first you have to get the ball into the red zone. They had one trip in there last week. So that's that's the first priority. But using using some of your best weapons to get in there inside the 20s. It's a novel concept that I think everybody inside Hallis Hall knows has to be prioritized to use them. One of the great stories from last Sunday Courtney was Darryl Taylor. Now we spent all summer talking about who else is going to rush to pass or besides Montez sweat. And maybe the mark is Walker. What a game for Taylor. What has been said about Taylor and Hallis Hall about how he'll be utilized and how he can keep that momentum? Yeah, I go back to the press conference that we had the day like day after he was traded. And what you know him talking about what his role is going to be why the fit here was but it's honestly better for him than Seattle and how they play some of the wide nine stuff that we saw on Sunday. Like I just felt like he was in a great position to rush the passer and the rotation they had the half fresh legs in there as often as they did. That's credit to Travis Smith, the defensive line coach that the credit to Eric Washington is coordinating all of that. And then for Maddy birth was to to be as aggressive as he was in in trying to generate pressure there. But also with the blitzes mean that's the one that led to the will of us flipping the ball to the sideline for the pick six. You know Carol Taylor has been it was a big part of that. I think the Marcus Walker deserves a lot of credit for the four quarterback hits that he had this past week and where they were able to utilize him on the outside kicking him inside for now. I thought the pass rush is going to be the biggest story that we were talking about in terms of this still needs a lot of work coming out of week one and that was going into the game. But certainly the the formula that they have for right now it works. Now, you know, will that change against the much better offensive line? Potentially when they go down Houston this weekend. But at least for a week one, you feel like that wasn't their biggest glaring issue when that had been the biggest question mark in training camp. In terms of looking at Houston, I did put on their tape from the other day. They're really good. I mean, they got a lot of talent. They got a great left tackle. I mean, they've put money on both sides of the ball. How good do you think Houston is? Because I'm sure you studied that film extensively looking at Tank Dell and Nico Collins and CJ Stroud and Joe Mixin and Daniel Hunter and Laramie Tunsel and Will Anderson. I can keep going, man. They're loaded. Yeah, it's name after name. And that's, you know, that's why they were a playoff team last year and they've added. I mean, Daniel Hunter was probably their best offseason acquisition on top of the Joe Mixin acquisition on top of the Stefan Date acquisition. Like they were really active and, you know, they're kind of constructed like the bears in a lot of ways because they use the draft capital that they got from that Watson trade to go out and, you know, get talent through the draft, but also use some of that draft capital to go get other veterans that they think can make an immediate impact on their team. And what do we see? We saw Joe Mixin break the game open. I mean, especially in the second half, he's such an efficient rusher and he can catch the ball out of the backfield. And all of that underneath stuff first to find did, that's hard to defend. When you've got two other receivers that you have to account for and how good of a game Nico Collins had, they're loaded and they have a quarterback who's aggressive, who's not afraid to throw in tight windows and that's going to be an even bigger test for the Bears secondary this week when, you know, Jalen Johnson wasn't targeted like three times against Tennessee Titans. I think that CJ Strauss probably willing to take a little bit more chances against an all pro corner because he knows that he's got a much, he's got a strong arm. He's a very accurate quarterback and he's done this. He's experienced. So that's, you know, I think it's cool to see the strength on strength matchup of these three receivers for Houston pitted against the strength of this team, which is the secondary and what that could yield for, you know, the scoreboard, but also just some really good matchups that you get a chance to watch unfold during the game. We'd be remiss if we didn't ask you about what happened on Thursday night football with to a tongue of Iowa going out with a concussion. Just your overall thoughts, your initial reaction to see to go down again with the concussion and the ramifications of that for the dolphins and for to his career. It's brutal. And when when he reached out, like, I kind of wondered, is that, you know, that we talked about the fencing position after the first or the second concussion that he had in Cincinnati two years ago, I wondered if that had anything to do with it. And that's immediately where your brain takes you when you have a player who has had that many concussions in that short of a span and for them to think it was six minutes after he left the field, the dolphins, you know, of course, ruled them out, but said he's in he's in the concussion protocol. I wonder what it's going to be now. Is this going to be a situation where he has to medically retire? Because me, you think financially, he just signed that big contract. If he's forced to retire, if he has to miss some time, like, what does that do for the dolphins? What does that do for him financially? But also, I mean, you've got to think about his health. Like, this is, this is not like a one off. This is somebody who I thought it was a reckless run. I'll be honest with that. I think that even he, when he talks about this, eventually will say he should have split in that moment. And it was just not, it was just, I understand fighting for the extra yards, but it was a reckless play. But he has to protect himself. And it's very clear that he just kind of lacks that ability. And I worry about his long term health, because it's more than just football games. And if this were to happen again in a football game, it's, can I am I going to be able to walk at a certain age? Am I going to have cognitive decline when I'm in my 30s? And maybe, you know, in his mid 20s around that stuff, that stuff is real and stuff he has to think about. So, you know, I think there's two part conversation. Like, what do the dolphins do now at quarterback? Do they go out and trade for somebody? Do they sign somebody? Is there some way to salvage what looks like a very good team this year? And also to thinking about life beyond the football field and what his brain is going to be able, what it's going to feel like, you know, going forward after now we have to go through another concussion protocol. You got to pick real quick. I'm picking the Texans. And I know that that's not a completely out of the, you know, out of left field pick. I think that the line's still six and a half. I have them 27 21 on the podcast yesterday. I just think that Houston's a deep team. They're an experienced team. They're playing at home first Sunday night game there in five years. And there's still some kinks to be worked out with the Bears offense that, you know, it's going to be made a little bit more difficult this week if the two top receivers can't go. So I don't think it'll be a very, I don't think it'll be a bad game by any stretch for Caleb Williams. I think it will look much better than it did last week, but I still have Houston coming out on top. 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Now, listen, I know Shea can be less than desirable, but you have to get credit as credit as do, right? I couldn't believe my ears on Friday when I heard that, Shea. I don't want to start a fight, but I will say, I remember the morning I gave out fields to the Steelers, Sylvie gave it out that afternoon. And I never received any credit for the idea. That's all I'm going to say. Now, it may have been parallel thought. Sylvie and I were looking at this the same way. Maybe Sylvie didn't listen that morning. Who knows? But I gave it out on the air before he did. I will say that. What's trying to say? Silverman, I got all day and night to call this station, buddy. Wow, I've not heard that. Yeah, I'm not. Oh, well, the accusation is that Sylvie parroted your thought. I don't. I don't think he parroted your thought. I think it was parallel tracks. I think he thought that as well. That's what I said. But hey, listen, I'm just banking the pie. I did say it before he did on our air. Well, 235 is all set up for Wildland Sylvie. There you go. I'm not involved. I'm not involved. Hey, there you go. I'm not involved. You guys have at it. I heard on Cap and Jay Hoyt. Tyler, right? It's going to happen. The ether's coming out because of Shay. I gave the benefit of the doubt. Parallel thought could have been a thing. You guys are going to learn to leave that man alone. Because he's got a four hour palette to fill. I've said this to people. You don't get into a war with a man who buys ink by the barrel. He's got a four hour barrel, kid. And you are putting yourself right across here. Yeah, they've never talked about me on their show before. It's nothing new. I give a controversial opinion. It gets played at four o'clock. Tonya. Good luck. Ain't buy the barrel, including his column on Shaw and Shaw media. So go ahead. What did he write about this week? Bears. I know that. Coming up in two minutes. We talked more about the Bears are a butcher. 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