Kap & J. Hood

9/16 9 AM: Lance Briggs

Hour 3: Former Chicago Bears Linebacker Lance Briggs joined Kap & J. Hood to give his takeaways on the Bears 19-13 loss to the Houston Texans and thoughts on the Bears going forward. The guys discuss the problems with the Bears offense and your live reactions on this Bears Monday! Chicago Bears Head Coach Matt Eberflus joined Kap & J Hood with the latest Bears updates and what's next.

Duration:: 45m
Broadcast on:: 16 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

[MUSIC] Good morning, Chicago, and welcome in to the Cap and Jhood Morning Zero. On ESPN 1,000 and streaming on ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Shane, we've got James Warren, we've got you here on this Bears Monday as the Bears lose to the Texans 19 to 13. We'll hear from Mattie Refluse, the head coach for the Bears coming up at 9.40, but first, we turn to Lance Briggs and he's on the hotline. That be the Car X, tire not a hotline. [MUSIC] Good morning, Lance, how are you? Good, good morning. [APPLAUSE] So Lance, the offensive line is under siege. That means Caleb is under siege. It was unbelievable how many times he was hit, but he said, I'm sore, but I'll be ready to go. Get back to work and try and fix it. There is no offensive line tree where you go, yeah, I need a left tackle. Clock one, they don't exist, how do you fix it in season? Well, number one, you had all off season to prepare for this. And week one, the cheek and the chain was exposed. So now moving forward, when you show a cheek and a chain, now moving forward, every team that you play against is going to attack the chain of your chain. Because until you can prove that you can stop it, that's going to be an issue. It's going to be how things are going to attack our offensive line. Now, good offensive line, people don't trade them. They don't get rid of them in the NFL, you keep them. So we have to figure out how to fundamentally block four, five, or even six rushes. We had a lot that we struggled with five rushes. We have five blockers. We should be able to block five pass rushes each time. So the transition to the games, when you're running twists, Tom stunts, running any kind of stuffs from the outside, moving in, the transition from shooting your hands to kicking out, to picking up those blocks and those games was atrocious. And to me, that comes down to fundamentals. You know, that comes down to fundamentals, that comes down to what we're practicing. So what we have to do is we have to get better within our own house because we can. The other option is to go trade. Trade away picks, we'll get somebody. But that somebody does still doesn't guarantee that our blocking improves. 17 of the 22 guys are rushing the football where our running backs swift and Homer and Herbert. What are your overall thoughts on the first two games of the season as far as the running game? Because it looks like our running backs are running into brick walls. Well, you know, when I look at our running game I, it doesn't. Yeah, we'll run the ball, we'll run the ball, we'll run the ball here and there. But there's, there's, to me, there's no creative, there's no creative commitment to any kind of power running. You know, we go into this game and say, hey, we're going to run the ball and you pull out blasting game as our lead blocker. You know, oh, we missed a block on week one. Well, let me tell you what. There were a lot of missed assignments in week one. All right, and he wasn't just him. It was a bunch of guys, especially on that offensive side. So, you know, so you're going to get it outside zone. You might get a split zone. You know, some of the day to your runs and, and me, if you're going to commit to the run, you know, you, you, you look at, look at it at, at a, at a San Francisco 49ers team, you know, where they're, they're have pullers, they're, they're, they're running lead-o's. They're running, they're trying to run it down your throat. Read to me. There's nothing that says that we're trying to run anything down anybody's throat. It's just a, you know, a diversion from throwing, getting the ball back in the air. Lance, in terms of running silent count because it's so noisy in there, you don't have an elite offensive line. And then your tackles on the silent are, you know, just a click late, getting off the ball. You're trying to run outside with the Andre Swift. That's a recipe for disaster. Would you go more under center? I think Caleb was under center only five or six times last night. You got, well, you got to have an answer for it. You know, you're, you're doing, you're doing some of your, your old lineman and your, the, the execution of your offensive service, if you guys can't be on the same page. And to crowd noise has been a part of football since long before I ever employed the game. So how we approach it and how we, we combat that, you know, is going to, it's, it's, obviously there's up to the bears. I don't think that the way that their game plan was, was effective last night, you know, offensively, you know, obviously for obvious reasons, but they're going to have to come up with a plan away. And if it's under center, so be it. So be it, you know, and if it is under center, then let's, let's take advantage of our run game and get into some power run game and run because Lord knows that our quarterback, our office of line could use a little help. And if you're pushing forward, doubling down and, and mauling guys, maybe that plays to our favorite. The great Lance Briggs with us on the cap and jhood morning show after every bears game right here on ESPN 1000. Lance, what's the difference between Justin Fields and Caleb Williams from last year to this year? Sorry question. The biggest difference between the two of them, you know, I've said this before, I think he's just a small, he's a smaller version of Justin Fields. And I don't, when I say that, I don't mean that in a in a bad way, you know, I like Justin. I like David, you know, but there are, there are, I think the biggest difference is the people that surrounded by him, you know, for much of Justin Fields career, he was surrounded by a huge bit or drop in talent. You know, this Caleb Williams surrounded team is not, it's got the best talent that we've been able to acquire in a very long time. So I think for, for Caleb, you know, it's going to take time, going to take more time than people would have, would have wanted, you know, are expected because of so much height that's been built up around it. However, he's the number one pick, he's the number one pick, you know, so the, the arrows, the throws that aren't on the mark are bothersome to me. They're very bothersome to form from a number one pick. In terms of the full back position, so they rule out blasting game for injury, if it is something that he can't play with this week, do you go out and try and see if you can find a full back in free agency? There's plenty of guys at that position, because it's not as utilized as it used to be. Maybe you bring one in. You know, I think for that position, it's, it's not one of them, you know, it's not one of the more complicated. Well, we'll say it's not one of the more complicated. Well, you know, you could bring a guy in and put him in a role that is uncomplicated. You know, hey, listen, when you're in your slide over boom, we're going to lead here. We're going to lead there, you know, we're going to split zone here. You can bring guys, guys, I mean, this is the NFL. You can bring a wide receiver. You bring a lot of guys in a different positions and have them and speed up the learning curve and prepare them for a week. I think it's tight. It's tight to have a full back come in and have them prepare for a week. But if that's what, if that's where we're headed, then yes, we need some help. Give me your letter grade on the Bears defense yesterday. Early on, we saw that the Houston Texans utilizing digs and definitely Nico Collins was gashing the Bears, ran the football decent against the Bears. But was your overall thoughts about the defense, especially in the first half? Well, you know, I'm going to grade them on a complete grade, you know, from the first half and the second half, because the first half obviously wasn't as great as the second half. They made they made the right adjustments. And this is the second week in a rodent that the Bears defense really stifled the the offense in the second half. I gave them a grade of A minus and I gave them a grade for A minus because, you know, given a 310 yards rushing, 235 passing yards, which is 35 yards over what you want to give. In in defense of goals each week, you want to be under 200 yards, you want to be under 100 yards rushing, and they were under 100 yards rushing. They held it at 19 points. They had critical critical stops at the end of the game to give us an opportunity to win the game. You know, they fought their tails off, they were on the field a lot. A minus, in my opinion, holding the holding detection for 19 points, I think is a is a more than fair grid. So I like that last Briggs math. So first half, B minus, second half A plus ends up being an A minus. A minus, right? There you go. Love it. Has that brick? Has that brick sliding math? There's logic there. Yes. There's lots of there. I get it. I get it. Lance, what was your take away on the two challenges? The one with Kyler Gordon on the pick six that he got up and ran in. All right. It's a game changing play that could have been the difference in a football game. I didn't think he caught it. And then the review proved that he didn't. The one I had a problem with was the first review. That was clear as day to me that his feet were in that was a catch. What did you think of them? Yeah. Well, the issue I have with the first one is that he was right in front of the coach. You know, it's right in front of the coach. So you're going to get a call from a guy that's upstairs that's going to say, hey, you know, challenges, challenges. And you're watching. It's right in front of you. Like, you, you, you're the guy that diffuses the guy that's up saying, hey, we got a challenge that. No, no, no. I just watched, I just watched the, the turf death, the turf that pop up on the ground. It's a, it's two feet in. You know, it's two feet in. You know, it's clear as day. I don't mean, at least I don't need any advice. I know it. I know exactly what happened. We're going to hold this red flag. Yeah, it makes sense. It was right in front of them, you know, it was right in front of them. But he might not again, he might not have seen it. He's got so much going on on there, but he does have someone in his headset. Yeah, who's looking at a replay going challenge that? Right. Okay. All right. Let's just let's say, for argument's sake, the ball was even though the tension was happening right in front of him, he his eyes were elsewhere, all right, which is crazy for a head coach that there has to be somebody else. And he wasn't the only person that was on that sideline. We everybody watches that sideline. Now, as much as we, we want to get a call to go your way and everyone's like, Oh, that's what was out. That's what was out. The referee say, no, he was in. If somebody says, Hey, we should challenge that everybody on that sideline that was near that place and say, no, no, no, he was in. It was done. No, no, no, he was in. So even if he was not didn't somehow see it right in front of him, see any of the turf deaths kick out, there were there were other people that were right there that should say, Oh, no, no, no, coach, no, coach, you may not have the headset, but they were there and they should have said, no, he was definitely it. Lance, I guess I can speak for cap. It's not that the Bears lost. It's just the undisciplined nature of the ball club as well. There's a lot of stuff that happened. It's amazing that the Bears only lost by six points based on everything we just reviewed, but also the penalties to like that. Some of the things that we saw there. And here's what's crazy. I find on my cousin Clyde went to the game in Houston. And we know that the group was open. It was still loud. Correct. You know, so it just, I think that that bothers us as well. The undisciplined nature, the amount of penalties that the Bears had. I think that that also was a problem. Yeah. I mean, the, the, it was crazy is the Texans had more penalties than the Bears. It taxes at 12. The Bears had nine. Yeah, for 115, I think something like that. Bears had nine for 60 yards, which is too much. Absolutely is too much. That's a hard, that's a difficult place to play. When you have a Texas squad that's humming, you know, I think there's been a, there's been a past history of the Texas not being so great. You know, but now they really have something to cheer for. But you're, you're right. And, and, and finding out how we can, we can battle those, those noises and getting a snack for our offense, reducing penalties on defense and reducing them penalty, you know, as a whole, you know, is, is something that I've seen Hebrew flutes have a focus on, you know, I mean, it's something that we've seen. We've seen years where our, our penalties have been out of, out of control, you know, and that's something that has been reduced as it loses here. I don't see that as being something that's going to be a consistent problem. Lance, have a great day, man. We appreciate you being a teammate. You're doing it. All right, fellas, you guys have a good one. We'll see you next week. That's Lance Briggs on the car X tire and auto hotline. Rattle, rattle, thunder, clatter, boom, boom, boom. Matt Iber flew set 940 hoodie. That is the case for sure. And we'll take more of your phone calls 312332 ESPN is our phone number. If you missed the thoughts from Caleb Williams, you'll hear some of those and your calls next on the cap and J Good morning show. You're listening to cap and J hood. Follow the show on Instagram at the catman and at IGJ hood. This is ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. Bears coverage all day here on the home of the bears ESPN 1000 starting with greeny at 10 o'clock. Followed by carbon yurco at 12 waddling silvey 230 to 630 into black and a dollar at 630 than white Sox baseball take on the angels in a clock pregame right here on the home of the white Sox ESPN 1000. Don't forget the ESPN Chicago app as well. You need more bears. That's why we've got the ESPN Chicago app. Go to the Chicago Bears podcast hosted by Pat the designer and crew. All the bears you need on a daily basis, all the information, all the opinions. It's right there on the app. The ESPN Chicago app look for the Chicago Bears podcast 312323776 our phone number is still to come. We'll hear from Matt Iberfluze the head coach for the bears at 940. Yeah, I'm looking forward to talking to coach and just a couple of things. How do you how do you clean this up? Is it going to the practice squad? Is it Matt prior? How do you clean up issues that you knew you had going into the game and that didn't get fixed? And then the process and I know he gave an answer and you played it about the challenges. Again, I was not up in arms about the Kyler Gordon challenge because it was a game changing play late. I get it. The other one? I didn't think there was a chance that that pass wasn't completed. Did you? No, but as far as the Gordon play is concerned, from the time that we saw all those replays to the point of Gordon jumping up and down saying, you know, challenge it, challenge it, upstairs had an opportunity to take a look at that thing and say, yeah, that ball was spinning out of your hands. It's incomplete. It should not be up to the player to tell you to challenge. That's not right, Cap. But I don't know if I said I texted you. I think Tyler Gordon may have, you know, what was the word that I used? Like, go to the end, go to the player into the chat. I think that was the word I used. But upstairs might have said, it's tight. His hand might be under. I don't know. It's a pick six. I get it. That one did not drive me crazy. The other one, you had zero chance of winning it. Zero. Literally, Mrs. Eber Flus could have been the replay judge. They were not overturning that. No, no, that's just a bad job all around. though, because you went over to in that spot. The results are what they are. You went over to in that spot. Amongst the issues with the Bears yesterday, and it was still 1930, which is amazing. Still had the football with a chance to win the football game. You did. That's a fact. We've seen there can be some positivity about this. Yeah, it can, Cap. But again, just like they are thinking in House Hall, we got stuff to clean up. We shouldn't have lost that ball game. We're reacting the way that they're reacting. Some of the coaches up there. Correct. But we also, at least for me, I don't want to speak for you. For me, there is some positivity. You have a top five defense. I mean, that defense is legit, legit. Your kicker is outstanding. Your punter is outstanding. Again, the offense, I get it. I understand the angst. But there are some positives. You had the football with a chance to win somehow, some way in Houston last night. You did at the end. So what I always say on this show, for any of our teams, you don't want that bad habits to be a trend. I said, it's all the time. You do? You're gonna lose ball games. I thought the Bears would lose yesterday. That was our predictions on Friday. It's just that the one thing that bothers me as a fan, more than anything else is that when you beat yourself, and in a lot of ways, the Bears beat themselves. With all the good that we saw from the Bears, they are probably kicking their own ass like, man, we were this close. If we were able to do this, we supposed to do that, then maybe we could have kept the game tighter, or we could have won. And they didn't. And that's the way the ball bounces in the NFL. 3 1 2 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 is our telephone number. Let's go to the phone lines, Villa Park here, Zach on Captain Jay Hood. Hey, Zach, good morning. Hey, what's up, guys? Love you. Love the show. Appreciate you. Thank you, Zach. Yeah. So brand new year, brand new quarterback. It's still ugly though. It's still just ugly. I mean, this is what we were doing last year. We were watching these ugly games and then they hang around. And then afterwards, we say, oh, you know what? Well, you know what? Houston's pretty good. We were pretty close there. You know what? Even if, so let's say hypothetically, the Bears are able to go, you know, 10 and 7, whatever it is. But you've got to watch a whole season of football like this. That's my thing. We've got to watch a whole season of boring, never a big play. I mean, last year, there's a couple of last week, a couple of big ones on special teams in defense, but nothing from the offense. Nothing exciting. Just NLP and 16 to 9 games. You know what I mean? It has me crazy. Yeah, but can we it's two games? We got 15 more. Can we not jump to conclusion, Zach? And you fan how you want a fan? I'm just asking, can we not jump to conclusions that? Oh God, we're never going to have a big play because that's not true. I'm trying. I'm trying. But man, you know, Zach, I understand your perspective. Your perspective is it's like, man, I've seen this game a million times, but we saw yesterday, which is true. And so you have every right to feel that way. It doesn't mean that that's going to be like that the entire season, though. But I understand that the game that we saw yesterday, we saw a lot of the offensive line that coming through, not enough offensive, you know, opportunities and a strong defense. I get it. You tired of seeing it and the hope and because this team, by the way, has so much experience on it. You know how the bears only had five rookies or first-year players in the roster this year? Five. That's because Ryan Paul said, it's enough of the losing. Let's bring in veterans that have been there and done that. Yeah, that gives me solace, Zach, to believe that the bears are going to be able to have a good season. I'm not going to go back on that based on one loss. There's a lot of things and a lot of infrastructure that polls has put in to make sure that this is a winner. They're not going to win every game. I have them struggling more than probably anybody here in the building with nine and eight because the quarterback and Waldron, everyone else has to learn to get any offensive line have to work together. But cap, this is thing is supposed to be built for greater heights than what we've seen in the last few years. Hell, the last 10, right? It's supposed to look better. And it's not so far through two weeks. The average was the bears with the 14th most experienced roster in the league. 4.36 years of experience. That's second highest in the NFC North. The Vikings are first five years of experience. Yeah, you got the Packers. They have the youngest roster in the national football league. Malik Willis. They found a way that guy's a hell of a football coach, man, the floor. That's how the coach, how frightening that is. It's plug and play. That's our system. There we go. And he changed it. He talked about after the game yesterday. You're right. They have a great system. Great. Similar to what the bears run. But guess what? He said, we're going to run and run and run and then run some more. Right. They ran the football. It just keeps the pressure off of the young or inexperienced quarterback or whatever. I've proven yeah. I love for the bears to be able to able to run better than we've seen the first couple of games. No matter who's in front of them. It's like for them to break through and run the footballs. We go to Buffalo Grove. Here's Ryan on cap and J. Hoods. We talk bears on a bear's Monday. Ryan, good morning. Hey, good morning, boys. How are you? We're good. You know how we're doing, Ryan. You know pretty. Yeah. Yeah. So happy victory Monday for my Packers. I do cheer for the bears when they're not playing the Packers. But I got two two things just frustrating. And I have this out with Waddle and Sylvia all the time that I get in the car this morning and full segment on you boys talking about Justin Fields, who you wanted nothing to do with last year. And Justin Fields is better. Social media. Justin Fields is all over. Everybody social media. You said you said that you said this show had a full segment on Justin Fields. Yeah. Yeah. When was that? I dropped my kids off of school around 8 30. So I mean, but you guys. I mean, take it as you will typical bears fans. But I mean, Ryan, we did that. Hey, Ryan. Ryan. Yeah. For a point of fact, we did not have a full segment on Justin Fields. I don't know what show you're listening to. It won't be. It wasn't this one. Okay. Well, I mean, we are talking about Justin Fields. Okay. But here another point is bear screwed it up again, guys. Let's be serious. And like you said, you know, that the it's not to worry about the entire season. Like you just said, you're going to have a hard time filling your offensive line. Correct. You guys had a year and a half to prepare for your number one unicorn quarterback coming in generational talent. And you guys draft wide receivers and no offensive line. Like you guys said, it's going to be very difficult to fill in those offensive lines about, right? So I would kind of be worried a little bit about the entire season. Again, it's two games. Understood. It's two games after you won. You guys were winning the Super Bowl now. Nobody said that. That's stupid. That's dumb. That's dumb. Nobody here said that. That's just stupid. See you and Sylvie are your secretly best friends because you two are just driving me crazy. You guys are delusional. And I told this to him last year as well as I told him that the Packers struck lightning three times in a row, which are because you're a Green Bay fan. God bless you. And we did. And we did. God bless you. Everything you continue to do everything backwards. God bless you. You're a Green Bay fan. God bless you cap in order cap in order to throw to wide receivers. What do you need in front to help your quarterback? A good offensive line. Don't have it. Not going to get it this year. Unfortunately, it's going to be another tough season for you to watch. Caleb's longest pass is 27 yards. He has 267 passing yards and 59 rushing. Okay. That's a big problem, boys. Okay, it's two games. You're probably the same guy. That's it. Goodbye. Have a good day. You're probably the same guy that after like 20 at bats, Pete Crohn's a bust and he sucks. Now all of a sudden, oh, wow, they got things fixed and he's playing really good baseball. Dude, let it play out for Christ's sake. It's two games and they're one and one. Jesus. The only thing I would say is if you're going to turn the radio on, listen to it. That's all I would say. Like your point on Caleb Williams, where you feel like, hey, you know, they need to have better infrastructure and offensive line. Well, yes, yes, that is true. And we've already covered that. But the idea that we're talking a segment about Justin Fields, that's not to show you're listening to. That's what irks me. If you're on listen to this show, if you have talking points, that's one thing. But if you're going to say that you were saying something that were not, that's bothersome because that's not what we're talking about. Yeah. So again, good luck on your NPR morning show. You're listening to this is not this one. 312-332-3776 is our phone number. South Shore, here's Corrie on cap and Jhood. Hey, Cor. Going on hood and cap. What's up, Corrie? What's cracking? It's going on. So I got a question from both of you, cap and hood. What does this remind you of this offensive line? Does it remind you of the Cubs not doing their bullpen and coming back more to Spain bullpen again? There's not, I'm just going with the center because we should never go in without the competency center. And I know you're going to, if it was a rookie center, you're going to have to go over the quarterback. But we have no, we have no old and crude, we have no Matt Garza, we have no center. And that's going to suck but Kayla Williams, because he's going to have no time to do nothing. To me, I think if you fix that center position, far going to offense go, you're going to get somewhere. But right now, we're not going to get a word on the center. You mean Roberto Roberto Garza? Yeah, we're both a guard. We're a vertical. That was the Cubs overrated picture. You are correct. The center that they ran out. They bought at the bargain basement like they did with Hector nearest and then try to make him a closer. That's just the fact. Cora, Cora, you're correct. Yeah, the Cubs bullpen. Actually, what's more effective? The Cubs bullpen all bears offensive line. I'd say the bear, the Cubs bullpen lately. Yeah, nine. I needed that win. Corey, thank you very much for the phone call coming up. We'll hear from Matt Iberfluze, the head coach for the Bears as the Bears lose to the Texans. We're talking about it right here on the home of the Bears. ESPN 1000. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Jeff and Jay Hood are back on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. Watch your show on YouTube, YouTube.com. Look for ESPN Chicago on YouTube also on Twitch, twitch.tv/espin1000Chicago. Make sure that you are subscribing. That way you miss nothing from ESPN Chicago, especially our Bears coverage. Caleb Williams, they hit the quarterback for the Chicago Bears, got a chance to speak to the press yesterday. Talking about navigating expectations. You know, just kind of just kind of taking in the moment, understanding and trying to figure out what I need to get better at obviously having watch film, you know, having, you know, having done all those things yet. But, you know, just trying to figure out, you know, what, you know, what areas was I off, what areas were we off, you know, to have the outcome we have, which, you know, is not winning the day. And so, you know, that was the kind of process what was going through my mind right after the game. And then, you know, we're excited about, you know, this week coming up, we're excited about, you know, all of that. But obviously we, you know, we're, you know, we're feeling the, you know, it sucks a loose. Yeah, 23 for 37, good for 174 yards, 200 sepsions and sacked seven times, Caleb Williams. Yeah, he was under siege. I think that's what we called it. I think that's what I said to you earlier today. Under siege running for his life. Look, he threw two picks, the one to call combat. Got to be better with that throw. But that also was a really tough window to try and fit it in. The last play of the game looked to me. I want to ask Tommy, if that was a back shoulder throw and that Rome just didn't come back to the ball. Was that something that was on Caleb? I don't know the answer to that. But we'll get those answers. The other thing is, too, is that the running game, you know, we talked last couple of weeks cap, the Tennessee game and this went about how it's paramount to run the football 71 yards and 22 carries for the bears running game. Again, Caleb had five or 44 running the football. Very important for this team, too. They had to stay went it to the run to help this young quarterback. Yes, they have to. Again, when you run silent count and your tackles are a click late getting off the ball, that's a problem. Time for Coach Maddy Rifflous. Max Eber Flous. Hey, coach up the 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. You know, there's some really good players on both sides. Can that person function with that matchup? Max Eber Flous with Kevin Jayhood on ESPN Chicago. It's a cap and Jayhood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. After every Bears game we hear from the head coach, Matt Eber Flous. And he joins us on the hotline. The car is tiring out a hotline. Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom, boom. Good morning, coach. How are you? Good. Well, thanks for coming on, guys. Absolutely. After reviewing the film last night in this morning, what are your overall thoughts on the Bears' performance? Yeah, you know, I talked to the team last night and I said that, you know, it's how we respond to these adversities that matter because, you know, in the NFL, it's always going to come down to two minutes. We gave ourselves a chance to win that game at the very end. And we just didn't get it done in that particular night. But I was proud of the guys the way they responded to the adversity in the game and did a nice job of playing complimentary football in terms of setting up the offense in terms of, you know, doing a good job with that and in the kicking game. So I just think that, you know, we're going to look at this today and get better from it and go forward to Indianapolis. So I thought to coach that as telling hoodie, the defensive effort was just magnificent. And I know Kyler wanted you guys to challenge on the pick six that he got up and ran in. And when you looked at it, it did hit the ground, but I get the passion and it's a game changing play. Can you take us through the process of how you determine challenging? Is it someone upstairs in your ear? Is it multiple people? Because the first one, I didn't think you had a chance to win. The second one, I understood the gravity of the situation. Right, we've been really good with that. And the process is I do have somebody upstairs. And, you know, we're always looking at that. And we've been really good at challenges since I've been here. And last night, we just were unfortunate. We missed on two of them. But again, going forward, those were two situations. One was a third down, you know, a third down and longer. And we thought it was a critical time. We didn't get a great look at it upstairs. So I decided to throw it there. And again, it didn't go our way that time. And then you're exactly right with that game changing play. Again, we didn't get a great look early enough. Look for it. So we end up challenging that. But it was a turnover that would have been a huge play for our football team. And Kai almost had that one. Yeah, I guess that varies, doesn't it? Capcoach from stadium stadium. Oh, no, at home, we're saying, Hey, maybe you should challenge it. Maybe you shouldn't challenge it. But I think it's stadium stadium. It does matter, right? It's a difference. As far as the look that you can get on the monitor. No problem. Yeah, yeah, you're decorating. That's exactly right. That's the issue sometimes. But again, you got to go if you've got some times. And again, like I said, we've been very good at that since we've been here. Coach, there is no offensive line tree where you can go out. No, I need a right guard and pluck one. So how do you fix? Because the offensive line just had a really, really rough night. I know last week, you're dealing with pressure from up the middle, these edge guys on a silent count. It's really tough. How do you fix it? Yeah, I just think it's time on tasking, keep working on it. Because you know, you need to use silent count. And it's important that we do that. And we're all on the same page. You know, because it can be used as a weapon. You can get guys to jump off sides. You can do a really good job with that in that noise, because you know, the defense is also dealing with the noise. So you got to make sure that you have a really coordinated effort there. And we get definitely have to get better at that for sure. Yeah, Coach, Captain I earlier this morning was talking about the defense, the blitz, the ability to get after Caleb Williams. Would you think of the Texans and what they were able to do? Did you expect as much pressure as often as they did against Caleb in the offense? Yeah, that's something that that system has done for a while. You know, even when Dameka was back in San Francisco, they've always ran those five man pressures. And, you know, into Swiss games inside with playing that man free coverage behind it. So, you know, again, we just got to be able to do a good job of getting open, you know, for the coverage and then making sure we're keeping that pocket firm for him to make those decisions. Matt, if you were sitting down just waiting to get your coffee and some fan came up to you and you're just, what do you do? I'm a football coach. Oh, what would you, and they asked you this question. What is the identity of your team on offense? How would you answer that? Like, what you want it to be and what it is now? Yeah, the identity of our team, you know, really is about not just the offense is about being a tough-minded, resilient, effort-based football team, you know, that believes in taking care of the football, getting after the football and playing complimentary football. So, again, we're, we have a new offense that's been through two games. This is week two. We won the first game. We were in the second game and had a chance to win it at the end. And so, we have to really understand where we are right now. So, we're in the process of doing it and we're going to get that done. And it's going to be getting better every single week. And I believe that this week got better. And, you know, I thought Kayla played better. I thought the offense, the offense in general, played better. We had a nice two-minute drive to finish the half. We had a two-minute drive at the end to put ourselves in silver range to kick it. And then we had another drive at the end. Again, we end up taking that big sack and that's what really ended up killing us at the end. But again, putting ourselves in position to win. And we just got to keep doing right, and keep doing right longer. And the good things are going to happen. Matti reflues the head coach for the Bears. He joins us on the home of the Bears. ESPN 1000 on the cap and Jhood Morning Show. Last week, we talked about the game against the Titans. And you said that you liked some of the efforts for the running game. Thought that there were some good runs here or there. This game here on Sunday night against Houston. 71 yards on 22 carries. Captain, we talked about it. We feel like that for a young rookie quarterback in the offensive line is trying to get things together that running the football still paramount. You said complimentary football, do you expect to run the football even more so moving forward here just to keep Kayla in the offensive line comfortable? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, the numbers that we're used to, we've had big numbers here around the football. And it's important that, you know, this is the 2024 Bears. And this identity for us is going to be, you know, unique and different than the other teams, but we got to make sure that we establish the run game. You know, that's, that's the paramount. And that's, that's in any, any football team is going to say that, but we got to get that done because you're exactly right when you say that that's going to be something that we can lean on as a football team to be able to run the ball. I've always said, you know, hey, you run the ball, you know, to win the game, right? You pass the score points, but you got to run the ball at some point, right? Early in the game, you know, dominate the front, right? And then late in the game to win it. Flus hoodie and I have always subscribed to this Tom Brady theory that we had, we played a cut from him where he said, if the ball is not out of my hands in 2.5, maybe 2.75. Anything beyond that is usually on me, not the O line. Caleb Williams average pass last night, according to the NFL stats, 2.59 seconds, six fastest in the league this week. In your opinion was the pressure that was dialed up at all his fault or more, maybe the scheme, maybe the play calling, maybe the O line, but not him. No, but that number, I want to just say that that number does tell you that he's getting the ball out. Yes, he's gotten better. You could feel that last night. I thought the timing was better in terms of that. I thought he distributed the ball to the skill better in terms of, you know, the number of, you know, targets that Cole had and DJ and Rome and all those things. You know, we missed and we just missed on a couple. You know, I thought we did a really good job, you know, of playing together and have great confidence in the football team and trust in our leadership, you know, in the coaches and the locker room, you know, so I feel really good about where we are. But back to your question, I would just say, yeah, I thought that he got the ball out faster. And I said it last night at the press conference, the protection thing is that everybody think it's not just Caleb, it's it's the offensive line, it's tight ends, the backs, everybody has a hand in protection, including the quarterback. So it's a group thing, and we just got to make sure we get a little bit better at that this week. Coach, what's the latest on the injuries, including with Ken Allen, we saw him on TV a lot. Being a cap, you saw him on the sidelines coaching up players. Yeah, that's a veteran. You love a veteran being able to communicate with while the coaches doing their thing. What's the latest on Ken Allen and some of the others that are banged up? Yeah, so you guys know that Keenan's dealing with this foot, you know, so we'll see where it is, you know, he's had a couple days of rest. We'll see him today when they come back in. And then we got back in late guys didn't get back to house hall until about four o'clock. So it was it was late last night. And then we'll see him later today and see what it is. And then we had Zach Pickens also, you know, he left the game and didn't return. And I'll see where where he's at dealing with a groin issue. So we'll see where he is. And you felt Oh, Grom was in that I was surprised he played. What a warrior. And he played basically every snap last night. The last play that you had before they took their kneel down. Was that a back shoulder throw that Rome didn't come back to the bar? Was that just a miscommunication? Yeah, that's just execution. That's just execution on the play. And we just got to do a better job with that one. But again, that's the guy you want to throw it to. It's either him or DJ for sure. On the field, we have both those guys on the field there. And again, we just got to execute better in that fourth downplay. All right, coach, we wish you the best for this week. Any thoughts going back to Indianapolis? That's your last stop before here. No, it's just that it's out there. And the fans, you know, the fans get that place rolling pretty good. So we're going to have a big challenge ahead of us. And again, it'll be good for us, because we just came out of a louder environment. And so we got to go back to another one and execute. All right, have a good week. Okay. All right, thank you guys. All right, we'll see you. There is Matt Eber Flus on the car. It's tired. I don't hotline rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom. Don't worry about the car. It's made. Matt Eber Flus, the head coach for the Bears with us on the cap and jayhood morning show. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitter at ESPN 1000 cap and jayhood are back on ESPN Chicago Chicago Chicago's home for sports. To cap and jayhood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. If you miss Matt Eber Flus, you can go back into the archives of the ESPN Chicago app and check it out. It's by itself there on the podcast and of course on YouTube as well. Yes, Eber Flus is correct that as the Bears get ready to go on Indianapolis, it'll be the same scenario. I forgot if their stadium has an open roof, Lucas oil, is that as it closed? I believe that's a fixed roof. I do not believe I'll look it up. But I've been there for a football game. Yeah. But when I went, I saw the Bengals and the Colts because my son was making a visit down there for college football. But the roof was closed, but it was winter. Hold on a minute. It's retractable, I think it is. The reason I'm not let's just make sure and the only reason the only reason why I bring it up is because you were flus brought it up because we're going to go through this again this Sunday because they're taking on Indianapolis and it's going to be in a dome. And so once again, the offensive line and kale Williams have to be on the same page, these false start penalties, all this stuff, he might have liked the operation here or there. But again, you're shooting yourself in the foot when you can't hear the sound accounts not working. And I don't know how you simulate that you can't do that. The Walter Payton Center, you can crank as much music in there as possible. Is that the same as 60 to 70,000 people yelling at you? It is retractable. Can open and close in 11 minutes. So you understand the point though? Yes, I do. But but I would tell you to what you said, coming off, he said this as well. Coming off a Houston game, it's fresh in your mind. Yeah. So what do you want to do about it? Deal with it. Find a freaking way to win a football game. Period. Just be able to be on the same accord with your teammates on the offensive line. And the coach, Ebert Flus interview, our reaction to it brought to you by our great partners at Chicago Cut Steakhouse. David Flamin met Moore Spot on the south north side of the Chicago River. We thank you for listening and calling and being part of the program here on Cap and Jay Hood. Our thanks to Jay Moore and Shay on the other side of the glass. Cap, tomorrow we're going to have a special Waddle Wednesday, but it's going to be on Tuesday. Yes, Tommy will be with us tomorrow at 9/18, Albert Breyer at 8.35. Ring your egg game, hoodie, let's go! So for Cap, I'm Jay Hood. We'll do this again tomorrow. And the Bears lose, but doesn't mean that's the end of the season. 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