Kap & J. Hood
9/16 8 AM: Shot or No Shot
(music plays) Good morning and welcome in to the Captain J. Good Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on ESPN's Chicago app. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, we have around the NFL right around the corner Lance Briggs at 9 and Maddie reflues the head coach for the Bears at 9.40. Shout-out-no shot with Shane O'Rourke, Shane. Good morning boys on a Bears Monday, off a loss last night. There's an awfully familiar looking loss, how are we feeling? Like any other Bears Monday for the most part, sitting here with Cap and that is where we tip our cap to the defense and we look at an offensive line that can't hold up for whatever quarterbacks back there. And that's just a recipe for the repeated underachievement that we've seen with this Bears team. The only thing that made me smile yesterday, Cap, was watching first and 15 toward the, I think this is the end of the half, where we sent one and dropped 10. You recall this play? Yeah, that was, why? I think that, if I'm not mistaken, Patriots fan Shay, I think that Belichick has used this before, send one, drop 10. That was unbelievable. That was something. That's right. One guy. I love that you took a picture of the screen. It was such an unusual formation, right? Like, what are we doing there? And actually, I'm not sure who that was. Almost got home, whoever that was. Want to get the entire offensive line of the Texans, it's pretty funny. Crazy. But it's just, Cap, it's, here's the thing that the audience has to know. You and I could say, yeah, Texans are better than the Bears. We think that at home, tough spot, rookie quarterback, you don't want to be right. You don't want to be right about that. You'd hope to be able to say, hey, man, they turned the corner. Look at them. After week one, they cleaned some things up on the road against that playoff team and the Texans in one, I will give them credit. They did not get blown out, but it was just so many glaring things about that team that just made me exhausted at the end of it. Yeah, it was exhausting, and yet I'm standing up late going, oh my God, we got a chance here. And then Rome caught a 27 yard pass and up, they get, we got a shot. They could get down there and win this football game. Bam. Sacked. See you later. Thanks for coming. Yeah, that's it. So Shay, lay out for us what you have for shot or no shot. There's a lot to talk about with this Bears team. Yeah, there is a lot. I'm going to start with Caleb Williams. That I just saw this morning. Caleb Williams average net yards per attempt at 3.0 is the lowest of any quarterback in weeks one and week two in 10 years. That's the worst number three yards per attempt in 10 years for any quarterback in the first two weeks of the season. Last week, week one against Tennessee, I told you, I thought they used their mulligan. Week one rookie quarterback, typically awful. This didn't look a whole lot better last night. So now I ask you, shot or no shot, the concern level for Caleb Williams has now moved off of zero. That off of zero, one, two, and the reason why you have concern, it's not just about Caleb cap. Think about the question he's asked, it's about Caleb in the offensive line. Yeah, my concern level is at zero, completely at zero. He was under siege. Now, you may get him killed. Like if I'm ticed in Beijing, I'm getting scratched because at any moment, the way this sole line's playing, he's going to be in there. It's a shot shape because again, when you look at the offense, it was the offensive line, which is true. It's not us piling on. If you watch the game, you saw how Caleb had a lot of pressure on him, but also when Caleb did not have pressure, he did flourish some 24, 25, 159 yards. What about the underthrows? That's also about the accuracy. That also is an issue. Shane Waldron, also an issue. So I think that's all encompassing. When we talk about the offense and Caleb Williams, it's all part of the same conversation. So I think that's a shot absolutely because you don't want him to be crippled. You want him to be out there healthy enough to play for 18 plus games this season, don't you? Correct. Okay. So no, it's a shot. The game where Caleb ripped a deep ball down the sideline and again, like fired at 100 miles an hour or missed. I think it was DeAndre Carter by about 10 full yards. So there's just stuff I get that it's a difficult situation and he's trying to do his best, but some of the stuff, you got to hit the easy ones. Yeah. That was on third down a play that was wide open to Carter and he just missed him as a third down play. No, exactly what you're talking about. And then afterwards, I saw that there was a, is going to be a show about Aaron Hernandez on Hulu. And I immediately said pass. I remember saying that in the hood cave right after that play, it was a commercial for Aaron Hernandez. I don't know the documentary. I don't know if that's what you call it, but yeah, no shot won't be watching that pass. Holy cow. Yeah, we'll see that. I think I think all of us know the story of Aaron Hernandez, clean the guy over your shoulder. Correct. Che. All right. The bears first signing of free agency this past off season was a running back. They went out polarizing move, got the Andre Swift. So far this season in two games, DeAndre Swift has 24 carries for 48 yards. Good for two yards per carry. Only one first down the wrap on Swift and Philly. I said this all off season. He actually ran below his expected yardage behind one of the best offensive lines in football, struggled to get through contact, declined as the year went on. Or no shot, it already looks like signing the Andre Swift was a mistake. That's a no shot. I would like for them to diversify the running game a little bit more, like from the do that. Stop having DeAndre Swift run into a wall. You can start doing that. I know that he's pretty good between the tackles when he's got some openings, but I mean, what about going around to the left or right side? What about that? I mean, the running game is non-existent cap doesn't mean that DeAndre Swift is not able to do it. I want to get a little hurry, just gets two carries. What are we doing about this running game? And we talked about Shane Waldron. He likes the forward pass. So I mean, you have to be able to have 50-50 to keep the rookie quarterback calm in the pocket. You got to have balance. If you can't run a football this season's over. You cannot run the ball this season is over. But again, when you pick a receiver at number nine and you leave offensive lineman on the board, that's what happens, man. And we all like Roma Dunes, eh? I'm glad he's here. But when you neglect your offensive line for far too long and then you try to make upgrades by buying at the dollar store, that's what happens. And by the way, you can draft a offensive lineman high in the draft. It can still be a bleep show. It still could because that offensive line will be learning too. Correct. So like you have to rookie quarterback and then you have a rookie offensive lineman. You could still have some issues there with timing and everything else that goes along with it. But from the jump, whether it's Justin or Caleb, you have to understand how to protect your greatest asset. The guy with the ball in his hands aligns here at the time, and that is the quarterback. Give him time to throw. We're not asking for eight, nine seconds. We're asking for at least 2.75. So you can be able to survey the scene and do something. Run with the football and throw it. Go back to the 2021 draft and let this be a lesson to Ryan polls. The 2021 draft, the Cincinnati Bengals took the shiny toy to March Ace. How they got contract squabbles and he's not happy and what do the lions do? They took Penay Sewell who's already locked up through the rest of the decade. He's the best right tackle in football. They've got Taylor Decker and Frank Ragna. They added to their own line. The Bengals yesterday are offensive lines killing us. Yeah. Because you didn't put money into it just like the Bears didn't. All right, well, also this offseason. Talk about it. The biggest thing we lamented was the lack of meaningfully addressing the trenches, not just the offensive line, also on the defensive line. And yesterday, the lack of talent really on the offensive line reared its head, Kayla pressured on nearly half of his dropbacks, sacked seven times, pressures on almost half of his dropbacks, completely ineffective run game, just 3.2 yards per carry, should have been eight sacks, probably could have been nine shot or no shot. This was actually worse than the O line in Justin Fields, nine sack game in Cleveland. Nothing's worse than that. Yeah, nothing's worse than that. You weren't in town, then we watch that game last night, I got flashbacks. Yeah, nothing's worse than that. That was worse because just the story lines leading into it because Matt Nagy kept telling fans in the media that Justin was not ready. He can't play yet, he can't play yet, it's going to take time. And he was pressing the service. And the thing that really pissed me off about that is that, okay, you have to have a game plan. If your starter is not ready and Justin Fields has to be the quarterback, then you have to find a game plan that can support the young rookie quarterback. There was no full back to chip, there was no tight end to help. It was just the five little things of silly putty that was trying to defend Justin Fields and it did not work. He got railroaded because there was no plan, no plan for Fields, well also no plan from the coaching staff to protect him. That was horrible. That's as bad. And along with Cutler, that's as bad as I've seen on the offensive line in the modern day. The Cutler Giants game. Yeah. That's got sex. I don't know, 10 times. And we've seen a lot, Cap, you and I, we've seen a lot of offensive line play that wasn't very good. Right. I mean, in the modern era, that's about as bad as you'll find. Last night was not good, but it was not close to the Cleveland game because the Cleveland game you lost, I don't know, 26 nothing. Why does that stick in my head? Something like 23 to six, maybe something, it was a blowout. Yeah, they got destroyed. They were never in the game. Well, that's the, I mean, the biggest difference and it's my next question. The offense was terrible. Yeah, but the defense was excellent again, limiting Houston to 19 points, consistently got off the field on third down. I think it was four for 14 Houston on third downs added a takeaway late with a fumble recovery to bring their takeaway total on the season up to four in two games, shot or no shot. This is a top five defense. That's a shot. That's a shot, Cap. I mean, and again, going through the season, the off season, we were saying, beside my test, what, who can get to the quarterback? Well, starting to be answered, isn't it? Yep. They got a sack out of sandborn. They had to bring some heavy pressure to go back to your point about adjustments. They did adjust and really did a good job at slowing the running game, like Joe Mixin. Joe Mixin had 158 yards a week ago and the Bears did a really good job against him. The Texans scored three points in the second half. That's it. Yeah. Well, did I like the end of the first half after the Bears scored and you snap? Why did you snap the ball so quickly on second down because it allowed them to have timed the other way. And Kaimee Fair Baron is phenomenal, phenomenal. Yeah. What he did last night made history, it's never, ever, ever happened. Three 50 yard field goals in both games this season. No other kicker in NFL history has done that twice in their career. He did it in two weeks. So this is not hyperbole on the part of Tareko and Collinsworth, right, Jay? Like the kickers are just awesome. They've gotten too good. I've been thinking about it this season because like watching Brandon Aubrey drill the dead ball from 66 yards the other day, Harrison Bunker goes out yesterday from 68 and it looked like they were going to go for it, they ended up punting. But like 58, 59 yards, it used to be there's almost no shot, this goes in, right? Now it feels like you're lying anybody up, it's automatic. They're going to narrow the goalposts or something like it's become too easy. Everywhere around the league, guys are drilling them from 60. Fair Baron's last night, I think would have been clear from like 65, 66, all of them. There is a time man, there is a time that 50 was daunting, daunting. That's like, Oh God, 50. That's too. Yeah. So these are just chip shots. That's amazing. And Kyros Santos is the throwback to that time. The 53 drilled it off the camera at the bottom of the post and then the 56 at the end kicked a line drive just to get it over. Everybody else is hitting them like chip shots. It's ridiculous. This damn gimmick league that we're in now watching the actual football league. So if you hit the camera, it still goes in for three. Okay. Because the camera is already through the upright, get the camera out of there. Just get it out of there. What do we do? We don't need that NBC yet. Get rid of it. Just move it out of the way. Let's just get the guy to kick it. All right. Let's move the camera out of the way. Let's not have. Let's not like, you know, make the rules murky. Just get it. I'm just amazed at these kickers, man. I like that. It's automatic. I like it. Pretty cool. And then Justin Tucker, the greatest kicker in the history of the sport, he said a rough start to his season. He's missed a couple that he should make. And that'll be long. That'll be all. Oh, yeah. He's at the end of his rope. I think it's okay. They just signed him to a massive extent. I know. I might be regretting that. Didn't the bills do that with Tyler Bass, too, and on Thursday night, Tyler Bass tanked everybody's over. Yeah. Yeah. I just, you know, my hope is, Cap, is we don't have too many more of these bears Mondays where the bears, not only the opponent beats the bears, but the bears beat themselves. Correct. Just so pissed off at the penalties and the little things. But again, you look at that score in 1913. You know, sure, the coaching staff is saying, look, you know, telling the defense did a good job, but we got some work to do. We can win these games, right? A lot. Sure. He's saying that a lot. I'm sure he's saying that we're close, six points crazy, didn't feel like it. It certainly did not. All right. Coming up, we will go around the NFL. We get over action Monday and more of your thoughts as well on the bears and they're lost against the Texans. 312-332-ESPN-332-3776, our phone number, Cap and Jhood on ESPN 1000, also on our YouTube channel. Welcome back to Cap and Jhood. You're officially locked in. Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. It both sucks. He sucks. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football. I love the Green Bay Packers. The guy is front, but there he goes. This is not Detroit, man. This is the Super Bowl. I love winning. This is a really thickly built guy. I mean, what's the answer you're looking for on these things here? It's time to go around the National Football League and get on the Cap and Jhood Morning Show on a ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago Apple here from Lance Bricks coming up at the top of the hour at 9 o'clock. And Matty reflucs the head coach for the Bears at 9.40. Around the NFL, here, Shayne Orling, Shayne. Your reaction Monday, week two. Hootie, I'm going to start in Jacksonville. Okay. If you're still holding on to stock in Trevor Lawrence, time to sell it. Oh. Jags are 0 and 2. They've lost seven of their last eight games. Trevor Lawrence does not look good at all. 14 of 30 yesterday for 220 yards. No touchdowns. Took four sacks, fumbled, which has been an issue. The jags did recover it, but it didn't matter. They still lost. And I'm sorry, when you start 0 and 2 and have lost seven of eight games, including a huge collapse last year, Doug Peterson's seat is very hot. If this continues, he's going to be fired and Trevor Lawrence is going to be on his third coach in five years. I think that's very likely. Best of luck. Wow. Third in five years, another system, another this, another that. Phew. They ran the football effectively again, but it's just about making plays. And you score 10 points in the second half. I mean, it's not like Cleveland was all these great shakes either. They weren't, but you're at home. It's your home opener for not mistaken and you lay an egg like that offensively. He's not what we thought he would be coming out of college cap. And again, some of that could be coaching, some of it could be on Trevor Lawrence, but he looks the part. I think that people took styles and the fact that he looks like the modern day quarterback, the next level quarterback in this generation. It just hasn't come to fruition yet. And they paid him. Yeah. And rightfully so. You know what? There's no one else in the pipeline. Correct. But your results are not great in Jacksonville, that's for sure. Okay. All right. The Carolina Panthers after getting blasted in their own building home opener at breakfast football for the Chargers did none of it mattered. They got destroyed. They're going to get the number one pick in the draft and hoodie. They are going to select Quinn Ewers quarterback Texas. Yeah. That'll be all. Bryce Young done yesterday after the game when asked about his confidence said his confidence is in the Lord. Okay. Good night, and that'll be all for you. Close the book and boy, the Bears, boy, they got a break there. Imagine Bryce Young on the Bears. Oh, God. People question Caleb Williams. Turn on a Panther game, see if your TV doesn't get sick. And then Adam feeling completely absolved Bryce Young of any blame after the game. I was watching some of it where he just said, it's not on our quarterback. I believe in that kid. I believe it's on the rest of the whole operation. So is he just being a good teammate? Maybe. Yes. Because did you see the play where Adam feeling was running wide open, waving his arm wildly. Please throw me the football, Bryce Young tries to escape the pocket, gets hit, and then Adam feelings jumping up and down, yelling at the sky. I think he was a little upset with his quarterback yesterday. That's just bananas. He wasn't upset after the game, maybe in game, maybe. I mean, I think we all know what that is, Shay. Please don't bet on the Panthers again. That's it. Yeah. Done. For the rest of the year, if you put your money on the Panthers, God bless. There's not a game that I see on this schedule that they can win. No hyperbole. No reaction. They might go 0 and 17. I mean, bless you. The raider turned around on Sunday. You got the bingle and you got the bear. Next few games. I don't see a game that's winnable on the schedule. Unbelievable. But those are the growing pains with a young quarterback. That's what it comes down to, man. All right, Shay. What's your next overreaction? I'm going to stick with quarterbacks because, hoodie, I think the quarterback market, the bubble, it's about to pop. Dak Prescott, fresh off signing a deal that will pay him $60 million per year is leading the NFL's 25th ranked offense by success rate. Yuck. I told you in Cleveland, I didn't think the offense was any good. They got bailed by Brandon Aubrey. Boy, they would have been nice if they got bailed by anything against the Saints. They're also 23rd and EPA and in fact, of the six highest paid quarterbacks by annual value, five of their teams currently sit outside the top 15 in EPA per play. Next off season, we're going to find out just how much San Francisco likes Brock Purdy, who's going to be in line for $60 million. I think this is the inflection point. This is the moment that owners look at this and go, no, GM's everybody. No, we can't pay these guys like this. It's done. Cap has a longer conversation because I know that you have balked at some of these big deals for these quarterbacks. Yeah. We talked about it. He said, hey, man, why are you giving so much money to someone unproven? And my retort to that from you is Cap, they have no one else in the pipeline. They're backup stinks and they're not bad enough. Some of these teams to go and tank to get the number one pick. So they just pay what they have, like the Giants with Daniel Jones, and they just go right through and say, well, we don't have a good backup. We're never going to be so bad that we're going to be winless. So here we go. And they just settle. I would agree with Shay, again, long a conversation that whenever is going to happen with Dak and they'll make the playoffs and they'll fall short because that's what the Cowboys do. But these young quarterbacks are going to have their hands out saying, well, if Dak got that and Lamar got that and where's mine? And it's up to an organization to say, sorry, you're unproven. Sorry. I know that Jordan Love got paid and I know that Dak got paid, but you know, we're done. Well, but you paid him. This is the rate. No. That was their rate. Correct. And if you don't like it, we'll find somebody else. But just be prepared as an organization to make that deal to make that change. If you say no to a quarterback and a court, you're starting quarterback wants to go some place else, but have a plan. Be ready now. Have a backup that you believe in or get yourself in a position where you can get a quarterback that you believe in then draft because you have a rising realization to say, I can't pay you 65 million. You're not very good. You haven't proven anything yet. Prove it and I'll give you the money. It's bad, bad, bad, bad on every level. I think some week we'll talk about long form share at some point because the Cowboys in the same situation, if not Dak, who? At some point instead of paying a guy who you know you're not, or who it seems like you're not really capable of winning with that kind of money. And historically, once you pay them that much money, you do not win. At some point, I think GMs are going to figure out, we should just draft guys in the first round every year instead of paying this dude $60 million. Then when you find a homes type or a Josh Allen type or that caliber, you're okay. We can pay that one. Everybody got paid with the Cowboys except Mike McCarthy. Everybody got paid except McCarthy, the beat cop. Only one. They helped me down this year. They'd have to make a deep run. This is L.A. Everyone gets paid, but then McCarthy's on a lamb duck year and so and such wild inconsistency. All right. Shea says that they didn't play that well against the Browns. They did win the game in the first game, but then just to get blown out at home the way you did against the Orleans just while in consistency with the Cowboys, how's that happen at home? I don't know. That was unbelieving and Kamara three touchdowns. He was phenomenal. Shea. Two more quick. The Arizona Cardinals are going to be a playoff team because they're going to win the NFC West. The Rams are dead, Cup dead, Puka dead, the offensive line dead. Nobody can protect Matthew Stafford. They're done. The Niners, CMC's on IR and I'm sorry, Brock Purdy looked lost yesterday without him. This Cardinals team, Marvin Harrison looked incredible yesterday. The force feed from Kyler that division suddenly wide open. I think Cardinals could win it. Wow. I don't, but we'll see. I don't think they're winning the division, but maybe you'll be right. You're already look horrible on your Giants pick, so maybe you'll get right on this one. By the way, history again yesterday, Giants, the first team in NFL history to score three touchdowns against a team that scored zero touchdowns and lose the game, never happened before in the history of the league, incredible. I just want to take a look at the rest of the schedule here with Arizona, so the line zone going to get healthy and get back and they're going to beat Arizona on Sunday. They play the commanders and then you get the 49ers on the road for the Arizona. Let's take a look and see what the, as you laid out about the 49ers Shay, let's see what the 49ers are about. It's time Arizona comes to Levi Stadium. Let's take a look. Yeah, Arizona's got an okay team. I'm just Harvard Harrison though. Ooh, Dr. Kyler Murray looks back on the, he was flying on that field yesterday. You look good. When he looks good, there's no more exciting player. He's so little tiny. He looks like he's bouncing around. I will tell you, you know, well, it looks good. Baker Mayfield. He's really good. Really good. You got one more. Are you saying? Yep. Uh, the Saints have the best offense in the NFL. They went out, poached Clint Kubiak, former passing game coordinator in San Francisco. He's not there anymore. I wonder if that's impacting their pass offense a little bit yesterday. Clint Kubiak goes to be the OC in New Orleans. They have the fourth most points through two games in NFL history. They have scored 16 of 20 possessions. Derek Carr looks awesome. Playmakers everywhere. They've turned Shaheed into an incredible talent. And Alvin Camara turned the clock back for touchdowns in Dallas. That's the best offense in football. I can't believe I'm saying it, but holy cow. How can you deny him? So Carr is not dead. 94 points in two weeks. I know. I know. Pretty good. So Carr, you're saying Carr is not dead. Apparently not resurrected him and Alvin Camara, both resurrected, brought back from beyond the grave. I just want to see if this is a trend. I guess two games is a trend, but to see a little bit more. But so far, to beat Dallas has asked the way they did on the road. Oh, they thrashed them, hats off to them, hats off. And that is our look around the NFL overreactions right here on Captain Jay Hood. One of your phone calls coming up. If you're on hold, you will be on the air 312332 ESPN3323776 is our telephone number. Your thoughts on the bears and their loss against the Texans. Captain Jay Hood weekday morning, 7 to 10. Kenneth Williams and the Bears are sacked seven times. The most the Bears have allowed in a game says January 1st, 2023 and at Wolfville 4110 loss Detroit. It's the most any quarterback has been sacked this season. We're talking about it here on the Captain Jay Hood morning show on the ESPN 1000. The Texas defense according to ESPN next gen stats blitz Caleb on 41.7% of his dropbacks. That's 20 blitzes. That is the most blitzes in a game in the little less than two years that Demico Ryan's has been the head coach. They generated 12 pressures, five sacks when blitzing with nine defenders finishing with multiple pressures. We're talking to you on a Bears Monday on the Captain Jay Hood morning show as the Bears lose to the Texans. Let's go the phone lines and talk to you get your reaction to what you saw on Sunday night football. Las Vegas, Nevada, listening on the ESPN Chicago App. Here's Rob on Captain Jay Hood. Oh, Rob. Hey, Jonathan and cap, uh, I have a lot of confidence in Ryan polls who's going to go in there and fix this offensive line and if the Carolina Panthers are the worst team of football and have the first overall pick, that means the Bears will have the first pick in the second round in the past two years. We've seen polls trade high second round picks for players that he feels is going to improve the team. So would not surprise me to see him make a trade to get an offensive lineman at some point in the middle of the year. Well, he's always done his due diligence to try to make the roster better. If we see it, he sees it now is up to polls to do something about it. That's what it comes down to, Rob. Absolutely. He's he has a proven track record. I mean, he's done everything so far to really improve a team that he like tore down and how he's building back up. So it's just the last piece is just improving that offensive line. And they also have, remember, so far, Justin Fields has taken 100% of the snaps and Pittsburgh. So that's going to be a possible fourth round pick then. Yes. So a rooting for a man, a room for Justin every day and his numbers and thanks for the call, Rob. Appreciate you, man. Justin's numbers were not very good in Pittsburgh, but they found a way to win. They beat a lousy Bronco team, bonus, bonyx looked horrible. But for all those people out there go, wow, look at Justin and they won. Give him credit. No doubt about it. But his numbers. Terrible. There's a lot of short attention spans in our world cap. Yes. His span also reigns supreme in sports. Just look at Justin's numbers with the bears with the same offensive line of problems, by the way. And when he did win, the numbers were pedestrian. Same thing with Pittsburgh. There's really no difference between the two teams offensively in a lot of ways. Mike Tomlin, though, the only difference is he finds a way to win a ball game through running the football and strong defense. This is why he has been one of the top coaches in the NFL is that he does a lot with less and still finds a way to give the postseason. I think Justin's going to get this, he's going to get us this fourth round draft pick. Yeah, I mean, they're two and all. So for us, so Wilson came in today and said, hey, I can, I can play. What do you do? No, feels can stay in there. Even though his numbers were not good. It's good. But I mean, that's always been the case with just like what we saw the last couple of games, the first couple of games this season, is that like, is that not Justin like? It is. I mean, what it is. They scored all of 13 points, three in the second half. Their defense is really, really good. Really good. Yeah. But I mean, I'm looking at what Justin did and he was, eh, okay, fine, fine, that's, it's just, he was 13 of 20 for 117 yards, one touchdown and he also fumbled. Same guy. Same guy. He's the same guy he was here. Only difference is, is that you have a better coaching staff in Pittsburgh that finds a way to win ball games. That's all it is. Yeah. Now, Mike Tomlin is the, the old timer that watches the game and says, my team won and I was sitting in this spot when we won. You know what? I'm going to sit in the same seat, the same outfit tomorrow. We won again, same seat with the same outfit. That's, that's what Mike Tomlin is. All he's, he knows how bad it is, offensively, how pedestrian it is. He just sees two and O. He does. He's a dude that's going to stay at the table. It's like, you know what? I know it was ugly. Roll again. Roll again until it doesn't work. Right. That's what he does. He's a hell of a football coach, man. He really, really is and the Steelers sitting at two and O, they beat the Falcons. They beat the Broncos and now they get the Chargers in Pittsburgh. They could be three and O. Harding is in Charlotte, North Carolina listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Hey, Harding. Good morning. Very good morning, gentlemen. Just listening to your last portion, defended Justin Fields was not on my bingo card. No means do I think we should have kept him, but if you watch that Steelers game, they actually bench their first round offensive lineman because of the penalties that were happening. Roderick Jones, one of those penalties was a 50 yard dime to George Pickens by Justin Fields on the run. Beautiful. That was a great throw. You're correct. And then also Justin Fields had a touchdown call back because of a penalty. If I'm not mistaken, so like we can talk about his numbers. That's fine. He's doing well out in Pittsburgh. The only thing I care about is we get that fourth round pick. Yeah, I agree. A couple of different points, whether good or bad, Caleb will not hide the frustration in the way that Fields did if this team continues to perform poorly. Second point. Rome has to catch that goal line touchdown. Ninth pick overall. You got to catch that, buddy. Agreed. Another point. The talent on this bear's team is going to expose the weakness of the men with the headset on. I want you guys to really think about that Lefour game plan, a 300 rushing yard game damn near, and a win from Malik Willis against the Colts. The Colts defense is supposed to be okay. They looked absolutely horrendous yesterday against that game plan that Lefour put out there. And then lastly, I'll ask this question and I'll get off. What's going to be the difference in preventing Caleb from developing poor pocket habits the way the old line is playing? That's what kind of killed Justin Fields, right? He progressed over the course of three years. Caleb is somewhat in the same position. We think he's a more superior talent, but the surrounding team, what's going to stop him from getting jittery feet and having to do something that Justin Fields ended up progressing throughout his career, all right, talking about what I would say this Justin Fields never processed like Caleb does. Everyone who's evaluated both and been around both have said that. But it is a fair question that when he was under siege all the time, what's going to prevent Caleb from developing bad habits? We do have some breaking news in the NFL. Isaiah Pacheco, did you watch that game yesterday, broken fibula and he is headed to IR. So big loss for the Kansas City Chiefs. How about we give them Khalil Herbert and they give us a starting offensive lineman? Sure. Sound like a fair deal? Sure. I'm sure Nagy would be in for that. Try to help Chicago. 100%. Houston, Texas beat the Chicago Bears and we got someone that was at the game. Jay is in Houston, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Hey, Jay. Good morning. Hey, what's up gentlemen? How you guys doing today? Thanks for taking my call. Thanks for calling, man. Thank you, Jay. Yeah. So I went to the game. My first best game out here in Houston, Chicago showed up and showed out. Definitely was a first class city, but went out to the game and I just want to let everybody know it looks more, it looks worse than person. The Bears are not a great team here, that we know the offensive line looks bad, but Khalil looks like Justin back there. The running area looks non-existent. I continue to keep calling the same place over and over. The coaching has to change. I don't know what else can change for the Bears, but something has to change. Khalil doesn't look good and we're doing this again to ourselves. We don't know what a quarterback looks like, so we need to really get somebody in who knows what's going on. All right, Jay. Glad you had, at least you were at the game even though you didn't like the result of 1913, but look, no one's getting fired today. We're not firing anyone today because the Bears are one-on-one. What you don't want is to what we've been seeing to be a trend. I think that's very clear. You hope that by the time the season is done, the regular season is that the offensive line issues are better, that Caleb Williams will have time to throw. He'll be able to have the opportunity to process, but I do not want to get Caleb off the hook also because I think it always comes down to Bears lose, it's always in the coaching staff. That's BS. It's not always on the coaching staff. There's some things I questioned with Shane Waldron from yesterday's game. There's no doubt, but Cap, it's also about Caleb Williams not pulling up shorts on some throws. Look, man, you've got ready-made receivers. You got to hit it. You have to. This is some of the stuff we saw in the preseason too, but we thought preseason is just trying to get acclimated, but these are big games, man. When you do have an opening, when you do have time, you get to connect. The National Football League will swallow you up quickly if you don't do what you need to do. You do your job. If you have time to throw, connect to the receivers. I heard Collins' work yesterday talk about the lack of Kean Allen, how he'd be so key on third down if he was out there. Look, man. I don't know Kean Allen, the Bears' offensive line was not going to hold up for Caleb Williams. Completely agree. When I heard him say that, I went, "Kean Allen, an offensive line." Please. Acceptable. Exactly. Come on, man. That's exactly. Kean Allen is not a center. No. I know. Would I like to see them target Cole Comette Moore? I would, but you got to get your blocking issues fixed. You do. I understand Collins' work was to check it off of his yellow pad of things to talk about. Like, oh, if only Kean Allen, okay. On third down, still Caleb Williams didn't have time to throw. He could be out there running routes, and still wouldn't have been good enough. That wasn't the reason why the Bears lost yesterday. It wasn't Kean Allen. It was a whole bunch of other stuff on the offensive side of the football. Fair. So, 3-1-2-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our telephone number. Dan Orlowski had some long thoughts about Caleb Williams' performance. We'll hear from him and get more of your phone calls in on this Bears Monday. Bears lose to the Texans. We're talking about it on the home of the Bears ESPN-1000. Completely shook the Chicago Bears as for sure as they lose to the Texans' 1913. We'll hear from the great Lance Briggs coming up at 9 o'clock right here on Capitol Hill. For Caleb, the premise of last night was to get the ball out of his hands quickly. There was a bunch of quick passing game. I thought he operated that well. I thought he competed his absolute butt off. They don't have much down the field right now, and that's going to have to get better. You only get so many pump fakes, Bob. You only get so many. You're not going to pump fakes 2-3 times a play in this league. That's the thing is how quickly he can adjust because there's only, I said this when he made some of those plays in the preseason. I said, "I've seen two human beings play to that style well in this league. One is a guy who's in the conversation the greatest ever, Patrick. And one is a guy who's 6'5, 250 pounds in Josh Allen." And that's not Caleb. So he's just going to have to figure out the style one in one, not two. I like the alusiveness cap, but the accuracy has to be there as well. He's running for his life. And this is the same kind of Bears Monday that we've had over the years, you and I. The Bears used nine different starting combinations on the offensive line last season. And that's after they had nine unique lineups in 2022. So they've had 18 different starting combinations over the last couple of seasons. The offensive line has to be taken care of. It's some of the stuff we talked about in the off season, but here again, season's here and still as if Justin's back there as far as a quarterback running away from pressure. Correct. And when you go back through and I've given you these numbers before, Coleman Shelton allowed four pressures, a sack, three hurries. He's just not very good. Darnell, right, two pressures, a sack, a quarterback hit, a hurry, and two false starts, I believe. David Jenkins, three pressures, a lot of sack, a hit, three hurries, Nate Davis, two pressures, three hurries, and he looked clueless, clueless. And then who's handling our challenges? Who is that up in the booth? Because Matt can't see everything. That's the one that gets the ire because he throws the flag, but it's like when Craig Council goes and challenges a play, it's because they're on the phone and they're challenging and then he goes challenge. It's not like he could see all that. That's correct. Well, I'd like to know that. Who is that up there? Because Matt said after the game, you played the audio. We like our process. Okay, Ray Charles up there, come on, man, what are we doing on the first challenge? I mean, what are we doing? Yeah, we have a good process for that. You know, so it's a little bit different when you can't see the monitor right away and it's a critical play, like a third down or a takeaway. So we do put a little bit more weight on those, but we have a great process. I mean, we've been pretty clean overall, you know, since we've been here. And again, those were just situations where we didn't get a great look at it and there were critical bounds and, you know, so we made a decision to do it and it didn't work out that time. Jay Pash is in Munster, Indiana on Cap and Jay Hood. Jay, good morning. How you doing? What's up there? Yeah, right here, man. It's me, Jimmy. It's me, Jimmy, John Pash. I'm back. Barnum and other bit in my life. How's everything? We're all good, man. What's going on? What do you got for us? Let me tell you something. Let me tell you everybody saying the same thing. The old line. I mean, the only thing going down was strong with the line that I was doing in the bathroom yesterday. But that's another story. Listen, this season is awash, man. It's awash. You know, if we get a winning record, good, if we make the world call it lose great, but nothing's going to happen this season, man. So, like, all these expectations and this perception that came up is going to, you know, gravitate. Let me take, you know, on the first and second game, the winning games, that got going to happen. So, I'm looking forward to my season. Cap. You know what I mean? Are you there? We're right here, and we appreciate the call. Look, they have to be out of his mind. They have to be, what's the right way to put this? They got to be on high alert how they fix this thing. There's nobody out there on the market that you're going to bring in here that comes in and fixes your offensive line. That stuff has to happen in the draft and in free agency. Can they make a trade later in the season? No one's trading you a competent offensive lineman right now. It's two weeks in. What do you say to your team? Yeah, we needed to get the fourth round pick. You're throwing in the towel? No. It's got to get fixed with the guys in the building or on someone's practice. It's also almost impossible to work an offensive lineman into a new system mid-season. Like it's just crazy difficult, but this whole sky is falling. Look, everybody's unhappy with the loss last night and the way the offense looks through two weeks. Those are just played within a touchdown of a team, people think can win the Super Bowl on the road. I wouldn't say the sky's falling quite yet. That's the thing that's so incredible about it, Shea, is that even though it felt like you're a bigger deficit, the Bears hung in there with a playoff caliber team with a young quarterback that got hit in the mouth several times in the second half and their offense got hit in the mouth where the Bears were able to keep the team in it. The Bears defense kept the team in it. Except the offense is just inept right now, especially the offensive line. If you can't get it in with these wide receivers, Captain, tell us y'all you need to know. We all think Caleb is going to get better, Ken and Alan will be healthy at points this season. I'm not ready to write the season off and call it a wash at all. You had the ball with the chance to win the game on the road against the team. People think can win the Super Bowl. I'm not ready to say that we're dead. Right here, I completely disagree that you can't win anything. You can. I'm not telling you win in the Super Bowl. You've got a long way to go though, long way. In two minutes, we'll hear from Lance Briggs. Lance covers the Bears for us here at ESPN Chicago. We'll talk to him in a couple of minutes right here on the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000.