Kap & J. Hood
9/16 7 AM: Bears Monday: Bears Fall To The Texans 19-13
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Caleb Williams, rifled out to DJ Moore. - Snap is back. - Oh, back in trouble, and down he goes. - Sacked out of play, they were mugging up front with Tremaine Edmonds, and TJ Edwards, and the Bears bring Stroud down a sack. Williams brings a man in over in motion. Reed option, handing off, and Torvert to the tune to the end zone for the touchdown. Touchdown Bears. - It comes close, close. - Right here on the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000. You heard the Bears, and they're lost against the Houston Texans, 19 and 13, and we're talking about it right here on this Bears Monday. Welcome in, along with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Shay, we've got Jay Moore, we've got you. Here for this three hour ride. Thanks so much for being with us. We'll open full lines for you, 312-332-ESPN-332-3776. It's our telephone number, the Bears are one and one, losing to the Houston Texans yesterday. And cap this Bears Monday for me feels like many Bears Mondays, where the defense is good enough to help the Bears win, and the offensive line in the quarterback was substandard. Another loss, because of the efficiencies. Through two games, the Bears have totaled 353 yards, averaging just three yards per play. That just won't be good enough for any team in the National Football League, including the Chicago Bears. Hoodie, I was very disappointed in what transpired last night, and yet the Bears had the ball in their hands with a chance to win the football game on the road in the final moments. They had time to get it done. Unfortunately, they're gonna get their young quarterback murdered, they're gonna get him killed. I'm sure he is banged up this morning, but that's part of being an NFL quarterback. But what we watched last night was so ridiculously bad from the offensive line, that I don't know how you fix it. There's no o-line tree out there that you go. Yeah, let me pluck a left tackle, or a right guard, or whatever a center, whatever you need. He was pressured on 36, Caleb was 36 of 37 pass attempts. Let me say that again, he was under pressure on 36 of 37 pass attempts. No clean pockets, pressured on 36 of 44 dropbacks, which is a historically high 81.8%. He was sacked seven times. He got pounded, I mean literally pounded. So for everyone out there, well, I don't know the kid through two intercept. He was under siege all night. And you're gonna have to figure out that the fascination with Gerald Everett being in there needs to end pretty quickly. If you're gonna go two tight ends, Cole Comet, Mercedes Lewis, try and run the ball downhill and try and stay running between the tackles, 'cause they had zero chance running outside. There's a lot of things to unpack with this Bears team, but the bottom line is, is that the offensive line cap could not handle the pressure, and they folded like a bunch of patio chairs. That's what happened out there. The weakest unit on the football team showed up again. This eventually is gonna get better because it's just the first couple of games of the season. But the point is those that on top of the offensive line not being good, that means that Caleb Williams is hurried. It's funny when he wasn't blitzed, he was 20 for 25, 159 yards in interception. But here, give Ryan's the head coach for the Texans and that team led a credit. They cranked the pressure up on the rookie quarterback and an offensive line that couldn't do anything about it. Just think about it, you're sacked seven times. That's why I feel like this Bears Monday is like a lot of Bears Mondays that we've stood here and talked about Justin Fields, and we talked about Jake Cutler, and we talked about Mitch Trabisky because the offensive line is substandard. When you see good teams with a good offensive line, it's because they're tenured cap, because they've been together for a long time. They're an iron gate. And this thing here is the worst thing that the Bears have going for them right now. As much as we can give credit to the secondary and the linebackers and the defense for keeping the Bears into the ball game, on the flip side is a quarterback that thought he could hold the ball as long as he could to try to make plays or try to stretch and make plays. And on top of that, an offensive line that couldn't hold their water. This is a bad recipe, but it's not unexpected to me. Rookie quarterback, worst unit on the team, and you get that, that's what you got yesterday. All valid, all valid points. So look, I wanted them to get Roma Dunes as much as anybody. But when you don't prioritize your offensive line and adding Ryan Bates for a fifth round pick or a reject named Coleman Shelton who the Ram said, "That'll be all, get out." And you pay him $3 million, which is tip money in the National Football League, the good centers are making 15 or more. That's what they make. You get what you pay for. Hmm, this car only cost me $7,800 over at Carmax. Why doesn't it go faster and look better? Because it was $7,800 at Carmax. It wasn't, I'd like to go on the Lamborghini store and buy one of those. Yeah, that's 250, 300 grand. That's what we did when you get the receiver and you go trade picks to get another receiver and you go sign a running back and they're all valid people that you need to have on your team, you don't put enough into your offensive line. And that will be a major problem going forward if they can't figure out how to get it on F quickly. You can't get your 4,000-yard quarterback. You can't get your 11 wins when you have an offensive line like this. Correct. You're just not gonna get it, Cap. I mean, and we looked at the schedule before the season and said, okay, the Bears are not gonna play a team within the division until mid November. Every team is tough to a rookie quarterback. Every team's gonna bring it. We compared the Tennessee Titans and their pass rush to the Texans. Oh, the Texans is not as tough as the Tennessee Titans, we thought. And then you saw what happened. See, it's all tough for Kale Williams. It's all tough for this offensive line. We can look at the ratings and we can look at the players, Cap, on the opposition. But if the formula is to crank up the pressure on the rookie quarterback, teams are gonna do that. And what's the offensive line gonna do about it? We talked about how there are keys to this game for the Bears to be able to win. The number one key that we had is to be able to run the football. And again, another week where the Bears 71 yards rushing on 22 carries, they continue to run into a wall. That wall, that's a defense. It's the offensive line. It's like you're running into two levels of a wall. An offensive line that doesn't open up enough holes for you. And then with DeAndre Swift, who we talked about as a veteran's been there, even a guy like him can't run through a wall. 14 carries, 18 yards. The guy that had the most rushes, well, the five for 44, the longest was 24. And that was Kale Williams. He had the most yards rushing and his long was 24. So if you can't run the football cap and you have a timing issue with your receivers and the offensive line doesn't give you enough time to throw, then how are you gonna win football games? They'll be really, really tough. - Okay. - Really, really tough. - All valid. - And all the stuff we talked about, like, yes, they do have DJ Moore, who had 53 receiving yards on six carries and Roman Dunes, they playing hurt and cold commits out there. And DeAndre Carter now part of the mix. Whole thing is though, that's enough weapons to win. But how do you give them the football? When are you gonna give them the football? A lot of this was intermediate and trying to run the football. A lot of nickel dime. They did not, they cannot open up the offense enough for Caleb Williams to get the ball down the field to his weapons. A lot of this is real in tight, isn't it? - It is. - Five, 10, 15 yards max. A lot of these plays offensively. - Yeah, buddy, you might text me. Can't we take some shots down the field? Explain to me how you're gonna do that. How you, you can't protect your quarterback. Gave me nightmares of the Cleveland game in Justin's debut. Remember when he got sacked nine times? With a bad game plan that they can't protect. Horrible, horrible. David Carr, remember David Carr? - I do. - He was the number one pick of the Texans way back in 2002, I believe. David Carr tweeted after the game. He said, "In this stadium as well, it's giving me flashbacks." But I'd add Caleb's protection schemes are being exposed as well. That's a bad combination. That's on the coaching staff. - Okay, it's on all of it. It's on all of it. When you have an offensive line that that poor cap, it's on all of it. I know that we can slice up the blame pie and say, why did the Bears lose? The thing was so frustrating though about it, before I talk about Shane Waldron, is that the score was 1913. Why did it feel like it was 28-7? - It did because they were under siege all night. - Damn! - All night. - And the game's in the balance, but still it did. It never felt like it was in the balance. Was that your TV too, was that just mine? - That was both of our TVs. It was terrible. I'll save this. I'll get to it in a little bit with you. But there were so many other things that have to get cleaned up. I mean, fall starts and just-- - Man, look. - I got reams of notes here that I know everyone else who stayed up late and is tired going to work today, said, preach, you gotta clean some of this nonsense up besides the blocking stuff. - Yeah, on discipline. - On discipline, terrible. And the defense, proud of them, what an effort. They gave you a chance to win the football game. You got the ball back, you had time, and in the end, you can't protect your guy. Same Bears Mondays that we've been accustomed to for a long time around here. - Correct. - The defense does enough to keep you in the ballgame in the offense, it's flat as a pancake. This is what we're talking about. Like, Nico Collins had a hell of a ballgame against the Bears. - What a player. - One guy though, one guy. We stopped the run pretty well, 75 yards on 22 carries for the Houston Texans. - Oh, they shut me down. - Yeah, so, but one guy, one guy, Collins. And when you only allow three points in the second half, you should be able to win that football game. - No question. - And the Bears, even though the game was right there for them, they just could not find a way to get into the end zone. Enough, again, no touchdowns from the receivers. Killel Herbert able to get in with a little bit of a, you know, a quick hand off to him for a touchdown, but Capette, this has to be able to get better. - And here's the thing, it has to be internal. It's easy for us to say, well, let's go to free agency. Who's on the scrap heap? Nope, they're on the scrap heap for a reason, 'cause they can't play. - Correct. - I said to you guys this morning, is David Bakhtiari wanna come out of, he didn't announce his retirement, but he's been banged up. I mean, they're not much, sit that home. They're just isn't. And no team in the league is gonna go, "Oh, you wanna trade for our right guard?" Yeah, give me a seventh round pit, no. You're gonna have to scrub every practice squad and see who's out there. Bakhti's on injured reserve. Nate Davis looks disinterested, which is embarrassing. The whole offensive line. You've got to prioritize getting a center this winter. You have to, I don't care what it costs. If you don't have an anchor in the middle of your line, you're done. - 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-P-N-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number. If you unhold, you will be on the years. We talked to you on this Bears Monday. As the Bears lose 19 to 13. Coming up, you'll hear from Matty, we're a flustered head coach for the Bears. He's gonna be with us at 9.40, but he had to address the press after the game as well. This was a total loss on the coaching staff, on the players and everything that happened on Sunday. Especially, we talked about the undisciplined nature of the players. What about the coaching staff? We'll get into that coming up next, on a Bears Monday with Captain J. Hood. - Bring yes! - This is Cap and J. Hood. They beat in the traffic commute, so you don't have to. - Stop! - Stop this! - No! - Say it again, say something! - Oh! - On the ESPN Chicago. - CJ Stroud looking at second at nine in the gun, to his left is mixed and snapped to Stroud, looking in a tight pocket, ripped up, and Jack Sandborn lays the hammer down, puts him down, never got a chance to escape. The Sandman, put him asleep. - Jack Sandborn, welcome to the NFL season. As the Bears, they lose to the Houston Texans, 19 to 13. Right here in the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000, Cap and J. Hood. And to remind you, we got shot and no shot, coming away at eight o'clock. Matt, he ever flew his head coach for the Bears, coming up with us in our third hour of the show today. One thing that we do have to say, so people know this, they were having to run silent count all night long because of the noise in the building. So you could see Nate Davis tapping the center because you can't hear if you're making an adjustment. Made it, it makes it tough. That's why road games usually favor the home team. Despite all of that, you had a chance to win the football game. You'd give your guy some time. Like if he was made bad throws, I would tell you. Like I had a clean pocket, he had plenty of time and he just didn't deliver the football. My God, every single time he dropped back, it was like, I gotta get it out. And even calls were set 2.37, 2.47. Like the ball was getting out. When you gave him any modicum of time, the ball was delivered. But in the end, for people that just grabbed their coffee and didn't hear this stat again, 36 of 37 pass attempts he was under pressure. He was pressured 36 of his 44 dropbacks, which is historically high, 81.8%. Sacked seven times, hit a billion more. The most egregious, the numbers, Braxton Jones, a lot of two pressures, didn't allow a snack, but sack, but three hurries. Coleman Shelton allowed four pressures, a sack and three hurries. Darnell Wright, two pressures, a sack and a hit, and a hurry, and Nate Davis, two pressures, no sacks, but he looked clueless. Did he not? - He did. - He looked clueless to me. - He did. The Texans generate 12 pressures in five sacks when blitzing. Now here is Captain's laid out for you when Kenneth Williams had time, 24, 25, good for 159 yards in interception. But just understand that this is a major problem, but also would just bother them to me, Cap, is the undisciplined nature of the Chicago Bears. Look, you're gonna lose games. I think you and I both thought that the Bears would lose this game against the Texans because the Texans were a playoff team, more than likely to be a playoff team this year. They're a step above the Chicago Bears as they try to figure out who they are. But I think the undisciplined nature also was an issue. On top of that, Cap, not just on the field, but also upstairs for the Bears coaching staff, upstairs. The idea that you fall short twice on challenge flags shows an undisciplined nature. How do you fail on that twice? Matt Iberfus explains the process. - Yeah, we have a good process for that. 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, we'll wait on those, but we have a great process. - I mean, we've been pretty clean overall, 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 so we made a decision to do it and it didn't work out that time. - What's the process, Cap, that if Colla Gordon just gets pissed and demands for a replay, that's, is that the process he's talking about? Is that the process he's talking about because that's exactly what we saw on the game yesterday. - I texted you guys that. Looked like he got, Colla was so emphatic. He wasn't even in position when the ball was about to be snapped. Did you see that? - Yeah. - Like he was in the middle of the field yelling. So, okay. - Undisciplined, Cap. That's undisciplined. - Agreed. I get the emotion, I get all of it. The second one, and I agree with you, the ball hit the ground, clearly. But it was a pick six, they're gonna take a shot 'cause their offense can't move the ball. Okay. The first one had zero chance. That was the fastest review in the history of reviews. - Correct. - They said that Chicago was challenging the catch. - What? - What do we do it here? And they came back and the first words out of Tareco's mouth were, yeah, that call's been confirmed. - What? - Yeah. - Already? - Like 32 seconds in, done. - I think we all, many of us saw it at first blush. The first time we saw it. - Yes, and he said we didn't get a good look at it. Well, then you need new monitors up there and you gotta get freaking Ray Charles out of your headset. The guy up top, who tells him? Ray Charles is up there. And I think we should challenge. - Seriously? - Take the black glasses off, damn. - I mean. - I mean, that was egregious. - That dude would be my office this morning. Again, if it's close and margin of error, okay, we're gonna take a shot. No one's gonna be perfect. That one? In the first half? - Yeah. - Idiotic. - I didn't like either one of them. And I also don't like the idea that Gordon is yelling at the sideline right before the ball snapped. That you got a challenge. Well, I mean, is it enough to call a Gordon or is it up to the people upstairs? I mean, let me call on now. We gotta be able to get better with this. And I went back this morning before I came in and I ran that play back again just to make sure I was right. And that they got the call right. They did, the ball was there. And watch Kyler Gordon. He runs to the end zone like they've been coached. - Yeah. - Don't give up on a play. He ran it all the way back. Thinking might be a touchdown. And as soon as he sees it, they're calling it incomplete. He's doing like a baseball player with his hands. Review it, review our basketball player. - The twirling finger. - Yeah. Review it. - I get the intensity of the moment and you think you made a play. Let someone with a clear look at it on video. Again, the second one, you're right. It hit the ground. But I get it, pick six, late, you're not scoring. You're taking a shot. Maybe his hand was under it. It wasn't. The first one, awful. - I just, I don't know what they're looking at there, but again, that's a team loss. You know, a lot of people just like to pick up their coaching staff as soon as the team loses, but you could see it empirically, that that is a team loss. That's coaches, that's players, that's offensive, that's everything. And it just did not work. And again, still, I will take my hat off to the Bears that they lost by six against the playoff team, but it was so close to being able to upset the Texans. That was a winnable ball game. And everybody stopped them from being able to get to where they want to be. Every angle of it. The defense, we give them credit cap and that first half though, they got gashed all over the place. I, they got, but again, it wasn't so bad that it was a blowout. It felt like a blowout, but it was not. But the adjustment was made in the second half. Like, you know what? We're gonna make sure that we pressure C.J. Stroud. They became one-dimensional with just Nico Collins. And again, opportunity to win the game, they did not. So, very disappointing. - Yeah, so let's go the full line. Let's talk to you 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-B-N, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6-Xar telephone number. Lewis is on the road. He was the first to call us here on cap and J-hood. Lewis, good morning. - Good morning, guys. It's a bit of a rough one, but you know, getting to listen to this. Joe's kind of got me through it. You know, you're right about, I'd actually kind of blocked out those really bad challenges from my mind because it was so egregious that I guess I kind of repressed them. But when really all of this comes down to, I mean, you're right. Really, it's coming down to the offensive line. Like those two picks aside, I mean, one of them, I'm slightly bad on the thrower, DJ Moore, picks aside, he was playing a solid game when he wasn't pressured. It blows my mind that our interior offensive line is so bad. - I don't know, man. - I just really do not get it, but I'll let you guys have a good day and I hope that he's not laughing at me right now. - Appreciate you, thanks, Lewis. No one's laughing, tell you right now. No one's laughing after that loss yesterday. - The tackles were a little late getting off the ball. So I follow Olin because he live tweets, a lot of offensive line stuff during the game. He's right. He said, "Stop running outside left. The tackles are laid off the ball because of the silent count, because of the noise in the building." Fair, fair. Then let's run more on the interior. Also, we only had to think, by my count, six plays where we were under center, everything else was in the shotgun. But this fascination was running out of the shotgun all the time. I don't agree with it as much as they do it, but every team in the league's doing it, so. - What did Caleb do in college? - Out of the gun. - Right, but every team's doing it. - I know. - I mean, whether it was Malik, Willis yesterday in the pack, they're all running out of the gun. I get that, somebody just tweeted at us and said, "Scott, Quesanberry, Mason, Cole, Justin Pugh, Phil Haines. These are unsigned guys on the street right now that are offensive linemen that have a NFL career in their background. Keep your phones on. Hashtag Bears. - That's all fair. - Agreed. - That's all fair because one thing about Ryan Polls, as we've seen since he's been here, if there is an opening, where he feels like the Bears can be better, he will fill it. But don't come up short on the offensive line. You've done that in the secondary. You've done that on the defensive line. No one saw Darryl Taylor coming. Taylor from Seattle. All of a sudden he's plugged into the team. A number of guys like that, but don't come up short with the offensive line. Because if he sees what we see, and I'm sure that he does, he looks at this and goes, "Okay, if we're gonna salvage this season, if we're gonna keep Caleb Williams upright, we have to do better on the offensive line." And by the way, you can bring new guys in the house hall this morning cap, plug them into this depth chart, and guess what? It still takes time for them to be able to be together. Five guys have to be able to work together to try to protect the quarterback. It doesn't mean, it doesn't happen overnight. You bring new guys in, but doesn't mean it's gonna happen overnight. This is the problem coming in though. The weakest unit of the Bears showed up again. It showed up in the Titans game. Unfortunately for the Titans, they lost that football game. Fair, but for the Bears in this one here, from Nate Davis, and I'm gonna tell you right now, he's not the only problem cap, but he's a glaring problem on the football team. I don't wanna isolate Nate Davis and say he's the reason why the offensive line's bad. However, when people on social media can just isolate on his play, when he's running around like a toddler and not being able to defend his position, that's tough for a veteran player. Correct. For a veteran player, like he's the guy that should be able to help Shelton, he's the guy should be helping Darnell right in Tim and Jenkins, but he's not. He's a glaring weakness on this football team, on the offensive line. They all are, but him in particular, he gets a lot of it. But if you cut Nate Davis this morning, he'd have a job in like eight seconds. I'm sure. Someone else would go, we can get to him. There's nothing to be gained right now by cutting Nate Davis. Do you bench him? I don't know, the guy back in him up, Matt Pryor, can he be any worse? I don't know. - I don't know. - They see him every day at practice. - All I know is that last week, when Tom Thayer came on with us and speculated that we might not see Vela's Jones active, what happens on your phone Sunday afternoon. Oh, Vela's Jones inactive, huh? - Yeah, listen to our station because our panel of experts, York, Waddle, Tom Thayer are amazing. Albert Breyer, but when you listen to Thayer, and we have Thayer Thursdays, I think Carmen, York have them on Wednesdays. I think Waddle, Sylvia, have them on Fridays. But when he's on, his dude watches every snap of every practice. He's called the games for 29 years. There's nobody more wired on what's going on. So when he says something, trust it. - All I know is that when he said about Vela's Jones, you and I looked at each other and said, oh, is there a possibility that Vela's Jones could be inactive and guess what? He was inactive on Sunday. Same thing with Nate Davis. If the Bears coaching staff looks at that film and feels like Nate Davis is a minus on that film, he should be inactive. You gotta send a message, man. - Or if you use this as a backup, 'cause your other guy that you use there is not an injury reserved, that's the problem. - Yeah, you have a Doug Kramer who's never started in a game before. - Yep. - They're still lingering on this roster. There's Bill Murray, there's Matt Pryor. I don't know what they're gonna do, Cap. All I know is that if Ryan Polls does his due diligence to arrest this football team, he should do the same thing with the offensive line. If it's gonna be a theme where Caleb Williams is running for his life and that you can't run the football, you gotta fix it. If this is the time that you're gonna make a move as a football team to get to the next level, you have to do it with players that you could trust. Guys that are productive, you're gonna lose games, but you're beating yourself when you have this offensive line out there. You are. And Caleb Williams also has a young rookie quarterback. This is why it's a witch's brew. It's an offensive line that's not playing well, and it's a quarterback that when he does have time, sometimes underthrows his receivers, 'cause it's a timing issue between Caleb and the receivers. So now you got a whole bunch of stuff happening here. You wanna get Cole commit more time. You wanna be able to connect to what we think is top-notch receivers. You want the offensive line to hold up for you. And it's not working in the first couple of games of the season. On top of that, Shane Waldron, don't forget about him too and his personnel issues. No question about it. And the last play of the game was supposed to be, I think, a back shoulder throw to Roman Dunezay, and he didn't come back to the football. He did not. The ball was right there. So whether that was the wrong play call, whether Caleb was supposed to go deep with it, I think it was a back shoulder throw. But if Waddles awake by now, hopefully he'll text me, that's what I guessed it was, but he would know, so. Well, there's a couple of those throws that were supposed to be right there on the money, and Caleb was short with it. That last play you were talking about, that last series, Dunezay gets a 27-yard gain, a great play there for 27 yards. They throw it out to Everett and he drops the ball. - I don't know the fascination with Gerald Everett. I really don't. - Second down, a sack by Hunter, third down on the legal formation. That's great. That's great in that big spot. A legal formation. - That was Braxton Jones, I think, right? - I think so. And in the fourth down in 17, the incomplete to Dunezay, and that was the end of the ball game, right there. - Correct. - That's it? - That's it. - 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-P-N-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number. If you're unhold, you will be on the air. As we talked to you on this Bears Monday, the Bears lose to the Texas 1913. What did you think of the game that you saw on Sunday night? We're talking about it here on the home of the Bears, ESPN-1000. (upbeat music) - Captain Jay Hood, I'm back. - We are back, baby. We are back. 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Yurco at 12. while in Sylvia 230, blocking a dollar at 630 into White Sox baseball, as they take on the Los Angeles Angels right here, on ESPN-1000. 3-1-2-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 our phone number, it's a Bears Monday as the Bears lose to the Houston Texans, 19 to 13, and we're getting your reaction to the game. We will go to the phone line to talk to you, here's Brandon and Berwin on cap and Jay Hood. Brandon, good morning. - Morning guys, I'm just trying to point out, not only did polls not address the whole line in the off season, his first move was to sign a running back, to pay a running back. I mean the Chiefs gave you the blueprint, back Super Bowls with a seventh round draft pick, wouldn't you wanna emulate what the Chiefs are doing? I'll hang up and listen. - And then all teams wanna emulate what the Chiefs are doing. - Correct, they do have maybe the greatest quarterback of all time and they have the greatest three technique in Chris Jones or interior defensive lineman. He's a beast, Travis Kelsey's a Hall of Fame tight, like they have some pieces, but he's right. They did go out and pay a running back. They felt they needed to upgrade their running back room. That's fine, do that. But you also needed to upgrade your offensive line. The decision to pay Nate Davis 10 million a year, that doesn't look very good. - Nope, this is two years in a row now or so far, he has not been good at all. That's one, two, you did spend the 10th overall pick a year ago on Darnell Wright. I think he's gonna be a good football player. It's a work in progress. - You have the two penalties, Darnell Wright? - Correct, that's correct. Because you can't hear, you're on silent count and you either have Will Anderson or Daniel Hunter coming off the edge to eat. It's not an easy job, I get it. But your left tackle, he's okay. He was a fifth round pick. Your left guard, he's okay. - Can you have a check in? - Yeah, he's all right. Your center is horrible, he's terrible. He does not belong as a starting center on your football team if you're being really serious. So let's look again, interior right guard, terrible. Center, terrible. Mediocre player getting at the other three spots at best. - You're in trouble. - Cap, I don't expect five soldiers to be out there, but three of the five he believes in for sure, Ryan Polls. He loved Braxton Jones, we've talked to him at Nozzanell Braxton Jones. He likes the underdog, the fifth round draft pick at left tackle. He likes Kevin Jenkins 'cause you wanna give him another opportunity to be able to solidify himself at left guard. Same thing with Darnell Wright. But the other two, the right guard and center, you have to do something about that. - That right guard and center are killing you. - Yeah, I mean, the other three he likes, and I believe that Kevin Jenkins and Darnell Wright can be cornerstones for the offensive line for a while, but these other guys, and Braxton Jones. But these other guys, no, it has to change. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 6 is our telephone number. Chuck and Monster, Indiana with us on Cap and Jhood. Hey Chuck, good morning. Hey guys, good morning. Paul's started his tenure with the Bears. Sadie's gonna build this team from the inside out. He's done nothing but build it from the outside and with library sheavers, safeties, cornerbacks. Everyone's always on the outside. I think his arrogance comes from being an ex offensive lineman and thinking he can just get by nickel and diamond weight and use his knowledge to get by. - I don't know if it's arrogance. - Yeah, I think that that, I don't agree with that. - How about negligence, let's use that word. Let's use, we can use that word because again, look at the depth chart, look what the money and the time he's put in to a lot of these units. We love the secondary, which is the best unit on the football team, next to the wide receivers. Again, on paper, looks good. Cap still unproven with the rookie quarterback, the wide receivers. The room's strong, but again, the defense is what Chris Kennedy said earlier on on sportsman like before we came on. He loves what this defense can be. I mean, it's led by Montez Sweatt. Montez Sweatt is an animal. He gives his helmet taken off and he's still running after the quarterback. He's still going after the quarterback. - Yeah. - Running with a reckless abandoned helmet or not, Montez Sweatt going after the guy, he'll love that. - That I thought was one of the great moments of the night was when the Bears defended Caleb on the sideline there. - Yes. - We'll hear tomorrow. - Yeah, the league is finding Aziz Al-Shahir. - Thank you. - Is that the name? - Yes. - Yeah. - They will find him whatever it is, 15 grand, 20 grand for throwing a punch. How do the officials not see that? - You review everything, but that can't review that. - That's unreviewable. You cannot, and it's the same in the NBA college basketball, you cannot, what's called re-referee a play in terms of handing out a foul in a basketball game or a penalty in an NFL game. Because if they could do that, remember the one where they had roughing the passer? - Yeah. - And Caleb got hit? Braxton Jones tackled the guy coming around the end. - That was the oldest, clearest day. - Yes, it was. - And the Bears got away with it. So it goes both ways. - Braxton Jones was holding off for dear life. - For dear life. - Now again, for those that don't realize it, they were running silent count because they could not hear, that's the noise level in the building. That means your tackles are gonna get off the ball, a click slower. That's a problem with it's Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter. - Yeah, it's a problem. - Cap, they're all good. Especially to Caleb Williams who's never seen him before. - Correct. - Like this whole thing that we look at by game by game, say, well, this team is not as good to Fezla, they're all good. And I guess it's offensive line, until it gets better, they're all gonna be rushing the passer. The formula's out, Jay Moore, the formula's out. You get after Caleb Williams, you were able to rush him to pressure him and you saw what happened yesterday. - Here's the interesting staff for you. In this year's draft, 55 offensive lineman was selected. And that's a record. So that's how important this position is. - It is, no, that Bears did use a third round pick on Coronamagogy. I don't know when he's gonna be ready to play. - Yeah. - I mean, they like him a lot. And he had a good scouting report, but he was injured most of the last year to develop Nental Pick. Maybe he turns into a hell of a football player. That's not today. - Derek and Brooklyn, New York, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Good morning, Derek. - Good morning, fellas. How y'all doing, man? - What's up? How are you, my man? - I'm very disappointed like how you started to show off. But I'm just gonna articulate myself the best way to say this. They're doing a disservice to our rookie quarterback with this offensive line. You know, you guys are talking about it. You know, the penalties, we're right. The Nate Davis acting, looking like he doesn't, he doesn't, you know, he's, don't know what he's doing. It's just, it's just very bad. And to hype, have Caleb all hyped up to be the future of the Bears, he's gonna wind up being on I.R. sooner than we think because of the fact that these guys are not doing what they're supposed to do. Now, I'm gonna say this about Ryan Pose. I don't wanna knock Ryan Pose about the way he went about building a team. I'm gonna tell you why. So let's say he did address the offensive line when he first, you know, like the way everybody felt he should have did that. Then there would have been Nick picking about the safeties, the corners or the line back. So either way, he would have been getting, you know, ridiculed or being talked about as well about what he didn't do. So I'm not gonna really knock him on it. I think he's trying his best at addressing each position on the team the best way he can. And I truly feel this year's draft coming up, even though, you know, we still have to wait, but I'm sure he's gonna really address it in free agency and the draft. But it's just disheartening to see Caleb, but I will say this that third down, throw that he threw the DeAndre Carter that he missed. And I would have kept the drive alive. We should have listened, man. We should have won that game, man. We should have won that game. Listen, love you guys. Bear down, go bears. Oh, shout out to my man, George and Glenview, y'all. All right, he's listening. - You're the man. - Take it easy, fellas. I'm down. - You got it. All right, Derek, we'll take more of your phone calls coming up, 3-1-2-3-2-E-S-P-N, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6. Here's our telephone number. If you're on hold, you will be on the air. Caleb Williams with some thoughts about his performance. That's next on Captain J. Hood. [MUSIC PLAYING] - Captain J. Hood on back. - Appreciate you guys. I listened to you streaming on ESPN 1,000 apps. - Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. - Crowd on full blast as the bears line up a trio tight to the right. DJ Moore just outside the left hash. Williams brings a man in orbit motion. Reed option, handing off, hands over to the two, to the end zone for the touchdown. Bears cap off the drive with 32 seconds to go in the first half. 13-9, point pending. - Prepares get into the end zone, but fall short against the Houston Texans. We're talking about it here on the home of the Bears, ESPN 1,000. The Great Lance Briggs will join us coming up at 9 o'clock. Matt Iberfluze the head coach for the Bears at 9.40. It's here from the quarterback for the Bears. Caleb Williams on the offense. His thoughts on his performance. He's not executing when we needed to as a team. My self throwing, two interceptions, it's not something that I've done. Something that I do is turn the ball over. It's not really my thing. So I think those things are probably the things that I'm most frustrated about. Back out there, we didn't execute the way we needed to. And we're going to keep getting better. Everything's about the responses. It's week two, it's what the guys are, obviously I'm a young guy. But understanding this a long season, understanding that it's week two, understanding that we're going to respond and just get better every day, get better at practice, all these different things throughout the weeks. Attention to details and things like that. Yeah, but you got sacked seven times. I'm a little bruised up, you know, it's a couple hits today. You know, I'm getting nice to have all the things that I need to do to make sure that my body's ready for tomorrow and, you know, practice on other days and obviously next game. Sounds a little shell shot, Cap. Understandably so, he got destroyed. He was under siege. And again, next gen stats does a great job for the NFL. And they put out a tweet last night that said the Texans had 36 pressures on 37 passes, but they also have clarified to make sure people understand. It was 23 team pressures on a total of 48 dropbacks. 36 total pressures means there were multiple guys in his face on several plays. Multiple. That dude was just watching the highlights in here up on the monitor. That dude was running for his life. He sacked seven times and as Sterling said, Will Anderson had him wrapped up at the two and he got away. I don't know how. Will Harrison was laughing like, how did he get away? Yeah, it should have been a safety. Asians with the offensive line. Does this sound familiar to you? It does. And if you go back to the Cleveland game and Justin made his debut as a starter, same type of game plan, like we can't block them. Miles Garrett had four and a half sacks that day. Was it like nine? Nine total. Nine total when Justin made his starting debut. Yep. Bears were not ready and Justin was not ready as well. Yeah. All of that. That was for sure. For as rough as we're being on Nate Davis too, there was a sack last night. Danelle Hunter came flying off the edge and just I think on the final drive. Blind side murdered Caleb. Yeah. Darnell Wright just gave up a free rush. That's your first round pick. That's the guy you took two years ago in the first round of the draft to be your franchise right tackle, giving up a free rush. At some point, what's going on with the coaching on the offensive line? You're not even developing the talented guys. Let's go to your point yesterday that you have not brought out yet regarding how you slide cold commit on the way on the other side of the field in front of block Anderson. That play call was bizarre and people were like, oh, there's another one. Braxton Jones and I'm like, well, Braxton Jones is being asked to slide right in that protection and you're bringing cold commit pulling him across the entire formation to block Will Anderson. What are we doing? Again, this offensive coaching staff led by Shane Waldron has a lot to learn. Not only just some of the players in the execution, but the coaching staff as well. Fair. It's all new, man. These are the things why I looked at this as a nine and eight football team because of these early issues. Hopefully, as you move forward, cap is straightens out. You get a nice rhythm offensively, but you would think that all this training camp and all the film and all that stuff, then it can work, but it doesn't work like that for everybody. Clearly not this Chicago Bears team. East side here is Phil on cap and Jhood. Phil, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. How you doing? Well, good, Phil. Thank you. Watching that game last night is similar to all the rest of the games. The old land is going to get this guy killed. I just don't understand. As long as I've known since the eighties, we've all had a great defense. We have always had subpar receivers, subpar quarterback. When are we going to address the old line? And also, I know that's been a running thing. I don't want to keep regards to taking points, but can we talk about play calling? The play calling has been vanilla since the eighties. It's the same one, too. If you're a Bears fan, not even a Bears fan. If you're a opponent of theirs, you already know what they're going to run. We're going to do like a little thing. We're going to do a little screen. I mean, not a screen. We're going to do a little handoff on the first play. And every time we just keep getting into the same third and long, third and long, third and long. And like you said, that's perfect time for the defense to feast. And that's what Houston does best. They send pressure. Like you said, the nail hunter, he ate last night. I'm just tired of it. And it's like we keep getting the hype. I know we got a first round pick with this guy. And it's like we got all hyped up this season, this offseason. And for the same things that happened, I'm just tired of it. I don't understand when we're going to address the common denominator, which is the Olin. Phil, we appreciate the phone call. And in two minutes, we give you a shot or no shot right here on Captain J Hood.