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(crunching) Chicago. This is your morning routine. - Listen to respect my name. - Cap and G hood. - That's right, that's right, we're bad. - Uh-uh. - Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. - Swing the show on the ESPN Chicago app. And on Instagram. - 100.3 HD2. And on ESPN 1000 Chicago. Now, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. - Good morning, everyone. Three more. - This is Payers Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday. - And as Richardson on the fake, he keeps Nelson Langdon in the end zone. - And the end zone. - And it is intercepted. Tremaine Edmonds. He threw it right to him in the end zone. Richardson who takes and fakes and steps up and gonna launch the ball, but it's intercepted. First throw and it's picked Jalen Johnson. They're gonna run it to Taylor. And he is brought down by Montez Sweat. Back to the 20. - Now, play fake. - Throwing into the end zone. - Caught Adunzay, touchdown. Touchdown Bears, Caleb Williams, his first NFL. Passing touchdown goes to Miller rookie. Roma Adunzay, who catches his first NFL touchdown. - Fourth and one. Game around the line here from the Bears. Caleb Williams takes the snap. Pocket holds, zips it to a wide open compliment. And so right, touchdown. Touchdown Bears. - It's Payers Monday Bears Monday. On Capitol Hill, ESPN Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago. - What's up, Chicago? And welcome in to a Bears Monday here on The Cap and Jay Good Morning Show on ESPN 1000. And we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Shay, we've got Jay Moore, we've got you. We'll open full lines for you, 3-1-2, 3-3-2, ESPN, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6, our full number. Watch our show on all the shows all day, today, on YouTube, YouTube.com. Make sure you subscribe to the ESPN Chicago channel. Same is on Twitch, twitch.tv/espn1000. Cap, the Bears lose to the Colts by the score of 21 to 16. Okay, I got so much to unpack with you. Good to see you. That was a horrible loss. Horrible. Did we take some steps with the quarterback? Yeah, I saw some progress there. He can't throw the, especially the pick on the sideline. That can't happen. But we were so horribly coached yesterday. We're gonna talk to coach Eber Flus. We were horribly coached yesterday. Whether it was Shane Waldron with his play calling, whether it was Matt Eber Flus and his staff not knowing that you've got to go for two. My son is sitting there. He's never played it down to football in his life. But he loves sports. Brett says to be deaf, we score, we gotta go for two. Yes, you're correct. We gotta get it to a three-point game. We got one coach putting one finger up. We got Eber Flus looking around and putting two fingers up. And then squandering a timeout that you needed, like a starving man needs a sandwich. The end of the game. Be nice to have a timeout, wouldn't it? No, we had to use it on a failed two-point conversion. The whole nonsense down at the goal line is a comedy of freakin' errors and poor coaching. We'll get into all of it. But I just wanna know how many parents out there, fathers especially, but mothers too, every week watch the game with their kids, with their sons and daughters. And every year it's the same crap. Dad, can we watch the game with a good team? No son or bears fans. So disappointing. I feel bum-fuzzled about this football team. Like that one. Google.com. Because the offense isn't good enough, Cap. The way the Colts played, that was a winnable ball game for the Bears. It's bewildering watching the play calling from Shane Waldron, shaky Shane Waldron. I don't understand why the Bears lost this game yesterday. There's a lot of reasons why, but I don't understand how the result is 21-16 Colts. Two, Caleb's interceptions, missing receivers by two miles. The inability to run the football effectively in the first three games of the season. The offensive line not opening enough holes to help the running game. From Caleb Williams throwing the ball cap 52 times. And just 16 points. Does that math, math, that math ain't mathin'. 52 throws by Caleb Williams in only 16 points. I went to a ton of college football. If a quarterback throws to 52 times, and again, 33-52, usually that's over 400 yards and four touchdowns on any other college game. But for the Bears, it just equates to 16 points. That's a pretty damn lousy offense that we've been watching the first three games this season. And I will go back to what I said before the season, Cap. I said, it's going to be growing pains. There's no question. Because it's a rookie quarterback and it's Shane Waldron. But I just didn't expect through the first three games this season for the offense, it looks so stagnant. I didn't expect to see it looking like this. This is a game in which when I read, when I came in this morning reading Indianapolis papers, they are surprised that they were able to beat the Bears. They were surprised. They were looking staring down at the barrel of an 0-3 record, and it should have been. If you have any semblance of offense early, that is a win for the Bears going into the Rams game on Sunday. But this is what you are, Cap. Again, I don't like to do the blame game thing of saying it's only this person, it's only this person, it's only this unit. But when you look at the offense, all of it looks like crap. You're not scoring enough. You're not running the ball enough. The head coach told us last week that it's about trying to run the football. And so you run the football 6-3 yards, 28 carries. And that's not enough. And for whatever reason, as much as I respect DeAndre Swift when he was in Georgia, we're looking at a guy that looks more toward the end, closer to wearing a CBS eye jacket in the booth than being a running back in this league. 13 for 20 against that Colts front. The Colts have given up a ton of runs in the running game, a ton of yardage in the running game. 13 for 20, Cap, that's gotta get better. It's just three games. I'm just telling you, but that's gotta get better. - So when you get the ball down in the low red zone, we're talking inside the five. Okay, I want to take you through something here and I want your thoughts. You've watched a lot of football, like our listeners. Okay, Bears have the ball at basically near the goal line, four yard line, first down. - Yep. - First play call is a wild cat to Khalil Herbert. - Yes. - Khalil Herbert is by far the third back on this team in terms of the depth chart. You can argue he should be there ahead of Johnson or Swift. Right now in their world at Lake Forest at House Hall, he is the third back, right? - That's correct. - Okay, why would you take the ball out of your most talented players' hands? His name's Caleb Williams. He's not even involved. Khalil Herbert, why would you not run Rochon Johnson? If you're going to do that, I wouldn't. I hate the wild cat at the pro level, but if you're going to run it, why is it not your most physical back? Rochon Johnson. - Yeah. - Okay, second down, Herbert again, into the line, down to the one. So you got it second and goal at the one. You picked up two on the wild cat, picked up one with Herbert. I'm sure he's a little winded from the two plays getting pounded on, guess what? You run him again. Again, no game, maybe lost half a yard. Now we're going to go to fourth down, and we're going to run a speed option. You lose 12. Now again, DeAndre Swift was not good. That play was not on him. Oh my God, did you see the screenshot? There's like four Bears offensive linemen laying on the ground, and the entire state of Indiana has DeAndre Swift faced in. - Yeah, you're right. - I mean, oh my God. - Horrific, but here's my question. Was that not, I've watched it a hundred times. I've made calls, I've asked people who know. People who played this game. Is that not when you run the speed option? You're telling me that was not a check with me, where Caleb looks and goes, that front, we can't run that play, and run it to the other side, or hand it off, or take a time out, or do something other than lose 12 F in yards. I put that one again. I don't like the play call, but I'm going to ask Iber Flus when he's down with us at 8.20. I'll bet you a million dollars, Caleb misdiagnosed the front of that play. - I'm sure he did. And also, because he's a rookie, doesn't have the autonomy to check out of that play, or call a timeout. - I disagree, he's got it. - Cap. - You may be right, but if that's true, that's insanity. Hold on a second, now I walk to the line. - Yeah. - And I look, they got this cold. What do I do? I either, on a check, I'm checking out of that play, and I'm going to run to the right side, where their defenses are overloaded, or timeout. And if he wants to yell at me for taking a timeout, coach, they had it stop cold. It's fourth in goal. - Right. - I mean, come on, now, what are we doing here? - No, I understand your point, and you're right. However, the only reason why I bring that up is because if you listen to Caleb Williams, he's been saying, he says, "Whatever the coach thinks is right." He's going along with Waldron, and what Ira Flus wants. He said it himself. I'm only going by his quotes. - Yeah. - But again, a veteran quarterback, a second year quarterback, we'll look at that and say, okay, you want me to run this, but I got to call a timeout, because look at the front they have, we got to come up with something different, or I have another play that I can call that's not that one. - I'm going to ask Ira Flus, I am. I've got to know, coach, when you guys get down there and you're going to run speed option and they've overloaded one side, does Caleb not have a check to get out of that? Did he misdiagnose the front and should have gone to the other side? Can he take a timeout there? - That's a fair question. - That's going to be my first question. - Yeah. - That's a fair question. - You're going to have the first one. That's my first coach. I got to get to the goal line. Because Johnny, that is a, last week you lost to a good team in their building, young, okay, whatever. That's a horrible loss. That Colts team stinks. Anthony Richardson, he's a wonderfully gifted athlete. That dude not a very good quarterback, he's not. But let me tell you something. That's a horrible loss, an awful loss. - Yes. And it goes, again, I have a lot of questions about Shane Waldron and some of those play calls. Again, when you have the inability to run the football effectively cap, that's why that wildcat play didn't make sense to me. It just didn't make sense to me because, again, I like Khalil Herbert and I like Roshan Johnson and I respect Yandray Swift for what he's been able to do in the league, not with the Bears, but in the league. But that play, that just didn't make sense to me. - What's that front? - May I ask you a question? - To understand it. - Why are we so averse to getting the quarterback under center and we're going to run the ball at you? You gotta stop us. And if you stop us four straight times, God bless you. Then we gotta go back to work and get better. But the gimmick in this, thinking you're too cute and throw the ball to DJ Moore with nobody out in front blocking him, me, what are we doing? And then I texted you, did I not? - Yup. - Go back everybody. Here's your homework assignment before Iberfus. Go back and just pull up the broadcast. You can find it all over YouTube and everywhere. Pull it up and go watch on, I believe it's third down. And here comes Big 94 for the Colts. He's like six, five, he's like 280 pounds and he's jacked. Guess who they, these rocket scientists asked to block him coming off the edge. The Andre Carter. - Yes, who was completely lost on the play. He like, what am I doing out here? - He got blown up. He did try to get into the chest of the oncoming rusher. - Yeah. - Go watch the play and he goes backwards. Of course, 'cause he weighs like 180. And the other guy weighs like 285. You're not gonna win that. I mean, come on, what are we doing here? Cole Comette's a good blocker for a tight end. He's supposed to block Lotu. That led to the fumble. - Yeah. - Okay, Caleb's gotta step up, climb the pocket. But it happened so quickly. Cole got beat by a really, really good player. Who's a first round pick for a reason. I mean, some of the decision making we make just makes me puke. - Just say, I'm just so perplexed on, again, a team that's not very good in the Colts. And the Bears, if they just do the little things, Cap, if they could just have common sense of some of these plays, then that's a win. I don't care if it's a 3.7 points, 10, whatever it is, that's a win-able ball game. And the Bears allow that to happen. Again, these are supposed to be layups, Cap. Every game's difficult, I understand that, 'cause it's a national football league. But the game is in your hands and you find a way to turn it over or bad play calling or bad execution, it's all there. On a day in which Roma Dunes A gets his first touchdown, it takes three games for Caleb Williams to throw his first touchdown. 52 passes to the point where Caleb Williams didn't even realize that he threw 52 passes. That's way too much for a rookie and a loss. - Now-- - As way too much. - So I called our guy. We always have Tommy on Wednesdays, Waddle Wednesday. You'll get him this afternoon with Sylvie. And Waddle's eye to understand football is outstanding. And I called him last night. I said, "Can I ask you a couple of questions?" And we got into the whole Shane Waldron thing. And Waddle said to me, "Go back prior "to the two minute drive at the end. "Two minute drill." - Yes, sir. - And look at the run pass ratio. It was 21 passes to 15 runs. Not bad, I could live with that. And then you threw seven consecutive passes 'cause it's a two minute drill. So it skews it to 28 to 15 until you get down there and then try and run a football game. The, look, I'm not a huge Shane Waldron guy. I'm not. Caleb's rookie. He's gonna make mistakes. He did throw up for 363 yards. He 11th highest total in the history of the Bears organization. There will be better days, but I thought we were outcoached on multiple levels yesterday, outcoached. - All right, get your phone calls in here coming up. 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-P-N-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our telephone number. You're gonna hear from Caleb Williams, a quarterback for the Bears about some of the issues for this team. They're one and two. The Bears lose to the Colts 21-16. We're talking about it right here on the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000. (upbeat music) - Cap and J-hood or Ben. - We're putting Ben back together. The nerve center of a great rhythm and blues band. - On Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. And it's Richardson out of the fake. He keeps now slinging in the end zone. And it is intercepted. Tremaine Edmonds, he threw it right to him in the end zone. An unthinkable throw by Richardson in heavy coverage. And the Bears make a goal line stand here in the second quarter with the 11-0-3 to play in it. Wow. Tremaine has been sinking in coverage with the swipe. - Shout out to the Bears defense, but the Bears lose to the Colts 21-16. It's a Bears Monday on the cap and J-hood morning show. 3-1-2-3-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number. Hit us up. Give us your thoughts about the Bears now 1-2. The defense held up as well as it could cap is a thing. It's like big chunks of yardage for Jonathan Taylor toward the end. 110 yards on 23 carries. The rushing attack was solid for the Colts. 150 on the ground for Indianapolis. But overall, I thought the defense, once again, held the Bears in there long enough for them to win the ballgame, and they did not. - Yeah, the defense competed, man. They battled. I'm not a huge, as I said earlier, to you, huge Anthony Richardson fan. - Great athlete. Just not a really good quarterback. It's got, like, if you built somebody in a lab, you're like, wow, big, strong, fast, big arm. Yeah, just, it's not there yet. Maybe it'll get there someday. - It was two Spider-Man means. - I'm pointing out one another. It's Caleb Williams and Anthony Richardson pointing at each other because of the ineptitude. Both of them. Both guys were over shooting wide receivers by 15 yards. - You're right. - It was ugly, especially in the first half. - Now, I thought, again, I thought Caleb took steps. It did. 363 yards passing. We haven't seen that around here in a long time. Can he be better? Yes. Will he be better? I believe that he will. But boy, oh boy. The offensive line, not moving people. Ryan Poles was on the pregame show and said it's more of a communication issue than a talent issue. - First from Caleb Williams though, as promised, we talked about him. You want to talk about the fourth in goal play? - Yes. - All right, so here's Caleb Williams talking about that fourth in goal play with DeAndre Swift. - Yeah, that was a tough one. Been right there in the short yard line or so, one yard line, and then not get that. So, seeing things like that is a play we practice all week, something, you know, understanding that, you know, when they get around the five yard line to one yard line, you know, their defense changes. And they get into those six one defense and things like that. And, you know, they normally crash and things like that. You know, I guess maybe I didn't get on the edge fast enough or whatever case may have been. But they didn't crash pretty, you know, how they normally do it, how we saw them film. And, you know, they made a good play. Had an extra overhang player over there. And it may have been, you know, 'cause in a pistol or whatever case may have been. - You ever flew this with more brevity? - You know, we have to do better. We have to do better there. First of all, it wasn't as good as it should be in terms of our communication there. But we wanted to get a good play on there as well. And we like to play. You know, it just didn't work out on that particular one. But again, we have to do better. Stay ahead of it better, be better there. - Don't stay there for Mattie. Reflow's on the same play. - Yeah, the whole be better. I want to hear more accountability. I do, first of all. Go back, 'cause, am I lying? Do I not have the game broadcast up right here? - I see it. - And I've got those plays right here on my phone. I'm watching them at break again. And I think I speak for a lot of fans out there. Something, and again, I know that people up there are getting paid handsomely, but that is their life. And they've committed their life to the end of it. But we take it just as hard now. I was pissed off after that game yesterday. It's not just entertainment watching with my son. It's the freakin' Bears, man. I look forward to those games, even when we stink. And I think there's talent on this team. But when I see us get outcoached, not know that we're gonna go for two, with what? Eight minutes to go in the game. You're down 14 to three. Anybody who watches any amount of football goes, well, we gotta go for two here. Got two to get it to a three-point game. So if heaven forbid, you get a chance, kick a field goal. We got a pretty good kicker. Guess what? We got a chance to tie the football game up then. And we got one coach putting one finger up. Then Iberfu's putting two fingers up, and then burning a timeout, because we can't get our people together. Oh, no! We suck again! We do. And that falls at the feet of one person. That's the guy who gets handsomely paid to be the head coach. He has mismanaged timeouts here now, multiple times in the first last two weeks. I mean, that sense has gotta get cleaned up. How is that decision not made? Well, in advance of it, the situation actually coming up. You know you're driving the ball. You know you need two if you score. The play should already be in. You should already know exactly what you're going to. The idea there's ever a timeout. And people want to bitch about Waldron and calling the speed option fourth and one. But if you're Iberfu's and you hear that go through the headset and you see Caleb getting laid out of the huddle, how are you not at that point going, "Hey, time out, can we get this right?" Right, now Caleb said we practice that play all week long because the Colts were susceptible to it in a previous game this season. But for my research and from me watching a lot of football and I think other people would agree, when you come to the line and you look and you don't get the front that you thought you were going to get in practice, doesn't an irrational person, whether you're the head coach, the OC, somebody of the eye in the sky up in the booth or the quarterback go, "Time out!" Or, "Kill, kill, kill, we're going to run something else." And I know he's got the ability to do that. Like all of it drove me nuts. I asked this question. Coleman Shelton's is very pedestrian, but you get what you pay for. One year for three million. If they had an accomplished center there, if Creed Humphrey was the center or Jason Kelsey, does an accomplished center identify the front better? Not to defend the rookie quarterback, but what I would say is that even with the experience that's in the sky and on the sidelines, someone has to make a call. If it's not going to be on the rookie quarterback, it's got to be on somebody. So everybody gets blamed for that. You see the front and front of you, somebody from upstairs to downstairs and on the field should be able to identify and say, "If we run this play, we're going to run into a wall." Correct, that's not the front we practiced against. It's not what they ran against whoever they lost to the last time. So there you have it. 312-332-3776 is our phone. And we'll see all the phone lines to talk to you here on this Bears Monday. Maurice is in Bellwood on Captain J. Hood. Maurice, good morning. - Thank you. - Oh my God. I don't know, the media, y'all guys have said that Chandler was a generational quarterback, going to change. You guys must have been in hell and that nail polish he was putting on to make that ridiculous statement. I don't know why you guys just didn't take Harrison Jr, who was a real generational player. - Maurice, we're not in the front office. I don't know what you, you know, I don't know why you say we are. - What you hyped him up? No, I said the media hyped up, this boy is a savior. - Yeah, and I think he's going to be that guy, Maurice. I'll have that fight with you all day long. - Well, one thing he got that he doesn't say this, Trent Rich is, Trent's really a dead boy. That's a big boy quarterback. He thinks he has something to back up play. - Who? - Body in his size. - Who? - Trent Rich, Trent, Trent, the Indianapolis court. - It's my Anthony Richardson. That's who you're talking about. - Anthony Richardson. - Yeah, Trent is the running back from about 15 years ago. - Well, you know what I'm talking about. - No, we didn't. That's why we don't want to clarify. - But go ahead. - Like you should do for a tailor. The quarterback for the Indianapolis, he has something to back up his poor decision-making. He has a big body. I don't know what you're going to back up with that boy you got, except that he knew how to paint his nails. - Oh, stop with the nails and that's just dumb talk. Two for 363 yards. He's going to be a really good player. And if you don't see any growth in him, that's on you Maurice. Was he great yesterday? No, obviously he made mistakes. Paintmanic through 28 interceptions is a rookie. Come on, man, be better. - Don't let me have to go to your dresser drawers, Maurice. I don't know what's in it. - It may not be a nail posh, but it might be something else. 313-332-ESP-N-3323-776 is our phone number. Minneapolis, Minnesota, listening on the ESPN Chicago App. Here's Pat on Captain J. Hood. Pat, good morning. - Hey guys, how are you? - We're good, Pat. - What's up, buddy? - Hey, so we can all admit the Bears did not have a good offense last year, right? - Yeah. - So what made polls want to go and get an offensive coordinator who had a worse offense than the Bears did last year? It doesn't make sense. - Well, first of all, there are a lot of people in the league and the kid himself, Gino Smith, or man, said that guy resurrected my career. In addition, he works for the quarterback collective, which is what Caleb is a part of. And so they had history. They run the same type of offense. So there were a lot of things to like. And there were other teams after Shane Waldron as well. - I don't see it, man. I had three games through and I'm already wondering what the heck we're going to do next year as an offensive coordinator. And if Eva flees, even keeps his job. - Well, he's not going to get to pick another OC. If they get rid of this guy, Eva Fus won't be here. - Yeah, it's awful, man. I just don't get it. It doesn't make sense to me. I guess he's got the quarterback connection, but it's not showing through three games. It's been embarrassing. - No, it's brutal, Pat. And just so we're clear. Like Shane Waldron is not going to get fired today because the offense isn't up through the first three games of the season. That's not how it works. Now, again, I will tell you what I said before the season is that this is a big season for Matt Everfus. If this team underachieves, there is going to be change. You can't just keep going on the same treadmill of mediocrity and think that it's going to get better. At some point, you have to do right by the talent. Again, it is the most talent that we've seen on a roster in a long time. Talk about not just guys, not just bodies. I'm talking about quality talent. Someone's got to coach them. And also the players have to be able to execute. But when you take a look at something as egregious as we saw yesterday, as far as some of those play calls, it was just, again, I'm not mad this morning. I'm just confused of how the Bears cannot beat the Colts yesterday. I just, I don't understand when you've got a game plan there, you played well enough to win against the Texans. And then this game here, the crowds on your side, 'cause there's playing Bears fans that was there. It's packed. No friends of mine that went to the game, that's one. But two cap, like a defense again, swarming, doing enough to keep you in the ball game. And then offensively, you're scoring at the end when it's too late. You get shut out in the first half. You can't run the football. The obvious thing to do is to try to run the football as much as possible to set up the pass to make the rookie quarterback comfortable. And they couldn't do that. I'm watching the oven flow of the game, just like you are. And I'm like, well, that ball's in the air a lot. What happened? Did they abandon the running game? It wasn't like we were down 21-nothing, and you gotta exclusively throw the football. It just kind of, the running game just kind of just went away. It just disappeared. And it just went away. It's just like, what happened to the running game? Even if you're down, what is it, cap, seven to three? You still have to be able to run the football some. No questions about it. I just, I don't, may take you back another play. We've been talking about what went out of the goal line. So I just watched it two seconds ago. Okay, it's fourth in inches, just inside the five. You remember that? Okay. Who did we hand the ball off to on fourth down and inches? That would be 23. That would be Roshan Johnson. Yeah. He's your hardest running guy. Is that fair? Yes. Am I right? That's on the roster, yes. Okay. Of the guys on the roster, fourth in inches, you give it to Roshan Johnson. He picks up the first down. Why do you take him out and put Khalil Herbert in there? When the yards are the hardest to get. Why do you put in the guy who's the slightest of your three backs? Roshan was also just straight up your best runner yesterday. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. Really? You ask him on fourth in inches. Can you get that for us kid? Yes. And he does it. First in golf Chicago at the four. All right, come on out. What? Why pull him out? He's cooking. And if he needed one play to catch his breath. Okay. Herbert ran from the four to the two. All right, come on out, Khalil. Get back in there, Roshan. We got to get in the end zone here. Wasn't like he was winded. He's still a young man. You went to Roshan Johnson a lot early. Okay, nice pass on fourth down to get the first down to DJ more. They kept the line moving. You get to third and sixth. There's a lot of pressure is incomplete. That's just a complete missed opportunity. Then the missed field goal too. That's how that's the start of all of this cap, the missed field goal. Your third and sixth, there's a lot of pressure on him because offensive line collapse is incomplete. There was a complete missed opportunity. You think, okay, at least you can get three. Nope, don't even get that. Could Caleb have not off to go back to the tape up again? Could Caleb not on that play rather than the incomplete run for maybe not the first down? Close, but pick up three or four yards because then the field goes good. Yeah, now you're close. And it shouldn't have made Santos, and when everyone's kicking the ball well, I was just surprised that Santos couldn't get that ball. Couldn't kick that ball. But then the one he made, it soared through by six yards. So he has the leg. Yes. He just didn't hit it right. Strange. Yes, I mean, I'm just confused, Cap, about what we saw yesterday. The missed opportunity, the whole game was a missed opportunity for the Bears to win. No question. All these things we're talking about. And there's more, as we move forward here, if you want to hold it, you will be on the air 3-1-2-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number, Cap and J-hood. On the home of the Bears, he has been 1,000. Checkmate, 1-6-linear suppression on target. That's why I see him in my shot. Shot or no shot with Cap and J-hood. On ESPN 1,000 and ESPN Chicago app. That's why I see him in my shot. Good morning, and welcome in to the Cap and J-hood morning show on ESPN 1,000 and streaming on ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood with you, Maddie Buflu's head coach for the Bears joins us this half hour and a 20, but first shot or no shot. Here's Shayne Orling, Shayne. Good morning, boys, after another Bears loss. How we feeling? We're good, man. Come on now. They lost. Yeah, it sucked. I don't let them affect my moods. I will do my job. I will cheer my-- you know what off, because I love my Bears. But come on, man. I don't let them dictate how I'm going to feel the rest of my life. No, sorry. But today it dictates it because it's stuck-- because that's stunk yesterday. Yeah, absolutely stunk, yeah. But I'm going to go have a good lunch today. I'm going to work out, and I'll be like, all right, let's go. I'll watch two Monday night games tonight. I'll text with you. I'll call you about something that pops in my head, because that's what I do. I'll get a good night's sleep and get up tomorrow and come back at it with you again. Come back. You'll be miserable about the Bears all over again. Freaking Bears. Hoodier, are you more like Cap or are you more like me? Because at the afternoon games, two of them were excellent. Cowboy's Ravens turned into an excellent game late. Some awesome football late in the 3.30 window. I couldn't enjoy any of it because I was just angry. I was just sitting there stewing about what I had to watch from noon to 3. There's a reason why we got the last broadcast crew from CBS yesterday, because they looked at that matchup and said the Colts and the Bears are at Andrew Catalon. Come on in. Talk about how wacky the game is again for the third time. Wacky? Yeah, I didn't see it being wacky, Shea. I saw that being really bad, especially in the first half. That was not good football on either side. And it was disappointing. I'm not angry about the loss yesterday. I'm just confused of what's going on here and how this gets better. Because if you can't run the football the first three weeks, does that get better against the Rams? Does that get better as you get further into the season? If you can't run the football effectively, I don't know how the Bears can win football games. Unless the Bears are doing their job defensively and scoring for the offense too, which I've seen all my life. That's the thing. I'm just confused by what I'm saying here. And we'll talk to you about that coming up this half hour. 820. Here's Shea Norlin. All right, I'm going to start with-- I'm going to kind of play the blame game and shot or no shot today. I'm going to start with DeAndre Swift, who has 13 carries for 20 yards yesterday. That brings his season total to 68 yards on 37 carries. If you want to do the math, it's good for 1.8 yards per attempt. This for a guy you signed in the off season, the moment free agency opened for $24 million. $8 million a year, go into somebody who's getting you 1.8 yards per attempt through nearly three weeks. You want to bitch about the O line? Tell me that's the reason. Fine. Why did Roshan get nearly four yards a pop on his eight carries? Shot or no shot, signing DeAndre Swift was a mistake. I mean, through three games, you can't say anything but that. So it's a shot. Now, can it get better? I would hope so. He's a talented cat. He ran for over 1,000 yards last year. No, he did have the Eagles offensive line versus our offensive line. But 1.8 yards? Ain't good, cut it. Jay Moore, how much was Montgomery reaction for when he, before he left? Though they offered him the same contract he got. He just, he took Detroit. What was it, three for 15 in Detroit? Three for it. It was a three for 15 or three for 16. Hold on, I'll get you. Another guy that gets swelled behind a bad offensive line. Montgomery, yeah, he makes his own holes, but imagine him behind this line. Again, again, patchwork line again. Three years, 18 with the line. The part of the hoodie that really bothers me is if you watched Swift with the Eagles last year, 30% of his production on the ground came in two games, week two and week three. And then he just didn't really run well behind the best offensive line. He was below his negative rush yards over expected, which is a funky analytic metric that basically says, are you going beyond what the line is opening up for you? He wasn't. He can't get through contact. It's the same thing here. It looks like he runs straight at defenders. He doesn't cut away from them, at least not successfully. He just looks awful. Yeah, I'd say for me, it's a no shot, especially through three games. But here's the thing, though. I don't mind him if he's got it. He's not here for it to be a full back or a short yardage back. I understand that. However, just like anything else, it's like the move of Nate Davis being benched yesterday until he had to be pressed in the service. I don't mind Roshan Johnson and Khalil Herbert getting the lion's share of the carries. Yes, you paid a lot for DeAndre Swift, but if it's not working, he needs to look on the bench, take a look from the sidelines on how he's got to be a better running back. The offensive line is a big factor in this, too. It's not like Roshan Johnson's running like the wind behind this line, the same thing with Khalil Herbert. But what I would say is that you have personnel, you can switch it up. Swift doesn't have to be the load back early. You can go with Roshan Johnson and Khalil Herbert first. You're correct. And if you need, it looks like if DeAndre Swift with this bear's team is good, he can go for two yards. If it's third and two, he can give you two yards. 'Cause he flams it into the line. Can I give you the full back? And I've seen him better than that, but not with this bear's team and this offensive line. Shay? - I think the biggest thing, too, that bothers me, and I'll get to it in a moment, but just you did it the second free agency opened with a mountain cap space and offensive lineman available and a big hole at center. We immediately addressed running back and now he's not productive. So it just looks worse. - And the guy they really wanted was Saquon. They were, what, finished second. And that cost how much? He was a lot more money. When he's 37, 38 million, Saquon looks pretty good, but. - Yeah, he's the reason he equals one yesterday. - Yep. - Yeah, it surprised me. Remember at the time, it might've broke during our show, the signing of, it surprised me the Swift signing, 'cause I was like, I thought we were good in the running back room, but Butt pulls one to add seasoning. Now what? - They don't seem to be all in the Khalil Herbert until they get him down inside the four. - Shay? - All right, moving the blame game onto the offensive coordinator because Bear's center Coleman Shelton was asked about the fourth and one speed option on the goal line. He said, well, I mean, speed option on, you know, it wasn't the greatest look to run that. Shot or no shot, this is another player taking a shot at Shane Waldrum. - And the play called? - Yeah. Maybe, maybe. So can I say semi shot? Because again, I think Caleb, we'll ask Iberfluze, 'cause I told you, it's gonna be my first question. Coach, we gotta go to the fourth downplay. Did Caleb misdiagnose? He's a rookie, it happens. Misdiagnosed, the front he was seeing and he should've checked out of that play and gone to the right side. Or was that you're gonna run that play come hell or high water? - It's a good question. - It's a shot. - It's a shot. - So if that was the case that, nope, we're running and I don't care what front you see, then it's a horrible play call. If Caleb was supposed to check out of it, then that's a mistake by a rookie quarterback. - Shane. - All right, everyone in this division has coaching that can get the job done. We've got proof of concept in Detroit. They just went to the NFC title there, two and one with a good road win yesterday. Kevin O'Connell has the Sam Darnold Viking sitting at 3-0. And Matt LaFluor is not just surviving the Malik Willis era, he's thriving in it. Our guy, time out ahead of a two point conversion. Shot or no shot, Matt Iberflus is officially back on the hot seat. - That's a shot. That is a hundred percent shot. There is no way he cannot be on the hot seat because when the general manager and the team president are gonna say, hold on a second now, there's more talent on this roster. We can't be, go for one, no, go for two, time out. - Can't happen. - He's always been on the hot seat for me. That question is not new to me 'cause I've been saying this from the beginning. A haircut and a beard is not the reason why that you retain a coach. You retain a coach because of the team getting better from three wins and seven wins to a playoff team, which I expect. - Season's not over. It's just that it's trending in the wrong direction offensively for the first three games. - Correct. - I mean, thank God the defense is as good as it is, but the point is though, Cap, is that if they can just get through the little things, like being able to run the football to give Caleb Williams time. And also, there's not always on the offensive line also. Caleb Williams will regress back to USC and we've seen it several times. Dude, you're gonna hold a ball after three seconds, then it's trouble. You think you can spin and turn your way out of it and just roll to the left and roll to the right? These defensive players will come after your ass. And so the idea that you could just be able to hold the football, listen, only a selected few that play the quarterback position in the NFL can hold the ball more than three seconds. We saw him on Sunday football yesterday with Patrick Mahomes, he's one of them. He's one of very few that's like, hey, isn't Patrick gonna get the ball out? Nope, then have to. He'll find a way or he'll throw it away or do something smart with it. Caleb Williams is the same thing, man, but this is what you go through with a rookie cap. Same thing, the same issues that Richardson had, Williams had yesterday. Young quarterbacks learning on the job. Then there's Andy Dalton. You can leave the job done, the Red Rifle. My goodness. The better unbelievable. Hey, how's that for Mount Kuiper? Just throwing a bus at the organization saying it's not Bryce Young's fault. Cutscene 33 to seven with Andy Dalton. (laughing) Like, maybe it was Bryce Young, dude. Yeah, I think so. All right, can I sneak in one more? Yeah, all these decisions. Look, you signed the Andre Swift, you stick with the coaching staff, you bring in Shane Waldron, you trade for Keenan Allen and use a lot of your salary cap on that move. He's already missed two games. You neglect meaningfully addressing the interior of the offensive line. All of that to me falls at the feet of Ryan Poles. This can get better. It doesn't have to stay this way. But shot or no shot. If it doesn't get better, Ryan Poles will be on the hot seat. That's a no shot. They're all in on Caleb and this regime. I don't know about the coach, but he'll get to hire another coach. Yeah, I would say that Poles gets at least two coaches. Correct. I'm not pushing even Flus out the door. He's gonna push himself out the door if this team under achieves. I just know that what I saw as we're building this thing is mistakes by the head coach and the coaching staff too, Cap. Correct. That's all I'm saying. Just trying to be fair about it. Just watching the games are being fair and just analyzing that way. Not trying to be a coach killer. It's never been in my career. Never been a coach killer. But what I'm telling you is, is that this bear's team, the way it's stacked, is we look at this depth chart every morning, all this talent that they've put together, whether it's right or wrong. To me, it's good enough to be able to win football games and not do it in an embarrassing way. You can't have sideline decorum like we had yesterday, where who's on first, what's on second? Two, one, time out, what? Can't do it. You can't be right there on the doorstep of scoring and never get in. The way they did it time and time again, running the football, jamming it right into the line. And then that clown show play of that play that did not work that blew up for a minus 12. You can't do that. How about the decision of the Colts head coach to kick the ball deep and take a knee? And kneel, what? I think that was a mistake. It looked like Steichen was kind of waving, bearing that ball out. - He's looking for a time out there. - Okay, whether he was or wasn't, his players did not execute what he wanted done. - I mean, that was brutal. How about Kyros Santos, can't kick it through the end zone? Missed a 56 yarder short. We don't even get to attempt from 63 at halftime. Six points he left on the field potentially. In a game you lost by five. - That's why it's just frustrating that way the Bears lost the game because the Colts opened the door time and time again for you to go through it. And you wouldn't go through it. - You wouldn't go through it. - The Colts made mistakes. - And then Santos made what, a 54 yarder? - Yeah. - That was sailed through by five yards. - More of your phone calls coming up also. Matti reflues the head coach for the Bears. On the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000. - Welcome back to Kevin J. Hood. You're officially locked in. ♪ I know it's a win sky ♪ - On Chicago's home for sports. ESPN, Chicago. ♪ Will pair, will pair, will pair, will pair, will pair ♪ - It's a cap and J. Hood Morning Show on ESPN 1000. And streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with you till 10 o'clock. And then Mike Greenberg comes in at 10 followed by Carmine Yurko from 12 to three. Whatland Sylvia 230, black and dollar at 630 right here. On the home of the Chicago Bears, ESPN 1000. 3 1 2 3 3 2 3 7 6 is our phone number. Caleb Williams, the quarterback for the Bears, says that he is feeling the loss. - Definitely, definitely feeling the loss. It sucks every single time, you know, taking a loss. It never, never gets easier, never gets better. And so, you know, I say that I still am proud of my guys. Proud of the steps that we've taken so far. You know, the things we did today, compared to last week and the week before. The steps we were taking, you know, we're super excited about this future of the offense, the team, the defense, special teams. Obviously, you know, defense plan lights out. You know, obviously they don't want points being up on the board, but to have, I mean, I think it was two interceptions or so. You know, to have two interceptions on their side is all we need for offense, you know, to get those extra drives. And, you know, like I said, they're playing lights out. So, you know, those guys deserve to win. They work hard each week to go out and do what they do. They do it well, and we're gonna get better offensively. We're gonna be better, and the special teams wise, obviously, you know, we got a couple of different, you know, plays and puns and things like that, that, you know, did well for us. Couple of different returns, you know, but as offense as a team, definitely excited. I'm definitely proud of you guys. - Thoughts there from Caleb Williams. - Yeah, he's, I like his demeanor there, and it's never gonna get easy to lose, and he's growing, and it's gonna take time, and he's a rookie quarterback, but he did show progress. Now, again, the interception, the one where he hit a Dunes A in the chest, that's a force ball. There's two guys there. Hell of a play by their Colts defensive back. Hell of a play. But you forced that one in there, made it, it would have been a hell of a play to catch that football. And then the one you cannot, under any circumstance, throw is the one on the sideline. - Yeah. - That cannot happen. That's a horrible decision. But he also made progress. I saw progress in growth with Caleb. He threw for 363 yards, the 11th highest single game total in the history of the Chicago Bears franchise. I thought there were other things that were far more egregious, the usage of time outs. The play calling inside the four yard line. Those things were horrible. - All right, we're ready to hear from the head coach for the Bears, Matt Eber Flus. - Matt Eber Flus. - Eber Flus. - 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, all season. - You know, there's some really good players on both sides. Can that person function with that? - Matt Eber Flus. - With Captain Jayhood on ESPN Chicago. - It's the Captain Jayhood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago App. Watch our show on YouTube as well, YouTube.com. Make sure you check in to the ESPN Chicago and hit that subscribe button. Time to talk to the coach, Matt Eber Flus. And he's on the hotline. - Carx, tire, not a hotline. - Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom. - Don't worry, call the Carx name. - Good morning, coach, how are you? (audience applauding) - Do it well. - Coach, give us your overall thoughts in the game. You got a chance to review the film. What stood out most, watching it a second time? - Yeah, you look at the tape. You know, obviously you go through the missed opportunities that we had, you know, so really the things we got to clean up and we're looking at those. And there's also some things there that we did really well. I thought the ball distribution on offense was better. The explosive plays was better. We got more first downs. The third and fourth down percentage was good. You know, the pass pro was improved. Need to get better there. We were more committed to the run game. I thought that was well defensively. Again, I thought we played well on defense. Took them all away and did some really good things on third down as well. The QBR was not as good. And I thought we reacted really well and sudden change. So those are all the positives. And then things going forward we need to work on is, obviously eliminate, you know, the turnovers on offense. You know, the sack fumble obviously was a big play. You know, still establishing our run game and our identity there, I think it needs to be improved. And then defensively, you know, we have to eliminate some of those explosives. I think that's why they scored those touchdowns when they did. And then at the end of the game, our four minute defense has got to be better. We got to give the ball back to our offense at the end of it. But we had some missed opportunities, you know, on the goal line, as you guys know, the fourth plays inside the form ran, you know, three plays in there, then we ran the option play at the end. And I think that's, you know, get like a go back to what I said yesterday, that, you know, we have options there. The quarterback has options. We didn't execute the best way we wanted to there. And, you know, so that was unfortunate. And then, you know, really the opportunity at the end, you know, again, like I said, the defense has got to get the ball back for the O to be able to get that late touchdown so we can win that football game. Coach, I got to ask you about the third down call inside the four, because last year I was listening, you were on with Waddle and Sylvie, and they asked you about blocking a big with a small, and you said, no, that's a mistake, and that shouldn't happen. I just watched the tape about 15 times. I'm sure you've watched it, 1500. You guys are asking DeAndre Carter to block 94 Taekwon Lewis. He's outweighed by a 100 pounds. He got engulfed and actually tackled him into Khalil Herbert. Is that a mistake there? Or was that something that Shane drew up that way? Yeah, we just need to be better there, for sure. You know, we got to be better there. You know, as coaches, we got to be better on offense there, for sure, but again, we're going to get that, turn a plunge that in there. And again, we got to be better with the match up there. We agree with you on our last couple of appearances that you've had here talking about running the football. It is true that the Bears got to be able to run the football, establish the run, keep the offensive line intact, and it makes Khalil comfortable. Do you think that you're getting enough from the running game coach? Because we talked about it, you know, swift to struggling, you know, but at the same time, 28 carries for a 63 yards. I know you want more from that, from the running game. Yeah, so I think the running game is everybody. We know that, you know, it's the blockers up front. It's the blockers on the perimeter. And it's also, we believe in all of our backs. I think they all have a unique skill set. And I think, you know, we have to use all three of those guys to their skill sets. And going forward, we got to do a better job there. But again, we got to still establish our identity and establish the run game. Because it does help our quarterback. It does help the run action pass. It does help our roommate passes. It does help the screen game. So again, we're going to need that later in the year to lean on that. And we need to just keep developing it, get it better. Rocha Johnson looked good. It looked like his legs were fresh. He did. So that, as hoodie was just asking you about the run game, Matt, in terms of the fourth down play call-- and again, I wasn't a DC or I didn't play in the NFL. But I've watched a billion games. It looked to me, tell me if I'm wrong, that when Caleb came to the line of scrimmage on fourth down, he should probably-- was that a check with me? That he should have checked out of that when that ain't the front we thought they were going to run like they did two weeks ago, that either take a time out because you had them or run it to the other side. It looked like he misdiagnosed the front. Is that accurate? Well, it's like I said before. It comes down to execution. It comes down to the execution of the play. And again, we have options on the play. And we went with the play that was originally called there. So it comes down to execution. That's all it is. Mattie recluses the head coach for the Bears. He joins us, Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Coach, when you work with young players, especially rookies, like Caleb Williams or any other rookies in your career, how much is it is trying to accentuate the positives and hide the negatives as well, as far as Caleb? Just trying to get comfortable with the offense. Audibleing, being able to run with the football, is it about what makes him comfortable or is it about the play call? Well, I think it's both. I think it's both. I mean, you obviously have to honor the play calls that we put in there because that's how you operate on offense, but also it's given the quarterback to have some freedom there as well. You know, when he sees something to be able to either individually signal to a receiver or check the entire play, that's all part of offensive football. But again, like you said, there is a lot of positives out there in terms of the offensive play, in terms of, like I said, explosives, first downs, ball distribution, our situational football, third and fourth downs, way better. So again, there's a lot of positives to take away from this game. Again, the result isn't what we wanted, but there's a lot of positivity that we're going to build upon from this performance. So, Hoodie and I were having this discussion. I got two things here. One, can Caleb in that situation, whether it's the fourth down play or the third down play where he sees, uh-oh, here comes 94. DeAndre's not going to be able to block him. Does he have the autonomy to either a audible out of the play or I'm taking a timeout? This is not going to be good. Can he do that? You know, like I said, we have options on that particular play, you know, so we work with the first option and we have options there. And again, we didn't execute the best way we wanted to. OK, the other thing is-- Yes, it's what we're talking about. We're just trying to figure out, like, for Caleb, for any rookie, how comfortable are you in the offense? You could say, you know what? I see something different. Let's do, you know, maybe go to plan B or plan B. Like a rookie pitcher is going to follow with the catch up all the time. OK, my other question is, coach, I'm watching the game and you've got two fingers up to go for two. I see one of your assistants standing over your left shoulder. He's got one finger up. There's eight minutes to go in the game and then you have to burn a timeout on a two-point conversion. Can you take us through that situation? How that happened? Because you needed that timeout late. Yeah, so like I said last night, is exactly what I'm going to say now is what it is. Is that we've got to be better there. The communication has got to be better. We have to be better from the upstairs. Down to the bottom and communicate with everybody. And it's got to be better there. So again, that's on the coaches. It doesn't do it to players and we have to do a better job. You always say that you want to do what's best for the Chicago Bears as far as putting the best players out there, putting the position to win. So starting the game, Nate Davis was on the bench and then he was pressed in the service. What went into that change to put Nate Davis on the sideline and then being pressed in the service late in the first quarter? Yeah, so Nate Davis on Wednesday had a growing issue. And had during practice and then Matt stepped in. Matt Pryor stepped in and again, he didn't get full reps in the whole week in terms of Nate didn't. And that was in there. So we went with Matt Pryor. How do you think Pryor did? I thought he did solid. I thought he did solid. I thought, you know, there's a couple of plays that, you know, he wished he had back. But for the most part, I thought his run blocking was good. Past Pro was solid. You know, you had to one miss at the end there. But I thought for overall, it was pretty solid. Coach, do you feel like and everyone has talked about, if your players have talked about what an elite defensive play caller that you are? But does it take away? Jimmy Johnson was talking. It said, yeah, I never wanted to call the plays or call the defenses once I became a head coach because I got to be focused on things. If I'm thinking about my defense against Anthony Richardson, I might miss something I want to see offensively. Is that ever been a concern for yours that, yeah, I like calling the defenses, but it is distracting at times. Oh, no, it is not. It is not. It's I have a great, great defensive staff. Like I said, you know, they do a great job with the adjustments when I'm on the offensive side managing the game. And they do a great job. Give me all the information we need in terms of calling it for the next series. I give them things to look at when I'm on the offensive side. So I am going to come back to them. They have the answers for it. And they've been outstanding that way. Coach, what's the latest on Ken and Alan? As we watch these games, we just know on 3rd down. If he held me as a safety valve, it would be him for the first down. He's made his living on 3rd down play. So what's the latest on Kenan? Yeah, so our players are coming back in today. And I'll get the latest on everybody here shortly. You know, they come in and they're about an hour. And we'll see everybody then. And we'll see where it is in terms of injury, in terms of guys and back in the building, what they can do this week. And we'll find that out from the training staff. Any injuries that you knew of coming out of last night? Just Terrell Smith, Smitty. That's all we had was he was beat out for the game. And I think it's in the lower body hip or hip flexor. OK, lastly, you know, about the defense. You know, you talked about late in the game, trying to get the ball back to the offense. So, so, Kathy, the whole thing was, you know, that you have a two headed, two guys that can run the football well. It's Richardson at the quarterback position and Taylor, right? And so, I think that the Bears account themselves pretty well defensively. You know that you, those two guys could run the football, but the passing game pretty much taken out of the equation, right? Yeah, you guys did a good job against Anthony Richardson, except for a busted play that I think Jalen said that was on him. Oh, you tell that the pass? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, again, obviously, Pearson's a really fast player. He gets over the top on a bunch of people. And again, we just got to execute the techniques better there. But overall, I thought we did a good job in the passing game. Like I said, we got to do a better job with the run average against those guys. And, you know, we'll be committed to doing that. All right, coach, have a good week. OK, thank you, guys. Thank you, coach. It is Maddie Refluse, the head coach for the Chicago Bears. On the hotline. The Car X, tire, and auto. [MUSIC PLAYING] Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom. [MUSIC PLAYING] Don't worry, call the Car X name. Captain Jay Hood weekday morning 7 to 10.