Kap & J. Hood
9/19 7 AM: Chicago Blues: Bears Problems & Cubs NOT ALIVE!
Hour 1: The guys discuss the Chicago Blues with our professional sports teams. The national sports media over blew DJ Moore's body language on the field after Caleb Williams missed him on a pass. The Cubs are NOT ALIVE due to their 77-75 record and 6 ½ games back in the Wildcard race with 10 games left. Your thoughts on the Chicago Blues.
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Chicago, this is your morning routine. Listen to this fucking mini cap and G hood. That's right. That's right. We bad. Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app and on there. 100.3 HD to and on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. Bring them out. Bring them. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Oh, God. Welcome in to the cap and chain and morning show on ESPN 1000 and we're streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. What David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Jack. We've got Jay Moore. We've got you for a three hour ride on this deal breakers Thursday when open phone lines for you. Three, one, two, three, two, three, seven, seven, six is our telephone number and cap. We inch closer and closer to the Bears and the Colts. But we were able to hear from Eddie Defluice. He got a chance to talk to the press yesterday. Of course, you and I get a chance to talk to the coach after every Bears game right here on cap and J hood on ESPN 1000. And you know, the theme of his press conference cap is, you know, the dependent Mike Club was going to ask is about the offensive line seems like the theme was continuity. That was the key phrase yesterday. Yes, he wants to keep everything with continuity to the best of their ability because they're banged up. If you look at the injury report from yesterday, Kevin Jenkins got a thigh and Nate Davis shockingly was limited. So there they are a little bit banged up on the offensive line. Obviously they had their lunch money taken away from them by the Houston Texans the other day. But here's the thing I would say to you, if the guys that are backups can't beat out the guys we have already, then I guess continuity is the one thing that you can have going for you and keep trying to fix it. Maybe run more downhill rather than trying to stretch the defense, trying to go around the end where you're on a silent count. That may be what they have to do again this week because of the noise in a domed building. So you better play play well, you better be better. So the thoughts for Matty were flus here, the head coach for the Bears. First of all, let's talk to us here from him talking about offensive line continuity. Will there be changes? Well, Kevin's not out there today, but that's not going to be a change. So we're in there for him. But as we all know, but I would say that right now, no. Yeah, I mean, we're looking for continuity and consistency in communication and getting better. That's what we're focused on. So I just think like I go back to my original comment, it's fundamentals, it's basics, you know, and it's important that we get that down as a group. And so we're going back to that. That's what went football game. So how about your offensive identity? Who are you? We're working. Yeah, we're working. You know, so it's we're working and guys are working in fundamentals and and we're figuring out what we do. Well, you know, it's a second game in our offense, you know, so we're going to figure it out. You know, I believe that we got better last week, you know, in terms of rhythm, timing, passing, distributing the ball to the skill. Okay. Now we're working run game, all the other things that come off of that. And like I said, we're working progress. And I believe in the coaches and I believe in the players and the guys are working to get that done. He hasn't known the choice cap. I know that people listening to this recoil at what he just said for 30 seconds. But when you look at your roster, this is who you are for now. Now I trust that Ryan polls looks at the same issues that we see and says, if there's someone that's available, I will pick them up and I will do what it takes to be able to keep this team and the quarterback upright because that's important. The numbers are what they are kept. Instead of getting comfortable with the short passing game, Caleb Williams was trying to make too much happen. And that's because the offensive line was rickety. He's just got four point. He's got four yards per pass attempt. That's 59th out of 60 qualified passes in the NFL last year. That's what it would be last year. He would have been almost dead last with four yards per attempt. Only worse would be Dorian Thompson Robinson. He remember him from last year that had 3.9 yards per attempt. So again, the offensive line gets you there. That's why it looks the way it does. Right. And do you would you say 29 out of 30? Was that the number? It's 59th out of 60. That's what it would have been last year for doing four yards per play attempt. Correct. Yeah. So let me give you a stat for those pouring their coffee or going to work, taking the kids to school. And they're like, Oh God, it's just the same old table versus the Houston Texans in a clean pocket where his offensive line held up. Caleb Williams, 76% of his passes completed for 141 yards and no picks. Those are outstanding numbers. Sure. Well, how did he do when he was under duress? 33% of his past is completed for 33 yards and two picks. Damn. Yes. Now, having said that, we all know we all watch the NFL. We all watch football. We know that there's going to be times where a quarterback is going to have to move out of the pocket. He's going to have to move around because the offensive line does not hold up. So it's never going to be perfect. But what you just laid out there is when the offensive line did hold up for a three seconds or less, you saw Caleb Williams being able to flourish. That mean touchdowns. But again, the ball was getting down the field. Right. And he was six fastest in getting the ball out. Now, one of the big things that bears did not like about Justin Fields. He didn't get the ball out on time. How many times is Jay Moore played? Throw it. And we're going to have our guy Tom Thayer on today. That was the play that he got heard on against Minnesota when he held the ball and held the ball. And all of a sudden, he dislocates his thumb. If you get the ball out on time, you're still playing. Tyson Beijing wouldn't have seen the field. And it opened their eyes to we can do better. They got the number one pick and better. They believe is Caleb Williams. You got to keep the kid clean. You got to keep him upright. Did he make mistakes? Absolutely. He's a rookie quarterback in a league full of grown ass men with the evil intent when they come off the ball. That's a fact. It's not going to be the last pick he throws. They have got to establish the run. I scream that every, you know, I say that to you walking the elevator down in the parking garage every day. Got to run the football. That will open up the ability to hit the deep ball. And then when you get one, Keenan Allen or DeAndre Carter or Romadunze or DJ Mo, you got to hit it. You got to hit him. I know people don't want to hear continuity, but just understand what the bears have done. And again, it's more good than bad as far as how the rosters build cap. It's just that here we are again, this time during the NFL season talking about offensive line issues. If Justin feels is the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Now he'd go through the same issues that Caleb's going through. Correct. Because, but of course Justin's a guy that holds a ball too long, but he does make those splash plays here or there. We've always seen that with Pittsburgh right now. We're keeping our eyes on Justin feels obviously because we want that draft pick. We want that fourth round pick. Correct. And I think that he will get 51% of the snaps. But the point is that no matter who's back there, and this is not trying to hold on to the, the apron strings of Justin Fields. What we're saying is is that whoever's back there cap, if you don't have time, it's not going to work. That means your running game doesn't work. That means your quarterback can't get it down the field. And so it's the same issue. My, my whole point is is that when even flu says continuity, he says that because they have no choices right now. I think moving forward throughout the season, there will be choices. That also tells me that when he says he believes in continuity, that sounds like that Nate Davis is going to start against the Colts. If he says continuity, unless they look at it and evaluate it more and say, Hey, Matt Pryor, you ready? He says continuity. That means I think that Davis is going to play on Sunday. It sounds like it. Yeah, it sounds like he wants him out there. He's certainly their most gifted right tackle, a right guard. Certainly they're most gifted. Matt Pryor's a backup for a reason. Who's the other kid? Bill Murray? Yep. He's a better actor than an offensive lineman, obviously. So this is an opportunity against a Colts team that's given up over 200 yards a game on the ground. But you got to stay wedded to that attack. And then when they are loading up the box, okay, Caleb, we're going downtown. We take shots. You got to make those plays when you get those opportunities. But you that's how Green Bay won last week. We're going to run the ball. We're going to run it right down your throat. We'll make a few plays in the passing game. We just got to get on the plane with a victory. That's it. I don't care if you win three. There's nothing to be honest with you. I'd like to see more. You got to be two and one. It's a winnable football game. Let's pull the curtain back. You want to pull a curtain back? Let's do it. Kind of always do that on this show. I slept at the curtains open last night because my wife has been out of town on business. I this is true. I hate being alone in the house. Like during the day I come home. I got the dogs and I eat my whatever I get my finish my work. When my wife's gone, I can't sleep two o'clock in the morning. I'm sending text to you guys with stuff I want on the show. I can't sleep. I hate it. So the curtains were wide open. I need the moonlight to shine in because I hate the dark. The moonlight you said. I did prefer the moonlight shining in. I want the cars going by. I can hear them. I can let the headlights shining in. I hate being alone. I don't like it. At night. I don't like it. I think somebody's going to come get you. It's not that. I got the alarm on. It's not that. The alarm will stop. Okay. All right. I just I can't sleep being in bed by myself. Not a fan. No one's going to get you. You've got three dogs and you get an alarm, but you don't like being alone. No. Okay. Coming back today. You would think that the dogs will give you enough attention. You can give them an audience, but that's sleeping right there in bed with me. I know they can't respond back to your nonsense. No. Yeah. I know that's got to be tough. First world problems. What I was going to say is pulling the curtain back when it comes to offensive geniuses. You've been around them in basketball, whether as a broadcaster or as a coach and self on the other side. You know, the offensive genius loves to show you stuff. They love to show you these plays cap. They love this. Hey, see this? You can't stop this cap. You see this right? Put this play this play. You can't stop it. And the offensive geniuses, you know, like Matt Nagy will have this voluminous book of different plays and tricks and all this other stuff. That's the reason why he flourished in his first view with the bears. Same thing with the shaking hands of Shane Waldron. Have you seen the videos in the game? Like he's so intense. He makes a cup of coffee nervous. His hands is shaking. It's like, you know, it's no wonder Caleb can't get through this guy's hands shaking. Right. Pull up the videos. They're all social media. What? What? He's such a genius. He just like, he kicked his even breathing. Here we go. I was with one of the players at an event the other day. And I said, how about your OC with shaking his hand? He's like, what do you mean? Like, did you not see the play sheet shaking? He's like, dude, I'm in the middle of the game. No, I'm just saying. Hang on a minute. I pulled it up on social media. He's like, oh, I'm going to drill him in the trash. Man, listen, I know the intensity is there. Like, I mean, the adrenaline is flowing. He's going to get carpled tunnel just because how hard he holds the play sheet. Calm down. Geez. Can I see the trainer? My wrist is killing me. What are you doing? No wonder you can't get plays off. Stop shaking the sheet for God's sake. You make a very, very lucid point. Oh, well, well, my point, the whole point of that, besides the bit of him, it's actually not in a bit. Just watch him and he's just hand shaking. The point is, is that you say and I say they should run the football more, but that takes away from the genius. That's what your lucid point is. I knew where you were going. Yes. Could we discuss that? What did Matt Nagy say when he first got here? I'm not here to run the I formation. Correct. The T formation. And my response to him once was, dude, you're here to win football games. I have a way I want to win those games. Well, that didn't work out. So you're the back is the O C and K C. The whole thing is like Kyle Shanahan, who I think waddle like his that's his bromance. Sure. Sure. Kyle Shanahan showed me something when they beat the Packers in Green Bay and the was it the NFC title game or the first round, second round of playoffs. And they ran the football effectively. Yes. And then they went to the NFC title game and they threw seven passes. Seven. Yes. And after the game, somebody said, you're an offensive wizard. Youth for seven passes. And he said, you know what I've learned? The runs working. Why not stick with it? Of course. But you're right. Shane Waldron and Matt and Aggie and all these other guys. They got to show you how cute they are. I just see that play we ran. No, I would rather you hand the ball off to Roshan Johnson and pick up the three yards. Yeah. What happened with the sticks? What happened when Santa's sleigh didn't work? He got fired. That's it. You know, look at this razzle dazzle. How about that? Hitting people in the in the ribs with his elbow. Like, ah, look at that. Uh huh. Pretty good. Okay. So for guys like Shane Waldron, and again, you give him all credit in the world. He turned around Gino Smith's career. He worked with Russell Wilson. Did he not a little bit in Seattle? Point is those that a I know that you have this voluminous book and you have all these different plays. But again, for the first time, you're working with a rookie quarterback. Ease him in. Don't give him the advanced test. Give him the intermediate test. Correct. Meaning that if you run the football 30 times, no one's going to say that guy's terrible as an offensive coordinator. They'll say, Hey, you know, what's smart game plans? Especially if you win. Don't feel like you just got to, well, we got to be able to put these plays in. And of course, it all has to work in concert cap. But I'm saying is, as you well know, and we know this from the basketball standpoint, the quote unquote offensive coordinator for a basketball team, it's got to show you how to be able to get that open three. Let me show you how we did it. Look at the up and under we able to do and look for the open man. Let me show you how we just get the basket. Don't worry about the razzled out. Just just show me how you can get to the game. Can I get two points three points? Well, do we need to run those four double screens and we ran right down to the shot clock? Yes. I just threw it into 54. He's a big guy and he laid it in. Yes. That's the way he's your play. That's what I would say to Shane Waldron that sometimes you can have a book and he's like, man, we got all these great plays. Well, you know what? Sometimes you have to take that book and just give him just a little bit. Right. And just for it, just give him a little bit more. That's all. It just, I don't, you don't have to outsmart the room. Just win games. That's it. That's my point. That's it. Just win the football game. That's all I care about. 312332 ESPN 3332 3276 our phone. Have you heard from Matt? He was talking about continuity with the offensive line. That means that it's going to be the same going into the Colts game based on what we heard yesterday. Do you think that the Bears can beat the Colts without changes to the offensive line? Let's get your thoughts in also still to come from thoughts from DJ Moore. Did you have to apologize to Caleb? You'll hear from DJ Moore next on the cap and Jhood Morning Show. Hi, Tracy. You know how tight it is? Captain Jhood are back. Oh, Captain Jhood, big fan, man. Ba-ba-ba-ba. Watch out, fellas. All Chicago's home for sports. ESPN, Chicago. Here's hoping that you're going to have a great Thursday. It's a deal breakers Thursday here on the cap and Jhood Morning Show. Deal breakers at 835. The great Tom Thayer will join us at 9 o'clock and talk Bears and Colts at 312-332 ESPN 3332-3776 is our telephone number. Still to come, we'll talk about the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago National League Ball Club. We've got some. Captain and I are going to have a heart to heart about the Cubs at 735 here on ESPN 1000. Better make sure that they turn the radios off at 1060 West Addison. That would be the address to Wrigley. I understand. Because you want the truth? Brother, I have not been this ticked off with a team. Like, OK, the Bears have been going through a rebuild. It is what it is. Don't tell me. And I said, you guys, the audio of Tom Rick, it's addressing the team. I texted at two o'clock in the morning where he said, we can win the division and we got to work hard and blah, blah, blah. Like what? Of course, more of that comes your way to 735 here on cap and J. Hood. Get me going. We turned out it will be Mount Cap. Yes. Well, so I know. All right. No, I just want to just let people know that it's coming. So that's that's important. People need to know here to compete my ass. OK, well, again, 735. OK, talk about the Cubs. It will be it's coming at 735. It's coming. Thank you, Dan Hurley. We turn now to DJ Moore. DJ Moore, why receiver of the Chicago Bears? This is the most ridiculous controversy we've had in some months around here. Well, it's really ridiculous cap. So, of course, over the last, I would say, decade, we're looking at sideline demeanor now because now we have to look at body language, which is the most weird thing, body language and sideline demeanor. And of course, the slow mo's trying to read the lips of players. That's what we do now, Cap. Instead of just watching the games and hearing the sound bites, we have to look at sideline demeanor. So we saw DJ Moore clearly frustrated and I think we got aggregated. I think ad ESPN 1000 on Twitter about this, right? About our thoughts about DJ Moore, whether or not it's overblown. Correct. Whether you know, he doesn't get the football. He goes to the sideline and he says something to Tyson Beigeant. Just like how he's just disappointed in the offense or disappointing in him that he can't do more for the team. And so he had to address this yesterday. He was frustrated. Yes. Yes, he was. Yes, he was frustrated. Yeah. Yeah, I shouldn't have shown as much, but it's the part of the game. You know, like I said, we was one player away from the game changing and we just couldn't connect like nobody on offense could connect with that one play or get the one play started to get us on track to go up. So, I mean, I mean, the football everybody's going to have the ups and downs and frustrations. So it's like that playing that game of cards cap. You're just a card away. You're almost winning. And you and that's what it felt like, even though the scoreboard was what, seven points, six points away. You just couldn't punch it in again for a touchdown. So, of course, he's frustrated. Correct. And then he had the back shoulder throw. He ran a good route and Caleb's under duress and can't get the football through him. Looking at it, like, I didn't think it was, but until you look at the TV and then it's like blown up and I'm like, all right, that's enough. And then, you know, you could do some self-evaluation. I would say that I say that it was too much. That's going to scare you away now from it. No, it's not true, so no, it's not. I just didn't know that it was like every chance the camera got. They caught that angle like I used to sit on a bench like that anyway. So I don't I don't know what that's about, but it's not because, you know, like when I started how great this offense can be, like. Yeah, and like I said, we were chasing that one play and we just couldn't get it. So I was like, bro, all right. Now, like we really need to somebody anybody get it going in and we just couldn't. So that was the real frustration. That's the whole thing, Cap. I've seen this here and there on social media, like DJ Moore hates Caleb Williams. They're super tight. Caleb came to his camp for him. These guys hang out together. They do not hate each other. That's just stupid. He was he frustrated? Yeah, he's an approval caliber number one wide receiver who wants to win. He hasn't won in his career. He played for the freakin panthers and then came to the Bears and won seven games. Gotta keep it phony now when the camera's watching. And as you shouldn't have to, Jay Moore, that's the whole thing. Like it's just it's just something that you could just pick at. You look at television like, Oh, I'll kill up Williams and DJ Moore's on the same page. No, the frustration is is that they know how good they can be. They just couldn't get that touch and they could not connect. Correct. That's the whole thing. And it and you know, DJ Moore, the way I looked at it was tell him, Tyson Page, man, come on. We're so close and we just can't we can't see him to be on the same page. We can win this game and we can't. But the one thing I would say to you and he addressed it. In today's time with social media and 78 different cameras and drones over the stadium so they can get all these different shots, he even he said, OK, it was too much. Not and he's not talking about what people's reaction is his reaction. You could be vent, be upset, get angry, I get it and that's cool. There's a line. There's just a line. OK, but I mean, you cannot beat the competitor out of the competitor cap. Agreed. If it's on your sleeve, it's on your sleeve, man. So so now what Jay Moore just laid out is keep it phony, meaning that, you know, if you are going through struggles, just trot back to the huddle and have a chuckle on the sideline. But isn't there a happy meeting? Like, let's say we did a segment and then you read a commercial and you stumbled over it like I do every day. Well, let me tell you about Falcon. Oh, spit it out. Felco. Yeah. And then we go to break, go back to Jay Moore. He's playing whatever else. Yeah. And you took your headset and you whipped it across the studio and you started screaming. That's a little over the top. Now, if I said hoodie, please don't throw your headset this way. You're going to hit me one time and I'm not going to be happy with you. Does it mean you're going to be phony the next time there's a happy medium? It is. But see, if that was on Twitch, it takes a life of his own. Exactly. And then he'd be like, OK, it's a little bit much. I got to dial it down. I look like an idiot throwing my headset against the window here because I screwed up. I've produced that before. I know what that looks like. I've been around that. No, exactly. What's personality with that have been? Brother, let me tell you something. That be our guy, Danny Mack. No, that be not McNeil. Oh, he wouldn't do that. Huge. No, Simon said. No, I was hosting when Simon was here. His analysis, my old man, or he would never have done that. Yeah, that's OK. Shout out to Murph listening as we turn now to DJ Moore. He apologizes the killer depends on which one you talk about. I mean, like everybody just was making some not. I mean, people just at you and it don't even be really, really nothing. And then none of the frustration was at anybody. Like I said, it was at like chasing the plate. So I mean, I'm sorry to Caleb nationally. I don't know. I mean, shouldn't have to apologize to Caleb Williams. Shouldn't have to do it just it's completely overblown. Hey, man, there's two types of players. There's a guy that's going to wear it on his sleeve and the other one is going to just, you know, take it all in and be quiet. There's it's hard to have to have you. I mean, once you are underachieving, or if there's something that's happening to play, man, you're a competitor. You don't think about your you don't think about your sideline demeanor cap. You just don't. I mean, look at you as a coach. You're out of your mind. If you think about your sideline demeanor, you're on sports channel, Chicago. People could see what you were doing. And until I got reprimanded by the league. Yeah, for chasing an official off the floor. But your days, those games are televised. You're out of your mind. And Jim Lessig, the old commissioner, I don't know, he's still alive, said, you're going to go to the locker room. The next game you have Tom Clark, the official. Tom Clark did the final four. Yeah, but it'd be out of Northern game. You're going to walk into the locker room and you're going to apologize to him. And you will never do that again. We lost 93 to 56 and I chased him off the floor. Yeah. Like it was his fault. Yes, exactly right. That's true. I walked in and he said, I knew you were coming to see me. If I lost, maybe I blew a call. You lost my three. I'm sorry, I missed that one. You're lost by almost 40. Yeah. And it was his fault, of course, because I was an idiot. All the controversy, if there is a controversy, is how does the offensive line get better? How does Caleb get better? This is not a controversy. DJ Moore and him talking to Tyler to Tyson Beigeant is not a controversy. It is not. But again, people slow mode, if I'm not mistaken, Jay Moore, didn't Collinsworth say something too? I believe that you had that cut from Monday. Yeah, I got you. Put it up. Yeah. So it starts there, right? Collinsworth. It starts right there, Cap. Yeah, he was, he said, I'll do something to affect DJ Moore as it looked happy. Yeah, I mean, of course he's not happy. They're blowing their opportunity to drive it down and win. Geez. 312-332-ESP as our phone number, Justin and Dallas, Texas, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Hey, Justin, good morning. Good morning, Cap. Good. I hope all is well. I'm disgusted right now. Why is DJ Moore apologizing for anything? He looks soft right now. No, he doesn't. Why? Why? What do you apologize for? Yeah, you look frustrated. We are frustrated. And then he didn't even say anything. He just looked frustrated within the clip. So what do you apologize for? Because he, as he said, when you watch it, okay, it's a little, it's an off. Okay. You're frustrated. We get it. You can't look like you're showing up a teammate. You can't. Yeah. Cap, how is he? How can you not express your feelings? He was upset. What do you apologize for? That's the problem. That's the problem. That's going to be the problem with this team. What do you, you gotta hold, hold it accountable. I apologize. I don't disagree, you hold people accountable. But again, you got to go to work with the guy every day and you got to develop the relationship. It was a little over the top. Justin, it's starting with Chris Collinsworth on Sunday Night Football. Once again, the takes is great pressure. Well done. One day, back shoulder for more, incomplete. We're going to force down, bring out the field goal unit. And I know what DJ Moore is thinking. He goes, look, man, I squeeze that quarter to the middle of field. I left you five yards on the boundary out there. There was a lot of room for that back shoulder, just not enough time on task yet between those two. That was an opportunity. He's calling the slow-mo there, the replay, and then he sees the frustration from Moore is like, man, we got a chance to get that ball and there's nothing wrong with it. Yeah. You agree? Yes. There's nothing wrong with showing the emotion. Did he go over the top? A little bit. And that's what he said. I watched the video. I'm like, I went a little over the top. It's so ridiculous, man. The Cubs and the Brewers, you know, they are laughing at the Cubs in Milwaukee this morning. And we're going to talk about it coming up next. Why are they laughing? You find out next on Captain J. Hook. They don't like our team. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Captain J. Hook are back on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. Captain J. Hook on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with you till 10 o'clock then Mike Greenberg comes in at 10 o'clock followed by Carmen and your girl, they'll broadcast live from 93 octane brewery in St. Charles. Wildland Sylvia from Hallows Hall at 3 o'clock. Bears weekly with Jeff and Tom at 6.30 and then bucket of dollar at 7.30. I'll part of the mix right here on ESPN 1000. So the Cubs lose to the athletics yesterday by score five to three. And because the Cubs lost, that means that the Milwaukee Brewers are the National League Central Division champions. But of course, on top of that, the Brewers said, okay, in case the Cubs win the game we'll take care of ourselves. So they found out before their game that they clinched. But then step is all fastballs. And a base hit in the right that's your ball game. Jake Bowers, a walk off single and the night the Brewers clings the National League Central. Before they as you heard from Brian Anderson and the rock on the Brewers television cap. So even before the game, the Brewers knew that they clinched, they were celebrating before then, but then the cherry on their Sunday is that they walked off the Phillies. Could you tell the audience why the Chicago Cubs are 77 and 75 this morning? Because they've blown 25 saves, 17 of which have ended in losses, games that you had the lead in. Yes. Are they great offensively? No. Yes, are they a reasonably talented team and have made some smart decisions? Michael Bush, or, you know, that was a good one in Menaga. That was a good move. Sure. Not enough. This is Chicago, freakin Illinois. This is give you New York, give you Chicago. Those are the top two sports markets, in my opinion, Phillies right there in Boston. Everybody else is a freakin pretender. We act like we're in Kansas City, Minneapolis, Omaha. I'm off for playing young kids. You know that, but stop acting like we're like a blind man with a stick and black glasses and I'm walking around begging with a cane and a cup. That's how we act and it's embarrassing. And I know what they'll say to me. We spent 230 something, then you spent it in a piss poor manner. You spent $235 million on that team, then you do not spend wisely. You entered a season whereby your own admission. I have the audio of Tom Ricketts, who's a good dude. Tom Ricketts saying we can win the division, we're going to have to work our talking to the team. It's going to be an awesome season. We should win this division. But everybody's got to work really hard to get there and hope you guys are ready for it. We should win this division. Smokey was in the locker room. Go ahead. Did he not say it? Play it one more time, please. All right. Smokey also or? It's going to be an awesome season. We should win this division. But everybody's got to work really hard to get there and hope you guys are ready for it. Surprise, surprise. We should win this division. Why was Smokey in there? That is the chairman of the board of the Cubs. That is the guy. And he said to the team that was not in a season ticket holder event. It was not an old crow smokehouse. That was at the facility in spring training. We should win the division. And you didn't. You finished way up the track, way up the track. You just lost two of three to the Rockies. They're a billion under 500. You just lost two of three to Oakland. They lost two of three to the horrible White Sox. You suck. That's what the Cubs do. They middle everything. Well, we got a couple guys that we just can't afford Josh Hader. He's only got 31 saves with the Houston Astros. Why does Houston spend into oblivion? And again, it's not about how much you spend within reason. I'm not telling you spend 50 million. I wonder why you don't win. But that's where I fight back with Nick Friedel. All he does is bitch about how much they do or don't spend. The Brewers are like 100 million less than the Cubs. That's our third playoff appearance at four years because they spend wisely. They develop better. Okay. Let me just say this. This drives me insane. The Brewers won the division again. They have made the playoffs in six of the past seven years and won the division four times in that span. You know this facts was happening with the Brewers, small market Brewers. Let me say this that you've given that old country song about the Cubs and why they aren't being able to be in contention for the playoffs or in the division about the bullpen and these other things. Can I just give you the other side of it? So the Milwaukee Brewers somehow this season, you thought that this would be the season they would step back, right? Like the Brewers have had their success under Craig Council. Right. They had to get rid of Corbin Burns. Yeah. Corbin Burns. Okay. So the lockdown closer, Devin Williams suffered a back injury that cost him months. And so here's the thing that you look at, you know that the Brewers have had 17 starters this year. Do you know the Brewers have also had 12 Closers, 12 different guys to close games this season. The Brewers. They have the fourth best ERA. They scramble with their pitching all season long. They have 49 wins against above 500 teams. And the cherry on the craft Sunday is that Craig Council's old college coach and his former bench coach, Pat Murphy, is leading the charge. He'll be the manager of the year, but here's the, but here's the point of all this. You talk about what the Cubs don't have. What about what the Brewers didn't have, but found a way to be able to beat good teams. Nobody beat good teams more than the Brewers did last year or this season. And you say, well, who are the names, Contreras, Jackson Churio, he's 20 years old. He couldn't even be part of the celebration. He couldn't even be in the locker with the celebration because he's 20. Did you see the setup they had for him and like a little stroller for him with an alcoholic beer? Yeah. Not alcoholic beer and milk. I think there was milk in there. That's how they were with. That's how they won games this year cap. So in this, in this parallel, let me just tell you something that's going to hurt you, but you need to hear it. So in this scenario, the Brewers are the Packers and the Cubs are the Bears. Fair. Just telling you like this is, how does small market green Bay keep doing this to the Bears? Same thing with the Brewers. This is the same scenario where you believe that you're in the bigger city. You should be able to spend more money. You should be better, but yet little Milwaukee continues to be the rock in your shoe. You are the Bears and they are the Packers. Yeah, and it drives me insane. If we had Jackson Churio, you know where he'd be right now? Iowa. Yeah. Double A Tennessee. Smokies. They went 20 year old kid really good and guess, look it up. You know what? They paid him before he saw one pitch in the big leagues. They signed him on an international deal when he was like, I don't know, 16. Yeah. They developed him properly. And then they said, we believe in you so much. Here's $80 million. $80 million. You know, we would have done well, we're going to hold you back for 10 games. So we can get the extra year out of you will suppress your service time and we'll keep you at Tennessee for two months. And then if you earn your way to Iowa, but we're not going to bring you up in September because heaven forbid we bring you up in September, we start your service time clock. I mean, what is the asinine way? We do things here. Asinine. I'm telling you and here's the thing about them. They realized that sure, you know, after this first deal, probably gone. They know that it's a turn style in Milwaukee. That's the other thing that's got to piss you off is that you have the infrastructure to hold on the players for, you know, long stretches, you know, how the brewers do it. If they find stars, they'll try to keep them. They'll say, well, this is what we can afford based on our small market. Sorry, I'll leave. Okay. We'll just go in the minor league system and find more. And you know how long his contract is? Eight years, 82 million. Yeah. He signed through 2033 and then he'll hit age 28, turn to 29, and they'll be like, all right. Bye. Bye. Or they'll trade him the year before and get a bunch of prospects back and develop them. Yep. And we'll still be here going, well, I can't believe they're not in on Juan Soto. The brewers won't even make a call on Juan Soto. No. They're not, but they'll keep out doing us because they do it better. Their business model is better than yours. Yes. And you've got all these revenue streams. You've got college hockey in January. You've got concerts. You got everything else going there. Correct. And by the way, Amfam Field, not winterized. So they can't have as many events there. Correct. So they can't, they'd love to have a WrestleMania or a lot more concert. They can't do it. Right. Don't stay in. They can't even use it in the winter, really. See the difference? It's just amazing to me. But you know, I have a house in Wisconsin. Yep. I will go to the gas station and there'll be a thing. Three tanks of gas and get a free brewers ticket. They don't draw like Riggly. He feels like the 80s. The ATM machine that is Riggly Field, own every rooftop in the area. They've done a great job on the business side. Crane and his team, they've developed it. They've got all these revenue streams, hotels, restaurants. They don't have any of that at Milwaukee. We've been to games there together. I was just there with Jay Moore and Shea. But they keep winning cap. They had the formula. Yes. Don't matter. And by the way, the expensive manager, non playoff team, going home in October. Correct. So long, counsel. Correct. He's got to be pissed too. Okay. So it got a break. I know one thing. Explain to me where the level of accountability is then. What will change? Well, we really, we just don't think we could be active on any of the big name free. Okay. Well, how are you going to change this thing? Run the same damn team out there again. Cap and Jay Hood, weekday morning, 7 to 10. You know how tight it is. Okay. Spout that time. You're tuned in to the Cap and Jay Hood show. Everything ain't hardcore. You know. I'm on Chicago's home for sports ESPN Chicago. Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app, William Contreras, Jackson Churio, Bryce Terang, one of the best defensive second baseman in all of baseball. I mean, it's all there and also a great stolen base guy, 44 bags of 50 attempts. Poor Jack. Jack. All you have to hold on to is Nico Horner. As a co-founder, that's all you have. She's catch the other night. Yeah, I did. I did. I was thinking about you when I saw that because that's the biggest Nico Horner fan we have here. But you know, it's, you heard, uh, Captain, I talking about it. There's a parallel there with the bears in the Packers and the Cubs and the Brewers in that the Brewers find a way you would think they don't have their star manager, Craig council. You know, they're going to take a step back, no Corbin Burns, Yellich, you know, had the season ending back surgery in August. It's been a scramble for them pitching wise, but they've been able to piecemeal together to be a actually a dominant team in the central hoodie. It's just so frustrating that we cry poor again. I'm not expecting to spend with the Dodgers spend, they get seven billion dollar TV deal. We didn't timing didn't work out, whatever may not be the Yankees, but guess what? Try just a little. You entered the season without a closure and you blew 25 saves for crying out loud. Just be decent and you're in the playoffs. Instead, nope, nope, not going to do it. Captain Bruce had 12, 12 closers this year. They're all 12 better than what we ran out there to say. You watch. I'm going to tell you exactly what's going to happen that makes some cosmetic move something. They'll try and cut a little payroll because they'll forget Hendrix money off the books. I think they have one more year to pay Hayward. I think they're done paying Lester finally after this year. Like all of that. And they'll cut the payroll down, it'll still be more than anyone in the debate. Well, we're spending the most in the debate. Porter Hodge will be the closer. You better be right. Porter Hodge better be good, but your seventh and eighth has to be solid also. And then again, don't turn a blind eye to the offense cap. It's not enough. It's just not enough. The Brewers have done less than more with less than the Cubs have. As much as I always tell you the Cubs need more, the Cubs have more offense, I would think, on paper than the Brewers, but yet the Brewers find a way to win ball games. All season long. Well, who would you rather have? Will he Adamus or Dan's be Swanson? Well, I need the offense. So Adamus, he's not a bad defender. I'm just saying like, you know, I don't have the time, we don't have the time for the full breakdown. What I'm telling you is, is that as a collective, they find a way to win. Will he Adamus signed a one year contract with the Brewers for 12.2. Well, we're signing 18,000 year deals for 177 million. Even if will he Adamus was bad and he's not. Guess what? They get out of it after one year. We're stuck with another Hayward contract. Jaymore, can we officially say the Cubs are not alive? You're a bad guy, Jaymore. I'm sorry with you. I'm sorry. Silvie texted me yesterday. That little jackass. What do you say? Still alive. Shout out, no shot. Two minutes. In a minute. Silvie Jesus. On Capitol J Good. Right. Bye!