Kap & J. Hood
9/18 9 AM: Should Bears Fans Relax?
Hour 3: The Bears need major help at the o-line position, should Bears fans relax seeing it's only 2 games? The guys discuss what moves can be made to better the situation. Looks like the Cubs may fall short of making the playoffs being 6 games out of the Wildcard race with 11 games left in the season and the Kap & J. Hood Classic Cut of the Day.
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[Music] Good morning Chicago and welcome in to the Captain Jay Hood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We got Shay, we got Jay Moore, and we got you here on this Wednesday morning. Thanks so much for being with us. We'll open phone lines for you 3-1-2-3-3-2-E-S-P-N-3-3-2-3-7-7-6. Is our telephone number? Watch our show on YouTube, YouTube.com. Look for ESPN Chicago on YouTube as well as on Twitch. Twitch.tv/ESP and 1000 Chicago as we get cults. We're closer to cult week, bears and cults. You can hear the coverage all day on Sunday right here on the home of the Bears. ESPN 1000. Can I wait, Cap? Because after the loss that the Bears suffered against the Texans, I'm sure that not just the players with the coaching staff want to be able to right some wrongs that happen in that game on Sunday night. Yeah, I think I would think you come into that game as a bear and your defense is thinking we got to continue to do what we're doing. I'd like to see them, maybe this is me being greedy, starting a little quicker defensively. Because the second half of both games, they've been lights out. Yeah. And so can we get a little quicker start? Be better against the run in the first half in this game. You're going up against an elite running back. Jonathan Taylor's a superstar. And then offensively, man, if you're on that offensive line, I would think you'd take the feel with a real chip on your shoulder. I would think you'd be an angry person to be around this week. Because all you're reading and hearing is, the Bears suck on the offensive line. The pro football focus grades are horrible. I mean, I would think you would come in loaded for bear. No pun intended. This turns around on Sunday, Cap. I think it does. It turns around on Sunday. Too much talent on the roster for not to. However, the Colts are a dangerous ball club. Oh and two, correct? The Colts are oh and two, correct. Now they put the Forrest Buckner on IR yesterday. That's a massive loss. Latu, I haven't heard if he's going to go, but he's banged up. Their first round defensive lineman. Shay, that was the guy you liked along with Jared verse, right? Latu? Yeah. You liked verse better. I was a little more concerned on Latu with some of the health stuff in college. But yeah, I liked verse much better. So if he can't go, that's another major loss because he's a good football player. Oh and two teams are dangerous because they know if you go on three, you know what that means for your playoff. You're basically done. Yeah. That's why that's a dangerous game. But it's a good game for the Bears to get back on track. Yes, they lost the game, but they were not beaten down. I did tell you though, watching the game on Sunday, I felt like the Bears were down 15 or 20. Based on the inability to be able to put a drive together and get into the end zone or take shots toward the end zone, the defense held up on their end, but the other end of it was the offense and the line was not good enough. So again, the bottom line is is that the Bears lost by six. Right. They had to ball in their hands with a minute 30 to go a minute 30 ball in your hands. You get a touchdown and an extra point and you're winning the football game and he had the 27 yard completion of Roma doomsday. And then here came. I want to say it was Willie Anderson, just obliterated him obliterated and went around Darnell right. See you later. Thanks for coming. Yeah. So that gets fixed or it gets better, I believe this upcoming Sunday, I would hope because I'm sure the coaching staff and players are tired of hearing about it. But this is where it is. And so, you know, if you just join us, we talked about your angst level as a Chicago Bears fan and cap, some of it is warranted because of what you have seen before. You don't want to go through a slippery slope as a fan. Say my heart's there, but yet the Bears are not matching what I think that they should be as a football team. I totally understand that. However, I'm never going to be that guy is going to panic after two games. I'm not going to do that, but you don't want what's happening to be a trend where the offensive line is something you know, you can never depend on and Caleb Williams is running for their life. Yes, cap, you've seen this on your TV for years, whatever quarterback that you have out there have been running around trying to make sure that they can make plays or running on trying to avoid sacks, seven sacks is a blank ton. It is a lot on any quarterback, including a rookie quarterback. So I get it from that standpoint, I just love that our city cares for Bears fans. They're passionate, man. Yeah, I mean, I got friends at ESPN LA just like, hey, chargers and Rams, still not the team. It's really about the USC Trojans. These are NFL markets now. We're talking about big cities and some small cities and it's like, yeah, it doesn't mean as much. It means a ton here. It means everything. It's where the only place where Sox fans and Cubs fans can coexist. Yeah, we get together and we go, all right, that's our football team. That's it. You want to talk to you about the Cubs coming up this hour as well. Yeah, big start for Justin Steele today, coming off the injured list. It's up here. We're like, why would you do that? The game doesn't matter because he wants to go into the off season going, okay, I'm good. He's not going to throw a hundred pitches today. What are they throw? 65? Yes. 70. So just go out, finish to start, look reasonably competent and show me you're healthy. That's all. Good history at the Walgreens. A couple of A's fans trickling out of there. Like, could you just, you're still around? You still here, huh? Still here. Just get out of here. We'll see a day game at Wrigley after a couple of night games in the World Go Home. Just get out of here, A fan. Please. Crazy. But you're big green. Yeah, they're all wearing the green stuff. Stop. Raleigh Fingers is not coming through that door anytime soon. By the blue ain't coming through that door. Jean Thomas? No, he's not coming through the door either. Get out of here, A's fan. But I used to have great teams. Oh, my God. So we'll get into it. Yes, I do want to talk to you about them because the cross here is on jet. We're going to talk about it. It's like, this is unacceptable and I cannot wait until the end of the season because what I'm going to do is sit back and let Mount Kaplan explode over here on the right side because they don't make it, he's going to explode. You're going to explode. And it's, and when you get worked up, no one could talk to you. Twenty four blown saves leading to seventeen losses means save six of those. You're a playoff team. Seventy seven and seventy four this morning. It is unconscionable that they did not enter the season with a closer. Unconscionable. And the Brewers on the precipices of clenching here lost yesterday, but they're about to lock this in. Correct. Holy smokes. One, two, three, three, two ESPN is our telephone number. Keep paying all these guys. Let's go back to the phone lines and talk to you. Hey, there's Tito on the south side on Captain J. Hood. Tito. Good morning. What's going on, gentlemen? Good morning. What's up? Tito. I love your vodka, man. Love it. Yeah. It's the best. It's the best. All right. So I just want to make a quick two quick points. So watching these football games, Chris Morgan is a huge issue here and it's slightly on a wall. And I'm going to tell you why. Do you guys know who the highest rated offensive lineman are in the league right now? I know it's going through two weeks. Okay. Shane, I thought about this this morning. It's two weeks Lucas Patrick couldn't get a job. They couldn't wait to get rid of him here. Come on. I understand that. I mean, no, no, no. I get that. But when they were playing with us for two weeks, they were god awful. They were terrible. Okay. And then you promote Chris Morgan to run coordinator and now what can we do? We can't run the ball. This guy has no idea what he's doing. You got to get him out of there. And as for Shane Waldron, I don't blame him as much because when you can't run the ball, you become one dimensional and you have to pass the ball. And other teams are going to be like, well, they can't block up the middle. So we're just going to blitz them. But what do you do? See them. The blitz comes to you. You throw into the blitz. You throw into the blitz. You don't run out routes. You don't run seam routes, either because there will be a void in the defense like this is high school stuff guys, but it's just frightening to me because like I said, I've been a bear fan for 25 years, I've seen this story way too many times. And it's like, I understand it's with two. I'm not. I'm not really panicking right now. But if this line doesn't get fixed, Caleb's going to start seeing ghosts real soon. Okay. Hold on a second now. That's fair in 2022. His first year, Chris Morgan, the bears set the franchise record with over 3000 rushing yards highest rushing total since the 1984 bears total 2974. So he set the record that next year, last year, they ran for 2,400 rushing yards, second among all NFL teams. If you ask people, when I talk to you, listen to me, I ask people who know a lot more football than I'll ever know. All of them, not one guy, all of them say to me, Chris Morgan's one of the best offensive line coaches in football. This is a personnel issue. Like I said, like you and I both know those two seasons, Justin Field has run for his life. And hell, he was hell of an athlete. He made plays. He made something out of nothing a lot of the time. And don't get me wrong, there were times where the line definitely got blocks in, but he was taken off. He was making plays. That's not how Caleb is built. Caleb needs to get him some RPOs. You have to get it. You have to make it easy for him. You have to have, like I said, when you see blitzes coming up the middle like that where it's the majority where they're blitzing us, you've got to throw it into the blitz because that's where the voids are on the defense. There will be an open spot. How many slants did you get? The two slants that I saw, DJ Moore called and Cole Kamek got lit up in the middle of the field, but he held onto that ball. He did. He got rocked. He did. He did. But let's keep throwing lollipop passes and screens to jail every time like, what is this guy thinking? I'm like, come on. I think it's more of a Waldron issue. I'll disagree with you on Chris Morgan. The Waldron thing, he's got to be better. Cap, when you underachieve whatever unit it is, it's on everybody. I'm not doing this because there's a lot of great thoughts out there about Chris Morgan. That Chris Morgan is absolved of any criticism. You're right. You're right. But I'm not doing that. I'm just not doing that. I'm talking about any sport, including football. When there's something that is wrong with the unit, it is on the players, it's on the coaching staff to come to one accord to be able to get it fixed. No matter the resume of Morgan, no matter the resume of Waldron, it's everything. I just don't, I'm not going to do this this year of saying, well, this is the problem with the Bears. It's the coaching staff. We can clearly see that there needs to be new avenues for Caleb Williams to be able to throw the football and new avenues for the running game to work. That's on the coaching staff and that's on the players. The formula has never changed in sports. The formula is here's a coaching staff that puts together a game plan. It's up for the players to execute. If it does not work, you go back to the drawing board or keep working until you get it done. That's the whole thing. That's sports, that's sports 101. This idea that that that well, Morgan might be great. It's not working right now. Agreed. So moving forward, it's going to be better, I think, for the Bears. But this idea that's only this area and not this guy, it's only this and not that. It's all of it when you lose. But it also, we always have to have a scapegoat. It's got to be the coach. It can't be on the players. And I'm not saying you're saying that, but others are, like, they fire the hitting coach. How many times do Theo fire a hitting coach? Like every year? Yep. Every year. From John Mayley to Chili Davis to this guy, not a dusted coach. It must be the hitting coach. Really? You're telling me that veteran players aren't hitting because the hitting coach is the problem. How about we put it on the player? Same with the offensive line. Is that on the coach, whether it's Waldron or Iberflus or Morgan? Or is that on Nate Davis who doesn't like to practice and is embarrassing himself? You remove the problem if it's a problem. Correct. And that's when you go even higher and by looking at the general manager. Right. He sees it. He sees it. Oh, Brian Bates was healthy. He'd be starting it right guard. Easy. He's on injury reserve. This is why you have a weekly process to figure out how to win a football game. All of it is a weekly process to get there. They'll do game plan install today. And we'll see how that looks Sunday at noon. Just again, I don't believe that is just one issue with the football team. Even the defensive coaches probably looked at some things, especially in the first half and said, we can't get gas like that, guys. I know that we played really good football, but we can be better. The best teams always find a way to sharpen iron sharpens iron. They find a way to get sharper, better, so you can move on to the next week and then the next week. So you're telling me that a team that ran for 2399 yards last year, but basically the same personnel, you added a ostensibly better running back to your room. They're this incompetent, they're this slow coming out of the box. They are. That is true. So maybe run between the tackles more and let's see what we can do. It's not a conversation for you and I because you've coached. So that's why this conversation is moved to me because you know that from one game to the other, no matter if you won by 20 or lost by 20, you see how to make adjustments. You have to look at it and say every day we could do something better here. We're facing this team. We could take advantage of them there. Yeah, but you still have to do it execute. Yeah. Nate Davis, two years in a row with this, I like and I know the general manager is watching. If he found someone to replace Nate Davis, it would happen today. No question. It would happen today. Thousand percent. What's his dead cap hit because he ain't going to be here after this year. Fourteen million I think right now. Okay. I looked this up yesterday. I think there's, I don't see a scenario. I don't care how he finishes the season that he's here next year. That's correct. He's gone. So whatever that dead cap hit is, you're going to have to eat it. They tried. I think next year it's like two. Next year it's next to nothing. He'll be gone. Then that's not even an issue. But they tried. But guess what? 10 million for a guard, that's middle money. You get what you pay for. Cap and I will take more of your phone calls coming up, 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 6, our phone. We're also a thought about the Cubs and something about social media we got into as well. As we move forward here on the Cap and Jhood Morning Show. Truth of the matter is you're listening to Cap and Jhood on ESPN 1000 weekdays, 7 to 10 AM, but it'll last a lifetime. It may only be three hours a day, but it'll last you a lifetime. It's a Cap and Jhood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. So tomorrow will be a deal breakers Thursday. Make sure that you're with us for that at 835 with our benchmarks here on ESPN 1000. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 7, 7, 6, our telephone number. Let's go back to the phone lines and talk to you, the bare fan. We say hello to Phoenix, Arizona, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Here's Jeremy on Cap and Jhood. Jeremy, good morning. J bone. What's up? Hey guys. Love the show. Thank you, Jeremy. Thank you. Hey, you know what? It's just starting to start to feel like maybe we should have traded up for Marvin Harrison. The Dunes A is I'm I'm waiting for something great to happen from him. Oh my gosh. And then the money we spent on Keenan Allen, I think we should have put into the old line. I mean, he's injured. He didn't even play a game. Does Marvin Harrison play the old line for Phoenix for the Arizona Cardinals? What's going on there? How's he doing? No, but we wouldn't be paying him like we did like we're paying Allen. You know what I'm saying? They wanted a veteran. He's played though. He played the first game. He did not play the second game. Well, he's doing great on the sideline. I see him talking to Kayla, but he's doing great. And do you have any idea what it would have cost to trade up from nine to three? You give an object. You give it up future first round picks. Well, I live in Arizona and I turned on that last game of the Cardinals in that first quarter. He looked really good. Ultimately, Jeremy, what we're saying is that what you're saying is is that instead of Roman Dunes, they the bear should have been able to address the offensive line instead. Isn't that what you're saying? No, instead of Keenan Allen and we trade up and get Marvin Harrison instead of a Dunes they were at eight or wherever we picked him up at nine, he hit him in the he hit him in the hands in the end. So you got to catch that ball. Okay. Let me ask you a question. Would you have given up to number ones future number ones had no no number one for the next two years to move up? That's a little much, but okay. Well, that was the price you're not getting in for a fourth round draft pick. I'm hoping I'm hoping we see something out of a Dunes a, you know, to pick him ninth or whatever. He's got it. He's got to look better than he had. Okay. Well, Jeremy, I don't know why you're looking for a Rolls Rolls Royce for a Chevy price. That's what you just laid out there. Like, you don't know if that's too rich for your blood. Well, it worked out the way it worked out. That's all. Like if you want to make a case that Kean Allen should be on this football team, well, we said coming in, if you got to get Kean Allen, you're going to get him for maybe 16 games. We know we knew we were not going to get him for a full comment of games because he's been hurt a lot. Waddles prediction was 13. He said, yeah, prove me he'll play 13 games. A Dunes a's in place to replace Kean Allen at the end of the season. As much as I think it'd be cool for Allen to be a round cap, you can't rely on him because of his injury issues he had in the past. Correct. That's the case to be the next Kean Allen. Agree. That's why they drafted. That's all? Correct. Because Dunes a's there for a flyer to bring a veteran presence to a rookie quarterback. I had no problem with that. But the idea that they should have gone from Marvin Harrison, like again, you're moving heaven and earth for Marvin Harrison. Let me ask you a question. How good would Marvin Harrison be on this offense in the first couple of games? He'd be the same as the Dunes. He'd be like, what's going on with this Harrison guy? I thought he was a superstar. And by the way, Harrison, it's been cool for Harrison in the Cardinals so far. Health come into breakfast with them too. Yeah. And they are one and one. Their same record is us. Their fifth general is probably holding on to Harrison's ankle. Say, please don't go here. You'll die here. Right. I've spent all my time here and I couldn't get to win a Super Bowl here. Did he not? He wasn't on the Super Bowl win. Didn't they win one? No, they did not win one. The Arizona Cardinals? No. They won. Yeah. Who beat the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl? The Steelers. Wasn't that the San Antonio home sketch in the back of the end zone? Okay. So, Kurt Warner lost to the Steelers in the Super Bowl. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, again, I think we haven't heard anything from Harrison lately, but let them go in the wrong direction. Harrison is his own brand. I'll tell you that for sure. Remember all the stuff we talked about before we got drafted? Oh, God. Now he's in a lawsuit with fanatics already. I mean, there's a whole bunch of stuff going on. Very talented, though. There's no doubt about that. No doubt about that. Okay. But Jeremy, when it's said, when you say they shouldn't spend money off into your correct, the premise of what you're saying is correct, we've all been saying it. So there you have it. Now here's the thing. Jeremy probably agrees with Bill Belichick. Oh, God. This guy. I mean, Belichick now is a guy that had no use for the media, but now he's everywhere. Can you get him off my screen? Get him back in a coaching room next year. Don't worry. He'll be in next year, but he's everywhere. He's in commercials. He's on a Pat McAfee show. He's going to go do a photo shoot with your girlfriend and go to get on a cruise. I've had enough of him on radio and TV. Well, I think this is a, you know, really an issue for, uh, for Chicago, just in terms of the overall team construction, like the way they decided to do it, you know, you look at a team like Detroit in their division and Detroit's got three, you know, really good linemen with Sewell, Rag Now and Decker. And you know, those guys give generally, you know, golf a lot of protection. You know, the bears have really put their resources into, you know, a lot of, a lot of money, a lot of drive choices into receivers. But you know, they've had problems on their offensive line and it doesn't really look like that's gotten much better, whether Demico brings it or doesn't bring it. They had trouble with a four man rush, a five man rush and, you know, just single blocks up there have been a problem for them. So, um, uh, you know, I like the receivers, I think quarterbacks got a chance, but it's tough. And I think it's going to get tougher. AJ, as you know, better than I, uh, Chicago in November and December is a, that's a fun place to, you know, have to rely on throwing the ball. So, uh, the combination of, you know, let's say struggle, run a game, uh, and then, you know, having to throw a lot and pass protect a lot. I don't think that's really playing into the strength of, um, you know, that's not a strength of the Bears team. So I'm not really sure, you know, how they're putting that together, but the, you know, chucked 50 times in Chicago on a long term basis, just, yeah, let's talk. Well, Bill, I don't think that that is the plan for them to throw it 50 times a game in November and December. I don't know why he, I don't know why he'd say that because that's not true. But, but there is, I think a happy balance doing that in cold weather because the Packers have proven that they can, whether it's the Rogers Packers or the little floor, uh, Packers, you know how they've beaten our ass, it is running the football, but also getting the ball intermediate passes to get into the end zone. They didn't throw it 50 times a beat us time and time again in the late in November, December. They do run the football just like we run the football, but also they passed it and that's the difference. Their passing game was better than the bears. They're often supplies better than the bears. And that's why they had the upper hand. So what he's talking about is he's saying that because the bears have more of Dune's A and Alan that, well, they're just, it's going to be air raids going to be Air Coriel. That's not what they're doing. That's not what the bears are. That's not Air Coriel, who it never will be. So what's he talking about there? Correct. If he, now again, like everybody else, the office will want to be better and the bears will run the football. He looks at that depth chart and thinks, ah, these guys are going to be throwing at a million times. That necessarily three, one, two, three, two, three, seven, seven, six, is our phone number. If you're on hold, you will be on the air. My friend over here to my right is having some issues with his Chicago Cubs, and there's only one person to blame. Bad news. Thanks on Cap and Jay Hood. Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app cap. You see what's happening here with the Chicago Cubs, right? You see has the season starts to come to an end that it's not looking good for the Chicago National League ball club, not more than a little angry with the people that are in charge over there. I mean, die hard fan always will be more than a little angry that the season is going to end and that they are going to fall short of going to the playoffs. And they did not learn one freaking thing from what they fell short by last year. They had a lousy ass bullpen last year. Tell me how the bullpen got any better. They blew 24 saves, 17 of which turned into losses, 17. So explain to me what you watched last year and how that got any better this year. It got worse. Did you put any assets into the bullpen and please don't you dare up there tell me what we said Hector nearest he sucks. He used him out of position on top of it. Maybe he can be a really decent setup got closer, closer, Hector nearest. You paid him $9 million for that train wreck of a season that he didn't even finish with your team that you released him. Why did you not go out and get Josh Hader? Unless you can tell me the Craig Council didn't like managing that dude. Look at his numbers. How would he look? Would you like to have him in the back end of your pen? That would help. Yeah. I'd also say that it doesn't help for this average offense that you have gone here. Even though parade is his turn to corner over the last I would say he's getting three weeks is actually 300 he's hitting 300 over the last three weeks is like that he's hitting better. My point is though cap is that this guy well, I mean, I think overall, you know, there was, you know, for the beginning, it was kind of a little bit of a struggle to be honest. He would just the misses were just big enough to get him into trouble. And that's both the misses that, you know, the balls kind of the hitters are not responsible for them. You want more? Yeah. Obviously got burned on misses. No, I don't need to hear anymore from him. All right. Like Craig Council. We were sold. This was a David Ross issue. I'm not telling you Craig Council is in a smart intelligent baseball man. I never said that and I'm sure he's a wonderful husband and a great father and a good guy. Oh, but the way it was sold, they threw Rossi under the bus and we're going to get counseling here. We're going to pay him a whole blank ton of money and this will get fixed. And guess what? It hasn't. It's not October yet, but I can't wait for October when the season is officially ending so we can have long form conversation about this cap. Again, the pop and circuit stance of having Craig Council as your manager. Oh my God, this is one of those moods about to change things of we're going to upgrade the manager. Cap, you're 77 and 74. But here's the thing. What you said about the bullpen has been right from the beginning. There's not enough offense and diversification, the offense to win. You have small market Milwaukee that's going to win again. They're going to clinch this thing against the Phillies probably today. Yeah. Cap, that offense, no matter what the change you make in your bullpen, that offense is not good enough. We just went through the winter of you got to have Bellinger got to have Bellinger. Okay. Then what? Now they're praying he opts out and I don't think he will. So I'm saying is that in the off season and I was kind of looks like I'm going to be completely wrong and that's fine. I'm here every day to be right or wrong, mostly wrong. I really thought that the Cubs would make the playoffs this year because I thought that Jed learned a lesson from last year. I did too. Learned a lesson like, Oh, we can't do this again. So here we're going to do we're going to change the manager, okay. And you're going to believe in the guys that you have. But again, you have to be able to add more offensive talent. We asked we talked about star power as much as you and I like Suzuki, nice player. Nice player. Fair. Here's what we've learned. Suzuki. Nice player. Swanson will tell you what the date is on the calendar because he'll tell you it's just June. Now it's September and you're 77 and 74 six games up the tracks. Is it still June? There's me. Still June. Correct. Okay. I like the end half. I like them. The next guy. Some of these guys that I think that are above average players or really solid players are good, but you still need to have more than that. You can't have a roster of guys you'll kind of like. Guys that you don't mind them dating your daughter is you got to have some guys that are some hairy chest of sluggers that can make a difference. You don't have one in that lineup, like here's what also I discovered. I think that P Caron strungs a guy and it can't be eighth. That guy is so fast and such a really solid defensive player. He's at five or six great plays this year, game saving catches. He belongs. He does. He should never. He should never see Iowa again. Oh, he won't remember all the angst that they didn't sign Jordan Montgomery? Yes. Yeah. He's eight and seven with a six point two three, a whip of one point six four, which is horrible. And he's a negative war player, twenty five million dollars for that guy. What's he hitting? Yeah, exactly. I'm just saying like that's part of it too. Like Michael Bush is a guy. Now you got your first baseman for the future. Yeah, he's had a good year at your guys. He's a superstar. I don't think so, but he's a good player. Josh Hader was the guy you should have gone and gotten. Please don't tell me, well, our budgets didn't make it work. You're the freaking Cubs, man. Stop with that. Josh Hader has appeared in 66 games, 66. That's the most games he's appeared in in his career. He's got 31 saves. He's eight and seven with a point ninety walk and hit per innings pitch, which is outstanding. One is considered elite. Yeah, 31 saves. How would you like to have that guy in the back end of your pen? That one signing? It would help. You'd be in the playoffs. It would help. Of course, the Cubs have to get to a closer of that ilk. Drives me insane. The Cubs would have to get to a closer of that ilk, though, until I'm hitting the baseball, put him in a position to win so he can close the game for you. Correct. I'm just, I'm telling you, Cap, is that we're going to have a long winter here coming up. Like the Cubs are pretty much the same ball club, starting pitching and offense, and you just make some moves in the bullpen. That's not going to be good enough either. You will hit the roof if you're not going to be, because I know you're not in the subtle sweepstakes. I understand that. You're not going to be there. Okay. You should. You're the Cubs. You should. But again, you know, it's not an excuse, but a reason, it's not just the Cubs across the board. The whole thing with the TV, with the TV numbers and the TV money is going to shrink. It's already started to shrink. Correct. So, but you've got to find a way to get better offensively. That's part of it too. And you know what? Take on a minority investor or go to the PIF fund. I don't care. I do not care if they take that money from the Saudi Arabian fund that is backing live and is involved in Champions League soccer. You're going a dollar with no more of the minutiae on that. They're involved. Why can't they become a minority investor? Hey, Tom, we'll buy 10%. Here you go. What's the evaluation? But we want the lion's share of it going to payroll. Yeah. You want our money? Here you go. But we want to buy one Soto and this guy and that guy, we want to win. Yeah. Just saying. It helps. I hear what you say with the bullpen, but you've got to have offense. And I don't want you to be talked into in the winter. Well, cap, we, we like our guys. We think that what another year of seasoning, Michael Bush could be. You know a star when you see one right now enough of that. They got a kid in the minors, Owen Casey, who's playing lights out lights out. Where are you going to play him? In half, he's had a solid year in half, there's a no trade clause, Suzuki. He's your best offensive player. He's had a nice year. He's got a no trade clause. Pete Crow's going to get center. Where's Owen Casey playing right? Explain that one to me. Shea, brighter future cubs or tigers? They're the same team, brighter future cubs or tigers. Um, what's your payroll? Well, nothing. So I would say tigers, they're probably more likely to add because they are spending almost nothing and they have a, I think the eighth richest owner in the sport. Their payroll is a little Caesar pizza. I mean, they're hoodie, it's, it's honestly, it's difficult for me to answer. They're the same team. It's a lot of young guys, they don't have enough bats. The pitching is good when healthy. They're the same team. And tigers are close to the playoffs and the cubs are part of that is they play in the same division as the White Sox and the American League. I mean, look at the records across the board. It's a joke. This whole sport. Look at the records in the national league. Are we going to have a 95 win team that's here? Yeah. Yeah, because the Braves, those are injuries and they took steps backwards. They're not going to be that 100 win ball club we've seen in the past. Like the Dodgers, their win total preseason was 103 and a half. They're sitting at 89 right now. There's one team over 90 wins. It's only 10 games left to play for most of these teams. Records across the sport are horrible. You know, that tells me that's a Philadelphia World Series or Mets just that's how random they could be. This is going to be what are you seeing there? I'm seeing some breaking news that I can't believe. Is it true? I, before I say it, I got to make sure I'm not getting, you know, Adam Snefftard or balls act. Yeah. Yeah. I can't. No, this is, this is true, Captain. Go ahead. Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving ESPN. He is going to become the general manager of the men's basketball program at St. Bonaventure. I believe he's an alum from there. The role will include name, image and likeness allocation, recruiting and supporting successful Bonnie's head coach was a good dude. Mark Schmidt, Adrian Wojnarowski leaving the rat race where he was making millions to work at St. Bonaventure. Damn. That's Schefter just tweeted that and I'm like, wait a minute, Schefter S-C-H-E-F-T-E-R. Yeah. Right, say? That is... Like I don't want to get Adam Snefftard. That is shocking. Shocking. No. Woj is posting it from his own account. I grew up the son of a factory worker two miles from ESPN's campus and only ever dreamed of making a living as a sports writer. 37 years ago, the Hartford current gave me my first byline. I never stopped chasing the thrill of it all. I've decided to retire from ESPN and the news industry. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to St. Bonaventure. General manager of the program. I understand a commitment required in my role and it's an investment that I'm no longer driven to make. Time isn't an endless supply and I want to spend mine of ways that are more personally meaningful. God bless him. I love that paragraph. Yeah. Shams was running up the score. Uh, I was already making a shams to ESPN. This is, this is, well, just like, yeah, you know, like, Shams, boy, I didn't see a generational talent like that coming on the scene. That sounds like... Did Shams leave, God, what is it, Cap, Stadium? Did he leave Stadium? I think he did. You know what I mean? I think he's a free agent. Um... You get it now, right? Now that he's the dominoes fall. And he said, after all these years reporting on everyone's teams, I'm headed back to my own. Okay. Good for him. That paragraph where he said, "Time isn't an endless supply and I want to spend mine in ways that are more personally meaningful." That's awesome. That is awesome. I had that discussion with my brother yesterday. That is awesome. God bless you, Adrian. Well, I mean, he's made millions of dollars and he's broken more stories than I can imagine in the NBA. And Cap, it is amazing in 2024 and in this era where the transactions, ultimately transactions can make you a millionaire. The thing that used to be in the agates section of the newspaper can make you a millionaire. Yep. 100%. Sean Charania will be coming up next. I think that... Shane, I think that that's the move because Sean's left and I think now if he wants it, he can have it. Wow. That is shocking. That is surprising. That is surprising. I didn't see that. That was not on my Wednesday bingo card. Same here. It's good, man. I just have to look like a frightened soldier on TV anymore. Wait, that's a good thing. God Almighty. Good for him. That's shocking, actually. I'm glad you double checked that to make sure that was true. You're looking at me and I'm like, I don't know why I should say this because I don't want to be the guy that they go, what an idiot. He got snuckered. All right. And God forbid you kill someone. The Captain J. Hood Cut of the Day is next to Chicago's Home for Sports. You're listening to Captain J. Hood. Follow the show on Instagram @thecatman and @igjhood. This is ESPN Chicago, Chicago's Home for Sports. Not time for the Captain J. Hood Cut of the Day. It's brought to you by the great David Flahn, the great Matt Moore and the awesome Chicago Cut Steakhouse. You can go there and have a great lunch. Jay Moore. Yes, it's boring, but it's a sport. Oh! Whatever. It's not boring. Okay, then you're boring. All right. You know how tight it is. I think I have to sleep Diddy off my ballot now. I don't think he was going to feel it anyway. I don't think so. I don't think so. I think you would appreciate that vote behind bars. Wow. God Almighty. We might have to do a side podcast on that. Boy. Oh, boy. That guy. Wow. Oh, the baby oil they found. Yes. He's in lube. Oh, man. See? Did you see the story about how much? Oh, no. You need to Google that. How much baby oil that they got? I mean, they cleared out Costco. He could have sponsored Deshawn Watson. Seriously? Thousands and thousands and thousands of bottles of baby oil. Wow. Jim and Robert Kelly hanging out. Jeez. Chills. That'd be hell of an album. Hey, what are you doing in here? Put a band in the other. Yeah. Get a mic in there, boy. You can get some bangers. We make jailhouse rock. Let me tell you something right now. Have you ever going to your local water greens and you were saying, I just need a little baby oil. I like it. Well, they were out. There's a reason. You know, it's funny. You put it just put in your Google search. Oh, God. You know what? Shay, you just put in the Google search baby oil and it comes immediately up Diddy. It's a big. Actually, now it just says you're on a list and the baby oil is now Sean Johnson. Oh, God. That is something else, boy. Someone in Twitch said he got he got hit with a freco case. That's a freco case, a freco case. That's my guy. Thank you very much. Not the Rico statue. The freco statue. Yes. Exactly right. And that's all folks. That is the cap and jhood cut of the day brought to you by Chicago cut steakhouse on La Salle, North side of the Chicago River. Awesome day today. Sit on their patio. It's incredible. I did take your advice, Johnny, because I listened to you. You don't always listen to me, but I listen to everything you say. You said, just put in Diddy and see what the first thing that pops up it. All I put it was that one word. It said Diddy baby oil. And then did you see what Fiddy said did? He was out with Drew Barrymore. And he said, here I am keeping good company with the at Drew Barrymore show alongside a snap of himself and the 49 year old Drew Barrymore. And I don't have a thousand bottles of lube at the house. Unbelievable, man. God almighty. What the? What the hell? We see a lot of false and grace. This one here is something else. This is it. And he is behind bars right now. The judge denied bail. Even if you could say, no, I'm a Diddy fan that I've loved his music for years. I've loved bad boy, bad boy for life, blah, blah, blah. You could be a fan cap, but look at the oil on the other side. Cap. I think he's innocent. What about this oil? Why do you have a thousand bottles of baby oil and lube? And the other conversation is that, you know, when someone's guilty like this or it's going to be found guilty or in this controversy, do you still crank the music? Can you separate the art from the artist? It's not about the Benjamin's anymore. No, it's not. It's about the baby oil. It's about the baby oil. That's exactly right. It's a lube. Gosh. And then apparently all this on National Cheeseburger Day. Like I have done any reading on this, apparently he's got like a chief of staff who their saying is like the next gives Lane Maxwell, like Epstein's girl, like she was arranging all of it. Like what? It's something man. Don't get it. I'll never understand the world. My partner makes a great burger and even better cheeseburger. What's best on a cheeseburger on National Cheeseburger Day? For me, I like to have some shredded lettuce, not a big piece of lettuce, thin slice of tomato, a little bit of avocado, and then I go with some mustard and some ketchup. That sounds perfect. It's awesome. Thanks everybody for listening and calling in and being part of the program. Thank you, Shay. Thank you, Jay Moore. You'll break your Thursday tomorrow. It's all on everybody. Take that from Chicago.