Kap & J. Hood
9/18 7 AM: 5 Burning Questions: Should Bears Fans Relax?
Chicago This is your morning routine. Listen to respect my name. Cap and G hood. That's right. That's right. We bad. Uh huh. Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app and on in there. 100.3 HD2 and on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No, no, no, no. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. 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 J. Good morning, Joe on ESPN 1000. And we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. We've got Shane. We've got Jay Moore and we've got you for a three hour ride here on this Wednesday morning with open full lines for you. Three, one, two, three, two ESPN, three, two, three, seven, seven, six is our telephone number. And cap, I don't know if I know you don't have the greatest sense of smell. I know that I do not. This is not a it is not a joke about the pandemic or anything like that. It's not about COVID at all. It's just about cap doesn't have the greatest sense of smell. He's got to be really close up on something. He's got the greatest sense of smell when it comes to news and and and the latest reports around sports. But when it comes to taking a whiff, cap, if you take a good whiff, you can hear the anxiety from or you can smell the anxiety from some bears fans here on the station, how it's written what people are talking about on the television about the bears. It is amazing. I know you said yesterday, he goes, you told the caller say, Hey man, it's just one and one. It's just one and one. But here's where expectations come to play. We talked about them all summer about what we can expect from the bears and how they can go from three wins or seven wins to the playoffs. But there is for some, some anxiety about what we saw on Sunday night and whether or not that carries over. Yeah, it's amazing to talk to some of my friends to listen to some of the ideas people have out there. Oh my God, we saw we were this. I was talking to Kevin Bayard last night. He said, brother, we're one in one. We had the ball in our hands with a minute 30 to go to beat the Houston Texans in Houston. He said, and that is one of the better teams in the national football league. He said, if I just written that out on paper for you and said, that's the scenario. Want to know, had our offensive struggles, rookie quarterback, and we got the ball with a minute 30 to go. You thought, I'll sign up for that deal right now. But because it doesn't look the way we want it to look. Deep passes and Caleb throwing for 250 and two scores. Everybody's concerned. Oh God, what if we lose to the Colts? And then we have to play a Rams team that's going to be really desperate because they've been banged up. Oh my God, what if we lose to them and then Carolina made a quarterback change and oh my God, if Carolina comes in and figures things out with Andy Doulton, he's a federated all the Oh my God, we're one and four. Can we relax? Just take a sip of your coffee or your tea or your electrolyte water and just go, I can only be want to know this week. I understand go out and do what we can to find a way to win in Indy. You know what, Cap, I'll tell you this. We've been doing this a long time. Yep. And I think that a lot of that is good. Mm hmm. There's nothing like having expectations. Do we have 10 Bulls calls that come in the first quarter hour of our show when the Bulls are playing? No, about their expectations, even when they're good, we don't got the same thing. What about the White Sox? No, okay, or the Blackhawks? No. Actually what we're going through, what we're hearing on a daily basis here on this station, what we're reading on a daily basis, what we're seeing on television on a daily basis is good. Because it puts pressure on the Chicago Bears front office. They already know, I know Paul's knows that he understands that there's pressure in the job one, but two, people are excited and maybe overly so about the Chicago Bears team that when they lose or when things don't go well, people want to comment on it. Correct. Imagine indifference. I have friends as you do across the country that do what we do in different markets. Mm hmm. I have friends in Phoenix that work for the Arizona sports radio station in Phoenix. You think they get 10 Cardinals calls in the first quarter hour about their team? Absolutely. It's not because you got so many transplants. It's not like the angst there. I have people that work at the Charlotte station, F and Z in Charlotte. You think that they have, you know, full lines filled about the short, what's going on with the Carolina Panthers? No, they do not. No. It's not an NFL market. It is, but it's not. My point is that because the Chicago Bears, we get reaction from across the country. We get reaction in the UK because people care. They do. As much as you and I can take the solace in. Hey, man, one game at a time, one step at a time. Fans want it yesterday because they want the team to succeed. I understand that feeling of, hey, man, I want us to be able to be a solid football team marching away to the playoffs because we haven't seen it. We only seen it once in a decade of being in the postseason. Correct. So I understand the excitement. However, you have to also take an account that it's a process to be able to get to where you want to be. We're not Kansas City with the Chicago Bears. Correct. And we haven't had sustained success. The last time we were in a playoffs was what? 20. Nagy? 18. Yeah. No, they went, they went twice with Nagy. They lost to the Eagles. Was it 20 or 21? I think it was. No, it was not 21 because Justin was the quarterback. It was the 20. It was 19, I think, Mitch 8 Nate lost at New Orleans. Remember, he hit. Who was the wide receiver? The long, lanky wide receiver. And they ran that play that Sean Payton called Nagy. Can I borrow that play? Yeah. Yeah. COVID season 2020. 2020. And what was the name of that wide receiver who dropped like a 55 yarder that was a dime right in his hands in the end zone? I can't remember. Long, lanky kid. We had high hopes for him too. He never panned out. Um, just so twice Fox. He would his last year was three and 13. So they didn't go under trestment. They didn't go under Fox. They went twice under Nagy. And we kicked him out to the curb. And now here we are. So all the, Oh my God, through two weeks, our offensive line numbers. Have you looked at the grades from PFF? Okay, whatever. Whatever. Two weeks doesn't tell a story. However, we don't want to, as you have coined it, yeah, we don't want it to be a trend. No, that's how you don't want it to be a trend. No, but I love the excitement though, Cap. I'd rather have excitement and people asking questions and wondering than indifference. I got friends across the country and markets in which it is indifference to the NFL team. The NFL is the biggest thing in sports. I can say that as a college football fan. I know that the NFL is the biggest is the king of sports. It's not even close. And think baseball used to be the king. Mm hmm. Now, while people go and it's their summer pass, the football is not another. It's in another solar system. It's insane. But yeah, I like the idea that fans care. Yeah, I mean, and overly so, especially in this city. Okay, but we're in a town where we have not had a all pro quarterback since let me say that slowly. So people hear me 1950 Johnny Loujack Johnny Loujack in 1950 was the last all pro quarterback that bears had. So that is what 74 years ago yet we'll get the calls if they lose to Indy and Kayla doesn't look good to get boss. He sucks. First take society is horrible. No, the whole first take thing drives me insane. It does not mean he's not a player. How many people wrote off Baker Mayfield now all of a sudden? Oh, wow. He developed. How about Sam Darnold sitting there two and out? Oh, wow. I thought he was a bust. No, maybe he needed some time. But if you don't do it, Peyton Manning today, he looked through 28 interceptions his rookie year. They were two and 14. They would have written him a bust. He stinks. He's one of the three greatest of all time. Yeah. So I just, please, can we just relax, fix what we can fix, work on your run game, make your quarterback comfortable and let's see how it develops. Cap is hard to tell a fan base to relax when we have not seen a team that stack like this in a long, long time if ever with the Chicago Bears in our lifetime. It's just, it's hard to say it. I can't say it from this side of the desk because I understand what people go through all summer, cannot wait to see bears football and they want to see success. And so far, it's been 50 50 because that that's really the height of one and one. It's just been 50 50. And the one thing that we question is what is going on with the offensive line? I was going out with the quarterback because again, you want to be able to see a quarterback to be able to believe this team, not just for this upcoming week, but for a decade plus to be able to be the guy, someone that's not named Jay Cutler. You're looking for someone that can be the guy that can elevate the team to be able to get to the Super Bowl. Because there's a lot of our listeners are younger and the viewers on YouTube that didn't know what it was like to see the Bears when they were in the Super Bowl. The Lovey Smith Super Bowl with against Indianapolis is one thing. I'm talking about 85. I would just galvanize the city where the streets are shut down and everyone is in front of a TV because they want to see the Bears win the Super Bowl. Never they had the helmets on the Lions outside the Art Institute. Every lion had a Bears helmet. Like the city was alive. Oh my goodness. That's what people crave now, Cap. Yeah, you can I mean, we I can't tell the audience. Hey, just take it one game at a time because you know why because they want it now because they are really hungry for it because a lot of times, Cap, as we've talked about this before, out of all the teams in the city, this galvanizes the city big time, the Chicago Bears. That's one thing. But then think about their lives. You're a fan and you're working and you're trying to make ends meet and you got family and you got issues. You just want three, three and a half hours on a Sunday just to be able to enjoy your favorite football team. That's what you want. Right. You don't want to have that to also be terrible also. Right. Like, um, the stuff that's going on in my life and all man, what's going on with family and all the bills piling up. And then my football team stinks to becomes a country song after a while. Yeah, you're right. My old lady doesn't like me. The bill's stacking up. The dog is barking at me and my football team sucks. Yeah, like one of our my friend, Chuck, who just tweeted at us. Yeah, it's not the record. It's the lack of progress. Chuck, could you please get a Xanax or just take some decaf? Whatever it is. It's two games. I literally despise the unwillingness to let things develop. I despise it. If we don't see it right now, he sucks. Oh my God. We're not seeing any progress. We got to do this. We got to do that. Oh my God, Lucas Patrick's highest rated guard. How did we screw that up? Maybe it's coaching here. It's two games. Please, please. Can we stop? If you told me after 17 games, that dude's going to the pro ball and the bears are three and four. I'll have as waddle said yesterday to Sylvie. I'll, uh, what did he say? Lead the, uh, is the lead a charge or leave a march to do something? Yeah, lead the marcher, the charge. Something like that. Yeah, for change. Yeah. Not yet. It's two games. I can't, I can't live like that. I can't. Isn't it a little fair though? Like, and I'm not saying I'm at that level of panic or at that level of worry, but people are. And it's easy to say it's two games of bad offensive line play. It's really two and a half years of bad offensive line play with the same offensive line staff. And I think that's where a lot of the worry comes from. Didn't they lead the league in rushing last year? Yeah, but the past blocking spent a disaster. Yeah, I mean, you have a right as a fan to look at that and say, do we have the same problems as we had last year with the offensive line? Absolutely. Because we've already addressed it this season where I like three of the guys, the offensive line and, you know, hats off to Ryan polls were trying to add speed to the team and make sure that the defense is solid. However, again, the protection of the quarterback, especially a rookie quarterback is paramount. I know that that is a blanket statement for every quarterback in the NFL cap, but I'm talking about the number one pick. I don't know. I kill a Williams. Like, he can't be the guy that's the maestro that's running all over the yard like he did at USC and think that you make plays the offensive line. And here's the thing. It's not just me saying it as an opinion or you saying it as an opinion, even if loose agrees, he agrees. We talked to about it just the other day about how paramount it is for them to run the football. But again, that comes from the offensive line. They have to open up the holes. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, the numbers that we're used to, we've had big numbers here run on the football. And it's important that, you know, this is the 2024 pairs. And this identity for us is going to be, you know, unique and different than the other teams. But we got to make sure that we establish the run game. You know, that's, that's the paramount. And that's that's in any, any football team is going to say that, but we got to get that done because you're exactly right when you say that that's going to be something that we can lean on as a football team to be able to run the ball. I've always said, you know, hey, you run the you run the ball, you know, to win the game, right? You pass score points, but you got to run the ball at some point, right? Early in the game, you know, dominate the front, right? And then late in the game to win it. Yeah, you know, he said that in the meetings. No question about it. And last year in the 2023 season, the 40 Niners led the NFL in rushing. The second team was the Chicago Bears. Then it was the Bengals, the Bills, the Broncos, the Browns, the Bucks. So the Bears were second in the NFL. That's the decent offensive line plate. Now, past blocking, different story as she said, different story. And they've had some bad luck this year. Certainly Ryan Bates goes on IR Larry Borham's hurt. So the rotations aren't where they want them to be. That might be impacting the run game. But they also had a quarterback last year that held the ball the long I think the second or longest. Anyone in the NFL. And to the point of rushing, they also had a quarterback last year was a freak athlete and could disguise some of the issues on the offensive line with his rushing ability. So they both things are true. Yeah, you can walk and chew gum at the same time a little bit. I just think it look, look, it's fair to be concerned. Yes. And the Lucas Patrick part of it is funny more than anything that a guy leaves here and spends two weeks is the top rated guard at PFF. Like, of course, that happens. It's not a real like, Oh my God, there's reason for panic. But it is if you're a fan and you see that you go, what the hell? We didn't have that much turnover on our offensive line. And we paid $8 million a year for a new running back. We can't run the ball. We can't pass block. What's going on? Let's be able to just test the the audience as far as their anxiety about the Chicago Bears team. Expectations are huge cap. We definitely know that we just want to I think that ultimately based on my social media, people just don't want to see a quarterback that they believe in get killed because the offensive line isn't holding up their end of the bargain. Right. That's all. And they don't want it to be a trend. So if you're on hold, you will be on the air 3 1 2 3 3 2 ESPN 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 our phone number. Let me just say this to you because we got this tweet as well. Bears fans. This is from John. Yeah. Bears fans are like a hand shy dog that's been abused in the past. If you raise your hand to it, it flinches. It's not our fault cap. It's an ingrained reflex. Fair. So that we have to get trained as fans just like Caleb has to get trained as a quarterback. Got to change it. We'll get your phone calls in here. Also, cap, we got five burning questions on the Bears. I love those. That's coming up at 735 right here on the home of the Bears. Captain Jay Hood. This is cap and Jay Hood. They've beaten the traffic commute. So you don't have to. SPM Chicago. It's a Captain Jay Hood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Here's hoping that you're going to have a great Wednesday. We got five burning questions about the Bears coming up in our next segment. But first one, just test where you are as a Bears fan. I love expectations cap. I love when fans are passionate, just like me and just like you. And it's hard to tell from my standpoint, a fan to say, Hey, man, take it one year at a time. Just take it one play at a time. I know as athletes and coaches were used to hearing that and also saying it. But cap, there's so much hype and emphasis on this football team. This team was on hard knocks. This team's been talked about a lot. They got the number one pick. So not just locally, but nationally, everyone's wondering about the Chicago Bears. And so when they see Caleb Williams, and I think many have turned the page on Justin Fields and say, okay, this is Caleb Williams time, they just don't want him to be hurt. They don't want the team to underachieve because Ryan polls and do enough to put enough in to the offensive line. And that's only fair. It's only fair. I understand the fan standpoint like, Hey, I want us to win. And rightfully so big market. Yeah, big market. Again, they were second the NFL and rushing last year. And people are like, well, why can't we run the ball? Like what has changed? It's not because Lucas Patrick isn't the center. That doesn't make Coleman Shelton a good center, either. All things can be true. They just got to get back to work. You got to look, it's a similar system to what they ran under getsy. It's a different coordinator with a different way he calls a game. And people are already out on Shane Waldron after two games. That's unfair. Totally. That's unfair. Totally. When you're trying to fire guys after two games, that's just not fair. Yeah, you just wanted to be able to work out like, okay, and I warned of this early saying as much as I admire what Shane Waldron did to turn around Gino Smith's career, he has to learn the personnel. And from game one, we said, wait a minute now, I know you're new here, but you know that Cole commits on the football team. Come on now, you got to put your best guys out there. He's learning to be able to do the right things for the offense. It's not going to happen. It should happen game one, but it's not happening game one. How about, how about this game against the Colts, where it gets better, and you move forward and you move forward, you get better and better moving forward throughout the season. That's the hope go out and establish the run. Let your defense harass Anthony Richardson. There's like, that's what I want to see cause a couple turn or what he throw three picks against Green Bay the other day and Green Bay random ball down their throat. Let's go. By the way, Waddle texted his term was storm the castle storm castle. That's it. Thank you, Tommy, always be there with you, Tommy, to storm the castle. But after two weeks, now is not the time. One, two, three, three, two, ESPN, three, three, two, three, seven, seven, six, our phone number. Let's go to Van Wert, Ohio, listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Here's Jason on cap and J. Hood. Jason, good morning. Morning, guys, cap hooded. You guys are my favorite. I listen to you every morning at work. Appreciate you. Start my day, cap. I'm glad you're on board with the Buckeyes. I think I might send you like a T-shirt or something. Sounds good. So I live over here. He really is the Ric Flair of college football because if it's W. Ohio State this year, next year, it'll be somebody else. No, it's always Ohio State. Oh, from moving forward forever. Oh, yeah. My college coach was trestle. Yes, I've always been. My brother was first in our family, Ohio State. I followed him in that way because I went to division three. I didn't have a school. I see. You've been a Georgia guy as long as I've known you. That's 25 years. 84. Yeah. So so what about so Clemson that part of that or I like to have all I've always been a dabbo guy and I'm a fan and the Husky. The Husky I coached basketball at so I'll always root for the Husky, especially when they beat Notre Dame. But my number one team, the Buckeyes. How about that, Jason? Yeah, that's all right. Kept her kind of like a cornucopia of college football team. But hey, if you got the Buckeyes at the top of the list and that'll work for for now, but so I live over here in in cult country. And even though I followed the Buckeyes, I'm not part of the Justin Fields cult. So after two weeks, all my buddies, they're not bears fans like I am. But they're like, Oh, should I kept Justin Fields? And I'm like, guys, just need to chill. This this kid is already as good as Justin Fields. Imagine when he gets a full seat in under his belt. So hey, have a great guy. A great day, guys. You too, man. Jason very much. Thank you out to a phone call. Now he leaves line open. 3 1 2 3 2 3 2 3 7 6 our phone number. Lewis and Lyle on campus. Good morning. Good morning, guys. You know, I think I speak for a lot of bears fans when I say like, I'm not anxious. I mean, you heard me when I called in during the three season and I made that promise to roast Eddie every day after a win. Yes. I'm excited. Like I'm I'm still excited. I'm just concerned that our line like Arnold Wright seems to have regressed a little bit. I'm concerned that our line can't seem to set up a good run block. I mean, heck against the Texans. And I know that they were going with a silent count. They were so the tackles were so slow getting off of or getting off the line. If I didn't know any better, I would think that the Texans were jumping off sides. I mean, they were getting beat so badly. I want this to I believe that this is a good team. I believe they have plenty of talent. I'm just concerned that this line is going to be the reason that that talent gets stunted. Caleb Williams is probably the best quarterback we've had. I will say he is more talented than Cutler. I'll say that I think he will be better than Cutler. I just want him to see his maximum potential. And I'm again, I'd said concerned a lot, but I'm just concerned. I'm not anxious. I'm concerned. That's that's fair. You want to have him out there healthy for every game, Lewis, and you want the offensive line to be able to block for him and the running game to work. So I totally understand it. You are our concern because you want him to be healthy and for the bears to win. Yeah. I mean, he has all he has on top of the world. And we saw what he can do when he's not pressured. We saw that first drive. He was what was he at 12 or 11 for 12. That first half when he wasn't getting pressured. Texans realized they can't they can't block for him. He's he got killed. I mean, he nearly got killed behind that line. It's almost as bad as watching Cutler again in that it was almost like watching Cutler in that Giants game. And he got sacked nine times in the first half and walked off with a concussion. And when I say walked off, I mean, walked towards a giant sideline. He was so out of it. I recall. Yeah. Yeah. I hope it gets better. Yeah. Well, I really, you know what, look, and cap. Yeah, seven sacks is concerning for any fan. Yeah. But the hope is that is not something that we see on a daily basis or a weekly basis. I don't think we will. Right. But if Shane Waldron's any good, he's going to put have already put the tape on and gone. All right. We got to clean this up. We got to try this. Yeah. That's how that stuff has to get fixed. But you don't know it has to get fixed until it fails in another area. So let's go. That's a it's a good thought by you. And by the way, that's because my partner was a coach. It's about adjustments from one game to the other, right? Correct. Like you put the film on like, we could do that a lot better. Correct. Like I'm not. And I think most people agree with you, not me. I'm in the minority, but I don't think half time adjustment. Yeah, there's tweaks and things you could. But it's between games where you earn your pay as a coach. Okay. We saw what they did to us there. And if I'm the Indianapolis Colts, I'm running the same exact aggressive schemes that I ran that the Texans ran. Sure. Until you proved to me you could stop it. Why wouldn't I? Yeah. Absolutely. This week is a big week for whether it's Shane Waldron or Chris Morgan or Eber Flus or Eric Washington or name any of them. They got to all be ready to adjust. You know, it may be happy going back and watching the game cap yesterday. It just made me happy looking at that defense and the way he stopped the run. Oh, come on, man. Great. Three points in the second half to CJ Stroud. Pretty damn good. They shut the water off on the Texans as far as our running game is concerned. I enjoyed the hell out of that. Just watching the defense where they're stacking, what, like seven, eight, the linebackers. We got Jack Sanborn had plays in a sack. That's why you know that is working. I will tell you the guy, the most impressive guy. I think you love him. I know I do, but I think he's your guy. Maybe because you guys are built similarly. That's a compliment. Yeah, Andrew Billy. Yeah. Yeah. Did you see him push the center driving back towards the quarterback and then ends up knocking a football free? Yeah. Beast. Yeah. Beast. That is a really good football player. The number seven on a PFF, by the way, for what he did, that's pretty good. And in the top 10 for based on how good he was against the Texans. I enjoyed that. Because that means that they're right on schedule, cab. Yep. That's right on schedule. Yeah, they got cached early, but see what happened in the second half. That's why it sucks because the Bears can have won that game. Just a semblance of offense, man. Just getting into the end zone, put it in a couple of times. The Bears can have won that game. Shows you how close the Bears are, right? But yet far away because they lost the game. No question. Oh, man. But that's the NFL. Every week you just never know. Now, the hope is is that next time around, like Indianapolis, that the defense again could be stout, stopping the run, chasing Richardson all over the yard, making it uncomfortable, and the offense can percolate on their end too. There's going to be a number of Bears fans there, as you well know, because of Indianapolis, they're going to be loud. There's Bears fans at the Texans game. You can hear it. Anytime the Bears did anything well, you heard the cheers. I just think that the Bears have a good shot here on Sunday. They really do. I truly believe that. And they've got to get, you know, really good pressure on Anthony Richardson, and then you got to run the football. Let's go. Cap, we've got five burning questions about the Bears. I love these. So we'll get to that coming up next. And if you're on hold, you will be on the air. We're talking about the Bears on the home of the Bears. ESPN 1000. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Captain J. Hood are back on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. The flame is lit and the heat's on. That's your question. Hell, you got to ask me. Five burning questions. I asked you a question. Answer me when I talk on Captain J. Hood. ESPN true card. It is now time for five burning questions on the Captain J. Hood Morning Show, on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. But with you till 10 o'clock that Mike Greenberg comes in at 10, following Carmony Yerko 12 to 230 into White Sox baseballs that take on the Los Angeles Angels. Then afterwards, it's a blackened up dollar from 638. All part of the mix right here on ESPN 1000. I love five burning questions. All right, brother. You ready? This is your baby. Yes, it is. Birth it. Let's go. Okay. All right. Huh. Here we go, Cap. Number one. Number one. Should the Bears send a message by having Nate Davis be a reserve against Indianapolis? They should. And again, because of injury, Ryan Bates dealing with the at least four game IR stint, they have Matt Pryor. They don't have Larry Bormback had to get him back. I don't know if they have the depth to be able to send a real message, but the message I would like to send Nate's inactive, inactive. But I just don't know if they like, what are you going to do? If you make him inactive, if you don't have somebody else and prior goes down, then what do you do? I know that's the fan in you. The last comment was the fan in you, but the coaching you knows. Look, that's a it's a proud veteran. He's out playing well. He just is he just can't start for me. But the proud part is where I will push back. A proud man does not comport themselves like this guy has. Show up at work and earn your paycheck. You may not be good at it. Yeah. Or we may have vehement disagreements like me and Shay this morning, but he shows up does his job. I show up and do my job. We could have a disagreement. We could say, you know what? I don't like how you're blocking this, but you're competing. I don't see compete level out of that dude for 60 minutes. I do not. But because it's a numbers game, I know you can't do that. I would bench him at the very least. Would like him to be inactive. Would like him to be the guy that isn't in uniform. Yeah. Why are you not in uniform? Because I did not take care of my business properly. All right. Here's what's next. Number two. Cap, what does Shane Waldron do well as an offensive coordinator? I don't know yet. Now his body of work from LA where he was the pass game coordinator to Seattle where he was the offensive coordinator. Those tell you that he can develop quarterbacks. He resurrected Geno Smith. Sean McVeigh raves about his abilities. But through two games, the offense here is struggling. So what does he do well? Yeah. His rep is he develops quarterback. Sure. I was just wondering if there's something in particular like a certain play or a certain trend that you got through two games that you saw from Waldron. He like had like the way that killed through the ball on second down or third down. I don't see one yet. I thought Caleb started strong. What was he? Five for five? Mm hmm. That looked better. But I think there was a third and 12 early in the game. Correct me if I'm wrong with one of you. Third and 12. Caleb was able to complete a pass and get the first down and then and to me go rise. Okay. That's it. We're bringing pressure. Yes. And our overall our offensive leg got overmatched and Caleb struggled and got a hit and he was banged up man. Banged up. So I can't give you a trend yet that I'm paying my hat up. Yeah. That is just going back to my notes early in the game. You're right. There's a 12 yard game to DJ Moore. The short passing game was there against their secondary. Mm hmm. So yeah, but it's few and far between that game against the Texans. That's the point. Right. And you never were able to establish the run. What is the Andre Swift? Shay help me out. It's 48 yards on 24 carries. Yeah. Two yards a carry. Okay. That's not going to work. Now, can he be better if he runs between the tackles? Maybe. Why would you not go more double tight ends? Oh, there's Cole Comet. There's Mercedes Lewis. Let's block or there's Gerald Everett. Somebody. Let's get some more blocking. We're doing five burning questions here on the cap and Jay Hood morning show. Let's go to the next one. Number three cap. Which player on defense would you like for them to step up more? Which player on defense would I like them to step up more? This is an unfair like you can make numbers look any way you want them to. How many sacks does Montez sweat have through two games? I don't think he's zeroing zero. I don't think he has any. Okay. But you have to put the tape on the look and go. Wow. That guy's getting. I saw it multiple in the first two weeks where he's got basically three guys blocking him. No human being is going to be able to shed three like sized guys and get to the quarterback. But by doing that, you are allowing other guys to get to the quarterback, whether it was Jack Sanborn or Andrew Billings or whoever it is. So, but I would like to see him get to the quarterback. So, the team has six. Dexter with two, Taylor with two, Sanborn and Edmonds. That's it. That's it. So, I need to see sweat record at least one sack on Sunday. Anybody else? Because we know what we do as a blanket statement. We talk about how good the defense is and they are stellar. Especially in that second half against the Texans. I think they played well enough to be able to win that game and they did against the Titans. But overall, I think they're opportunistic in the secondary. It was good to see Jack Sanborn get something because we didn't see, didn't hear his name at all in the Titans game. So, that's good. The linebackers doing the job, man. More times than that, they're going to lead in tackles. Defensive backfield. Phenomenal and Kyler Gordon with a great read. He just didn't secure the football. That's a game-changing play. Yeah. That's six points right there. There's your ball game. Kick the extra point and you win. But it didn't work out. All right. We are in the middle of five burning questions. We have more and more of your phone calls coming up on the Bears. 3 1 2 3 3 2 3 7 7 6 our phone number cap and jhood on Chicago's home for sports. Oh, I'm sweating. Welcome back to Captain Jay Hood. You're officially locked in on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago 5 burning questions on cap and jhood. ESPN triple. We're in the middle of five burning questions here on the cap and jhood morning show on a ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app reminding you we have shot or no shot coming up at eight o'clock. So cap, we will go to the next one. Number four. Bring it on. Cap, which team in the NFC North has surprised you one way or the other the most? Really good question. Um, it's a lot of choices there. The easy answers to go. Well, the Vikings they're two and oh, but I'm not going to go there. Once again, Matt LaFluor has proven to me how elite a coach he is. Jordan Love goes down and Malik Willis has been there like three weeks. He looked comfortable. They didn't ask him to throw for 300 yards. Malik Willis made some big time throws when he had to, but they ran the ball and the Colts knew they were going to do that. And they said, we're going to run it right down your throat and there's nothing you can do about it. We're going to impose our will on you. Man, he had that team fired up ready to go. The Packers were getting three and a half at home. How did everyone not pound that? The Packers? They're good football team, much as I disliked them. They're a really good football team. And that guy's elite. So that one surprised me that people were that much in doubt because Jordan rub went down. I mean, it's Malik Willis. Right. Who knew that Indianapolis's defensive front would be Swiss cheese. Right. I mean, even though it's at home for Green Bay, just the idea that, okay, we're going to take it out of Willis's hands. If you're LaFluor and we're going to pound the football with Josh Jacobs three, two times for 151 yards. Well, you stay with it to the run. Does it mean it works? Maybe, maybe not. But it showed a weakness in the Colts that the Bears can utilize here coming up on Sunday and a strength of the Packers. Yeah. But if I had done this show or this question three weeks ago, you know what people would, Malik Willis sucks. He's horrible. Really? Maybe if he gets elite coaching in a really good system. Hmm. Maybe he can be a competent. I'm not telling you a Super Bowl winner, but competent. Can you believe it? It was Willis getting it done. But yes, that Willis started talking about Willis. But that guy looked very solid. And for three weeks of not even having time to really get reps because Jordan Love gets all of them. Yeah. Yeah. That's why if I was the Rams with Sean McVay, the 49ers with Kyle Shanahan, the Dolphins with Mike McDaniel, I'm calling Carolina goal. What do you want? And if I might even be willing to give a little bit of an overpay, give me Bryce Young and let one of the wizards fix him. All right. One more cap. Number five. Who is must see on offense for the Bears? Not your favorite player, not a guy that you like, but who is the must see player for the Chicago Bears that resonates with everybody. You got to see him play. It's a lot of stars in this league now. Yeah. And you know, the one thing about the Bears that we talked about is they're bereft of like multiple, multiple stars on there. Yes. I mean, yes. We like the units of the defense and the secondary. We like elements of what could be with the offense. But is there a must see that everyone's got to see the offense? Yeah. Caleb Williams. I have to see. I know how talented he is. I know what he can become. He's not there yet, obviously. But he still must watch TV for me. Like, OK, they hand the ball to DeAndre Swift. Yeah. Good player. I like them at Georgia. He's a good lion and then Eagle. Now he's a bear. But if you said it's Khalil Herbert or Travis Homer or Rochon Johnson, OK, I'll watch them too. Sure. Love DJ Moore stud. But if they throw to Keenan Allen or they throw to Roma, dude, I'll watch that too. I got to watch, Caleb. That's the guy. That's the guy. OK. All right. That's five burning questions right here on cap and jhood here on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Oh, I'm sweating. It's fine, Dion. It's fine now. It's over. We're good. We've got a shot or no shot coming away at eight o'clock. Let's go back. The phone lines has promised three one two three three two three seven seven six is our telephone number. We're just trying to get your temperature as far as this Chicago Bears team is concerned. I understand if there's angst because you want to see the team achieve. You want to see them in the playoffs because we talked about it all summer. We all definitely want to see it. But again, it doesn't happen overnight. We can't stamp the Bears a playoff team after two weeks. It's a process. There's a lot of new moving parts. You understand as cap always gives you the perspective of what it was like in the eighties leading into a Super Bowl championship with DITCA, that stuff had to be built in the late seventies early eighties to get to be a perennial playoff team. Go back to when DITCA first took over. Bob Avelini. Remember he was the quarterback. Good number seven. Yeah. Rest in peace. And DITCA was furious with him. Finally went to Jim McMahon. Finally. But he wasn't ready to play then either. No. That was what? 82. Yeah. And then 83. They weren't great. And then they 84. They had the breakout. Oh, here we go. Mm-hmm. They won a playoff game at Washington. I could still tell you the score. I remember that was in the 23 to 19. I got looked at up in 84. 84. Yeah. First round playoff game. I think it was 23 19. A good old number 88. Pat Dunsmore caught a half back option pass from Walter Payton in the right corner of the end zone. Mm-hmm. And all of a sudden they were, whoa, they got pounded by San Francisco. Pounded. Shut up. Walter Payton sitting there. He's headed his hands on the bench. Oh, yeah. And then they fueled them for the next year to win the Super Bowl. Yeah. It takes time. First year for DITCA was three and six. Mm-hmm. Yeah, there was a strike. Strike year. Yeah. And then 88 and eight the next year. And then here you come. Lost in the conference in in 84. Won the Super Bowl 85 as it kept being the playoffs right through 88. Missed in 89. 90 91 in the playoffs for DITCA. And 84 was it 23 to 19 the score? I don't, I have to look at that up. So I don't know why I remember not meaningless facts like that, but I do. Washington Redskins, you say? Yes. And I'm sure it was Pat Dunsmore, the backup tight end to Emery Moorehead and Tim Reitman. I think he was the third tight end. You said in 1984, I have to look that up. I don't see that right offhand. Yeah, the playoff game in which they went 11 and six. Yep. Yeah. 23 19 the final. There you go. As we go to Angel and Tampa on Captain Jay Hood, Angel, good morning. Good morning, gentlemen. I just wanted to make two quick points here. I called back in July and Jay Hood, you were right. I said I had complete faith in Hebrew flus to move this team forward. And you said it's going to take more than haircut to beard to convince you, you know, play call management. We saw what happened Sunday night with the challenge last year. You were right. That's number one. The number two thing I wanted to bring up is what is the league average per game in which a quarterback is sacked? If you guys have that and you know, where do the bears rank? Not just this year, but historically, if there's data on that because I mentioned that to see how often other quarterbacks are sacked per game so we can kind of measure ourselves offensively because I do think Hebrew flus is good for the defense. That particular long term. I'll hang up and with me. Thank you all. Angel, thank you very much for the phone call. Yeah, it's Shay, but have to look that number up. Yeah. I don't know where they rank all time. He said is that recent history, all time in history of the France. I don't know those answers. I don't know the answer to that. I don't think that the bears are the worst team, the national football league as far as giving up sacks, but I will tell you Caleb was under siege. Did you see the uh when they met at midfield after the game it was um CJ Stroud and Caleb Williams? Yes. Did you hear what he said to him? He did. Stop taking the sacks. He said, yeah, you you've got all the talent. Just keep going, brother. It's what got you here. You're going to be a star in this league. I thought it was super cool of CJ Stroud to do that. The way he was very um and they're the same age. Yes. But he's had a year of experience to put his arm around him and go relax. I know it was a rough night for you physically. You're going to be great. Yes. I like how he was able to talk to Caleb Williams. I don't like how social media took that because in several places there are like Caleb didn't want to hear it. He's trying to get it break away. Now he leaned in to listen. Can't just always be in the negative with everything. His body was killing him. He got the living H beat not of him. Yeah, but the idea that people were saying that Caleb didn't want to listen. You tried to tear away from him. No, he actually stood there. He listened to the advice and seemingly with Caleb being a cerebral as he is, he'll take the positive and the negatives and be able to boil it down to what he needs to be better. Yeah, he leaned. He shook hands and thought that's all they're going to do. And then you can hear on the tape CJ Strads. Yeah, come in here brother. Yeah. And then he did. He leaned in and listened to him. Yes. So, I mean, the people on social media, the keyboard warriors, like you know what I've always called Twitter, like your I think first coined it. We're idiots go to play. Faceless keyboard warriors. Why didn't he just seem like he was more engaged? Because he just got the living crap kicked out of him and he wanted to get his gear off and get in the locker room and get some treatment. Yes. Now I got to deal with this. I got to deal with the media and I got to do that. I got a long flight and right back at work the next day. I'm glad that those two came together because that's the future of our league. Right. Those two right there. Yeah. And I thought it spoke volumes to me about CJ Strads. All right. In two minutes, we give you a shot or no shot right here on cap and J-hood. Love the brother next to you.