Kap & J. Hood
9.17 7 AM: Bears O-Line A Major Issue
Hour 1: The guys discuss the national media's prospective on the Bears Offensive Line issues, with benefit and hindsight should Ryan Poles have drafted a Lineman instead of Rome Odunze? Former Patriots HC Bill Belichick takes shots at Ryan Poles on roster construction. MLB Insider for ESPN Jesse Rogers joined Kap & J. Hood with updates on the White Sox, Cubs and the latest MLB storylines.
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We'll talk baseball with Jesse Rogers coming up at 750, but first, captain's been so many opinions out there, locally and nationally, about the Chicago Bears. That happens when you have the number one pick in Caleb Williams, and also you're on a platform like Sunday Night Football so everyone can get a chance to take a look at this new Look Chicago Bears team. And there's been a lot of different opinions out there from whether or not Caleb Williams is the guy, and the offensive line stinks for the Bears, and Ryan Polls is responsible for the loss or that yesterday, as well as even if loose is over his head and Shane Waldron has no clue what to do with this group of offensive players. There's been a lot of opinions out there, but no stronger than Bill Belichick. Long time head coach in the National Football League, some say on the best coaches because of the amount of rings that he won with Tom Brady and that Patriots team, there's been a lot of strong opinions about this Bears team after one loss. - There's been a ton of opinion and you're right, you can go from what is Waldron doing, the plate calling's horrible to the offensive lines, the worst I've ever seen, as you said, I'll pair it all of it with you. The bottom line is that they had a chance to win against a quality Super Bowl, contending type team on the road. That's a really good Houston team. Now you got a bunch of breaks. Houston's not gonna get 12 penalties for 100 and whatever yards every week, they're not. But the defense in the second half was spectacular. They held them to three points. The ball is in your offensive's hands. If you get a touchdown, a kick an extra point, you're gonna win and they didn't get it done. For whatever reason, sacks, pressures, misfires, inability to run the football. But this is a team I'm still buying stock in. Some of that stuff can get cleaned up, can get fixed. There is, as I said to you yesterday, there's no offensive line tree where you go, "Hey, I need a new center. Can you give me one, I don't know, about 290 pounds, real mobile and incredibly strong and angry." They're not out there. There might be a few guys on the fringes out there. David Bakhtiari still wants to play guys like that. But nobody else could have come in and give you an all-pro play. So we'll see. But I still believe, in Caleb Williams, stronger than I ever have. And I still believe this is a good football team. They just got some stuff they gotta clean up. A lot of this is something that has to happen in-house with the Chicago Bears. It's what Matti Reflus told us yesterday. We get a chance to talk to Matti Reflus after every Bears game here on cap and J-hood. He says a lot of this stuff has to happen in-house where you have to have the development in-house instead of always looking from the outside. He believes in the players that he has in-house hall, inside the locker room. Great. We also know this for a fact. Every general manager, whether it's a poor general manager or someone that has won multiple Super Bowl championships, whoever is a general manager in this league. In the offseason cap, you can't fill everything. You can't address everything. You can try, but you can't address everything. What is impressive to you and I about Ryan Polls is the amount of talent that he put on the roster in the offseason to try to get ready for a playoff push or definitely more than seven wins. In that way, if for Ryan Polls, for him to continue to try to improve the roster, you do worry about the offensive line. The secondary and the defensive line and the linebackers are exactly what many people who can work with. This could be a top five defense, it could. The other side, you got your wide receivers. You got more than enough to be able to get down the field and score touchdowns from DJ Moore to a Dunes A to Key and Allen to Cole Committed tight end. You have enough there. But the weakest unit is the offensive line. But it seems like we've been talking about this for years, though. Don't tell me that the Chicago Bears will fall short of their goals because Ryan Polls cannot add the right ingredients to the offensive line. That would stink. You got everything else that you need, including, I believe, at some point, a potent running game. And your offensive line's this. You can't have the same storyline the last five, six years and think that you could win a Super Bowl or playoff games with this. So is that not fair? Yeah, you got really fair. You could do everything you can in the off season, but the offensive line, if you have no protection for Caleb Williams, you're not going anywhere. Correct. But if you go back in history when the Bears were really, really dominant, I mean, really dominant in the '80s, the late Jim thinks, go back and look at his drafts, '76, '77, '78, '79, they weren't sexy. Chicago selects Dan Hampton, defensive lineman, Arkansas. Who? Chicago selects Dennis Lick, Ted Albrecht, Jimbo Cauvert, Mark Bortz, Tom Thayer, Keith Van Horn, J. Hillgenberg. They just kept adding and adding and adding until you went, oh my god, look at that offensive, a defensive line. And then they won the Super Bowl, and we wonder why? Because they kept throwing resources at it. You cannot-- you ever been to Carmax? I have. OK? You can't walk into Carmax if they're an advertiser. I apologize. With $8,500 in your budget and go, yeah, I need a car. I got $8,500. I'll give you that one right there, that Buick Regal, that Oldsmobile Cutlass from 2015. There you go. And then just think you're going to be at the valet, and everyone's a big. Wow. Who's coming out for that car? Wow, look at that. The blonde on your arm, and you get in the old cutlass? Yeah. That isn't what's going to happen. You can't get the old cutlass and then enter it in the $500 and go, wow, why are we getting left? That's what Coleman's shouting is. He's an old cutlass. Don't get you to the mall. You can get to the Aldi, get your groceries, or the jewel. You want to Lamborghini, like Creed Humphrey, Jason Kelsey. I can keep going. Those cost $16 million a year, not one year for three. Creed Humphrey just got $70 million. So when you shop at Carmax with an $8,500 budget, that's what's going to happen. So we can scream about Coleman's shouting to all we want. I watched the tape last night again yesterday, late afternoon. You go watch some of the plays where he's just getting driven back because he's not strong enough. Don't be mad at him. Be mad at the decision making that put a mediocre player in that spot. So speaking of that, Bill Belichick was talking about Ryan Polls and his style of roster construction. We mentioned that we laid out cap just moments ago, a defensive line that's getting after the quarterback. We're talking about a secondary and linebackers that we really like, a wide receiver room, a good running back room. But what about the offensive line? Well, I think this is really an issue for Chicago, just in terms of the overall team construction, the way they decided to do it. You look at a team like Detroit and their division. And Detroit's got three really good linemen with Sewell, Rag Now and Decker. And those guys give generally golf a lot of protection. The Bears have really put their resources into a lot of money, a lot of drive choices into receivers. But 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 just single blocks up there have been a problem for them. So I like the receivers. The quarterback's got a chance, but it's tough. And I think it's going to get tougher. AJ, as you know, better than I, Chicago in November or December, that's a fun place to rely on throwing the ball. So the combination of, let's say, struggle, run a game, and then having to throw a lot and pass protect a lot, I don't think that's really playing into the strength of-- that's not a strength of the Bears team. So I'm not really sure how they're putting that together, but to chuck it 50 times in Chicago on a long-term basis. Just-- Good outlook. Bill Belichick on with Pat McAfee and AJ Hawke. So what he's pretty much saying there in that sound bite on that McAfee show is is that he questions Ryan Poll's roster construction. Of course, he would say that, Cap, because he would always go to the bottom shelf and find any wide receiver for Tom Brady to work with. He didn't value the wide receiver like most teams do in the National Football League. Now, to Bill's credit, he always trying to get a good left guard and a left tackle. He was always good to try to build the defensive line, offensive line. He understood that. And then he said, OK, great quarterback. So whoever you want to throw to football to is fine. Now, we think that that's wrong, but again, they got seven-- was six Super Bowl championships from it. Correct. OK, so he could say that. But what he's saying is that it's great that we have more in a Dunes A and Allen, but he did not-- not enough for the offensive line. You agree with that? I do. I do. But if you in the draft had left Roman Dunes A on the board and taken a tackle, people in this tower would have gone nuts. What? Now, I understand the selection of O'Dunes. I like it. He's a hell of a football player. Because you're probably not going to resign keen now and after this season. I would be-- unless he takes a team-friendly, shorter term deal, you're paying that, dude, what, 23 and 1/2 million this year? He's not coming back here for $2 million a year. He wants to get paid one more time. He's in his early 30s. So unless all of a sudden his heel gets better, and he becomes an all pro like, oh my god, we have to have him, he's probably not going to be here. So you needed to take a guy who could be another number one. So you have DJ Moore and Roman Dunes A. That's why you got to hit on the Tyler Scott pick, where DeAndre Carter has to be better than we thought. Or you got to find a guy when you got two number twos next year. But you have got to commit more resources next year to your offensive line, whether that's in free agency, or more likely, drafting a center and a guard. Like getting-- I'm talking top shelf talent. That's how you win Super Bowls. So to Belichick's point, and he gives you the old school, it's going to be December and January. You've got to be able to run the football. You can't put the ball in the air 50 times a game when it's cold temperatures. He's right. I mean, you can put the ball in the air, yes. But also, you have to have a line that can help you run the football. And by the way, many of our flus agrees with us, because he was on our show yesterday talking about this, how it's paramount to run the football, how it's a must. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. The numbers that we're used to, we've had big numbers here run on the football. And it's important that this is the 2024 Bears. And this identity for us is going to be unique and different than the other teams. But we've got to make sure that we establish the run game. That's the paramount. And that's in any football team is going to say that. But we've 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, hey, you run the ball to win the game. You pass the score points, but you've got to run the ball at some point early in the game. You can dominate the front, right? And then late in the game to win it. Yeah, he was fired up. He was. You could hear the right in that answer cap. Yeah, he was like, you know that that was something in the meetings on Monday. You know it was. Because he goes like, yeah, you know, it's good that we could pass the football. But we've got to be able to establish the run. He said it right there. Like, you could tell that that was something he talked to Shane Waldron about. Remember what Waldron came from? They ran a football sum in Seattle. But Gino was able to make his hay by throwing the football in Seattle. It's how they, I mean, it was a good offense that Waldron put together for resurrecting the career of Gino Smith. But cap, there has to be a balance here. And the way I set up the question to, Iberflus was, to make the offensive line and the young quarterback comfortable. To be able to run the football. Correct. Yeah. You have to be able to run the ball downhill in between the tackles a lot. And you've got to stay loyal to it. This thought of, now that we got Caleb, we can throw the ball 54 times a game. No, that is not accurate. That is not the way to win. Like, if you go back to the 2022 Seattle Seahawks, they were a nine-win football team. And I think that was Gino's first year there. Believe so. Maybe second. And you go back their first game of the year. They beat the Denver Broncos. They threw 23 passes. The next week, they threw 24 passes. The next week, they threw 32, 23, 44, 30, 25, 31, 27. My point is, they're not dropping back 48 times a game. No. They're running the football. So here's a tough question. Let's be the first to ask it. And shameless in the phone lines this morning, 312-332-ESPN-332-3776 is our phone number. As much as we think that the wide receiver room shines, based on the roster composition of having more Adunze Allen, Tyler Scott, DeAndre Carter, in the same room. The question we have for you is, with the benefit of hindsight, should Ryan polls have drafted a lineman, an offensive lineman, instead of Romadunze? Let's talk about that. You know, Yari had Allen, before leaving the draft cap. Allen's there, Moore's there. Tyler Scott's already in the system. DeAndre Carter wanted to find out who he is. But with the benefit of hindsight, should a poll should have drafted an offensive lineman to help this offensive line and to help Caleb Williams, instead of Romadunze? We're talking about it on the home of the Bears, ESP in 1,000. It's a bad take. [MUSIC PLAYING] Captain J. Hood, I'm back. Oh, Captain J. Hood, big fan, man. [MUSIC PLAYING] Bop, bop, bop, bop. Watch out, fellas. John Chicago's home for sports, ESP in Chicago. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. 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 unique and different than the other teams. But we've got to make sure that we establish the run game. You know, that's the paramount. And that's in any football team is going to say that. We've 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, you run the ball to win the game, right? You pass the score points, but you've 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. That is exactly right. Matt Eber Flus with us after every Bears game right here on Captain J. Hood. Hope that you're going to have a great Tuesday. Still to come. We'll talk baseball with Jesse Rogers at 750 Albert Breyer at 835. If you're just joining us, we're talking about the Bears as far as the comments from Bill Belichick on the Pat McAfee show talking about how he likes the quarterback. It's hard to make a kill of Williams, how he likes the wide receivers, but thinks that the infrastructure in the offensive line is not good enough for the Chicago Bears. And he's right. Here's the thing, Cap. I like the development of Darnell Wright and Kevin Jenkins. And I think that Braxton Jones has been fine at left tackle. Ryan Post likes Braxton Jones. I think we like him as well. Don't love him, but he's fine at left tackle. But as far as Nate Davis at Wright Guard and Coleman Shelton at center, it matters that they're able to protect and help out this offense. I mean, I know that that becomes somewhat nuts and bolts when it comes to football because people are looking at the fly of the ball. People are looking at the running game, looking at the defense. But that matters. The protection of a young quarterback matters. Running the football on this team matters. I love the ball on the earth like anybody else, but also the meat and potatoes matters for the Chicago Bears. Yes, your foundation. You have to have a strong foundation. You're talked about it a billion times. So is Waddle. If you can't protect your kid up there, like I was watching some Daniel Jeremiah stuff that he put out from NFL Network. And he said, I'm still all in on Caleb. And he showed a throw that was this close to being a completion. Deep down the field on the right sideline. He said, watch the center get pushed right into his lap. Literally, he's got his own center in his lap as he's trying to step into a throw. Just missed going down the field. There were seven offensive linemen taken after we took Roma Dunesay. Who are they? That were on the board because J.C. Latham went seven to Tennessee. Joe Alt went five to the Los Angeles Chargers. That's the guy the Bears loved. Now, if he had been there, would they have taken him? Probably. But they like the Dunesay a lot. And so do I. This is not anything about Rome. But if you look at the Bears at nine take O'Dunesay. Fashanu from Penn State, who's a high school teammate of Caleb Williams, he went 11 to the New York Jets. And then you've got Fuaga from Oregon State offensive tackle to the Saints. Then you have Amarius Mims, your guy from Georgia. He went to the Bengals at 18. Troy Fattano out of Washington. He went to the Steelers at 20. There's a Steelers. Keep adding to their O line. Keep throwing resources at it. Then Jordan Morgan to the Packers. They didn't go get a receiver for Jordan Love. They've got good receivers. They don't have top 10 picks at receiver. They went and added another offensive lineman kid out of Arizona. One pick later. Tampa Bay took the number one center in the draft. Graham Barton from Duke. Six, five, three, 14. Oh, by the way, he's starting for the Buccaneers. And he looks to be a really good player. And then you had Tyler Geithin, who the Bears hosted on a visit. The same weekend Caleb was here from Oklahoma, who's a monster, six, seven, three, whatever from Oklahoma. He went to the Cowboys. They just keep adding resources upfront. When you're a general manager, though, Cap, you have to pick your poison. Yeah. And here's the choices. Tell me if I'm wrong. Tell me if I'm wrong. You had to get Roma Dunes on this football team because if you're going to have Ken Allen also on the team, you know that who is only going to be here for a song, more than likely just for a year. Agreed. This is the replacement for Ken Allen long term. Agreed. That's why you did that. At the same time you pick your poison. You feel like we need Ken Allen for seasoning in the locker room. Okay. Great. Because also, you know, the key now is not going to give you 17 games. He just not. We already see he's already out. Agreed. And it's okay. Okay. So a Dunes is the future of the football team, along with DJ Moore. All right. Having done that, you still did not address the offensive line. Yes. Good. I don't mind them having a Dunes on the football team. If I'm answering the question with the benefit of hindsight, should polls have drafted the limes in a Rome? Look, Roma Dunes, they will pay dividends. I would think quicker than an offensive lineman that's learning on the job. I think that with an offensive lineman, unless that guy is all pro in year one, I don't expect him to just set the world on fire. He's one of five. A Dunes, they could be one of one. Right. He could be a star could be. I get it. Great kid. They love him in the room. He's a really good player. He played through injury this week and played just about every snap, 100%. But that all said, we don't have enough assets on the offensive line. We can run through it again. Darnell, right? He hasn't proven it yet, but he was a top 10 pick you through assets there. Okay. Nate Davis, that's a miss $10 million a year. Sounds like a lot of money. That is not one of the more highly paid guards in the league. It's middle money in the national football league for a guard, but he looks like he was a missive val so far. Your center, you get what you freak and pay for. One year for three million, you're not getting a star there. I'm just, again, we can rage for an imagine, I hate this cold and sheltered. I said, what are you mad at him for? He's out there competing. He's trying. He just isn't that good. Yeah. You have a problem. That was his selection. Be mad at the decision to put him there, not at the guy. The guy's trying. I saw a guy that wasn't playing hard or doesn't want to play like Nate Davis. That makes me more angry. Coleman Shelton's competing. He does not very good. Kevin Jenkins, he had a bad game, man. He did. He's talented. My pay and that dude, all the money he wants, probably not. And my left tackle is a fifth round kid who he's a little light in the ass. I've heard York talk about this. He does not have enough heft to him to be able to handle Will Anderson or Jeffrey Simmons or whoever it is lining up over him, the Neil Hunter. So he's an underachiever, or is he achieving at the level of fifth round pick is going to achieve from southern Utah? I just think that he's starting as a fifth round pick because polls like the underachiever dogged him that it's it's scrappy, but it's not. It's not all pro yet. I don't know if I would use the word underachiever. He's underrated. He's a fifth round kid. I get your point and that is not Penay Sewell on the right side, who's the best right tackle in football. Taylor Decker, Frank Ragda, that's what Detroit did. They left receivers on the board. The Bengals said we got to have Jamar Chase. Why is our offensive line getting Joe Burrell killed? Because you left Penay Sewell sitting on the board when you could have had him. All right. Let's go to the phone lines to talk to you three one two three three two three seven seven six is our telephone number, Josh and Mantino on cap and jhood. Josh. Good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah. You know, I think polls made the right decision. I'm going to at least trust it for now. He took who he thought was the best player. Maybe he felt like a guy like Rome wouldn't be there next year and the line, you know, that he could address that in the future. I mean, they knew they couldn't address it all in one year. So I am going to trust that he did the best that he felt he could do at the time and got him as close as they could. Okay. We got to let you go, man. The alarm is signing off in your car. Yes. But John, that sounds good. So he says he's so we're understanding your point. Put your telephone calls. We go to Boston, Massachusetts, listening on the ESP in Chicago, after his Adam on cap and jhood, Adam. Good morning. Good morning, guys. What's up, buddy? It feels like déjà vu all over again, whether it's Mitch or it's Justin or it's Caleb, all with that offensive line. None of them had a good offensive line, and then the offensive line's terrible. The quarterback plays that game, but they didn't do any RPO. They didn't do any play action. They didn't do any design roll out, and so now they're just going to start drawing all that up for Caleb. Is that the answer? I mean, did you see a single RPO play against the Texans? Not, so that was like, why don't they just start doing that because they can't get new offensive line? Because the line's terrible. Well, you're going to have to do a lot. First of all, I get the ball out quickly. There's going to have to be the ability for Caleb Williams to roam around the pocket so he doesn't get killed and to try to be able to go down the field to try to make plays. He's going to have to get out of the pocket. Like I know that there's a lot of times, Cap, we're watching him, he's in the pocket, he's trying to make plays and he either runs with the football. We saw him throw it away a couple of times, so I think it's pretty smart for a young quarterback. But right now, it is true, Adam, that what we're seeing is a lot of bears Mondays that we've been through before, and that is a quarterback that's trying to make plays and he has no time to do it because the offensive line is a jailbreak. It's a jailbreak against him. Yeah. So last night I watched the Monday night game. Well, is it dinner? Go back and put on, you can find it on YouTube or on Twitter or wherever. Chris Lindstrom, the center for the Atlanta Falcons, he beat the hell out of Jalen Carter. Jalen Carter is a stud. You know him better than anyone because you're a Georgia fan. Yeah. He's a great, great football player. He had a couple of pressures. You go watch Chris Lindstrom win after win after win after win after win neutralizing this mammoth man in the middle. And guess where he went? Chris Lindstrom was the 14th pick overall for a center. Yeah. So we were like, what are they doing taking a center that high? Yeah. And now he drafted in 2019, he's in the prime of his career, 27 years old, and he's a stud. That's where those guys are. More of your phone calls coming up, 312323776 our phone number. Did you hear what Kevin Jenkins had to say about the game on Sunday? Uh oh. Wait until you hear this next. And what your phone calls is we talk about the bears on the home of the bears, the ESPN 1000. Kevin Jay Hood are back and you know this man, Chicago's home for sports ESPN Chicago. It's a captain Jay Hood morning show on the ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With you till 10 o'clock and then Mike Greenberg comes in a 10 followed by Carmen Yurko, a 12 wadland Sylvie at 230 black and a dollar at 630 right into White Sox baseball at eight right here on the home of the White Sox ESPN 1000 3123236 our phone number talking about the bears. And the question we have on the table this morning is what the benefit of hindsight should Ryan Paul's have drafted a lineman and said Roma doomsday and I guess that this all stems from Bill Belichick being on the Pat McAfee show talking about how he likes the quarterback and Caleb Williams. He likes the receivers but just that the line is not as good as it should be and feels like the ball can't be in the air 40 50 times in the winter, you know, when we get to December and January. I understand that point of view because that's how Bill Belichick won. He won by the trenches and also had a great quarterback had a good running game. So it wasn't really about the wide receivers. It was just about the system. So speaking of the system, Kevin Jenkins, left guard for the Chicago Bears spoke about the lack of protection for Caleb Williams. Listen closely to this 12 seconds to my knowledge on them and get the call. We hear a call at the front and we ask you to, we'll really coach to do what I mean. A lot of things happen, but like pressures and stuff. So we don't control so much. We can only control so much again. For those who missed it. Listen again to my knowledge on them, I mean, you get the call. We hear a call at the front and we ask you to we'll really coach to do. I mean, a lot of things happen, but like pressures and stuff. So we go and control so much. That is courtesy of CHGL and he is he throwing his coaches under the bus. Some could say that. He's just saying, Hey man, I hear all the chatter about our offensive line is just understand we're executing what they're asking us to execute. So I think both things could be true that they had a bad night. They got trucked. Coleman Shelton was getting driven back into his quarterback. You try throwing from that position to have a jank. I read you all the pressures yesterday, I broke them all down. They can also only run the play in the blocking scheme as the OC is designing because everyone I've asked who would know who's up there has been in the league. They love Chris Morgan. They think he's a hell of an offensive line coach. He's not the issue. Yeah. That 12 seconds. Doesn't indicate that. We just heard. So, but if you ask me that well, no, before you go there, if I if you ask me the question, I got to do what's right for me, I got to be better for and I got to protect the quarterback. Oh, if you're Kevin, yeah, I like what the ever the coaches said has nothing to do. With the question, there's some issues there. You could tell. Yeah, because he's feeling all these slings and arrows coming their way. He's only, hey, not a second now. We can only execute what they're coaching us to do. I don't know if that's a shot at Chris Morgan or at Shane Waldron. What he is asking out of his offense are down here and it could be more Waldron. Not Morgan. Well, it might be a combination. Let's just unpack the question, then. Do you believe that they are executing exactly what they're asked to do? I don't see a lot of execution out there. Do you? I do not. What's I'm saying, like, but I if you ask me the question, Captain, I'm at my locker. It's on me. I got to take care of my job, my responsibility. I do my job. Right. A mature answer. Yeah. Like that's an immature answer. Yeah. A mature answer would be ask me the question. I'll be. One of your thoughts on the lack of protection for Caleb Williams on the offensive line. We've got to get back in our offensive line room tomorrow. We'll talk about everything. We are all one unit here and we let our guys down tonight. We didn't have a good night. We'll get it fixed. Yeah. That's it. I thought it was a little bit of deflection from Devin Jenkins. As I just said to you, I think you agree. He's feeling all the heat like these guys don't turn on the radio and listen to every second of every day because they're at work. They're trying to get better, but he's hearing it. He's seeing the newspaper clippings. Those are around the locker room. Oh my God. We're getting destroyed here. Hey, did you hear what they said about you on the TV broadcast? You're getting killed. Everyone wants to deflect and go, hang on a second now. I know you don't like what happened, but that was it. I just execute what my coaches told me to do. I think it's a combination of both. The mature answer would have been, "ton all of us, we'll get it fixed." Yeah. I think that's the answer. I just think that answer is very interesting from CHGO and Devin Jenkins. Would you be shocked? This is a very interesting question. Would you be shocked? They won't speak today because they're off. With this week, Devin says, "Look, I didn't mean that as a shot of my coaches." Of course. He's got to say it because Justin had to do that last year. I was just going to say, the field's 2.0. He's bringing the press in, come to locker room and just try to clarify. Okay. All I want as a Bears fan, I think I can speak for a lot of Bears fans, is that we just want the offensive line to be better to give the rookie quarterback a chance. That's all. We didn't have to go through this every year of wondering if these folding patio chairs that's called the offensive line can actually block for three seconds. We should have to go through this every year. Yet everything else that's right about your football team, but yet the offensive line at this point in time and again, what we see now is not going to be week 18. That's the hope. We see now is not going to be by the time we get to the break for the Chicago Bears. You hope that moving forward, it just gets better. That's what I can hope as a Bears fan that that whole offensive line gets better. 312332, 3776, our phone number, North Star Glenn is with us on cap and Jhood. Glenn. Good morning. Hey, good morning. Thank you for letting me. Let me call in. Hey, here's my theory and I got three reasons. My theory is that 60 to 65% of these plays, the quarterback should be under center, not in that short shotgun. Look, I've been watching this team since the sixties and a smoky VFW with my father because the home games had to be on closed circuit TV. Here's my three reasons as to why I believe that more snacks need to be under center. First of all, when you run the ball, less is more, snap the ball, get them running back, going downhill, hit the hole. All you need is a small hole to at least get two or three positive yards. No negative plays. It's easier on the offensive line. We've been criticizing them, give them a chance to knock a guy off the line a little bit. You have a small opening and the running back should be able to get some positive yards. That's reason number one, reason number two. Number two. Yes, sir. The play action path, when the quarterback is under center, is the best play they got. Even when you go back and watch Justin Fields last year, a lot of his good plays is when he was under center and did a play action pass. The reason being is that when that quarterback snaps the ball, does that play action pass and he's right there, nobody on the defense knows where the ball is. And then when you do that same play action pass from the short snap, everybody can see the ball. It's worthless. What's the next one? Number three. Number three, the third reason has to do with the quarterback. Now the quarterback snaps the ball, does the fake handoff, he gets his feet moving, he's not staring down a receiver because he had a little something to do, he's moving back into the pocket, he should know where those receivers are, the receivers should get a little stuff because of the play action pass and boom, just get the ball out of your hands. And I think it's gonna be a lot quicker, a lot faster, a lot smoother and a lot less fat. All right. A lot less sex. Okay. Got it. Thank you. I would like to ask Yirk his thoughts on that because he lined up on the interior. Here's the only interior lineman we have here. This was a linebacker, Waddle was a wide receiver. I would love Yirk's thoughts. Would he rather see more shotgun because this really successful offensive system like they use in Green Bay, they're in shotgun. What about Glenn, what about his experience? I don't know if North Star Glenn has that level of experience, he's entitled to his opinion. I told you, I learned my lesson. You fan how you want a fan. I'm gonna ask people who know a lot more about the interior play than Glenn. Sorry, Glenn. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Coming up, we hear from Jesse Rogers, the latest in the Cubs and Sox and everything else MLB. Don't forget Shout out eight o'clock. All part of the mix on Kappa and Jhood. You know how tight it is. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitter at ESPN 1000. And Jay Hood are back on ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. Jesse Rogers is brought to you by West Coast Men's Health, helping men with ED and chronic pain. For more five years, go to West Coast Men's Health.com and Jesse Rogers, who covers basically baseball for ESPN, is on the hotline. That would be the Karak's tire and on a hot rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom. Good morning. Jesse. How are you? I am good voice. Good morning to you guys. Was that the Cubs last night, watch the end of the White Sox. Two winners. Two winners. Yesterday. What's up? Yeah. White Sox third in a row. The first time since June 27, 28, 29, if they win tonight, first four game winning streak since May, I think with Tampa, was involved in that streak. So we could start right there because Chris Getz came out and said, don't look for us to be active in free agency very much. And I'm like, what? Yeah. People around here got to get better. Who do they have that's going to get better because always gone. There's no way they're picking up the option on mankata. Why they've activated them and then didn't have them in the lineup made zero sense to me. So how do they get any better? Well, they're going to bring up young players. I mean, Colson Montgomery's finally going to probably make it up here, right? It's going to be those kind of young players. That's what he's talking about. It's no surprise they're not going to add for free agency after 150, 120 losses. He's not going to do that. That's not a shot. Yeah. I mean, you know what it's like? They're just going to build this thing slowly, probably lose 100 next year. Their main building blocks are on their mound. I don't know where they're going to find enough hitters, but they're not trying to win next year. Let's face it. They're just trying to get a little bit better each year until maybe a moment in time where they add. I'm not shocked. And who are they going to add that's going to come here that's of significance anyway? You're going to have to overpay anybody. You're going to get people that are just looking for jobs like kind of like you had last year. So they're just in that bad spot that they put themselves in. They have to hope that Ben and Tendi and Vaughn and these guys that are not free ages yet are going to get better. And then you bring up Colson Montgomery, a couple other guys and, you know, try to avoid 100 losses. If that's what's the best they can really do. Jesse, in that position as a general manager, you have to be able to be able to win. Be able to preach hope and saying that we're going to have change at some point. You don't say in mid September, not even at the end of the season. You're just saying to me, Hey, by the way, you know, if you're thinking about getting some tickets next year, it's going to be the same. Now, I think that's obvious is going to be the same, but you don't say it arrogantly like, Hey, if you look at free agency, it's not going to happen to the south side of Chicago. No team does that, Jesse. I mean, you can be transparent, but that's too far. I will say he Chris has been more transparent than than most GMs have been around. I mean, remember what he said at the GM meetings? I don't like my team. So we kind of do like the honesty, but I get what you're saying, Jay Hood, I get it. Like sometimes you can be a little bit too honest. I'm never going to criticize that as a reporter, but I know what you're, I know what you're saying. Like what do you sell to the fans? If you've lost a hundred and fifteen hundred twenty and saying we will purposely not try to get better, you know, because free agency can get you better, it can move things forward or you, if you pick the right guys, of course. And I know Jerry, I mean, he's looking at Andrew Ben attendance and say, why did I spend on him? You know, he's finally hitting now seasons over and he didn't hit last year either. So I know what you're saying, Jay Hood, but I kind of like the honesty from gets and it's sometimes it's going to be good, sometimes it's going to be bad. Most of the time it's been good, but like, like we said, like no one's surprised, they're not going to spend no one is surprised by that in the game. All right, so let's talk about the Cubs. Our friend Bob Nightingale said, here are the teams that are going to be involved in the once Soto sweepstakes. No mention, I'm not expecting the socks to be there, but no mention of the Chicago Cubs. Yet they need a star bat. They're hoping Cody Bellinger opts out so they get that money off the books. I'm here and that's not going to happen that he's going to stay here for 27 and a half million next year. But Jesse, in the end, they're going to win 86 ball games, say, praying that doesn't happen because we have a bet, but they're going to win 85 or 86 games. They're going to fall short again and they're going to have blown 24 saves leading directly to 17 losses, unconscionable. They don't have a closer, yeah, you know, at that game and I was listening to Soto and watching him and he was great, 11 strikeouts career high in this late in the season. 14 or 3. Yeah, just amazing first, first rookie to win 14 for the Cubs since 1957. All these good stacks about him, his strikeout to walk ratio lead is the league. I didn't really realize that. So I looked it up 6.07 Ks to walks. He was just great. He walks a couple of guys that he did yesterday at the end. He was like, that's a surprise and his split finger was amazing. All these great things. And the thing that kept going through my mind is what we've talked about all year. This is a team of good players. It needs a star at the top of the rotation. It needs a star in the line of the fact that they're playing better since the all-star since the all-star breaker, I wrote this trade deadline 26 and 15 since the trade deadline. That shouldn't tell you, OK, let's not do anything next year. Let's bring it all back. That should tell you, we need a star here and we need a star there. And wow, we could have a really good team. That's the thought that kept going through my mind yesterday. So I'm with you. I don't think they're going to get so. It's 400, 500 million. They're just not going to. That's why I've said overwhelmed Toronto for Vlad and sign him up. Sign Corbin Burns, it's going to cost 200 million, not 400 or 500 million. You know, I'm with you, like they need to go after the best at his position. They haven't done that in years. You know, go back to Dansby. He wasn't the best at his position. They picked up Bellinger off the scrap. He basically, they have not gone after the best. Trading for Vlad would be that. He's one of the best. Signing Corbin Burns, he's one of the best. And yes, Juan Soto is one of the best. It's just that you've got both New York teams involved, including the one he's on. I understand why they might not get him, but you've got to take that big swing. You have a good team. You need to be a great team, and you do that with great players. Got a piece coming up, Jesse. We need to promote. This was actually Jeff Parsons spent 24 hours in Chicago with the White Sox last week, popped in, did a 24-hour stint, was hoping to see a win, did not see a win. And of course, they won three games after he left. So that's on ESPN.com. I'm supposed to go to San Diego to watch them break the record. It's probably not going to happen now later in the week because they won three in a row. They need to go six and five the rest of the way to avoid setting the record, seven and four to avoid tying it. It's going to be hard with three against the Padres and now the Tigers are in the race three against them, but still five against the Angels left. Who knows? I mean, what do you think? Can they go six and five to avoid the record? No. I don't mean that. I don't think so either. Now with the Padres and Tigers, you know, well, six and five ties the record. Right. No, six and five is sets the record. Six and five avoids the record. You're right. Avoid tying it. No. They've got a hundred and fifteen losses. Right. So six and five would tie the record. Correct. That's what I said. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm saying, I mean. They got seven and four to not own the record. Yeah. No, to tie the record is I think seven and four to avoid the record setting the record is the main number here. Damn. Tying the record is not a big deal. Setting the record I think is a big deal. Who's on? Who's on first? Jesse. Yeah. Exactly. You better than that, Jesse. Any sacks? No. Thank you, Jesse. All right, boys. Talk to you later. See you in two minutes, we give you a shout or no shot right here on Chicago's home for sports.