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Limited battery warranty covers defects and materials for 10 years or 100,000 miles, which requires first, seat-owners manual for complete warranty details and limitations, visit 100USA.com or call 563-1446-03 for more details. Wake up, wake up. Mike Mulligan, David Ha. We can do this every week, we should get a sponsor, the power rankings of Putrid. Presented, bye, no one. Who was worse? All fingers should be pointing at the offensive coordinator. Yeah. That was a short honeymoon. Yeah, this was an interesting thought process, Shane Waldron's part. You can start the offensive coordinator, I have no problem, if that's the way you want to start it. Apparently, the general manager, he had this beauty, he said that the O-line communication technique and fundamentals have led to a rough performance rather than bad talent. Whoa, I did not see that. That moves him way the hell up in my estimation. Yes, thank you. All right, so I might even move him atop the list after reading that yesterday. I'll put everybody on the list. I put them all on the list, hey, what's going on with the building downtown? Get on the list. One of the things I always look at coming home to the city is I always look for cranes in the air. Everybody, there's a spot for all of you. Kevin Warren's on the list? I just put them on there. But your mornings with Mully and Haw, 5.30 till 10 a.m. on 6.70 the score. If that doesn't make your teeth chatter, I don't know what will. Wow. Let's go. Mully and Haw Chicago Sports Radio 670 the score. As I was driving down this morning and my teeth were clattering as the fact that there's no road on the road and then I got here and couldn't even figure out how to take a left turn because there's no road where there used to be a road. I was wondering underneath the building, if there were cranes in the sky, what are the grades doing? Mully, happy Tuesday. So you had a hard time with your commute because of the road construction? No, no. I had a great time. I just was chattering. My teeth were chattering. A lot of activity at this time of day, at this time of morning. Yeah. A lot of blown out tires on LSD, I don't know if you're following it. There's a lot of reconstruction in the city. Kevin, one would be happy about that. Well, I mean, the internal workings of this joint, right? Where we are in the prudential building and it is beautiful. Give yourself a couple extra minutes for coming. A couple of minutes? Yeah. You don't know quite what path you're going to have to take into the parking garage at any given day. There's no way to get out. That's part of the problem. It's fine. It's like Hotel California. Yes. You can check in, but you can never leave. Never check out. Never leave. Yeah. So it's, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you made it. Thank you. We've got a lot to talk about. It was a big night in the NFL. It was a big day at Haddles Hall. There's a lot looking forward to. The Rams are coming to town. Sean McVay is talking about Kayla Williams. There's a lot going on. And oh, by the way, the White Sox make history tonight in all likelihood. Yeah, we don't always talk about it. I know, but we're going to get to that at some point. No, we don't. It's a big day. It's worth it. No need to bring that up. Remember that day forever. It'll be indelibly etched into your memory. No reason. If you're a Sox fan. Only the only people that want to talk about it are guys like Dustin that are grinning from here. No, no, no. That's it. It's the right way. We've got to figure out how to put it all into context. Yeah. I think by putting our heads in the ground and ignoring it. Well, last night was football night. By referring to them as Jerry Reinsder of Sox, not even the White Sox. Why did they have two Monday night games at this stage of the season? You know, I was mad about that because I was, I don't, I'm not equipped to deal with two Monday night games. I was actually a little worried about you like, okay, well, how are, I was wondering how you were watching both or if you were bothering even to watch both. I tried to watch some of the Cubs game and then I saw, you know, Kyle Swarber's. After Swarber homered, I was out and then I was out and then I turned on the game and it was already over. I mean, the game was over so quickly. Jacksonville has a problem. Jacksonville has a lot of problems, not the least of which apparently the quarterback has no confidence left. Oh, apparently the coach doesn't either. And the coach is going through his own crisis. So we talk about, or to back home, post game admissions. We talk about post game, you know, how they coaches can port themselves. We mentioned yesterday, Antonio Pierce versus Maddie Verflus, Doug Peterson basically conceded last night that he's not capable of finding what he needs to find to have the confidence to move on. It was really strange to have the question asked if the quarterback has lost all confidence and have the coach say, well, you know, aren't we all kind of going through like he just was like, well, who isn't losing confidence, whatever he said, that's not what you want to hear. What? Wrong answer. The girls look like a team off to as good of a start as any team in the NFL, the three and all. The Marhamlin getting an interception was really a special moment. If you happen to be watching that game, but if you were watching that game, you were watching the one that everyone will be talking about in every NFL city this morning. Yes. And that's the Washington commanders taking care of the Cincinnati Bengals and Jay Daniels breaking it out. And where was that game? That was not in Cincinnati. That was, no, I'm saying where was it on television? Oh, that was on ABC, I believe. So you had the one game on ESPN and the other game on an ABC and you had no Manning cast because they couldn't figure out which one to watch. Is that it? I think maybe because Bill Belichick was busy. I don't know. Maybe that's why they didn't have a Manning cast. Okay. He doesn't. He have to be on. I just was disappointed. There wasn't a man. Hey, it's been at least a day and a half since Bill Belichick's been on television. So I think we have a problem here. He was on the radio yesterday. Was he? Yes. He was on the, well, he was on a couple of different stops, not the least of which he's replaced Tom Brady on the let's go show. So now I can sleep now, now that wherever you found the game, yes. And even if you didn't, you'll see it all over social media. Oh, yeah. Jaden Daniels is the man. Is the man of the league this morning because of his breakout performance and because of the way that he has played in the first three games, he is the it quarterback in the NFL right now. He is the he's the CJ Stroud, yes, to the Caleb Williams. Now, Bryce Young, well, we're going to continue to talk about this, but because because he is the CJ Stroud or that comparison is asked because he was a number two overall pick, right, doesn't mean that Caleb Williams is playing the role of Bryce Young. Well, it means the NFL may have drafted the wrong quarterback first two years running. You can contend that you can think that and you can argue that I'm not going to be arguing that or thinking that or contending that today. I didn't expect you to. I'm just saying that would be the public reaction. Sure. It might be the public overreaction. Yes. Yeah. He is special. I don't think the Bears talk to him. I don't think so either. He is zeroed in on one guy. Jay Daniels showed a lot of things last night that you're going to get used to seeing if he continues this this progression, but he can he can run. He's a natural gifted runner and he's elusive like Lamar Jackson. And last night you saw the accuracy that has been consistent. He's completing over 80% of his passes through three games. The big play for me, like a lot of people watching third down was it was third and short. I believe the one that Terry McLaren caught in the corner of the end zone, the last touchdown pass of the night, what a throw. What a throw. Yes. I'm the money. He's a good player. He's a offensive coordinator. I believe it's Cliff Kingsbury. I think it's the man from architectural digest. I bet you he lives in a nice place out in DC. He's got a beautiful home. I bet. I don't know how nice the places are out in DC. Oh, come on. Oh, I mean, he's probably he's not like in a in a Georgetown bungalow. I mean, some sort of a townhouse. I believe he would be in the Virginia countryside. Perhaps. Why couldn't I say that without you getting up. I thought you were disparaging Washington DC as a place to live. No, no, no. I was merely stating that I think having seen him in the desert that he may prefer something more visually stimulating in his glass field. I can't wait for the next issue of architectural digest DC edition to see where he's living. Wherever he's living, he's doing a lot of good work at the office because that is how you structure an offense around, I don't think he's Maryland, a skill set of your quarterback that takes advantage of it. I don't think he's in Maryland either, probably for DC district of Columbia. It's not exactly anywhere. It's not in Maryland. It's not in Virginia. It's kind of in between. But I'm thinking of where the football operation is run and I'm guessing that he's commuting from someplace not within the city limits. Don't you think he's got like a limo driver and a second call driving himself? Yeah. You know, Mr. Kingsbury, thank you. So he's a smart football guy. And what we saw last night and one of my bigger takeaways and we'll continue to talk about this is that the way that the commanders will talk about whether they got the right quarterback and did the, you know, all of this stuff, the CJ Stroud comparison is an obvious one, but the commanders got the right offensive coordinator. Whoa, so you're choosing to say that they hired the wrong coordinator. They didn't draft the wrong quarterback is I'm saying, I'm saying that three games in the only reaction that I'm having, the biggest reaction that I'm having is, yeah, Jake Daniels is special, but they're understanding how to get that out of him quicker and better than the bears have figured that out with Kayla Williams. And there are a lot of other things that are apples to oranges and that really app comparisons. But I do think that good for Cliff Kingsbury, good for Dan Quinn. This is a franchise that maybe had turned a corner last night. It feels like they did. And they did so because they're making the best use of his talents and they know how to get the most out of their quarterback. Jaden Daniels set an NFL rookie record for the highest completion percentage. Wait for it ever in a game by a rookie ever. Well, it's a pretty good game. Are you sure that they checked CJ Stroud's stats because I thought he set every record imaginable last year? Well, no, I don't know. Less impressive. I mean, it was something. It was pretty special. And he said everything correctly afterward. He thanked everyone the right way he he shared all of the glory. Well, the way they're talking about what they're talking about in Washington is that the narrative out there was that the commanders as a franchise took a major step last night. Monday night football national audience Cincinnati Bengals and Joe Burrow on the other side considered a Super Bowl contender despite their own three start. But a lot of a lot of people picked the Bengals to do some big things this year. And I think that last night, they're all with three commanders do what they did to them as easily as it looked. That game didn't include a punt or a turnover. That was great football to watch, really. I think we, you know, it would be fun. We'll talk to Big Z at seven, but I want to I want to. I think what you're saying is the Bears got the worst coordinator. That's the one thing you're willing to say. Is that it? Well, okay. I'll put it in my terms. I don't know that I would put it that way. I would because I don't know if I'm all out. I'm Shane Walger and after three games. I don't want to I don't want to go there even though a lot of people have. I want to say that it appears to me, the only thing we can conclude after three games is that the commanders got it right and the Bears still don't know. And I think they're talking about the player. I'm talking about the play call coordinator. The coordinator. Now, as far as the player goes, if you want me to weigh in there right now, I wouldn't dare. I think you've already weighed in. I think we're too early for me. Yeah. Are you in? I'm Jay Daniels over Jay Daniels greater than Caleb Williams. Would you tweet that? Three games in. Would say that. Well, three games in. Well, you know what? I mean, I'm not one of these like, well, wait and see guys. I'm not a wait and see guy. I'm looking at what's happened right now. Kind of are. I mean, you should be. I know. You should be a wait and see guy. I'm just not allowing a wait and see answer. I don't think a wait and see. It's 543. We've got plenty of time. I mean, it's 543, it's September 24th. You would have to, you would have to admit that that was the best game you've seen from a rookie quarterback ever. Well, I was completion percentage. I hadn't really started to categorize it in my memory bank as far as the best rookie performances by a quarterback in Chicago. That's not really hard to do. There's not a lot of frame of reference. Let's put it. Let's put it this way. If you got a phone call, if you're running Washington this morning and you get a phone call, yeah, and it's, hey, this guy's not working out for us. We want to make a deal. Would you take Trevor Lawrence straight up for Jay Daniels? No. No. No. See, I went a different way there because I just wanted to drive in through a curvy little. Trevor Lawrence is now set a record. He is the Chris Flexin of the NFL right now. They have not won one of his starts in the last eight. I believe. Eight. Eight. That's quite a problem. Yeah. When you are the franchise quarterback who, by the way, signed an extension over the summer guaranteeing him hundreds of millions of dollars that he probably won't be around to earn for the Jacksonville Jaguars. If you're shotgun on that owner, what are you thinking right now? Get me to London Pronto? Well, I mean, he's got a lot of money and he owns a football team. He owns much of London. Does he? Does he own the National Stadium there? I mean, the guy is got some money. You tell me you're the London football expert. Here you go again. I just just saw, you know, in England, they speak what's called English, okay? We got to go football again. Just to distinguish it between soccer and football. Do you think any of the three guys we talked to the last Friday could speak a word of another language? Oh, by the way, how did that big party in Lincoln? Oh, I heard he went great. You know, he turned up your guy, the mayor got a T-shirt, got like a nice, he printed shirt. Brandon Johnson, Mayor Brandon Johnson. He was there. How's he? My guy. He was your guy. And Benny, the bull was there. And that's on my guy. And he came out and Benny offered some popcorn. Yeah, you know, Benny's going to show up at a party, everybody's wearing popcorn. Was Benny over served? Benny is awesome. Ah, Benny's all right, a lot of bad blood there, a lot of bad blood. David tried to write one night. Sorry. You know, he's covered. It's all forgiven. I'll forgive him. Everyone. Anyway, so the Trevor Lawrence connection to this is that he's been very bad. And there's yes, and he played last night and he played last night and Josh Allen played against him and had four touchdown passes in the first half. Oh my God. They were fantastic. But they never put together the best rookie season ever. The best game ever game. Not season yet. Relations in a game ever. That's pretty good. It's pretty good. It underscored. I mean, listen, am I mistaken to Caleb Williams, not just throw for 363, Caleb Williams completed 33 passes and 363 yards of passing over the weekend. And we come in here on Tuesday morning wondering if the bears got it wrong. I love Chicago. Is it wrong? I love Chicago. Is it wrong? To have mentioned it. I mean, the long awaited quarterback that looks the part and is yeah, has having rookie moments. But the idea that the bears got it wrong at that position after a 363 yard effort is just so on brand. It's just so on brand. Why didn't they talk to him? Where did they talk to who? Jayden Daniels. I think because they would even give them an interview. Let me tell you. I was begging to tell them. Begging to tell them what they got it big damn. Okay. Look, I understand that is a valid question. And if you want to criticize it, it's open season. I'm just I'm not saying you necessarily you like a point of figure at you. I'm not trying to trigger you. You feel like you. You in the general sense, you can ask those questions this morning and they would all be valid and they all be appropriate and certainly timely because Jayden Daniels is the guy. You in a general sense would never ask those questions. But we in a general sense are wondering, okay, then let me ask, I'm talking about what I think. I don't want to think about the we or the you, whatever. I think that it's a fair question, but yeah, it's way too early to conclude anything. I think about either guy, even though I think Jayden Daniels is going to be special. I think Caleb Williams is going to be special. And I think we're going to be treated to two guys whose careers we can compare and contrast for a very long time. I don't know if this is going to be Burrow, Mahomes, or Brady Manning. I don't know if it's going to be anything that great. Or proud young. That's open. Not strong young, but I think it's fair to wonder that we're going to look at it. But I think both guys can be real talented, pro-bo-caliber quarterbacks in the league for a very long time. Texture says Jayden Daniels, given his injury history, would be hospitalized right now if he were behind the Bears offense. It's a fair point. I don't think about, I mean, it's a fair point about the offensive line comparison. Yeah. I don't know about his being hospitalized. That's extreme. But he's also very wiry. Would you worry about him running as often as he likes to run? There was a time last night just watching that game where he was taking off down the field after he was on a little bit of a roll. I was like, "No, stop, don't do that." Because he's shifty and boy, when he runs, he's dangerous. When you got the birds, you got to let them fly. When you got the horses, you got to let them run. Right? Yeah. Is that it? Is that the answer? Is that his song lyric? Is that a poem? Is that a British literature? I don't know. So I think it's very, it's apt. It is apt. So I think that, yeah, if you're feeling very good about projecting success for Jayden Daniels at the draft, you're looking pretty good this morning. I don't know that it was something that I immediately thought, boy, the bears got it wrong. I was more pleased with number one, this is a player that's going to be so much fun to watch. The commanders have a good time, Dan Quinn, I love the way he coaches, and my head went here. Didn't he get passed over by Matt Eberfloose, when Matt Eberfloose was hired as a head coach of the Bears? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wasn't Dan Quinn the other finalist? He was, I don't remember, I've blocked out a lot of that stuff. I think I need to go back and check that. I can't wait to talk to Bigsy, we'll talk to Bigsy at seven, because I seem to remember that they interviewed like 15 people. No, they didn't, did they do an informational interview with head coach? I think Dan, I think Dan Quinn was a finalist. No, no, I'm talking about the offense quarter. Oh, okay. I'm just, I'm still on, I'm still on the Bears offense and they're there. They, they, they mind him for information on Kayla Williams, but I don't know if they seriously interviewed him. Yes. Yeah. We'll have to get to the bottom of that. But both those guys are now in Washington, they got the quarterback that fits their franchise and it seems that things are turning around in DC. They're two and one after three weeks, very early in the season. I wonder if Bigsy wants that game. He might think he, if he didn't watch the game, he taped that game and he's probably going to be watching it all day and getting out is the, the hogs poster on his bedroom wall. It was, I meant that as a joke. And a cigar. He yelled at the TV. He did. Run it up. Yeah. That's what he was. That's what he was yelling. That's what he was yelling. Don't stop now boys. Run it up. Run it up. Oh man. That's so funny. I've looked. How about the tackle eligible first touchdown pass of Jaden Daniels career? That was really cool. Yeah. Yeah. They're having fun. They're having a good time. But you know, Cliff Kingsbury, you know, creative guy, Kubiak, those are old creative guys, born to it, Shane Waldron, I don't know. He's creative. I don't know. It's appropriate. He's not off to a good start. There's no question about that. There's no way around it. He is not off to a good start. And he has a weapon in Caleb Williams that he needs to get more out of or find ways to get more out of the offense. Caleb Williams, I would hesitate to say he needs to get more out of him. Maybe I take that back. Don't ask as much of him as they seem to be asking right now. It's fun stuff. I'm just curious if, you know, and I don't know how you feel about it, but since we're just talking about different quarterbacks, I believe Justin Fields is 3 and 0 with him. Yes he is. He definitely is. This is why one of the reasons I love the city and talking sports here because it would just figure that Caleb Williams is coming off a loss and three games where he hasn't lived up to expectations that were enormous and we're responsible for many of those. And Jaden Daniels looks like he turned the Washington franchise around in three games. And Justin Fields looks like he's the quarterback of the present and the future in Pittsburgh. And we're still waiting for evidence of growth and progress for the Bears offense in Chicago. All good topics. Yeah. That's why it's going to be a good day. It's important. It's important. It's the ramps, that's why it's important to win. Time to get back to some wins. It's time to regain some confidence and momentum. Yeah. This is a team that lost a lot of credibility Sunday in Indianapolis. And you don't want to turn them into, say, Trevor Lawrence. You don't want to turn them into, just to keep the QV thing going. You'd rather them resemble the Bills and Josh Allen. Four touchdown passes in the first half against the Rams. You would take that from Caleb Williams, right? I would think so. Yeah. I think so. All right. We've, we got a lot to get to. We got an entire city wide issues to tear apart and talk about and teams here and teams nationally and we'll get into all of it. We got the pick six next. It's Mullion Hall at Chicago Sports Radio six, seven to score. It's pick six with Mullion Hall where we debate the top six sports stories of the day. And then open it up to you, the Chicago sports fan. Call us at 312-644-6767 or you can tweet your thoughts at Mully Hall. Pick six with Mullion Hall starts now. Pick six sponsored by Affinity Hall Health. Do what I do. Visit FieldGreatIllinois.com. Learn more about their testosterone therapy or their weight loss options. How about the Bears Coach Matt Irofoos seemingly to be grudgingly admit that the play call on fourth in one from the goal line might have been better, well, almost, almost admitting it. Almost. Irofoos who said the Bears liked the play on Sunday after the game admitted he'd have preferred not having to get to fourth down and when asked the speed of the Colts defense was a factor. Listen to this. We ran it direct, you know, three times in a row and then we had an option to do either one on the fourth one. So, you know, I as the head coach would like him to do it in those three plays that went on to make that decision on fourth down, but I do believe that you do have to take it in account for speed. But again, if the look was right, that was going to be a good play for sure. All right. How do you respond to what Matt Irofoos had to say there? Listen, you know, someone sit them down, show them the play again. It doesn't matter what theoretically the play was supposed to look like. What if the look had been this? It was a terrible play and you got steamrolled and you had a defensive tackle in the backfield right as you started the play and the quarterback had no choice but to flip it out and guess what? You got buried. You had two guys on the outside. They sniffed that out and they destroyed you and you lost 12 yards. Stop saying you like the play. If in butts and candy and nuts, that's a terrible play. It's a terrible play. Run the damn ball straight up the middle. Do it four times. And if you end up on the inch line, you end up on the inch line. They're better than you. But that was awful. That was God awful. Just admit it and let's move on. God. I couldn't believe that answer. Yeah. That was an answer that you would rather not have heard from your head football coach and that is a defensive guy, something I want to get to in a minute. But Darnell right, absolutely whiffed turn style as Biggs would like to say on that third down play. If he even makes contact with his defender, I don't know, I mean, I don't even know how he did that. If he just touches the guy, they score there. Here's the other thing. If you do like that play so much, why not run that on second or third down, right? Because everybody's expecting you to run it straight ahead. That's what teams do. That's what you should do. You should run it straight ahead. But if you're going to get cute, why not get cute on second or third down? And I will say with this defense, why not take the three points? It's seven to nothing. Take the three points, you're better than them. You think you're better than them. Your defense has been playing great. Take the three points, go in a half time down seven to three. I think they did the right thing in going on fourth down. You need to score a touch on that situation given the circumstances. On first down, they did get cute. They got too cute. And that should have been the lesson they learned. And then you run it right up the middle and you get in the information or you get into behind center and you get a yard and you give your offensive line credit and respect by saying that they can get the yard. If they don't, that's on them. But you trust them to get the yard. What they did, the Bears are trying to play chess and all you need to do is play checkers. They're over-complicating things. They got another quarterback. They got another offensive coordinator, excuse me, trying to get too cute in that situation. Just run the ball. And if you didn't make it, just own it. This kind of conversation that Matt Eberfluis is continuing is just, this has been disappointing in the way that he's handled this portion of what happened Sunday. The post-game rationalization about being encouraged the day after over-reaction day and he can't even acknowledge that this was a bad decision. Just own it. People will respect you more and you'll learn from the mistake because you know what? It was a mistake. It was a bad call. It was a terrible sequence and you deserved what happened to you. You don't run an option play to the short side that you only, it worked in practice. Who practices any more at a speed that matters? Come on now. I'm not talking necessarily about a pick pick or something like that. That's the voice of Brad Big, 7 o'clock is Big's time. Do you think the Bears will stick with Matt Pryor, who started in a place of Nate Davis at Right Guard and played 79 snaps on Sunday or will they go back to Nate Davis? Was the decision by Eberfluis approved he could be tough with players or was this injury related? I don't really know because I don't think it's been made clear. Do we know that? Have I missed that? Is it something that they have talked around? Because again, if I were the coach of this team and I bench somebody because of poor play, I would let that be known to everybody including my locker room who may already know but my fan base and that would be something I would not necessarily be proud of but I would want it known because you have to set a standard and you don't want to see the standards sliding and if this is in fact something that is an owed to accountability then you need to own that as well because good for you. If you bench the veteran who's your highest paid offensive lineman, I think that's significant and if you did it because not the injury that kept him out of practice at times last week because he has not been interested or engaged, therefore he has not been good, then make that known, embrace that idea because that says that you have a standard that needs to be met and if it isn't, there will be consequences. There should be consequences. There should be consequences to everything bad that happened on Sunday and the consequence of calling a speed option on fourth and one should be taking that page out of the playbook and burning it in a ceremony. So being present and being prepared two things that I think Matt Pryor has been doing versus what Nate Davis has been doing is a big thing, right? So I think that's part of it. I think they were sick and tired the bears of every day that this soft tissue injury was limiting their practice time. Now here's what you don't know, can the bears offensive line in the run game coordinator and Mattie Verfuss's best buddy in the whole wide world teach Matt Pryor how to go second level. Now that's the difference. Tackels really don't go second level all that often and there were a couple of pieces of tape that I saw out there on social media where Matt Pryor absolutely whiffs when he goes out to, he gets to the second level but he doesn't know the idea of just hit somebody who has a different jersey on than you. When you don't know what to do, hit a guy with the other jersey, don't miss both guys with the other jersey. So I hope they were punishing Nate Davis. But if Matt Pryor can't figure out how to go next level, unfortunately you've got to have Nate Davis back in there this week. Yeah, I'm going to lean on the injury. I'm going to say that Nate Davis is having an injury, a groin injury, limit him. He did come into the game when they were stuck but it was just for a play and that makes you wonder how seriously injured he is but you know you can't practice because you have a groin injury, it's hard to then play on Sunday so they had to replace him all week and then they decided to give that a whirl. This isn't working, whatever's going on with Nate Davis and if it's tough love, if it's whatever it is, it's not working. If they're trying to motivate him, it's not working. If he has an injury, that means it's not working. Whatever's going on with Nate Davis, it really hasn't worked. He hasn't been able to practice much in the off season. He doesn't seem to be ready for the season to begin. And now he's carrying an injury and whether it's a soft tissue injury and they're mad about it or whether it really is debilitating, doesn't really matter because it's not working. So at this point, that's just the situation you're in with the guy. If you can get him up and run it and practicing, maybe he can move back into the lineup but I think they seem to want him to practice before they play him, so feel free to not play him. Oh boy, good question. That's the voice of Coach Juan Steady's here for two big segments, beginning at 744 with Molly and Haw. Matt Eberflu seemed to reluctantly criticize Kayla Williams for an interception on a throw into double coverage intended for Rol Madunze. He called it an aggressive throw and said the safe throw would have been going into the flat. He never wanted to take away his aggressiveness but he has to be really good with the football. And that's his number one job as the quarterback. Is four picks the last two games too much? Yes, four picks is too much in two games. Two picks a game is not going to play with the bears and with the deficits that they have in, and two picks and a fumble is not good, I mean I don't know what to tell you. You've got to get a grip on that. I think it's really interesting that the quarterback says that his number one job is a quarterback is to protect the football. Because that's not the way they're playing and that's not, you know, you don't have a guy pass, what was it? 56 pass attempts, right? With the sacks? 56 pass plays that were called four sacks, 52 attempts. So you don't really want to throw the ball 56 times if you're worried about giving the ball away. I'm being honest about it. I know. I'm saying. On your statement of the day. A lot of seemingly contrary things going on, and I'm not sure exactly, I don't know how Matt Eberfluce talks to the player. I hope it's a lot more forthright and it's not as reluctant as this was, but yeah, we can't have that. Would have been a sufficient answer. Well, this starts opening the door on what you guys talked about in the first segment of the show with Jane Daniels, he sets a record for complete, and again, he took what the defense gave him. We also heard Eberfluce yesterday in that meeting, the Zoom meeting talking about like as soon as one thing's not open, the quarterback needs to go to the like third thing. He almost said like skip your second read. That's what I took away from it. I know you guys did, but like he's got to know what the third option is and that should be open. Now, you don't want to take the aggressiveness out. You talk about, you know, there's got to be a few plays where you're taking the shot down field, his long ball, but here's the other heat. And again, is he afraid or he doesn't want, he doesn't run the ball, run the ball, take the easy stuff. You saw that last night, both Joe Burrow and Jane Daniels took easy when they're not there. Josh Allen, but Josh Allen's kind of a run quarterback, but those two guys who are not they, when there was nothing open, they ran and slid and got five or six easy yards. He's not even doing that. That's what drives me crazy. It's okay for Matt Eberfluce to criticize or to critique Caleb Williams in a way that maybe isn't all a fusive praise. That's got to be the relationship they have. That's got to be the dialogue and the way that we get used to hearing him talk about Caleb Williams. It shouldn't stand out when he says something that is maybe veiled criticism because you never want to take away his aggressiveness. He has to be really good with the football. Yes, he does. Three turnovers on Sunday. That's the reason you lost that game is because now it wasn't his fault necessarily. But if any quarterback, not named Caleb Williams in the past, whatever however many years you want to attach it, they had a fourth quarter turnover, we would be saying the quarterback can't have a fourth quarter turnover. For two weeks in a row now, Caleb Williams has been too careless with the football. He has a lot of things that get you excited. There are a lot of things that you're going to be happy about the reason he's here. But he has to do what he did well in the opener despite him not throwing for many yards in the opener. He did protect the football. First do no harm. Every quarterback has the same football, Hippocratic oath. You can't get your team beat. Anthony Richardson nearly tried hard to get the Colts beat. The Bears wouldn't let him. They know how to lose. But if you're Caleb Williams, yes, your biggest takeaway isn't 33 completions. Save one, one game. 363 yards. No turnovers. And they didn't have any turnovers. So you take away from Sunday, if you're Caleb Williams, there were too many takeaways that you were responsible for. Clean it up. And that's what my Abram Flus essentially was saying. If it means, yeah, kind of checking down to clean it up, check down to clean it up. You can still get big on the home run. You can still think aggressively, but you got to be smart and he wasn't being smart. Different question on a different topic. Mike Florio's voice there, you'll hear more from Mike at 844. How interested are you in whether the White Sox break that MLB record at home tonight for the most losses in a season? It would be their 121st on the 2024 Chicago sports calendar. How newsworthy of a night is that really? Well, I think that there's two different questions here, maybe that one, how interested are you in it? Maybe not at all. If you're tired of the White Sox losing, it's a redundant tired theme. We talk about it all the time and try to ignore it as best we can. It is a sports talk radio show that was hard to ignore. I wish we could. We can't. And tonight, you'll see the White Sox game get attention from national news services, from national reporters. This is a national story because the national pastime has a new low watermark, the 2024 White Sox, the 121st loss. This is history in the making. Maybe it happens tonight with Jonathan Cannon on the mound. Maybe it doesn't, but you have to watch and that people will have to show up. There will be people attending this game, covering this game that don't typically cover games for a baseball team in September, late September. But this is newsworthy. It is unfortunately significant and the White Sox, I don't know, should you lean into it and sell tickets for $1.21 or sell concession stand items for $1.21, 121 cents will get you whatever. I don't know if they do that. I doubt that they will, but it will be one of those nights that I think that it's inevitable. I think maybe it happens tonight. You circled September 24th in your calendar and you'll never forget this night at guaranteed rate field. Well, you know, Hawk was always history, right? History could be made in the wrong fashion. I'm curious also is how, who's, are people going to go to the game, David? You know, I think it's like, I think you should go, Dustin. When we talk about Thursday, it's a day game and crochet throws. So if there's somehow that they can make this go until then, that would be pretty fun. A day game with crochet, see if crochet gets kind of fired up for the game and not want to be on the mound when that goes down. It, unfortunately, it's going to happen and we'll see how people react to it. Yeah, it's already happened in my mind. This is not any kind of breaking news. This is just the day it happens. I think the season will go down in history. I don't think any single day anyone lost will go down as so. Do you remember that day? Oh, I'll never forget that day and say, no, no, don't really care. Don't really, I won't be, I mean, I'll be aware when it happens. I'm not planning on watching it. I don't want to pay for the campfire shake. I'm not going out there. Yeah, this is, there's no joy in Mudville. So you won't, yeah, I mean, we are, I suppose, required to talk about it. Jerry Reinserf's team, Jerry Reinserf's mission, his goal achieved. We should hear from him. Wasn't he going to talk? Didn't he threaten it? He would talk at the end of the season. Yeah. Not tonight though. Oh, no. We should get him out there. He should be, maybe have him throughout the first pitch. That would be something. Give him. As a leader, I think you shy away from those questions. Word is the Cubs plan on adding a free agent starter via free agency in this off season. But if you could give them one other player, what position would you choose? Do they need a power bat? More slug, a closer, a late inning reliever. What is the team's greatest need? I think I give them a bullpen relief and I don't know if that's a closer or not. I don't know that they want to spend on a closer per se. But I think that's what they need. I think when you look at the number of blown saves, and let's be honest about it, they worked all in the ninth inning. But I think that if they could trim that in half, and I don't know, you know, is hodge the guy. Do you feel like they are prepared to have enough of a group that that they can handle that aspect of it next year? I don't know that you need to sign this year's Hector Neris, but they need help in that area. And if I could give them something, it would be help in that area. And I don't think they want to spend 20 million on that kind of a player. But I think that they need help in that area more so than anything else. I mean, you'd love to see more slug. You'd love to see them get another power bat. We talked about that. They don't seem like they. It seems like they've got a lot of players coming up, but not like anybody. It's not like they've got like a six war player, even in their whole group. And so that means everybody needs to be good for you to be successful. You'd love for them to have that kind of player, but I don't think they're going to be able to go out there. There's only like 13 of them in the league or something. Is that what the number was? So I don't think it's harder to get. But I would say if I could give them anything, it would be a reliable arm in the bullpen that would lessen whatever their needs are and hopefully aid them in getting more saves. Yeah, I believe it's twenty seven one run losses. So I think if you had that guy, if you cut that in half, you cut that in half. The Cubs are in the postseason, right? They're in there in the postseason. We're talking Cubs baseball equal to bears today if they had a guy in the back of that bullpen. Now they need us. Everybody needs a slugger. But Molly, to your point, you can get that back end of the bullpen guy for a much cheaper cost than that slugger. Molly, but not to go full bigs on you here, but I don't know that there's anything at the closer store worth shopping for. I don't know who's on the market that you say, Oh, yeah, this is a, this is the guy that's going to solve all the problems. Josh Hader isn't walking through that door. How about the kid on the A's? Mason Miller is not a free agent. Well, but, but the Cubs have a lot of stuff, right? Well, if you want to trade for a guy like Mason Miller, yeah, go out and get Mason Miller and then get everybody used to seeing 104 mile per hour fastball as a regular field. That's great. But I think when you look at via free agency as a question sort of address, there's not a free agent out there that says, okay, automatic upgrade. If you want to finagle a trade for Mason Miller, good luck, Jed, and doing that, the A's would be, I think, low to give up somebody like that would be a blockbuster might be worth it. I think that you look at, you have to, again, everybody's got a role to play it until they tell us they're not going to be in the market for a big bat or a big ticket free agent. Then you got to keep asking the question about, are they in the Juan Soto conversation? Probably not. What's Peter Lanzo going to do next year? Is he going to be a guy that is out there? Well, you know what? If he is on the market, yes, bring him to Wrigley Field so he can hit 45 home runs. You need a big bat. They lacked a big bat. Jed talked yesterday in Philly to the beat writers and about the 90 win roster that Craig Council says the Cubs should be having every season, and he's right. Both guys know that you help, you help get your team better and closer to that by going on and getting Peter Lanzo, somebody who can hit a lot of home runs, somebody that is a power bat, maybe Vlad Guerrero, that'd be likely a trade, but that would be my first priority and then probably closer. I don't know where this talk about needing a free agent pitcher. It's going to be a long term contract for a starter, and I don't know if that makes any sense, and I know Corbin Burns will be a name you hear a lot of. I don't know that he's going to be coming to Chicago. You know how that's a great question. Oh, that's the voice of the head coach of the Alana. Brett Belemah, he will be here at 725, Illinois beating Nebraska Friday night, moved up in the AP poll to number 19. Notre Dame survived Miami of Ohio, kept their spot, but was far from impressive. NIU lost to Buffalo in their first game back since upsetting Notre Dame. What was the most significant game from this weekend's college football? Well, I think you could have almost predicted that NIU was going to have some sort of let down. It's a shame that they did in that conference, so it was pretty even. So, action strikes again, they lose to Buffalo. Notre Dame struggled. I think 28 to 3 doesn't say they struggled, but anybody watched that game in the first half, you started the wonder, "Oh boy, here we go again." Miami of Ohio was competitive, and then they weren't. So, I didn't feel like that was anything worth more than maybe a shrug. What Illinois did at Nebraska against Delano Iola and Matt Rule and the resurgent Cornhuskers on Friday night was, "Well, one of those moments in a season, you wonder if it's a turnaround moment for the program." We came into the season with Brett Belemah, we're talking to him at 725, but we talked to him about needing to have this kind of a start, and you know what the line I did? They went out and they had this kind of a start. That's significant. When the line I ranked in the top 25, and now the top 20, they give him credit. They're doing it with the quarterback and Altmeyer is getting things done, the defense has been better than advertised, and that is something in the Big Ten. You look at the surprise teams, Illinois, along with Indiana, right near the top of that list. Well, for me, it was Illinois by a landslide. That was a very entertaining game Friday night, not a fan of the Friday night football, but I did pay close attention to that game, and again, Brett Belemah on with you guys. It's 725. Yeah, watch that game. That was a huge game. I'm going to go a little bit of a twisted route here. I'm going to say North Carolina losing to James Madison so badly. North Carolina favored by 12 in the hook in that game. They lost 70 to 50. They gave up 50 points in the first half of that game, and Mac Brown after the game talked about retiring. He actually told the team that if they want him to retire, he would leave. And he has in the interim apologized and said he regrets saying it. But what do we say about guys? He's Mac Brown, 73 years old. Yeah. What do we say about people? Once you have retired in your mind, you were retired in your mind for good. I mean, that loss knocked him out of college football as far as I can tell. And whether he sticks around for the rest of the year, goes in the off season, whether he decides to put it up with another year of it, that's the end game now for Mac Brown. Not that it wasn't before, but man, is that a bad loss when your coach is ready to hang up the whistle at halftime? And you give James Madison $500,000 for showing up. That's right. We know what those games are like. So classic college football game to just, I saw that result, and I, I was like, I thought I'd misread it. It was a blowout. Unbelievable. One that nobody expected. You would think when you scheduled James Madison, you might see a 70 point showing, but maybe by the team that, you know, it's the home team, the power five team. All right. We got one more. We got the extra point. We're going to talk about it. It's a good one. It's related to the most important position on the field and all the guys whose names we've been mentioning earlier, it's Molly and Haw in the score set up this extra point. It's time for the extra point with Mully and Haw on six, 70, the score. After Jaden Daniels break out game last night for the commanders on Monday night football, Daniels has as many TD passes as incompletions. Does that put more pressure on Caleb Williams who was picked one spot ahead of Daniels? Is this a rivalry? I hope it becomes a rivalry. It would be a lot of fun in my view. You see two young quarterbacks. If they come into their own as rookies, that would be tremendous to compare and contrast. And yeah, you can always wonder if the Bears got the right guy. And I hope that it's a good debate moving forward. I hope Jaden Daniels has a terrific career. And if any last night is any indication, he sure is going to because 21 to 23. And then he had two incompletions and two touchdown passes. He threw for 254 yards, 141.7 pass rating, phenomenal breakout game for Jaden Daniels in front of a nationally televised audience. So I think that the commanders got their guy. Caleb Williams, does that put more pressure on him? I don't know if it's possible to put more pressure on Caleb Williams than what he already is facing coming into the season deemed as the savior for this franchise. And they're asking him to do a lot already. They're asking him to diagnose the pass protection or the pass rush and set up the protection and then be accurate and do all the things that experienced veteran quarterbacks typically do. He's a rookie. And they're asking him a lot because I think they feel like he can handle a lot. And I still think he can. I don't think this is going to be a situation where like Patrick Mahomes, you look at him as the one that got away in the 2017 draft. I don't think that we're going to look at Jaden Daniels as the one that got away. I think Caleb Williams is going to have a career that's comparable to Jaden Daniels. Both guys are going to grow into Pro Bowl caliber quarterbacks. The ones that got away to me last night as much of we're going to talk about Jaden Daniels, you wonder about Dan Quinn, not being the guy that got the job when Matt Eberflu's got it over him. And Quinn was a finalist and certainly Cliff Kingsbury, the guy with a cool house calling all the plays. And for the job as a play caller for the Bears, those are the guys that got away too. His trace Armstrong, the agent for either of those two guys, we could talk about that later. If you want October the 27th speaking of this rivalry or maybe rivalry, the Bears are at the commanders October 27th. So the hype around that will be huge. I wonder if last year's number one overall pick and his build and where he played football in comparison to where Jaden Daniels played football, meaning in the SEC, they're both kind of slight guys. I wonder if his ineffectiveness had anything to do with downgrading Jaden Daniels. Maybe maybe not, but something that I'm thinking. I don't know where that would come from. He's a lot taller than. But they're very skinny. They both played on teams that have a ton of guys in the NFL. The height-ish was the one that was of concern with Bryce Young and still remains. So at any rate, I think that they have not punted in two games. Wow. Okay. So, you know, when your quarterback calls your punter, tell them, "Hey, we're not going to need you," it would have been true in Washington if they had drafted a punter. Yeah, they haven't punted. And they've scored on every possession. I mean, look, the guy completed 91.3% of his passes or something. This was just absurd. It's a crazy, near-perfect game. And I don't know how you don't look at it and just say, "Wow, did you even look at him? Did you even talk to him? Did you, for a second, he didn't even come in. He didn't spend two minutes with him. Couldn't you have just looked? Couldn't you have? Did you break down the tape and then conclude? There's something wrong here. We're not. We don't want that. I don't know. I think everything's on the table. I think the coach questions on the table. I think the assistant coach questions on the table. I think the fact that you didn't talk to the guy is on the table, you better make sure that your guy works out. Caleb Williams better work out because it sure seems like this kid's working out. And it doesn't seem like they got the wrong offensive coordinator or there's any issues going on behind the scenes, seems pretty comfortable in what he's doing and they're calling the right place. And I mean, I'm not willing to dismiss Caleb Williams, but I mean, mother of God, this is pretty special what this kid's doing. He's special. He looks special. Can you imagine the reaction in the project? I think I think that's a term that triggers a lot of people. But what that means is that he's the best player at that position in a generation of Washington quarterbacks. And then if you want to call him that in DC, go ahead because I think it seems to have well, it's going to apply at some point in time. Can you imagine the reaction in Chicago? If the Bears would have selected Jaden Daniels ahead of Caleb Williams, what that off season would have been like? It might have been great. I mean, I don't, I think that I think they had the ability to do that. I don't think anybody was going to light torches and march on and you know, let me ask some. Let's say that they had done that. Let's say they took Jaden Daniels, would they have to get rid of Justin Fields? Could they have had two quarterbacks, didn't part of what they did get rid of Fields because they wanted to. I think they got rid of Fields because they were ready to move on at the position. Yeah. I don't think that keeping Fields was a, was it was a, it was untenable for, regardless of who you drafted. I think they should have gotten more for them. Well, that's a different conversation. Well, that was my only conversation. You could have maybe gotten more for me if you would, but I, but I don't think keeping him. They kept them and then gave them away. I mean, that's what I didn't understand. Yeah, I don't think they end up getting a force. I don't think that drafting your rookie quarterback and keeping Justin Fields made a lot of sense. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. If you were ready to turn the keys over, get the keys to the rookie quarterback. I, I mean, I just think that you could have done that if you so chose the, I don't think it would have been the worst idea in the world. I mean, and I said that at the time, I felt like unless you were getting value for the guy, the guy had some value and he could help you in different ways, even if it wasn't at the quarterback and it turns out he's doing okay, a quarterback. But you know, they don't play that style anyway, right? It's, it's just interesting. Don't play that style. No, but it's interesting to see what is going on around where they're at. And I, I don't think you can put any more pressure on Caleb Williams. The pressure is already there. He knows it. He puts pressure on himself and we'll just monitor everything moving forward. It's, it's, it's a hack of a story. I know that three, one, two, six, forty four, sixty seven, sixty seven. That's the telephone number we'll get to your calls, Mullion, on the score. I think you want to focus on the day to day operation of your preparation and be where your feet are. And I think that's, you know, expectations are always going to be out there and they are outside in. I'll take the force and he's got to really do a good job. We have to do a good job of working from the inside out and preparing for the Rams and learning from our experience from yesterday. So that's where I think he is and that's where I think we need to be. Mullion, ha Chicago sports radio six, seventy, the score that is Matt Hebrew flows. He's the Bears coach. He's talking about the pressure on Caleb Williams based on expectations. And that was yesterday before the pressure got jacked up even before it got jacked up a notch. By the greatest single, you know what, what is related to the other? The pressure on Caleb Williams would be reduced if you could protect him and given the time to throw that maybe guys like Jaden Daniels typically get that offensive line for the Washington commanders did a nice job. Would you agree with that? No, it was all Jaden Daniel's need a line. He is definitely a gifted special talent and he's going to have a great career. It looks like and he had a terrific breakout game, but he was sacked only twice. He was not under a lot of pressure. He is very elusive. How about the nice nod and shout out that Nick Allegretti got from Troy Aikman and Joe Buck talking about the Chiefs, offensive lineman, friend of the program, pride of the line. I went to the Washington commanders starting on an offensive line that is very good. And you want to talk about second-guessing guys who ended up elsewhere? Why didn't the Bears go after him? Well, that's a really good question. He's only from here. He's a local guy. He's only a Super Bowl champion. He was interested in the Bears and the guy that they chose basically over him, Ryan Bates, has yet to really contribute in a meaningful way and the offensive line is in shambles for the Bears. So a lot of things to look at and second-guess when you watched that game last night. But as we said during the break, Molly, and it bears repeating and bringing to the air, you said it. I agreed. I said it. You agreed. If the Bears were right about Caleb Williams and he is a quarterback that succeeds, it really doesn't matter what happens with any other quarterback drafted in his same class. And Jayden Daniels can ascend and become a star too. The rest of it is noise that we have to acknowledge right now because it is interesting. But if Caleb Williams is good, it's kind of noise. It's easy to ignore. This is a fun one. Would Daniels be doing this well with the Bears, with this team, and would Caleb be excelling in Washington? What do you think? Yes and yes. I think that you rubbed my mind there. Yes and yes. So Caleb Williams would be doing this in Washington. Yes, he'd be doing well. For his hometown team. For his old coach. Yeah, I think he would, actually. I think he would be succeeding. Would Jayden Daniels be running for his life in Chicago? He'd be able to and he'd do it and he would be prone to an injury that you would hope it wouldn't happen. You'd have wasted a fourth round pick on a punter. They did. I don't want to go there either. I'm just having fun. I know. It's September 24th and you are already out on Torrey Taylor. No, that's my guy. I wanted that pick. Don's on the west side. Hey, Don. Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Yeah. Yeah. I was watching the game, man. I just think that, you know, that Jayden, Jayden Daniels performance matters more so on the play column and the scheme that fits life. I mean, not to say he's not a, you know, the quarterback or whatnot, but I just think that he was with the Bears just to, you know, he'd definitely be running for his life. It definitely feels 2.0 and speaking of fields. I mean, we want to go down that rabbit hole, you know, I was saying, you know, and I'm not saying there's the right decision that would have been made, but I was saying, you know, when it was draft time, okay, well, we could have got a Marvin Harrison, who's, you know, I don't and we could have fixed the offensive line with more picks. You know, that number one overall pick would have been worth a whole hell of a life. So I just think that it doesn't do us, you know, either revisiting that because then it brings a glaring hole back to the Ryan polls, like, okay, well, what so it's a decision making. Why didn't you bring in a clip? He's very familiar with your rookie quarterback and to help him through these tough struggles and get a game plan that he's comfortable with. Why did you hire Mattie for food? Why didn't you fire? Mattie for food? Why is they, you know, the question is going on. So I rather not even do that rabbit hole thing. Yeah. I just rather just say, you know, okay, Caleb Williams, okay, from week one to week three, he looks so more comfortable. He's not, you know, rushing things or he's being sped up, but he himself is not rushing things. So he's, you know, the season now becomes about exactly the season now because about Caleb Williams and less about the bear is making a play off that until they show us. It's a great call as always done. It really is. And I mean, honestly, let's just go for a second, funny mirror. Let's say they trade the first overall pick and don't take the quarterback. And now they got a pick coming next year and they got a haul. Yeah. Okay. Didn't they do that already? Yes. Are we now going to start talking about? They're afraid to take a quarterback. Yes. They're afraid of a quarterback. You're right. That that's why I hesitate in even going down that rabbit hole because of what it ignores to do that. Yes. I will say this about Justin Fields in Pittsburgh and Jaden Daniels in Washington because those are guys that we're going to talk about and obviously naturally compared to what's going on with Caleb Williams in Chicago, it bears repeating. The coaching matters in the NFL in a big way and I don't, I'm not out on what's going on with Shane Waldron yet. I think it's too early and premature to jump ship, but I do think that they are off to a shaky start. Yes. What you have seen in Pittsburgh is the power of Arthur Smith and Mike Tomlin and the effect on Justin Fields, structure stability, predictability, consistency. What you've seen in Washington is the creativity and the ability of Cliff Kingsbury empowered by Dan Quinn, the head coach to get the most out of Jaden Daniels in that offense. Coaching matters in the NFL and you're seeing that when you're comparing these three quarterbacks. Did you see Terry McLaughlin, Terry McLaughlin came out yesterday and said that he went to Kingsbury and said, hey, throw me that ball in the end zone, I'm open, call that play and the guy calls the play quarterback throws a pill, touchdown. I mean, come on, man, that's the, that's things working. That's people working together. That's an open, good feeling going on. That's not tight and sphincters and let's all just sit here and study body language and measuring frustration, DJ Moore has that capability to be that guy in Chicago for Caleb Williams. I think he can be. I think he kind of is, but what you're saying is, you know, I'm saying why isn't DJ going to wall? I think that's what you're saying. I'm saying. We'll ask you next Monday morning. Hey, DJ, Molly says you should talk more. You're beautiful. All right, we got big time next. We'll bring him big, see, get his take on all that's going on, Molly and her on the score. This is Chicago's number one and most listened to sports station. We're live from Chicago talking Chicago sports. Listen on your radio or through the Odyssey app, AUD, ACY, we are six, 70, the score always live on the free Odyssey app. Hey, it's David Hoffer, Fandell Sportsbook, the official partner of six, 70, the score. Yeah, well, enough about week three already NFL week four, it's here and you can start with a chance for a big win on Fandell, America's number one sportsbook. If you're new to Fandell, you can get started with a $200 and bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. 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You deserve to feel great. Book your virtual visit today at JoinMidi.com that's join M-I-D-I.com. [MUSIC] Mully and Haw Chicago Sports Radio 670 to score Brad Biggs the football man of the Chicago Tribune a long time contributor to the station and a valued friend and he joins us now in the A-Turro Tire Hotline A-Turro. Your hometown tire check them out A-Turro.com, Biggs A! Morning Brad. Morning boys, what's going on? Well, you're the man and we've been discussing this morning the idea that the bears, well, they blew it. They took the wrong quarterback. They got the, they didn't get CJ Stroud. They got the Bryant Young of 2020. No, we didn't say that, but it was interesting to see how good Jaden Daniels looked last night and he put together what will go down as the greatest ever performance by a rookie quarterback in terms of completion percentage ever, ever in the history of forever, in the history of the sport known as Gridiron and pretty astounding to see how easy it is for him. They seem to have the right coordinator, maybe even the right head coach, all things that were available to the bears. What are your conclusions after one of three games of this season? Yeah, Jaden Daniels played really well last night, kind of a bizarre game. I don't believe either side punted, Joe Burrell played pretty well himself too, but Daniel's completing what, 91% of his passes in the game and guys, he's at 80.3% for the season. Now that's Cincinnati defense, I think everybody's seen, has got some issues to it, but that was a road game. I mean, really impressive. He certainly has some guys at skill positions, but it's not like Washington is loaded there. No one's going to look at that offensive line and say, "Hey, it's a great offensive line." But he's off to a nice start. I wouldn't waste my time. A passage judgment on Jaden Daniels or Caleb Williams at this point, it's so early for both those guys and reality is they both flashed because Caleb played well in Indianapolis. All things considered. So Brad, the bears are conducting Zoom teleconference as a day after game. So on Monday, we heard from Matt Eberflu's via Zoom, so you don't pick up on some other cues maybe to see his overall demeanor and the way handled things. But a day later, was he any less tolerant of what he saw against the Colts? Was he less encouraged? I think that was the word that he used after coming from the locker room Sunday. What was your overall impression on the way that Matt Eberflu's presented himself on Monday? Yeah, I think they've got to be better run in the football. They just have to be better run in the football that, you know, recall back to the previous week that he was like, he thought they had run it okay and you're looking like, really? Were we watching the same game here, man? And there's none of that coming out of this game and they kind of keep harping on execution. Well, you know, eventually you're going to get to that old, what was it, John McCayline when he was a long time USC head coach was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach and when he was asked about the execution of his team, he said he was in favor of it. So, actually, that's going to happen here if these guys don't start running better, getting better blocking up front and everybody doing a better job in the run game. It's not just the line, it's not just the backs, it's a total team effort. So we're trying to remember Cliff Kingsbury. He was, of course, Caleb's quarterback coach in college. Did he get an interview? I know that there was an informational interview with him about Caleb, but was he in the running for the offense? Yeah. He was. Yeah, they interviewed Cliff Kingsbury for the offensive coordinator job, but polls and Hebrew flus were jetting all over the place to interview people for the OC job and Clint Kubiak. Was he in that mix? Yeah, that's the guy. If you're looking at it right now, like, well, geez, who did they? Who did they not hire that maybe would be doing a better job of the chain Waldron right now? There's two guys right there that you could point to pretty quickly, Brad. That's a pretty good place. And Cliff Kingsbury, I know when that name came out, I think a lot of people pooped it. And yeah, he's done a pretty good job thus far. I mean, it's super early. We're three games in, but they talked to him about the Bears job and then obviously we're able to do some fact gathering in terms of Caleb Williams because Cliff had spent the one season with Lincoln Riley there at USC, working with the offense, obviously. So yeah, they talked to a ton of people. There might have been 10 guys that they talked to, perhaps even a few more. I don't know. It was like the list just kept going on and on and on and on. Waldron was one of the first guys that they spoke to. And they got to get things going. They've got three points in the first quarter this season, which ties them with this Sunday's opponent, the LA Rams, for second worst in the league. The Philadelphia Eagles, believe it or not, have not scored in the first quarter this season. Although, with that, I'm going to bring some positive news. The Bears have scored 30 points in the fourth quarter, which is number one in the NFL. Who would have thought that after, like after you watched them so far, would you say, hey, Ben, just physical. Yeah, you know, yeah, they've scored some in the fourth quarter, but you go look at it and nobody scored more points in the fourth quarter in the Bears. You're just a ray of sunshine this morning. That's very optimistic. Look at it, Bigsy. Glass have full as usual. While we're playing this game of going back and reconsidering things that didn't happen. Let's go. Dan Quinn was also a finalist when Matt Eberfluze got the job. Jim Caldwell, Dan Quinn, and Matt Eberfluze, flew, she got the job over those three. But Quinn was somebody who was considered passed over. I know he may be technically pulled out, but didn't he want the job? Yeah, he was the Cowboys defense coordinator at the time. And I would think that, yeah, he would have wanted the job if the Bears would have wanted him, you know, he everybody knows what happened in his first run as a head coach in Atlanta. And if that Super Bowl ends a little bit differently, his tenure there probably goes differently, but he's a you won't come across a guy or many guys anyway in the league that are more revered and respected than Dan Quinn. Like I don't know that I've ever encountered someone that's got a bad word to say about him. Like that's how he treats people. And when I say people, I mean players, I mean coaches that he works with, staff members in the building, people on other teams, like he's an exceptional guy and that is a challenging job he took in Washington, right, when you consider everything that's going on there for 25, 30 years in the state of the roster and all that. And it'll be interesting to see if they can get it going there because, you know, every time you think the commanders have maybe taken a step forward or two, you know, you wait a little while and it turns out they're now they're right back where they've always been but they've got new ownership, new leadership and Dan Quinn's the man there. But yeah, a lot of people pull for a guy like Dan Quinn, I'll tell you that much. So Brad, the Rams come into town. We know that Sean McVay out in LA said that Cooper Cupp's ankle will not allow him to play in Chicago. He will not be a part of that game. We know that Puke Nakua is on injured reserve. He will be unable to play. So we know that that you got the head coach, you got the quarterback, the receiving corps has beaten up and they're coming off a victory over an equally injured San Francisco 49ers team. What do you think of them coming to Chicago and they finally got off the snide with their first win of the season against the Niners? Yeah, that's a really beat up football team right now, guys. They've got three offensive linemen down, right? Yeah, they've got offensive linemen down, they've got their Cupp too. Wide receivers are hurt, they've got, I think some defensive linemen are down, like they've got this kind of injured reserve situation that you look at and say, well, that looks like a team that's pretty beat up in the first week of December, right? And we're still in September. So they're in a tough spot there, but that's a really well coached team, right? And you have to respect what they can get done, the Bears have had a tough time against the Rams when they have had to play in L.A. recently, but that game will be here. And we'll see, it's just hard to get a close read, I think, on a team like that that has so many key players out, but Stafford's playing at a high level, even with his receivers that are missing right now, and Kyron Williams has been a productive back. If the Bears can do a better job of stopping the run than they did this past week, perhaps they can get after Stafford a little bit. Their leading receiver was 2-2 at well, four catches 93 yards against the 49ers. And Louisville, I think he's a Louisville guy, good memory, Brad, a lot of speed and quickness. Yeah, they have a pretty pedestrian receiving court, though, but with Matt Stafford and Sean McVay, you don't underestimate anybody, and the Bears certainly are not in a position to do that. Brad, let's look at the offensive line for the Bears. So we talked earlier whether or not Nate Davis was benched or it was injury-related because he wasn't able to practice. What do you think they do this week? Do they stick with Matt Pryor at Wright Garden? Does it matter? Oh, boy. Well, at all matters, as poorly as they've been playing on the online, although I get information that Pryor was going to start on Saturday. He was Saturday. Yep, nice job. I put it on Twitter and boy, the reaction, you thought the people were assuming the Bears were putting a Pro Bowl guy in there in Matt Pryor, and I'm not, I'm not knocking him, but there's a reason a guy like that's on a one-year deal for a little less than 1.2 million. So we've got a question at Wright Guard. I'm not positive he's the solution, but I think they need to evaluate how he played. I know he gave up one sec, I believe in the game, and determine who's better, and then players Nate in terms of his health, like is the groin better, is that still an issue? They need to get Bates back there sooner rather than later to be able to see him. They need Larry Borm healthy, they need their guys healthy so they can truly have some more options there, but they've got to be better across the board, it's just, it's been really poor. I'm curious, the Nate Davis, and the guys, the Rams are getting trampled in terms of run defense. Well, we've heard that we were. That doesn't matter. Yeah. No, I know. They need option left. Yeah. There you go. Five point. Five point one yards a carry is what they're giving out there. Bears can fix that. Right down at the bottom. The Bears will come to the rescue. I know. Does the Nate Davis, is it a groin injury? Is it preventing him from practicing? And are they now at a point where they don't want him to play unless he practices? What is going on with him? Yeah. Well, I just wanted to practice. Yeah. We did it in practice last week, but it wasn't to a point that he couldn't go out there because you saw they had a choice there, right? Ron Amagadji was active for the first time, so he had a uniform on, and when Braxton Jones went down and was in the medical tent with that knee issue, what they did was they took Matt Pryor, who's the one of the nice things about him is he can play just about anywhere on that line. And they moved him to left tackle and Nate Davis came into game at right guard. So it was he was healthy enough to be in there. He's probably just not 100%. So they chose that route instead of taking the rookie third round pick and saying, hey, we're on the road. You didn't play any preseason. Go get them and good luck. So Brad, being the voice of reason and guy who is plugged in, help us add some context or how do you answer the question? Maybe you'll get it in the mailbag this week of how Chicago should view Justin Fields starting three and O with the Steelers and why he looks like a better quarterback when he is wearing that black helmet. Yeah. Yeah. I need to talk to people about that. I've seen clips and stuff. I haven't watched every Steelers game, but he's eliminating some of the turnovers, right? And they've been in some low scoring games and they've come out on top. But I don't know that he's playing great when you when you really get into it. But a three and O start with Russell Wilson being the other option. If they keep playing good football, you have to have complete faith that Mike Tomlin will stick with Fields and he'll continue to be the guy for the Steelers. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I got to tell you, I think there's so many, you know, fun storylines to look at and all that. But all anybody really cares about is when they're going to kind of get their act together a little bit. Is there anything that the they can do to help Fields throw fewer passes, be more effective and how he's used? You know, it's one thing to come out and say, well, we, you know, we don't want to take the aggression out of him, but you got to protect the ball. And it's another thing to actually do things to help him. I mean, with lining up at the line of scrimmage and trying to run the football help, they have an identity. The identity is throwing the ball pretty much every time that they have a chance to. Yeah. I think I mentioned yesterday, like it wasn't quite as lopsided as it's normally going to be when you see a QB with 50 plus pass attempts, because they had so many offensive plays, right? They had 84 offensive plays. So I think there were 27 handoffs, but they certainly they need to be more balanced. And hopefully with some of that balance will come some more explosive plays because, you know, they didn't, as much as they threw the ball, they didn't throw it as well as they needed to. Right? They didn't have enough points. They didn't have enough yardage, but guys, dropping back and slinging it 50 times is a recipe for losing when, when you look, this is just since 2015 quarterbacks with 50 plus passing attempts in a nine over time game, 23 wins, 141 losses. Wow. That's a, that's a, so you're winning percentage right there is a cool 14%. So it's even worse than the white sacks. Okay. Oh, the, the other thing here is the bears, the bears were slinging it in a close football game. Right? That thing was not a blowout. Sometimes you see the quarterbacks got a ton of passing attempts because the teams trying to play catch up 41 of those losses, 25% of them were for teams that, that lost by 14 or more points. That wasn't, that wasn't the case here. So the bears were in the game. They had to keep throwing it because they couldn't run it at all. And the reality is they, they need to be better thrown it too. If you, if you're going to complete that many passes attempt at many, you need more yardage and, and even more importantly, you need more, you need more points and a big chunk of the production came or a sizable portion was the 40, what was it, 47, 42 yard. Hell married to DJ Moore, this segment with Brad Biggs is sponsored by S wing professional tools made in the USA for 100 years, S wing dot com. Thank you, Bigsy. Great. Thank you, buddy. Yep. Great stuff. Have a great day guys. That is our guy, Brad, Brad, Brad Biggs, the football man from the Chicago Tribune. We've got Brett Beelma joining us next, Mully and Honda plug in a Hyundai EV and the extraordinary happens. It's not just the ultra fast charging capability and long range in the ionic five and ionic six or the adventure seeking spirit of the Kona electric or the groundbreaking 601 horsepower ionic five and and it's not just the comfort in knowing that every Hyundai EV is backed by a 10 year, 100,000 mile limited electric battery warranty, Hyundai's EVs transform a low hum into a loud adventure. They bring color to your journey and turn energy into main character energy. So forget everything you thought you knew about EVs and turn the extraordinary into something true. This show is sponsored by MIDI Health. There are great things that come with age, wisdom, experience and knowledge just to name a few. But if you're a woman over 40, it can also bring some less desirable things like hot flashes, insomnia, brain fog, moodiness and weight gain, all symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. Yes, hormonal transition is a fact of life, but that doesn't mean you have to accept its symptoms as just another part of aging. Any clinicians are menopause experts equipped to support you with safe, effective FDA approved medications, as well as supplements, lifestyle coaching and preventative health guidance. You'll come out of the experience feeling heard and with a plan to start feeling better. MIDI offers accessible care. All their services are covered by insurance and they're conveniently accessible through telehealth visits and 24/7 messaging. You deserve to feel great. Book your virtual visit today at JoinMIDI.com. Thank you. Molly and Haw Chicago Sports Radio 670, that was the end of it, that was the 3124 victory and overtime over Nebraska. We are delighted to welcome in the man who led it, the architect of victory. He is Brett Bilma with the University of Illinois, ILL, INI and it just keeps getting better. Good morning, coach. How are you holding up? I'm good. Molly. Thank you. Getting ready to get out to practice here in about an hour so we're starting to get into our Penn State prep. Boy, early practice. Yes. Practice is early all the time. Yeah. You know, it's interesting, you know, when I was head coach of Wisconsin, Arkansas, really every place I'd ever been, we'd done afternoon practices. We always fought with the class schedule and college and everything. So when I went to the NFL, most NFL teams practice, you know, in that 7 to 10, 7 to 8 am window because your body is the most prepared, less complex and just a better way to attack the day. So I took that when we started here and it's really been paying off. We have very few, I would say, at Illinois, we have no class complex because class always takes priority. But we really, it's the best way for us to practice here at Illinois for sure. Well practice makes perfect and you guys are perfect. It's been so much fun to watch. You know, I think Kansas was 19 at the time, Nebraska 22nd. Now you guys are 19 and you're going into Happy Valley, Penn State is number nine in the country. Your reward for the great upset victory is a top 10 team. It just doesn't get any easier, especially in the Big Ten. Yeah, it's, you know, I think one of the exciting parts of our conference, really a college football right now, just the ever changing world and now to have 18 teams in our conference for us at Illinois, we play obviously this game at Penn State. We have a game a couple of weeks later that we're going to Oregon. We have a 100 year anniversary game right here in our own stadium against Michigan. So it's kind of an unprecedented time, which is kind of the world we live in today and it's a lot of fun. You're ready for prime time. Certainly the audience for Friday night's game in Nebraska, I think was four million viewers, which really was great for ratings in college football and your program coach. And now I think that you look at Saturday's game against Penn State is going to be another national televised game. I think it's the NBC game you have risen to the occasion. Your offense has been very, very efficient and explosive. Luke Altmeyer is a big reason why. How big of a step has he taken this season so far? You know, David, it's been fun obviously for me as a head coach to watch your players grow and kind of just, you know, expand what they've done in the past and I know you're a former DB. So you know where I'm coming from. Like as a quarterback, his presence, his awareness, his knowledge before the snap is really allowed him to play faster when the ball is in play. We always say volume reflects confidence. He speaks with great volume, but also his actions, you know, with just an unbelievable level of confidence. And I know he's looking forward to the big stage and an opportunity to go play at Penn State and, you know, it's going to be a late night game and it's going to be a crowd that probably is all dressed and white and they're very excited so we're excited about this opportunity ourselves. Yeah, it really has been fun to watch from a distance. The Nebraska game was just fantastic. That is a very difficult place to play. I don't think Penn State is going to be any worse than that. You go in there and they're going crazy and you just, it was amazing to see your team answer every time a question arose. And you know, when you're in games like that is a, you know, it's kind of just a fan watching you wonder, wow, how long can they keep doing this? How long can you keep up with them and good God? It was phenomenal the way that that game went back and forth. And then when you get to overtime, man, it took you virtually no time at all to score a touchdown. And then I think they were facing a third and forty five or something, third and forty three. I mean, you want a team in third and forty three is my understanding. Yeah, we were, we were excited to get over there, you know, actually don't know it. We've won, I believe our last three trips over there to Lincoln. We won two years ago and then the win this past Saturday or this past Friday I should say is a really great opportunity and I think that's probably the way our guys are playing into it. We, you know, obviously everybody knows the name, Owen Crews, right? A phenomenal bear and a guy in the Chicago sports market. Well, his son, Josh Crews is our starting center and he, he got up and gave a preseason talk just about playing with an edge and playing with a demeanor that is relentless. And I think literally our whole football team took that over. We talked last week about packing our, our tough, smart, dependable edge, right? Like we're going on a road trip to Lincoln. We all need to pack our bags and they packed that edge and they played with it. It's just been a, I think this, this team is a lot of fun to be around, obviously we're playing Saturday against Penn State, but I told our guys all the time, right, man, you've been playing, preparing to play Penn State since January when we got together, right? Like, just that doesn't happen in a week. You put in a lot of great work and hopefully the things that we've been preparing for and talking about are going to play out this weekend. Well, Josh Crews has helped you win the line of scrimmage battle offensively. I think you got a lot of guys who are doing that defensively because that's where it starts. Coach, as you know, I saw Tara Edwards, there's a clip circulating around social media have him splitting a double team and it is a thing of beauty because that's the way you coach it. That's the way you want to see it. And I heard him referred to yesterday as one of the more unselfish players in your program. What it is about Tara Edwards that makes him that way. You know, it's funny to say that. I don't think anybody would consider a 300-pound-plus nose guard as sexy, but it's truly what it was, right? He just kind of understands the game, plays with incredible intensity. He understands leverage, I think. A lot of times the D-Liamon, one of the things you can be truly gifted is not only understand what you're doing, but what they're doing and he kind of has a unique knack of playing the leverage game with, often he's double-themed, right, and he kind of threw his leverage into the middle of the double team there and came out. It was a second and one and he made a tackle for no gain, which put us into a third and short, right? Just another good example of him and a selfish player just doing his job. Really fun. He's a guy since last year, you know, he's from the Columbus, Ohio area, he went to Northwestern, transferred into our place three years ago, has been a staple for us and has really come into his own. I remember a day, this past summer, I needed to reach out to him, we were talking about some scheduling thing. He's on our leadership council and I called him on a Sunday about three o'clock and we were talking and he goes like, "Hey, coach, I got a run. I got a hot yoga class here at four o'clock. I need to go to." I just started laughing because it just, it kind of speaks volumes about, you know, the dedicate that this is something he did totally on his own. He sculpted his body, did some things that he wanted to take advantage of and we're paying the dividends for it now in late September and hopefully going to pay dividends for a while to come. Yeah. You know, you mentioned Olin, I do the pre and the post with him and Olin grew up three houses down from Donovan Rayola and that's his son, Dylan, who's the quarterback at Nebraska. So to have the crew boys, you've got both Josh and James on your team, to have them going against a kid and that kid's a good quarterback, he's going to be good and to have them going against a kid they've known since they were like toddlers, that was really thrilling for the two fathers, for the, you know, their sons. And he talked about it on the pregame and it was, I got a real kick out of just hearing what he had to say about it because I know he's, you know, as proud as could be with his boys. And you know, Olin can get a little feisty and so he's definitely passed that on to his son. So it was interesting. I knew our guys were excited to play. So I actually grabbed Josh and James during the course of the week and I said, listen, I knew the history of the Ryolas, actually their O line coach was a player at Wisconsin, their uncle was at Wisconsin when I was there and I've known him for a long time. And sometimes you can make the battles within the battles too much, right? And it can get overwhelming. I would tell you Josh Cruz was very excited to play that game. There was a play. I showed the team on Saturday where he took the nose, doubled them back, threw them on his back and then normally Josh would kind of jump on it and make a little statement afterwards, but he played with restraint and played very, very calmly in the moment where he had had success and just spoke about it and James, you know, I would say James is playing with a cat on a tan and it's playing so good for us on special teams and linebacker. There's so many great stories on our team and those stories don't just come about by chance, right? Like the case was with those guys that they're raised in a great environment. Mom and Dad did a hell of a job to get them where they are. We have so many kids that have put themselves in positions, you know, our quarterback, Luke Altmeyer, you know, grew up in an environment. His dad was a doctor at Mississippi State in Starville, Mississippi. He's been around college football his whole life and he's dreamed of this moment and now he's just capitalizing on a big stage. So very excited for a lot of our guys in our program. So coach, you're back in the top 20. You're at 19. You're no stranger to that kind of success and how to handle it. Maybe some of your players might be. What's the message this week after a big win? You've got to go out on the another tough environment. What is the, what is the preside overwhelming message that you have to have your players understand how to handle success this week? You know how it's, it, it, for me, the head coach, you always look for these little indicators, right? Little things to tell you many things and it sounds so funny, but we got off the buses on Saturday or Friday night. We go to the airplane, we hop on it and roll and behold. They tell us that champagne was fogged in and we're going to, you know, be on a four hour weather delay. So here is Friday night, you're excited to play the game and win, but now we got a tough hour delay. I didn't get back to the champagne here until about four or five in the morning. But I was going through video clips, going through social media and one of our best players through these first four games has been Xavier Scott, a kid from West Palm Beach, Florida. It sounds like a joke, but his high school coach was a guy by name of Jack Daniels, a good buddy of mine that reached out and said, hey, you need to take a look at this guy. And he's come in, he started his first game at Michigan, played his tail off three years ago. And now he's playing at a high level for us. Thorpe Award was in town to watch us play against Lincoln and, and as the, but Xavier after the game and it goes up to a TV camera that was in his face. And most guys write like a W or, you know, something and he wrote one and O and what that tells me is they're hearing what we're saying. Like, no matter what we're doing, I know the outside world, things were for now. But all we're doing this week is trying to get ourselves in a position to go one and know against a really good football team at take college, right? So our focus has been focused on the present. Everybody else will take you where you want to go or where they want to go. What we need to do is stay focused on Penn State. So today is Tuesday. It's a very, very important day. We practice early downs. We practice our coverage units. We do a lot of basic install for the game this weekend and that's where their focus needs to be. Coach. Thanks a ton. Thanks for jumping on. We're, uh, we're following it and we're really proud of what the job you're doing. It's been fun to watch. Good luck Saturday. Pre-K gentlemen. ILL. ILL. And I, that's it. I know the answer. Good stuff. Yeah. Great stuff. Good start for Brett Bilema and, and the line. Excellent. I mean, really fun. He was in here this summer. He talked about the need to get off to a good start and he did just that. They're in a position to be one of the big surprises in the big 10 this year. They're 18 and a half point dogs. That's unbelievable. I mean, if that doesn't fire you up with dogs and it's college football, man. So you know. College football. Hey, we've seen some wild results already. I love it. Mullion Hall. We've got Coach Watson in the wings on Chicago sports radio six, seven to score. Dave Weinstein, bears head coach for six seasons. Super Bowl champion, he has the greatest mustache you've ever seen. Some say it's a symptom of manliness. Others a cause, the mustache. One he hanging out with Mullion Hall on 670 the score. Open up the door. It's Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. We're not going to waste airtime on that. Okay. Next question. Next question. Dave Weinstein. Mullion Hall, Chicago sports radio six, seven to the score. He's a delight to have Coach Weinstein with us and he is here this morning. Dave, good morning. How are you doing? What do you think? I'm trying to shake in the weekend, guys. Yeah, it's tough. That was rough. That was rough. And I know how flu's and the coaches feel and you know, the players always bounce back quicker than coaches. But you know, our fans, I mean, that was a rough one. That was a rough one with the expectations. I think that everybody had and they rush for 63 yards today. 63 yards. Was that the most disappointing part of it? Oh, 100 percent. And I was all over this game and not just with the statistics, not just that they were the worst. You know, they had given up 250 yards, the two of the three teams they played running the ball against them. Yeah, that makes you, you know, get excited. But more so, just the fact that we haven't run the ball this season. And I kept saying to myself, this is the time that we're going to come out and we are going to stamp and we're going to say who we are as an offense. And that was the biggest thing that I was waiting on is, you know, you can say what you want, guys. Okay. And I see in that whole crew out of time that I talk to people in the NFL every week and last year, if you were playing the Bears, you know what they said, bring your mouthpiece because these guys are going to run the ball and hit us in the mouth. So, you know, it wasn't good enough, but my point is we kind of knew who we were right now. I'm kind of a little bit confused and you guys know I'm on board with flutes all the way. I'm going to ride this thing to the end, but boy, that was disappointing. Well, though, what you're saying though is that it's because of a lack of emphasis, not ability. That's what you're suggesting there. That's what I, when it comes to the run game, that's exactly what I'm saying. No, I charted this thing. They ran a lead with commit leading. They ran a belly play. They ran a toss. They ran the, they ran five different styles of run. I'm not even going to talk about the option. They ran five different runs, okay guys? And so they tried them all early and, you know, Mercedes Lewis, I was telling everybody in my mind, we're going to see Mercedes Lewis. We're going to see Herbert. We're going to see Roshan and here we go, commit is the full back, move him around and let's go pound these guys and give Caleb a chance to throw some play action passes. That was what I was expecting. And that was so disappointing to me, you know, that we just couldn't, it couldn't make it happen. And you put, don't, I'm a, I'm a, Herbert's not maybe a great back. I get that. Okay. But let me tell you something. The guys had, he's run, he every, it's over five yards of carry last year in the preseason combined for the Bears. And if, and I've coached, I've been very fortunate, very blessed. You know, the Ricky Williams, Emmett Smith. I played with Tony Dorsett, coach LaShaw McCoy, great running backs, need to get lathered up. It's really tough to stick them in there. And when their legs aren't loose, they haven't been hit and say, okay, you're the guy now, you know, and it's so we stay and don't bring a guy in on the one, wow, that's tough. I mean, people are going to criticize him and say they shouldn't have put Herbert in there. You know, I, he needs a half a dozen carries to get going in my opinion, at least a few backs that I've been around, they've been pretty decent wax. When you say don't ask you about the option, it makes me want to ask you about the option. Help us understand that one day. Two thoughts. Okay. And, and this is just my experience from, from when I started coaching with Johnny Majors, Jackie Sherrow, Jimmy Johnson way back when we were, we were an option team. We would run the split back veer option. So I know a little bit about the option. And we kind of had a golden roll that we didn't want to run the option inside the 20 and a closer you get to the goal line, the tougher it is. Why? Because when you run it up field, think about running it at the 50 where now the linebackers are playing running pass, your safeties are playing running pass, right? Everybody, David, you played safety. Now you get down inside the 20 and those safeties, everybody's closer to the line. The scrimmage, it's very difficult to say the safety won't be involved in a play or the linebacker won't be involved in a play. They don't have to cover as much ground. That's why we would stay away from the option. And, and you know what that told me though, and I'll shut up on this, when they ran that play that told me that flus probably said, and I've been there, I want to go for it. Okay. Bang. We're going for it. Now we got to come to the offense and what do we like? What play do we like? What's your favorite play. And exactly right. And he's on the phone with a line coach who I think is, is really outstanding. He's getting a bad rap by this deal. And we come up with an option that tells me this and I'm done, that they had no confidence in running the ISO, the lead, the belly, whatever you want to run inside and knock people off the ball, quarterback, sneak, whatever you pick a play that will run in between the tackles. When you run that play, that's telling me that you got no confidence doing that. The segment Dave wants us sponsored by Chicago roofing contractors.org, providing all weather protection for your business. All right. When we come back from the break, we'll hear flucy explain why that was a good play. And if the reef, the look had been better, that would have worked. We'll ask Dave about that next. It's Molly and Han the score. This show is sponsored by MIDI Health. There are great things that come with age, wisdom, experience and knowledge, just to name a few. But if you're a woman over 40, it can also bring some less desirable things, like hot flashes, insomnia, brain fog, moodiness and weight gain, all symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. Yes, hormonal transition is a fact of life, but that doesn't mean you have to accept its symptoms as just another part of aging. MIDI clinicians are menopause experts, equipped to support you with safe, effective, FDA approved medications, as well as supplements, lifestyle coaching and preventative health guidance. You'll come out of the experience feeling heard and with a plan to start feeling better. MIDI offers accessible care. 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Yeah, there's always if the look is right. Mully and Ha on Chicago Sports Radio 6/7 in the score. All right, Dave. You heard that explanation of it. Yeah, and it's right, but I would go back to this one, you know, I didn't like to call in that situation. Dave, you're my reasoning. Right? We talked about where we were at on the field and it, but I would, I would have kicked the field goal. I mean, let's, I'm going sideways on this thing, but that's just me. I was sitting there at the marquee doing it and everybody looked at me and says, coach, what's our decision? And I says, well, I've got fired for being a little bit conservative, but I want to help a lot of games. I want to go in at halftime with the momentum. I'm kicking the field goal and making this now, you know, less than a one score game. But anyway, that's, that's a side note, but all I would say is, you know, and, and, and I keep repeating this. I am on board with flus and Ryan, these guys all the way, but, but the head coach, I don't want to hear that wish we would have run it on third. We don't want to hear that coach. I'm the head coach. You control that. David, if you call the play, right? If I want that play within the first three plays, I'm going to say David, run the option. Okay. David, and if you say, you know, fourth time play, we're going to run the option. I'm going to say, David, no, we're not. I don't want to run the option run. I want to run the leader to die for the belly. I mean, you know, offensive coordinators, all they're thinking about is scoring points, scoring points. There was, that was momentum change. That was too, too much was involved in that play to do something unusual. I think. I think with the head coaching issue that burned time out when it was 14 to nine and they wanted to kick the extra point, then, oh, wait a second, they wanted to go for two. Matt Eberflus needed to burn a timeout to make that decision should have already been made earlier during the drive. They should have been talking to the offensive coordinator. What did you think of that? And also in a, where does the quarterback come in? Because I think we'll get letting Caleb Williams off a little bit here because of the fact he's a rookie. He's doing a lot. The great quarterbacks, don't they already know that if they score touchdown here, they're going for two. They're not celebrating a touchdown pass and debating who's going to get the game ball after the game. They're getting their offense back in the huddle ready to go for two. That didn't happen. So I think, yes, the head coach is responsible, but the quarterback did not help him out. Well, no, I could see why Caleb did that. I mean, the quarterbacks, most of the time, the young one, particularly, they don't, they don't know David, they really don't know what, what's going on. I mean, I, I'm telling you, I'm just telling you from experience, they come running off and then I got it and look at him and say, put my fingers up and say, stay out there. We're going for two. But here's the deal and, and I was talking with Tony Wise about this when we crossed a 50 yard line in that situation, whoever was responsible for going for one, going for two and timeouts, he would say to me, if you're that guy, David, you would say, coach, if we score, we're going for one, the charts, the chart says, I've got to make the decision. Coach, if we score, the chart says, we're going for two. There's no more discussion. We're not debating this thing. Now I've got to make the decision. I know what the chart is saying. And so now all of a sudden we get on here and score and I'm putting one finger up or two. I don't, I didn't understand that. I mean, and, and, you know, so, you know, that, that was a little bit, you know, a Santos ran on. I don't know what happened, but, but that, that, that, that, that, that shouldn't happen. I mean, come on, we got really qualified guys. It's a chart in front of you. It's not rocket scientists now, if there's some reason that away from the chart that you say you're going to go and keep it a two score game, but it didn't make much sense. I mean, to me, you're going to go for two and try to make it a field goal. So Dave, we know the Bears have had offensive line issues all year. And before the game, the, the general manager did an interview with, with the, with ESPN before the game and on it, he said that communication, technique and fundamentals are the problem. They've led to rough performance rather than bad talent. So it's not the talent, it's not like they have a bad offensive line. It is, in his opinion, communication, technique and fundamentals. Is that what you're seeing? Well, yeah, I got to believe that, you know, because I know the offensive line coach and I think you guys really good, he's going to get the most out of these players in, you know, what, what he's saying then is what's today, Tuesday, tomorrow, there are players are today's game plan day, tomorrow the players come in. First thing that would be on that wall would be full pads. And we are going guys, we are going to run this damn ball this week and we're going full pads today and we're going to have, it's not going to be a scrimmage, but it's going to be a full speed, good on good and we are going to run the football 10, 15 plays. So you're going to block off a portion of time tomorrow to talk to the players association. Well, you're allowed some, but yeah, no, no, no, we get coach, we are, we are at the crossroads here. Okay. All right. Coach, we are right there. I love the idea, Dave. I love a little smash mouth. I said it yesterday that I called the meatball, but I don't think it's going to happen in today's day and age. We got nine practices where we can put pads on. None of us meatballs called you meatball meatball. We're all meatballs. That doesn't sound like, you know, we used to call it nutcracker or something like that, Dave, but not meatball. So after the game, uh, Ibrah Flus is asked immediately was Nate Davis benched. Is that what happened? And he said basically that his groin injury had prevented him from taking snaps all week. So they decided that Matt Pryor was going to start the game. The, the, um, the general manager again on the pregame said that no, that it was his bigger body would help the center and the tackle next to him. So playing him at guard was like an idea they had to get better as opposed to Nate Davis, but he couldn't practice because of the grind. So they won't admit that they've benched him and they say that it's the groin injury. And I'm not saying he doesn't have a soft tissue injury. He did not practice last week, but how long do you go on with moving him in and out? You tried to do it with Ryan Bates and now Bates is on the, uh, the, uh, injure reserve lists. Right. Can't play. So now you're doing it with another guy. Don't you want to move beyond that one? Yeah. Yeah. Nothing's, there's nothing different about God bless Nate, but there's nothing different about him. Not practicing. You know, we've been saying that for two years now, haven't we? Yeah. And OTAs and many camps and training camp in the season. So that, um, I don't know, I mean, I, I, um, uh, it's, it's a little bit disheartening because we were kind of where we were a year ago, you know, and, and, and we don't have the backs or the commitment to run the ball. So I don't know, you know, it's, it's frustrating, you know, and, and let me say this, I look this up when I looked at those stats after the game and, and, and Caleb is going to be fine. I know people will get on my case when I say this on the air all the time, you know, I'll get beat up. He's going to be fine. You know, he, but when we throw the ball 52 times, you know, make times Tom Brady average. How many passes a game? How many? 34 passes a game. And there's whole career. You don't know another step Brad big shared with us this morning since 2015 teams that throw 50 or more passes in a game are 23 and 141. Wow. 23 and 141. Wow. You know, your identity as a bears offense right now, you're lost and have an identity and the whole thing comes down to with the quarterback and we, and we threw for a lot of yards. We can all be excited, but why is Justin Fields? His numbers are not that much different at Pittsburgh, except for one thing guys, not turning the ball over. And I've always said in my, when I would be game planning, I would look at the quarterback and the first stat I would look at is what's his ratio touch ties to interceptions and to be a good player, maybe a wild car type quarterback. It's got to be two to one touchdowns, the interceptions to be a playoff quarterback. And some Tom Brady and those guys, and I keep, I'm not using Brady, use, use any good Kirk cousins. I don't just pick one and look at their touchdowns, the interceptions and the ones that make a little run in the playoffs, they're generally three, four, five to one touchdowns. This kid now has two touchdown passes and he's got four interceptions. That's a one to two ratio. Yeah. And that was, you know, but my point is that's the wrong one to two ratio that's one touchdown for two intercepts. Absolutely. And the whole thing is what I'm trying to say is everybody wants to talk about Justin Baba Baba. Well, that Justin's not turning the ball over whether it's play calling. Maybe they, you know, aren't just just doing a better job. I don't know what it is with waiting out there. All I know is he's not turning it over, but he's making runs and he's not throwing a ball anymore. He did here. I mean, you know, it's so don't, I don't want to get on that road with you, but, but I do know that protecting the ball is critical and it just, sometimes it's something that's overlooked when a guy gets 300 yards past. Let's talk about how a head coach sets a tone after a loss like that. Let's contrast and compare what Matt Eberflu said in saying that he was encouraged by what he saw immediately after the game in Indianapolis with what Antonio Pierce of the Raiders said, he saw players making business decisions and he's going to start making some business decisions. It's probably both extremes. You don't want to be complacent in which I think Matt Eberfluce might have been. You want to be scorched earth as maybe Antonio Pierce was. What did you think about what fluency said and what was your approach after a loss like that? I, I guarantee it. Well, we would be in full patch and we would have an inside run period. There no doubt about that. That's, but Dave, you all, what you never used the media to send a message. You always, you always talked about the game. You never threw guys under the bus. You would never try to let the players know you were mad and you would go at them. You would, you would go to a player and let them know that he had done wrong and you would tell them after the game. You didn't come into the, what, what bothered me about what Pierce did is don't use the media as you got to be able to go to a guy and you said, you made a business decision. I saw it. It was the fifth play. Right. Who knows? Maybe the guy wasn't showing up in meetings. I don't know what he means. You don't know. We don't have that information. Right. That. But, but you never used the media to send a message and you know, if you did, you didn't use me. Damn it. Correct. No. I mean, you, you, you had already left. You were gone. You, you were moving up the bigger things at that time. Uh, but no, you know what, it's, it's a little bit like what's going on in Dallas right now. You hear the comments that Parsons is making that he's saying that he's talking about business decisions. I mean, that stuff is what I would call football friendly fire and boy, it's, uh, you got, you got to put that out real quick, guys. Can you be too friendly? If you're mad. You were loose. Can you come out of a loss that bad and he said he was encouraged by what Dave? I think a lot of people wanted to hear him be a little bit more fed up publicly. There's a, there's a line you have to draw and a balance. You have to strike. Great. I don't want to go Antonio Pierce scorched earth, but you can be a little bit more critical publicly without going after specific individuals by setting a tone and saying, you know what, we have a standard and we just didn't meet it and we got to be better. Yeah. I mean, and, and trust me, flu's being a defensive coach, defensive coaches, in my opinion, and offensive guys will get mad at me because it's not all of them. It's not the Chan Gay leaves, not North Turner's, but the majority of offensive coaches just don't see the run game importance like a defensive guy does, the defensive guy. So flu's got to look at those stats and says 30 yards Russian or whatever it was. Are you kidding me? Lesson three yards a carry. I mean, you make Dave, I mean, that's a definite upset that Gatorade table to me. You mentioned a couple of times that Chris Morgan, you think Chris Morgan's a good coach. I see offensive line coach who, when keeping him, they made the run game coordinator. How do he and Shane Waldron coexist? Does, does, does a guy who is the run game coordinator get to coordinate a run game? Or are we going to throw the ball 55 times? 56. I'm sorry. There were four of them sacks. So 50, you know what? You got me there, Molly. I've never been in that situation as a head coach, as an assistant coach in 40 years where we had two guys now I work together. You were one decision maker. And that's the offensive coordinator use, you know, you can cite your opinion. Everybody's got an opportunity during the week to cite their opinion. You know, I mean, we would do it to give you an example. When I was coaching defense, which Davis was in charge of our short yard each in goal line. Greg Chiano, okay, when he was with me, Greg Chiano was in charge of our third Don. They would bring it to me, stand on the board. Tell me what you see coach and third Don. I think we, you know, they, they will run the ball half the time. We got to be ready for this, this, this, okay. And I, and he would make a recommendation. You know, I really like this, this blitz right here. And I'd say, you know what, but yeah, I see what you're saying, but boy, I'm just nervous about the contained factor. This guy's too good athlete. Let's, let's come up with something where we can contain it more and everything else I'm good with, you know, so you do that, you kind of work it a little bit, but then the coordinator has definitely, and I don't know how the Bears are doing it, but he's got the final decision. Now critical situation, every coordinator I've been with from the get go. It's fourth and one fourth and two were on the goal line. That offensive coordinator is talking to the line coach during the game. And I would be listening and North Turner would be talking to Tony, hey Tony, I really like the inside Bob play right here and you good with it. I'm good with it. Let's do it. Well, I have to say it's fair to wonder then if that is happening because you have a offensive line coach who's respected and proven and Chris Morgan and you have an offensive coordinator who essentially had to inherit the line coach and Shane Waldron was Shane Waldron brought here because he had the same agent as Matt, Ibra, Flusen, Ryan, polls because he wasn't brought here because of his past with Chris Morgan and if that, these guys need to be like this. Oh yeah. Every Sunday you have to wonder because of the struggles in the running game if they're actually like this because of the relationship that did not exist before he came to Chicago. It's a good question. I don't have an answer on that, you know, I really don't. I just know, you know, Ryan polls is an ex NFL offensive lineman. So you'd like, let's give him a little credit and then this thing too, or pull him into the conversation. Right. Right. Well, when he's watching the tape, you know, I mean, if I sat down right now and we started watching the tape, sure, I can go through every position, but I'm going to dissect that defense inside and out because that's my expertise, you know what I mean? And Ryan polls is, is that's his, you know, he played offensive line at a high level. He played it in a fail. He knows what offensive lineman, what it takes Dave, he's got to be in this conversation. In my opinion, maybe, maybe not. I don't know. The Rams come in, they've got the quarterback. They've got the coach, Sean McVay, still there. They're coming off a big upset of, of San Francisco and must win for them because they started the season 0 and 2. They are beaten up. They're down three starting offensive linemen. Cooper Cup already has been ruled out. We know Puka Nakua is already out for the game. He's on injury reserve. So they're missing some of their better players, but they come in here and they're looking to get to 500 as the bears are. What do you like in this game? How do you view the game? Are you concerned about coach? I'm on the bears. I mean, I, I, I, it was a hard one for me last week. I was all over the bears last week telling everybody, you know, I mean, I was, I was touting. I was touting. I was feeling good. I got to do the same thing. It's less. Is Aaron Donald coming back this week? Oh, but Dave, if there's a coaching deficit here of every time Sean McVane's coming, he's still here. Yeah. Stafford's making the trip. I think he's a pretty good coach. I don't know how he could place faith in the bears after what we saw on Sunday. He's taking the bears. I'm on the bears. What's the line? What's the spread? It's bears plus two in the hook. Is that right? One in the hook. Really? Bears minus three per circle. Oh, three minus three. Yeah. No, I don't know. Bears are favored in the game by three. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Well, they they win at home even when they don't score offensive touch up. Gotcha. Yeah. I mean, I like the bears in this one. Absolutely. But wow, I, I do. I mean, come on. Hey, I believe we got a better football team than the Rams right now. Okay. That's how I look at it. Yeah. And we should be motivated. We should be angry. We should be disappointed that they have a better football team. Do they sound angry? Did the bears sound angry? Did Maddie Riflu sound angry at any point since they lost and blew that game? Did he encourage? I know. He sounded. Yeah. He did not sound ticked off. You guys are pushing me into a corner. I'm sorry. I'm not doing anything. David, you're pushing me into a corner. You are really. Oh, boy. Yeah. Back off. No one pushes David to a quarter. I'm sorry. Great stuff, coach. I'm fine. We appreciate your time as always. It's Molly and hot Chicago sports radio six seven. 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Limited battery warranty covers defects and materials for 10 years or 100,000 miles, whichever occurs first. Sea owners manual for complete warranty details and limitations visit HondaUSA.com or call 562-3144603 for more details. I don't want to get too into it. What I will say is like you're obviously, we saw some things on film and you want to get a certain front for it and I think we all felt confident in that. They ended up throwing out something else out there for us and that we obviously weren't quite ready for and it resulted in that type of play. Unfortunate circumstance, I always go back to, I know everyone wants to maybe look at that play but there's so many other plays before that that we had opportunities to go punch the ball in and but I know that's kind of a glaring thing but there's other things around that we can get fixed up as well. Molly and Hawshikago Sports Radio 670 the score, that was the voice of Colkmette talking about how the Bears were not ready for the Colts defense on fourth down. That should drive every Bears fan crazy. Yes it should. Colkmette is as honest as they come as candid of a player as you'll find in that locker room, he could be a future analyst in the booth somewhere or in a studio, whatever he wants post Bears playing career but when he said quote we weren't quite ready for something we weren't quite ready for, it indicts his offensive coaching staff, it indicts the entire coaching staff, the Colts basically out coached the Bears on fourth in goal from the one. That's hard to accept, that shouldn't be the case and certainly is not anything that makes Sunday easier to absorb. We talk about this Sunday versus last Sunday because I do believe what you just said which is the Bears were out coached especially on that play a couple of different ways they were out coached and I think you've got a guy coming in here who's a better coach than your coach. It's why I said it. It's what we're looking at next Sunday is why when Dave says he's in on the Bears I have to ask why because of stuff like this and the Rams may have a talent deficiency, they may not be as talented as the Bears but they are better coached and they have a better head coach than the Bears have and that's an a priori fact that's not taking shots at people based on the first three games of the year so if you have the most talent therefore you should win but in the NFL it's how you deploy that talent it's what you do. I don't know that the Bears have the correct game plan for winning football. We have yet to see it they've won the first game of the year while the game was basically given to them and they didn't even score an offensive touch. We'll love us charity case. Okay now that happened. Threwing the football and they took advantage. Good credit for the defense. But have they out coached a team? I thought that Flus came back in the second half of the first two games and showed that he can make adjustments on defense. I think he's a pretty good defense coordinator. I don't think he's a better defense coordinator than McVay is an offense. No that's not even up for discussion. What we have seen unfortunately is that something trending in the wrong direction. We have evidence of coaching miscues that for judgment more than we have evidence of coaching things that make a difference. We got bad challenges. Bad challenges. We got it in the second loss. Dumb arse time out in the third loss where you're you actually called the time out to run a two point conversion that you of course fail. So let's take a step back. You look around the league. We have Sean McVay coming to town fresh off a victory over an injury riddle San Francisco team but a team that nonetheless more talented than the Rams. I think everyone would accept that Sean McVay and the Rams win. Why? Well I think you have to give the coaching staff credit. You look at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why is Justin feels thriving at three and oh well you can look at the coaching infrastructure there. Give credit to Arthur Smith and Mike Tomlin. No no. How about last night what we're talking about all ever across the city today. Jaden Daniels and the Washington commanders going into Cincinnati and he was twenty one of twenty three and that offense is cooking. Why? Well I think Cliff Kingsbury is doing a pretty good job as their offensive coordinator the guy that bears interviewed and passed on. What we're talking about is a coaching deficit and when you're going into playing the Rams at home at Soldier Field I don't care what the line is. If you have a coaching deficit that can be difficult to overcome. Okay so let's take that back to the NFC North. Let's start with. Well it's not. No I know I want to make a point here. We're going through this. We're going through this. Yes. Painful but yes. You look at what's happening in Minnesota. You know the combination of Kevin O'Connell of Bryan Flores looks awful good. Awfully good. And that team is winning with a backup quarterback they got good news on him yesterday by the way where he's going to be able to play on Sunday and guess where they go on Sunday. They go to Green Bay where I would say I know you're not a big fan of the flower. I know you don't want to go watch a basketball game with him but the fact of the matter is that guy has won a couple of games with his backup quarterback. Give him due respect. So they picked off of the scrap he deserves it and traded for. I believe Lewis is two and all as a starter and the flower right now might be the coach of the year. I think if not him Kevin O'Connell okay either way the guy's in the division and Dan Campbell I know you don't like some of the fourth down stuff and I'm not a big Dan Campbell guy the way that he kept him out of the Super Bowl year ago but you'd have to admit that that certain teams take on the personality of their coach and he has turned the Lions into a contender and their record after losses is impressive and that's coaching because it teaches you how to respond to adversity and the Lions certainly can do that. So I do think you're right grudging respect for Dan Campbell what he's done in Detroit. So where are you with flu see you're in the basement you're in the basement and you're there for a while and I don't know if you can think your way out of the basement and that's what you have to do. You can climb but you're better off you can be physical I don't think you can walk your way out of it if I'm listening to what that guy has to say. Well no you can't so that doesn't give you a lot of confidence when you come off a loss that bad and you're looking for cues and signs and how they're going to respond to this. My goodness you're disappointed and discouraged discouraged if you are a Bears fan because of the way the coach talked about how he was encouraged after a bad loss. I believe he said he was encouraged no he didn't even say but he should not have said that that's the whole point here he even mispronounced and courage it undercuts. I was discouraged. We all were but watch that game and his lingo I had to be out courage well if you are looking at the Bears and you're trying to find things to believe in heading into Sunday's game against the Rams tell me where to find them tell me what you're looking at tell me what you've heard tell me what you've seen how do you make an argument that this Bears team coming off a loss that bad can find a way to beat a team that just out coached Kyle Shanahan in the 49ers. No one and I mean no one can burn a time out like the Bears we can burn them with challenges we can burn them just because we don't know if we want to go for two I mean we can burn time I was better than anyone David hmm that is not exactly it's not anybody with confidence more doubt and you're looking at okay questions questions emerging about the coaching staff yeah eventually what's going to happen we know how this works in a football city we know how this works in Chicago if this doesn't if this trend continues we're going to start asking questions about the roster construction because one of the big reasons in Washington why Jayden Daniels has succeeded give the young man credit for being as dynamic of a quarterback as we've seen so far this season through week three but that offensive line protecting him that offensive line creating a running game and running lanes for two good running backs that offensive line was put together intelligently the Bears offensive line was put together like a guy that doesn't understand offensive line play but but the guy who put it together I mean for the most part you drafted you know one starter on that line that's your right tackle how's his year going struggling a little bit struggling in you know did he draft Braxton Jones maybe he did in the fifth round he's been okay great okay would be okay really seeing the glass have full okay mediocre whatever way you want to term it I don't mean good but he's been out there um Kevin Jenkins he inherited how's he doing injured all the time battling to be on the field you went out you paid 10 million a year to uh Nate Davis and listen that's almost lost money that's sunk money right cost yeah they don't have to pay him 10 million next year they're paying him 10 million this year they paid him 10 million but you need bodies you need bodies because that's the state you're in that's where you're at but you don't have to start him and they've chosen not to so you're really enamored with this idea that you do have three dynamic wide receivers when Keenan Allen is healthy if he gets healthy and you didn't build from the ball on out and so now you're paying the price for taking that approach to your own roster construction yeah if you're Ryan polls you've got the weapons but oh by the way did I mention this three or four times already since 2015 NFL teams are 23 and 141 when throwing 50 or more passes well you know what the Bears are they're a team more likely to throw 50 or more passes a couple more times this year because they can't run the football and that's not good that's not good score has learned so that's why Sunday when I look at the Rams coming to town yeah and it's like okay what else are you gonna do watch the Bears but make other plans because you don't want your day to be totally ruined it's between noon and three it is too early to make your pick all right I'm not letting you make today and I think we need a lot more information and we need to listen to what is said I said to you earlier today I'm very curious to hear what the offensive coordinator has to say on Thursday and I've got a feeling I'm gonna be as confounded and confused as I was last Thursday where I went back and listened a couple times and didn't couldn't tell what he was saying which was more confusing Shane Waldron at the podium on Thursday or his game plan and play calling on first and goal from the four well I think that was much more confused okay that's just a good one tomorrow yeah I like that one and you know here's the thing like when they lined up under center the idea that they did an end around with DJ Moore that frosted me more than any other play they ran in the game was that a four yard loss but whatever I mean I'll have to go look that play up but the idea that finally oh my god they're gonna run some power football and instead you try to do a misdirection you know see what I did here and I think did you more felt about that I'm sure he was you're reading his body language I'm sure he was as deflated as I felt watching it it was just idiotic I may use the turn I know we got to get the Florio but what is the deal with Keenan Allen is he coming back according to your guy the general manager he's on the upswing okay he's pointed forward but he wasn't on the sideline he was Sunday they excused him from attending the game why I think because the day you had the borrowed the White Sox plane they only had eight first-class seats well I think they said personal reason okay I'm just curious now he wasn't even at the game no he wasn't because the week before he was on the evening board yeah he was coaching the guys up on the sideline and a big deal about that if he misses this game that's three in a row and if he misses two more that means you didn't get the extra body off of IR but but it doesn't matter because you had two offensive linemen that didn't even play that were active on Sunday so you wasted a couple of spots for players when you ran whatever it was 87,000 plays 84 plays the most is 1999 it was him okay just saying I just looking just saying I know got a couple guys stand here and protect the backup quarterback don't let anything hit him just in case we have to go to him because he's not playing either we've got Mike Florio next we'll talk to Mike and we'll ask him how good the quarterback play was last night Mullion Hall on the score Mike Florio pro football talk dot com NBC sports Twitter dot com slash pro football talk NFL insider Mike Florio with Mullion Hall on six seventy the score Mullion Hall Chicago sports radio six seventy the score always a delight to talk to Mike Florio and he joins us now on the atero tire hotline atero your hometown tire atero dot com Michael good morning how are you all great how are you doing we live the dream and you know we're in Chicago so we're wondering as we look at quarterback play around the NFL wait a minute you know there's a guy used to be here who's three you know that's okay we got the new superstar generational talent wait there's another guy who did pretty well last night kind of put together an historical performance did the Bears go for the Bryce Young pick instead of the CJ Stroud and ha ha it's a joke what do you think yeah I don't think it's time to declare that Jayden Daniels is going to be better than Caleb Williams but the reality is in any other year Daniels would have been the number one overall pick and when we were at the scouting combine interviewing players when we talked to defensive players who were in the SEC and they were asked the question who's the best opponent you ever faced no hesitation Jayden Daniels so we saw last night what he can do and they're working him toward his ceiling they're working him toward the point where the game slows down they trusted him with the game on the line third and seven two minutes and ten seconds left didn't play it safe to take a field goal that would have put them up by eight points through to the end zone for the dagger incredible throw got blown up am I only concerned about Jayden Daniels and this harkens back to Robert Griffin the third 12 years ago you run a lot you get hit a lot every time you get hit there's a chance that something's going to snap and I would be losing sleep about that possibility if I was a commander's fan so Mike you know how it works in the NFL three straight losses and everything changes for everybody the Bears are one bad loss at home against a Rams team that's really injured and compromised but coming off a big victory they're one loss away from being in a three game losing streak and having everything be doubted about everybody how hot will the seat get from at eberfluice if the Bears lose their third in a row Sunday I began compiling last night a Bill Belichick watch list and I'm accepting recommendations and nominations and applications for the teams to be on it and right now my list consists of the Jaguars the Bengals although they're too cheap to pay them the Cowboys the Giants the Eagles and the Bears I don't know that you want to go to Chicago I don't know that the fans would want him I don't know that ownership would want him but if quarterback play is one key ingredient the presence of Caleb Williams would presumably attract him so this is the reality when the expectations are high and they got out of control for the Bears when they're high and that's how you're always judged you know coach of the year is the guy who does the most relative to the low preseason expectations and the guys who get fired are the ones who do the least relative to high preseason expectations and the expectations were too high for the Bears so if they struggle if they end up in the basement of the division and given the way the Vikings are playing who on paper look to be destined for fourth place in the NFC North that's the kind of thing they can get somebody fired especially once ownership and executive start to put together in their own mind the guy they want to go out and hire to replace the current coach so we've been talking about our division here in Chicago the NFC North and we're trying to figure out who's the who's the better coach of the year candidate is that Kevin O'Connell for what's going on in Minnesota or is it is it the flower for what's going on in Green Bay winning without a quarterback well Matt McFloor never has gotten serious consideration to be coach of the year even though he could have won it two or three times and think about the calming influence he brought about working with the delicate genius of Aaron Rogers getting the most out of that team I think I put him on the ballot last year when they made it to the playoffs I may have put him on the ballot the year before but Jordan Love is probably going to be back in the next three weeks we didn't originally reported week four week five week six is going to come back from that ACL sprain but to get the most out of Malik Willis a guy that the Titans gave up on him in hindsight maybe he should have gotten more of a chance to become the starter there yeah it's impressive but the expectations were higher overall for the Packers it gets back to my point from earlier the Vikings were expected to be the worst team in the division if they keep doing what they've done so far this year and it's incredible to see offensively and defensively arguably the best two right now play designers play colors offensive and defensive in Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores and that sets so Connell up to be the coach of the year Mike speaking of number one overall draft picks what the heck happened to Trevor Lawrence this is a fascinating wrinkle and I'll tell you how it happened because when we do our show every morning we have a rough outline of what we're going to do and then we just kind of let the spirit move us and I got an email last night from a former offensive coordinator who I must keep nameless on Lawrence and I'm going to paraphrase he does not play the game with a passion when he was first drafted by the Jaguars he did mention that football was not his priority in life and despite that generous and undeserved second contract he definitely plays like football is not a priority now that's a reference to comments that were made by Trevor Lawrence to sports illustrated right before the draft where he said I don't have a chip on my shoulder I don't try to prove people wrong I don't think that's healthy and then there was some other comments by his dad he could walk away right now and be fine and he created a little bit of a dust storm at the time didn't change Jacksonville's desire in making in the number one overall pick but when you see where he is right now where the team is right now and you know he's kind of chill last night after the game they got their asses kicked they got embarrassed on national TV 47 to 10 you want to see something that has him driven and motivated and determined and capable to turn this around they got short week come home from Buffalo after mechanical issues delayed their flight till after 1am got to turn it around and go to Houston this weekend against the Texans team that just got its ass kicked by the Vikings and will be extra motivated to win I think people are going to want to see the fire from Trevor Lawrence they want to see him earn that $55 million a year last night was horrible the quarterback isn't the one who gets fired because of it though it's the coach and when the owner came out as shotgun did and said before the season this is the best team the Jaguars have ever put together and the expectation is to win now I think by next Tuesday when we do this we can be having a conversation about Doug Peterson getting fired by the Jaguars the day before Mike you the best thank you buddy thanks Mike thanks guys that is Mike Florio good stuff wow yeah that's really would be a strong move but they are really struggling in Jacksonville and you hear Doug Peterson he sounds like a beaten man maybe we should play a little of that audio if we have it we should take a listen to let's come back with maybe hearing some of that from Doug Peterson if we can find and also talk about what happened last night on Monday night football in the other game yeah and what that means here three what two six forty four sixty seven sixty seven mullion on the score well I don't necessarily think you go in an opposite direction you invest in a lot of time but there has to be changes whether it's play design personnel everything everything's on the table let's let's call it right and those are all things that we have to you know I have to look at we have to look at as a staff and and make the make the adjustments mullion hush Chicago sports radio six seventy the score that is Doug Peterson he is a super ball winning coach you sounds like a defeated man after seeing his team his quarterback get man handled by by Buffalo yesterday that beaten badly that was a bad game forty seven to ten yeah and that wasn't that close that is what a coach sounds like when he's not encouraged by a loss okay that's what that's what a coach sounds like when he is defeated in more ways than one yeah and he knows he's probably staring at his coaching mortality and he's got a quarterback that is in a funk big time and Trevor Lawrence so we saw both ends of the extreme I think both sides of it last night in terms of boy you've got the Jaguars who were lost in the the bills who were rolling in that game and then the other game that I think got a lot of captured a lot of Chicago's imagination or attention he had the Washington commanders beating the Cincinnati Bengals in Washington I'm sorry in Cincinnati yes going on the road with a rookie quarterback in Jayden Daniels in Jayden Daniels doing the special as Ryan Pols might say hmm twenty one of twenty three he threw two touchdown passes his first two of his career won the first one tackle eligible call great offensive design there Cliff Kingsbury and I think you look at what the commanders did with Jayden Daniels and obviously you're comparing it and contrasting it with what the Bears are unable to do offensively with their scheme and certainly right now three games into the respective NFL careers the number two overall pick in last year's NFL draft is out playing the number one overall pick in Kayla Williams Jayden Daniels greater than Kayla Williams three games in I don't know if it's going to stay that way but it is worth watching it is certainly worth discussing and I think that he entered a situation that was even though all the conversation was Kayla was coming into a great situation conducive to winning Jayden Daniels is having fun and he's in a right spot he's got an offensive line protecting him he's got receivers making his throws come down as completions and he's got a running game to lean on and Bigsy did tell us earlier this morning that Cliff Kingsbury did interview with the Bears for the OC job but the Bears have claimed that was more of informational interview regarding the quarterback Kayla Williams well the shame on them well there you go but according to Dustin's research these are the guys that did interview for the opening with the Chicago Bears there was Thomas Brown the Carolina Panthers offensive coordinator Greg Roman the former Ravens offensive court coordinator Shane Waldron the man who got the job Clint Kubiak who was then with San Francisco as their passing game coordinator and Craig Olson only had been here before the former Seahawks quarterbacks coach right well it's working it's working in Washington yeah I should have talked to him about more than Kayla Williams personality traits and past and listen Clint Kubiak is working too yeah he is he's working well I look at I look at that is maybe less sustainable than what's going on in Washington okay but that's fair well you know this is an ongoing conversation and the apples to apples comparison people will want to make is quarterback to quarterback and I think Kayla Williams and Jayden Daniels you're gonna spend their entire careers maybe being compared to each other I think this both guys can have Pro Bowl caliber careers I don't know if this is burrow Mahomes I don't know if it's Brady Manning I don't know what rivalry if you want to call it that will evolve or develop but we do have a situation where the term generational talent is thrown around loosely we have done it ourselves yes Kayla Williams can still be great in Chicago I believe that firmly after Sunday even though it's not the start that anybody envisioned and certainly needs to protect the football better than he has and I think Jayden Daniels is off to a start that suggests he's gonna be great as well both guys can be great and comparing them throughout the course of their careers is gonna be fun but I don't look at this is the one that got away yeah I I mean it could be I don't I don't look at it that way I'm not saying that it won't be that way Molly I'm just saying that I don't think it will go that way right and and I'm I'm on board with what what do you do well it could actually well this guy could fall no I actually listen go I am more than happy to give the Bears time to give Kayla Williams all the time he could want and I think that we're seeing hints that things could be okay we've seen some flashes already and hopefully that that improves I am there are a lot of different things that you worry about that you notice that that you know when you when you talk about whenever Roma Dunes A is open I'm gonna be looking for him you know that's okay but maybe don't say that in front of DJ Moore maybe you're saying that to let DJ Moore know you're gonna make skunky face at me I'm gonna throw the ball to him and when wow if it should ever be in an Allen play remember he's the guy that doesn't have the money that doesn't have the future guaranteed that probably needs the ball and is a third down machine I'm not saying any of this stuff is going to be a problem I'm just saying these are things that are setting up if the Bears continue to lose I would find all the what you just said as eloquently as you said it though I would file that under noise okay noise I like to make noise you need to ignore the noise if you're Kayla Williams and the Bears though right you need to stop worrying about whether or not you get in the ball you know what you got to worry about yeah what Dave wants to say here and said okay go out and learn how to run the football let's talk about noise let's talk about noise okay what about the coach saying he's encouraged after after getting your I mean it's Charlie Brown's teacher okay I don't want to hear it you can't hear it all you hear is yeah all you hear is what you want to hear what about when the guy talks about being proud of valus Jones after week one what about when the guy talks about the way the locker room handled the the victory what about and how about you know Dave was telling us that they interviewed Jervon Dexter Jeff a choney acted on the marquee network after the game and and Jervon Dexter was was kind of getting goofy was kind of happy after the loss after getting he was playing against his high school or middle school teammate and his college team and yeah regardless all right so so I'm just saying you're just saying noise it's all noise we're throwing it all out because it's noise though the running play that failed miserably on fourth there's different levels of noise though we like that play there's different levels of noise I think the kind of noise that you want to ignore the kind of things that relate to the tension that may or may not be there things that might be created situations the kind of noise that you you want to maybe zero in on and and make sure that it's it's it's not just noise the tone that is set by the head coach matters it does it's got to matter and you can't just say it's noise so it's the stuff with the stuff with Caleb Williams and the receivers I think that is a something that doesn't necessarily exist and that could qualify as the kind of noise I'm talking about and you know it too yeah and I'm thought but I think that if you want to look at Matt Eberfluze it's a problem and you want to conclude after three games that a season that began with such high expectations requires and demands a the head coach to amplify something that makes clear where the standards are you're right and that's valid I don't think he's done a good job of that I think he's fallen short of that and I know who else hasn't the offensive coordinator we talked about it last week I don't know I cannot follow the plot with this guy he is not a clear speaking man well you could get away with that if your schemes are designed in such a way that you are outsmarting your opponent then I don't care how he sounds I like the way his offense looks with the offensive coordinator is I think a lesser there's there's less focus on what he says on a week to week basis your head coach sets the tone each and every time he opens his mouth and he does that on a daily basis during the NFL season and Matt Eberfluze needs to projects a stronger message that certain things are accepted and certain certain things aren't he had his hard knocks honeymoon it was great all right but it's over and he needs to be a football coach that talks a little tougher and demands a little more yeah or he's not going to be a football court or he's not going to be a coach because you heard Matt you heard Mike Florio three losses you know you say it your three losses away from prosperity or disaster in the NFL exactly true exactly and this could be the third straight loss Sunday well they got two in a row they better win on Sunday or else and I think that they become the desperate team this week I think they are the desperate team this week and if they lose three in a row that noise it's going to be people clamoring for a coaching change well I mean listen I'm not saying they're going to do that in season I'm not I know they've never done it in season they've never done it but you know how it works in NFL cities we've been around long enough to know how it works in Chicago we we have seen Matt Iberflus go from a guy who didn't deserve the job he had and why is this guy the coach to a guy that took over the defense last year they got better and everyone's like wow you know he's shown me some things he's done pretty well and then you get to the off season and it's well he's shown enough so let's keep him but we're firing all the offensive coaches except for Chris Morgan who gets a nice promotion and then you you move forward and now here we are again and Matt is on the negative side of the ledger right now through three weeks and it's dangerous because he's saying the wrong stuff he is when he's trying to communicate he can turn it around it can easily turn it around how you turn it around you win you win you win how do you win how do you win well you demand things from your team raise you you don't get your players a pass by saying that they were you were encouraged by one of the worst losses you could have imagined this yes you're not going to play many teams worse than the Colts were on Sunday they gave you an opportunity to seize that up that that game and you you've passed you said no not today no thank you and I think that that by the end of the season we'll have a very good feeling one way or another how you want to go things could work out great things could get steady and everything could be this this is sort of the build up portion of the season where you're getting ready to eventually start playing in your division this is a soft portion of the schedule you need to win these games that are there it needs to go better taking it needs to go better and you need to be better to no doubt about it can I share you with you a stat that tells you just how special Jaden Daniels first three games have been this is from CBS sports this morning Eric Kay is at EK CBS tweeted this all right Jaden Daniels has had two career NFL games out of three where his team has scored on every drive including excluding kneel downs no puns Tom Brady Drew Brees Peyton Manning and Patrick Mahomes combined to do that twice in their entire careers including the playoffs that's one thousand ninety four combined starts Jaden Daniels has done that twice in three games and the Bears play him later on they do that's gonna be a great matchup yeah I wonder what we say rivalry will be I I'm very curious as to what we'll be saying at that point in time between the two rookie quarterbacks you know pity Jaden Daniels got hurt that's terrible that's just me the sky really is falling Corey is listening to you or to see yeah pick Corey hey what's going on guys last night nightmare scenario but my biggest takeaway but the Bears had an ideal all alone he were taking Caleb they completely passed on Cliff Kingsbury who was his offensive coordinator and I get you didn't call plays at USC but there was a familiarity there now we see some success with Jaden early on what is going through Caleb's mind watching that and what is his thought about the Bears organization knowing that they went in a different direction well it's a fair question I don't think it's relevant because it can't matter I mean he's naturally going to wonder these things I imagine with Cliff Kingsbury if he had a relationship that he cared about he's going to be happy for him and and maybe wondering how they would have worked together in Chicago but you can't get caught up on that if you're Caleb Williams you've got so many other things swirling in your head to worry about that you that can't be a priority let's try Bobby he's in Naperville hey Bobby hey guys how are you doing good I want to talk about this idea and Molly you kind of brought it up earlier in the show and David you keep harping on it this idea of faith in football like you have to have faith and you have to believe it's not religion man all you got to do is see what you're seeing and let me give you an example right like all off season David you were leaving the charge right that you did not believe Justin Fields would ever be a good pocket passer I don't know if he is or if he isn't or if he will be I don't know but all I know is that that idea blinded you to the fact that he is the biggest double threat in football I mean there is nobody that there is no defensive coordinators bigger nightmare than Justin Fields so now we're on this whole idea that well Caleb don't worry about what he's doing or don't worry about his play he had to watch that game last night for about 10 seconds to see the difference between Jayden Daniels and Caleb Williams but we're going to keep blaming it on something else right so we're going to fire the whole coaching staff bring in another coaching staff and let me tell you when they bring in Lincoln Riley every bear stand should be unbelievably it's about to be a disaster because his offense is crap it doesn't work it and if I will eat it up so the idea of having faith in football is just goofy just see what you think I don't think I've used the word faith but appreciate the phone call and perspective I don't believe in faith yeah I think I talked about belief in yeah I don't know a message yeah the tone of head coach can sit can set and I was I was a believer in Caleb Williams coming to Chicago and I still am yeah that's I have faith in Caleb Williams you can believe thank you yeah I I don't I'm not quite sure what offended him about belief it's okay everybody you know you hear things in the interpret them a certain way is entitled to that opinion he could be outraged look there's a lot of fed up bears fans across bear nation all over the all over the country today this week okay I would be ticked off too if I saw your team squander an opportunity like they did Sunday Indianapolis I'd be in a bad mood for a while yeah yeah I agree it was it was not good it was not a good thing predictable as it may have been should I say don't lose faith be careful you don't want to be a 3 1 2 6 44 67 67 it's Mullion on the score now Justin Fields I'm talking to you Chicago Bears fans I am talking to you okay the Bears might be second guessing trading Justin Fields look at what he has done through three games with the Pittsburgh Steelers he's one of four quarterbacks right now that are undefeated you look at what he's doing he is taking a very bad offensive line in Pittsburgh and he's helping them out he has 90 rushing yards through three games look at the other side of the spectrum Chicago Bears Caleb Williams the Andre Swift they're starting running back as 70 rushing yards through three games Caleb Williams is not helping out that horrible offensive line you continue what you're doing Justin I've always believed you there's people on this set they don't believe you there's people in the world that don't believe in you just keep doing what you're doing keep stacking days you're gonna come out on top Mullion Hall Chicago sports radio 670 the score that is the voice of Chase Daniels he was on FS one the faculty and he was talking about the Bears maybe second guessing the trade they made when they gave away they gave him away I think you think it's gonna be true they didn't get as much as you wanted them to get in return got nothing they'll likely be a fourth round draft pick from the Steelers if he plays more than 50% of the snaps it appears he will I'm surprised that Chase Daniel would sound as definitive as he sounded an FS one three games into a season very difficult to draw any hard and fast conclusions even though we're leading that direction a lot of people in Chicago should be happy for Justin Fields for finding a way to maximize his talents he's being coached very well Arthur Smith is using him to play he's playing to his strengths and he's making limited he hasn't really turned the football over he's running the football and the Steelers are three and oh I still think the Bears did the right thing in moving on I know people won't be surprised by that it's too early to say anything definitive about really any of the quarterbacks are going but it is fun conversation who at this point is the offensive rookie of the year okay I've just have a why why does everyone have Jay Daniels is run away early favorite for the offensive rookie of the year Chase Daniel is a believer that the Bears made a mistake in getting rid of Justin Fields and going for Caleb Williams I think had they done that Caleb Williams would have gone somewhere else and we've been wondering if they had the right guy who knows what the situation would be bottom line is Jaden Daniels can be special in Washington Caleb Williams can be special in Chicago and both guys can thrive and be the franchise quarterbacks that both the respective franchises needed them to be yeah and then we got a text they're saying how can you say that Chase Daniels is making assumptions after three games when you're second guessing everything this morning we're not second guessing everything this morning we are reacting to what happened yesterday night and we're talking about how it impacts everything that's going on in our town that's it we're not we're not listen no one no one has concluded that that Caleb Williams is not the man that's what we're saying that's what we're talking about yes we're talking about you have to voice and I guess caution people against having and drawing hard and fast conclusions but to express that you have to say that that's what we're saying that's what you do on a talk show thank you buddy just say no you know what else you do on a talk show if you're if your name is Molly you do a lot of rain dance well I keep it going yeah I've been rain dancing during break I know you have been rain dancing now I wish that was on twitch and we should do your rain dance on twitch that'll be a lot of fun you know what it's working because it looks a little bleak outside that's good isn't it a little bleak so I think that you are doing what you can to get the White Sox to cancel tonight's festivities yeah everybody's all over this story like it's a story the White Sox are finally gonna lose Dustin is just the happiest man in America as is it's not the Cubs and once he was so he's so bitter about the Cubs not making the playoffs that he tried to go after Craig Council we wouldn't allow it and now he's gone after the White Sox and hopefully the weather won't allow it I'll push back a little bit there you don't really have to go after the White Sox they do they've done a nice job all season of bringing attention unwanted attention unto unto themselves and tonight is the latest example it is a national story for the national pastime when a team is on the verge of doing what the White Sox are on the verge of doing what if they rain out the rest of the year huh then you're gonna do a rain dance every day I'm worried about your back if that happens no no I've got my guy Mylin help me out I'm good are you going are you going on your bike today I depends on how much dancing I got it why would you worry about a little rain getting in the way you're cycling activity mainly for fear of going ours over tea cattle sometimes there's nothing better little jog in the rain I like going running in the rain maybe getting hit by a car would get in the way of my bicycle activity that would get in the way little bit socks tonight Jonathan Cannon at home against the Angels if they lose it will be their 121st loss yes and it is a national story there will be national coverage the Wall Street Journal even weighed in this morning and they quoted Reynaldo Lopez saying that this 162 game season probably feels like 500 games to the players in that clubhouse oh nice nice he's probably right yeah I mean he's definitely right because it's in a long slog he's one of the guys he got away yeah he's got a t-shirt I escaped yeah all right uh we got we got colp he's in Chicago hey colp first first let's just find it what you were talking to as a cup fan no one cares about what happens with the white socks this season with the Cubs of the total failure yeah no only dusted I'm just letting you know yeah no I know otherwise going back to kill Libs I mean what but what point are bears fans just knocked it our gun on her stand no matter who the quarterback is of the Chicago Bears it is never going to work never you know I don't care if they directed Tom Brady DJ Sprout those guys would be in the States they're just they're just not matters if Caleb Williams was the starter for the Green Bay Packers last two weeks he would be looked at the same way that Malik Wilson looked at the Bears have never had success with a quarterback they never will and with that said go pack go all right so thanks to the phone call it doesn't matter it doesn't matter that's a packer fan rubbing it in no he's not yeah he he left that for the end he's a Chicagoan and he's a packer fan listen I mean the cynical approach I would like to believe that nothing's changed about the overall overarching reason if Caleb Williams was replacing Jordan Love he'd be a lot better than Malik Wilson look well has been very good I mean again that also goes to the broader point here this is week three were three games into Caleb Williams NFL career he was drafted not to necessarily change things immediately even though I think he's capable of doing that I still think the Bears are capable of having a winning season in his rookie year but he was drafted number one overall because not where his floor is it's where his ceiling is can you help me how how often this year have the Bears been leading is it felt like last week they didn't lead at all I know they ran tons of plays but they were not leading very often they had to come from behind to win they didn't lead in that game they were down seven and nothing yeah then they never they never lead in Sunday and they did they lead much against Houston doesn't feel like they led in that game much I'm just saying what's point my point is that the way the Bears want to win is to get ahead and then you know unleash the defense and instead we've seen a team that's trying to throw from behind well you know your points has been in your point is is I think connected to this idea of the question of the week what is the Bears identity it's a question every team and every fan base and every media core asks of your NFL teams early in the season the Bears identity right now is they clearly are a finesse team they want to throw the ball around but I would caution them I would caution them from doing what they did on Sunday in Indianapolis because Brad Biggs with the stat of the day should we give an award to Bigsy is it sponsored whatever that stand out of the day says the teams that have thrown 50 or more passes in a game since 2015 in regulation and it is 2024 now so it's about a decade let's look at about a decade of work a big body of work not a small sample size teams that have thrown 50 or more passes in a game are twenty three and one forty one twenty three and one forty one if you think the White Sox record is bad that record is worse well there is a mic Jordan involved in it what twenty three oh I didn't know what you meant there but there's nothing there's nothing magical about that number it tells you that if you are heading down that road of Shane Waldron other than Mike was pretty magic yeah if you're heading down that path stop yourself stop yourself run the damn get a grip run the win run the run the ball yeah commit to the run stop being the guy that is trying to prove something about how smart you are schematically take the gimme hand the ball off it's football don't over complicate it don't make it a game of chess when you can play checkers yeah sometimes you just have to you just have to line it up put your hand in the dirt as they say and and get the tough yard establish the run so that's what will help Caleb Williams developing the kind of quarterback the Bears need him to be and so he can catch up to Jayden Daniels because right now Jayden Daniels not only is playing the best ball among rookie quarterbacks but he's playing as well as any quarterback in the national football league so you've got him for MVP not rookie look three three weeks into the season tell me a quarterback that's playing at a higher level than Jayden Daniels right now after last night the guy with all the Super Bowl rings yeah I don't want to exaggerate because then it makes it easier for people to poke holes in something I think that saying it's enough to say he's playing at the highest level of any quarterback who's a rookie any rookie quarterback and he's got that Washington team looking like they have turned the corner he could have saved you a fourth round pick is what you're trying to say stop putting words in my mouth stop oh no it's you know listen here's the thing the Bears are going to be okay just calm down or they're going to lose on on on Sunday and it's going to be yet another one of these over two teams that are just going to keep picking them off well either thing could happen either thing could happen and apologies to Josh Allen he's probably having a better year than Jayden Daniels he's he's on an MVP type of he did what did he do he let him in passing and rushing what's that he's he's playing at a very high level yeah he's pretty good so it's a tough situation tough week for the for the Bears yeah but it's one of those games that we talked about last week feeling like they had to do they had to win that game because of the schedule if the Rams come in as compromised as they are as injured as and banged up as they are well they're not getting any of those guys back and also it's a noon kickoff I know this is noon I don't see NFL that means it's 10 o'clock in the morning and close close time yeah are gonna be messed up they will be they'll be looking for a cup of coffee while they're getting knocked on their tails well we know with a lot of people can get Sean McVay coffee and everyone who does get the job anybody anybody who gets coffee becomes an offensive coordinator so is this also Shane Waldron he worked for McVay Denny so is this the Shane Waldron revenge game let's hope he represents himself better than he did Sunday in Indy let's hope it's the Shane Waldron run game run the ball run the ball yeah take the gimme run the ball run downhill and get your offensive line to respond all right right now enough football talk you can be the sixth never to this course contest line 3 1 2 5 4 0 0 6 70 and you can win a pair tickets to see Thomas Rhett with special guests Tucker wetmore and Dasha better in boots tour Saturday August 9th 2025 Alpine Valley music theater in East Troy Wisconsin 3 1 2 5 4 0 0 6 70 it tomorrow's a basketball show tomorrow is this is this is the the show this is going to be the one they remember well we're going to talk bears we're gonna talk you know it's white socks we'll talk cubs we'll talk football but we will have special basketball guests tune in tomorrow from 5 30 to 10 that's when we're on and the Blue Cross Blue Shield performance stage will be our home we'll be joined by Billy Donovan and our tourist carna show this day of the Bulls will be joining us during the eight o'clock hour and it's all brought to you by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois through it all and by Schmaltz deli spreading deli goodness everywhere so we'll be talking to Billy and AK Billy and the boss and we'll be having some some coffee and some refreshing treats from the fine folks at Schmaltz deli and we will um I think Casey's gonna be here Casey Johnson's gonna be here we'll talk to Casey at some point we've got some some regulars that we will get to so we're not going to forget the bears but we will have an hour with with Bulls preview we'll talk about all the significant stories from the off season and and kind of attempt to figure out how good they could be moving forward mr David no doubt about it's gonna be a lot of fun it's rare that we get an opportunity to talk to Billy Donovan and AK at the same time so that'll be a good dynamic and then let's face it just right around the corner the Bullstart next week the Hawks are already in camp and the winter tenants of the United Center have arrived and I mean think about it you know Billy was a great player back in the day AK played in Lithuania he's a guy that played good college ball you're from Indiana we got a lot of basketball stuff from Indiana this is my best presidential through you with them I appreciate that yeah I am I'm from Indiana I'll hit you I may be able to hit three every now and then see if we go two on two against them I'm definitely the guy breaking us down which is sad why I mean I get to take every shot so that's not so bad oh boy there's a fist fight ever broke it up between two guys two and two game quit shooting all right we've got we've got Dan and I believe Kevin Spain is the Illinois sports writer of the year is in our building a wildcat if I'm not mistaken yes he has to talk to him next and it's molly and hon the score this summer get away in the Hyundai you've always wanted at the Hyundai getaway sales event get the hottest deals of the season on many of our award-winning Hyundai models which all come with America's best warranty but get going because these deals won't last add more joy to your journey at the Hyundai getaway sales event now for a limited time get 1.99% APR for 60 months on the Hyundai Tucson or Elantra hurry into the Hyundai getaway sales event offers end September 3rd call 562-314-4603 for details