Kap & J. Hood
9/25 9 AM: Surprise, Surprise!
Hour 3: The guys discuss the offensive issues with the Bears ahead of their Sunday showdown with the Rams. What surprised you most about the Bears these first 3 games this season? College QB Matt Sluka has left UNLV due to non-payment by UNLV and the Kap & J. Hood Cut of The Day.
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(upbeat music) - Good morning, Chicago. And welcome in to the Captain Jaywood Morning Show. On a yes win 1,000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, we've got Charlie, and we've got Jay Moore, and we've got you here on this Waddle Wednesday. 3-1-2-3-3-2-3-7-7-6-0 phone number. The jerk has joined us here. Good to see. - Love the movie. - Good to see Gene Wilder is joined the program. - Who do you see? - Martin. - And it's Steve Martin. - Steve Martin. - Yes. The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here. - Can't pay for this type of spontaneous advertising. (both laughing) You can find us on YouTube, YouTube.com. Look for the ESPN Chicago channel also on Twitch.tv/ESP in 1,000 Chicago. So, Cap, when we look at this bear season so far through the first three games, I understand. We talked about it earlier. We understand that bear's fans, we're all excited, and you want to get off to a great start. It's three games, it's one and two. And again, I would rather be one and two than on three with no chance. The bears have more than an opportunity to be able to turn things around as you start Sunday against the Rams. No matter what Vegas says, we both know that the one thing that's got to get better if there's only one thing is for Caleb Williams in the offensive line and the receivers to be on the same page. We could cast aspersions on Shane Waldron and Caleb Williams and the running game and all that. It just has to get better. Because the whole thought process of this season is to see something that we haven't seen before. And that is an offense taking care of their own business on a regular basis. Do you understand? An offense taking care of their own business. Not the defense, making stops, getting sacks, getting turnovers and scoring to help the bears. We've seen that all our lives. All we've asked for is balance. It's so hard to get balanced in this league. Offense and defense. That's the reason why that we are so enamored with the Kansas City Chiefs. For those that want to take a shot at Patrick Holmes, this won't be the year, this won't be the year, well guess what? More times than I has been the year for Patrick Holmes in Kansas. You know why? Because of balance. The defense does their job and the offense does their job. And more times than not, they're right there in the mix for a Super Bowl championship. So I want that for the Bears too. We've been a big 10 team all our lives. Run the football, run the football and then have great defense. Well, I think balance and offense helps too. I still want us to run the football, but also I want the quarterback and the OC and everyone else to be on the same page. That's all I want. Let me read you a stat. He thinks he's blocked me on Twitter. My second Twitter account is for him, Bigsy. And we can follow you there the second account at what? Never mind. So he put out a stat. I want to read you this stat. Since 2015, when an NFL team attempts 50 or more passes, Bears tried 56 the other day. Four of them ended in a sack and 52 pass attempts. Teams are 23 and 141. Do you think Eber Flus and Shane Waldron are aware of that stat? I would say no. Like, at some point, give that stat again for 23 and what? This is per Brad Bix. Yeah. Teams since 2015, when attempting 50 or more passes, teams are 23 wins and 141 losses. Do you think, at some point, the rocket scientist in the offensive coordinator job goes, we can't be throwing them all 50 plus times here. Because first of all, we've got a rookie. Second of all, we've got a bad old line. Third of all, history says we're going to lose. I mean, really? Even Kevin Williams didn't know. No, I don't think he knew that. He didn't know he threw the ball that many times. Well, that's what I mean. He didn't add no clue that he threw it that many times. Correct. Even he was a gas like, whoa. I threw it about 52 times. Yeah, he's just in the flow of it. He's not counting the passes, but he's just trying to win. That's a crazy stat, man. But you know why that's crazy also on top of that cap is what I told you on Monday. The reason why that sucks is because you only got 16 points out of it. I watch college football a ton on Saturdays. When I see I see guardian numbers like that, a lot in college football, but it's 30 plus points. It's four touchdowns. You know, it's 400 yards. Like I was talking about just average college football, but that in the NFL, and then not being able to have production on top of it as far as a scoreboard, that tells you all you need to know. There's a disconnect there. There's a disconnect. Yeah. So how does that get better? Well, we've been saying it's for weeks now. I know this is not a recording. This is actually, we're live at 907 on a Wednesday, telling you what we've told you every week now. If the Bears do not run the football effectively, they can't win football games. I've been screaming for that. Balance, balance, balance, balance. Please run the football, establish the run. Swift's got to be better. He has to be better. A hundred percent. And if he can't do it this week, then give Khalil Herbert the lion's share, or Roshan Johnson, or whoever. But you got to win this football game. You got to go out and run the football, smash them in the mouth, quit running stretch plays, pound the rock, wear them down. Charlie, could you do us a favor, please? Of course. Could you look up Waldron's last two seasons with Seattle? I just want to know how often they ran the football in Seattle. I had this, I think we went through this in April and May. I don't have this in my notes now, because I think when he was hired, we talked about his background. But just as a refresher, could you just kind of look at the running game for him the last couple of seasons in Seattle under Geno Smith? I just want to just be in reason why that I want him to do that deep dive on this gap is because of what we talked about last week. And we'll bring it to the conversation here. Is that some offensive coordinators don't feel like they are getting their full worth if you're running the football 100 times. You still won the football game. It doesn't matter the formula, but some guys need to be able to exercise their genius. 52 times is exercising a genius. You're right. We've been around it in basketball. We've been around it in football, cap, you and I over the years, where this guy is deemed a genius because of his, you know, the various plays or creativity. It's a voluminous playbook. This is page 86, they see this play, huh? Watch this. Great. But does it win you football games? If you just run the football exclusively and then it sets up the pass and makes the offensive line comfortable and makes Caleb Williams comfortable, it's always the win the game. Who cares what your book looks like? Who cares? Correct. I remember we were going up against a team guy had like a seven, two guy down there and they would just every play feed him in there. He either passed for a basket or score. We couldn't stop him. Somebody said, oh, real tough coaching job. You just throw it in the big. Yeah. Yeah, guess what? We win. Yeah. That's what he said. As a broadcaster for UIC basketball, you know, Howard Moore had an assistant that was great at the scout, great at the scout. He could tell you the tendencies of a basketball player in 7/8th grade and would bring it to the scout. Wait a minute. Al, there was four other years of high school. Well, that's in here too. Why do I need 7/8th grade tendencies? Where'd you get those from? Well, we're going to put this in the scout and we're going to defend that way. So in the college level, you go to defend them on how he played in seventh grade. It's too much, Al. Just give us the light that just give me what he did last game. Could you do that? Well, I saw it because I talked to someone and says here, right here in the scout, that he-- it's overload. I mean, for Caleb Williams and a rookie, you don't have to give him the whole kit and kaboodle. Just don't be so cute. That's all. And that's part of it though. You have to prove you're genius though, Cap. You have to do it. Right. But you don't have to, especially with a rookie quarterback. But it's the fourth down play where you run a speed option. I want everyone to see how cute we are. We got in. We ran a really cool play. How about just battering Ram four straight times? Let's go. That's all. And of course, when we hear from Matt Iberfluze and from Ryan Polls that talks so much about execution, we've got to actually-- well, you know what? That is true too. Absolutely the players have to execute. But I also told you the other day, you give the ball to Roshan Johnson at the five on fourth and inches. Get us the first down. We're going for it. Yeah, great. And he does. First down is Chicago at the four. All right, Roshan, get out. Why? Why? Why would you take him out there? Was he injured? No, because he went back in the game later. Why would you take him out your toughest running guy? Yards are the hardest to get. Charlie, I'll tell you a quick story, because I want to get your stats from about Seattle and Shane Waldron. So I was doing-- at one point here, I was doing Bear's postgame with Jared Payton for a season. And I would watch game side by side with Jared Payton. As you will know, Cap, being around Walter and Jared, they're very similar. Like, they get very squirmish when they watch football, and they just get a little, you know. And there was a play with the Bears where the same scenario happened. Someone is having a great day running the football, and he's taken out. And it wasn't even the tap on the helmet. They just took him out. And Jared almost hit the roof. He goes, he just-- I said, what's wrong, man? He goes, why are they taking him out? Well, I mean, he's cooking. Why are they taking him out? And he just got-- like, Jared's the nicest guy. When you watch football with him, Cap, he hits the roof. And so for someone who also played the position, Jared was obviously more of a fullback than running back. He wanted to run you over, and his dad was more finesse. Yeah, he wasn't. Yeah, it was Jared's issue. Jared would tell you, he tried to run guys over more of a fullback than like a shifty running back. But his point was, if someone is doing well, that guy's not tired. Feed him. Keep feeding him until they stop him. They want to get worked up. Get a sweat going. Let's go. So, Charlie, could you help us out as far as Waldron before he got here with Seattle, as far as his running game? Yeah, so last year he was-- or each of the last two years, in terms of total attempts, they were 27th in rush attempts. And interestingly, they were kind of middle of the pack last year in rushes per attempt, or yards per rush. Two years ago, there were like 7th. So it's weird because it seems like you have an efficient running game at least a little bit, but is that because you pass so much that teams just aren't really respecting your ability to run the ball, or like what causes that? I don't know what the answer is, but look, you have-- as more teams are running these two high safety looks, you should be able to run the ball more. And look, the bears are right around where Seattle has been in terms of rushing attempts. So it's confounding to me because you're a team that has been so good at running the ball in years past. And then all of a sudden, you can't do it anymore. Like, I don't think that's just because Justin Fields is gone. I think it goes deeper than that. So you're saying the second year was better than-- Two years ago, in terms of yards per attempt, was better. And then last year-- Last year, they were about middle of pack in yards per attempt. But again, both years are like 27th in total rush attempts. Yeah, when you hired this guy-- I think Tommy said it to us, or he said it to me yesterday-- when you hired this guy, you hired a guy that's not going to run the football as much. You did. You just did. That's a fact. I get it. But, uh, Jim-- That's on the head coach. I think defense has just played them differently because they had Justin. And when you got someone that's going to stay in the pocket and not going to run, the focus will become on you. You're correct. You knew Justin was going to take off. Right. Now, for his deficiencies in the passing game, he did a really good job being able to run the football. So he was defended different. I know that Waldra was here to get the ball in the air. And this is the reason why that the Bears have so many weapons offensively at the Y receiver position. I get that. But, Cap, again, it's about balance. I know he was not here to be able to coordinate 50 plus throws in the passing game. Correct. And that 50 falls on two people. Him and Matty Berflus. And Caleb's got to wear some of it because some of that is, uh, he's got an option of a run play or a pass play. So he has to wear some of it, too. But you got to get all three men in the room and go, "We're not throwing the ball 52 times again. Am I clear?" Now, if I'm going to lose my job, we're going to go down play in the right way. Now, Cap, you want to do that. Then beat opponents 47 to 10, like Buffalo did Jacksonville. If that's a game plan, if the secondary is so bad, that you could say, you know, we could throw on these guys all day. Then go ahead. Go ahead. If that's what the game plan calls for. But in this scenario, you had an opportunity to get through and get through the run, run the football better, and they just did not. Yeah, but Josh Allen threw four touchdown passes. And that dude is a beast. Our guy's not there yet. Oh, I get it. I'm saying for the Matty that you threw the football, and by the way, he was 23 for 30 for 263 yards was Josh Allen. And was able to get those four touchdowns against Jacksonville. Yep. And still ran the football by the way, 122 yards rushing for Buffalo at the aim. Okay, that's balanced. That's a really good team, man. That's balanced. Really good. And that's all we're saying is that's where the Bears need to be. So we're asking this question. And Charlie, we have, we have that open the phone lines here. We need to hear this morning, the nine o'clock hour, 3-1-2-3-2-E-S-P-N, 3-3-2-3-7-7-6. Our phone, or a cap and I, want to find out from you, what has surprised you most about the Bears through three weeks of the season? The most surprising issue with the Bears. Again, that, that negatives as much as it is just question marks. But the thing that surprised you most, one way or the other, when it comes to this Bears team, is we get ready for the Bears and Rams, full coverage on Sunday right here on the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000 for show. Captain Jay Hood, I'm back. We are back, baby. We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back. On Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago. Captain Jay Hood, weekday morning 7-10 here on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. We're going to see Gary Meyer coming in the building. We're here until 10 o'clock and then Mike Greenberg comes in at 10 o'clock. Followed by Carmen Yurco. It looked like a... 12-3-1 with Sylvie, 2-30 to 6. That was good. Crap. Meyer. I heard I was coming in the building. Meyer. Can you call me back? You're in the air. White Sox and Angels at 6 o'clock. Right here on the home of the White Sox, ESPN 1000. It could be a record breaker tonight. Tune in. Tune in to Latin DJ to find out. A lot of national media patronizing our hotels and restaurants that are all still here. Thought they'd be leaving today. Rafael Sabal on Twitter. Yes sir. Or Sable. I think it's Sabal. It's Sabal. I think it's Sabal. F-A-B-A-L. He's one of our great listeners. He is. He said guys, Tyson Bates had started four games. The Bears averaged 133 yards rushing per game last year. A 10 yard difference to Justin starts. They were still a good rushing team without JF. Good point. Then what's that working now? So Sable line coach. Same assistant O line coach. New coordinate. So should Caleb sit behind Tyson Bajant? Wow. There's some out there. Oh there are. I've got those lunatics to tweet them all the time. If Caleb just sits behind Bajant, he can learn a lot. Five yard passes. I'm counting down the days till Sam Darnold plays well enough that we get a call from somebody saying the Bears should trade for JJ McCarthy. That's out there. Why not? Don't give me any ideas. 3-1-2-3-2-3-7-7-6 is our phone number. If you're just joining us, Capp and I are asking the question, the most surprising issue with the Chicago Bears. One way or the other, positive or negative? What surprised you through the first three games of the season? Eddie from the North Side on Capp and Joe. Hello Eddie. Good morning guys. And the only other one that threw over 50 passes was Prescott and they lost too. That's a recipe for losing is throwing that much. You know what I mean? Yeah. And the only thing Caleb's got to do is not throw interceptions. Because that's just the worst. And if he can do that, he'll be okay. Because I'll tell you right now, he's 100% better than that quarterback on the Colts. That guy has no clue. It's like he's lost out there and I don't know. It's just frustrating just to see everything. I think they might even lose to the Rams if they don't give Khalil the ball. Just switch it up. Who cares? You paint the other guy. All these other guys that got paid are doing crap too. And the one note about the Buffalo Bills. Without Stefan Diggs he's doing this. Without another one receiver. It's amazing. You know, maybe these are bad seats to quarter. The running back we got, you know, a swift and maybe, you know, Diggs and all these other, well, I could just quite pull was one of them, you know. And maybe they got rid of the receiver on the Chargers because he was one of them. It's like they all in on the Bears. It's unreal. Well, Eddie, have a great day, man. The thing that about Buffalo is that now Josh Allen can spread the wealth. But the jury's still out, Cap. Through the first three games have been solid. The only question about Josh Allen that I've ever had. And many people had just don't turn the football over. Just respect the Wilson. Correct. Take care of the Wilson. That's all. Protect Wilson. That's all. I mean, it's all there. People are already crowning like Josh Allen is MVP or the best quarterback in the NFL right now. Okay. You know, I get to be the best quarterback in the NFL. First of all, Super Bowl Championship. That helps. But secondly, just take care of the football. That's all of it. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. Yeah. That's all. You go back to Josh Allen's rookie year, 2018. He was horrifically bad. That's all. I mean, horrible. But you don't give up on someone based on three games or a season. If you believe in a guy, you make sure you supply him with enough talent. And if you have the talent, and if it gets to a certain ceiling, then that's when you cut the bait. But that's not the society we live in today. Wow. If we come in here Monday and heaven forbid they lost to the Rams, we're going to have a full rack of calls. Oh no. He told you Caleb sucks. He pained his nails. That's what they're going to say. Yes. It just drives me insane. All right. Back to the fall lines. We go. Lake Zurich. Here is Paul on Captain Jay Hood. Paul. Good morning. Hey guys. Question. So who's ultimately responsible for the personnel on the field? I remember like the first game of the year, the thing was like third one, a little Herbert then he had no business being and it should have been a roast on Johnson. Yeah. You didn't see the field. Game two, didn't see the field. Game three. Obviously, he should have been on the field for that fourth and one or third and one or whatever it is. But like, I was on the field too much in the beginning, like it always seems like we have this like shiny objects and we're just like putting them in places when they shouldn't be there. But who did that fall on? That you talk about offensive personnel? Yeah. That would fall on Shane Waldron. Shane Waldron would be the guy. It's his offense. So it's his personnel grouping that determines is determined by the play. That's correct. Yeah. No either. That's for me. That's like the most frustrating thing. It seems like it's almost like game one, wrong personnel on the field, treatment of conversation, game two, game personnel on the field, different same results. Explain to me, you sound like an intelligent, lucid, well thought out bears fan. Explain to me why on fourth and inches at the five a row shot, can you pick that up? Yep. And he gets it. All right. Come on to the game. Right. What in the quarterback call timeout and recognize he doesn't have the right people on the field? If he has the autonomy to do so, yes, we asked. I think Caleb. I think Caleb did a lot of great things. I'd like to see him. How many times was he under center? Well, okay. Wait, wait, wait. It's not Paul. You're going too fast. Let's take it one at a time. You talked about the timeout. Let's start there. We talked to him. He was about that. Do we not cap? We said, does he have the ability, the autonomy to change the play? No, we need to have better execution. He was not committal. He just said execution. Right. He just said, we have to execute better. Where a year ago asked the exact same question and he said, Oh yeah, Justin could change the play. He's got full autonomy there now, Paul, about the shotgun across the National Football League. Many of these quarterbacks are in the shotgun. We agree with you that it should not be exclusively shotgun, but that's what he played at USC, but a lot of these young quarterbacks are all in the shotgun. And I think that there is some mystery, depending on who, you know, the defensive front that you're facing, that you should be under center. Maybe you can sneak in there for that one yard you need or to get a touchdown. That's not how we see a lot in college, obviously, but we see it across the board in the NFL more times than that also. So all the questions and a great comment, Paul. Yeah, very well thought out. So what's going on with you over there? Well, we're trying to take a call and conduct business here. And then there's a chime on that side of the table. If something went off on my watch, I did not, I don't have a setting turn, I don't know why I did that. My watch was ringing. Do you have a bad fall or no, is your phone call was coming through my watch at my phone on silent? You haven't heard my phone ringing at all in months. Why aren't you? Why is your watch? How come that ain't silent? It's on silent. But I hurt, but it can't be because we heard it during the call with Paul. What is that? I think that was something Jay Moore played. I don't know why I have it on silent. That's what it was. Okay. Well, thank you very much. 312. See? That's, it's, it's on. Why Charlie? Why does this happen? How many, how many different ringtones could we play that would like make you think it was Cap's wristwatch? I mean, I mean, all about that. I mean, it could be just like the Liberty Bell. I mean, who else over there on that side of the table? We're just trying to conduct business. Again, you know, folks, let me just tell you, let me just tell you about David Kaplan. None of this nonsense happened when he was doing regular TV. None of it. He was live every night. None of it would happen. Here he acts out. Just just whatever happened, just noises and just rings. Go. Yeah. I mean, just none of this happened on TV. But here, department is an issue. It's unbelievable. Yeah, my late dad, smiling up there in heaven. Department. But this is where he acts out and just like, he's just like David Kaplan with his, with his desk outside of the classroom. That happened too. It happened to me as well. 312332 ESPN is our phone number. Just can't just conduct business. We're trying to talk to Paul. Ring a ring a ring. Yay. Carlos is on the north side on Captain Jay Hood. Carlos. Hey, what was going on? Cab is me. Carlos. Carlos. I was going on, bro, I was calling because I believe the same thing that you guys said that he shouldn't have took Roshon out when he got the after he picked up the first down. That was just dumb. Swift was going to get stopped no matter what. Yeah. Then they went to Kaleel. Yeah. Then they went to Kaleel, which is you should, you got your big boy in there. You need to let him take care of business and mash the football right in it right down the center and take it all the way in. My next thing is I really enjoy your guys' show and I want to give a birthday shout out to my son, Alonzo, who turns 14 today. How cool is that? You're listening right now, brother. Hey, Alonzo. Happy birthday. Your dad's awesome. All right, brother. You guys, I'm going to keep listening. I had the day off and you guys are the best. I'm going to the store today. I'll see you tomorrow. All right, brother. I'll see you there. See you, brother. My guy, Carlos, works at store. I go to. He's one of the managers. He's awesome. Hmm. Big fan. You stuff free here? No. Absolutely not. Happy Chanukah. 312. I'm sure a lot of that. No question. A lot of that. Carlos works. He's one of the meat managers at Whole Foods. Now, what do you enjoy? That's it. 312-332-ESPN-33237-7776 is our telephone number. If you're on hold, you will be on the air. This is still to come an unbelievable story about college football. Yes, it's something that you've never heard before. Oh, God. Cap and I will review it next on Cap and J-Hud. It's a bad take. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Make it last forever here on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. Cap and J-Hud with you. So this story as we could do a sidebar, may I approach? Broke to you by our great friend Howard. Thank you and 3-1-2-6, the great Howard Inc. and the famous attorney. Sign my ball. Matt Sluka, Cap, SLU-K-A. Yep. Quarterback. U-N-L-V. Let's talk about that story. He put a post out there on social media, and he's no longer the quarterback for UNLV, but there's a reason. So Matt Sluka says he has not received the N-I-L money he was promised to come to transfer to UNLV. So somebody tweeted all financial commitments for UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka were completely met. But after wins against Kansas and Houston, his family hired an agent blah, blah, blah. Pete Thamel has now, who's the most wired guy in college football, said former UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka's N-I-L representation, Marcus Cromarti of equity sports, told ESPN Sluka was verbally promised a minimum of $100,000 from a UNLV assistant coach to transfer there. None of that money was paid. And so because of this, Sluka says on Twitter, "I have decided to utilize my red shirt year and will not be playing any additional games this season. I committed to UNLV based on a certain representation that was made to me, which was not upheld after I enrolled." Despite discussions, it became clear that these commitments would not be fulfilled in the future. Which my teammates the best of luck this season and hope for the continued success of the program. So Cap, he left the program through, I guess, three games, four games of the college football season. Cap. Right. If he plays another game, he can't red shirt the year. Okay. This is a tough one because the old school in me will tell you, Cap, you have a commitment. You're the quarterback of the football team. You should play. However, you were supposed to be there on the auspices that you'd be getting paid. And now he's not going to get paid. Correct. So UNLV broke their end of the deal. Correct. And so Sluka is out. He's like going to someplace else. Yep. I'm gone and I am going to sell myself at the end of the semester. Just to start with Charlie and Jay Moore, if UNLV says the assistant make the assurances like you're going to get paid 100,000 and he's not going to see a dime of it. Not even at later in the season for them to gather the money. Yeah. Not even up front. None of it. I mean, so tough. The way I interpreted it was, okay, if they made certain promises that they did not uphold as much as that would suck if you're a UNLV player, if you're a UNLV fan, like this is a team that has a chance to make the playoffs as a group of five team, as much as that would suck. They signed a deal, UNLV didn't hold up their end of the bargain. There's also the chance that like what UNLV said that all these requirements were met, all the aspects of this deal were paid and, you know, if that's the case, then it's probably just a big power five or power 14 came knocking and signed them away. In that case, like I get that one of the arguments is, well, coaches are allowed to do it. Coaches leave all the time. Here's the thing. I hate when coaches do it. I think it sucks when they both do it. And like I said, like this is a team that can make the playoff if the whole thing just sucks. Like I think it's a case of what I want as a fan and as a viewer probably isn't in line with what's right. And it's just, it's unfortunate that it's kind of come to this. But again, like it's business. Yeah, it's business. Like these schools operate as a business. Why can't these players operate as a business? They more, that's your son in that spot. And he leaves the program. Are you good with that? Yeah. I'm good with it. I mean, a deal is a deal. And if they did drop their end of the deal, why should he still have to be there? That goes with anybody. Now, his teammates would say, well, hold on a second now, we're in the, I'd be furious if I was a team. Like we're, we've got a good team here. Yeah. You're a big part of it. We just beat Kansas. As I said, we've got these wins. We've got a chance to get to a plate and you're going to bail on us. If you have an agreement that said, okay, cap, you're going to get this XYZ amount of money to play on this team. Yeah. And then they decide that they're not going to pay you. You're going to stay. Yeah, it's, it's a tough, tough situation, because I'm not staying. I mean, I love you guys, but at the end of the day, business, business, man, agreed. They broke the verbal or probably it's probably verbal because the, I don't think he's suing the handshake agreement that he get paid six figures. Correct. So, and listen, the old school people are listening to the show and some that look at it from this standpoint, I get it. You'd say you made a commitment to the football team. You should play it out. But what about the other side of the commitment? What about UNLV's commitment? Correct. You said, you said a hundred thousand. Where's a hundred thousand? We don't have it. So false pretenses. You got me here to Vegas to play, but now you're not going to pay me. And again, this is the whole slippery slope with an IL cap. This is it. Correct. This is when we saw, talking about having players paid, the sliding scale of who gets paid, what programs get paid, all this stuff, we knew this was going to happen. But the shady assistant who thought that the money would be there or thought he could raise the money before the season. Now it's not there. You should take it out of his salary. Then he doesn't have any money. Correct. Zippo, he made the agreement, but he could survive. It should be from his salary because it's no state tax there. He'll be fine. 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, ESPN, but cap, you understand like the old school and us about an agreement is agreement. That's a tough one. But in today's society and just in business in general, you want me to do a job. You sort of pay me for that job and now you're not paying me. So why should I continue to work? Correct. You have to learn to evolve because things are not going to stay the same forever. You got to learn to adapt. Enrique and Boise, Idaho, listening on the ESP in Chicago app. Hey, Enrique, good morning. Morning, boys. Hey, Reek, can you tell us this? Just give us your thoughts on our conversation. I know you want to talk about the bears as well. But if you're that quarterback at UNLV, you're leaving, you're leaving, are you staying? That's a tough one. Like you guys said, the commitment to the teammates, and you know, you got the chance to be successful. But at the same time, you're promised that X amount, me, I played ball, I would stick with my teammates and go through with it. But at the same time, I get his point of view and like, why are you doing what he's doing? Okay. So it says, it says, Enrique, Boise, Idaho, the lack of cohesiveness. What does that mean? Yeah. So like my thing is, you know, I listen, you know, like all you guys, all the different shows and stuff and, you know, fundamentally sound, the team just isn't there. Like I was listening to Olin yesterday and Olin was talking about like the offensive lines wrapping and they're not getting their punch and it's just, you know, like we've been talking about the coaching. It's like they talked about accountability, accountability, yet we don't see it on the field and then the offense was like, there's no identity. There's, you know, Wattle said it too best. Like they're trying to take the identity of other teams versus like, this is what we do. This is bears football. We're going to, you know, run the ball or we're going to throw it or et cetera, et cetera. It's just, you just don't see any cohesiveness or fundamentally sound on the field. It's just, it's frustrating to watch because they talk about it. You know, it's, it's principal with missing that and you just don't see it. Yeah. Ah, it's a disappointing situation at times when you don't see the accountability. And when I hear Olin say, if that center's not going to get his hands inside, he's going to get bull rushed every time. Can we fix it, please? Yeah. Get what you pay for beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona and Tyler Scott's there is listening on the ESPN Chicago app. Tyler. Good morning. Good morning. Gentlemen. Thank you for taking my call. I appreciate you guys being on the air. It's been through my work. I appreciate you guys. But I just kind of want to talk about piggyback on what you guys are saying, the patience, right? Caleb is looking good. We've never seen it faster. Do this. I mean, I haven't seen it faster in my lifetime because I jay color throw for that many yards in a single game. I think we just got to take the step back and just kind of relax on it. But one thing I will piggyback to off of what I think his name is Enrique, he was talking about before. Yeah. I think this coaching staff is lacking intensity. I don't know. I watch hard knocks. I look at the sideline, you pan over to Maddie who's on the sidelines, it just seems like there's no intensity. There's no like adrenaline. There's no like, get your blood flowing like they're not, I don't know, like you look at Dan Campbell, he's fired up. That guy is fired up. Dan Campbell looked to me like a leader of men. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Good guy. Good family man works hard, smart, defensive guy. He does not look to me like like you could say. Bella checks in an ass. Dan Campbell's this. There's some intense dudes that people are like, I don't know, he's not the nice. Mike Tomlin does not strike me as a cuddly guy. They're a leader of that. And I think you need, I think you need a guy like Mike Tomlin, like Dan Campbell. I feel like maybe that's why some of these issues aren't being fixed. I feel like maybe these guys feel like they can just roll over and do whatever they want because they know they're not going to get reprimanded. I don't know. I'm not in that room. I don't know what it's like to be with him in private behind the cameras when they're off and everything. But I'm just saying it doesn't look like there's any intensity coming from Eberfluze or that coaching staff. Tyler. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Tyler, one question. Yeah, go for it. If you're that quarterback UNLV, do you continue to play or do you leave the program when you're guaranteed 100, at least told you're going to $100,000? I don't know. Me personally, I'm a team oriented person, so I would stay, but I do not blame him for leaving. I don't think you're promised something. Yeah, it's a lot of money. I think if you promise something, you should get it. But also, you got to think of your teammates, too. That's just how I think I would probably stay, but I get why he'd leave. 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It is awesome. I got the tacos yesterday. Oh, my God. I was jealous. You got the steak salad. Yes. It was awesome. Which is divine, divine. But those tacos, though, next time I go, we're gonna... We gotta have that. I'm gonna have to try that. They had your choice. You could mix up the three. I got two filet tacos and a crab taco. Oh, my God. That's tacos I've ever had. I hit the spot after workout, right? It did. It certainly did. Oh. Cap today is National Lobster Day. Mm-hmm. What is your favorite lobster? My favorite lobster. Favorite lobster. Where you've got it from? Was it in Chicago or out of Chicago, your favorite lobster? So I'm more of a crab person. My wife and kids are much more lobster people. They like it both, but they like the lobster more than I do. But the best lobster I ever had was in Boston, Massachusetts. Yeah. Spectacular. And legal seafood. It was really good. Charlie, today is National quesadilla day. Oh, yeah. What's the best quesadillas you've had? Probably the ones I microwave. Just throw some shredded cheese on there tossing the microwave a little bit. Yes. Chef Boyard, R.D., Charlie, right? Yeah. Chef Boyard, Bevan. Yes. Fairly land it not usually. That's what it tastes the best, right? Of course. I'm sure there's some daddy sodas that go along with that as well. Yeah. But don't beverages. And an edible or something. Some Buzz Light beers. I'm gummy. [LAUGHTER] If we thank you so much for listening and calling in and being part of the program here on Cap and J. Hood, our thanks to Charlie and to Jay Moore on the other side of the glass. You know, tomorrow is a deal breakers Thursday. Yeah. Look forward to that. It'll be a lot of fun. It's tonight. We'll all be together. A few bourbon, baby. Yes. Rock 'n' roll. This is the Jayhawk coming? Probably not. Come on, Jayhawk. Come on. Come on with the people. You used to be a man's man coming with the people. So long everybody. Take that from Chicago.