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[Music] Good morning and welcome in to the Captain J. Hood Morning Show on ASP and 1000. And we're streaming on the ASP and Chicago app with David Catholic and Jonathan Hood with you. We'll hear from Albert Breyer from Money Morning Quarterback at SI.com and Amazon Prime at 835. Right now, time for shot and no shot. Here's Shane Orling, Shane. Good morning, boys. How are we feeling on a Tuesday? Awesome, man. Awesome. I had a sports break yesterday and felt really good. All right, Hoodie, I want to ask you right off the top. Shot or no shot? You have had a sports detox day. That's a shot on my vacations. That's it? Yeah. Because we talked about this pre-show. Cap came in and told us that yesterday he detoxed from sports. Didn't watch either of the baseball games. Metz Braves, game 161 was incredible. It was awesome. Probably the game of the year in baseball. Didn't watch the Monday Night game Lion Seahawks, which was also spectacular. One of the best games of the year so far. Sports detox. What did you watch, Jerry Maguire? I watched the end of Jerry Maguire, like the last 30 minutes with my wife, and we saw that it was not put it down. Damn! She's like, "Don't you want to watch Monday Night Football?" I'm like, not really. Had dinner, just chilled with her, had a good talk. Yeah, but I went to bed. I was like, "I'm out." Was that a brownie points move with the wife? No, because I went up before she did. My goodness. A full sports detox, just for you, Cap. I just, I couldn't do that because I... I'm either. Only reason why is because you'd never know if something comes up in the show. I gotta be able to know something about what's going on. But for me, because you and I love baseball, and you said before we left yesterday, "Oh, that sounds awesome." Daytime baseball, and I agreed. And at first game, that was amazing. The storyline was, could the Braves do in the Mets again? Because the Braves have the Mets number. The Braves are the hammer and the Mets are the nail. And that was an incredible first game. And the Mets are the playoffs, and other Braves are the playoffs. So we love baseball, so we're from Chicago. We like daytime baseball. Yeah, it's cool. It's fun. It's just, I needed a day. And then from there, the Lions and the Seahawks, that was the... I knew that was gonna be the better of the two games. They're in the division. Had to keep our eyes on the Lions, so no, I couldn't do that. Not on a school night. Yeah. I can't detox at a school night. Yeah, we get up so early, and I was just tired at a long weekend. Busy working, and I'm like, "I'm going to bed. I'm getting to sleep." I was in bed at 9.05. On a Monday's wild. Like, if I were you, I think I would have taken today off. Not watch the football, and like, there's no football to miss. You don't have to watch playoff baseball. Neither Chicago teams involved. Well, I mean, that's the opening right there. Cap has the right to do that because there's no Chicago ramifications on the line. Right. It's the first time in like months that you could say, "All right." Today's an easy off day for you. No, I probably have the baseball on today. I take Fridays to myself and skip a lot of stuff. I don't listen to the radio as much. I was surprised, Cap, on a Monday. You took a detox day. Yeah, just surprising. Got to be true to yourself, man. Here's Shane Orling. Speaking of Kaplan, Hody, one David Kaplan once said that 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns would be a disappointing season for Caleb Williams and his rookies. No, I said if he went less than that, it would be disappointing. Be accurate. All right. David, one David Kaplan said less than 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns would be disappointing numbers for Caleb Williams in his rookie season. Caleb is currently on pace for 3,200 yards and 13 touchdowns after four games. Shot or no shot, Caleb Williams has been disappointing so far. That's a no shot that he's been disappointing, but the offense as a whole, that it started slow has been disappointing. It's a no shot because I'm going to stay constant and consistent with what I've been saying since he was drafted. There's going to be growing pains with the number one pick of the draft. It just is. As much as we'd love to see the CJ Stroud type of trajectory like we saw last year with him, I'm not sure we're going to get that in the first year because with Shane Waldron with Caleb Williams with this offensive line, he won't reach those numbers. I never thought that in June he'd reach those numbers. So I'm not going to turn a blind eye to it now, Shay, Caleb Williams has not been disappointing. He's not. I think that the game plan for that he's had has been disappointing. That's in front of him. I think the offensive line has been disappointing. I think he's made a share of mistakes, but I expected that the latter. I expected that. It's Caleb Williams. And I've seen him progress. Yeah. Each week. So no, it's not a shot for me. Okay. Yeah, I've always said for me 3,220 plus would be I'd be over the moon. I think that would be incredible out of a rookie quarterback. So in a playoff spot, I'm going to offer you the opportunity to say under 4,000 yards and under 30 touchdowns would not be a massive disappointment. But what is it? It's not just that. What is what are the numbers? He's on pace for 3,200 yards and 13 touchdowns. That seems difficult. He gets to 3,200 yards and only has 13 touchdowns at the amazed. I'll be very disappointed. I think it's probably 3,220 is about what we're looking at realistically. I mean, I would hope that he throws for more than 20 touchdowns is 20 good enough to get to the playoffs. Because that's all I care about. Good point. How are we running the football? That's all I've ever cared about on this side of the table. Are you getting to the post season? None of the numbers are. I don't care how ugly they are, how great they are, give them the post season. Can you get there with 20 touchdowns? 25? I don't care. I just want him to get better and I want him protected. That's all I've cared about. That's all I've been saying the entire time. Are you in the playoffs with those numbers? If they have so, thumbs up. 40 touchdowns, 20 touchdowns, I don't care. Just get in, please. Yep. Get in the tournament. Yep. So to get your beak wet when it comes to getting to the post season day, you can move forward from there, not pop up, start now, and then just get better every year. That's all I want. Chain early. All right. Only two divisions in football have all four teams combined to be over 500, the AFC West and the NFC North. The NFC North teams are a combined 13 and five through four weeks with only one divisional game played so far, 13 and five for a division is unbelievable. Shot or no shot, the NFC North is far and away the best division in football. It's a shot. It's a shot. And I know that before the season, Shay, we talked about the Norths, the NFC and AFC North to be the two best divisions out there. But then you saw the Browns and the Bengals in their start, not saying this is who they are for the rest of the season, but clearly the NFC North is the class because it's tough. It's very difficult. You agree? All right. Look, any one of our teams in our division with the way Minnesota is playing, obviously Detroit, Green Bay's town, then I believe in our better, any one of those teams could be a really, really competent football team. Now, I suppose with the AFC North, but you have what two and six record between the Browns and the Bengals. Correct. And whenever you think of the Steelers, whether or not you think that's a mirage or whether you think that's real, the Ravens are going to be the best team in the AFC North again. So, and then the Browns, well, you know, they're there. I see coaching change or something incoming. She's been asking the for that from after the season with the year twice with the Browns. I don't think it's Stavansky's fault. I think Jim Schwartz might be in trouble that defense doesn't look anywhere close to as good as it looked last year. And honestly, Stavansky can walk into the owner's office and just go, I can lay this at the feet of you guys, force and Baker out and get me this climb. Yeah, Jim, Jim, Jim Haslam and D has them. That's their MO, man. They're going to fire the code. Yeah. And you can't fire the player because you guaranteed his contract. Correct. All right. Yesterday, Bulls media day. Zach Levine. That's not going pot. Oh, yeah. Didn't it? I woke up yesterday. I'm like, huh? Bulls media day. Zach Levine opened his media day availability with a lengthy opening statement where he said any news about Zach Levine will come from Zach Levine and the rumors about him wanting to be elsewhere are just rumors. I will say when you go through a long off season, like I have, you get to learn a lot about yourself in the company you keep. I have extremely well support system. Um, and I think that with everything that I learned, there's times you need to speak and there's times that you don't. I had probably how long until I talked to you guys. I was talking to you guys in February of last year. Whenever there's something that needs to be said, it will come from Zach Levine or my representation. You know, there's a lot of thoughts and rumors, opinions about me, um, about the organization. So just know whenever it needs to be come from me or them, you'll know it'll be from them. Um, I think rich talking one time and this is my first talk to you, so everything else you can take with a grain of salt, um, with false narratives or whatever it may be. Okay. See Johnson. Go ahead. You'll notice hoodie. He never explicitly said, I want to be in Chicago, didn't pound table, didn't plant a flag. Just very unenthusiastically said. Any news about Zach Levine will come from Zach Levine, shot or no shot. Zach Levine wants to be in Chicago, uh, I mean, yes, no, he fine. Whatever. No, that's not. Yeah, it is. That's not yes. No, fine. Whatever. It's shot or no shot. It's a yeah, but I think he's I'm fine here. If you want to move me, move me. That's how I think he feels, um, he doesn't want to be here. He wants to be in competitive situation. I was told Billy flew to California and they spent like two and a half, three days together. And they've cleared the air and that they feel like they're in a good place. And that's good with being here. Yep. And would prefer to be a clipper. Um, yeah, listen, maybe I'm not going to do a source off with you. I'm not going to do that. But I'm just telling you that he wants to be in a winning situation. This one is not winning situation. I agree with you. But if you said to him, Hey man, we're not moving yet. He's okay. I'm making $45 million a year. I'm good. But I would I like to play in LA? Yes. Yes. Exactly where his head is. But this is the situation that he's in. Right. So I'm just telling you like, you don't believe me? That's fine. How about, how about, uh, how about LeVar Ball? You believe in him and his thoughts? Well, he said that to me two years ago, okay. And then Zach signed here because he wanted his max deal. I was also told that the bills were willing to attach a first round pick to him to get him out of here. Nobody took it. So would you want that if you're a team? I mean, you'd know what Zach Levine is. On a good team, he's your third option at best. At best. And is he a championship level player is the question. I don't know if that can be answered. He'd have to be in a championship level ball club to find out. But if you dropped him on to the nuggets, does he make them better? Someone's got to come off the bench. Sure. Correct. He would come off the bench there. He's a starter. He'll have to find, what, $36 million to move off of the nuggets and able to make that happen. And when guys like Jalen Brunson are taking team friendly deals, why on earth would a team take Zach's money? Right. See. Stuck. Tough spot. Like any other player in the league, they like to be in a winning situation. He's the face, as I told you, like a year ago. This is modern-day Reggie Theus. This is who he is. Yeah. It's the face of the Michael Reiser failure. Correct. I'm just being honest. Like this is what it is. Like I never thought it made sense to not sign him. There was no sign of trade out there. Like people said, just sign of trade. Nobody wanted him. Well, you can't let the asset walk out for nothing. In hindsight, they should have just say it out loud. Josh Giddy, Kobe White, Zach Levine, Patrick Williams, Patrick, who wants to go with the ball club? He just got 90 million. I know. And who's a bitch? And guess what? Josh Giddy's hurting out. Hey, but Lonzo's back with a new knee. Yeah. It's what he said. I essentially have a new knee. Josh Giddy has a tendon injury suffering the Olympics. So now when Giddy is available and you have Lonzo ball, now you have redundancy at that spot. Right. Now you got two playmakers. Correct. But Lonzo balls, I don't think he can play enough minutes to be considered like a lead guard number one guy. I understand. I'm just talking about the positions that they play. They kind of play as if they are long, long and athletic guys that can distribute the basketball and make you better. You got two of those guys now. Okay. That's it. Giddy was put in there because they didn't think Lonzo ball would return. That was the replacement for Lonzo ball. Right. So now both of these guys, you know, if they're on the floor together, that would be an interesting dynamic for Billy. Okay. Good luck, Billy. Let's keep cashing the checks. Yeah. I like Billy a lot. He's in a tough spot. Can't we root for him? Because he's not going back to college and he's making a good living with the Bulls and the Bulls love loyalty. He ain't going anywhere. That is all on Art Carney upstairs. 100%. It's not on the coach. It's whatever you saw with Demar DeRozins love playing with that guy. He's a great coach. Just don't have enough time. He's just in a bad spot. You're not Boston. You're not Milwaukee. You're not Phil. You're just not a freshman team. So not good. It's who you are. Bad spot. So the settlers, that's right. That's it. Brought to you by grits. Yes. Grits. You're looking to be able to get your ball club going, make sure you hang with the settlers. We like our ball club. We like continuity. We like 9th place in the cockroaches. That's what they are. Damn. Around the NFL is coming up next on cap and J-hood. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitter at ESPN1000. Cap and J-hood are back on ESPN Chicago, Chicago's home for sports. And both sucks. He sucks. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football about here. I love the Green Bay Packers. The guy is front, but there he goes. This is not Detroit, man. This is the Super Bowl. I love winning. He starts the comedy. This is a really thickly built guy. I mean, what's the answer you're looking for on these things here? It's time to go around the NFL right here on the cap and J-hood Morning Show on ESPN1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. We'll be able to come. Our next half hour, we'll hear from Albert Breyer from moneymorningcorderbackinasside.com as we talk about the Bears and the NFL with them. First around the NFL with Shane Orling. All right, hoodie. It's Tuesday, so it's don't be surprised if day for around the NFL. Yes. One of my favorites, let me get the paper out. All right. Shane, don't be surprised if the Chiefs trade for an all-pro caliber receiver. They might be desperate now with Rishi Rice potentially done for the season. And there are names out there that do make sense. One that has been floated heavily, Amari Cooper with the Brown season already feeling lost. Another that potentially don't be surprised if the Chiefs pick up the phone and call Hallis Hall about Keenan Allen. There may already be some disappointment with Keenan Allen missing a couple games to start the season. The injury concerns. One year deal, can you get bonus draft picks from him? I don't think the Bears would do it, but do not be surprised if we start here and talk that the Chiefs are ringing the phone at Hallis. And what if they said we'll give you a second round pick for him? Would you do it? Not so sure. Second round pick. Yep. Well, no one Ryan Pauls will be a wide receiver, so. Probably. It'll be somebody the secondary wide receiver. But if I told you all shot. Another D tackle. You've got your first and three number two. If they offered a second, I would drive Keenan Allen to Kansas City. I would be shocked if you could get better than a third. Yeah, you know what? I'm not here to try to help the juggernaut that is a Kansas City Chiefs. I'm trying to get my operation started. No, thanks. Cody, does that play into this at all? I was talking with Tyler about this yesterday and like, who did the teams in the NFL all collectively go? We're not trading them a wide receiver enough. Yeah, do it the Patriots way. Work within your own infrastructure. You got an offense that works at homes with Patrick Mahomes. Cap, why would I be in the business to try to help the Kansas City Chiefs? The Kansas City Chiefs, I told you, I'll never bet against them again because it's Patrick Mahomes. So why should I help them? I got I got to get in the playoffs. What about me? Get in the tournament. Correct. But a second round pick could be a game-changing player. I don't know that. You don't? You got to do your scouting, but I believe in your scouting abilities if you're the GM. I'm not here to help them. No, thanks. But I'm not helping them. I'm helping me. No. Can I help with them? What if I'm like a kid on the way on third down situations from getting to the playoffs and I got Tyler Scott or I got DeAndre Carter on a double team on DJ Moore? No. I'm not trying to help them. They'll find a way. I mean, with a receiver without a receiver, they'll find their way in a deep run in the playoffs this year because it is Patrick Mahomes. Sorry. Next. All right, Rudy, don't be surprised if the Indianapolis Colts rock with Joe Flacco until it doesn't work. It really just depends on what their goal is this season to me. Are you trying to make the playoffs or are you trying to build a program? If you're trying to build a program, I think you stick with Anthony Richardson and see what you got. If your goal is to make the playoffs, Joe Flacco presents a better chance to win games right now than Anthony Richardson. That is true, I would say. The veteran presence of Joe Flacco beating the Steelers in the game last Sunday. Now it's the Jaguars, another team that the Colts could beat. So here's the, well, you ask a good question, Shay. Are the Colts trying to accomplish? You're trying to get to the top of draft? Are you trying to get into the postseason because the middle doesn't work? You can't be in the middle. But even if you got in the postseason, it's not like baseball like, wow, we had our number one starter pitch three times in the series and we won. Like you're not winning the title with the Colts. No, I'd play Anthony Richardson. He stinks. He's got it developed. It took him four to fifth overall. And he basically on a red shirt year last year with the injury, you red shirt him again to win games with Flacco. You met her year three and you've stunted the development curve that much. Agreed. I'm playing him. So you're trying to get to the top of the draft because you're not? No, I'm trying to find out. Can that do it or not? Because if he can't, I'm going to be picking high and I got to take a quarterback. Well, just put this way. If Richardson is healthy for this week, here's the schedule. And the Colts, as you know, the Colts, and we just saw them a couple of weeks ago, can the Colts beat the Jags at Jacksonville, at Tennessee? I'm not saying they will, but they can. Yeah. At Tennessee, they can beat them against the Dolphins, they can beat them and then at the Texans. Here we go. Tough spot. Probably going to lose. But any of those games are winnable. Yes. They lost by two to the Texans the first time. Yes. That was in Indy. So I'm playing Anthony Richardson, come holler high water. I'm finding out, can my guy play or not? I understand. Shay, you know how to feel by Anthony Richardson, like a word, who's that Alex Brown? Yeah, I know. He thinks the guy's got every bit of ability to be a superstar. Definitely from the athletic standpoint, but you know how I feel and because of how I have to stick to my guns, you imagine me kill you know that Anthony Richardson is really great. Can't do that. If I already planted my flag when he was drafted, I stick with it. Like I stuck with my flag saying that Troy Tulliwitski is going to be the greatest shortstop of all time. Didn't happen. Who did that? You open mouth and say things in the radio. You never know what just got out. I thought Mitch would make it. It just happens. Right. Right. All right, Shay, don't be surprised if. The Browns finally, mercifully, benched to Sean Watson. I brought this up after week one. The calls for it have only gotten louder, Cleveland fans hate him. The dog pound is brutal when he's playing at home. Home games are almost road games for to Sean at this point. He was terrible again and yet another loss there, one in three and you can forget the concerns we know about off the field. How about being a bad teammate last week? He was asked about if he needs to run the ball more. He said, I'm paid to throw the ball. Well, you suck at that too. Now on Sunday, we get a heated exchange between Deshawn Watson, James Winston, and the tackle Dewan Jones. It's done. It's enough. You're not doing a service to your fans by playing this guy. You're not doing a service to the other 52 people on that roster, benched him, enough. Could you be better with James there? Yes. I think so too. James, you'll throw 20 touchdowns. You'll throw 20 interceptions. It's all right. So, James does 50/50. He can give me 50/50. Let me ask you a question. We talked about Keenan Allen. James is going in there to play in Cleveland. Kansas City is going to be looking for receivers. You mentioned to Mari Koop. What about training the valus, Joe? They sent us a laundry machine? Like a fourth. A fourth? It's amazing. Captain, his ability to just trade you old, cracked albums from his basement to try to get talent. It's unbelievable. You don't play valus, Jones. There's a reason. The league knows there's a reason. So why would they want him? Because here, he's blocked by DJ Moore, Keenan Allen, and Roma Dunezay. And ability. And he's fast, he's a talented athlete. They got nobody blocking him there. Xavier Worthy, okay, who else? Nobody. I didn't know you were wearing white shoes as this used car salesman. I'm going to ask him for a first. I'm asking for a fourth or a fifth. You're not kidding. I don't think you get better than a seventh. You don't think I can get a fifth? For valus? Yes. No. I think in order for that to happen, you have to play. Probably be active. Three straight weeks and active after getting relegated off kick returns because he fumbled and kicked one to the other team. You had teams calling it training camp. We watched it on hard knocks calling about valus. You know what this is, Jay Moore? This is as cap just putting turtle wax on a bad car, shining it up and saying it runs like new. Look at this. Not the turtle wax. What's that other stuff that they did the commercials on channel nine? And it would go to the old junkyard and the car was all faded. Oh, yeah. And you shine this stuff on there. And it would be like, wow, looks like a new car. Hold on. Fine. I know what you're talking about. Newsome. And you. And you shine. New shine. I don't know if that was the name. Yeah. It's exactly the right shape. Round bottle. Like orange. Remember the new, the new finish. Yeah. Yeah. New finish. Yeah. That's it. Still available. Valus is like new finish. Oh my god. Shining up valus Jones like he's a brand new car. What we've learned is the moment to trade him was the moment in hard knocks. Missed the window. Too late now. I don't know. He put some horrible reps on tape and he's been an active three straight weeks. No, he didn't put horrible reps on tape. He put one bad fumble on a kick. Well, don't use him on kick return. Make him a receiver. He can't even run routes here. Yes. This portion of around the NFL is brought to you by new finish. The once a year car polish. That's it. No rubbing, no buffing. New finish. Here's Shay Norley. That was the ad. Hoodie, don't be surprised if the New York football jets miss the playoffs. Rogers has admitted that he is on banged up legs. The offensive line has been atrocious again. Losing at home to the Broncos, his nine point favorites was eye opening really for just how bad this jets coaching staff is. You've got three snap penalties all over the place on the O line. Salah, who just seems lost, goes post game and says Cadence wasn't an issue at camp. Effectively saying Cadence was an issue today, Monday morning gets up, does his digital availability and goes, no, no, Cadence was an issue at all. Blame and Rogers are not Blame and Rogers. What are we doing? He's getting canned at the end of the year. There's no question. And especially if Rogers stays, there's a huge disconnected gulf between those two. Big time between Salah and Rogers. You recall this cap before the season, and the preseason. Rogers was not told whether or not he's going to play the preseason or not because Salah didn't tell him. And Rogers had to find out through PR, through back channels, yeah, apparently I'm not playing this preseason. Why did you just go to your quarterback, your star quarterback to say, we're shutting you down, you're not playing. Why don't you just talk to him? You're a friend of your Rogers? Yeah, it's bad. You go up to hug him, you go to hug him, and Rogers is like, get off me, man. Get off me. Robert Salah. Yeah. He's horrible. That's good. By the way, I just got a tweet and it's a great idea. I'm going back to some already in progress. The Chiefs need a running back. They're guys out. Pacheco. I'll give you Khalil Herbert and Vayless Jones. Coming up next. Give me a third. With the rest of the NFL, we'll get to that coming up next on Captain Jay Hood, here on Samford & Son. Oh, I'm sweating. Captain Jay Hood are back. And you know this, man. Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. Hello. Football on ESPN 1000. Hello, Bert. Albert Breer. Hey, Bert, senior NFL writer for SI.com joins Captain Jay Hood. Bert, what? You're at Bert. On ESPN 1000. What do you mean I'm gay? See, that's the game. I just tag you and you're in until you tag somebody else. Albert Breer. No, no, I'm not playing a game, I'm reading, earning, and I'm not fit. Okay. On Chicago's home for sports. What bird is it? Albert Breer from Money Morning Quarterback at SI.com and Amazon Prime joins us here on the cap and Jay Hood Morning Show every Tuesday and he's on the hotline. That'd be the car ex-tire and auto hotline, Johnny. Rattled thunder, batter, boo, boo, boo. Don't worry, call the car ex man. Good morning, Albert. How are you? Good morning, guys. How are we doing? We're doing awesome. Albert, we're two and two. We found a way to beat the Rams. Now the Panther role in here this weekend. What was your takeaway from what you saw because I thought it was Caleb Williams' best game of the four he's played as a pro? Yeah, I think my main takeaway is how the team is good enough to support him as he learns to play in the league, as he learns what he can get away with, what he can't get away with. And in a way, it was sort of like the opener, you know, like where, you know, he didn't play very well in the opener. Like I played a lot better on Sunday. He didn't play very well in the opener, but it didn't matter because they scored on a block punt. They scored on a pick six and they won the game and you know, like this is another one where they're not asking the world of them, you know, just go play quarterback and I think it's the advantage of drafting one in the third year of your building process instead of, you know, having one on the ground floor, the way that, um, I guess Jay Daniels would be a bad example right now, but the way Jay Daniels or Drake May were in Washington and New England, you know, like where those, those guys are going into the first year of a rebuild, that's not what Caleb Williams is doing, you know, so I think there's like a real and intrinsic advantage to having a team that can win different ways, it doesn't meet the quarterback to put the team on his shoulders, you know, and the Bears don't right now. And so he can kind of get better at his pace and keep improving and, you know, like they're not going to have them out there in a bunch of third long down 21 points because they're good enough to prevent those sorts of situations. I'd be encouraged by what I saw for sure on Sunday against a pretty good Rams team. Albert, when you're right, you're right. Earlier this summer, we asked you about the hierarchy of the NFC North and you stunned all of us by saying, hey, I know that you're into the Bears and Detroit is the class of the division and Green Bay's Green Bay, but watch out for Minnesota. And you said and look at where they are right now. How much does the, um, ascension of Minnesota surprise you and hoodie and I gave you your flowers. Yes. Brere, man, he told us said it in August. Yeah. I just think like, I just really like the head coach, the staff that he has, the culture that they built, the front office, the general manager, they've done a good job. Like I just think like there's so many logical things that have happened there. And, um, I mean, look, like I think there are a handful of coaches. I'm not saying they can coach anybody into being an all pro quarterback, but I think there are a few coaches that really know what they're doing with quarterbacks. And it's not to say you can give them, I mean, the borrowed example from last night's Snoop hunt later, Mason Rudolph turned them into all pros, right? But, but I mean, if you, if you give them a talented kid who's the right kind of kid, um, they're going to put that, that player in the best position to succeed. And I think that's exactly what's happened in Minnesota is, you know, Sam Darnold had a chance to take a breather after, you know, a chaotic first three years in New York. Um, and after getting benched in Carolina, he came back late that year in Carolina, played a little bit, went to San Francisco, played for Kyle Shanahan for a year, basically an apprenticeship, flashed when he got a chance. And now here we are. Um, and I think you have to give them so much credit because you look at it, right? And, um, I just, I look at like the, the guys that they lost this off season and you could argue they lost the two most important players in that organization for the last 10 years, right? In Kirk Kuyzen's in New York Hunter, all due respect to Justin Jefferson. He's only been there for four, right? So I, over the last 10 years, you could argue that those two guys are really kind of the bedrock players in that organization that you've been building around. You pull those pieces out and I think you could argue they're better off now than when or they were, because they've got San Jonathan, Jonathan Grinard and Dallas Turner and Andrew Van Ginkel as, as Ed Drushers. And not only are they better off, they're younger, you know, so I just, I'm really, really impressed with the way the Minnesota has done this, the way that they flipped their roster over. Um, you know, I think they're going to be a problem in the NFC North for a long time to come. And well, I think, I think, you know, to me, like Sam Donald, um, and I love what Sam does. Delta has done and he, he deserves a ton of credit. I think Sam Donald is more a symptom of what's being built there than any sort of revelation. I think there's a lot of guys that you can look at that have been maximized coming through that place. So we're looking at our bears old lines, having Jenkins with a rib injury. They're saying he's day to day that got to be painful to try and block a 320 pound lineman when you have a rib injury. Is there anything out there they could do to upgrade their old line A and B with the chiefs probably out of the Rishi rice usage for the rest of the year, would you, would they come calling about Keenan Allen, Vailist Jones, Khalil Herbert at running back? I think it's possible. Yeah. I mean, on the second question, um, you know, I, I think the chiefs have shown a willingness to do these sorts of things, um, you know, and, um, they acquired a distressed asset two years ago in Cadaria, Tony, now that didn't work out for them long term. But the kind of piece for them in the Super Bowl helped them win a Super Bowl championship. Um, and I don't think the chiefs are afraid to do those sorts of things. Um, they've been aggressive, um, you know, in the past. And so if you've got somebody who used things with a stressed asset or you have a surplus in a position, um, yeah, I mean, I think this chief certainly could look at that and they're obviously banged up with Hollywood Brown, rushy rice and, and I, I, I, I try to clear up the line from the rear in just a moment as we try to reestablish with Albert, uh, it makes no sense cap to weaken what you're trying to build to help a juggernaut. That is the, the Kansas chiefs depends what you're getting back because I don't think they're re-signing Keenan Allen and I don't think they're winning the Super Bowl. Now, if you tell me they're offering a sixth wrong pick, no, I'm not doing that. But if they said, Hey man, you give us Kaleel Herbert and Keenan Allen. Here's a two tonight. It just, it just, it's amazing to me that you're trying to help a team that I'm trying to help them. I'm trying to help my future. Your futures now, are you trying to get to the playoffs? You can't reach your 11 or 12 wins. You can't reach your 4000 yards and your 30 touchdowns. You can't reach any of that. If you're weakening the team, why would you weaken the roster just because you're concerned about tomorrow, tomorrow's today, why are we here every day talking about the Bears? It's about today. It's not about tomorrow. Yeah. A second round pick. I don't think they've give it up. I'm just saying, but what about the Bears as is, are you trying to build towards something? I am. But I'm also trying to look at what's the best. Am I a better team today going forward if they gave me a second round pick? Oh, there you are. I, Hoodie and I are having this debate. I said, if the Chiefs called and said, give me Keenan Allen and Khalil Herbert, and I'll give you next year's two, I do that in a second. Would you? Keenan Allen, Khalil Herbert, for next year's two? Yes. Well, I don't think the Chiefs would do that. Maybe they will. Great. No. But I mean, look, that's probably, I mean, the thing about it is you got to remember that you're probably talking about the 60 for 60 seconds, 60 third, 64th deck, right? Yeah. Like, I don't think the Chiefs would do that. I have to look up what they gave up for Tony again, too. I'm going to look at him for you right now. I just, I don't have it. I don't have it in front of me. I can't remember what they gave up for Tony, but yeah, I mean, like, I think they're going to be looking at these things, definitely. I just don't think, I just don't think, I think it's all a non-starter because if you're trying to build toward getting to the postseason, Albert, and why are you weakening your team? I mean, when, when Keenan Allen's available, when he's healthy, he's your best third down wide receiver. Why give him to the Chiefs if you, if you as an organization are trying to get to the postseason? Well, I mean, if you want, if you still feel like you got to build up some draft capital and, you know, and like, I think, like, you know, three and a six, Albert, a three and a six. Right. So I, that's why I'm saying, like, I think a two would be unlikely, you know, but I, like, I could see and look like the other thing is, could area Tony, I believe was making like a million bucks. Yeah. Right. Let's say you're talking about taking on a lot more money if you're going in and acquiring Keenan Allen. Yeah. So like, that's another piece of it that's going to weaken the value of the player in the trade, you know, so I don't know, I mean, I understand what you're saying, hoodie. I also don't think they're winning a Super Bowl this year. They're not. And if you're, if your determination is, well, like Keenan Allen's about to fall off a cliff and I don't know if that is or not, and he's not going to be the same player in five or 26, then I could see you're like wrapping your head around the logic. Okay. Like we're okay without it. We have surplus there. Let's go get a draft pick. We're trading them out of conference. So this isn't somebody who's going to hurt us directly in all likelihood. You know, we're comfortable doing that. So now it's the barriers to getting on the Carolina Panthers and we can always go back to Tom Brady's original thought this summer about how the National Football League rushes young quarterbacks out there and they're unprepared. Well, in this scenario with Andy Dalton as a quarterback, we've been there and done that. We know what the Red Rifle can do. Just wondering what's happening with Carolina right now. Do you feel if Dalton's healthy, they'll move forward with them and have the young quarterback just sit on the sidelines and watch? Okay. Like hoodie. I'm actually like, I'm really not sure. I don't know. I'm really not sure that this is anything to do with readiness. Bryce Young played in Alabama, you know, Bryce Young played for Bill O'Brien for two years. He played for Steve Sarkeesian the year before that. Now he wasn't playing, but he was being coached by Steve Sarkeesian the year before that. He started a lot of games. He played in a lot of big games. He played against SEC defenses now, like, you know, was he 55 stars, like Jayden Daniels was 55 stars? No. But, you know, I think this is a kid who's sort of groomed for it. You know, the same what Caleb was. Like went to a big time high school in modern day in California, went to a big time college program, played big time football, played a lot, played in pro system. I'm afraid that this is just a guy's not good enough. You know what I mean? And I hate to like, I hate to hang that on a kid at this point, but like, I think physically if you watch, you look small out there, does he have the athleticism to overcome it? I'm not sure. History tells us, and you guys can look this up. I think there's only really one, six foot one or under a quarterback that didn't run at least four or five that's really made it as a long term starting quarterback that's true breeze. Like, try to find another one. It's really freaking hard, you know what I mean? Like over the last 20 years, 30 years, you either have to be tall enough to see over the line or you have to be fast enough to escape. And Bryce Young's a really good athlete, I don't know that he's a great athlete, you know? So for it was an NFL context. So I don't know, man, like I, I struggle with this one a little bit because I think there's so many cases of guys not being ready and getting thrown into the wall. I'm just not sure what the best, what this is. I wonder, you know, like if the loss of confidence for Bryce Young is more about, he physically can't do it rather than he's just seeing ghosts out there and he's not ready. I think he's as ready as any kid could be coming out after three years in college. All right. Bears and Panthers. So gotta find a way to get to one and all this week, Albert. That's the key, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. And I look like the Panthers have been really competitive the last couple of weeks with Andy Deltman's quarterback straight as crazy as that sounds, right? Like that, you know, they, I mean, they did not, did not relent against the Bengals. And they wind up losing the game, but that was not for lack of effort and they've looked a little bit better. So, you know, I, I still think it's probably the worst roster in the league, but the Bears can't fall asleep either, you know, so coming off a big win against a Rams team. I think, you know, like that was one of those like this is a playoff team we're playing. Can we stamp ourselves coming, you know, going against the Rams who are coming off a huge one over the 49ers? You know, this would be like the letdown spot. So we'll see how they react. Have a great week, buddy. All right. Thanks, guys. Have a good one. There he is. Albert Breyer and a car. It's tiring out a hotline. Rattle, rattle, thunder, batter, boom, boom, boom, crack it away. Don't worry about the car accident. Could be a letdown spot. Better not be. Got to win. Got to win. We've got veteran players here now. There shouldn't be a letdown. Let's go. Andy Deltman's revenge scare anybody. No, that doesn't. Letdown spot hoodies, you know, talking about that's more concerning, but I don't think that will happen. Yep. You're not good yet, Bears. So you got to continue to play hard. Better win. You're not good yet. Better win. What? Yeah, we got a lot more to get to before we're going to 10 o'clock. We have a lot to get to. We'll move forward here. 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