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But Cap, you know, I think that you and I can agree that coverage of certain sports figures in this city is different than it was, say, 20, 25 years ago. The importance of newspapers, the importance of sports radio, radio in general, where do you have a sea of people writing, commenting, talking about our Chicago sports figures? Well, something that was kind of a place that we grew up in the business with. You were there, part of the pen of my club, asking all the tough, salient questions. And here we are in 2024. And I don't know if it's just on my end. But you do get some columns and some thoughts and some blogs about what's going on with our sports teams. But do you have the hard news where you really start digging in? Do you really have, compared to what it was, say, 10, 20 years ago, do you really have those that are really digging in on the topics? I'll give you an example of Jet Hoyer. Cap, Jet Hoyer and the Chicago Cubs, as you well know, they have underachieved again to the point where Jet should be on the hot seat. But how is it that I'm watching Jet Hoyer's press conference yesterday, he didn't look like a man that was on the hot seat. He just looked like, again, he's just going on vacation for a few weeks before the winter meetings. That's how it felt based on the questions and the answer that he was able to answer yesterday. Did you have the same feeling? I did, and I did not see any type of urgency in this media session yesterday, which is frustrating to me. Frustrating, Jet talked openly, and I like Jet. I think he's a smart man. I do. They don't have a ton of bad contracts on the books, now that they're going to have Mancini paid off at Barnhart, they're closed. I think they have one year left on Hayward, and that was a Theo deal with him. But he kept saying, we've got to outperform expectations or projections. What does that mean? Like, the Yankees run out, Soto, Judge Stanton, and they just keep throwing great players at you. The Phillies run out, Real Muto, Castellanos, Brice Harper, Alec Bohm, Trey Turner, Kyle Schwer. Who do we run out? And I say we because I'm a die-hard. That's my team. What is Jet going to outperform his projections for what we project from him? Enough is enough, man. Enough is enough. You spent $235 million, and all people want to go, "The Cubs are cheap." They're not cheap. Do I wish they spent more? Sure. I'm a fan. Go get me whoever. I don't want to hear you, you can't afford it. But guess what? When you outspend them a walkie-brewers by, like, 80 million bucks and they beat you by 10 games, that is catastrophic failure by any stretch of the imagination. Catastrophic. Wait a minute, that team up there, we stole their manager, paid him $40 million, and guess what? Finished 10 games behind him. 10. How are you making that up? I don't want to hear we've got all these great prospects. I don't want to hear it. Well, you know what, Cat? I think it's how you started off talking about how, you know, that you like, Jed, because Jed comes across affable. Long answers does not necessarily turn a blind eye to the problems of the Chicago Cubs. People like Rekhan too, why? Gave long answers. No excuses, just reasons why his team underachieved. See, here's the problem. Long answers does not necessarily mean that, well, he should stay another year because he comes across reasonable. He's not a candidate for a front office cap. He's not trying to go to Capitol Hill. He's trying to put the Cubs in a position to win the World Series. And I just feel like he was just kind of just swimming through the questions and the answers. But I never felt like he felt pressured at all yesterday listening to him. I did not. I did not feel like, okay, let me just put it this way. If I was the owner, I bought the team. Yeah. I would have had my own press conference. I would have, not with him, myself. Hey, the owner's going to speak. Wow. I'm not going to speak all the time, but I would have said, I am bitterly disappointed that the amount of money that we spent and we finished 10 games behind the Brewers, hats off to Milwaukee. They did a great job. 83 and 79 is unacceptable for this organization. I am holding everyone here to a championship standard. I want two things. When you come to Wrigley Field, you have the best customer service experience in the game, period. When you bring your family here, when you buy tickets, we're going to give you as good a food experience, as good a safety experience, as good a baseball watching experience. And what we watch this year is unacceptable. So I'm just putting everyone on notice around here, whether you work in stadium ops, whether you work in game day ops, whether you're in marketing, business, or your jet hoyer, the president of my team. Next year, we better make the playoffs. And I better see growth in our record and in the way we do things. Because I am not going to sit here again and not make the playoffs. It's unacceptable. I didn't hear any of that. No. Whether that's Tom or from Jed. I mean, I'm going to read you a quote. Okay. And again, I like Jed and I think he's a smart guy. I do. But it's enough. He's been in charge going into his fifth year with zero playoffs. Right. Zero. The last two seasons haven't ended in the post season. Hoyer said, obviously I have to take accountability for that. Correct. Can second of 83 win teams, we have to push beyond that. But in terms of positioning this organization for success next year and success in the future, I feel great about where we are as an organization. And I think the fans should feel good about it too. Well, I'm a fan and I don't. See, it's great. I can read baseball America, baseball prospectus. And here, all the Cubs have this guy in the top hunter, that guy in the top hunter. Okay. Those guys have not done one thing at the big league level. I want to take the field next year and go, that's what a championship contending team looks like. Not Jordan Wicks nibbling on the corners because he's scared to death to face Soto, Judge Stanton and on and on. I just don't see a sense of urgency where folks wear the Chicago Cubs. No, we're trying to be the Royals. Oh, the Royals had a really good year and they won yesterday. Sure. That's what they're looking at. I can't do that in this town. I'm not telling you that free agency is the panacea for everything that Ailes the franchise. It's not. You've got to build it the right way. But guess what? For the second consecutive year, you went into a season because you didn't want to spend the money on a closer. You didn't have one. You had no closer for two straight years. And anybody that dares tell me, well, we have Al Zalaya. Al Zalaya does not have the balls to be a closer. Talk to anyone in there I have. People that know him. They're like, dude, he does not have the testicular fortitude to be the guy that you hand the ball to for the last three outs. When there's 41,000 there, drink a beer, having a good time. You want to stick him in? Well, I don't know. Pick a lousy team in a lousy market. The Marlins, he's okay. Sure. And now he's out. I want success to look like, wow, look at the Cubs. Hey, man, they went out and got this guy and they developed that guy. I don't want 83 wins. It's that's all it is. Jed is trying to go to the old school club play book is that, well, we're over 500 so a successful season. It's not a successful season. It is not. Jed spoke to the media yesterday about the struggles this past year for the Cubs. I mean, ultimately, we collectively fell into a slump in May and June that we couldn't get out of. In baseball, you're going to have ups and downs as part of the game, but that went on way too long. And we just dug ourselves a hole that was much, much too big. And, you know, we did it collectively. It was, our offense wasn't scoring. Our bullpen was struggling. It wasn't just one factor. I think it was kind of a multi factor at that point. And really, if you look at it, we got to nine under. If you look at our records since then, we played really good baseball. I think we're like a 580 winning percentage over the last three months of the season. So I think that gives a lot of reason for optimism, but ultimately, we just dug ourselves a hole that was too big. It's June. And it's June. Right. It's Dan. It's June. Well, guess what? Where you at, Dan? You're watching Mallory play soccer. It's October. Everyone else is playing baseball of the good teams. It's June. I mean, it's just so frustrating. Like they're, they're lighting candles over there. What do they call it in Catholicism, the novena. They're saying novenas are holding their rosary. Please let Cody Bellinger opt out. Please let him opt out so we can get that money back. Guess what? It's a sunk cost, folks. If he doesn't opt out, he's going to be there and you're going to have to pay him. And I do not want to hear, well, you know, Cody stayed so we don't have the money to go get a closer. Do you see haters numbers this year? I have. Yeah. You could've signed him. Guess what? We don't have the money. So how to show our God. We'd inside Jordan Montgomery, like some people around here wanted to do. All right. Well, the, the athletic.com. Shahatav Sharma. Shahatav says that the Cubs will have plenty of money to spend regardless of whether Bellinger opts out. If he comes back, they still will be over $50 million below their budget for this season. Okay. And then let's see it. Yeah. Let's see it. I mean, I understand the payroll might go back if you're going to play Kevin Alcantara and some of these other guys. But guess what? I do not want to enter a season going. I don't know. Is that guy good enough? I don't know. This guy can he put. I want some freaking winners. I want a guy on the back end of the pen. And if they hand up all the Porter Hodge, he better be the guy. I like him. Throws hard. He's, he had a really good finish to this. If you think he's your closer, you better be right or there should be change at Riggly. If you miss Jed Hoyer, more from Jed coming up. And don't forget five burning questions regarding the Chicago Bears. It's all part of the mix on the cap and Jhood morning show. It's Jim. Captain Jhood. You're putting the band back together. The nerve center of a great rhythm and blues band. On Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. Here's hoping that you're going to have a great Wednesday. It's a waddle Wednesday on the cap and Jhood morning show on ESPN 1000 and the ESPN Chicago app. You're just joining us. We're talking about Jed Hoyer. He spoke to the press because the Cubs are not in the playoffs, just like the White Sox. Both teams going home in October while we got exciting playoff baseball across our screens day and night, but not the Cubs and the White Sox. So some thoughts from Jed Hoyer talking about really talking about the extra pressure without a contract extension for him. First of all, I think there's always pressure as professional sports. I think that's part of it. But, you know, I'm excited about next year. And, you know, I look at it as an opportunity. So I don't, I feel pressure, but I feel pressure. I always should feel, which is I'm president of Cubs. And this is an exciting opportunity and exciting time to be in this role. And we're in really good position. Cap, yes, his contract's up here. There will be no extension. If you're Tom, like, no, you got to prove it. We're going to have a playoff team. And I'm telling you right now, I'm calling it right now on October 2nd. I cannot stomach the winter of Bellinger talk again. I can't, the whole winter cannot be on, are you signing Bellinger? Are you not signing Bellinger? Because, Cap, here's what we know about Cody Bellinger. Good player, but not a star. Correct. He's a good player being grossly overpaid for his level of productivity. And the Cubs are better, the Cubs, as an organization these days, should be better than, oh, are we signing Cody Bellinger or not? You have to be better than this. We already went through this last year. Shame, I'm just telling you, it can't be on the rundown. I cannot go through the winter into the winter meetings of, are we signing Cody Bellinger or not? Because what does that really say? What are we talking about here? It's not like we're talking about, are you in the sweepstakes for Corbin Burns? Are you in the sweepstakes for other Boris clients, like a Soto? Is that that? Cody Bellinger? What are we talking about? Last season, like, yes, you got Soto and Soto was great. But the only other free agent acquisition it felt like was Cody, who was already on the team. And I'm with you, we can't do it again. If you're going to sell your big position player, free agent acquisition, as a player you've already had, then it doesn't make sense. If we want to talk about P. Alonso or Blake Snell, or you want to talk about Alex Breggman, Corbin Burr, okay, now we're talking about guys that can make a difference for your organization. Well, Alex Breggman's a great point. Place their base, Esau Paratus, I get it, they like him, but third base is still a position in need, no matter what. Unless Paratus comes out and is way better than he was after the trade when he went to the Cubs. Why not? Last off season, Cap, you mentioned. I wanted Jordan Montgomery, sure, swinging a miss. I also wanted Matt Chapman, he was a seven-war player. Okay, Matt Chapman had 27 homers at 78, knocked in, and he hits. Let's see, what was Matt Chapman's batting average? 247. Okay, he's an elite, elite defender. Much of his war is because of his defensive acumen, not his offense. It was a good year, he did. This is a seven-war player. Okay, the third base when the Cubs had combined for 21 home runs and for 76 RBIs. So that's Paratus and Morrell? Correct. Okay. Also combined for 0.2 wins above replacement. 0.6, though, who's counting? Not a fan graph, they have Morrell negative. Okay, well, baseball reference has it different. What's with the baby? It's still not good enough. It's not good enough. Yeah. But I was not signing Matt Chapman, and there was no chance you were giving 47.5 million to you and Waddles guy, Jordan Montgomery. By the way, Waddles likes move. Took the Mia Culper on the show yesterday and said Mia Culper was a bad pick. Do you hear what the owner said? This is what happens owners get involved. Yeah, so Ken Kendrick was on the Burns and Gamble show. Yeah, Arizona Sports Radio. And I mean, just put his heart out there talking about Jordan Montgomery. He was wrong. Siding Jordan Montgomery in Iran. I'll stick with Montgomery because Iran was hurt for a lot of the year and we didn't get to see him in a full season. But Jordan Montgomery was $25 million and he pitched to an ERA well over six and got demoted to the bullpen. And how disappointed are you in that time? Let me say it the best way I can say it. If anyone wants to blame anyone for Jordan Montgomery being a down the back, you're talking to the guy that should be blamed. Because I brought it to their attention. I pushed for it. They agreed to it. It wasn't in our game plan. You know, when he was signed right at the end of spring training and looking back in hindsight, a horrible decision to have invested that money in a guy that performed as poorly as he did. It's our biggest mistake this season from a talent standpoint. And I'm the perpetrator of that. Wow. So there it is from Burns and Gamble from KMVP in Phoenix. Correct. My old boss, Tisa, the sort used to run KMVP. How about that? Yeah. When do you hear that in this town? Would you ever hear an owner in this town of any of our sports have that kind of accountability? No. No. That was awesome. Ken Kendrick. Hats off, man. He said I brought it to their attention. I pushed for it. I'm the perpetrator of it. Horrible decision. Horrible. Jed wouldn't be saying that yesterday if he was a cub. Correct. He wouldn't say so. Or Tom would be saying it's a horrible decision. We like Jordan and we're going to try and work with him this offseason. He had a late start with the late signing, but we still believe in it. That's what we'd have heard. No, we heard an owner take accountability and go, "It was a horrible decision." Wow. He don't hear it like that anymore, man. Why open with it? Jordan's at home already for the offseason. Hey, Jordan, you heard what your owner said about you? No, what? Oh, God. You were a horrible decision. Now imagine him in the Cubs. Imagine him on the north side, what that would be like. Right. Just saying. I can't believe the Cubs are so cheap. It's only 25 million a year. Stop. Stop. The rest of the sport was laughing. That dude? And I can admit I was wrong to Ron Jordan Montgomery. The season he had was abysmal. Forget about the extension that Chapman signed in San Francisco where the word on the street is that they had to overpay to keep them. Last off season, Chapman signed for $16 million a year. You really want to tell me that the Cubs couldn't have afforded that and it wouldn't have helped their team. Come on. It wasn't getting them to the playoffs and they wanted to let one of their top young kids play. That's a fact. And then they traded him in July. Correct. Because he was not performing at the level they wanted, so they went out and traded for a veteran guy who in 2023 at 31 home runs is a good defender. That's what they did. I got no problems with how jet handle third base and keep Matt Chapman. Listen, I'm way outside the conversation when it comes to playoff baseball because my team won't be competing until 2032. Correct. But what I'm saying to you, Cap, what I'm just saying to you is is that for you as a Cup fan and all my cup fan friends, you should be burned up right now seeing that small market Milwaukee is doing what they're doing in the playoffs to be in this situation cap for the Brewers to be there. It's like the Bears chasing the Packers. That should not be the case. The idea that the Cubs, all the money that they have, all the resources that they have and small market Milwaukee with or without counsel is getting it done. That is a shot at Jed Hoyer, and I will tell you this. For him to come back this year, Cap, with another bite at the Apple, that surprises me too. Most markets would have fired Jed by now. I'm just telling you, like, but, but here's the thing again, Apple bowl does well with the media gives answers, but ultimately it's not about how affable you are and doesn't matter how well you get along with the media. It's about results. It's a big boy market. It's results. The residual effect of what he was able to do with Theo and the World Series Championship, as well as the playoff run, that was years ago. Years ago. Correct. So as much as I think that Tom likes Jed, ultimately you want to be able to get into the tournament, into the mix for the Brewers to be there for a Mets team that had to rally from in the second half to be able to get to this position. Teams like that, the Braves, the Padres, and the Cubs are not in that. Yes. Let me ask you a question, man. Why did it take your manager, Craig Council, who did not say much all year long, that's his style. He's very, you know, reserved at the end of the year. What did he say? Last week or so. Say we got it. We got to build 90 wins teams around here to get in the tournament. That's what we got to start shooting for building 90 win teams. Did you hear Jed say that yesterday? He did not. I like the state of the team. It should be encouraged, blah blah, we don't have a bad contract. I don't want to hear that. I want to hear, hey, thanks for coming out here today. Let me make an opening statement. I'll answer any of your questions. I'll stay here as long as you want. Remember Theo would say I'll stay here as long as you all want. What you watch this year is unacceptable. We committed over $230 million to our payroll. Our players did not perform at the level we projected. So that is on me. We will get this fixed this off season. We will leave no stone unturned to find someone at the back end, whether that's internal or external, to make sure that when we have a lead, we don't blow 25 saves, because that's unacceptable because 17 of them turned into losses. That will not happen again. I'm going to die trying. In terms of our offense, I love the defensive makeup we have. But guess what? Our offensive productivity is unacceptable. It's not paratus. I'm thrilled we were able to acquire him. I expect a whole lot more, and I hope he has a great winter preparing for a great 20-25. Dan's B. Swanson. We love that he's a cub. He's a great leader in our room. He's a gold glove defender. His offensive performance this year is unacceptable. He knows that, and I know that, and everyone of you out there watching, you know that. So I'm not saying anything that he's not well aware of. That's true. This all has to be better, period now, any questions. That's what I wanted to hear. Not the, it's so milk toast. You got a board meeting yesterday. That's what you got. Right. That's what you got. Well, earnings are down a little. What are we going to do here? Well, we've got, you know, the property and Omaha's going to appreciate over the next five to ten years, and we'll be able to sell that at a profit, and we'll put that money back into some tech developments that we think will pay off in 2035. I'm like, "What?" Yeah. I mean, come on, man. I'm listening. The last two seasons of having it in the postseason, Hoyer said, "Obviously, I have to take accountability for that." No blank. Of course. You're the president. But in terms of positioning this organization for success, next year, it's success in the future. I feel great about where we are as an organization, and I think the fan should feel good about it, too. Well, I'm a fan, and I don't. He's telling you, the Cup fan at 8, 3, and 79, you should just take it in like it. You should feel good about where we're at. Because over 500, you're in the mix, and that's good enough. By the way, I did not ask you yesterday, because obviously it's, you were talking a lot of bears. How about the bloodletting over there? The firings, left and right by council. Yeah. He wants his own staff. So, first base coach, out? Yeah, Mike Napoli, gone. I think the assistant hitting coach got let go. Jesse will be with us at 9/18. Volpe. You can run through all of it. I mean, it's like four or five guys out. Yes. Okay. That's fine. Let council have who he wants. Yeah. You know? Well, we talked about this, Cap. To you, a while ago, I said, if I'm the manager of a team or coach, I need to have my guys. And obviously, there's some things that council did not like because there was a number of guys out, quietly, but fired. Totally. So, you know, you look at some of the comments and then you look at where the team, since Jed took over, the Cubs are 26 games under 500, 311 and 337 without one playoff appearance. Now, hang on a second here. No playoff appearances. And we're in Chicago. We're a big market. Oh, baby. Yeah. We're the best sports city in the world. That's what I say all the time. You do. The fricking act like it. The only one that is really trying to act like it. The bears. That's the only one. The Hawks, they're mired in their rebuild making progress. We're working on it. Sure. The worst team in the history of the sport ever in the modern era. The Bulls. Horrible. I mean, what are we doing here? Yeah. And then there's the Cubs. Right. Mediocrity. Yeah. 1060 West Addison. Enjoy. So it's something. If he runs back basically the same team with some young kids sprinkled in, I'll be there cheering because it's my team. You better be right. You better be right because if you're wrong and if I watch an 83 win team again next year, gone. You're out. Sorry. You had your shot. You had five years. You did. Maybe you left me healthier as an organization. I don't care about the health. I want to win. I'm tired of it. I understand, Cap. I'm just saying that if you don't make a sweeping change or two offensively in your bullpen, if it's just curse removes, that won't get it done. If he's so overconfident about the organization saying that, oh, you know, we're close, close doesn't get you to the playoffs. playoffs gives you to the playoffs. Okay. By having moves, you have to, you cannot just say, you know, we like our roster. We just make a few changes here or there and they were fine. No, this sport, look at your playoffs. You just don't have just also rans or just guys. There are difference makers through these playoffs that we're watching. Correct. What's the difference maybe for the Cubs? They don't have one. Okay. Correct. So if you're going to think Kevin Alcantra or Matt Shaw or Cam Smith or James Trianthos, whoever these guys are coming, they better look like Jackson Merrill or Jackson Trio. Yeah. The two great rookies won with San Diego won't Milwaukee. That's what you better have coming. I don't want to hear well. They'll hit 18 homers and hit 252, drive in 61, the other drive in 70. No, I want an impact guy that when he comes to the plate, everyone stops. It goes, Oh God. And the other team goes, Oh, I'm fearing heaven. What did Jamis and tie on say, man, at 16, 17, 18, we feared coming in here, Brian Rizzo, this guy, that guy, and they kept mashing and they won a world series and went to three straight analysis. Yeah. Guess what? Just a collection of vanilla. That's what it is. They got no personality of the position guys. Steel has a little in an aga, but he doesn't speak the language. It's hard to have, but he's cool. But give me who else? Who else on that team do you go, man, that guy's got a vibe. He's got swag, nobody. No, and that falls at the feet of two men, Jed and Tom. Period. It's coming. Yeah. It's it's supposed to be coming that way, but it's not it's a non playoff team. It's June. Yeah. But it's June though, just fires me up, man. It does. I get it because you watch on these playoff games and you're like, how come the Cubs are not in there? Like my team. No, but your team, the comment that infuriated me the most and again, he's a good guy. He's smart. Yeah. He's educated. He works at his craft. But guess what? I don't want to hear we have to find a way to get our guys to outperform their projections. Well, how about you? How about you outperform your projections? Yeah. It's a lot of charts and graphs. Talk to me. Correct. A lot of fan graphs. The numbers aside, what are you going to do to make the football club better? If I was the owner, I'll be honest with you. If I was the owner and they walked in him and Carter with some kind of, you know, here's our graph of how I would take that graph, honest to God, and I throw it right out the window. I don't care. I'm a freaking checkbook. Here's what our budget is. If you go a little over, I'm okay. Fix it. Five burning questions on the bears next on cap and Jhood. I don't like our team. Checkmate. One six million suppression on target. That's why I see him in my shot shot or no shot with cap and Jhood on ESPN 1000 and ESPN Chicago at that's why I see him in my shot. Good morning and welcome in to the cap and Jhood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app with David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you. Now time for a shot or no shot here. Shae Norley. Shae. Good morning, boys. On a Wednesday. How are you feeling? I'm feeling fine, but my partner doesn't really want to talk to me. So and that's fine. Why? But I just say it's fine. I love you. It's all right. The check came through a couple of days ago. So it's fine. Oh, wow. So he doesn't really want to talk to me today, which is fine. We'll just do the show. Go ahead, Shae. No shot. He asked me a question. I was in the middle. No, it was just fine. Like what else is new? I mean, then want to talk to me. That's fine. I'm going to pray for you tomorrow in synagogue. What? You have a healthy and good 2025. How do you do that while you're watching the game? Here's Shae Norley. Rabbi, can we get a feed of the Thursday night game, please? What? You seem to think that's outrageous. You? I've tried to wait. I've done it before. Yeah. It was a bear's packers game. Oh, look. I beg your pardon. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Borker Falcons tomorrow night. Cap, big NFC South implications. You'll be sure. Watch that. Yeah. And temple tomorrow night. I'm going to night. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Baseball playoffs, kid. Take a look. Take that. Bruvers, Mets. You're going to want to have an eye on that, for sure. You'll sneak a game in. No question. It's what cap does. It's trying to stay on top of things. Rabbi. Yeah. Hold the phone this way. Welcome to the recap. What? What? What? There you go. You'll be doing that. So, Shay, he has no real interest in talking to me today, except just on the air, because he's required to. He's contracted to. But otherwise, no use for me today, which is fine. What did Francesa or Matt Dogg used to say when he was with Francesa? It's a five-hour show. At some point, I'll get to talk about what I want to talk about. That's where caps at today. Yeah. That's it. It's okay. Bring it on. All right. Let's go. All right. Let's get started with shot or no shot, boys. After the week one victory over Tennessee, Matt Eberflus talked about Caleb Williams. It was a quiet 93 yard game. And Matt Eberflus said the first three to four games for Caleb would be about learning the NFL's speed, learning the complexities of the offense, all the things that the Bears are trying to do offensively. Well, we're through four games. And Caleb, I think, I think we all think has gotten better on a week by week basis. But now that we're through the timeline, Eberflus offered after week one, shot or no shot, Caleb Williams will have a breakout performance on Sunday against Carolina. That's a shot. He's close. I watched the all 22 again. He's close. He is super close to hitting some big plays. I think he's going to hit a big one. And I think the Bears are going to win. And I think Caleb will have a really good day. Yeah. If his performance is going to be better than we saw last week against the Rams cap, then it will be a breakout performance. That's a shot. If we agree that the game this past Sunday was the best that he's looked, then yes, he will surpass that. We don't look at the Colts game. I don't think we know what that I mean. A lot of production, but not a lot happening there. A lot of passes down the field, but not a lot there. And so what? What are you looking at before? What's that, Cap? Who's calling? I don't know. My phone's on side. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, God, shut it down. It's unbelievable. That was not my phone. That was a number popping up there. That's a lie. No, it's not. It was my watch that was breaking. My phone's on silent. But there was something ringing. My watch. What was it? What was it saying, Cap? That call was coming in. The 1800 number was falling. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. What do you want me to do? Just be just unprofessional again. Just unbelievable. Again, folks, it never happened on TV. But radio was where he acts out. It happened a couple of times on TV. Well, I was so smooth. You didn't hear anything. It was just, it was very well done, but just. It was McGuffie's fault. A regular basis phone ringing right in the middle of my thought. All I was saying is is that he should be, you should have a better game than he had against the Rams. Production wise. I would expect a markedly better game. That's a shot. Markedly. They're banged up. The big kid Brown in the middle who's just a space eater and an animal. He's on IR. You got a chance to be able to run to football and then set up play action and take some deep shots. You absolutely can do that. Oh, God. Turn this down. It's unbelievable. Shay. Own ringing. Her next gen stats, the Bears in early down situations with their base personnel on defense are allowing. Oh, my God. Cap. I was trying to. You know what? Do your friends know what you do for a living? Who is calling you? I'm going to need you to get out. I'll do this myself. Just get out. It was not a call. You don't want to talk to hoodie. You just want to talk to all the people in your phone. That's what it is. I was trying to silence. Unbelievable. It's just okay. Okay. All right. It was watched. Can I read the question now? Yes. Per next gen stats, the Bears in early down situations with their base personnel on defense are allowing just three yards per play. That is number one in the NFL. Bears defense, if you look pretty much any metric is top five. That includes takeaways. It includes expected points added. They've been an excellent unit credit to Matt Eberflus for this defense, but shot or no shot. The offense continues to struggle and the Bears end up losing double digit games. This defense will not be enough to save Matt Eberflus's job. That's a shot. That is an absolute shot. And the reason why it's a shot cap is because there's a reason why Shane Waldron's here. There's a reason why. They want to be able to run the football shore, but they also wanted to have Caleb be comfortable in the passing game. So it's about putting points on the board. Correct. You and I and all the rest of us as Bears fans have seen the ground game and strong defense all our lives, but Waldron's in here to be able to make Caleb comfortable in the passing game as well. Short passing game, long passing game, just to be able to get the ball in the air. But a strong defense isn't enough anymore. It isn't. You love it, but it's more than that now. You're trying to get to 10 wins, 11 wins, you're trying to get to the playoffs. And if your offense is still lagging behind, it's not going to work. You can't keep moving forwards like, well, our defense is strong, well, our defense is always strong. It always is. Whether you were flueces here or not is always a factor fair, it's always a factor fair. I can't remember time. Well, there's a it was a time where the Bears made some business decisions in that first year of he were flueces. Yeah. I remember the Cowboys game because you and I were texting during the game to see that business decision. Remember? Yeah. The game was Tony Pollard or one of those right ex Zeke. Yeah. And our guys went, I'm not tackling that. That's bad. Yeah. And I don't like to use the word quit. I don't like that. But that was bad. Because I didn't because I didn't play. So I don't want to say what's in the heart and the mind of a player. But when you see Olay tackling, I don't like using that Q word. But there was some business decisions made like, all right, next game. That's bad. That's bad. Good. But that's a shot cap, like the defense could be stout. But if your offense is still mediocre or in a non playoff position, then I think you have to have something different. Here's the other thing. I got to know when this season ends, that kids are franchise quarterback, I believe he is. Yeah. But I have to be have all my fears swaved by this organization that doesn't know how to develop on all those years. Shay, the Bears are getting some rather unbelievable lucky timing with when they are playing some of their opponents. The Rams we knew last week were totally depleted on offense without their two best receivers. Some missing pieces on the offensive line. Well, this week, the Panthers are coming to town. Shaq Thompson season is over with the season ending Achilles tear and also Josie Jewell, their other starting interior linebacker, inside linebacker as a hamstring and groin injury. He's going to miss a few weeks. So you're getting the Panthers down both of their starting inside linebackers. Two weeks from now in London, you're getting the Jags and the latest story on the Jags from NFL insider Jordan Schultz. He told Warren Sharp. He's spoken to multiple players in Jacksonville. They have told him the locker room is totally out on Doug Peterson, the quote, rudderless ship shot or no shot. The Bears will go to and oh in these games. Absolute shot, absolute shot, absolute. Now you can only get to want to know this week and that's how I like to live. Yep. Believe that's be the best week in me this week and get a win and then we'll worry about next week. But if you're able to do that, oh man. That's a shot shot and in London, that will be a bear crowd. Even though the Jaguars spend so much time away from Jacksonville as we know, Shay, I mean, they've been in the UK a lot because Tony Khan, one of the front office people, he runs Fulham, the soccer team. So he's very familiar with the UK. So I'm sure there's some UK Jaguars fans, but I'm sure a lot of Bears fans will be traveling to the UK for this. So it should sound like a Bears crowd. Super cool. That should help run the football, knock the Jags over. Absolutely. That's the shot. Any fear, like the classic kind of sports thing, you fire the head coach and the team rallies around the interim the following week. Can we just make sure Doug Peterson keeps this job at least until after we play them in London? Yeah, he's not getting fired at that time. He's not he's not getting fired. You had it before Halloween, Shay, he's not maybe it's right after London because that's the buy. No shot. Aren't they on the by two? I know we are. The two consecutive games in London and then I believe they have their buy week. No shot. Let him go to London and then we'll fire when he comes back. Just leave him there. Just leave him on the tarmac. That's what you do. Fire him right there. Yeah, it's not going in the right direction obviously, but here's the thing doing a little bit of a deep dive. Are you sure that if you fire Doug Peterson, the Trevor Lawrence is better skin to the point where it's like, that's who he is. I know that he looks the part with a long flowing blonde locks and strong arm. But Cap is just not there. His best football was at Clemson. I think if he goes somewhere else, if he got a fresh start, he'd be a really good player. I do. Bears? No. No. How about the bears? Can't be a little column A and a little column B like Doug Peterson outside of the one year with Carson Wentz, the Eagles fired him for a reason, things got untenable there. Then he goes to Jacksonville. He has the one miracle year and seems like worked Trevor Lawrence into a top five player. Now things have gone south since maybe both guys just aren't as good as we think they are. Maybe. I think that's fair. That's fair. Yeah. Shaking squeeze it one more. Absolutely. Devante Adams told the Raiders yesterday he would prefer a trade out of Las Vegas Adams who will turn 33 this fall has 18 catches for 209 yards and a touchdown this season to the top rumor destinations are, of course, the Packers is old home and the New York football jets with his old quarterback shot or no shot. Devante Adams will reunite with Aaron Rodgers in New York. That is a shot. Do you remember Aaron going off the golf course saying is saying something about Devante Smith? Like he's looking forward to play. Devante Adams saying I like to play with him again. I think that that's possible. I don't think they can handle his salary. So I'm going to say no shot. The Jets. Yeah. At this point, Cap, if you're a solid in that front office, you're doing anything to make Rodgers out. They're desperate. Yeah. I'm just saying. Yeah. That but is it really the receivers that are the reason that they're struggling? No, it's their offensive line. Right. Okay. Okay, so there, but I mean still, it's about making Aaron happy. Is it not? You know who's running an organization and it's not Salah. Yeah. It's Aaron. Yeah. I'm going to say no shot that he ends up there. What's the quote? Shay, I just saw this morning with the Jets. So running back says that the offense is not working. Who said that? Oh, it was Gary. No, it was one of the wide receivers. Gary Wilson said that. Yeah. Gary Wilson said the offenses are working with the Jets. Okay. That's not good. Hard to deny it. You scored nine points against the Broncos. That's fair. I just I don't know if I said it in front of Open Mike. I don't know if I'd say that. They're frustrated. They were supposed to be a Super Bowl team either two and two that just hasn't gone the way that they wanted it to go at all. You say he's being honest. Let that happen on your ball club. Can I see you for me Garrett? My office. Okay. What are you doing there? You know we're working hard to get this right. How do you tell the press that our offense is broken or our offense isn't working? What's with that? No, because they're they have eyes coach. Okay. You I don't think you take that smart mouth approach. I don't think you I don't think you take that kindly. They have eyes coach. Okay. They saw us get nine points against the awful Broncos. You probably could say that to Salah. I think that's pretty clear. You could say it to him. Just some coaches. I don't think you'd say that too. I don't think you'd say that. Who do you at this point? You can say it to Nate Hackett. He went to Denver. It felt like the team mutinied on him. Got fired in his first season then goes to reunite with Rogers and the offense looks this way. I hear you. Maybe Hackett's no good. He certainly wasn't good as a head coach for the Denver Denver Broncos. I'll tell you that. And again, this is also make Aaron comfortable, right? Having Hackett there. Supposed to make Aaron comfortable. Now look at him. Once you're a jet, you'll always be a jet. Just remember that. Once you're a jet. You're a jet. That's it. No matter what, whoever put in uniform, remember it's the jets. Does Rogers leave the jets after this year and go play somewhere else? Like Favre. More than likely. Just, you know, he looks at an organization that goes, "I can go someplace else and win a championship." Right. I could see that happening. Like does the Niners say, "We're not paying Brock Purdy." Get Aaron in here. Maybe. Very, very likely. There you go. When you're a jet, you're a jet. All the way. Okay. And up the two. Horrible. Okay. Horrible. Okay. Coming up, we will have you give you around the NFL and then it's a Waddle Wednesday. We're from Tommy, coming up at 835. Cap and Jay Hood week day morning, 7 to 10. I kind of like them both ways. Follow Chicago's Home for Sports on Twitter at ESPN1000. Cap and Jay Hood are back on ESPN Chicago, Chicago's Home for Sports. Nick Voll sucks. He sucks. I'm just a fan. I'm not a football evaluator. 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 winter. He starts to come at him all around. 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 Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app like to remind you to check out our YouTube channel. Cap and I have our own YouTube channel. Look for Cap and Jay Hood on YouTube. Hit that subscribe button that way if you miss anything from our show, the clips and the features and the show is right there, youtube.com, Cap and Jay Hood around the NFL with Jay Norley. It's time for the power rankings on a Wednesday. Every team in the power rankings has moved in one way or another with Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the two teams falling out of the top 10. All right. Let me get the sheet of paper here. Let's go. Waddle Wednesday coming up at 8.30. All right. Here we go. All right. A 10. It's the Green Bay Packers. They're down two spots from eight last week. The second half, Jordan Love, right at a lot of the ugliness, the first half. But when you're doing it against prevent, it's hard for me to care a lot. I just think that first half he needed to get healthy. And the bottom of this league, honestly, there's a lot of bad teams. Packers, I still believe in to be one of the better teams in this league and certainly in this division. They're 10. Number nine, say number nine, San Francisco 49ers. They destroyed New England and Santa Clara last week with debo back. Health is still a concern with this team. We know Jovan Hargraves out for the year. No real clarity on when Christian McCaffrey will make his return. But so far, so good for the Niners and what they did on Sunday was a reminder. They're back in the top 10 number eight. The Washington commanders, at some point, it becomes undeniable. What Jaden Daniels has been able to accomplish through four weeks is absolutely incredible. His athleticism and his ability to quickly read a defense is making him a huge weapon in Cliff Kingsbury's honestly kind of simple offense. They're the number one offense in football. That said, hoodie, their defense is still the bottom of the league, the very bottom. We've seen Cliff Kingsbury offenses fall apart after outstarts before. So the sustainability part of this is a question, but right now they are awesome. And what's Dan Quinn's expertise? Defense. Okay. Cap. The Washington commanders are three and one. The next three games will be against the Browns at Baltimore against the Panthers. How many do they win there? Where's the Browns game against the Browns in Washington? They're going to win two of those three. The Ravens will be the test. That'll be the game. Yes. That'll be interesting to watch those quarterbacks going after it. That would be unbelievable if they pulled off a win over them. Oh God. Think about it, man. Jaden Daniels and Lamar Jackson. That should be awesome. Two African-American quarterbacks. Okay. That'll be fine. Wow. You don't have to do that. Thank you, Chris. Here's Shane Norler. 7 hoodie Seattle, Geno Smith was great on Monday night, but that defense got bullied by the Lions. Jerigov completes all 18 of his passes for nearly 300 yards and two touchdowns. David Montgomery and Jameer Gibbs ran all over them. Defense has problems. Geno Smith can be great, but when you're chasing two scores all game, you should look that good. That's correct. Um, I enjoyed that game for the amount of points I was put up there and just the fight of Seattle offensively just as kind of hanging the ball game with the Lions really impressed me. By the way, I was going to tell you, Shay, that new blue on that helmet shines. Oh, you like it? Yeah. It's different. I think that helmet's terrible, honestly. I don't know why. I just don't like it. I know you were used to the traditional Honolulu blue, but just for a change of pace, that a little darker blue on that on the black helmet, really good. It shines. It's a shine too. It's something cool. Just different. Yeah. It's a shine on it. Number six, Shay. Number six, the Houston Texans, the only team that has no movement this week. They got the win. That's the most important thing, but trailing the majority of the game to the jags who according to the players in the locker room are rudderless at head coach after losing at home to Minnesota or after losing on the road to Minnesota, rather, they'll probably be fine, but it's a little bit of an alarm bell. Hmm. All right. Five down four spots from last week's number one ranking, the Buffalo Bills. What happened? The most efficient offense in football goes into Baltimore and can't do anything right when it feels like they're getting some momentum and maybe a comeback. Joe Brady calls a lunatic play trick play pass out of Wildcat where they're reversing the ball to Josh Allen. He almost gets killed for Bills fans. You can hope that's just a blip. That was not great Sunday night. You're not going to win all 17 games. It happened. You went and played a really quality opponent on the road to that some people believe like Dominique Fox work believes the Ravens are the best team in the NFL. So it is what it is her dead a lot already, all to a tough start, but the best team in the NFL, we'll get to that in a second. More more disappointing loss, Shay, the Bills game or the Seattle game. Of course, the Adler for Buffalo. I would say Buffalo because of the way it looked, the offense was the most efficient in football. Josh Allen had become the favorite for MVP and to go in there and not really be able to do anything offensively, I think that hurts if you're a Bills fan. By the way, cap 16 for 29, go for 180 yards for Josh Allen, that game against Baltimore. Yeah, I watched it and it was just, they were outclassed that day. But Derek Henry though, what a beast. Oh, that's the first play of the game. 271 yards on the ground for the Baltimore. Crazy. How about the first play, 87 yards? See you later. Thanks for coming. All right, we got Buffalo at five as we do, that's now number four, Shay. Number four is this week's biggest riser in the rankings. It is the Baltimore Ravens. They've erased the angst of an 0-2 start with two dominant victories over Dallas and Buffalo. You mentioned Derek Henry, two slow weeks to start the season, absolutely insane the last two weeks against Dallas and Buffalo. He seems back this rushing attack, if it's what we've seen for two weeks, is the best in football and that'll help Lamar Jackson a lot. Todd Monckon's been doing a great job, the offensive coordinator, Baltimore back in the top five. Are you back? Is Baltimore back in your good graces now or do you need to see more? For me? Yeah. I think they're back. I don't know. I don't know if they're going to win 12-13 games again this year because of the way the season started and honestly, they still the second half, so they have a propensity to blow leads. Yeah. There was a chance to do it against Buffalo until Joe Brady lost his mind with a wild cat trick play. Yeah, I get it. They did it with the Cowboys, they did it with the Raiders. So I'd like to see them be complete again a few more times before I'm like fully in on Baltimore. Yeah. They're good. But Shay, let's circle back in three weeks now. We're going to do this every week, but just at bingles against the commanders, at Buccaneers. Let's take a look, take a look where Baltimore is. I just think it's an overreach through four games for my guy, Dominic Foxworth, to have the Ravens and the best team in the National Football League. Tough haul when they're two and two. Just wait a minute now. Just hang on, right? Yeah. Just hang on a second. Yeah, okay, you lost to the Chiefs, it is a tough game. That Raider loss, your bad loss. You're better than that. And you too. Greeny heads is the top three teams in the NFC. No, Minnesota Detroit Green Bay. All right. That'll be all number number number three, number three, rising one spot, the Minnesota Vikings. There's just no denying it anymore. They're four. No, first half that saw them go up 28, nothing in the blink of an eye on the roading Green Bay as road underdogs, they look 100% legitimate. They're also four and oh through what was on paper, the most difficult portion of their schedule. They're going to make the playoffs. They look like one of the best teams in this league, Kevin O'Connell's a miracle worker. Jets Lions Rams cap, Jets Lions and then at the Rams, Jets Lions at home and then at the Rams. That looks good. They're going to lose two or three, really, the jet? I don't know. We'll see. But the lion, for sure, you think they're going to lose to the lion and they probably will lose at the ram. Hmm, but we'll see God, this throws a monkey wrench right into the Bears plans. The Vikings are good. Oh no. Right. That's why the bear needs to just take care of their business this week. Get the three and two. Viking Scott, he's got a big smile on his face. He's not even calling Carmen Yurco anymore. He's just sitting where every lives, having a good time, enjoying his life. Big smile on his face. Number two, Shay. Number two is the Detroit Lions up one spot from three last week and absolutely dominant display from their offense. Jared Goff, 18 of 18, they run the ball really efficiently. Look, defensively, they've got some issues tackling and penalties were horrible against Seattle, but for three out of four games, that defense has been good. So I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. That offense finally looking complete. They're scary. And number one, the Steelers. All right. Goody. Number one. Wow. It all sucks. But it's the Kansas City Chiefs. And I have to tell you, it really pisses me off to put them here because they are an incredibly frustrating watch. Everything on offense looks difficult. You got my homes not playing well. You got Kelsey not looking anything like Travis Kelsey. You got her she rice dead yet they're four and O with a dominant offense defense. You figure it out. They're just going to win the Super Bowl and be this like horribly aesthetically displeasing team. They're not winning the Super Bowl. I hope not because this team watching this team, it's annoying. It sucks. It's not fun. The Chargers Chiefs was not a fun game to watch. It was gross. I hate that they're four. No, I hate that I feel like they're going to win the Super Bowl anyway because they're a gross watch right now, which is they are not winning the Super. What'd you say? What'd you say? Jay Moore of Travis Kelsey. Look at like Randy Travis. Is that what you said? He does. That's a great call. He does. Wow. Is that? Is that how you see a Tommy? It's like it was Taylor Swift baby. Take it out. I got it to two guys right there. Randy Travis, why are you coming after Randy Travis? Great singer, man. Yeah. He says he looks like Randy Travis. Wow. Maybe years ago, Randy's a little old. He's playing like Randy Travis. Oh, Randy's got to be 65. Yes. Yeah, north to 60. He's not old. You're 60. Wow. I'm 57, but like he's had some, he's had some health issues too. So he doesn't look. Randy Travis is 65. 65. Yeah. Echo. He looks a little frail. I mean, he's had some, he's had a rough go of it the last several years. Really? What? Have some sympathy cap. Like really? What'd I say wrong? Not you, Jonathan. He's giving me the echo. We both said it with a, I said it one second later in yours already into the delivery. I just heard cat. That's what I heard. When somebody says something silly. What is Randy Travis's real name? I did not know his real name was Randy Travis. Uh, Steve Travis, Randy Bruce Treywick. Okay. I'm Treywick. Some record executive was like, that's not going to fly pal. Right. Doesn't play in Peoria. You're going to try. Travis. That's it. Do you like the top five of, uh, Shae's list? Yeah, I always do. Like, I, I, I'd be careful writing off the, the chiefs guys. We had this conversation a little bit yesterday and Mallard. You want to wait here? They're not waiting to Super Bowl. I'll never go against them again. Well, wait a second. Super Bowl. Like a lot of things can happen. We dialed that back. I already owe you a hundred dollars for our, our Cubs reds bet. Yeah. Oh, I'm gonna go into my words. Lance paid his off yesterday. Well, maybe because you saw Lance, I whole crate a graders ice cream showed up in my house. I thought you meant Lance Briggs. It was like, why is Lance Briggs betting you baseball? No. Lance McAllister sent me graders ice cream. He's a better guy than I am. You may not get your hundred dollars for. Oh, fair cat is the greatest flavor ever. Chocolate and cherry. Oh my God. Yeah. You know, to those that want to strut around because your cubs, you know, landed higher up on the North or Central, wherever the hell they reside, standings, you know, neither one of us is playing postseason baseball and that should piss you off. The national they did. The nationally North division cap. Whatever. That's what he's talking about. Yeah. Yeah. It's early. Yes. It's early for all of us here in 833. How about that? That's just where you live. But everywhere. How about that? Coming up. A waddle Wednesday with Tom Waddle right here on Chicago's home for sports.