Kap & J. Hood
10/2 7 AM: 5 Burning Questions About The Bears
Hour 1: The guys discussed Cubs GM Jed Hoyer who spoke to the media and isn't going to make a splash in free agency. He talked a lot about the need for players to overperform and wouldn't really answer if the Cubs will be improved. Plus, 5 Burning Questions about the Bears as they head into week 5 with a showdown against the Carolina Panthers.
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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 commonplace that we grew up in the business with. You were there, part of the pen in 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 the 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 evolved 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 liked 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 man seen, he paid off at Barnhart. They're close. 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, Bryce Harper, Alec Bohm, Trey Turner, Kyle Schwerber. Who do we run out? And I say we because I'm a diehard. 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. Then go get me whoever. I don't want to hear you can't afford it. But guess what? When you outspend them Milwaukee 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? Finish 10 games behind them. 10. How are you making that up? I don't want to hear we 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 Jet because Jet comes across affable. Long answers does not necessarily turn a blind eye to the problems of the Chicago Cubs. People like Rickon too, why gave long answers? Not 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. 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. Last 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. Everything's been in charge going into his fifth year with zero playoffs. Right. Zero. The last two seasons haven't ended in the postseason, Hoyer said. Obviously, I have to take accountability for that. Correct. Kids, 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, Hodge, Stanton and on and on. I just don't see a sense of urgency where folks where the Chicago Cubs, no, we're trying to be the Royals. Oh, the Royals had a really good year and they won yesterday. 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 ails 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 drinking 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 playbook 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. I think 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 too big. And 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 and we got to 9 under, if you look at a record since then, we played really good baseball. I think we were like 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 are you at, Dan? You're watching Mallory play soccer. It's October. Everyone else is playing baseball. Yeah, that's right. Of the good team. It's June. I mean, it's just so frustrating. Like they're lighting candles over there where they call it in Catholicism and novina. They're saying novinas 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. You see haters numbers this year? I have. Yeah. You could have signed him. Guess what? We don't have the money. So how to shower God, we'd inside Jordan Montgomery, like some people around here wanted to do. All right. Well, the, the athletic.com. Shah of Sharma, so how to 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 dollars 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 Wrigley. 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. Let's change. We're putting the fans back together. The nerve center of a great rhythm and blues band on Chicago's home for sports. 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. It's 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 I'm excited about next year and I look at it as an opportunity. So I feel pressure, but I feel the 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? All right, is that that Cody Bellinger? What are we talking about? Last season, like, yes, you got showed and showed it 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 the if you're going to sell your big position player free agent acquisition as a player you already had, then it doesn't make sense. I'm just like, if we want to talk about P. Alonso or Blake Snell or you want to talk about Alex Breggman, Corbin Burke, okay, now we're talking about guys that can make a difference for your organization. Well, Alex Breggman is a great point. Place their base. Esau Paredes, I get it, they like him, but third base is still a position in need. No matter what, unless Paredes 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 shirt to swing in 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. He's a, it was a good year. He did. This is a seven war player. Okay. The third baseman that Cubs had combined for 21 home runs and for 76 RBI. So that's Paredes and Morrell. Correct. Okay. They also combined for zero point two wins above replacement. Point six, though. Who's counting? Um, not a fan graphs. They have morale negative. Okay. Well, baseball reference has a different, uh, what's with the baby? It's still not good enough. It's not good enough. But I was not signing that Chapman and there was no chance you were giving 47 and a half million to you and waddles guy, Jordan Montgomery. By the way, waddle. Mike's move took the Mia culpa on the show yesterday and said Mia culpa 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 on a, yeah, yeah, Arizona sports radio. And I mean, just put his, his heart out there talking about Jordan Montgomery. He was wrong. Siding Jordan Montgomery and 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 the motive to the bullpen. How disappointed are you in that, 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 blank 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. And that's from Burns and Gamble from KMVP in Phoenix. Correct. My old boss, T.S.A.L.S., 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 wouldn't 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. Jordan, you hear 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 Juan Jordan Montgomery. The season he had was abysmal. But forget about the extension that Chapman signed in San Francisco, where the word on the street is that they had to overpay to keep him. Last offseason, 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 Jett handled 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, affable 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. 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? It's like 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, fans 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. And guess what? Our offensive productivity is unacceptable. It's hot parade us. 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 dance 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. Yeah. 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 and I appreciate over the next five to 10 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 it and 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 eight, three and seventy nine, you should just take it and like it. You should feel good about where we're 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 a, you were talking a lot of bears. How about the bloodletting over there? The firings left and right by counsel. Yeah. He wants his own staff. So first, so pitching a first base coach out. Yeah. Mike Napoli gone. I think the assistant hitting coach got let go. Jesse will be with us at 918. Volpe. You can run it through all of it. I mean, it is 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. I mean, 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 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. Or 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 sport city in the world. That's what I say all the time. You do the frickin 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. The White Sox, the worst team in the history of the sport ever in the modern era. The Bulls. Huh. Horrible. I mean, what, 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 gets you to the playoffs. Okay. But 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, 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. That's all for the Cubs. They don't have one. Okay. That's the problem. Correct. So if you're going to think Kevin Alcantara 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 one 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 and goes, Oh, God. And the other team goes, Oh, I'm fearing heaven. What did James said? I don't 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 NLCS's. Guess what? This team, just a collection of vanilla. That's what it is. They got no personality of the position guys. Steel has a little him and I go, 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. Because at the feet of two men, Jed and Tom, period. It's coming. Yeah. Well, that's what 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 all 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. 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 on us to God and I throw it right out the window. I don't care. Here's the 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. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitter at ESPN 1000. Cap and Jhood are back on ESPN Chicago. Chicago's home for sports. The flame is lit and the heat's on. That's your question. Hell, you got to ask me. It's five burning questions. I asked you a question. Answer me when I talk. On Cap and Jhood. ESPN Chicago. It's a Cap and Jhood morning show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. We're ready for five burning questions. But with you till 10 o'clock and then my Greenberg comes in at 10. I'm joined by Carmen and Yurko at 12. While in Sylvie, we'll be broadcasting live from Hallows Hall today at 2.30. Blanken Abdullah at 6.30. All part of the mix right here on ESPN 1000, the home of the bears and the white socks. Every Wednesday at this time, we give you five burning questions regarding the Chicago bears. Cap, are you ready? I am ready. All right, let's start off, Jay Moore. Number one. Cap. Who is the MVB through the first four games of the season? Most valuable bear. Who is the MVB of the season so far for the bears? That's a really, really good question. Um, now who you like, now what you project, but who is through four games? Want to pass? Wow. Um, I think I would say, the rescuer, Jalen Johnson, somebody like that would be the most valuable bear for me. Um, Brisker was outstanding on Sunday. Jalen Johnson's been a really good corner. That's probably the way I would go. You only got two candidates there. The only two guys that released it out to you so far. Well, DJ has been great. Caleb's been getting better, but I don't think he's the MVB yet. Rome didn't have anything the other day. He did in the week before. Swift had one good game. Keenan Allen's only played two games. Cole Comette's had a nice year, but nobody's really jumping off the page to me. That's a little bit of a concern. I mean, I think you and I, I think Bear's fans about it since you and I have been talking about it. We felt like Jalen Johnson would be all pro caliber. Yeah. He's a stud. He was an all pro last year. He's a stud, but then we thought, okay, Montes sweat because he didn't mention him, but that'd be a guy, but he's doubled and it opens up for the one game we saw from billing so far. It has been multiple games. I think really solid game for Billings where he was there. Correct. Uh, sweat had a huge game changing play on, uh, Sunday, strip sack. Yeah. So yeah, it's been good plays. I don't know if one player has jumped off the page. So would you say this is not one of the fibering questions, but the way Brisker played is in through four games, is he the guy that just like took the game over of all the bears? Is he the one guy like in that game, you say, boy, he took the game over, like he could have been the game ball guy, Brisker. Yeah. Him sweat to that game wrecking play was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I write, I'll write you down for Jalen Johnson or Brisker. Nobody. Ha. You can't do that. Now hold on a second. No, we can't move on until you give me an MVP. And if you think it's, if it's Johnson's Johnson, give me Brisker, the most valuable bear through four games, I guess, I mean, it sounds weird when I say it out loud, doesn't it? Right. It's nice. Shane, look, what is the, who's the most valuable bear through the first four games? Tori Taylor. No. All right. Jay Moore. I got to go with sweat because what he's doing, he's providing an opportunity for other players to get plays. I can, I can be okay with that one too. I'd probably say Brisker, honestly, he's been so good in that backfield. Okay. Brisker, it is. You know, I asked that question for a reason because just like the Cubs, who stands out to help you? Like one guy can one guy carry a football team? Yes. We've seen it before. We've seen it before with the bears. We've seen it with Lawrence Taylor. Like there's guys that will just carry the whole team even though they're on one side of the football. So okay. Next, number two, cap. Who is the most expendable bear? Is it Vailus Jones? Is it Khalil Herbert or is it Nate Davis? Oh, Vailus Jones, it's not even close. Why is that? It's not even been active and we've won, we won the other day. Yeah. No. There's Khalil Herbert still, and again, if you had an injury to one of your backs, he's a solid vet to plug and play with. Who was the third one you said? Nate Davis. You don't have enough depth on your offensive line, and when he was pressed in the duty the other day, when Kevin went down, he actually played well. So Vailus Jones was off the roster. You wouldn't Blake and I? No. But Khalil Herbert? No, because you don't have enough depth yet. He's a solid back. You know, if Nate Davis was out of my life, I wouldn't be very happy that it's not a topic anymore. If they had enough depth to say, all right, Nate, we're going to move on. But they don't. Yeah. Have we gone after this year? It's the Bellinger for Maine, the Bellinger topic. Like, we're going to go through two years of Nate Davis talk again. We're now even supposed to talk about the guards and the offensive line this much. But he always comes out last year and now this year. Again, where do you place Nate Davis? In two games in a row, by the way, not the starter, not the starter, right? So I write you down for Vailus Jones, the most expendable bear. Not even close. Can you agree? Yeah. All of them. He's basically not on the team, two consecutive weeks in active, three consecutive weeks in active. Jay Moore? Yeah. Yeah. That's the answer. All right. We've got more with our five burning questions. Love this. Continue on on the Captain Jay Hood morning show. Follow Chicago's home for sports on Twitch at ESPN 1000 Chicago. Captain Jay Hood are back on Chicago's home for sports, ESPN Chicago, five burning questions on Captain Jay Hood, ESPN triple. We continue with five burning questions here on Captain Jay Hood on ESPN 1000 and the ESPN Chicago app. Don't forget to waddle Wednesday. We talked to Tommy coming up at 835 right here on ESPN 1000. What's next? Number three, cap. Which two and two team has a brighter future? The Bears or the Packers? Wow. I am going to say the Chicago Bears for a few reasons. Look, the Packers are a good organization. Very well run. Jordan loved to not look good the other day. I don't know what the long term prognosis is, how long it'll take him to get back to being Jordan loved with his bulky knee. I think the Bears have a better wide receiver room. I think the Packers obviously have a better offensive line. I think the Bears have a better defense. So I'll take the Chicago Bears. What does Green Bay have to do to be able to be the team with the brighter future? And by the way, the future is infinite. It may not be this year, maybe next three years, because really we're going to be looking at George Love versus Caleb Williams for the foreseeable future, correct? Yeah, this is going to be a hell of a battle going forward. Two good young quarterbacks. Yeah. So you say the Bears for this year? Do you see that in the next two or three? Because the future could be, the future could be tomorrow, it could be in three or five years. How far? When you look at those two, because we'll be honed in on those two guys, golf is a veteran quarterback and Sam Darnell, who knows if that's really the future? You still think the Bears, right? I do. Okay. Next one. They've got $56 million tied up in their quarterback per year. The Bears are on a rookie deal for five years. All right. Next. Number four. Cap, how would you stack the offensive line this week? How would I start it? What was Kevin Jenkins healthy? Is he playing? If he's not, because that's questionable right now, right? Correct. All right. How do you stack the offensive line this week? Well, Darnell writes at right tackle. I'll assume Kevin's playing Matt priors at right guard, Coleman Shelton's at center, Kevin Jenkins is at left guard, and Braxton Jones is at left tackle. Now, if I could make the old line how I would like to make it, Darnell right would be at right tackle, Kevin Jenkins would be at right guard, Coleman Shelton would be at center because Ryan Bates is on in the injured reserve list. Matt prior would be at left guard and Braxton Jones would be at left tackle. Yes. That's how I would probably do it. And the off season, I have my first pick, I have Carolina and my second pick, I'm taking at least two offensive line. At least two, yeah, you have to. So you like that beef on the right side because that helps swift. Correct. Beef on the right side bolstered up so that because it was a lot of demarcations like, I got to go over here where the beef is because at least I'm going to get some blocking to be able to get more yardage than I've had before. That is correct. Yeah. I like that side to be Kevin and Darnell right. Kevin and Darnell right on the right side, and I can't take full credit for that. I was influenced after having a lengthy discussion with Olin Crews who said that's how you need to set your offensive line up. Okay. Hall of Fame offensive line guy. I follow with him and the Kramer at fullback. I'm good with that too. When I ask about the offensive line cap, I'd like to know by the time we get to the end of the year what Amigaje is. Yeah. I'd like to know he's ready yet. I'd like to know. But if you took him in the third round, he better be a player. I know he was injured. They like him. They love his work ethic. So just keep developing them. All right. Finally. Number five cap. Putting Iberflus to the side, who are the three most important coaches on this Bears team? Well, Shane Waldron's got to get one of those for sure. He's your offensive coordinator and your play caller. Probably Thomas Brown is your offensive game passing coordinator. Let's get familiar with his name a little bit. Yeah. Thomas Brown, offensive passing game coordinator, came from Carolina where people really like this dude around the league. Okay. That's two. Probably the third one for me would be Ryan Griffin. He is your offensive assistant quarterback coach wide receiver. Him or Carrie Joseph, who's your quarterback coach, one of those two dudes. You better be living at Caleb's house, basically, and get him where he needs to be so that we start next season. We're like, okay, here we go because Patrick Mahomes in his second year through for 5,000 yards. Let's go. Like, notice, I noticed you did not mention at all the in named offensive coordinator. Eric Washington. Yeah. He doesn't call the plays. A, that's either flus. Mm hmm. B, I like our defense. It's, this is for me is offense. Mm hmm. Offense, offense, confidence. Okay. I asked that question because it relates to what Shay talked to us about in the meeting this morning regarding you were flus. And would you say, Shay, if the Bears went 7 and 10 with the defense is number one, does either flus keep his job? And, and, and by the way, the Bears again, top defense last year and had seven wins and he was, was retained. If Iber flus this year goes seven and 10, barring catastrophic injury heaven forbid, he's gone. He will not be here. Okay. That one he would deserve to get fired. Shay, that wasn't one of your shots or no shots, was it? Sure was. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll put a dollar in the coffer. He would, he would deserve to get fired. Sorry. New audience today, damn. Okay. Okay. We have shot or no shot. That's in two minutes. See, I always got to remember cap. He just speaks in shot or no shot way and it isn't speak like a normal person. He just asked questions like, first shot or no shot. That's part of his conversation. That's it. Politics. Music. Sports. Everything is shot or no shot. This guy. I forgot. That's my bad. I apologize. Channel chat, two minutes on camera. - Shocker on the shot.