Kap & J. Hood
10/9 7 AM: 5 Burning Questions: About The Bears!
Hour 1: Playoff Baseball is back!! NLDS Game 3's were EPIC! Dodgers' vs Padres and Mets vs Phillies. Kap's shares his thoughts on Robert Saleh being fired by the JETS and says things could be worse for the Bears. The guys also played 5 Burning Questions about the Chicago Bears.
- Broadcast on:
- 09 Oct 2024
- Audio Format:
- other
Chicago. This is your morning routine. Listen to respect about me. Cap and G hood. That's right. That's right. We're bad. Uh-uh. Watch the show on Twitch. Follow ESPN 1000 Chicago. Stream the show on the ESPN Chicago app. And on in there. 100.3 HD2. And on ESPN 1000 Chicago. No. No. No. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood. Good morning, everyone. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. Bring 'em out. What? What? Oh! Yeah. Welcome in to the Cap and G hood morning show. On ESPN 1000 and we are streaming on the ESPN Chicago app. With David Kaplan, Jonathan Hood with you, we've got Sean. We've got Jay Moore. We've got you. We've got four and three hour ride here on this Waddle Wednesday. We've got four and four lines for you. Three, one, two, three, two, three, seven, seven, six is our telephone number. Coming up at 735, we've got five burning questions regarding the bears. The bears get ready to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars coverage all day on Sunday right here. On the home of the Bears, ESPN 1000 is the Bears play in London against the Jags. But Cap, last night, we got to talk about something personal. You know it was personal. Even though our Cubs and Sox are not involved in the postseason, there's nothing like October baseball. It's a long slog of 162 games plus the spring training games. But man, when the bell rings in October, it's just a whole different level of sports. When you're watching baseball and we watched it last night, the Mets and the San Diego Padres getting it done. I love baseball. It's my favorite sport. Look, it's a great time of year. The NFL is king. I would never tell you that it isn't. Watching that game last night in San Diego was simply spectacular. Mookie Betts gets the early home run. Then here come the pods. It's six to one and I said to my wife, my guy hoodie is going to be over the moon because he is a Padres guy while his socks are in the throes of a massive rebuild. And then I watched Tati's Junior go deep and the yellow towels. I'm sure that's the radio station now in San Diego. Yeah, the fan. Super, super cool. Whatever it costs, that was a great piece of marketing. And I hope there's a point in time where whether it's the Bears clinching a division or the White Sox clinching a division and getting to the postseason and you see ESPN 1000 towels. Everybody's waving orange towels at the Bears game or black towels at the White Sox game. Dude, let me just tell you something. And then Tae Oscar Hernandez goes, "Hey, got a second." Yeah. Grant Slam, six to five. And it was spectacular theater. Spectacular. And I couldn't stop thinking about where James Shields might be. Exactly. The White Sox traded a 16-year-old Fernando Tati's Junior to San Diego because they had to have James Shields. Yeah. We're trying to win now, kid. We're going to take the veteran arm. He wasn't very good. They paid a bunch of money. But more importantly, they gave up a 20-some-year-old kid now. He's 20-some. And he's a beast. He's an all-star. And I watched it. So these playoffs, I said to you when I walked in. These playoffs have been other than our heart being involved. White Sox, 0-5, Cubs for me, 16. These have been the best playoffs I've seen in a long, long time. I mean, amazing. A lot of that cap stems from parody. I like parody and sports. You know, until we get to the NCAA, you know, as far as the NCAA tournament or the college football playoff. Like, I know a little TCU that you're not going to be able to beat a number one, a number two team. You're in the mix, but you're not good enough to be on top. Here's the thing about baseball. I think the reason why that you enjoyed, and I enjoyed so much, is because we have had a bunch of series that are tied at one. So there's parody there. First time ever. Yes. All four were tied one-to-one. It's never happened. I think that says a lot for the sport, too, that there is not one favorite. Maybe there's a gambling favorite that I did not see coming into the playoffs. But the point is, though, is that it seems like a lot of this is even. A lot of it is even. You know, for my Padres, my Padres, as I come in, strident. I told my wife that. She's like, I thought he was a Sox fan. I'm proud. He's angry with the Sox, so he adopted the Padres when they got Dylan Cece this spring. And she's like, wow. Good for him. Nice pick. Exactly right. Because, as we well know, Cap, you want to watch baseball and there's got to be a must-see. Like, uh-oh, let's see this tattoo set bad here. I'm not going to move. Let's go see. Because you want to see what happens, right? We know this is Cubs and White Sox fans. There's always one or two guys in the line. I'm like, all right, let's just see what happens here. Before I order the next beer or that hot dog, let's take a look and see what happens in the event. Tatis is that guy. Machado's that guy. Merrell's that guy. Bogards is that guy. You have four or five of those in the line. And the same thing on the Dodger side, too. Those Dodgers and their thug fans. You saw what happened at Dodger Stadium. Pro-Farge is mining his own business out in the outfield and they're throwing baseballs at him. Dodger fans. That was the last game. Yeah. And then security had to come out there. Those Dodger fans. My God. Have you ever been to a game there? Dodger Stadium? No. I have. I was there in '08 to broadcast. Yeah. Because the Cubs played the Dodgers. That's right. I said to my wife, "Hey, I'm going to buy you a plane ticket and I'm going to buy you tickets." Well, the only tickets we could get, we were in the upper deck. So I do the pre-game show, come meet her and our friends up there, "Dude, I was fearing for my life. I had a Cubs jacket on." Oh, God. And it was brutal. My wife said, "Never again. Never again." This thought, "I don't really care out there in LA. It's laid back." Dude, it was horrific experience. I would not go back to a game there unless I was way down low. Did Rick Monday save you? Yeah, Rick Monday came in and scoop Mindy and I out. Like the American flag. Like he did. Like he did. Like the American flag. That's burning. Correct. For the young audience, there was some idiot burning a flag out on the field. Where he ran into the outfield, laid a flag out, tried to set it on fire. Here came the Dodger Center, to me, the Cubs center fielder. Wasn't he a club at the time? Yes. Yeah. Rick Monday, he came running in. He grabbed the flag. The place went crazy and the Dodgers went, "We got to have him." And they traded for him and he ended up his whole career. He was a broadcast right there. Still there. That's your guy, Donnie. On the real side. Still going. Yeah. Great guy. He's just so happy, man, because, you know, big time hits. Great drama. And then. Rodriguez is straight away from taking control of this series, the payoff pitch. Game! Patrick's taking three. And take command in this best of five, leading a two-game storm. Dodger broadcast to Joe. What's his name, Cap? The young broadcast reflects. Joe Davis. He takes tightness finked her as a Dodger broadcast, you're doing the national broadcast. That is correct. That is correct. Patrick's win. Bob, one strike away from taking control of this series. It was awesome. And look, we'll get back into football. The Bears landed in London. They had all day off yesterday. So good. Today's only, excuse me, a walk-through, but then tomorrow they'll go back. There's six hours later there. So it is one o'clock in the afternoon. So they're prying to practice field right now. We'll get an update shortly. What about the Met? About the Met? Met beat the Philly. About that. Seven, two. Beat the crap out of them. How about that? They pounded him. And, of course, our guy, Shay Norling, is not here. He's going to be out. I think it's super, super cool. And I said to Shay, you need to take pictures. My dad's gone. He died in 2000. My mom loved sports and loved baseball. She would go to the games with either me. She went with my brother. My wife and her would go to the playoff games, the Cubs. And my mom is gone. She died in 2020. Let me tell you something. I said to Shay, dude, that's why you get vacation days. Go to Detroit. He's from Detroit. His dad is the biggest Tiger fan. And his dad said, can you come up here, I'll get tickets. They got tickets. They're going to be at Comerica Park, watching the Tigers and the Guardians. And I just think it's spectacular. And that's where you take a picture. You don't know what tomorrow has for any of us. Good or bad. Very good. But to have that moment with your father, who raised you as a sports fan and how you work in this industry, and you can go back and be a fan and a little boy with your dad, that to me is as cool as it gets. Dad, sit your ass down, and let's watch the Tigers lose. Son, we're here to watch the Tigers win. They're not very good. No school will know victory. But son, this is our moment. I hate this. We're together. I don't like this. Why did a day game? Why in the hell is it a day game? And why is it on true TV? Son, we're at the game. We won't be watching. Well, I just think it's ridiculous if it's going to be on HBO Max. Why would it be on HBO Max, Dad? Son, we got tickets. It doesn't matter words. It doesn't matter. I think this sucks. Okay. I've got the Guardians on the money line. Won't be able to enjoy it, Cap. You say that it's super cool, but you know he can't be comfortable in enjoying it. You understand that, right? Because there's always some negative angle that he'll take, to sour the moment. I hope he doesn't. What do you mean? Do you not know who he is, Cap? I do, but I had a long talk with him. I did. Oh, did you. Oh, okay. I'm sure that resonated from one ear throughout the other. Damn. It's a Che. Take it from a guy who doesn't have his parents anymore. You've got this momentous opportunity. You're going to be in the stadium with your dad. Yeah, but the traffic sucks to try to get in here. That's the problem. You know how much it was for a beer, Cap? You almost said it was 10 bucks for a beer. Who paid for it? My dad did. Of course. Of course, my dad paid for it. Then don't sweat it. But it's still too expensive. Remember when hot dogs were 50 cents and a beer was a dollar? You don't remember that. What do you complain about? 29. What do you? So, Cap, even though what you just laid out is beautiful, you think that guy can be able to enjoy? Probably not. Probably not. I had a guardian's Mets parlay and now it's broke. But your tigers are willing. Doesn't matter. Oh, the traffic sucks. We'll blow it in the end. We'll find a way to lose. We 191. Whoa, they're lucky. That's what he'll say. That's a thing. So, no. My analytics told me that wasn't going to go that way. Stick your analytics. Just enjoy the moment, man. I kind of like them both ways. Exactly. That's the whole thing. By the way, back to what we talked about for a second, I looked it up. Rick Monday, he was in the cup uniform. Yeah. It was 1976. The two jackaloons are on the field. How they got in the middle of the outfield, the no security, they're in the middle of the center field at Dodger Stadium and they're laying the flag out there. With the time. Yeah. So, just be able to lay it out. All right. There we go. The other guy comes running up with him now. There are two of them are there. The one came first. He's pouring obviously gasoline or lighter fluid on it, out of nowhere. Here comes Rick Monday and it comes uniform, scoops it up. The two guys are like, "What?" Right. And the Dodger Stadium plays, they go crazy. The scoreboard flashes. Rick Monday. They made a great play. That's right. He was a cub. That's right. And the Dodgers had to have him. And shortly thereafter they traded with the Cubs. We got to have that guy. Yeah. And he's been there ever since. Brother, it's in the middle there. It's American hero. Almost 50 years later. He's still there. He's still doing color. Yes. On the radio side. I mean, that's a great story, though. He's got to be what? How old? I didn't look at it. It's got to be in the 70s. It's got late 70s. He's 78. Yeah. After mine in November, he'll turn 79. Yeah. How cool is that, man? Well, we got four games for you to bet on today, by the way. Unbelievable. And we will be carrying the Dodgers and the Padres tonight after the Black and Abdullah show. So my point is, though, is that it's something like the pattern tree. And again, October baseball is, to me, it is postseason baseball, Little League, and the world baseball classic all wrapped into one because of because one, there's a base hit for an RBI, if there's a home run, guys, good pouring out of the dugout. You don't get that in June. You don't get that. Guys are pouring out of the dugout. They're celebrating. I mean, it's something. And by the way, if I'm the Cubs, I pick up the phone and get Jesse Winkler on the team. Every team needs a Jesse Winkler. Yeah. He is a rocking your shoe and probably a jag. And the point is, though, that's the kind of guy you need on your team that doesn't care. Get yourself a Jesse Wink. Every team should have one. Just a bad guy. But but comes through in the clutch and a team guy, give him a call cap, get Jesse Winkler on your team. Yeah. That's what you need. You got to have those glue guys. He's just that guy. I was texting with Jesse yesterday. I'm not sure what series Jesse's is at. I don't know if he's at home or is at Milwaukee and then when they gagged their way out of the playoffs, they don't know where they sent him next. So, no, I was just telling him. It's very awkward. Danny would know. Yeah. I don't know where he is. But just I just think that's fun. So if you get a chance, check it out because if you haven't been watching the whole season, postseason baseball is absolutely awesome. It's incredible. Coming up next, here's something that is something that Cap has not talked about. The entire station has talked about this topic. It's sub-cap. We'll talk about it next on the Cap and Jhood Morning Show. Get ready, whew, we are door and we're doing it better than anybody else around. Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago. It's a Cap and Jhood Morning Show on ESPN 1000 and streaming on ESPN Chicago app. So I looked up the Rick Monday trade and here's my tie to the whole thing. So I went to a car dealer years and years ago to buy a Chevy Blazer. Sure. I've always been a big Chevy guy. And I wasn't even in the business yet. I was just starting to make my way. And the guy who's the sales guy, we start talking and I said, "How long have you been here?" He goes, "Well, I was a baseball player and I look at his name." And I said, "I know who you are." He said, "There's no way you know who I am from baseball." I said, "I could tell you who you were traded for." And I was haggling on the price because I couldn't afford. Of course. And I said, "I'll tell you, everybody in that trade," he goes, "If you get all the names right in the trade, I'll knock another $500 off this deal right off the bottom line." Wow. And I said, "Done." Mike Gorman and Rick Munday went from the Cubs and you can see him start to squirm to the Dodgers. Yvonne DeJesus Bill Buckner and you, Jeff Albert, came back to the Cubs. He's like, "You got $500." True story. The car dealer was on Gulf Road and Skokie Boulevard in Skokie right by Old Orchard. Yeah. Yeah. True story. So that was the deal. That was the trade. DeJesus, former Philly, former Cub. 76, he scoops the flag up and gets all the praise from the Dodger fans and 77, they traded him there. We got to have that guy. All right. We'll take Buckner, DeJesus, and throw in that minor league pitcher, Jeff Albert. How I remembered it, I'm just freaky with that, and that was true. Locked in Cub fan, it was in the transactions, and you read it like, "Oh, okay." The agate. And the news paper back in the day. It's a small type. Right. It's right there. Of course, you remember that. Correct. You're still a young man. You're just watching. Oh, that was the deal. Okay. That's what happened. That's it. 500 off the deal. That was a big deal. 500 bucks, like 40 years ago. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We got five burning questions regarding the Bears coming up at 735 right here on Cap and Jay Hood. Cap is, because he left the show yesterday, I don't know if people know or not, Cap and I was just doing two hour shows. So, because he toured the end as he sunsets his career at some point, he is starting to do now just two hour shows. So he was off at nine o'clock yesterday. And so... I had to interview Laura Ricketts for the Chicago Sports Summit. Yes. We were 350 people at this breakfast interview, yes. And so it was the two of us in front of the entire audience, just two of you. Just me and Laura Ricketts in front of 350 people, and I got a chance to talk to her. I brought her to tears. That was super cool, because I brought up November 2nd, 2016, and her whole demeanor changed. She's like, "You're going to make me cry." And talking about the home run by Raje Davis and her young nephew sitting with her at the game and freaked out in tears, and she got all emotional. About what it meant, and she said, "That's what I want fans to understand." We want to win again here. Yes. We're just trying to build it the right way. Kathy Walters with us here on Cap and J. Hood. So the whole thing that is interesting, you're the only one on the station to have not commented on this openly. You know, Cap, there's been seven new NFL head coaches. Seven new NFL head coaches were hired in 2021. Five of them have now been fired. One of them, Robert Salah with the New York Jets. This happened as I was talking about the Bears in that first quarter hour, the nine o'clock hour. I'm talking about the Bears building a topic. Cap's not with me, so I'm all alone building a topic, and all of a sudden, breaking news. Robert Salah, out of nowhere, fired by the Jets. When you're a jet, you're a jet. Okay. So think about it. Salah out as the head coach of the Jets only Dan Campbell and Nick Siriani are still on the job from the coaching class of 2021. So I'm sure Shay texted you, let you know why you're talking to Miss Ricketts that Salah from the Jets is fired. How did that strike you when that came across your phone? I saw that cross and I thought, wait a second, Aaron's got to have a role in this. It's not like they're all in five. They're two and three. They're not playing great football, but they got a lot of talent over there. A lot of talent. I'm not a huge Robert Salah fan. I think he's a great defensive mind. I just, I hadn't, the team didn't look right to me. And then a couple of weeks ago, we saw Rogers come off the field, Salah went to hug him after a touchdown and Aaron put his arms up like and set, barked something at him and then kept going. I'm like, it's something's not right over there. And Woody Johnson, the owner, said this was 100% my call. This is the best. We just saw the quote on TV on ESPN. This is the best team I've had, he said, in 25 years being with the Jets. The best team. They got a ton of talent. That defense is underachieved and Salah is a defensive guy. And so they call them in. What didn't make sense to me is, but it's awfully early to pull the plug, that's one. Two, Joe Beningo from WFAN in New York said he believes the fact that Robert Salah, who is Lebanese and you're allowed to put the flag of your choice on your arm of your team issued gear. He put a Lebanese flag on show support for his country. Yes. Super cool. Well, with what's going on in the Middle East, Joe Beningo is reporting on the fan that wearing that flag on his coaching outfit played a part in his firing. I'm not sure that that's true, but that he's pretty well sourced. That's what he's saying. But Woody Johnson said this was my call, not the GM, nobody else. This was my call. I'm trying to save our season, and I don't like what I'm watching. Well, two things with this, and people are wondering, so why is this a topic? Why are we talking about this? The reason why we're talking about this is twofold. One, various fans, you see how things are other places. You have the owner that stepped over the general manager, and everybody else in the organization says, no, I'm firing Robert Salah. The owner decides to do that. That's one. So think about this, Bears fans, whatever you think of the Chicago Bears, think about an owner in a UK trip saying, yeah, you know what, I've seen enough, I'm firing him. So now you're cutting the balls off the general manager, not allowing him to generally manage the team. The owner's doing that. Number two, Cap has the Jets winning the AFC. I did. So that's all that. So not only underachieving Aaron Rodgers, not only underachieving defense, but now they fired their head coach. Damn. So that'll be all for your Jets bit. That'll be all. The Jets are going to win Monday night. I said the AFC. No, I'm talking about Monday night. We can only be one and all this week, John. Who's we? The Jets. Oh, oh, you're a Jets fan now. How about this, James? Or work that? No, no, no. I'm trying to speak is if I worked for the Jets, you said, I have them winning the AFC. So I'm taking the role of the Jets in mass, and you're a jet, you're a jet. And so if I was running things in there, I would say, guys, I'm not worried about two weeks from now. I'm not worried about that goof David Kaplan picking us to go to the Super Bowl. I'm worried about this week. We can get to one and all this week. That's all we can do. So coach Salah is gone. He's out. Now what didn't make sense to me is, why did you have to escort him out with security? Like, was he going to punch somebody? Jets security. You got to go. Let's go. And he's like, can I talk to my team? No. The owner said, no, you cannot meet with your team or your staff. See? Get out. We'll send your money. So as I know, the Bears have never done that. As a matter of fact, I know- They never fired anyone in season. Never fired anyone in season, but never escorted someone out before they could talk to people. You remember when Dictoron, Dictoron is the same way, he spoke to the press after he was fired. Dictor! This two shall pass. Yeah. And then there was video. I remember, I think on like channel five, I think it was Gene Greco way back in the day on channel five NBC. There's Dictoron in his office at the old Hallis Hall and he's looking down and talking to the fans that had gathered below like it was a, you know, a mass. Yes. It was like him seeking his beak outside of the Vatican window. Right. He was like the Pope. Yes. And he thank you, you know, this two shall pass. So ridiculous. Crazy. Yeah. But I heard it. I'm like, well, that's awfully quick. Five games. And the owner said, I believe the coach, Obrick, who has the respect of the coaches and players on the team, along with the coaches on this staff, he get the most out of our talented team and attain the goals. We established this off season. And this is the first time I've ever fired a coach in season. He purchased the Jets in 2000. And I want to make ESPN 1000 Morning Show co-host David Kaplan look smart. Let's go Jets to the Super Bowl. Yeah. That's not what it says there. That's an ad lib there is it's not said on your screen. I mean, let me tell you what, no, that last part is not part of it. He's believing that he's thinking that, and by the way, just as a matter of fact, the Jets are playing the bills next. Good luck. So here's a thing, Cap. We can only go one and all what you're taking on the bill. So long, everybody. Never lost the bill on beaten. No. He just got smoked. Be okay. Bills have lost too straight, buddy. You need to burn that ticket. And I'm sure that you have some kind of backdoor ticket on the Jets winning the AFC away in the Super Bowl because you have this man crush for Aaron Rodgers, which it makes no sense because Aaron Rodgers is a coach killer. Aaron Rodgers is a coach killer. You know why Robert Sala is out of a job is because of Aaron Rodgers. That's why Aaron Rodgers wants things his way. Here's the thing that's so ridiculous about it. Aaron Rodgers may not be with the Jets after this season. So Woody Johnson's putting all his chips in the middle of the table for a guy that's not playing well. That's in the autumn of his career. That's the other thing. It has very few magical moments left at the quarterback position at his age. That's not LeBron James up there, Cap. That's Aaron Rodgers. Two minutes. So, okay. So you couldn't work with Matt La Floor. So, okay. So you had to go someplace else. Then don't forget also, we remember in the summer, this dude just goes to Egypt. It doesn't tell the staff until the head coach, yeah, I'm just gone. Unexcused absence, Cap. Unexcused absence. He's a jag. But anyway... And that... Oh, Cap. He's a coach killer. Any time there's someone's a coach killer, that's a bad guy. You want to shine that up and tell me that's not a bad guy? Someone that gets coaches fired? And the other thing, I'll tell you something else about what happened out there. In the UK. Long trip, right? What do you want to do with all his muckity mucks and all his rich friends? Hey, Woody, tough loss. You lost to a quarterback you used to have on your team, Sam Darnold. That was embarrassing to him and his muckity muck friends in the UK. You lost to Sam Darnold. Hmm. Vikings must be a pretty good kid, and that had to stick to his craw. He had to be like, "Oh, God." I lost to Sam Darnold, we're in the UK. My friends at the dinner are telling us, "Hey, man, you need to make some changes here." And then, of course, Aaron Rodgers on the phone, Woody, if you want me to stay with this ball club, you got to get rid of, tell us the ballers here, get rid of Baldi, and that's what he did. Aaron Rodgers killed him. And reportedly, he was going to fire, or not fire, demote Nathaniel Hackett, the offensive coordinator, and give play calling to another member of the staff. He'd still have his job, but he wouldn't be calling the plays. And as soon as they heard that, before he had a chance to tell Hackett, five minutes after Woody Johnson got word of it, get Roberts to law up here. Robert, we're making a change. I wish the best to your family. Good luck to you. Security, get him out of here! That's brutal. That's dirty pull right there, Cap. It is because of Aaron Rodgers. You don't even know if he's going to be with you next year. Let alone be able to lead you where you need to go. Like, the magic's gone. He's not the same guy, Cap. He's not. And you allow him to run the organization, Aaron Rodgers, who just gets up and does ayahuasca and just goes up and just takes a trip whenever he wants to. Tune in. Not right. So, stick with your jets. Stick with him. Jets will beat the bills Monday night in the Meadowlands. When you're a jet, you're a jet. With you being a mush, we know that's not going to happen now. Now that you made that declarative statement, that'll be all. Jets lose again. Jets win. Okay. How about that, Jay Moore? He says that your guy, Josh Allen, is going to go down to Aaron Rodgers in the jet. How about that? What do you think I ain't saying nothing, man? It's not happening. He's not going to lose three in a row. Sorry. Wow. That's all. It's not going to happen. So, there you have it. All right. I can't wait months. Hopefully, Sunday morning I wake up, Brett and I cook some omelets with Mindy. We watch the bear beat the jag. Watch the rest of the day and night of football. Come in here, do a victory Monday with you and then Monday night. Let's go, Jets. I think I may put on a green shirt just to be ready for Monday night. You want to put something on there? Oh. What's the line? You tell me? I'll look it up. I will look it up for you, Jay Moore. He's always going to side with the jag. Not a surprise. Aaron Rodgers, that's where you're going to put your money on. That guy. Yeah. It's ridiculous. He's pretty good, kid. Don't you want to spoon with him? But the point is, though, is that that has nothing to do with the football. I want to sit down and have dinner with you. Why? Jets are getting two and a half. Yeah. So, Jay Moore, are you getting down or what are we doing here? Sandwich bet waddle, right? I mean, let's do it, man. Sandwich bet. All right. Sandwich bet. Okay. You've got it. Your choice of where you get it from. Sounds good. Right there. Siding with a guy as a coach killer, that's a switch. Siding with him. Aaron Rodgers. Killing coaches. Huh? Pretty good. Who is he killed? Other than it's a lot. Do you know? One coach. Oh, McCarthy. But he also... Oh, McCarthy. Just the guy he's been with for all these years. Oh, just McCarthy. The beat cop. Well, not a second. He won a Super Bowl with McCarthy, too. Can you never make a change? The point is, though, is that Rodgers is seedy. He is. I'm going to dinner with that dude. You watch. That's fine. Well, that says a lot. It says a lot. Sit down. Have cocktails. If you have dinner in cocktails with an empty chair, it would be the same. Coming up, well, is Rodgers a sniper or is he the poison in your drink guy? Definitely poison your drink guy. He's definitely smooth and just dropping pills in. Hey, what's that over there? Boo? Oh, God. I'm wasted. Darman? Thanks. He home. Of course. He's definitely that guy. Absolutely. Tuna. Not what I hear. I hear he's a good dude, man. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. I'm sure. For friends of mine who know him. Oh, okay. How about the football side? Any good? Okay. He's one of the five greatest quarterbacks ever. I'm talking about now, Cap. Don't give me the LinkedIn resume. I'm talking about right now. He got a coach fired. It all starts over on Monday. It's brutal. Let's go. Let's go, Aaron. I hope the audience is here in this guy. Now he's a Jets fan. No. It's amazing. Not a Jets fan. Whichever way the wind blows. It's amazing. I'm not a Jets fan, but I've always liked Aaron. Wasn't a popular opinion because he was a packer, but there's something about that dude I like. Whichever way the wind blows. My team is the Bears, but I'm an Aaron Rodgers fan. That's what you're saying. But I like Aaron. Yeah, I do. All right. I'm burning questions with the Bears. That is next. Well, that might not be the case, but I love them though. Got a needle? No. Okay. You sit over there 20 yards away. All right. Coming up. Five burning questions on the Bears, and then we got shout no shot at eight o'clock. It's a waddle Wednesday on Cap and J. Hood. The Chicago Bears are trash. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? I've just been handed an urgent news story. Cap and J. Hood are back. 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 about Cap and J. Hood. E.S.P.H.U. card. It's time for five burning questions on the Cap and J. Hood morning show on the E.S.P. in 1000. And we're streaming on the E.S.P. in Chicago app. We ask you to check out the S.P. in Chicago on YouTube, YouTube.com. Hit that subscribe button where you missed nothing from E.S.P. in Chicago, also on Twitch. Twitch.tv/ESP in 1000 Chicago. Cap, are you ready for five burning questions? I look forward to it. We get waddle on Wednesdays and we get five burning questions. I love it. All right, J. Moore, let's go. Number one, Cap, among the bears regular season starters, among the bears regular starters, which Chicago bear has yet to impress you? Among the bears regular season starters, that would be Braxton Jones. I see a guy who's still light in the rear end and gets stood up and driven back. So Braxton Jones is my biggest concern at left tackle. Okay, is there a second choice for that? Sounds like it's probably going to be on the offensive line again. No, I would tell you probably number two would be Keenan Allen because we missed him for two of the five games and I think he's only had 20 targets in the other three. I need to see more from a guy in paying $23.5 million still. I just want to see Kevin Jenkins be healthy and effective on that left side. Good point. He did make the trip to London, so he's there. Rib injury, ankle injury, they're working on him, giving him treatment while they're there. Yes, Kevin would absolutely be in that team photo. Because to me, in my mind's eye, I saw Kevin Jenkins and Darnell Wright growing up together with the bears and being part of a special offensive line for a decade. That's what I saw like coming in these two wonderfully gifted, these young studs. Yeah. That's how I was thinking like those two together, my God, they could grow up with the, you know, with the bears together and be dominant in the offensive line. Not yet. Not yet. We're not there. Okay. Number two, cap. What aspect of the bears must improved based on Sunday's game against Carolina? What aspect of the game must improve? Yeah. What aspect of the bears must improve based on the Sunday game against Carolina? That would probably be for me. Past protection. Getting better run blocking. Darnell, excuse me, DeAndre Swift has had two good games back-to-back, 170-plus combined yards and 120 on Sunday against the Panthers in 36-10 win. I got to see better protection for Caleb. He's getting the ball out on time, but I can't have him taken unnecessary hits. That was the best that we've seen all season though. Did we not last week? Yes. The best protection he's had all year. Which still, how many times was he sacked? Was it twice? What was it? I know there was, again, holding the ball too long and he was way behind the line of the script. But you remember that sack. Correct. There's nobody open to get the ball out and get rid of it. Look, you're going to take some hits. Tom Brady took some hits. You're not, oh, my Holmes holds it longer than anybody. Yes. But I need to see better protection in the passing game so I can go downfield. Okay. We'll have more coming up with five burning questions on the cap and jay hood morning show. Welcome back to cap and jay hood, you're officially locked in on Chicago's home for sports. ESPN Chicago, five burning questions on cap and jay hood, ESPN triple five burning questions every Wednesday at seven thirty five brought to you by you. That's the problem. But if you're looking for a valuable real estate, make sure you reach out to goodcomerbrands.com play a good real estate here, play a good land. You know, when you travel this state cap, you go down and you see all this corn fields and all this property, you're like, you see this stick in the ground for sale, we're for sale. Right there. Right there, cap. Five burning questions. Like you said, there's good land of it. Why don't we just call it the land on demand? Well, we better not do that. Oh, that's the cap. We're ready for the next one. Number three. Number three cap, which team are the bears better than in the NFC Carolina? Number four, that'll be all apparently. I think there's a lot of teams. The bears are better than I want you to take it. I want you to tell definitively the audience which teams are better are the bears better than in the NFC? The bears are better than which teams? Well, I'm pulling up the standings right here and I've got the NFC standings pulled up. The bears, I believe. Give me three. That's this question. There are a better team than the commanders who I know how of a one game lead than us. I think the bears are as good as or better than anybody in the NFC East. Okay, the commanders, Eagles, Giants, and Cowboys. I think the bears are better than the Seahawks, Cardinals. I would not say that about the 49ers just yet even though the bears record is one game better and better in the Rams. I believe the bears are a better team than the Green Bay Packers. The Minnesota Viking, not the Detroit Lions. I believe a still question. I think the Falcons are really good. I think the bears are better than the Saints and the Panthers. I like that Bucks team and they want to road playoff game, so I can't give the bears the nod there. So the 49ers, the Lions for sure. I'd probably tell you right now the Falcons, the veteran quarterback just threw for 509. I would put those teams ahead of us. Wow. And then we're in a pack, a group with Dallas and Philadelphia and the Seahawks are probably in the same pack with us. The Vikings at same pack. So wow. The Bucks. There you go. I mean, that's high praise for the bears. That's correct. Feel like better than the Vikings and the Packers. I believe we are. But by record, I can't dissuade anybody from thinking the Vikings are better. I think we have a better football team. You know, today, today, they certainly rank higher cap in today's football hyperbole doesn't matter. The one lost record. People are just saying the Ravens is the best team in the NFL. Oh, they are. Yeah. I'm not convinced that you've seen this over our shoulders every morning, like a Ravens best team in the NFL. Really? Correct. Oh, okay. Okay. If you say so. Indeed, I, I'm not betting against Patrick Mahomes. Never again. I'll be on the losing side of some of that cat, but I'm never losing like it's getting to the point where they start my parlay with Kansas City. Just something like Moneyline saying, I start my parlay with that, like Kansas City and then you move forward. I thought they would have issues with the Saints on Monday night football the other night. And in the end, that'll be all see you Saints. Next one. Four. Cap. Roshan Johnson is the bare short yardage back and their second best back. Two touchdowns good. Roshan Johnson. Is that good? Because he gave you that last week. Yeah, it depends where you're getting that from. If you get the ball inside the five, yeah, that's your guy. I don't think he's the guy that's going to break up with regularity, a 35 yard run for a touchdown. I don't. I think Swift is your clear number one. I think Roshan's your clear number two. And the third guy, Cleo Herbert, solid football player, but the other two are ahead of him. And lastly, number five. We saw what happened with Robert Salah as he was fired by the Jets and their defensive coordinator, is it Robert York, what was it, Jeff Obrick was it, Jeff Obrick, OK, not the guy from Vegas, not Robert York, not Robert Europe, the actor. He's much too short to be a defensive coordinator. OK, Jeff. It was a dead Tana, Jeff Obrick. And I've liked that guy for a long time. His sideline demeanor, the backwards hat, the gray beard, like mine, and he's just. Yeah. He's intense. I love it. Somebody on Instagram found him like yelling at Josh Morris, Jr. Jim Morris Jr. This is like Josh Mora worked over it. Yeah. Channel two. Or, yeah, somewhere. Okay. That's Antonio. Is that Antonio Mora? That was channel two. I'm aging before your very ears. Cap, if Eva Flus was canned in season, who was the automatic choice to be the head coach and the staff? Automatic choice. Not Dicke. Not him. He's done. Good. McCasky. Gang. We're a better football team. Look, we're a better football team. OK. Sit down, coach. If Eva Flus was if we were the jet, just like the bears wanted to make a change, like automatic looking at your coaching tree here. So I've got the whole staff here. I mean, I would think. Not that guy. Don't say it. Don't say it. No, not him. I'm looking. He could barely get through the office. I think it would be John Hoke. Well, that's about time John Hoke is opportunity. How long has he been coaching? John Hoke is a veteran guy. He's had multiple stints with the Bears. He has 43 years of coaching experience including 19 in the National Football League. Yeah. That would be the guy. That's if you had to make a change, yeah, I would say it would be him on an interim base. Yes. Correct. Someone that can navigate the water. That's correct. Because shaking Shane Waldron who needs players to talk to him. No, he's not the head coach. Waldron needs to focus on the offense. John Hoke. That's a good name. Very good name. And that, my friends, is five burning questions right here on cap and Jhood. It's a Waddle Wednesday. It's a Tommy coming up at 835, but first, shot a no shot in two minutes on cap and J Hood. That's the dress down. (audience laughing)