Best of the Bears: Week 1 at Panthers

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2:37Bigstime. Bigs with all in paint. Bigs time. The Bigs report with Brand Bigs. Bigs time. His name is Brand Bigs. Brand Bigs talks football with you. Welcome back. Hey, in Chicago Sports Radio 1043, the score on this beautiful Friday morning. It is definitely week one. We are reacting to Thursday night's game in Australia between the 49ers and the Rams. Ruthie Polinsky is in for Jared today. And welcome to our Chicago Sports Network. Audience Ruthie, one you know well. They recognize you from our Chicago lead, the Big Football Show, which we'll be doing later today. I think I'll change my shirt even though now I'm wearing the colors. Where's your CHSN gear? I have a long day ahead of me. Do have a long day. You have a long day. I have a longer day than you for the first time in a long time. You do because you're doing white socks pregame and post-game after that. White socks preampost tonight with Ozzy. Wow. That is hard work.

3:37One something our next guest can relate to. And the segment with Brad Bigs is sponsored by S-wing professional tools made in the USA for over 100 years S-wing.com. And Brad Bigs, it's Bigs time. The football man from the Chicago Tribune, the best source of Bears news anywhere. Join us now on the Plumber's 911 hotline. Plumbing emergency. Call 1-8-3-3. Plumb 911. Local 130 plumbers. Get the job done right the first time. Morning Brad. Morning gang. What's going on? Doing well. It's Friday morning. Brad, I know you watched last night and I know you saw the opener between the Seahawks and the Patriots. Seahawks win by scoring 13. The Rams, the best team. In a long time according to the preseason prognostications, they score seven. Should we take anything that's happened in the first two games and look at that and attach it to what the Bears offense might be able to do or not do on Sunday in Carolina? No, and I'd remind you what I said yesterday morning that

4:40you can get some oddball results in week one. Things can look dramatically different shortly after week one. That's an important part. I can talk about it later this morning from his perspective that the greatest misconceptions in the NFL are formed after one week of football. The Rams didn't look great. I talked to Tori Taylor the punter yesterday. I just bet the NFL playing over in Australia. He said he didn't know which plan I had was better. The 49ers going almost a week early or the Rams showing up not long before kickoff. He said whoever wins, obviously everyone will say that that was the the best strategy. But he said I'm just glad I don't have to play in a game in Australia.

5:43You don't make that trip and play a football game. So we'll see it's going to be exciting on Sunday. The two best units on the field are probably going to be the Bears offense or the Panthers defense. That would be my estimation here beforehand. So what does that look like? Because Carolina's got some high paid guys at every level of the defense. Do you feel that way still Brad even with the injuries on the Bears defense? Do you think Panthers are going to have a difficult time moving the football even with some of the injuries with that being said? What can we make of the Xavier Woods pop it up on the injury report? Yeah, he looked pretty chill in the locker room yesterday after practice. I didn't talk to him. We'll have to see there. So if he can't go, you're looking at the Ham Lewis there or maybe Elijah Hicks. I don't know how they would juggle that. But Bear's defense is going to be facing an offense that

6:50is looking to improve this year. Is looking to build off some of the things. Last year, Technic Millen, it looks like he's going to be a monster in the league for a while. But that Carolina offense was mostly underwhelming last year until they get a home playoff game against the Rams and they what they have 31. I want to say in that game, so we'll see. And Carolina, one of the few defenses in the league that had a less impactful pass rush than the Bears a year ago. Now they go out and they spend a boatload on Jalen Phillips, 120 million over four years. I said earlier this week, David, that I don't think Phillips is going to have a hard time playing up to that contract based on what he's done to this point in his career. But the market's the market and they're hoping that he can kind of be what Brian Burns was for the Panthers previously. So Brad, the Panthers are turning over play calling duties to Brad Idzick.

7:54He's a young first time play caller. He was inserted into this role of calling plays because as reports coming out of Carolina wanted to be more aggressive. Not sure how that translates into what to expect from Bryce Young or how ready he might be for that shift in approach. But is the element of the unknown something that should concern the Bears fans about the defense against Idzick the way that made that there's really no there's no previous tape. There's tape on Bryce Young. There's no previous tendencies on a guy who's never called plays before. Yeah, there's no tendencies. But I think what you're doing is you're looking at what they do with Dave Canales because listen, Canales isn't going to hire an offensive coordinator that isn't down with a lot of what he's doing. I think what we're looking at is a guy who's going to come in, maybe have some tweaks to what they want to do. But you basically got a same ingredients, different chef where you're basically cooking the same

9:05meal. Bears have just got to go out fundamentally, they got to play well. They've got to be better against the run this season. And we'll see if that defensive line can hold up a little bit, help keep the linebackers clean and they can accomplish that goal, right? Brad, what's the latest on Roma Dunes? I know back out there yesterday, limited. It seems I felt as though Ben was a little was more optimistic about him being labeled as day and potentially being able to go out there on Sunday. Yeah, we always got to be a little bit careful interpreting entry stuff and reading between the lines with entry stuff. But sort of the overall vibe I got was that it was positive for Rome. So provided things go well today and they've got to practice a little bit

10:05later on in Lake Forest, I would think there's a strong chance he plays on Sunday. This is a guy who did play in 17 games as a rookie. And last year, he was trying to cut it out with that with that foot issue for a bit there. So I think he's a relatively tough customer and we've got a good chance of seeing him play. This segment with Brad Biggs brought you by four seasons, heating, air conditioning, plumbing, sewer and electric for all the right reasons called 866 four seasons. All right, Brad. So when the number one defense runs out to the field for the first time on Sunday, what's the front forward look like? And then how does that change during the first third and seven long, you know, third down passing situation? Does it change in terms of the edge rush? I just curious. We talk a lot about who is in the mix and the committee and all the guys with in terms of depth. But who's the starting front for and how does that change in passing

11:06downs? Yeah, well, I think you're looking at a great and contagious street as you're starting defensive tackles. Montess wet, obviously, he's going to be out there, you know, 80% of the snaps for the season. And then I think Dio's probably the base defensive end, but with Booker, certainly being on the field in passing down situations. And I see some type of, you know, I see I also see Booker playing in bass downs against Carolina. It's not going to be a situation where Austin Booker is only on the field if it's, you know, second and seventh or more or third down in a passing situation. They thought he played the run relatively well last year as well. In those passing downs, you can see Dio moving inside the defensive tackle with maybe

12:09street coming off the field. But you're going to see a rotation and defensive tackles. You're going to see Booker worked in there. And then, you know, just Chroma, do they give him a little bit of run? You've got to have probably going to have a fourth end up. So we shall see there. I know a bunch of the guys have been talking in the locker room with locker room back open, including, I know Tori Taylor, you mentioned you spoke to. What's he saying about Bo Gardner? I loved what HT said about him yesterday and just sort of the pressure he's under. And what opposing, you know, what these opponents are going to maybe throw at a rookie long snapper. Well, I think it's going to be pressure straight up Broadway. You would think, right? There's only a couple of few different ways you can rush the punter and hope to get there. And one of them's one of them's coming, you know, right up Broadway. So he'll have to, they'll have to handle that.

13:14It's a challenge. It's in front of him. HT made the point. Hey, these jobs don't come open that often. Pat Pat Manley had one here for forever, 16 years. Uh, Jansson, the snapper and Carolina, I think he's going in like your 18. Um, so it's either just isn't a whole lot of turnover. So that's why it's been forever since the Bears have had a snapper that hasn't had any previous NFL regular season experience. They believe that Bokeh and Handel it. They're kind of excited to see how it looks. And they're they're going to have to, you know, whoever HT thinks is the absolute best. And sort of supporting him is going to be right next to him on the line of scrimmage. And, um, you know, we'll see, but they felt good about the preseason. They felt good about what he did

14:16during the offseason program. He certainly got the size. You talk about holding up in protection. I mean, this guy's about 65. He's probably 245. He's certainly be able to fill out that frame a little bit more. Uh, as he goes, but he's not one of those guys to take a look at because some of these snappers have gotten a lot smaller. He's not one of those guys that you look at. Like they had Jeremy Kane before who was great and coverage. It's been a long time, but wasn't a very big guy. Gardener. Gardener's got those, um, certainly the length in some room to fill out. Brad, I know this has very little to do with maybe Sunday's outcome, but I wonder has anybody asked the Mr. Intensity Ben Johnson what it means to be going back to North Carolina close to where he grew up in Asheville? How he feels about this homecoming Sunday being the head coach of the Bears back in his home state in front of friends and relatives that he maybe he grew up with. I

15:16know you're tight with Chase Rice, the country's thoughts singer. Oh, yeah. Has he addressed that at all? No, I would, I would guess that's something that probably comes up today. That's a Friday question for sure. Yeah. I would, I would guess that comes up a little later on today because yeah, you would expect certainly some people who have supported his career throughout and now our considerable Bears fans will be in attendance in Carolina. It's fixed to be a hot day Sunday, Dave. It's going to be a warm one and I believe the way the sidelines are set up there. They're both going to be in the sun when that game starts, but a little bit later on the day, Panther side might be covered by a little bit of shade, not the parasite though. Can we ask for your prediction, Brad? What are your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, it's just so, it's tough early in the year. When you don't know exactly what you're going to get, you know,

16:22Ben even said it like they don't know what their identity is going to be. It's going to take four weeks or so for them to kind of wrap their arms around that. So it's certainly going to take a little bit of time for us to determine what we believe the identity of these teams are. I think the Bears are well positioned to go get a win. I have questions about the defense and I'll expect to probably have them over the course of the entire season, but with their offensive line, their ability to run the football, they're healthy in the backfield, that's important. I've got Bears 30 to 28. Oh, high scoring, Brad. High scoring. We're pretty close, Bigsy. Believe it or not, I had 31 27. We got a both scoring 30. That's surprising to me. That would be a hot start. That would be the kind of start where you get to Monday for that Bears offense and you're not saying what the hell just happened. Rams fans are saying this morning,

17:29well, Rams fans are still asleep right now, but in Patriots fans were saying after that absolute clunker Wednesday night, Miles Garrett never really woke up. He still was kind of in slumbering. He wasn't nowhere to be found last night. Yeah. Well, I need big phase. I'd have to feel that the less thing can hit with some injury, Sean McPhase is going to get a figured out with the Rams. Brad, before let you go, just curious. This is maybe a slightly away from the Bears, but it affects him as well. Ruthie and I were talking before the show and big picture. You look at the NFL and we saw George Kittle play last night and he's coming back and recovered quickly from what used to be an injury that would keep him a lot longer than he missed. They killed these right? Killies. Yes. Patrick Holmes is starting Monday night. Coming back, he was he towards ACL in December. The Bears you mentioned, a dang bow. Last, I think it was late.

18:29November. No, there was no number. Yeah. He was injured. And as he and the as each a pillow story is remarkable. Medical science has made these these returns harder than ever to project and predict each guy is different. But isn't that remarkable that we're dealing with these guys coming back as fast as they are? Yeah. I mean, it is. And you know, it's funny. You say that because Dan Rochart yesterday said that, you know, in their earliest conversations with Andre Tucker after the triple o injury that, you know, might not be back at any point this year. And some guys don't come back from this. And so for triple o to be where he is, I certainly accredit to him and the staff. But yeah, I guess medical science has improved in a little bit. But man, you got to start watching the injuries. We've seen a bunch of them through these first couple games, Donald and AJ Brown being

19:30two of the big ones and the bears will hope that they're fortunate on Sunday and maybe Kyla Gordon can come up with some medical science that has him in the mix from a soft issue deal. But soon rather than later. Last thing Brad. So we saw this off season running backs around the league be rewarded. And I think the value of the position has made a comeback a little bit. Deandre Swift in that context, he had a career high of 1087 yards rushing last year. The way that he has approached us off season, everything you see and hear about Deandre Swift suggests that he may top that. This may be a 1200. Is it too much to expect? Could this be a 1200 yard season for Deandre Swift? And will he be the focal point of this bears offense? I think he can get close to 1200. Yeah, I think he can approach that. I think he could, you know, 16, 50, 1700 in terms of yards from Scrimmage, maybe.

20:34He looks fantastic. And you just want to, he's not a huge guy. So I think you want to make sure that you don't give him too many touches. And that's why they've got a really good setup right now. A nice mix with Menongai and him. I think your time share is something approach in 60% for Swift with with Menongai, you know, more around 40% and you lean on both those guys to help leave that offense. But Swift, Swift was very good last year and you won't find a person in the building that isn't raving about what he's done all off season and then through the summer. Great stuff, Brad. Have a safe trip to North Carolina. Look forward to talking to Monday morning. Have a great weekend, Brad. That's Brad football man from the Chicago Tribune. And another guy that predicted them to score at least 30 points. Now are you going to make fun of me? No, I think

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23:42It's awesome. Say no more. I'm totally switching. My post is taking way too long to upload. That's a sign you've got to get T-Mobile. So many reasons to join T-Mobile. Find yours at T-Mobile.com. Fastest based on analysis by Uglos Speed Test Intelligence, the head of National Speed School Results, incorporating 5G download and upload speeds for the first half of 2026. Getting the staff and hand it the ball off and throwing the ball to the right receiver. He's doing all the things that good quarterbacks do. So he's going the right way. I know we talk about him every session we get. Guys, he's had a really good camp and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it comes together for him. 17 plus games to share. All right, we're going to talk about Caleb Williams. It's Rahimi and Grody as we are broadcasting live from Cody's public house in Lakeview right now. That's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

24:48Everybody come on by say hi. We just had a gentleman, Evan Silva. You may know the name. Does you have a fan to see stuff big time guys? Brought a world. Yeah. Does a lot for NBC's. He's spoken at the Sloan Sports Conference. The smartest of the sports brain people. That's pretty cool. So he stopped by. If he stopped by, you can. Yeah, I just like, I love that kind of stuff. He was in the neighborhood. He was listening. His daughter Blair is wanting to go into broadcasting. Big fan of Layla Rahimi. I can't believe that. So shout out to Blair as well, which is very cool. Yeah, I'm Blair. You're an influencer, Layla Rahimi. That's what you are. Whether you want to be or not. A terrible decision. I'm sorry. I'm still quoting the mic. The mic Tariqo call, which cracks me up earlier today. Oh, man. That's so fun. Yeah, that's what that's that's just left sitting there. A terrible thing. I can't wait until I open my fridge today. Did I hear Mike Tariqo go? It's happening. Oh, man. It just sat there too. And everybody in the NFL

25:49world. Texting somebody I shouldn't. A terrible decision. A terrible the worst. I don't know. I might have made some terrible decisions in the recording of the Take the North podcast yesterday, which I believe I believe the latest episode is up and running right now. Take the North. And we appreciate your support. It is our Bears podcast that is performed by myself, Neymar Grote, and my guy from the athletic Dan Weeterer. But we do an episode every single year, Layla, where Dan and I challenge each other to make some uncomfortable predictions about the very season. Yeah, you guys, you guys put yourselves in a real pickle and every break, you were stressing out over what you were going to do. I was. And I guess the one that I was especially stressing over because it's and by the way, we do the prediction episode. We've got seven or eight predictions we make. And at the end of the season, we then revisit it to show you where we made all of our mistakes. And most predictions do not come true. Most people are wrong on predictions.

26:51And yeah, I know, I know, except for you yesterday about the game. Yeah, I did have that prediction correct. That's right. I predicted a bad interception and a Seattle three point when I had a higher score. I'll admit that. But one of the categories that we had was most disappointing player on the Bears. I don't know why you guys do this to yourself. Sure. Is that good for anybody? Is that good for our relationship with the players? Is that good with our audience? But you keep doing it. We keep doing it because we're not Barbies. You know what I'm saying? Like we're hardcore. You can bend your elbows. Yes. You don't have to stand on your toes. Holy pliable human beings. But we did. Yeah, most disappointing player breakout player. That's fun to do. Team MVP. I chose an MVP for the team. A Bears record. A Super Bowl pick. And we'll do some of these picks tomorrow on Rahimi and Grote. By the way, at least a Bears score for you. Maybe a Super Bowl pick. We'll tone it down a little bit for our program. But Caleb Williams numbers is an interesting thing too because I think,

27:54Leila, we all expect the next level out of Caleb. I know you do. You had a number six in your power rankings. Seven seven. Sorry, seven out of the top 10 quarterbacks in the league. Yes. The five is really hard. The five is, can you will your team to victory and also prevent them from losing? Also prevent them from losing is a big part of this because like sometimes Lamar Jackson has thrown a Lake game interception. But can you will his team to victory? Yes. I think Caleb Williams has that potential. But you know, we've talked about this. There's a clear directive for Caleb Williams this year. And it is do the basic plays. We know you can run the hard plays better than anybody else. We know you can make the impossible possible. That I do not ever doubt. But it's how are you going to fine tune the stuff that you may not love. It's not sexy. But keeps everybody in business. Exactly. Exactly. And he's talked about, look, I've heard him say in the other day, look, he's like, I'm a shot taker. I've always been an explosive playmaker. So there are times when Caleb Williams is going to do what he wants. There are going to be times where

28:57Ben Johnson will be like, and then maybe he'll make a spectacular play or maybe he'll throw into triple coverage and get the ball battered down. I was going to say get intercepted, but that's not really a huge part of his story so far. He hates throwing interceptions. I don't think he makes the interception. For example, the Drake May did last night. The end zone probably not. I don't think he does that. That was a what I think he throws it away. Yeah. Terrible decision. He did get better at that. Obviously an interception ended the bear season last year. But we don't have to it. Was it like that? No, it wasn't like that. That was it. That was that was classic Caleb Williams, though. I mean, there were some easier passes to be made really quick before we get into this. Because I want to talk about Caleb Williams and the chemistry with his pass catchers should note this that on the Bears estimated injury report, Roma Dunezay does pop up on there. We'll learn more today. Not with a foot injury, though, with a calf injury. So initially Ben Johnson had said it was the other foot, not the stress fracture foot, but his other foot that he was dealing with.

29:59That's all wrong. Scratch that. It's been a rough year to getting things right for bears injuries. It's a calf injury for him. Tyson Begent, limited or would have been these are estimations because they didn't have a full practice yesterday, limited due to a back injury. And of course, Ozzy Truppillo, you know, Patella tendon knee, but limited. So he is still practicing. He hasn't gone all out as of yet. So that's that's right. That's right. That's right. Of course, it is a pillow. It's going to be interesting to see you're too with a lot of these wide receivers and the chemistry continuing to build what is Caleb Williams saying right now about his wide receivers. Let's take a listen. Coach was saying they talked to the receivers and told them like at this point, it's not really sure which receivers would be in which packages would have rooms. And you got enough connected with all of those guys. And if so, what's the advantage to having so many of Yeah, I have one. Yes, I have. I've gotten a multitude of reps, you know, between all the guys. And then and then to having so many, I mean, we got we got we got a speedy group. And so I think

31:01at one point we had seven or eight guys and 21 months or 21 miles per hour plus, you know, which is fast. And so, you know, it's you know, coach said it and he said the best is that, you know, he owes it to us as a group. He said that. I mean, the coaches and so putting the best guys out there, putting the guys that know what they're going to do. We owe that to each other to be able to go out there and know where, you know, what we're exactly supposed to do and go out there and do it. And so, you know, it's up to them, you know, who goes out there as what coach said, it's up to them. It's up to them. Who's going to be in on, you know, this many plays, you know, you get this many packages and things like that. You got to block. You got to run off the ball. You got to do your job. You got to know where you are. You got to know where you need to line up. And so, you know, I think like I said, it's up to them. And you know, we got we got some good guys out there. I get so excited thinking about this with the progression of the guys that were rookies last year, especially Luther Burton and Colson Lovelin who were so good towards them once they got going. You're supposed to supporting player from last year. That's right. It was Luther Burton. It was and I had a reason is because he was injured in the offseason program. And for

32:02whatever it's worth, here I am trying to justify my bad prediction from last year. Luther Burton did not. It took a little while. It took a while for him to get going though. Can you give me that at least? You did this to yourself. I don't know why it's I did. Yeah. It's a mystery to me. Why you guys want to include this category every time. I blame Weeter. I blame Weeter for anything that goes wrong on the podcast. I was sure he loved it. Yeah. That's right. Weed, man. Big part of the Rahimi and Grody show by the way. But don't you love thinking about like if last year they did what they did last year Luther Burton and Colson Lovelin and Roma Dune Zay. Wiley was healthy. And then you add on Xavier Thomas and a couple of other guys in that wide receivers room. Like the sky is the limit with the command that Caleb Williams seems to have with the play the authority. He seems to have with these receivers and titans. I heard a directive there. I heard run. And if he's talking about receivers going more than 21 miles an hour, DK Matt calf comes to mind.

33:04He had interesting comments yesterday about it. Artica. But when it comes to when it comes to the the skill of your receivers, if you know you've got guys who can just blaze down field or blaze across the field or they can create space. They can get open. You know, Tyree Hills Prime. What what did we say about him? He who had tremendous speed. Yeah. Every game you go how did Tyree kill get this wide open on the split? That's the goal with guys with that kind of speed. That is your goal. So can they have that possibility? And then you know what Caleb Williams is thinking because you can throw that deep ball so well. Take the top off the defense. I know that that is something they want to do. I think that the play they ran with Xavier Thomas and Tyson Beijing was a preview of what they would like to do. So how does that turn out in the regular season? I thought about picking Xavier and Thomas is my most disappointed. Unbelievable. You what did he do to you? Because of I think it's the caution with which the coaches were speaking about him, especially press tailor and

34:10saying, yeah, we got something really awesome out of him in that preview season game. We all saw the speed, but he gave the he's got a long way to go before he gets the full boat. That's your trigger because now you were talking about possibly Malik Muhammad and I just stand. I you can't keep picking rookies, especially ones who are being responsible for some key roles on this team. When they're fourth round picks, well, well, then you make the predictions, Layla. All right. I told you I was thinking about it. Like, could it, was it Jedwork Will's? Well, you could have done something easy like Braxton Jones. Yeah, but no, but Braxton Jones is the guy who gave you a year contract. So he gave you the discount supply wise and demand wise for left tackle. And then he's just doing his job as best he can. So he's not your most disappointed. Right. And that's just easy to do because he'll probably eventually be replaced by Aziz or pillow at some point in the season. So it's easy to say that unless he's a revelation and Braxton Jones again, he's having a great career relative to where he was drafted. Yeah. No,

35:15I don't think that's the answer you. No, that's not. You've got me stumped on this because I believe in, I believe in topic development before something hits the air. Well, we're negotiating this right here. There's a page ourselves into a corner. Okay. How about this? Yes. Tori Taylor. Because how many times should we think he was going to boot the 60 yarder? And then he barely had time to get the puns off. But he had a great preseason. Exactly. So they want to, what does he set you up for? Disappointing. I see the logic. Okay. All right. Layla Rahimi has chosen Tori Taylor as her most disappointing player this season. That is not happening. That is, that's, that's too easy. If I have to take it up with Tori Taylor later, I will. Oh, man. Well, check out the podcast. It's up now. If you want to know the answer, it's take the north. Caleb Williams. This is also a great part of this whole thing because we all play the game of who's going to have the most yards, who's going to be targeted the most for the bears this year. And we know that the,

36:16the sort of cliche wide receiver wants the ball, the diva thing that we always place on wide receivers, which I think is like kind of a, it still exists. Wide receivers still, Terrell Owens, give me the damn ball and all of their Keeshan Johnson. Yeah. Will give me the damn ball, all that. I don't think that it is prevalent as a once was. But that's still part of the ego. So you wonder, is the receivers to get the ball? Give me the ball because I can make a play. No, give me the ball because I can make a play. So it's every receiver worth their soul wanting the football. Here's Caleb Williams on how he's going to negotiate all of that. Oh, it's just about kind of going through your progressions. That's coach Call of the play. Is there anything on you to try to manage how those guys get fed and if they're all of? No, I don't, I don't do that. That's not a coach has a long play sheet with the list of guys and, you know, plays and like you said, packages with those guys and, you know, that's, that's that's part of his job. His specialty has been able to get the guys the ball. My job is to go out there and read defenses and not force the ball somewhere and try and get a completion.

37:19Keep the, you know, keep the offense on the field as long as possible to be able to go in a score. And so I typically, I think I do a good job over my years of, of playing QB that, you know, the ball gets spread around quite a lot for me. I have a tendency or anything like that of who it's going to in certain moments. You know, it's, it's just delivering a guy's a good ball and having trust in him. Well, and that, that sort of system was in play last year where so many guys were had similar numbers like everybody had like 600 yards receiving last year except for Colson Loveland who had 700. So I thought he did a pretty good job distributing the ball last year. I do wonder what it would have been like if Roma Dune's a had played the entire season. I think we, we've seen a huge jump in his numbers and maybe a little bit more lopsided. But I think I believe Caleb Williams when he says that. And when I think about the personalities of those wide receivers, I don't think there's the, I got to get mine or I'm going to pout and be pissed off. No, I think that's the function of the Ben Johnson office. Yeah. If there's only two or three guys catching passes, something hasn't gone right in the game plan. That's never seemingly how this

38:22thing is gone. They're best games. They had four or five guys catching balls. And that is indicative of the stats that you talked about. It's Colston Loveland in the regular season with 58 reception, 713 yards. It's DJ Moore with 50 reception 682. Roma Dune's a with 44 on 90 targets though. So he's still finished the season as the leading target and received that's what I meant. Like if he would have played 61 yards, but that's that that's the number where you say, okay, receiver wise, where did Caleb Williams's completion rate go? Well, 44 catches on 50 on 90 targets. That's, that's what Scott to improve. Then you got Colcomat at 347, a laminated 313. He had 65 targets, by the way, a laminated Zikias was targeted 65 times compared to Colcomat's 48. You're guy. Alameda. Oh, wow. I just got the stare. No, he's my most disappointing player for 2026. And I don't

39:23even know who he's playing for. See, you do it the easy way. You do most disappointing after the fact. No, no, no, I I predicted Tori Taylor just because of what we saw last year. Okay. All right. I'll be ready. I don't have a choice. That's my job. He's a good, hey, Australian football happening tonight. Shout out to Tori Taylor. Australian football, but not Australian rules, but no, no, they will not be like that. They will not be wearing shorts out there. We, the Rahimean Grote, we're broadcasting live from Cody's public house in Lakeview. We'll be out here until 2 p.m. Come by, say hello, eat pizza popcorn with us, have a drink. We would love it if you did that again. We're here until 2 o'clock. Then speaking on homes with Lawrence homes and Carmen Vitale will be live from Timothy O'Tools in streeterville from 2 to 6 p.m. You could come by on site also to register to win a $100 gift card to sports world. It is all brought to you by circus sports sports betting the way it should be with no bad fees and by Miller Light, the official

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44:37Wearing his Miami. Look good. Looking good, JP. You know I'm wearing this Miami gear, you guys. After 77 laid down on the fan view last night, you know your boys smiling. Shout out to Ruthie. Thank you for filling in and holding down the fort for your boy. And I would be remiss if I did not start first with my two boys. What up Brandon? What up Dustin? All right, guys, listen, here we go. I'm going with the Bears here, man. I don't care what anybody says. Bears are going to win this game 27 to 23. I'm going to go down. I'm going to go down with Ben Johnson in this offense is going to figure it out. He's going to have a plan. But I think what we're going to be talking about on Monday is how the run game was established early on. Okay. That's how you're going to win this game established the running game early on. I think with the play action pass off of that, it's going to give opportunities for them to take shots down the field, some explosive plays. And the Bears just have more ways to score than

45:40the Panthers do. But as you look at this on on your betting sites, you're getting they're getting they're favored by three. So we're talking about the field goal here. So people think it's going to be close. So maybe we're also talking about that this game comes down to the fourth quarter. And the Bears just have a little bit more in the tank. Jared, great stuff. Great prediction. Before we let you go, just want to express our condolences again. And I know it's a tough day for your family, for the Sui family. I know you're close and you're attending the funeral for for Matt and the Wake was last night. Just what our thoughts are going to be with you all day today, buddy. Hey, man, I really appreciate it yesterday was was very tough. But when you're around people who loved him as much as I did, man, just the stories and just the smiles and the hugs that tears yesterday was was made it all worth it for me just to have my heartfelt. So today will be another tough day. But I appreciate you and Ruthie, thank you for holding it down. Someone's got to keep David in line, man. It's not easy. But at least at

46:46least I know you got you got experience. Yeah, you'll learn you'll learn soon. All the best JP have a great weekend. Love you JP. I love you guys. I'll see you soon. All right. So Jared's got the Bears win 27 23. I have the Bears winning too 31 27 no way Ben Johnson goes back home 31 points. No way he goes back home to North Carolina and has an offense that's a dud. I know I know the Ramscage 7. I know the Seahawks score 13. I know that you think the offense is not going to be functioning at a high level this early in the season. And I don't know what I was thinking, but I do have 31 27 Panthers are going to lose. Bears are going to win and I'm sticking to it. Dustin, bet the over if you're with Jared and David lots of points while 24 13 bears. The theme the theme on Monday, I'm going to go with Jared. I think it's the Bears running game, the time of possession and the use of wait for it, David 13 person out. I have the Bears

47:54winning and I initially had 23 20. I almost want to go 23 19 just so they like officially cover, you know, like cover, handle the total is 46 and a half points. This is not going to be high scoring affair. And I think what the Rams showed you, what the Patriots showed you, what the Seahawks showed you is that week one is a warm up. And I think on Monday, we're going to be sitting here, not me, but Jared and you will be sitting here and you will say it wasn't pretty. There's a lot to clean up, but they got the job done in a game they should win on the road and a lot to build on. I think Colson Lovelin has a touchdown. I think Dundry Swift has a touchdown. And I think everyone's really excited about the possibilities. I think there's going to be some holes on defense. And that's what we're going to talk about. It's going to come down to the end and Caleb Williams does it again. Brandon, real quick, I'll say bears 24, panthers 16. We're going to be

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