Can the Bears’ AGGRESSIVE Offense Overcome Their Defensive Struggles? | w/ Courtney Cronin

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1:00How are you? I'm good. Weak one mode or I guess we're now in week two mode. But it's nice to be back in the rhythm of having a game up to talk about and what a game it was in week one. It was a game that I think a lot of Bears fans are still struggling to process because we've never seen anything like that before. If you go on Twitter, everybody's at war with pff because apparently pff was like Caleb's not that good. It was okay, but it wasn't great. It was a pretty good day offensively for most of us here in Chicago. But can I explain one thing about that? Because I did check in with someone I know that used to work at pff that is no longer there. Because you know, how do you go into or how do you come out of this game and see where he's graded as what the 16th best quarterback? Is that what they said coming out of? I believe I saw and I don't know how it finished because the last time I had looked at it, they had them 20th I saw it. Look, I don't be very honest. I don't think pff is now what it once was.

2:03I think they've lost a lot of very good people. I think that some of the decisions that they've made have lessened the necessity of even having that as a product. But I asked someone I knew what happened with all of this. Like how can you possibly see that and then get to this 64 or whatever he was graded at? So like there's a cap on the quote unquote awesome play is thing on their grading scale. So like you can't get anything more than a two and they don't really give out many of those. So his awesome plays like get graded like good plays, which excuse it. That's not. It's hard when you have a quarterback who kind of breaks the metric. But the way that they go from their raw grades to like the plus minus is not good. And I think it's I think it's an okay product. I think that it serves a purpose. But Caleb Williams and the grade that he got from that game is not indicative of what we saw with our eyes, which I think is a spectacular performance at quarterback.

3:06Yes, there was you know the interception that wasn't because the defender in Carolina in the end zone was was not the right position. That play got negated. We were talking about that a lot differently. Like I could understand the grade if there was something like that. An off target throw to coast and lovelin. There were a couple throws that like just didn't feel that they were synced up. But by and large you got a performance from a quarterback that was a whole performance. Russian game and passing game. Stuff that we don't typically see from Caleb in the in you know on the ground that I think Ben Johnson alluded to yesterday. Maybe that's something that they want to tap into. But yes, the PFF grade I understand the frustration of fans because it just it's annoying when people in the analytics community try to tell you like the and I believe in analytics. I use it all the time. I have five different analytics sites up currently that I'm looking at on my screen. But when when the analytics people try to tell you that what you saw was not what it should be then there's an issue then there's an issue because he passed the I test and then some in that game.

4:06It listen, Courtney. I could even get it right because I do agree with you. I think there's a difference in. PFF and a lot of these analytics sites don't do a great job of grading greatness that you really can't measure right they don't do a great job of measuring the patma homes or like when Josh Allen makes a play that's insane. They don't do a great job of giving credit to those, but they'll give you like a lot of numbers that tell you how the rest of the game went. When I saw that PFF also great at Caleb Williams a 64 his running performance that day in which he had 65 yards and two touchdowns that's when I was like, okay, clearly there's a problem with your system. And I love the fact that they came out with an entire article today and went, whoa, whoa, whoa, guys, it's not us. It's you. You guys are the box score watchers. We're telling you what's happening in the game. It's just disingenuous and it makes it sound like, well, I hate the people in football. There are a lot of people out there. I'm sure people listening to this podcast right now can think of a couple who are the people who say,

5:06well, let me tell you why this matters because you're not intelligent enough to understand it yourself. That just pisses me off and it should piss you off too being told that what you saw on the game was not actually good or good enough to be considered one of the top performances of week one. They put up 59 points and he didn't even connect with his top pass catcher in Colston, Loveland. There's nothing other than like, and yes, I know that there were six rushing touchdowns and, the running backs accounted for four of them. He accounted for two of those. The whole running grade was going to be out of me. I don't know. It's something to move on from, but just take that stuff with a grain of salt. Their analytics now are different than what it was when I started using the product in 2016, and it's a lot different from what it was back then. Yeah, we've officially gone too deep into the analytic community. It's things that are bad throws. I'm like, that's called leading a receiver. And sometimes it's not going to be a perfect spot when you're leading a receiver either way.

6:08It's hilarious to say, I think it's, I am glad that they're being held accountable. I'll say that because I think it does affect the way that we watch sports. When you see that pop up on, what is it? Amazon, I think uses that a ton is it is working with the words. They use, I think it's next gen. They use next gen. One of them is like when we see because Chris Collins were had a significant stake for a long time. I'm not sure if he still does, but had a significant stake in PFF. That was the one where it's like he's rated as the, I remember seeing, I think it was, Jay, Jay, why there's like he's rated as like the fourth overall pass rusher. They put the PFF grades on the screen when they do the three people better than them. When they do the offense defense introductions, it says someone's PFF grade, which is weird, but. It's, it's so strange. But either way, listen, I think that there was a lot of good to look at from this game. Courtney, what was your overall takeaway from what the Chicago Bears did versus the Carolina Panthers on Sunday? I mean, the 59 is amazing, but there's a lot of people that are still sideying the 37

7:08that we saw from an offense that I'll be honest with you. I kind of went into the season saying this is a improved offense. And I think if you protect Bryce, he can be a pretty good quarterback for you. So I wasn't, 350 was a little surprising, but like I wasn't shocked to see them look good, but maybe it wasn't the kind of day you would hope to see. I think Bryce had the awesome to be honest. And I know that in a no better span is going to want to look at the 37 points that they scored and be complementing the other teams quarterback. But football's in a good spot when you have two young quarterbacks taken back to back years, with the number one overall pick performing like they did. And then you saw what CJ Stroud did this weekend and you start to see, you mean, Bonaix struggled last night. I get it. I think he'll be fine and bounce back. The chiefs are clearly back and they haven't left. But like walking away from that game, I felt, okay, the state of the league right now is in a good spot with these young QBs. Now, as it pertains to the result, 59 points all that went into it, the explosive plays,

8:09the run game, Caleb's contributions and the run game. I feel like we're not talking about enough. Like you can't say enough about the offense. And that's going to be probably our theme throughout this season. But defensively, I think it's time to have the conversation about week one, what we saw from this group might be something that looks frequent with, it might be a frequent issue. Like without not being able to get a pass rush going, not being able to pressure Bryce Young, having some of the issues on the back end too. Some inconsistent play from Jalen Johnson, Entiree Stevenson, who are your leaders in that secondary. Now's the time to start really, they say 24-hour rule. Put the win to bed if you're the Bears and then really dive into, how can this defense be salvaged? Because there were a lot of problems that arose from what happened up front to then how that affected your linebackers. There was a play that Devon Bush looked like he got crunched when he was trying to be sent in

9:10on a blitz. And then what does the secondary look like next week? Is it going to be a continuous game of roving players, roaming players from one spot to the next is Xavier Woods back, is Camelose playing time with Malik Mahamad at Nickel. Wasn't all bad because they had three takeaways. That's good. But their bet that the defensive line would be okay with the guys that they have, I think, is not necessarily how any of us are feeling after watching that game. No, I think we feel great about everything that we saw offensively. You can't say enough about it, but defensively, Courtney, you saw Montess sweat. I thought for the first time in a long time, get an impact sack and you thought, okay, maybe this is who he's going to be. Maybe this is, their gamble is going to work out. But you look through the rest of that defensive line outside of the run game. I actually thought they were pretty solid versus the run most of it. And I think that's going to be a strength for this.

10:10I also think that Carolina, like not to, not to negate what they did against the run. Carolina had a stupid strategy for trying to run the ball. They didn't start doing it until a third quarter. And then like the game gets out of hand, they have to throw the ball. The canalist has told us every single year we want to run the ball more. We want to be more effective. Look, Jonathan Brooks is healthy. Finally, why you not running the ball early on in the game. I don't understand that. But yes, like you can look it in two sides of the coin. Like Carolina did poor with their ability to run the ball because they were trying to create those explosive games with Bryce Young. And the Bears looked a little bit better. But only in moments. I mean, the stuff that they were forcing at the perimeter, I think, caught a lot of guys out of position or just frankly was they were able to get a step ahead on the defense. No, yeah. And listen, there's a ton of growth that has to happen. But the problem, no matter what it was, the Bears forced multiple third along situations and gave up first downs. And I think that's going to be the biggest issue that this team has this year. And I'll tell you what like

11:10as bad as things looked when you then add in that, oh, it was Jalen Johnson. That was the one that was getting beat pretty consistently. It was Tyree Stevenson. That was the one getting beat consistently. Those were the guys that you thought at least coming into the season. We're really not going to have to worry about that. Maybe you got to worry about Tyree, a little bit. But like, it looked like you had two rookies out there trying to go out there and compete in Jalen. Maybe you got to give a little, you know, I'll say I'll wait a couple of weeks to see what he's going to be. He had a really, really good training camp. It doesn't matter unless you do it on Sunday. But he had a really good training camp. And I wonder if it was just first time out there getting back out there at full speed. Things kind of got away from you. I thought he had a better second half than he did a first half. But at the end of the day, if you can't stop the pass or create pressure, it's not going to matter what quarterback is standing on the other side of you. Because all of these guys are in the NFL. Most of them are going to be able to handle you. Got the Vikings coming up this week. I think Carson Wentz is going to be a threat to you in that sense if you can't create

12:13pressure for him. So like, there's going to have to be a massive change that comes into play here. And I think the tough part is right. Your mind instantly goes to, yeah, just you're going to have the blitz. It's on you're going to have to send the blitz. The blitz didn't get home either. The blitz didn't work for you either in your linebacker and Devon Bush. I got it. Like I had to look to one of my guys. I was calling the game with and they were like, why did he just fall like that? And I went listen, not for nothing. Like I love Devon Bush. I love the speed. But he's the same size as me and I wouldn't fare very well against the linebacker. Yeah. He's not very big or imposing. He's kind of like a bullet that can be fired out of a gun and take you out. Yeah. And that's where they were banking on the speed versus what they had there in the middle before with Tremaine Edmonds that that might just take some time to figure out how do you use this guy? You're so used to using Edmonds in a certain way. He's playing the same position. How does that work? But it all starts now. Because when Carson Wentz has a clean pocket to throw from, which, you know, late in that game when they were able to get back against against the packers

13:16and win, not just a Packers 4th quarter collapse, but Carson Wentz had some clean pockets. And that's the problem with the Bears did not generate enough pressure on Bryce Young throughout Sunday. So like, here's his pressure sets of he was pressured on 28% of his, 28 of his dropbacks. And so that would have been like 73.2% of the time he was not facing pressure. When he was pressured, it was six and nine for 83 yards in a touchdown. His passivitating was higher when pressured. His yards per attempt just, you know, 0.7 less than when he wasn't pressured. The numbers didn't really change all that much for him. So it kind of felt like you can deduce the pressure had no effect or not the intended to intended effect. And, you know, the way that they blitzed him to, like none of that got home to, you know, against the blitz, 9,000 to 16, 14,000 yards in a touchdown, no blitz, 14, 21, 216 yards to touchdowns, one interception. They got to be more aggressive

14:22in generating pressure because this is the defensive line group that you're rolling with until the trade deadline. That's the next time they can make a really big move that would be an impactful move. And I don't see how like this is going to be sustainable throughout the year. Your offense can score a lot of points. Will it be 59 every week? No. But even Jalen Johnson, like when I asked him after the game about, you know, how does it feel playing with an offense that can do that? Like the identity of this team and he said, yeah, it's great that you can have a unit that bailes you out, but you don't want to have to rely on that every week. His direct quote was, we don't expect them to go out and score 60 every week. Now Ben Johnson might hear that and use that as a bulletin board material. Well, I think it's just being realistic that, you know, no, no unit. These guys are paid to. No unit wants to say, we're not good enough. So we're going to let somebody else do our jobs for us every week. So then we get away with the win, even if we don't feel like we contributed enough to the win. Now's the time for Dennis Allen

15:25to figure out how can we not just get by in games and it may be that the offense is always outscoring their opponents, but how can you carry your weight a little bit more? That's what they didn't do. And, you know, second half of that game in the turnovers, you know, the muffed punt that they came away with, Malik Muhammad and the interception, then, you know, there was another one in there too. Three takeaways for a unit that had 33 last year. You're on your way. Like, good job on that. Leading me and I fell in takeaways again. But just the lack of pressure, I think, is pretty staggering. And I know Bryce is hard to contain. But like, if you give Carson one to, I think, is going to end up starting. I do not think Kyler Murray is going to be passing through concussion protocol. But if you give him time, he can really hurt you. We saw him do it. So, reason he's QB2 and it's not Jay Jim McCarthy. We saw him do it in, I think, six instances last year, three or four of those were wins. That's going to be a problem. Come Sunday if he is having all day to throw. Because when Bryce had all day to throw over two and a half seconds, he was

16:26a much better quarterback as they all are when they don't feel forced into having to make a quick decision. I think offensively, we all agree, right? Like, just seeing what Kyler looked like, you know, seeing the poise that he had. I think there's a lot of good that, that, you know, this is kind of when Ben should be able to lock in going in versus Minnesota. He's always had a really good track, record versus them, except last year when he was trying to teach a new quarterback the system, right? So offensively, I feel like what you're seeing there is very sustainable and you're going to see that continue to look good. But the big question now is, is this fixable Courtney? Because I'll be honest with you, even with the trade deadline coming, unless you truly feel that you are a pass rusher away from going to the Super Bowl, you're probably not making a move to add a pass rusher to this team. So you have to ask with what you have here that is currently healthy, is this fixable in your mind? Is there a way to fix what we saw Sunday as we continue through

17:28this season? You're going to have to generate pressure, manufacture it. And that might not be from your linebackers. I understand the secondary and these corners have a lot on their plate right now as do the safeties. But once you figure out when Xavier Woods is back, you had another body back. And so just thinking in the short term, so let's think this week, do you have like some of the best blitzes came from the nickel blitz that they ran last year? Are you asking Malik Muhammad to do that? Are you asking Cam Lewis to do that? Are those two going to be splitting time? Just think that the extra pressure has got to come from somewhere else. You've got to start showing five every time to try to throw them off. I'm not saying you have to be Brian Flores and blitz 70 something percent like he did against the packers. But a standard four down four, four player rush is not going to, it's not going to get it done. Not with these, I hate to say this, but it's like with the players that they have right now, I don't think that they're capable of doing that. It's not to say they're not talented. I just don't think that the group that they have

18:30right now as it is is going to be able to do that. Dio Dingbo, whether it was, I think it was part of a rotation that's just kind of the vibe that I got. I know some people are wondering, did he get benched in the game? I don't think that was weird. The second half was weird. It was weird, but I don't think that was the case. I'm not quite sure, but just standing on sideline, seeing how they were rotating guys in. Like I felt like I got a better read for the defensive tackle rotation versus what they were doing with the edge opposite sweat, but it's a major work in progress that they've got to start figuring out. And here's the one thing, your guys that are the paid guys have to step up. And I get it right. Like there's not a lot Jalen Johnson can do, but realistically, cover wise, you got to cover for the first couple of seconds, right? He was getting beat almost immediately on a lot of those plays. Tyree Stevens, you're supposed to be a big part of this. Maybe, and the only fix that I could think that might end up happening is, you know, I don't know if Malik Muhammad is the blitz guy, right? I think he's a better cover guy. It's what you drafted him to be. Could Tyree Stevenson be that kind of player? That might mean playing him out of

19:34position, something you didn't do at all in training camp, even though these guys are all cross trained. You didn't see a ton of Tyreek not on the outside, but that to me would be the guy that could be somebody that could blitz in and actually impact pressure on the quarterback. But Montess sweat, not for nothing outside of the big. I think the sack was in a big moment. Not enough pressure. Early in the game too. Early in the game forced the big fourth down. You get the ball back. You saw the difference that it made, but at a certain point, it's just we appreciate you for what you do, but you got to show up for the rest of the game. You can't get that sack and say, well, that's it. I'm done for the day. And that's kind of what it felt like we didn't, I didn't see Montess really create pressure the rest of the day. There's a couple of times you got his hands up and force some tough passes, but there wasn't anything from that side of the football. And you Austin booker, whoever's opposite of him, it is what it is. But they're not double teaming Montess sweat. Go look at the tape. They're not shipping them. They're not sending multiple guys at them. They're letting their

20:35tackles live one on one versus 10. And he's not creating pressure. He has to. And don't you remember last year? It was how do you, how do they get more one on one matchups? That was apparently what was supposed to be the fix for Montess sweat to start generating more production and wasn't really the case in week one. I think it's going to require the manufacturing of pressure. However, you have to do it for Dennis Allen to go back to some of those like New Orleans Saints philosophies that he had when he was really blitzing a lot more than he had last two seasons. We saw it in spurts last seasons. I think really did mask some of the issues that they had up front. But this is the group that you decided to roll into the season left. And I was doing a Minnesota Vikings pod this morning with my buddy Matt Collar. He and I used to cover the Vikings from 17 through 21. And he asked me about that defensive line rotation. Like can can TV Street had a sack? Great. Montess sweat had a sack. Great. But like you think about

21:38I do kind of wonder is you know is the greedy Jared acquisition the overpay that they made. Like let's just be honest about it. It has not generated the return on investment. It almost feels like what they have right now is in part a result of that. And I'm not going to overreact and be like they shouldn't have traded Jervon Dexter away. I didn't watch it. Lannis game. I have no clue what they did. He didn't do much. I did watch it. Lannis game. He didn't do much. And I know that that's like sometimes the people sometimes people have like brought up like you know maybe you should have waited. Like you weren't going to pay him next year anyway. Just haven't get through the season. Well clearly he wasn't enough of a scheme fit to stay. But the interior guys that they have street is apparently their best interior past rusher as said by Dennis Allen. And then it's Neville Gala James Lynch Jordan Fandenberg. This rotation is what it is at this point. And I don't know if that's going to if it's going to recall create much resistance. I mean the Vikings had some trouble running

22:40the ball last week. So you'd like to think okay well if they can stop the run. And it doesn't in times if it looks you know it's bad as it did against Carolina. If the Vikings aren't being the ones who self inflict that then then then then you're feeling pretty good. But this edge group leaves a lot to be desired. And you know it's not to say like I told you so because we've all been saying this. But it just feels like at least in the season opener it came up at a place where you knew this was probably what it was going to be what they look what probably it was it was probably going to look like this. We had enough information before to know that this was going to not be great for that unit up front. Here is the question we got to ask Courtney. Is there any part of this where Ben Johnson has to change some of his aggressiveness because realistically when you look at the game plan and I think a lot of Bears fans have said this but the first drive you gave them the ball in favorable field position. You can't put your your team in a bad spot there. You're fumbled a football. They go in. They score. They take a seven

23:41and nothing leave you go up 21 to seven. They go back down and score. But then you give them the ball on the 21. And you're going forward on fourth and one there. And those are the moments where you kind of looking at like well, this game kind of could have been out of hand. Could have been 28. If you don't give them the ball right there for them to walk in does Ben Johnson have to adjust his mindset at all, which we know he probably won't. That's the deepest he's ever gone and gone forward in his own territory. And I'm sure if you got him in front of a not in front of a microphone, he would probably have a different answer. It was a play that didn't work with Caleb Williams trying to sneak it over the line. Situationally, they're always going to be aggressive. Is it going to be like Detroit? I know everybody wants to always like link the two because he was the offensive coordinator there. A lot of that was Dan Campbell. Decide let's go for it because he's a head coach and you can do that. I chalked that up to they were feeling themselves early. They thought they were having their way

24:43with the Carolina Panthers, which they were, but that could have been that could have been the turning point of the game. If Carolina had more resistance on defense, that could have been the turning point of the game. And it wasn't you got away within week one, but fourth and one from your own 21. Yeah. Mm. I it might be a feeling too. I don't think that but like yeah, it's a field thing for sure. It's it's the tenor of the game. It was early on. Your guys weren't gasped at that point, but it does feel like just the situation, all the awareness of that moment. I don't think that it's going to change how Ben approaches things, but in that moment it didn't work. He felt like he had the right call and your quarterback should be able to pick up a yard there or God forbid, you know, use the push push. Ben won't. Ben won't. That's one thing I can tell you will not happen because he said he likes explosive plays. He doesn't hate that place. Yeah. But maybe that's something that they want to emphasize in practice this week. You don't see

25:44that a lot in training camp. The sneaks are not something that should change the course of a game this early in the season. It didn't, but again, I just don't think he's going to change his philosophy, how he does things. I think that was simply just a bad call in the wrong moment at the wrong part of the field and it didn't work. I do think it's a field thing too though, right? Like you were moving the ball on Carolina effortlessly at your worst. You were moving the football on them fairly easy. I would have said, like, forget the touch push, like use the run game that was dominating them the entire day on a fourth and one situation. They're like, just go with something that we know has continued to work. But you know, the one thing I will say about Ben is I don't know if you're going to see a fourth and 21 versus the Vikings defense. I don't know if you're going to see a fourth and or a fourth and one. I should say on the 21, you know, versus somebody's top teams that the defense is able to get you. Not even Brian for us. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, now maybe I'm wrong, but I would assume that this is going that he went for it because of how you

26:45were gash in Carolina and you're trying to break their backs in that moment. I love the aggressiveness of Ben. I do think like for people that are like, I hope he never does that again. I hate to tell you this guy's he did it in a visual round. Yeah. Like I was going to do it again. But like you can wish all you want. He's going to do it all he wants because that's who he is. And yes, what we learned about him in that game, like running up the score on Carolina. Yeah. And not in a malicious way, but it's just truly what he said afterwards. Like, I don't know if they're going to be able to average 38 points of game and become the next Denver Broncos setting the franchise. Excuse me, the single season scoring record across the NFL. I don't know if they can do that. But what I do know is that's a an adapted mindset of we have to score at will in order for us to win. He's telling you without telling you are often asked to be what wins this games because we realize that number one, we have a lot of talent on that side of the ball. You can't waste that. But our defense

27:49is going to have some struggles this year for things that are in their control that they just didn't do personnel decisions and out of their control with the injuries. But I don't I don't think he's going to go into any game. I mean, certainly you're going to play to try to capitalize on matchups. And we don't know what Brian Flores is going to do. Remember, I know we could talk about this one Thursday, but like, remember last year, it's like, oh, like Blitz happy Brian Flores coming to town week one. Let's do like 37% of the time. And then it changed week, whatever 12. Yeah. All of a sudden, Brian Flores and the Minnesota Viking defense in that one point game or the, you know, the game that came down to the field goal on the long drive at the end, was in 70 something percent of the time. The unknown there is what is the greatest part of this matchup because it truly is a due and react sort of thing. But I don't think Ben Johnson changes his aggressiveness just because he's not facing a defense that he feels was struggling. He felt

28:53it out. They were. They went forward. They ran the ball. Like, I think so much of what they're going to do is very much what happened in week one. It just might not look like week one based on the type of defense you're going against and not expecting to put up 59 points again. Yeah. And the biggest difference is you've got a quarterback and a head coach who are on the same page. If anything, what gets me excited for this Vikings matchup, one seeing how Ben and Jared golf kind of handled the Vikings and their time together. But like seeing where Caleb and Ben are now, how Caleb was willing to take drop back one, two, dump down past it to swifter, whatever the underneath route is. That's how you beat Brian Flores. That's how Matthew Stafford has done it just about every time. That is how Jared golf continues to do it. That is how Brock Perty does it right? Like that Caleb Williams is showing you the traits of a quarterback and he did a ton in that Carolina game, even though he could still make those explosive throws that was like, I'm going to just take what the defense has given me. We're going to get it deposit. We're going

29:53to get first downs. We're going to win one third down. They were incredibly efficient on third down. That's how you go out there and you keep your team in games. And I think what is what is going to be interesting to see as the season plays out is can the offense do enough to make up for where the defense falls short? It seems like Ben Johnson, this is where he's his most comfortable Courtney because he's never had a great defense. So he kind of knows how to navigate this. But it does kind of feel like this is the maker break part of this team where if you don't put up 30 plus, I'll be honest with you. If you don't put up with Ben Johnson, saying is a record offense, you're probably going to lose some of those games in a fashion that is not pretty versus some teams that you should be. Yeah. And take advantage of the schedule right now. You have a backup quarterback coming to town. A backup quarterback who's seen a lot of football as a good quarterback. But they had those things break their way last year since an adi, the

30:54Steelers. There's a lot there that I think is good to revisit. But 30 points for this Bears team feels like it's the baseline for what the offensive performance needs to look like every week. And they didn't do it against scrubs. It wasn't the jets. It wasn't the Titans. Oh, yeah. Carolina was a playoff team a year ago. And then they added to their defense this year. They spent big money on Jalen Phillips. And they brought in Bobby O'Caracay. They spent big money on Devon Lloyd. Defend should have been better than it was a year ago. A team that went to the playoffs. But I, I'm with you. I think that this we learned how we all knew what we thought was going to be the way that they had to win games this year and they confirmed it for us and week one. Usually you don't know the identity of teams until the first quarter of the seasons up. I think it's we have to say we know what the identity of this Bears team is going to be. We know exactly what they're going to be. And I love the fact that everybody's bought into it. No, no catches for Colson leveling, couple catches for Rome, couple catches for Luther. And yet

31:58they're still out there screaming their heads off. They're lighting guys up in the blocking game. They everything that they've created is based off of what the little guys, if you want to call them that the receivers, Johnny Walker's of the world are able to do. And I think that that's why this team is going to have a lot of success this upcoming season. But you're going to have to overcome a mountain on the other side and we'll see what ends up happening there. Courtney, thank you for taking a time out. As always, we appreciate you guys for taking the time out of your day as well. Hit that like button subscribe to the page later. Five star view. Y'all know what to do. Y'all go on the show tomorrow where we are going to be reacting solely to what he saw in the defensive line. And I can't wait to hear his reaction to that. And of course, we'll have Courtney back with us Thursday to preview this Minnesota Vikings game. Y'all stay safe out there Chicago. Bed out one low, please. When making a big decision, I believe in doing your homework and working with people you trust. That's exactly what you'll find at Advantage View at GMC in Hodgkins. No pressure, just clear communication every step of the way. Visit Advantage View at GMC in Hodgkins. We are professional grade.