Is defense the Bears' biggest concern? (Hour 2)

0:00Get your morning started with hot and Peyton on 104 three this score. Even doing this for a while at this point, just based on kind of going off of that question. And the off season that you had the success, you've had thus far, do you still believe your best playing days are ahead of you? I'm the best. I feel like I'm just going to start it if you ask me, but I do feel like that. Welcome back. Good Thursday morning, Chicago. You're listening to the hot and Peyton show here on Chicago Sports Radio 104 three this score. Got a little Taylor Swift in the background. That's your girl, right? That's your coffee. That's kind of made them viral. You would viral because of them. I did. Didn't get a chance to go to the wedding though, but it's okay. You're big swifty. I was for a little bit. Were you invited to the wedding? Yeah, no, I wasn't. I was hoping I would because I took that video, but maybe that's why you weren't invited to the wedding. I can't wait. I knew they wanted Pravee. I can't wait. No, that jumped it off. That was like the big moment. Yeah. Yeah. That was a big moment.

1:00We're having fun here this morning. We're talking Cubs, talking White Sucks. We're talking Bears. That was Deandra Swift on Wednesday at Howell's Hall talking about just what he did last year and the expectations that arrived this season. And he begins a year, a lot expected from the running back for the Bears. We talked about possibly him playing for his next contract because of the way that the running backs have been rewarded throughout the national football league. Maybe that's something we'll talk to Brad Biggs. Biggs time, 725. We're going to talk Bears this hour. Jared, we were before the break had the extra point and we were asked about where we have the Bears ranked. What are the expectations for this season? And maybe people have thoughts. 312-644-6767. How good is this team? Text us, call us, let us know. I think a lot of the confidence and a lot of the answer will come from how good this defense is. Dennis Allen is somebody that I believe

2:03had a pretty good year last year. But when we talk about Dennis Allen, what do you think is his strength? It isn't so much a guy you look at and you think of like Vic Fangeo or for me, I'm speaking about my own interpretation of this. It isn't like a schematic approach where you get an advantage where he's going to confuse the quarterback. I think Dennis Allen is just a football life for the gets the most out of his players by knowing how to push the right buttons on a regular basis. And every week he's got an ability to reset, recharge, and start again. And he's very consistent. And that consistency and that experience is what he offers and lends Ben Johnson the most. Yeah, it's the latter. It's what he brings to the table for the guys. He's a player's coach. And so the guys that are inside of that locker room at Halles Hall and the defensive side, I mean, they all love him. They want to play for him. They'll run through a wall form. And I think it's a way that he communicates with his guys. He talks to them in a way where he will be hard on him.

3:05He's going to be demanding of them to get the best out of them. But also too, just really just also knowing more about them off the field. He really does. I think he spends times with these guys off the field, gets to know them, their families. And I think for them, it brings a comfort level for these guys saying, oh, he's all the way bought in. Not just on the field, but off the field. And he was asked, obviously, about the big trade this week, the Bears come in to training camp and the biggest question that I had. And I think a lot of people also had was about the defensive line. How impactful will it be? Can they stop the run? Can they get to the quarterback? The special defensive interior where they lost Andrew Billings. They have Grady Jarrett, who's 33. And then Jervon Dexter, who started 19 games for them last year. But maybe some people are pointing out not 19 most impactful games. He was there, but was he really there. And Dennis Allen addressed the idea behind the Jervon Dexter trade Wednesday at House Hall.

4:10And it's connected with them, but maybe perhaps broader with Texas exit over the weekend. Where's your confidence rooted in the group you have at the time? Yeah, I feel really confident with who we have on the defensive line. I think the style that we want to play, I think we've got guys that can do the things that we want to do. And I felt like all along, I felt like that was probably our deepest position group. I felt like we had a lot of guys that are NFL caliber football players. And you can't keep all of them, but we feel good about where we're at. So they went with the quantity over quality approach. Not that Jervon Dexter added a ton of quality, but he was a guy that Ryan Poles had drafted, they had invested in and they were not going to pay for a contract extension. But Jared, they went out and they added layers of defensive lineman rather than specifically the Dexter Lawrence type. They didn't go out and overspend for a defensive tackle. I feel like I might have to flip my tune just a little bit when it comes to this.

5:12I know sometimes this is coach speak when you're behind a mic and you're talking to reporters and you have to give confidence to a room, especially if that's a defensive line. Yeah, I agree with you, David. They did kind of go out and try to bolster the room with different guys, but not the marquee names. But I think you and I had this conversation before, where we're banking on a coaching staff to be able to coach these guys up. And if you look at what DA did last year, you talked about what he meant for that defense last year. Now he has some new pieces to the puzzle to add that they're going to coach up. Is it wrong for me to have these questions about the defensive line when I do have a lot of confidence in this coaching staff? Well, I think no, because it's still in the NFL about the talent more than is the coaching, isn't it? You still look at you've got to have the playmakers so your coaches can get the most out

6:13of those guys. That's where the questions are. You know, is it the good news of the bad news? We had the debate on Monday, that Kaden, Jayden Loving and Jordan Van der Berg made the 53 man raster. One was a six round draft picked. The other was an undrafted free agent. Then they bring back Lynch. And on Wednesday, Dennis Allen was raving about the most impressive defensive tackle, who can take the street, who happens to be 30 years old on his fifth NFL team. Quite honestly, I think he was the most productive tackle we had throughout the course of training camp. You know, he's got the, he's got the, the, the suddenness and the explosiveness off the ball that we're looking forward to create penetration and disrupt the line of scrimmage. And, and, and he's, he's really taken to the things that Jeremy, Bill, Zach, all those guys are our coach and how we, how we want to play that position. And I think he's been productive throughout the course of

7:14training camp. And, you know, hopefully we'll be able to continue that. So I think that's where some of the expectations are being tempered because of the faith and guys who are journeyman NFL players. And yet their players at the Bears are trusting to make their defense good enough for so they can be a top five NFC team. Three of the eight four seven just texted and is Dennis Allen on the hot seat? No. No. No. What on the hot seat? You can only, you can only do, you can only, you can only, you can only work with what you have. Sounded like in the off season that his boss. And that's not the general manager, by the way, that's the head coach Ben Johnson put him on notice. And he kind of, in, when we got to like the voluntary portion and then the organized team activities, we first heard from Dennis Allen this year, he said that he spent a lot of time reflecting, looking in the mirror. I'm just saying, if it, if every game is 30 to 28 and the Bears are winning, I think he might be

8:19on tilt. Okay. It might be hot. My, my only issue is is that you have to work with what you have. So yes, okay. Well, now, now I can, I'm conflicted now because I'm talking about coaching guys up if that, if you believe in your coaching staff. So yeah, it, it kind of goes, well, that put it on the coaching staff. So with the question is a valid one because of how much faith they've invested in that part of the job and that part of the equation. They're saying that they are putting it on their coaches to get the most out of the talent. So if the coaches aren't getting the most out of that talent, who's they were too right, they were too scheme focused and they weren't enough coaching focus. That's that's that's that's the talent. That was the, that was the gist of what Dennis Allen was saying is that you know, we got to caught up and trying to pick the right time to you know what go get quarterback go get me someone that can get after the quarterback. Okay, that's the thing. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, like Ryan poses in on the hot seat. Dennis Allen might be get to the quarterback and nobody will be a, nobody seat will be one.

9:23But we know, but we know what we, you have to work with what you have. Look what he has. Look, look what we're talking about. That is one of the biggest question marks of this defense is getting after and Ryan polls did not address it in the way that he probably should have in this off season or in the draft. Well, you look what he has, but you more importantly look what he doesn't have. And you're right. And Ed rusher, opposite Montess wet. He doesn't have Kobe Bryant, the free agent signing that is out for the season. And he doesn't have Kylie Gordon who's busy making TikTok videos because showing people how in shape he is. So you better hope. And now Kobe Bryant being out. You got a rookie, another rookie right next to him, Dylan Thienham in like, you might have a rookie. Hi, I have 312 6464 67 67. What do you think of the Bears defense and how much pressure maybe Dennis Allen is feeling Keith is on the road to start the conversation with Keith. Welcome to Hawn Peyton. Hey guys, sorry about that. Call the other day my grandchildren and my car and they were distracting me because they paid side. Sorry, I was all broken up when I was suggesting.

10:28So I'll answer your question here in a minute, David, but I want to go back to Kylie Gordon. My point with Kylie Gordon is this I don't believe that his video was anything more than him showing that he is in shape. And I want to go to I want to go to Rocha Johnson last year with Chicago Bears, who was nothing more than running up and down the field on part returns and kickoff returns and never saw the field at all. And now he's RB three. So my point goes to this. Is this a kiss in the ring type thing where for whatever reason he's not the bears are controlling this message when it comes to Gordon. And is this Gordon showing saying, no, I am ready. They're just not putting me on the field. So that's my point to that. I hope it's true or not, but something's off because if he's healthy, something doesn't make sense. Thanks to Gordon said, um, can I ask you another question? Sure. Okay, we got into bears this year. I have them as seven win team. And to all the points that you guys just talked about,

11:32defensive line, the core of this team last year. And I don't know if this is really debateable. I think this is really true. The core of this team last year was this. They created turnovers, which got the ball to Caleb and his Caleb was a Sunday and his relationship with Johnson was getting better. The bears made some miraculous comebacks, you know, throughout the season in the playoffs. That's not in play right now based on where they are in the back end of this team. And if they don't have a pass rush, they're going to be playing games in the 30s. And quite frankly, I'm kind of scared about the fact that they're going to be on the wrong side of those those games because of that reason. I'm hope I'm wrong. I'm voting. I'm really rooting for this team that does send to get better. But I think the questions on defense is to what to the patents. So your point, I don't I don't think that, you know, until that's shown, I can't see this team, you know, being given this top five ranking because there's a lot of questions on defense. And I hope they will be answered. Thanks Keith. Good phone call. I really appreciate it Keith.

12:35There's there's so much there. So he, but when it comes to the kissing the ring, that whole part, if Kyler Gordon was healthy and ready to go, I don't think that they would be holding him out. I don't think so. The bears are stopping him from participating. The bears are inviting him to take part. Yes. I was he was declining to RSVP. Yes. This that was made pretty clear the other day, right? Yes. Ryan Poles all but confirmed the fact that all right, we're ready. It's not us. It's him. It's, you know, it wasn't anything. There's no ambiguity there. And to Keith's point as well about that the back end of that defense and without a pass rush, the issue also with that defense was being able to stop the run at times last season. So that's another added thing to this whole entire dynamic of how this defense gets better this year with when you and I are trying to figure out, is there more talent on that defense this year than there was last

13:37year? I don't think there is. So that's that's that's one of the problems. I'm not sure how the bears got better defensively. They got healthier with Jalen Johnson. They're expecting more out of Montess wet. Grady Jarrett will be more available, but I don't think talent wise. Okay. This is a better team. One more, I got one more question for you. If if you had Kobe Bryant healthy and Kyler Gordon healthy on the football field does does it change? Yeah, I think that's a better argument. Okay. Then I think I understand what they're going for. So maybe you can't hold them responsible put them on a hot seat because of injuries. So that is another conversation. Let's go back to the phone lines. Freddie is on the Odyssey app. Freddie, welcome to Haan Peyton. Good morning guys. Everything good. I'm just wondering can we trade badgen for edge rush ship because we're going to need it. Roe bad. Another thing is the league really like only on offense only and we're forgetting defense the whole league. Not just the bears because it seems

14:38like everybody wants to be on offensive minded only now. I'll hand up guys have a great day. Thanks Freddie. Appreciate it. You know what? Yes. At this first of all, no, you're not getting you're trading tight and they know. No, no, that's not happening. That's not possible. We've already had this conversation. He's he's too valuable to the bears can't force. He can they can afford that. On the flip side for years. That's what we've been talking about though. We literally have been talking about trying to figure out how to keep up with the Joneses when it comes to offensive play in the NFL. And now we actually have it. But on the flip side of what this organization has been known for for years, which is defense. Now we're struggling a little bit. I believe that when you look at. Yeah, the Tyson Beijing situation, they're not going to they're not going to move him for in a Max Crosby deal. That's not viable because Vegas has the answers a quarterback. Josh sweat, but Arizona does not. I don't think you're going to give up Tyson Baygent for how long

15:44how long you're going to keep him on the bench for the next decade and pay him $5 million. Now you're exaggerating. Nobody said the next decade. I said the next year. You keep him this year. You don't if you have designs and getting deep into the playoffs, you have to protect yourself against an injury to a quarterback that is pretty durable. But you never know. Dustin, what if you traded Tyson Baygent a Labor Day for Josh sweat and then week one Caleb Williams twists an ankle and he's out for four weeks. And now you turn in the case. Well, that's why you pay Ben Johnson what you pay Ben Johnson because I wonder out loud right now if Tyson Baygent is with any other team in the NFL. If he got that contract that he got that he earned with the Bears because that's how much I think Ben Johnson is able to get out of these quarterbacks. Well, that's true, but there's a hypothetical and it's all hypothetical, right? But the it's not hypothetical when you're considering if the Bears

16:47he's great right here. We have a conversation about trading him for past rest of day lack. I don't think they're willing or I would be willing to do that. I don't think I would be willing to do that. You want to deal in the future because if you make a trade for a past Russia, you're talking about the present and you're prioritizing that. But don't you we have don't we have to take advantage we meaning the Bears don't we have to take advantage of the window of Caleb making quote unquote cheap quarterback money. I know he said it's not about the money, but at the end of the day he's on the line. He's going to be in line to make $400 plus million in a contract extension. I don't think he's going to take $200 million so that the Bears can lie it can back him up with a whole bunch of great weapons. I don't think he's going to do that. I think I think you have to wait. I don't there you can't make a decision like that like right off the bat. I feel like it goes back to my conversation earlier in the pick six is like you're they're going to he's going to make a move at some point. It's just going to have to take some time. I think they he wants to be

17:52able to see how this team plays in the first four to five games before you say okay now we got to make a big decision because we're not getting that production from somewhere. Great conversation. I think it's fun to have these hypotheticals out there because it tells you the Bears are in a position to make them relevant now because they are relevant now in the NFC and maybe in terms of Super Bowl consideration you wonder where all this is headed and I wonder what our next guest thinks it's big time yes it's big time right here we'll talk to Brad Biggs from the Chicago tribute next on Han Patent Chicago Sports Radio 104 3 the score yeah whatever the Biggs report with Brand Biggs Biggs Biggs his name is Brad Biggs Brand Biggs talks football with you welcome back on page Chicago Sports Radio 104 3 the score time now to go out to our plumbers 9-1-1 hotline

18:58plumbing emergency call 183-3-3-3-1-1-1 local 130 plumbers get the job done right the first time time for our football man for the Chicago Tribune valued friend long time contributor to the station Brad Biggs morning Brad morning boys what's going on so you've got it all you wrote the column Kylie Gordon is a man of mystery we saw him on a video on Wednesday Brad what's the status of Kylie Gordon what should we expect and what do you think about the way this all has gone down well like when you see the social media video of the guy doing a little bit of a workout I wouldn't get terribly excited like some bears fans have um because I mean that video was like a half step off of a day shine love video for starters right like they had a helmet I you know I've been texted back and forth with a guy that's in the front office for another team for a couple weeks

20:03occasionally on a variety of topics as we do and Kyler's been one of the topics for a while and you know I sent the thing to him yesterday and his reply was nice back yard so you know what bears fans would would have reason to get optimistic about is if Kylie Gordon was in a bears uniform with a helmet on working out on the practice fields at house hall and they're quite a ways off from that right he's on the he's on the public so he can't he can't practice until at the very earliest week three he's not eligible to play in a game until at the very earliest after the first four regular season games so I this entire spectrum's wide open for Kyler Gordon he could make a healthy return and be a major contributor to the defense

21:03this season or he could never set foot on the field it's just so weird bigs when you look at this whole situation saga how it's all gone down but with him being questionable and on the pop list and not coming back into probably week five at the at the earliest and then the Kobe Bryant injury as well he got rookies on that on the back end of that defense should bears fans be worried about this bear secondary as they head into the season maybe a little bit the came Lewis thing significant loss right because he was the most expensive free agent addition the Kyler Gordon thing like they've been bracing for this since the spring right like he literally didn't do anything on the field in the spring either so they had to know they were going to be in this kind of situation I'll say what I said a week or two ago two three weeks ago under a sold here is how Jaylen

22:12Jansen has looked this summer and Dennis Allen talked about those improvements yesterday and the reasons that they're excited about how he's looking you know if you're going to say what's the most important out of these three outside corner and nickel or safety if you get an elite one it's an outside corner so Jaylen Jansen's look good I think Tyrick Stevenson's had a had a decent summer but you got to be careful with him because what's the what of the coaches and everyone else involved told you about him all along it's it's a consistency issue with Tyrick Stevenson so can he carry it from you know today's yesterday was Wednesday can he carry it from Wednesday to Thursday can he carry it from week one to week two and so on you're going to have some question marks but you take any defense in the league and you take the potential top nickel forum and you take their ice paid safety

23:16out of the equation and I think there's going to be reasons to have at least a level of concern as Xavier Woods he ought to be able to fit in right yeah the guys got guys got what 120 starts across the league over the past nine seasons is he going to be this guy that was a ball hawk for you well he hasn't done that to this point in his career but I think they can get steady play out of him it's big time here on haunt payton chicago sports radio 104 three the score brad we haven't talked you since the jirvan dexter trade was made the bears are putting a lot of faith in a position group led by a guy who's had the most impressive camp is 30 year old contavia street on his fifth NFL team the group was I think deep enough they believe because it includes a six round draft pick in an undrafted free agent what do you think about the faith they're placing in this defensive line without now jirvan dexter yeah I mean because you know the grade sort of goes against what

24:22you think about in the NFL when you're when you're giving up a big guy to get a little guy and and Clark Phillips the cornerback and the little guys the five nine a buck eighty five especially a big guy in dexter who's been a durable performer for you previous three seasons he had missed only two games that was back during twenty twenty four so he's always out there but I just think it was sort of scheme fit and yeah they've been excited about contavia street and galimore they think it's gonna you know it's it's not gonna be one guy uh fill in a roll it's it's gonna be a collection they're gonna they're going to need to come at opposing offenses in waves with those defensive lineman so you'll get your opportunity to see vanden Berg maybe loving is in the mix if he's active and they're gonna try to keep him fresh and be

25:29disruptive but dexter is going to be angling for a big payday which durable big defensive lineman they're gonna get theirs so I like the idea that the bears make a move now because you're not gonna get a compensatory pick for jirvan dexter when you're a big player in free agency which everyone always expects the bears to be so you get a little something for them now and you see what some of these young guys can do. Brad there's a lot of talent on on the offensive side of the ball and there's only one football to go around perkla bulliums to throw it to all these guys when you when you look at at lovelin you look at bird and we know that they're gonna hopefully take next steps in their career where do you see roma dunes a fitting in on the offensive side. Well I think he's he's gonna be a big piece of it there because we go back and look at how the football is being distributed last year before dunes has foot injury and

26:39you know the ball the ball was going through him on that offense that that's the way it felt to me and I think the numbers backed that up so I don't think Caleb's gonna take this drastic turn and just start throwing it to burden and lovelin and roams sort of this forgotten third option and I'm not saying those other guys aren't gonna get the ball more but you know what they've what they've got to redistribute is the targets and touches that DJ Moore had a year ago and so I think everybody gets a piece of the pie but you know Ben Johnson's been very pleased with with how roams looked lately. If he can be that contested catch sort of big physical ex-receiver for them I mean there's gonna be no shortage options for him in this offense as well you're right there's only there's only

27:42one football to go around but there's gonna be enough for these guys to all feel like they're around to get their opportunity to make a difference. Brad we're both old enough to remember Labor Day weekend 2018 the Bears make a surprise deal for Kilo Mack. I don't know if Ryan Poles is scouring teams rosters and looking at possibilities for trades for edge rushers at this stage of the preseason I'm not sure if he's gonna continue to do that as we get near the trade deadline. Are you hearing anything about speculations surrounding a guy like maybe Josh Sweat who the Packers were poking around and now there's reports out of Arizona he's not going to be traded there might be other guys out there. How would you assess the possibility or describe the possibility of the Bears being involved in trade talks for an edge rusher. Well I think Poles have proven to us that he's gonna always explore the options that are out there and at times he'll be aggressive.

28:43The trade at the Cardinals want to do anything in year one with their new head coach they've got to keep the guy that had 12 sacks for me. Here we go. They really do and the Cardinals are gonna have a boatload of cap space next year as it is I believe so it's not like they need to clear the deck if Sweat was available it would not be cheap and you're talking about a guy that's close to 30 and I think you'd be talking about another complimentary guy like in a big picture when you look at okay well what's the tier of edge rushers out there he's kind of like a Montez Sweat right you don't have that lead dog would he make him better yeah would they have just an enormous amount of money tied in as some guys who probably aren't topped to your pass rushers yeah I would they

29:47react next year then when his pay goes up I don't know but I think they'll they'll take a look at everything and if there's a guy out there that makes sense maybe they pull the trigger on it you know they can do one thing they keep kind of working their way back to is the marriage of coverage and and pressure and if they're better on the back end so we'll see in the first couple weeks how it's coming together well big so I mean coming into this coming into this season though it's just seemed like they were going to go with what they had already what they had on the roster already so when you when you look at the names on this roster who do you think could be the biggest force opposite of Montez Sweat well it's it's probably got to be Booker right like that's what you're kind of hoping for and he's got a he's got a growing injury that's not too serious we'll see what

30:47his availability is come week one at Carolina but I think Booker based on how he played in the second half of last year in postseason it looked like a guy that was certainly flashing a little bit for him to be what they need he's going to have to be better right you can't get a repeat of 2025 for a player that's in year three and that's just not going to work so he's going to have to raise his game they're going to what they're I think what they're telling is they think they're going to get more interior pressure from a from a wave of defensive tackles and now that might not turn into sack production necessarily but it doesn't have to if it's something that helps create a sack for another player if it leads to a quarterback hit if it leads to the ball coming out early you know they they need to apply more pressure and there's just a whole lot of ways you can evaluate that beyond just sack totals and they need some more

31:54sex too. All right Brad before we let you go got about a minute left I want to got to ask about this you know how I feel about the Bajan C you know Tyson Bayesian when 16 to 17. Can't trade them okay I'm are they taking calls I know you can't trade them I don't want to keep them I'm going to hold them I want to keep them and whatever but do you think they're taking calls on Tyson Bayesian? I don't think I don't think teams as we sit here right now what you know somebody a couple teams kick off the team and let kick off the season and less than a week now I don't think anybody's trying to trade for a quarterback right now but he made a finished preseason with the bang that looked great it's something you're you're always going to answer the phone because you got no idea what what they're going to be offered you but I don't think it is that he's trying to acquire a quarterback as a starter right now we've seen some teams swap around some deck chairs at the back

32:55into their depth chart at the position but who's saying hey well let's let's let's bring in a starting quarterback right now I don't I don't see that happening. Great stuff Brad appreciate it we'll talk you soon. I have a great day guys Brad Biggs football man from the Chicago Tribune Bayesian. I'll be here. He's going to be here. Ain't going nowhere. It's Russia probably not on the way. No going to wait a little bit on that. This might be the roster this might be I think Brad's right though I think they're thinking about getting that internal pressure that can actually set things up for you know helping guys out and maybe add into some of the takeaways as well. Well one thing he said is worth exploring and it's something that Dennis Allen said yesterday about Jalen Johnson the marriage between coverage and pressure we need to talk about that next because I think it's worth hearing and amplifying what Dennis Allen had to say 3126446767 how do you feel about the Bears defense let us know it's Hawn Peyton Chicago Sports Radio 1043 the score.

33:58Welcome back to Hawn Peyton on 1043 the score. More specifically the last two weeks you know when you talk about really the the the joint practice against Cincinnati his mindset going into the joint practice versus Tennessee I've seen a guy that's really kind of taken a a a step forward I think he himself probably feels more like himself and I've been I've been really pleased with what I've seen out of him in particular over the course of the last two weeks I think his leadership has started you know kind of come to the forefront a little bit and it that's needed you know we need him to play at a very high level for us to be successful and I think he I think he understands that I think he accepts that challenge I think he's looking forward to it. Welcome back it's Hawn Peyton Chicago Sports Radio 1043 the score thank you to our CHSEN audience I'm casting joining us this morning

34:58until 9 o'clock David Hawn Peyton new morning show here until 10 talking bears right now that was Dennis Allen reiterating just how important Jalen Johnson let me rephrase that a healthy Jalen Johnson is to this defense because much like we look at the offense and Caleb Williams ability to elevate the play of everyone around him receiving core the offensive line with his escape ability a cover corner that is elite can mask a lot of ills on a defense with holes or spotty pass rush or whatever the case may be and what you heard from Dennis Allen yesterday I believe Jarrett was he wasn't trying to present it as hope but I think you could view it as hope that maybe this bear defense isn't as limited as we think because if Jalen Johnson returns the form that will help the pass rush yeah it locks down one half of of your defense and one side of your

36:04defense where you get an opportunity for him to to sit there and go up against the opposing team's number one wide receiver and that he can manage because he's a top tier guy at his position now it gives Dennis Allen more opportunities the way they scheme things up and coverage wise where it kind of solidifies that you're you're good on this side but I think the leadership part of it as well he's out here playing well and just by listening to Brad Biggs in the last segment talking about the exact same thing like he's look good and this is what you need a healthy Jalen Johnson if you have that that's just a huge bonus for your defense big Steve a spot on and I think what you look at is Jalen Johnson playing at an elite level in the secondary if Montess wet couldn't win his share of one-on-ones and gets her the quarterback because of Jalen Johnson's coverage ability then all of a sudden you mean you may not have the takeaways you had last year last year may have been a little fluky in the number of takeaways but this you you can get more sacks you can create

37:08more pressure you can be more efficient defensively if you get your elite players playing at that level on a consistent basis yeah I want pressure where we're seeing it now and what they've kind of shown us with the moves that they made with the way that they're going about this is that their pressure is going to come from up the middle and a lot of that's going to come and hopefully free up Montess what to have some of those one-on-one matchups that he's going to have to win midway jimbo makes a good point on the text line seven seven three says we don't need names this defense is now built in DA's image be ready to be shocked I guess the Bears had the slowest worst coverage team in the NFL last season they've gotten faster at every level it's arguably the defensive line that is currently the best unit I would argue that I don't think it's the best unit I think it's the unit that has maybe the most depth but it's a committee so I don't think it but I don't think it has a standout I think it has a lot of guys who are going to be comparable as they come in waves I wonder how many your defensive line are going to stay active on game day

38:12he might be right now right now right now just just because of where where where this is it I would say if you were if Kobe Bryant was healthy and he's not healthy so I know I thought he's not going to be your all season long I understand he's gone forgotten so that's why I'm saying right now he midway jimbo I think is right but there's still some some questions that need to be answered on that defensive line and we will see we will see that the tape does not lie David it will cause Dennis Allen to do what he committed this off season to doing we've heard from him you referenced the quote earlier in the off season about just how he needs to commit himself to being a better coach this year we had a lot of discussions you know this off season about a lot of different things and one of the things that we identified was you know me we we focus so much on installing all the scheme last year you know because it was brand new and we do have a high volume of things that we carry in the defense and we focus so much on that that we lost some of the lost side of some of the

39:15fundamentals and techniques that it takes to function to do those things and I don't think we were as fundamentally sound defensively as we need to be so how do we have to coach it better well let's let's minimize how much we're focused on the scheme okay and let's focus on not what we're going to do but how we're going to do it and I think that's how we're going to improve that was bay Jared and he's pointing a thumb at himself I need to be better I need to do more I love that approach and you've seen it play out I think in training camp it's the only way that this defense gets better is him looking in the mirror saying what do we need to fix I need to coach better and if you do that which I have a lot of confidence in this coaching staff and especially on the defensive side of the ball that DA will get it fixed he's Jared Peyton I'm David Hall we are hot and Peyton here at Chicago Sports Radio 104 through the score when we come back time to talk baseball how

40:20bad was Wednesday night for the Cubs they lost the game did they lose a pitcher in Jacob Webb we'll talk about it next right here on hot and Peyton on the score