PREGAME: Matt Eberflus, Chicago Bears go for 5th win in a row at Soldier Field! | CHGO Bears Podcast
Get Do welcome in the CHL Bears pregame show we are presented by prize pick today daily fantasy sports Made Easy use promo code Cho for first deposit match up to $100 what’s going on Bears fans Adam hog Mark Carman Greg BRS Jr we ready to go huge day in history all right I’m going
To throw up yep is that from all the Makers Mark or I am stressed out of my mind so yeah I had to shake off the nerves this morning hit up the tailgate our guys over at the Chicago Bears tailgating club and uh sh off some nerves with some
Bers Mark did a little shot ski okay I’ve never done a shot ski before it’s like four guys on a ski everybody takes a shot at one you never done that before that was the first time how’s that possible you’ve been going going to Bears tailgates for 8,000 years first
Time okay congratulations you you’re you’re you’re I don’t believe you I promise you had a great tweet yesterday because sometimes I I want to like take us inside the lives of of what our wives have to deal with so your Tweet yesterday was gray which was just like
Me when I have to tell my wife I can’t talk to her today because I have to argue about the quarterback and it’s like just a picture for like sending you off to like War something um and then for me I wake up this morning and
There’s two two tweets I see right away I’m still in bed my wife’s already up which is rare drinking coffee in bed and I just I was drinking too yes not coffee this tweet Greg brags is just guzzling maker Mark at 7 a small bottle come on for the
Record full disclosure you had this and one shot SK I’m fine hey we got a little snow it’s a little cold you got to warm up a little bit hold on a second when you said we had you had this is this that or like what is this he had this
Whole bottle no um there’s my guy there’s the shotski there’s the shotski yep yep and then um and and then I had a retweet from Adam shefer yeah which is never lost on me that’s always cool little humble brag to start good way to start a Sunday morning so I’m like I
Turn I just roll over to my wife and you know no good morning no I love you it’s oh lawen Chey retweet and brags is hammered great start to the day show show show him the nipples Lawrence show him the nipples show him the what my
Timeline you’ll see it go back to my timeline give it to people you want to see it my guy Ken you don’t want to have to put a explicit thing on the uh YouTube yeah I I’d rather not I promise you want there it is my guy sweet and
Sour very clearly GL look at that my guy Ken sweet and sour away from that get that out of here now I want to vomit oh come on now you guys know Ken great dude no no there there is no not wanting to vomit on Ken’s I feel like I know Ken a
Lot better now all right um let’s get to our inactives and uh some heated spirited actually I’m hoping it’s relatively you know sane uh Matt eus discussion I want to have how do do you want to go this first or the actual well yeah let’s show this tweet last night from Deontay
Foreman lot of Tweets in the show guys yeah Deontay Foreman doesn’t tweet a whole lot and I don’t think he had even tweeted like since the start of the season and he hasn’t even changed his profile pick to he’s not even in a Bears uniform well at least he doesn’t have to
Take his bears pictures down which is the the new thing the kids do David Montgomery did that once now he’s on the Lions um Deontay foran tweeted last night at 652 Ain’t No Love in this [ __ ] you gotta know that is that like a ninja thing I don’t yes that is a ninja
Okay Emoji i i okay I don’t know what that means right until you get the inactives this morning Deontay Foreman is a healthy scratch was not on the injur this week and is not active today remember he was not active the first couple games of the Season yep it was
It’s been an up and down roller coaster of a year for Deontay former I get the Tweet man like hey when I’ve been healthy I’ve been crushing for yall I have one bad week where by the way we were going up against a really good defense and I wasn’t exactly set up for
Success and now I me I can’t I can’t find my way onto the roster that’s that hurts I get it especially being the Workhorse that he’s been when C Herbert was down like I can understand him takeing exception to that you know at the end of the day there’s only so many
Carries you only have one football maybe some of the pass protection issues that we saw you know in the Cleveland game start to become the difference but you know I can understand why he’s upset well I think that’s why you know he was an active to start the year and and by
The way I don’t think any of the running backs have been great in pass protection this year but I do think it’s Deontay forman’s biggest weakness and also like look we we can’t pretend it’s been nice get to actually know Cole KT this year on the show um but most of the
Times we don’t really know these guys and at some point and this is either fair or not fair I don’t know how take it however you want but when a guy’s been on as many teams as Deontay Foreman’s been on like there’s usually a
Reason for it you know and it and so I guess I’m not completely surprised we’re here he was inactive to start the year he’s inactive today I agree with him I understand the frustration I think when he’s been out there running the The Rock he’s been pretty good but khil Herbert
Looked like khil Herbert again last week yeah he did and and I think they’re looking at it like okay it’s week one again what are we going to run offensively we got our healthy running back we got Roshan Johnson Travis Homer’s depth if you absolutely need it
And Ki blasting game which actually did happen earlier this year remember the Bears had to finish a game with him as the running back yeah it’s hard for Deontay Foreman to not look at this like you are saying something negative about my own play but it’s more of a
Compliment to khil if he can somehow flip it around that this was the guy who led the NFL in yards per carry last year and he’s looking healthy and we have this other guy who’s really good on special teams who was also good on short yardage plays so you know you’re you’re
In a little bit of a redundant situation and when you get your chance to play you’ve succeeded so somebody is going to want you I mean to your point hul like there is about it’s there is a reason why you’ve been on a bunch of teams but
The positive side is that like somebody wants you too dude but also who do you want to give carries to in this game the guys that are going to be be here do you think Deontay Foreman’s going to be a bear next year correct that exactly you
Know like to me it would be silly to be giving him carries if you don’t I yeah the Bears did this right it just sucks for him that’s fair that’s fair way to put it yeah and it just speaks to the way running Point there’s no love in
This [ __ ] right and it speaks to the way running backs are viewed in this league as far as their value and how they’re used I mean it’s just a running back by committee league for the most part with the exception of a couple teams and so I’m sure that’s got to be frustrating
For from a playing standpoint snaps wise and a pay standpoint you know salary-wise so um and darn almoney is also the key and active today as well uh the rest of these guys on this list are are not really surprised they’ve been inactive the last few weeks and um the
Bigger name uh the bigest name that’s not on there is our guy Cole KT who is going to keep that streak going of staying active there’s a little bit of a doubt this morning um cuz Ian rap report originally twe tweeted that he Cole Kat would be active then he came back this
Morning and said he’s got to try out warm-ups and maybe it’s a game time decision but I think we knew that keeping Cole K off the field was going to be hard now how um and maybe the weather came into that too because in the locker room Friday that he was asked
About that and I was there and he was like yeah I’m not going to be stupid so the fact that it’s snowing over at Soldier Field right now it’s windy it’s cold it’s wet very decent chance Cole KT is not full go today maybe limited I will say this going back and watching
The tape before we switch this flu conversation which I want to get into there was a s significant difference in the off offense I mean everybody saw this obviously they only scored six points in the second half versus 21 in the first half last week but not having Cole comat
Out there changed a lot not the things they were asking Robert tanion to do to basically go be who Cole KT has been this year which in my opinion is a pro bowler they lost a lot blocking they lost a lot from a receiving standpoint and so not having a healthy Cole ComEd
Is a big deal and could very much factor into this game if he cannot play the same amount of snaps he usually does because I think it did last week against a worst football team in the Cardinal well let’s rewind back to four years ago
For a second and as ket’s making his way and some people are thinking that the Bears missed on Cole KT and shout out to you Ryan Pace you get a credit here as you’re in town for Atlanta uh and then shout out to you Ryan poles when
Identifying guys to sign and I I would bet that he wish that he done the same thing with Jaylen that he did with Cole but Cole was more willing to take a deal that wasn’t you know full market value because he wanted to be here admitted
Right our show here exactly so but it was it’s a good job that they got it done he got uh Po got to eat his cake uh got to have his cake and eat it too with with Cole and by the way you know no no
I mean Cole’s living a great life so there’s no no pity for him but this is I just I I get excited about the amount of pride that he has in being out there and I I knew he was going to play this week I I had I didn’t really have any doubt
At all until I saw the snow this morning and E rap reports tweet then I was like uh but I’m still not surprised to see him active today normally I’d be like H like you know save yourself like you don’t want to be hurt going into next
Year but at the end of the day they’re still a 1.6% chance of making the playoffs and Cole has talked about that not going to give that up when we talk to him Friday in the locker room I mean it means a lot to him to keep the streak
Going and so you know if he wants to keep a Cal Ripken streak going in the NFL I’m all for that that’s hard to do that is really hard to do all right let’s get into this flu conversation there were two um reports major sarcastic quotes on that
Um which is not the fault of the reporters as much as it was the fault of how they were then framed on social media look including this show um um we get put in situations where and I’ve been Bol over the course of my career where I’m hardcore reporting on things and
Then being asked to sit here and Give opinions on stuff like that right and the Ian rap reports the Adam shefter uh in this case Jeremy fowers involved they get asked to go on these shows and do this all the time and I get it if you’ve
Not been to like journalism school and you’re just a consumer of the content it can get confusing sometimes and I totally agree that it is I have not been to journalism school it’s in your we’re sending you up in season was there drinking makers in the journalism school
Um there was a class on uh men’s nipples yeah just I mean there was well yes there was plenty of drinking makers when I was at journalism school I will say that at the University of Wisconsin okay sorry to break just jump ahead H hog and
And tell Greg that that’s been the plan since about week two that we’re going to send you to journalism school after the season [ __ ] might as well s to Northwestern let’s be honest I need to go too but you know Gary Ross is coming with me there
We go okay continue on let’s get back to Floy flu so so there was well there was a um an aggregated tweet going around yesterday in the morning on fields and about how Justin Fields has played his way into this being a tougher decision and it was presented like it was Jeremy
Fer it was presented in a way like Jeremy fer was reporting like he had gotten Intel from a like the Bears telling them this and like then you go back and you watch the actual video and it’s like now Jeremy f is just kind of giving his opinion and looking at the
Whole season being like this is not a tough decision he literally didn’t say anything different than any of us have said on this show or any of show in Chicago for a long time or in Greg Bragg’s Twitter spaces um and so like to me that was a complete nothing like
There’s no report here there’s no like the Bears are considering keeping Justin fields which they probably are but it’s not like he was told oh they’re seriously like debating you know so whatever then um last night similar thing happens and this was funny because it was actually put out by the NFL
Network and it was basically like I don’t have the exact tweet in front of me I should have had it prepared but it it was around the NFL Twitter account and it was per Ian Rapaport Matt Eber flu will return as Bears head coach in 2024 right you go
Back and watch what Ian raport actually said he did not say that he right he didn’t say it at all similar thing he looked at everything and he was like there’s certainly momentum building here towards matd bro keeping his job which no [ __ ] yes they’re six and
Five in their last 11 they’ve won four straight home games the defense is a lot better like we all know this so that in my opinion was incredibly uh confusing and odd for the around the NFL Twitter account to put that out and it’s on the screen right now so the the exact
Phrasing there was a few paragraphs the ones that stood out to me the defense in particular has gotten better with eberl’s taking over play calling a role he likely retained in 2024 it hasn’t been all smooth defensive coordinator Alan Williams resigned under mysterious circumstances running back’s coach David Walker was fired quarterback Justin
Fields play has remained uneven setting the stage for another major offseason decision by the organ ation uh and then the other part the Bears have a new team president Kevin Warren who was hired to work on the team’s new stadium but also has a say in the football matters he
Wasn’t on staff when Eber flu was hired two years ago making him a wild card in the final evaluation process so which is a bold comment right there that you really know that he’s in in involved like that but okay are we sure you know that yeah okay
Okay 100% yeah okay I don’t think doubt about that okay well well I think we feel confident about that but do we know for sure we really think that do you really think that on it we know for sure hey I know you I know Kevin War has the
Power to change the head coach if he wants to he has that’s the power structure at and we know what that is no I I I understand that part of it I’m just like that that he would actually Flex like that if Ryan poles wanted to keep
Flo do you think that and and and and and Kevin didn’t this is a more of a guess I’m assuming but would he actually disempower his GM and say I want this guy I think if Kevin Warren was completely convinced that matd bro was not should not be the head coach for
2024 yes he would Flex that power okay I mean I would be shocked though if he feels that way me too yeah me okay but I just wanted to set the stage of this whole conversation but I want everyone to understand that there was not an actual confirmation that matd Rus is
Coming back next year when I I I took the kids as a family went to go see this new uh movie out migration new kids movie The Ducks give it uh two and a half how many quacks would you give it I’d give it two out of five
Quacks but how many honks it was fine it was fine that’s a goose but there’s some really good kids movies out there like secret life of pets cars like stuff where like the the references are like scratching at the scraping at the bottom of the barrel this was this was
Whatever I was excited you know I like kale nanani who is the one of the main yeah and you it’s you can definitely you know his voice is very distinct and like him being a duck was interesting speaking of ducks is like is gut GS you
Duck lame duck lame duck okay well hold on yeah okay maybe um thanks Dad the point is when this came across during the movie and I’m like I got out of the movie I’m like oh rap sheet like must have gotten somebody at H Hall to tell
You know that Matty RL has been informed that he’s coming back and my immediate thought was this explains why he’s been so jovial at the podium lately and he’s joking about nicknames now and all this stuff so like it actually made a lot of sense to me but then I’m like
Before I react to this I want to find what he exactly said or and like and then you go back I was already overreacting to it yeah I know and it’s like he didn’t there’s no confirmation here so as long as we set that as the ground rules for this whole thing can
Can we do something different for just a second can you can you interview me like like Ian Rapaport was interviewed and ask me Ro if ebra flu is coming back or what if I think he’s coming back role play is definitely your king I’m trying to drink my coffee over
Here come on do you think mat is coming back so that’s an interesting question with a guy who last year was on a was finished three and 14 and the bears were the worst team in the NFL which was by at least somewhat by Design and then
This year they’ve blown three games in the fourth quarter that would be impossible to blow and uh but they did and he’s also had two assisting coaches fired uh that he hired for circumstances that have not been fully clear but are are not good however uh the Chicago
Bears terrible report the Chicago Bears social media account miked up the guy and then put out a video of him with a nickname for every single person on the team they are actively promoting the head coach of the team and I would like to think that the Bears now being run by
Kevin Warren are an organization that has some level of of what they’re doing and every time the general manager talks about the head coach he says something nice about the head coach when he’s asked about players on the defense he goes out of his way to bring in that the
Head coach has said something nice has has coached up the Jan briskers of the world so I think it is fairly obvious at this point that there is a lot of support organization wide for the head coach Matt eflu so if I if you’re asking me my opinion on whether he’s staying
I’m going to tell you emphatically that yes I do I think that Matt eberl is going to be back well and Ryan Paul said by the way I know absolutely nothing and that’s my that’s my read of the te leaves of what’s going on which is
Exactly what Ian rapor was asked to do to your point Ryan poles talked with Jeff joniak this morning and said we’re we’re identifying the right types of players the coaches are doing a great job of developing them right so another you know sign of approval with the
Coaches so my question to you ho because you say you know I thought maybe he got this from somebody in halis Hall and as somebody that’s you know played This Dance reporting sometimes you’re going to hear things and then you’re going to put things out in the atmosphere because
You have an educated you know hearsay from things behind the scenes but you’re not going to say directly where it’s coming from so like that’s my question to you it does feel like he’s talking to Ryan PSE because if you remember when Justin Fields first came back Ian
Rapaport also put out a report saying these are the things that Justin Fields needs to do to meet to be the quarterback back next year and there was a list of them one was consistency two was how he would do in the two-minute drill three was finishing games four was
Limiting to turnovers and it really felt like that report came from somebody and now Ian rap report I mean he’s obviously got a reputation that precedes him so to then put this out yesterday I go back to that report and I’m like okay he’s clearly talking to somebody that’s how
It felt to me well I’m sure he has sources inside the building he should have somebody inside every building but it’s irresponsible for me to guess who he’s talking to I would want do that I’m not saying I’m not saying to do that but it just does feel like it’s not just him
Giving an opinion it’s him also you know giving an opinion attached with it’s an informed opinion it’s an informed opinion that that’s what it is it’s not a report that Matt eberl is 100% coming back expected he didn’t say I just I just we’re not debating that I’m just
Making sure everyone knows that cuz your Twitter world it was very obvious that people did not understand that last night at all and and and and by the way including many members of the media too that were chiming in on this whole thing like he did not say flu is 100% coming
Back I just think that’s important now what I wanted to do this morning and I put this out on um on Twitter this morning was because there was a very strong reaction to this that he shouldn’t be coming back and I just wanted to actually I I just feel like a lot of
People decided week four that this guy should be fired and that’s the decision they made and that’s what they’re sticking to and that’s fine if that’s your opinion like that’s that’s okay but I just wanted to know the exact reasons if you’re somebody who does not think
Matd bulu should come back next season what are your specific reasons for why he should be fired it got a bunch of responses and I took like the five main ones I I would say um that I just wanted to address individually because I think if I am
Making one point through this exercise is that I do not think it’s as black and white as people want to make it out to me um I think you can pull koh’s in every argument for him to go and probably po CO’s in every argument for
Him to stay as well and I think that’s fine um but here are some of the top regions we go through one by one first one that I think is completely Fair bad coordinator hires or just questionable coaching staff hires overall of course referencing the fact that he had to Allen Williams
Resigned and in Alan in the Allen Williams case is the guy he’s worked with for a long time you know whatever the reasons were there if you want to say the head coach should had a better idea of what was going on and that should have been avoided I think that
That that’s fair um now the David Walker thing you know should he have a better idea maybe what this guy’s reputation was around the league off the field um I think I think that’s partially fair I also do think it’s unfair to expect really in any job that anyone’s
Going to know every single detail of all of their employers lives when they leave the building right in whatever job they’re in that’s just completely unrealistic unless they post them all on Twitter yeah unless they brags and they put every moment on Twitter Jake knew all the Jake knew all the
Skeletons in my closet I probably wouldn’t be hir do you still need to be held accountable are do you still need to be held accountable when bad things go wrong absolutely but I I think this idea that flu should just be fired because he had to had two
Coaches leave the staff in the middle of the year is a little unfair and I would also think and this is what I think is going to happen with a lot of these points we bring up lost his defensive coord orator took over the defense and made the defense a
Lot better right lost another position coach throughout the year and while I do think the running backs have not been great especially since David Walker got fired they’ve weathered that storm too so there’s kind of two ways to look at that but one of the ways that I look at
It is there was not a team in the league dealing with more adversity week three when they’re getting pummeled by the Chiefs the Allen Williams thing had just gone through a crazy PR cycle and the Justin thing was also that week the Justin thing was that week they get killed by the
Chiefs they blow the game against the Broncos and I’m listing off a bunch of reasons why I should be fired I get it but now they’re six and five in their last 11 since then they’ve made tangible progress in many areas so I I’m I’m just Lawrence is not get credit for that
Who’s he beating I that’s that’s another thing on the list three three of the six wins are against the worst team in the NFL second worst team in the NFL and the fourth worst team I think the biggest push back right now is like to me if I’m
Guessing again reading the tea leaves to me it seems like the flu is coming back let’s stop guessing I just want to go through the reasons of of the but but I think but I don’t want to talk about what we think will happen I want to talk
About just the fans looking at this understand but I think the push back from the fans is coming from the fact because they think that Flo is coming back and the quarterback is not coming back and I think that’s a main reason why you’re getting this much push back
Let’s hear the four other reasons cuz we’re jumping ahead here a little bit um so obviously three horrible losses three horrible losses yes um Braggs brags responded to my tweet with just third and 15 which was a horrible call that he actually took responsibility for by the way which I
Appreciated that was his best responsibility moment of his was flu career and I would say and you make the argument only one quality win I’m going to give him one and a half quality wins because even though the Patriots were terrible I think going into New England on Monday Night
Football and beating belich the way they did was an impressive win yeah so fun we had fun you know I I but it’s a half it’s one and that’s one and a half in two seasons well and then the other one that you’re leaving out is agreed with a
Horrible roster for the most part that is improving the other one you’re leaving out is the three blown leads in games where two of which you had a 99% chance of winning in the fourth quarter and the third one the Browns over 90% chance of winning in the fourth quarter
I get it I get it now I think the context what I’m doing here is not trying to make a defense for flu to stay I’m just trying to play Devil’s Advocate on a lot of these things so maybe people can understand where I think Kevin Warren and Ryan poles are probably
Looking at this and maybe they’re looking at it completely wrong and we’ll find that out in a year or two but I’m just I’m just trying to have a more nuanced conversation about all this I think he but but but my point is those those three losses horrible losses there’s no doubt
If you’re a coach in a position where you have Super Bowl expectations and you lose games like that you probably should lose your job but when you’re a young team with still plenty of roster holes that is trying to learn how to finish games with a quarterback don’t get sensitive it’s an
Objective fact the fourth quarter has been the quarterback’s worst quarter throughout his career when you deal that that hand I’m not saying it’s excusable but what it might be is tolerable as long as you get over it and there have been examples as much as people want to point them out and I
Get the games were not great Carolina Minnesota whatever they did finish some of these games in the fourth quarter even last week converting that first down and getting that field goal to ice the game against the Cardinals does count as a fourth quarter Victory no it’s fair they have made progress they
Did turn the corner through a lot of adversity they’ve kept the team together when they could have came AP part of the seams at 0 and four they kept the team together last year at the end of last year they were battling their ass off we
Gave Eber flu a lot of credit on this show last year at the end how hard the team was fighting even with the lack of talent he’s developing players well especially on the defensive side of the ball even the offensive line looks like it’s starting to develop you know and so
You’re seeing the moment building especially when montz sweat comes here and that’s exciting but I don’t I think losing those three games yeah you you’re not on a Super Bowl expectation but then you’re still on the hot seat next year you have to prove that in situational moments you’re going to come through
Because you’re going to run into these close games next year even if your roster is twice as good as right but but the hoges to your point you can understand at least I think I can understand how Ryan Po’s could look at that like hey man he had
Them in position to win games that they really shouldn’t be winning right now and they were right there and then in the end they didn’t execute which they were he had his players put in the position to do so and they just for lack of a better way of putting it [ __ ] the
Bed so that’s yes Flo has his part in it but I’m not blowing out my head coach because of three games that we should have won and in some cases at least against the Lions we’re playing against a way better team who’s a playoff I’m
Not I’m not going to kill him for it and who does po identify as the problem in some of these games because like the Cleveland game they essentially had two pick sixes but the offense was mainly the reason they didn’t win that game the third and 15 is what is got our
Microscope because that was the pivotal moment but the offense was the reason they didn’t win that game so if PS is looking at this fairly across the board he might look at it and say okay eflu isn’t the biggest problem here but again going back to something you’ve said a
Month ago when when I was like hey I just want to be in the huntt I just want to like barely make the playoffs and you were saying well you have to have a higher standard and so that’s my question for Ryan PES what is your standard here because is good enough
Enough for you because you might have three coaches as we’ve talked about with Bill belich Mike Tomlin and Jim Harbaugh who just hired an agent that’s known for NFL ties yet last night to be coming back to the NFL so what is your standard because it’s good enough enough for you
Or do you want to upgrade the position like we’ve seen other teams in the city do now that and did you get to all the reasons no I haven’t okay so because the next one is one that I’m personally worried about um and that is just how completely
Unprepared they were to start the 2023 season that one has me worried amen now I I I will give flu credit for turning it around but that was a [ __ ] joke the way they started the year yep like to come out as flat as they did against the Packers was unacceptable the the
Mess at the end of the Bucks game and that the Bucks are not a good team how they handled the Claypool thing throughout those two games yeah and and and so what is convinced me that they’re going to come out next year different that’s what I want to know and I don’t
Have any tangible evidence I have evidence they’ve gotten better but to me that was pretty concerning I I think it’s a fair concern but I think the way polls is looking at it is that yes that sucked but also we got through it we made moves to get through it and as he
Said today on the pregame show he’s you know they they’re holding on on their 1.6% chance we’re trying to win games at the end of the year here and if it doesn’t work out that we don’t go to the playoffs we want to carry that momentum
Into next year so I think he’s looking at it like all right bro I didn’t set you up in year one you didn’t start out year two great but you rided the ship and you’ve got things moving in a positive direction I think that’s obvious I am giving you a year or three
With everything that I’m going to do this off season and it’s put up or shut up for him all right now two two more quick things um that another another one that came up takes no responsibility and blames others he this was something that I ranted about a lot this year it was
Annoying and and and it really it was really starting to bother me I do think he’s gotten better he he’s I don’t know how that got to his head or someone said something to him about it or whatever but he has gotten better making it more
Of a Wei thing um and taking respons possibility for that third and 15 was a perfect example but we have come a long way from that chase Claypool mess cuz if I I got to be honest there’s one thing that concerned me the most about his
Ability to be an NFL head coach and and and handle everything that comes with it it was how he handled the chase Claypool postgame press conference when he when he put it on Claypool for not being there when in reality they told him not to be there that’s that’s that as much
As Chase Claypool probably Des deserve to be thrown under the bus you can’t do that to your players and not have other players in a locker room question it and so that one really concerned me and but again he seems to have fixed this in different flu now well and then the
Other part too with the Claypool thing okay that was the final blow but reverse back to the week one as you said not coming out prepared Chase Claypool is not showing any effort and you make him active week two and he made more mistakes in week two you had an
Opportunity there to set the tone of what an expectation for your players are and instead you let them make you look bad two weeks in a row to the point where all of a sudden you’re trading him another week it goes back to training camp which we talked about the day that
We watched practice and the way they let Claypool just like run around like like a maniac yelling at Tyreek Stevenson and no one stepped in I still find that as enormous red flag so so okay of everything we’ve named of all the reasons that one right there to me is
The biggest you have a diva wide receiver that you traded for who was called out by guys in the locker room your quarterback Your Leader the most professional face of the franchise called him out and here he is treating a rookie who you just drafted like he’s a
Complete Punk to the point that one of the coaches has got to sit there with Tyre could tell him don’t respond don’t respond let him do his thing and it kept going all of practice Chase clel should have been thrown out of practice that day agree he should have thrown out Mar
Was suspended like a week for doing something similar and they did nothing well and that’s the entire lack of accountability with Chase Claypool I think was was concerning I think the question is did he learn from it because what we’re missing in all this is that
He is a firsttime head coach yes that’s right and I don’t think he has the same level of stubbornness that mat naggie had I I I think we’re seeing a much better willingness to adapt adjust on the fly understand this was a defensive coordinator who was probably put in his
First situation here where I have to manage an offensive Diva here how do I do this and he probably didn’t handle it well but you’re in my guess my point is you are if you’re showing signs of progress and you’re showing a willingness to get better are you sure you want to fire
That guy that’s all I’m saying are you sure you want to do it because for all the things we just listed at the start of the Season not coming out prepared starting 0 and four Chase play pool Allan Williams Justin Fields calling out the coaches to a degree all that
Adversity and then they respond with six and five so while we can use those as a mark against him the way they responded from those things as a mark for him yep I I I yeah I I think that’s that’s fair now the last thing I want to say on this
We’ll get to a break then we got to get we got to get Nick from Soldier Field we don’t take breaks on the show we’ll get to a we’ll get to a this is one of our one we do not take breaks we what he
Hasn’t figured out is I do it now as a bit to get him going he takes you take it works it really irritates me we do not take breaks we never leave you we are with you the entire show don’t go anywhere there’s no such thing as a
Break on this show we are all together not I don’t take a break when I take a pee you keep the show going keep going oh that’s true that’s true now I here’s why I stand on this I think the most legitimate argument for making a head
Coaching change has to do with this idea of whether or not he is viewed as a lame duck coach going into next year CU we have seen this cycle way too many times and this has to do with both what type of coaching changes are you making
Because I expect there to be some change I think there probably has to be on to because I don’t know how you justify everything on offense right now but let’s say hypothetically they make a change at offense of coordinator who are you bringing in who wants this
Job is it a desirable enough job if they’re thinking the head coach might be fired a year from now for are you saying for an offensive coordinator or a player Offensive Coordinator would an offensive coordinator want to come here knowing that hey maybe this guy’s gone and then
I’ll take his job well I think this is gets into a whole separate conversation my short answer is I think there’s plenty of reasons to come take a job where you’re going to have the number one overall pick Andor can work with Justin Fields you got Caleb Williams
You’re in a great situation a fast track to a head coaching spot if you do your job right I would also look at the bear situation and say chances are they’re going to be a playoff team next year God I hope so with the direction they they
Should be they absolutely should be and so objectively I’m looking at this going I don’t necessarily if you keep flu now I don’t think he’s getting fired next year although it does set those expectations where if he fails again then he probably does get that’s why
Like some of these upand comom OCS I don’t think would want to come here but a guy like Frank Reich and I know a lot of Bears fans are like hell no but he has a relationship with Eber Flo and that’s how sometimes these things go he’s had head coaching experience I
Could absolutely see that guy being on the table I agree with your logic that it would be a concern but might not be a concern because of the situation um before I just but but let me finish my point I to me the bigger thing has more
To do with the quarterback and this idea that if you do draft Caleb Williams and you have to fire the coach after one year it’s the same [ __ ] mistake they’ve made so many times and this would be the third time in a row with a first round quarterback a a and so of
All the things we’ve brought up here now in the last 20 minutes I actually think most of the stuff of how this year is played out the argument is sound to keep him but My worry is if you’re going to keep him you better think this guy’s the
Head coach for the next five years right because and you better be convinced of it and if you’re not convinced of it if you’re really planning on taking a rookie you might want to think long and hard about starting it all the carousel John Jay Cutler to John Fox John Fox to
Mitch trabis Mitch trabis to Matt naggie Matt naggie to Justin Fields Justin fields to Matt eberflus and then if there’s a new quarterback the carousel continues I I would recommend that that that Ryan poles listens to the logic there it it shouldn’t be like he’s earned year three it should be that I
Like this guy a lot and I see him being here for years to come because I think he is just that good and has been that much overlooked that he got his first head coaching job in his 50s and even though he is a coochy coachy Floy flu
Nerdy nerd this is my guy like that’s how it that’s how he should be evaluating it not that he’s earned year three yeah uh and I know we’re doing this but like to Kevin K put in the in the comments and I think it’s a great Point like the one thing we didn’t
Mention look man you might have some of the most elite coaches of all time out there are you really passing on a on a chance for if Jim Harbo wants to come to the NFL or Mike Tomlin or Bill bich or whoever you want you’re passing on all
Those for this guy like it’s the same thing with the quarterback Justin fields we wouldn’t be talking about moving on from him but you have the number one overall pick and there might be a generational Talent so so it’d be really hard to move on from a guy who after
Three years who deserves to continue to grow with everything that’s going on here but you might do it because you think this guy is the next biggest thing and you’re not going to pass you’re not going to have the same logic with the head coach these guys are out here you
Really think that the flu is better than than them that is a big time statement yeah I think I think that’s that’s a perfect way to end it yeah we have three supers we have a bunch of supers but we have three that are specifically about
Flu I thought we should just rip through these real fast Jason Stevens 10 bucks aside from the defense getting better a few more wins and not completely losing the locker room through adversity what can we point to that says Flo is a good coach and he actually followed up just
Now out of all the teams who will be looking for head coaches this off season which one of those teams would likely hire flu to be a head coach that’s a a good point um Joe uh five bucks nothing from 2022 counts against his resume this that team
Was purposefully terrible true that is true and then Ravi uh Dar yes or no do you think Flo wins us a Super Bowl and that’s probably the biggest question of all you go back to that first one was that Jason uh yeah the $10 one uh hold on let me find
That I love it we’re on our hair’s on fire this morning because I get it it’s good I just want to point this out though and this is this is exactly my point and credit to Makers good good work youed everyone up I think this speaks exactly to my point
That some people just decided like week four I’m done with this guy and not willing to look that’s fine that’s fine you’re allowed to do that Jason’s allowed to do that here I just want to read this again aside from the defense getting better a few more wins for a
Team that had lost 14 in a row by the way they’re six and five in their last 10 or 11 and not completely losing the locker room I would actually argue I don’t think he’s lost to the locker room at all through adversity extreme adversity mind you try to put yourself
Back in the what was that week two or week three when all that [ __ ] was going on that was a lot that’s a lot is my point that’s a lot of reasons right there to keep them but he created a lot of that adversity by hiring those guys you he start he
Started the fire in the house and then put the fire out was like that’s only a fair statement law if he knew everything about Allan Williams background and hired him anyway you’re the co that’s not he’s it’s his job to know back the coach but the Claypool thing to your
Point that was right in his face so the I think the alen Williams point is fair but the clay poool part is a mark against him for how he handled it yeah but Po’s got to eat that as far as like I should not have put that guy in your
Locker room that’s on me that’s how if I’m Ryan P that’s how I’m looking at but he’s been working with this guy forever and like he obviously had no idea that there was ever something was going to come to the point that and then and then
Oh by the way he completely fix the defense after it happened well and don’t forget how how much the secondary was hurt through those the entire alen Williams thing to me is a is a it was like a blessing in disguise I would just say this about that if anything it’s a
Bigger blunder that he didn’t realize how much Alan Williams was holding back the defense I agree that’s a bigger argument to me that okay now that’s a that’s that’s another excellent call and I would also point to this Flo is a golly G willikers this guy and so so he so he
Could he is he is a Floy flu who lives in his flu land and he just it’s like to me there’s a little bit of an obliviousness to like the guy that’s right next to you you didn’t know that this was going on with this dude you’ve
Been around all this that because he just lives in his Flo little coachy coachy coachy coach corner I just don’t I I I I think there’s a little bit of an awkward and a slight offness to him as far as understanding human beings but to the video they put out as far as
Everybody’s giving him high fives and they’re all liking him it actually went a long way for me and thinking like oh yeah want find out which one of you two what is what is my nickname from flu because that that had some merited some good responses over the weekend I didn’t
It wasn’t me I had a great day on social media Friday I would have never guessed it was you I would have thought it was Karm I didn’t I had like three different tweets on Frid a tweet on Bears what would what would Flo’s nickname for brags be and
There was about a hundred comments in there they we’re all glorious but you didn’t say the actual what you didn’t give him a name no okay he let them that would have been even better let the mob he let the mob handle it good uh Hey prize pick is the largest
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Field Su Nick how’s it going in that nice drive Press Box you’re in it’s good in the Press Box a little cold as as you guys kind of know here but uh yeah be weather is here at the last game of Soldier Field it’s it’s snowing it’s coming down pretty good
There’s wind looks like coming off the lake here but it’s not sticking it’s not that type of snow where you can like build a snowman or anything but it is that kind of annoying wet snow so I was like watching the play players seeing how they’re catching moving around
Doesn’t seem to be affecting them all too much so just gets a nice little no effect here for the last game at Soldier Field let’s start with the wind how how much of fact do you think the wind will be and then um what is Justin Field’s
Glove situation cuz when it was uh raining in Cleveland a couple weeks ago he’s wearing two gloves yeah to address the first question with the win you have one of the field goal posts where you can definitely see the significance if you’re kicking with the wind you’re
Going to be you know have a little bit more extra distance on it but the other uh End Zone towards the the lake there doesn’t look like there’s anything as you know though the winds kind of unpredictable here at Soldier Field and in terms of Justin Field’s glove
Situation looks like he’s rocking both of the both gloves on both hands right now I think he did similar to what’s the last home game he did it once before this season too so it’s not something that he’s um not used to and I think everyone remembers the two gloves that
He wore in the week one win against the San Francisco 49ers in the 2022 season but it looks like he’s going to rock both gloves to play this game you seen Cole come out running around Nick yeah so Cole Cole I mean from my vantage point he looks good he was running all
The routes that all the tight ends and receivers were running um he had a little moment with flu before the game kind of just dabbing him up maybe uh said his nickname there as you know Flo was kind of doing while everyone was stretching but Ked looks like he’s ready
To go wants to keep that streak alive not missing a game and again play one last game here at Soldier Field for the 2023 season how about DJ Moore you know he seems like he’s been playing through some injury here the last couple weeks but uh wasn’t on the injury report this
Week yeah he looks good Greg um he was actually rocking in like the pregame just warm-ups eight some sunglasses that had 20 24 on him so kind of tribute to the new year coming up but he looks clean crisp out coming out of his routes and I believe it was on Wednesday or
Thursday he say he’s feeling 98% he might look like he’s 99 today Nick were you surprised about Deontay Foreman being inactive yeah yeah that was a little interesting because he wasn’t obviously on the injury report throughout the this entire week on Wednesday he was cleared full from that
Personal matter that he was dealing with so um and I think everyone by now has seen the tweet that he had earlier um so I wonder you got to think that there’s maybe some kind of connection there but that was interesting to see you know foreman not able to go especially in a
Game like this where I think you’re going to want to run the ball and have multiple guys that do it so it’s interesting that uh Deontay por won’t be a part of the equation today for the Bears offense how about the Falcons any of them rocking no sleeves any of them
Getting tough in the bare weather or do they look cold out there I saw a couple players um rocking some no sleeves I don’t know if that’s changed now in pregame from you know what they’re about to wear during the game but there were some guys that were trying to tough it
Out and you know look like they they belong here in the the snowy weather here in Chicago Nick tell Will you please when you get off with us just walk around get out of your comfort zone go up to every fan and say we’re going to stand for
Justin fields and give him a standing ovation because it could be his last game at soer field in a Bears uniform yeah you know I’ll have to see where I can make time with that with the game actually going on and you know taking notes you know just the normal
Stuff Mark but uh there there’s a good there’s a good turnout here right now soier field so hopefully they you know stand up for Dr field like you said Mark just find Ryan Pace somewhere in the stadium and ask him how much the Falcons will give up for Justin field
Yeah put that on the that that would be a good good uh little adventure to go on if I can uh make that time you guys all right Nick um well oh my God that’s creepy Pace just popped up in the corner of the screen ran Pace Ryan Pace just
Gave us a fourth round pick for no reason that’s Nick enjoy your fancy food there that Kevin Warren personally delivered to your seat I’m sure um any final thoughts before we let you go no guys uh you know this is a fun year of covering Bears football obviously we have some more
Work to be done but uh yeah I’ll see you guys uh post game all right talk to post game Nicholas Morano make sure you’re follow him on Twitter Nicholas Morano from all for all the updates from the stadium in the meantime brag is going to put cool that’s right uh if
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Week I I like Cole k matchup this week and the way Justin Fields Cole K have been hooking up 34 half receiving yards it’s a little risky obviously because he’s not 100% um but Nick just told us he looked pretty he looked fine in warmup so I’m going to go I’m going take
The over on Cole KT 34 and a half receiving yards wow I love that move I uh I’m I’m putting on khil Herbert it’s very interesting because once Deontay for was inactive my bet of 50 plus yards plus 310 I could have cashed out in the money um and I still can
By the way uh so you’re saying that 310 number is not available anymore I’m saying that 310 is not available anymore I so we probably shouldn’t be giving it out well he got it at 310 I got it I got it at 310 excellent point I don’t know
Where it’s at right now hogre it’s somewhere around there well probably you should probably still take it though I mean 50 yards you should get they offered me double my money plus and now they’re offering me uh 90% of my money on on that already they didn’t know
Deontay Foreman was going to be inactive you can cash it out before the game even starts I prob you’re saying you can cash out at more money than you I made I made a $10 bet yeah all right they’re offering me right now 1918 I would take
That immediately you would 100% yeah and then and go bet something else do one of your crazy parlays I’m doing uh Justin Fields over 60 yards at plus 100 let it ride so uh to me let it ride I think this is a day where you know passing is
Going to be tough with it wet conditions Justin’s always you know taking the onus to try to take things on himself and try to get first downs and the defense you know not having the footing that they’re typically going to have is going to put
Them in some tough spots to try to keep up with Justin on the edges so I think Justin uh is going to have a big day running the football the key for him is ball Security on a wet day like this just make sure you’re holding on to it
But I do think he’s going to rack up some yards today what I would do if I were you is I would take your $9 profit it and I would take the 10 you originally bet and put it on K Herbert to score a touchdown at higher odds yeah that’s
What I would do if I were you although honestly I two anytime for K can’t be that big no but it’s going to be higher than yeah that’s true because you’re securing your $9 that you just yeah yeah profited so that’s what I’m saying you I like it I like uh reinvesting
Immediately cuz you never know what’s going to happen he could get injured on the first play sure and they’re giving you basically double your money also he’s been very inconsistent throughout the year and it’s the Bears and it’s the bears bears all right predictions speaking of bears yep um little nervous
This has been a clean sweet look this um not just for the three of us but for everyone that made picks including Nick and will and and um we’re riding it baby woot everyone’s on the Bears yeah everyone’s and I saw like someone compiled all the local Medias and I
Think only one only Rick morrisy picked the Falcons good for Rick the Viper and shout out to Patrick Finley 12 and3 picking the Bears this year that’s really impressive pretty good really good pretty good um what are we n and six nine and seven 10 and four yeah we
All of us are nine and six and we’re all tied going into the last week of the season and you you know who else should be 9 and6 the Bears the Bears should be 9 and6 thanks um all right well I think it’s going to be a little bit of a lower
Scoring close game but um everyone’s relatively confident we will see and by the way that whole conversation we had about mie lose as I said earlier in the week these last two games matter to me let let’s see what the whole thing looks like when it’s over did you beat
The Packers that would help yep did you lose to the Packers in embarrassing fashion again that would not help yeah did you blow another lead today to the Falcons or did you just finally have a good game where you just won from start to finish and in convincing style like
This all matters so let’s see how it plays out today let’s see if it’s Justin Field’s last well we’re not going to get that answer today but right and most importantly say it with me guys do let’s go Jags I’m GNA throw up are we ending the show do we want to
Do these super chats we got two minutes till kick so I thought it was a good ending I know I was ending the show I know okay Thomas Thomas $5 played with New York New York Times playoff prediction I still can’t get access to that for some reason found a case well
You’re not allowed to found a case where bears make playoffs depending on Panthers beating bucks week 18 who you rooting for in that case the Bucks I choose death the you know why because because the Jags are winning today so it doesn’t matter yeah let’s go Jags next
Up football CF candy CF candy I’m sick to my stomach with the disgusting thought that e reflu comes back lack of OC options due to that and putting a lame duck coach with a QB again appreciate you CF candy so uh we we got maybe one or two more here Ben Vieira
499 Super Chat brags I’m drunk at the Bills versus Pats uh watching the Bears game love it Bears on Kawai 499 rocking the jf1 Jersey the last two games in supportive fields and Marvin Harrison Jr being your next year bear the [ __ ] down oh and Christal have a great time
Today Crystal 499 headed to the game guys sending my love as always my prediction is Bears 2117 love you guys and bear down we love you back Crystal have a great watch today Dominic Happy New Year’s man appreciate the support thank you Dominic go will talk to you
All right here post game will we be celebrating the number one overall will I hump a Bear we all sitting like the mayor
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