00:00John, I wanted to hit the NFC North still
00:02because I want to hit your team
00:04and what happened in that incredible game
00:07on Sunday night football.
00:08I mean, you could even ask me.
00:11I watched the game.
00:13You could even ask me what happened.
00:14It would be hard for me to describe
00:16what happened on Sunday night football
00:17for the Bears and the Buccaneers.
00:20Caleb Williams had four interceptions.
00:22A few of them were just doinks that went off players.
00:25A few of them were just indescribable.
00:28Well, the Bears ended up winning 27 to 24,
00:31but it was a disaster of a way to get there.
00:35It was an ugly win for a Bucs team
00:38that should not have been in that game at all.
00:40For a Bears team that was widely considered
00:42the NFC favorite, even over the 49ers
00:45going into this week.
00:47And now you have the Packers, you have the Niners,
00:49you have the Bears, and the Bears
00:49has put forth a lackluster effort.
00:51I wanted to get your take on what you saw
00:54on Sunday night football.
00:56What was that?
00:57I saw a team I'm now 100% sure
01:00will go to the Super Bowl.
01:02Let me explain why, because I know that sounds crazy
01:04after the game you might have saw.
01:06Every Super Bowl team has a couple of games
01:09like that a year that they win.
01:12Every time Patrick Mahomes has gone on a run
01:14to the Super Bowl, he's had a couple of games
01:17like that that he has won.
01:19You have no idea how he's doing this,
01:22but they still win.
01:23Joe Burrow throws you a couple of stinkers like this a year
01:26that Cincinnati wins, especially when they went
01:29to the Super Bowl.
01:30It happens.
01:32But to be able to steal, after everything that's gone wrong,
01:36four interceptions, one of them was a legit interception
01:39and one that was thrown in double coverage
01:40and the end zone was a bad throw.
01:42The other two were just him trying to get rid of the ball
01:46and not really having the steam on the ball
01:48because the Bucs, who are the number one defense
01:51in the league, put a lot of pressure up the middle.
01:54And because of that, there's nowhere for you to go
01:56other than to try to boot the ball,
01:58and that led to a couple of picks
02:00because he just didn't have the arm.
02:01He, of all people, didn't have the arm strength
02:03to get it out of bounds,
02:04and then the other one just popped in the air,
02:06and that happens when you're throwing a lot of passes.
02:08So for him to have overcome all that
02:12and get the ball in his hands
02:14and still go for Iceman to lead the team down
02:16for a game-winning field goal on the,
02:19I think it was the left hash, perfect as time runs out,
02:21you can't, that to me shows me
02:24his confidence is unshakable.
02:26It's unshakable.
02:27And when the time comes, he will deliver.
02:30You know who's had a lot of games like that
02:32on their way to a Super Bowl?
02:33Matt Stafford.
02:34Oh, yeah.
02:35Like, it happens.
02:37You get those games.
02:38But if you're the last person with the ball
02:41and you win that game,
02:43people forgive those kind of performances
02:45and they never get,
02:46they get talked about as gritty wins
02:47and not embarrassing losses.
02:50And that's where I think
02:51the addition of Jeffrey Simmons comes in handy.
02:55Because, like, I now have confidence,
02:57like, much more confidence in that defense.
02:59I know it was shaky on Sunday night
03:01against the Bucs.
03:02I understand that.
03:02But they roughed up Baker Mayfield still.
03:05I mean, he was whipping across the field.
03:07They were still getting into that backfield.
03:09It was basically just self-inflicted wounds, right?
03:12It was self-inflicted penalties
03:13and mistakes that you usually don't see
03:16from this Bears team
03:17over the course of this first part of the season.
03:19So I still do have confidence.
03:22Yeah, it was ugly.
03:22Yeah, okay.
03:23They barely beat the Buccaneers.
03:24All the Buccaneers are 3-5 coming in.
03:26Who cares?
03:27They got to win.
03:28And like you said,
03:29I don't care who's coming in there.
03:30Everyone's going to want to beat you now.
03:32The Bears have to understand that.
03:34Every team now is going to have you
03:36pinned on their calendar.
03:37They're going to have you on their schedule
03:38and be like,
03:39they think they have the best offense?
03:41They think they have this guru as a head coach?
03:43Like, we're going to show them.
03:44We're going to go in there and show them.
03:46And the Bucs,
03:46I got to give them credit.
03:47They played a pretty tough game.
03:49Like, they put up a fight.
03:51And for this Bears team,
03:52they're now 7-2.
03:53They are still at the top of the NFC North standings.
03:56It's 7-2 Bears,
03:576-2 Lions,
03:596-2 Vikings,
04:01and 6-3 Packers.
04:04So it is going to be
04:05just a mess
04:06in the NFC North
04:07as we head down the stretch.
04:08And this is where I kind of...
04:10Yeah, go ahead.
04:11Let me also say this about Jeffrey Simmons.
04:14When you watch him play,
04:16and this is the thing about the trade deadline,
04:19it'll never sit well with me.
04:20If I was a fan of the Tennessee Titans,
04:22watching what he's doing on a winning team,
04:25knowing he was doing that for us on a losing team,
04:28I would question what's our purpose now.
04:31Because the NFL is the only year-to-year league
04:34where you can be the first pick of the draft
04:36and then be in the Super Bowl the next year
04:38because the margin of talent is about that thick.
04:42Anybody can beat anybody.
04:43And you can turn your organization
04:45and your team around in a season.
04:47We've seen it on multiple teams.
04:49And for them to let a guy like that go,
04:53if I'm in Tennessee,
04:54I'm even more upset about this,
04:56watching what he's doing in these primetime games.
04:58Because he is abusing 300-pound men.
05:05Just abusing them.
05:06And no one knew he was doing this
05:08because he was playing in Tennessee.
05:10Now the fact that this guy's got to be a huge star.
05:13He's going to be a massive star in a Bears uniform.
