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Season 3 - Episode 6 - How Deflated Are You?
12 Plays2 months ago
The Trio of Positivity (minus one) goes over the week 1 loss against the Vikings to begin the Ben Johnson Era. They also provide a fantasy update for week 2 and review the week 2 matchup for the Bears against the Lions.
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Transcript
Introduction to Trio of Positivity Podcast
00:00:20
Bhupen
Hello, welcome to the trio of positivity podcasts. To be honest with you, not much positivity will come from us today, but hey.
00:00:28
Trio of Positivity
No, there's there's still going to be some positivity. I'm going to make sure of it.
00:00:32
Bhupen
oh wow. Okay, Chris is bringing the positivity. So we see different every day.
00:00:38
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:00:38
Bhupen
o Welcome to the podcast, people. We appreciate you joining us.
Focus on Positivity in Chicago Sports
00:00:42
Bhupen
This is the podcast where we try and bring positivity into your life from the Chicago sports landscape. It's just a duo here today.
00:00:49
Bhupen
um Miller's out vacationing, buddy. Have a great time.
00:00:53
Bhupen
ah so Chris, it's you and me. What's up, buddy?
00:00:53
Trio of Positivity
Yes, sir.
00:00:57
Trio of Positivity
Brother, can I just say for the first time in a long time, the trio of positivity was back together on an opening opening NFL weekend to watch the Bears. It was great seeing everyone.
00:01:09
Trio of Positivity
um i wish it was different circumstances.
00:01:12
Bhupen
I know, I wish we won like the last time it happened.
00:01:15
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, it was great to see everyone.
00:01:15
Bhupen
and
00:01:18
Trio of Positivity
I will be honest, I kind of want to do that again, like just find ways that we can just watch the game together because that was a blast.
00:01:24
Bhupen
we can We can meet up in Rosemont or something halfway, you know?
00:01:27
Trio of Positivity
I think so, right? i think that's something we can definitely like figure and figure out.
00:01:30
Bhupen
Alright. Trio Positivity recording live. Coming soon. you know ah
00:01:35
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
Social Media and Online Presence
00:01:36
Bhupen
Quick social plug here. We are on Facebook under Trio Positivity Podcast. We are Twitter, Trio Positivity. YouTube channel, same name, Trio Positivity Podcast. TikTok, Chris.
00:01:49
Trio of Positivity
I think it's still there. Yeah, I think it's I think so.
00:01:50
Bhupen
Let's do it. It's still there.
00:01:52
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, I think so.
00:01:53
Bhupen
um The what but website's still there. Blog posts aren't still there. All that housekeeping out of the way. Buddy, just unload.
Exciting NFL Games Overview
00:02:03
Bhupen
Tell me how you feel. Week one is in the books for NFL.
00:02:07
Bhupen
How you feeling?
00:02:09
Trio of Positivity
You know what? um When I mentioned last time, like usually the the start of the NFL season means summer's basically over. um But we got great football games.
00:02:20
Trio of Positivity
The Buffalo Bills and the Ravens was so much fun to watch.
00:02:22
Bhupen
Whew.
00:02:26
Trio of Positivity
No matter what, that is the game of the week. That was an absolute blast. It was the one game that I felt like the bill still had a chance because of everything like the Ravens have been able to like not be able to close out games and whatnot.
00:02:45
Trio of Positivity
Then come to realize it was a 15 point. ah
00:02:48
Bhupen
It was nuts. I thought the game was over. didn't...
00:02:50
Trio of Positivity
ah A lot of people in Buffalo, like the fact that Josh Allen on on interview was like some people didn't believe in us and that's fine.
00:02:53
Bhupen
They left, yeah. Yeah.
00:02:58
Trio of Positivity
I'm like, hey, that's.
00:02:59
Bhupen
it was it wast It was not only 15 points. It was like back-to-back-to-back touchdowns from the Ravens, and it was not just like You know, like, dinky-dunk here. It was like, Henry.
00:03:08
Trio of Positivity
Lamar Jackson looks so good.
00:03:10
Bhupen
Henry, 80-yard run. Henry, 50-yard run. Followed by, like, Jay Flowers, 50-yard touch. It was like, they were dominating. It's like, really...
00:03:18
Trio of Positivity
The one the one real run that Jackson had where he should have gotten sacked.
00:03:25
Bhupen
Henry here.
00:03:27
Trio of Positivity
No, Lamar should have gotten sacked.
00:03:27
Bhupen
Oh, Lamar. Oh, wow.
00:03:29
Trio of Positivity
And he just gets the first. um
00:03:33
Trio of Positivity
Such a great game.
00:03:33
Bhupen
Hmm. ah Yeah, which doubt that was an incredible game. Just like I feel for those fans, you know, like um so you I think you or somebody was saying like um some of the other games to like Cincinnati when they play Kansas City or Kansas City when they play the Bills. Like just you don't know.
00:03:53
Bhupen
so Don't give the ball back.
00:03:54
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:03:55
Bhupen
Don't 10 seconds on the clock. Doesn't matter. Five seconds on the clock. Something weird is going to happen. No, you're right.
00:04:01
Trio of Positivity
I am of the mindset now because of the game that we watch and same thing with um Pittsburgh and ah the Jets.
00:04:08
Bhupen
Jets, yeah.
00:04:08
Trio of Positivity
No lead is safe in the NFL.
00:04:10
Bhupen
No.
00:04:10
Trio of Positivity
I think that's going to be the 2025 2026 season is no lead is safe.
00:04:16
Bhupen
That is nuts, too. That's another game where I thought it was over because Jets were scoring every time. Pittsburgh looked way out of sync, and damn, like, no.
00:04:25
Trio of Positivity
Rogers just came out of nowhere, but great, great start to the NFL season, not for the bears, but just the general sense.
00:04:26
Bhupen
Bro. Bro.
00:04:33
Bhupen
Bro. No, like a lot of teams are there, i think, like the Lions fans, who are probably just as hurt as we are, you know, back-to-back division champs, and they got spanked, and like in better words, there's a lot out of other fan bases out there feeling similarly, but I'll echo what you said, it was really good to have football back, um it's it's so funny, like we think we know how a team's gonna do, what player's gonna do, and like we have opinions and whatever, he gets shattered right off the bat. like It's like,
00:05:05
Trio of Positivity
Well, for some, not me.
00:05:06
Bhupen
ah
00:05:08
Bhupen
I don't
00:05:08
Trio of Positivity
i was i was pretty I was pretty spot on on some of the stuff that I said, like fields like looking good. um Granted, some of the some of the bear stuff was just not there, but.
00:05:19
Bhupen
i i i' I feel like that's a great segue, too, before we get into our first segment.
Performance Analysis: Justin Fields and Strategy
00:05:26
Bhupen
I feel like we've done so much slander on Justin Fields.
00:05:29
Trio of Positivity
No, you guys have.
00:05:29
Bhupen
Some deserve it.
00:05:30
Trio of Positivity
You guys have.
00:05:32
Bhupen
yeah some
00:05:32
Trio of Positivity
I've been very profiled.
00:05:33
Bhupen
I'm pretty sure you were anti when he replaced Trubisky. I'm pretty sure. We can go back.
00:05:40
Trio of Positivity
I mean, OK, so let me just to reiterate, I know wherere we're trying to move forward, but I just want to reiterate that both quarterbacks, Field and Trubisky, I always felt we didn't have the right coaching staff for those quarterbacks.
00:05:40
Bhupen
but
00:05:53
Bhupen
I agree. I agree. i you i
00:05:55
Trio of Positivity
I think.
00:05:56
Bhupen
I was an apologist, dude. I like defended the man.
00:05:57
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:58
Bhupen
I said, like, Like, you know, like, he looked good. he was throwing passes. He was not looking to run. When he ran, he looked like he was looking run.
00:06:04
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:06:05
Bhupen
No. I just want to give him his flowers. We've not been...
00:06:07
Trio of Positivity
Yes.
00:06:09
Bhupen
so you know, like, we didn't have success with him. We had lots of expectations. I think we were, like, fair to be disappointed. And... But, like, I'm happy where he is. i hope of all the success, you know?
00:06:19
Trio of Positivity
i I want him to win so bad.
00:06:21
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:06:21
Trio of Positivity
i want him to win because in in the end, I think the same thing with Trubisky.
00:06:21
Bhupen
Like...
00:06:27
Trio of Positivity
It's like it's it was never their personalities that people just didn't like. It was just the play on the field. But like fields, I think, was a little bit different in which you can tell he wanted to win.
00:06:39
Trio of Positivity
Like you saw he wanted to win.
00:06:40
Bhupen
He we wants to fight, like...
00:06:42
Trio of Positivity
He wants and Trubisky was more of like a professional where he was just answering the right way. He didn't really show emotion and then slow.
00:06:47
Bhupen
Right.
00:06:50
Trio of Positivity
But you know what? I think, you know, we move forward. I think field just looked really good.
00:06:55
Bhupen
Yes.
00:06:55
Trio of Positivity
One of the proudest moments. And I said it when I was watching the game is like, oh, my God, he stayed in the pocket to throw to make the throw.
00:07:01
Bhupen
He did.
00:07:02
Trio of Positivity
And so I.
00:07:02
Bhupen
he was Dude, he was, like, gunning it.
00:07:04
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:07:05
Bhupen
too we'll We'll talk about it on Jets podcast, I guess, next week. But, no.
00:07:09
Trio of Positivity
I guess, yeah, we got to start the new one.
00:07:10
Bhupen
We... we We have to give that man flowers. But um let's bring it back home. Like you said, we're moving forward. And, you know, there are some quarterbacks doing well.
00:07:16
Trio of Positivity
Yes, sir.
00:07:19
Bhupen
And I don't know.
00:07:21
Trio of Positivity
hmm.
00:07:22
Bhupen
It was a battle of the second-year quarterbacks in Chicago, Monday Night Football. Man, we were feeling the hype. The city was buzzing. The stadium... i like Some of the national broadcasters were saying like that kind of energy has not been felt in Chicago in a long time.
00:07:36
Bhupen
And we you and I, we felt it. We went out to went out to a local watering hole, and we enjoyed the game with with the people there. We could feel it, man. like The city was on a high.
00:07:45
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:07:47
Bhupen
like you know All the off-season hype, everything.
00:07:49
Trio of Positivity
You know it's good when you were when you're walking to the bar and someone that is wearing Bear's jersey just says, Bear down.
00:07:49
Bhupen
But...
00:07:55
Bhupen
Like Pancho. Like Pancho.
00:07:57
Trio of Positivity
and And a poncho.
00:07:58
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:07:58
Trio of Positivity
And just says, Bear down. And it's like, you feel that. like
00:08:02
Bhupen
no
00:08:03
Trio of Positivity
It felt good walking in.
00:08:03
Bhupen
It was... It felt amazing. um But Minnesota scored 21 points in the fourth quarter for a stunning comeback but victory. um short Short-handed Bears defense. We had a couple of starters out.
00:08:17
Bhupen
We ran out juice in the second half, I think. The Vikings offense defense woke up. They won the game. Um... I think ah this is up to interpretation, but I think the remade O-line looked okay. It did its job.
00:08:30
Bhupen
We only gave up two sacks to a pretty good defense. I feel like Caleb, for the most part, had a clean pocket. Sometimes he would get happy feet and make try to make some plays, but for the most part, he had a decent clean pocket. But um i I want to start here, if that's okay with you. but
00:08:47
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go for it.
00:08:48
Bhupen
um like let's Let's play what if, right?
00:08:51
Trio of Positivity
Okay.
00:08:52
Bhupen
What do you think if we took that field goal instead of that fourth down play? Do you think it goes into overtime? Like, you know, do the Bears drive the field to win? Like, let's start it there.
00:09:03
Bhupen
Because we'll talk about it in, like, Ben Johnson's performance about this again.
00:09:03
Trio of Positivity
Okay. and
00:09:06
Bhupen
But let's start there.
00:09:07
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. I thought we were going to save this part for the end, but I see why you put it at the beginning. um So the fourth downplay was... Second, third quarter.
00:09:19
Bhupen
Second quarter.
00:09:20
Trio of Positivity
It was second quarter.
00:09:22
Trio of Positivity
Hindsight being 2020, I was OK with the decision.
00:09:26
Bhupen
Yeah, it seems like...
00:09:27
Trio of Positivity
One one one thing that I.
00:09:28
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:09:30
Trio of Positivity
Said about Ben Johnson last season, and maybe I didn't say it out loud, but I i feel like I can take a little bit of or I can say it this way, is that people like him for his aggressiveness and.
00:09:45
Trio of Positivity
ah Campbell preached ah that we were going to punch you in the mouth, that we were going to do all of these things. And me seeing that fourth down play was like, the Bears are going to do just that. The Bears are going to get right to it.
00:10:03
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:10:04
Trio of Positivity
So I think I will be supportive of that play and watching it, because I actually watched the play again.
00:10:12
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:10:14
Trio of Positivity
maybe a different play call or a little bit more time and we have it.
00:10:16
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:10:19
Trio of Positivity
So it's damned if you do damned, if you don't, but I am okay with it and I will support any other fourth down play that Ben Johnson decides to, to write.
00:10:20
Bhupen
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:29
Bhupen
I'm with you, too. I feel like we had the momentum, right? We had scored a touchdown our first drive. We were feeling it. Minnesota was not doing much. Our defense was stepping up. It was, like, time to put that, like, leg on your throat, right? Like, get the last gas for air out.
00:10:44
Bhupen
And, like, I know you said hindsight is 20-20. You're absolutely right. But, like, what if we had converted and, like, scored at least a field goal at that drive?
00:10:52
Bhupen
Like...
00:10:52
Trio of Positivity
So I thought about it.
00:10:53
Trio of Positivity
Did you watch the game again or did you watch highlights again?
00:10:55
Bhupen
Nope.
00:10:56
Trio of Positivity
Nope.
00:10:56
Bhupen
I...
00:10:57
Trio of Positivity
So we're going straight off of the bar review, right?
00:11:00
Bhupen
I mean, like, yeah, for the most part. i I've watched some Twitter, twitter twitter some Reddit, but yeah.
00:11:01
Trio of Positivity
For the most part. Okay, so I haven't watched. I haven't watched any highlights. I'm going strictly of what I saw. The Bears lost the game in the fourth quarter.
00:11:14
Bhupen
Did it?
00:11:14
Trio of Positivity
i I think that the Vikings had our number. I don't think we go to overtime.
00:11:22
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:11:23
Trio of Positivity
I think the Vikings would have taken that last drive where instead of them punting, where they just handed the ball off on the very last drive, they probably would have tried to drive down the field and they had the momentum.
00:11:31
Bhupen
who
00:11:38
Trio of Positivity
So I don't think it changed.
00:11:40
Bhupen
Yeah. And if anything, had had that converted and had we scored, maybe there is no comeback, right? It's like way too deep or hole.
00:11:46
Trio of Positivity
You're right.
00:11:48
Bhupen
So like, yeah, no.
00:11:48
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:11:48
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:11:49
Trio of Positivity
And there's also other things. We had the ball to start the second half. We got a three and out like that. There's like a lot of stuff that you can pinpoint that could make a change. um
00:11:58
Bhupen
Mm-hmm. and and And I think we can talk about it in Ben Johnson's review in a minute, too.
00:12:00
Trio of Positivity
But.
00:12:03
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:12:04
Bhupen
Like, the adjustments they made versus what we made. i have
00:12:07
Trio of Positivity
Yes.
00:12:07
Bhupen
Like, that that's probably a good note, too. All right.
00:12:09
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:12:11
Bhupen
Let's start with our but our guy, our quarterback, number 18, Caleb. um Man, he was on a high. Started the game 10 of 10. It was mostly, you know, short passes, nothing deep.
00:12:22
Bhupen
But, you know, um he was in rhythm.
00:12:22
Trio of Positivity
Very safe.
00:12:24
Bhupen
He was going through his progressions. He was, like, taking the available... ah like, checked out if he had to. ah Still, you know, some deep play, in ah inaccurate play, um you know, at least three, two to three that I remember.
00:12:37
Trio of Positivity
Multiple. i don't I don't think some. I think there was.
00:12:43
Trio of Positivity
The one that's unforgivable and.
00:12:46
Bhupen
The DJ Moore, I know.
00:12:47
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. That one, I think I saw someone on Twitter.
00:12:48
Bhupen
I'm
00:12:52
Trio of Positivity
um and didn't They didn't post a video, but they said Mitch Trubisky would have made that throw.
00:12:59
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:13:00
Trio of Positivity
And I laughed, and then I thought about it, and then you see how open that that that play was.
00:13:06
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:13:06
Trio of Positivity
Troy Aikman is just like saying, like he's there. you know like like That's the one that I think if we had... we get the momentum because it's like, it's, it's Williams to more it's, it's your stars combining and it's the first game of the season. And it's like, they're there.
00:13:26
Bhupen
Yeah. um My... Twitter analysis of that play was like, looked like DJ Moore, because he saw maybe saw the defender coming. Maybe he thought ball was not coming. Looks like he slowed down too.
00:13:37
Bhupen
Because I can't, had he like made that cut, like because the ball was thrown out bounds.
00:13:37
Trio of Positivity
It doesn't matter. Yeah. I,
00:13:41
Bhupen
So like where DJ Moore was, he would have known caught it.
00:13:44
Trio of Positivity
He would have no.
00:13:44
Bhupen
like Yeah.
00:13:45
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, I think I think a lot of people are going to put a lot of thought into that. um I just genuinely think. Williams saw the pressure and felt like he could he had to throw it like like he was aiming for the back pylon, like that's what it looked like when I'll probably look at it again.
00:13:56
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:13:59
Bhupen
Right.
00:14:02
Bhupen
Right.
00:14:06
Trio of Positivity
But I think the way that he was trying to throw it is he wanted more to jump at the backside of the touchdown.
00:14:11
Bhupen
Right. And it was a safer play. Like, he would probably gone inside, but there was a defender coming, so it was probably like, here's my guy can make him maybe catch it.
00:14:15
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:14:18
Bhupen
The defender is nowhere catching this.
00:14:19
Trio of Positivity
I think we all, I think, I think we said we'd love more in the 50, 50 plays.
00:14:20
Bhupen
That's what...
00:14:23
Trio of Positivity
I think we're all in agreement with that. Right. I think Miller would agree with that statement too.
00:14:25
Bhupen
Yeah. Like, that, that, like, yeah, he's pretty great at that.
00:14:28
Trio of Positivity
Like jump balls and stuff like that.
00:14:31
Bhupen
um But other than that, any other ah
Review of Caleb and Defensive Highlights
00:14:35
Bhupen
comments on Caleb's performance? I feel like, mm-hmm.
00:14:37
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. On the drive back home with our buddy Miller, I forgot he threw a touchdown.
00:14:42
Bhupen
He did. And ran one in.
00:14:44
Trio of Positivity
And ran one and so I completely forgot that he threw a touchdown. I thought it was a two point conversion.
00:14:48
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:14:49
Trio of Positivity
um So. I'm OK with his performance.
00:14:55
Bhupen
Yeah, I,
00:14:56
Trio of Positivity
That one deep ball we we should have, i think every quarterback in the NFL should be able to make that throw. I think we should have that.
00:15:04
Bhupen
Yeah, there's another one to Komet.
00:15:04
Trio of Positivity
And I think and and I'll give more points when we talk about. um Ben Johnson's role.
00:15:10
Bhupen
Okay. um There was another one to Komet, I remember, too. I think that was the missed field goal, maybe. Maybe it a different drive, but he was, like, straight up the seam between two defenders. you you It was like, ball was there.
00:15:22
Bhupen
Komet tried his best to catch it, but again, i feel like you if he had, like, maybe you timed it better, placed it better, that would probably be another one where we may not settle for a field.
00:15:30
Trio of Positivity
So I know in your bullet points you have defense to be next, but can we just switch to offense real quick?
00:15:36
Bhupen
Yeah, go for it.
00:15:37
Trio of Positivity
Because I think we can transition a little bit easier.
00:15:39
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:15:39
Trio of Positivity
um Answer me this. Given your recollection of the game, how many times did Caleb throw down the middle?
00:15:47
Bhupen
Down the middle? Like, five times?
00:15:48
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. See, ah Miller and I were trying to figure it out. We I can only remember three.
00:15:55
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:15:56
Trio of Positivity
Um, and I commit saved them with one, uh, DJ more got hurt on the other. and I thought there was a swift play, but I could be wrong still.
00:16:07
Bhupen
There was a couple of check downs to Swift, I think, but.
00:16:10
Trio of Positivity
I think so. Now, anything that's like past five yards, I would have wished that we would have seen more down the field, especially with two tight ends. Do you think that the play calling this week from the offensive side was too safe?
00:16:17
Bhupen
hmm.
00:16:23
Trio of Positivity
Or does Ben Johnson know something that we kind of all are not sure about yet?
00:16:29
Bhupen
So Ben Johnson has been like Minnesota's killer. Like he's like cooked that defense time and time over again. So I might give him the benefit of the doubt. The fact that we didn't turn the ball over for the most part, like the second half we were horrendous. The offense was not moving and that's probably on him. But the first 15 plays, whatever, 20 plays at this script, I feel like we looked okay. You know, ball was moving. We scored the first drive.
00:16:56
Bhupen
I would want to give him the benefit of the doubt. There was a plan. But, like, I think what they was, like, they saw our plan and they're like, hey, I see what you're doing. I'm going to take that away from you is basically what happened, I think. But, no, I'm i'm with you.
00:17:09
Bhupen
Like, I was looking through the targets. Rome let the Bears in targets and catches. And no other pass catchers had more than four catches. And I think that was Zaccheaus that had four catches. You know, like, Moore had a decent game. He probably had 50, 60 yards. But he had only had three catches. So, like...
00:17:27
Bhupen
the fact, like, maybe we have too many weapons and that's what we expect, but, like, I would like to see, like, them involved more. It seemed like it was, like, at some point, it was Caleb dancing around and trying to make a play.
00:17:40
Bhupen
Maybe that happened. Maybe that was part of the plan and i don't know what I'm talking about, but... Maybe, like, you have these people in position, like you said, middle of the field, easy passes, right? Dink and dunk if if you need to.
00:17:51
Bhupen
That maybe we could have used them more. But, like, I don't know. Like, our third what string wide receiver getting four catches, and that's the highest, the second highest on the team, just seems little concerning to me.
00:18:04
Bhupen
um
00:18:04
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, i agree.
00:18:04
Bhupen
Swift off. Yeah, Swift had, like, very inefficient, but he rushed for, like, 51 yards in 17 attempts.
00:18:10
Trio of Positivity
So I was listening to um Pat McAfee and the old Arizona coach Bruce Arians was there.
00:18:20
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:18:21
Trio of Positivity
he said he liked how Swift played. And I was like, what did this guy see that i might have missed? Miller and I work very much on the fence of like.
00:18:33
Trio of Positivity
Obviously, there's injuries. Swift is not going to be the back that's going to run through and block tackles like from ah a gap position.
00:18:43
Bhupen
yeah
00:18:43
Trio of Positivity
He's going to make people miss. He's going to want to go left and right. But the one thing that stuck to my head then I said this multiple times at the bar, is that we have to establish a run game even when we're losing because that opens up the playbook for play action and other stuff that should have worked.
00:18:58
Bhupen
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:19:09
Trio of Positivity
But I think, and this is really going to suck, but credit to Minnesota because Minnesota did all the right adjustments.
00:19:21
Trio of Positivity
I think Bruce was like, not only did they go cover two, but we showed him blitzes that maybe he hadn't seen yet or that he that we but like the court, the the coach showed him blitzes that he hadn't seen before.
00:19:27
Bhupen
yeah
00:19:34
Trio of Positivity
And the thing that annoyed me is that if you have a coach that can realize these things as it's happening. You as an offense, you have to be like, well, hey, like. we got to counter this.
00:19:46
Bhupen
Right.
00:19:47
Trio of Positivity
So from an offensive side, I think that's more of the frustrating thing that I think the second half brought.
00:19:48
Bhupen
ah
00:19:55
Bhupen
No, like, I'm i'm with you. i feel like Now that I'm thinking back about the plays, looks like Swift had three, four more catches, like, in the passing game. I thought he had more honestly, but um but um now that I'm thinking, as you're talking, maybe we went too safe.
00:20:10
Bhupen
We thought they would blitz the heck out of our new quarterback, and that's why Swift was always an outlet in every play. i don't know if you remember, on the left, on the right, like, in in the middle, so I feel like maybe that was a game plan, and we never shifted off the game plan, and
00:20:17
Trio of Positivity
Yep. Yep. yeah
00:20:24
Bhupen
They thought that we would have that game plan, and then they countered with something else where it looked like they were blitzing and did not blitz. So, like, maybe...
00:20:32
Trio of Positivity
Or they just blitzed and still had the cover too.
00:20:36
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:20:36
Trio of Positivity
And they were basically saying, you're not going to beat us with a deep ball.
00:20:39
Bhupen
Yeah, they're daring. Right, they were daring us.
00:20:41
Trio of Positivity
Like you're, you're, yeah.
00:20:42
Bhupen
Yep.
00:20:43
Trio of Positivity
Like, come on and, and, and throw it. But um we can, I know we can go on
00:20:46
Bhupen
Oh, that's a good one.
00:20:48
Trio of Positivity
I know we can go on and on and on about the offense, but I think we have to save it for the Ben Johnson stuff. So we've been telling, tell me a little bit about the defensive side. I see you have some bullet points here.
00:20:58
Bhupen
Oh, no, like defense, first three quarters, let's because fourth quarter is a different topic. Amazing, dude. We held them to 85 yards. um They were 0 for 8 on third down. i we They kept showing that stat.
00:21:10
Bhupen
don't even remember. 0 for 5, 0 for 6, 0 for 7.
00:21:12
Trio of Positivity
0 for 7, yeah.
00:21:13
Bhupen
We had a weird of pick 6. We had 3 sacks. ah we They were balling for the first three quarters. But I think, you know, they were playing inspired. Energy went down. a couple of injuries happened. i don't know what happened.
00:21:25
Bhupen
Yeah. The fourth quarter, they just balled. They scored 21 points. Like, we just fell apart. They were doing whatever they wanted to. the national podcast I listened to, they said they simplified the playbook because they were trying to make him do too much. He was like adjusting on the line too much and then like kind of not doing what they were asking him to do.
00:21:45
Bhupen
But they simplified the game plan to a whole lot. So he only had like, look at jeff Justin Jefferson. Is he, is he, is he something you can throw to a throw to him? If not, find a play. That was basically the game plan.
00:21:56
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:21:57
Bhupen
It seems towards the end because he scored an Aaron Jones score.
00:21:57
Trio of Positivity
yeah
00:22:00
Bhupen
Those are only people that scored towards the end and he ran one in. Right. So, that That's what I saw about the fourth quarter came undone, but I don't want to take anything away. What I liked is kind of like what we talked about.
00:22:11
Bhupen
If you remember, on third down, mostly what they were doing was everyone was at the line. And then like, it's a rookie quarterback, right? That's what you do. Try to confuse the heck out of him. We didn't blitz very much. At least not that I saw, but we were like around the quarterback.
00:22:27
Bhupen
We got a couple of sacks, but like, we We were not at him, but like still, without like that and that implied pressure, gave us something for the first cup three quarters. They did okay.
00:22:37
Bhupen
Fell apart on the fourth quarter. like i don't know. like We're not supposed to be a great defense. We were like average to maybe slightly below average defense was our expectation going in, right?
00:22:45
Trio of Positivity
Mm-hmm.
00:22:48
Bhupen
That's what they look like, right? We had key injuries. I think we can never... like I respect that we held JJ to like no yards before the fourth quarter. That was like very respectable for like the team, what they did, but...
00:23:01
Bhupen
You know, like it only counts for so much that we fell apart on the fourth quarter and it costs us the game. So that's where we are. Good things, good promising things. It'll look better, I think, in more games as as we do.
00:23:12
Bhupen
I think Dennis ah Allen is a heck of a coach. I feel like he'll coach guys up. I feel good about it, but don't know. It was like we were almost there. They almost got us to promised land one more time, but fell short.
00:23:23
Bhupen
but Those are my notes from from the defense mostly.
00:23:26
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. um
00:23:31
Trio of Positivity
I think the defense is always something that the Bears, as fans, we always want to be good. Like, obviously, we want a better offense, but I think we always just want to be able to say that our defense wins those games because defense wins championships and all of that stuff.
00:23:47
Trio of Positivity
Um, I really did enjoy, um watching that defense play. Um, I think we just got out coached in the backend.
00:23:57
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:23:58
Trio of Positivity
I, I, there's no other way of putting it. I right. Got the interception that led to the, to pick six.
00:24:03
Bhupen
Yeah. Thanks. Yeah.
00:24:07
Trio of Positivity
Um, and then I think he got hurt. Um,
00:24:09
Bhupen
He did. He did. He left the game. Yep.
00:24:11
Trio of Positivity
He left the game after. I know that there's injuries and we there's there's only so much we can say. But when you have three quarters of really good defensive play to then go through that fourth and then one hold ends the game at this point.
00:24:29
Trio of Positivity
You know what i mean?
00:24:30
Bhupen
Right.
00:24:30
Trio of Positivity
Like one drive, one killing drive ends it.
00:24:33
Bhupen
Yeah. 10, 10, 10, 3, 10, 6, I'm
00:24:34
Trio of Positivity
And it just... It just wasn't there. What made it worse, too, is I think as we were watching the game, I don't know about you, but this is me. i was like, Bears are losing like the Bears are losing. There's no shot. They're winning this game.
00:24:49
Trio of Positivity
And we were up ten or seven or something at that point.
00:24:53
Bhupen
like that.
00:24:55
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:24:55
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:24:56
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. and And I was remembering the conversation you and I had where you were like, oh, it's the third quarter. We need to run the clock down. I'm like, no, this this can't happen. And I'm like running the clock down basically means that we have nothing anymore.
00:25:09
Trio of Positivity
Like, that's it.
00:25:10
Bhupen
but Right.
00:25:11
Trio of Positivity
And that's when I said, like, no, the offense needs to be aggressive here.
00:25:11
Bhupen
Well, like, as and that at that point, like, Minnesota hadn't done anything, and I was assuming, yeah, as it like, I was assuming that, like, we can kind of build on that.
00:25:18
Trio of Positivity
They did nothing. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:22
Bhupen
We have the possession. and We have the score. That was my idea. I was like, because it's a divisional game at the end of the road, that you know it's going to come down to, like, ah one score or, like, you know, one, like, shitty penalty this way or that.
00:25:35
Bhupen
So that that was my idea.
00:25:36
Trio of Positivity
Don't get me started on the penalties.
00:25:36
Bhupen
I was like,
00:25:37
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:25:38
Bhupen
That's where we're going next. We're talking about our head coach, Ben Johnson.
00:25:39
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:25:42
Bhupen
um To his credit, let's give him the positives first, okay?
Head Coach Ben Johnson's Debut Evaluation
00:25:47
Bhupen
um
00:25:47
Trio of Positivity
Okay.
00:25:48
Bhupen
um Players played inspired. They played within the system, right? Like offensive, defensive. we Hey, we scored a touchdown our first drive. Wow.
00:25:57
Trio of Positivity
Pretty good.
00:25:58
Bhupen
that What is that?
00:25:59
Trio of Positivity
Also, I read somewhere.
00:26:00
Bhupen
We don't...
00:26:00
Trio of Positivity
i don't know if this is true. That was Williams' first rushing touchdown.
00:26:05
Bhupen
No. Really? mean, we must have scored one.
00:26:07
Trio of Positivity
I read that somewhere. Hold on. I think it was ESPN. Maybe the way they worded it. and I was like, oh, Chicago's Caleb Williams had his first career rushing touchdown and threw for a score in Ben Johnson's debut as the Bears head coach.
00:26:12
Bhupen
but the for the, for this year?
00:26:20
Bhupen
Oh, okay. Maybe, maybe it is.
00:26:21
Trio of Positivity
I didn't.
00:26:21
Bhupen
I thought, I thought he would run.
00:26:22
Trio of Positivity
i I would have thought he ran one, too.
00:26:23
Bhupen
Huh?
00:26:25
Trio of Positivity
But apparently that was according to yeah ESPN's recap. That's like i was i read that and I'm like, that can't be right.
00:26:32
Bhupen
Yeah. Like, I mean, geez, we should celebrate that more, but no, um, the right.
00:26:38
Trio of Positivity
That's exactly what I was going to say. Like, how how are we not talking about that? It took him a whole year. But i that that's got to be something else that we got to research. I'm not going to sit on that.
00:26:47
Bhupen
Yeah. um and Anything positives on your end before we drag him through the mud?
00:26:55
Trio of Positivity
The O-line looked really good until the penalties hit.
00:27:00
Bhupen
Great, great, great, great segue.
00:27:00
Trio of Positivity
And i just i just want to say this, though.
00:27:02
Bhupen
Go ahead. Finish your point.
00:27:06
Trio of Positivity
It looked really good compared to the shit show that was last year. So we got to preface that. We can't say like they are a top tier offensive line. No, they are a slight improvement of what we had last year.
00:27:19
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:27:19
Trio of Positivity
That's a win in my book. I don't know how you feel. I don't know how Miller feels about that. But to me, the the fact that we can say, hey, two sacks, one sacks, We know why.
00:27:31
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. The other one was legit. He had no time.
00:27:34
Bhupen
Right.
00:27:34
Trio of Positivity
So in reality, one sec is pretty fucking good.
00:27:34
Bhupen
Right. Right. No, that's amazing. Like...
00:27:39
Trio of Positivity
He's on pace for 18.
00:27:41
Bhupen
Instead of 68 or whatever we did last year.
00:27:43
Trio of Positivity
Or whatever he, yeah.
00:27:45
Bhupen
No. No, that was incredible. Like, just think, like, just us too, right? If you're able to plan that, hey, I'm not, there's not going to be somewhere in my face every play, two seconds into the play, you're probably able to, like, collect your thoughts. Just, like, at work, right?
00:28:00
Bhupen
you get blitz every day at work, like, Jesus, like, you won't be at a good frame of work now that you can plan some things. You probably want to do better. No, good for him. Definitely want to give him props, like,
00:28:11
Bhupen
They had a plan with the O-line. It seems like working.
00:28:13
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:28:13
Bhupen
like And it's game one, right? It's probably hopefully going to.
00:28:15
Trio of Positivity
It's a two tight. It's basically a two tight end setup. He's going to go under center for most of it and Swift.
00:28:18
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:28:21
Bhupen
What do they call it? twelve 12 personnel?
00:28:24
Trio of Positivity
Whatever. Yeah, I forget forget what ah the official name is, but we got to see it. The only issue and then i I think we can kind of go into this.
00:28:32
Bhupen
Hit it.
00:28:35
Trio of Positivity
We had over 100 yards and penalties.
00:28:38
Bhupen
You're dead?
00:28:38
Trio of Positivity
Majority being on offense. I know that in the last quarter there was a couple on the defense. um And some were just.
00:28:47
Bhupen
Yeah, some were killer, man.
00:28:50
Trio of Positivity
The one that pissed me off the most is the false starts in your own stadium like that to me is.
00:28:50
Bhupen
Like...
00:28:55
Bhupen
Right.
00:28:58
Trio of Positivity
That you can't have.
00:29:01
Bhupen
That that may may have been psyching, you know, the team up saying, hey, they are blitzing the crap out of you. But maybe, like, you know, they were trying to... But, like, no, I'm with you. Both Wright and Jonah Jackson, like both of them, had multiple penalties, false starts.
00:29:17
Bhupen
um I think one of the holes was the one that kicked us out of field goal range and that subsequently led to us missing a field goal. That was one of them. So, like, it comes back and bites us, right? Like, penalties are not, like, three yardage here and there. Yeah, we punt here and there. But, like, there is a consequence for this and, like, some of them it cost us.
00:29:37
Bhupen
To Ben Johnson's credit, he that was one thing he focused on. He said we were sloppy. We had made too many mistakes in the loss. So, like, it looks like it's up on his priority list. But nonetheless, I think though this is the same Bears we've seen.
00:29:50
Bhupen
We talk about penalties. We talk about O-line sloppy play. We talk about this every year. And for that, that looked like the same old Bears to me.
00:29:58
Trio of Positivity
i I think you're... ah We're agreeing a lot in this episode, and I think that just goes to show that...
00:30:05
Bhupen
Because we hung out yesterday, I feel like we.
00:30:06
Trio of Positivity
Not only we hung out, but I feel like you understood my gripe. I understood your optimism. But at the end of the day, i think we saw this Bears team that had a chance to win, even with the fuck ups.
00:30:19
Trio of Positivity
And that's what I think is more most like hurtful is it's that we had it.
00:30:22
Bhupen
i i Yeah.
00:30:25
Trio of Positivity
We had it in
00:30:25
Bhupen
Right.
00:30:28
Trio of Positivity
we were giving them a beat down. We had a defensive touchdown and we think we have this offensive guru of a coach that it's, we're supposed to score maybe over 30 points.
00:30:37
Bhupen
Mm-hmm. You couldn't put it away.
00:30:42
Trio of Positivity
Granted, I think I'm looking at the standings here. ah Green Bay and Minnesota only scored 27. We were right below them with 24, but one of them was a defensive touchdown.
00:30:52
Bhupen
Defensive.
00:30:54
Trio of Positivity
So still more than the lions, but it's like,
00:30:57
Bhupen
Ha ha.
00:30:58
Trio of Positivity
There's only so much that we can do. um I know I spoke to Miller on the car ride. I can say this for him. He did not like the fourth play call after having a conversation with him, though. And I want to hear your point about this is I believe we brought him for his aggressiveness, as I was saying earlier.
00:31:17
Bhupen
yeah
00:31:17
Trio of Positivity
And then he said, maybe I just need to get used to Ben Johnson being too aggressive on the play call. Do you agree with that statement?
00:31:24
Bhupen
i think yeah I think we live or die by the sword. right This is the guy we got. like Dan Campbell has won games because he's gone further down Fortown. He's lost games because he's gone further down Fortown.
00:31:35
Bhupen
But he doesn't hesitate. right That's who he is. and like kind of like
00:31:38
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:31:39
Bhupen
Minnesota's persona is they're blitzing. They're angry. They're coming at us. Maybe that can be our persona. We go for it on fourth down more often than we don't, right? So, like, I liked it.
00:31:50
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:31:51
Bhupen
Like we talked about, hindsight is 20-20. Who knows what could have happened? Maybe they would have scored a field goal. They had the momentum at the end, right? i don't know if that changes anything, but God, had we got that score, Chris, I think the game would have flipped on its head.
00:31:57
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:32:03
Bhupen
i I firmly believe that.
00:32:04
Trio of Positivity
I think if we ah fourth and down. Yeah, I think there's there's no shot like we we have all the momentum even more.
00:32:10
Bhupen
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:12
Trio of Positivity
And I mean, i don't want to I don't want to keep like digging this hole, but I feel like I have to. Some of it was not our fault. I think some of the penalties that were called were very questionable.
00:32:27
Bhupen
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:32:27
Trio of Positivity
So not all of it can really fault on Johnson and some of it on our old line. um But I think in the more that I'm talking to you about it, I kind of feel like i need Miller to give me that opposite, ah that sensation of like telling me that I'm wrong when obviously I know I'm not wrong. But it's like, I think we all know that.
00:32:51
Trio of Positivity
if he doesn't go for it on fourth down in the future, this game is going to get brought up. And it's like, oh, well now he's second guessing himself.
00:32:58
Bhupen
Right. Right. Right.
00:33:01
Trio of Positivity
Is he really the guy?
00:33:01
Bhupen
right
00:33:02
Trio of Positivity
And it's like, ah, I can't, especially going to Detroit.
00:33:04
Bhupen
right
00:33:06
Trio of Positivity
Like I can't, I can't have that so early in the season. That's way too much.
00:33:11
Bhupen
Right. But I think like it sets the tone for the team. Hopefully it sets the tone for us moving forward.
00:33:15
Trio of Positivity
I think so.
00:33:16
Bhupen
But um um yeah, so like mixed mixed reviews for him.
00:33:16
Trio of Positivity
I hope so.
00:33:20
Bhupen
Some good things, some positive things. It's week one, right? It's way too early, but I feel like we like what we are saying is mostly the trend. Some things to fix for sure.
00:33:29
Trio of Positivity
I feel like for you and Miller, though, this week one is very much a punch in the mouth because I said it during preseason that, hey, there's only so much we can get excited for.
00:33:37
Bhupen
Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:33:41
Trio of Positivity
ah You know, i there was some worrying things.
00:33:43
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:33:43
Trio of Positivity
We don't talk about it. But that first fumble that I mentioned in preseason and your guys were like, oh, well, you know, he looks sloppy or like, hey, it's preseason. It's whatnot, whatever. It's those little things that start to pile up that I think is going to question that coaching staff. Like, can we coach this team up to not make mistakes next week? And that's what I need to see from Ben Johnson and the coaching staff.
00:34:05
Bhupen
Yeah, to give Miller credit, he had pointed out that our O-line, we're using too many configurations. was way too late in the preseason, offseason too, right? Like, that's something that should have maybe solidified.
00:34:16
Bhupen
Maybe that help. But the issue didn't come from Braxton Jones. It came on the other side. That was the funny part. But anyway, um let's let's let's drag two more Bears players through the mud.
00:34:22
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Sure.
00:34:27
Trio of Positivity
sure
00:34:27
Bhupen
um Special teams, Santos, Mr. Fulco, you know, It was, I would not say a gimme, but probably one we expect the NFL kicker to make.
00:34:37
Bhupen
um But San Francisco replaces kicker already. Do you think we go down that path with Santos?
00:34:44
Trio of Positivity
No, no. um Reading the ASPN recap, um they were talking about the kicker for Minnesota.
00:34:55
Trio of Positivity
um
00:34:57
Bhupen
Lighter?
00:34:57
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, Reichert or something like that.
00:34:58
Bhupen
Zyder? Yeah.
00:35:00
Trio of Positivity
I don't know his name.
00:35:00
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:35:00
Trio of Positivity
I'm not a Minnesota fan. So apparently the kicker matched a Soldier Field record. You want to guess how many yards that kick was?
00:35:08
Bhupen
fifty nine
00:35:09
Trio of Positivity
That's the record at Soldier Field. It wasn't like a 60 plus. It was a 59. Goes to show how wind is still a factor. i Although every time I see a kick...
00:35:22
Trio of Positivity
I think for especially when I saw the replay and in the bar, the flags weren't moving. So I don't think there was really a breeze or maybe there might have been a short breeze, whatever the case may be.
00:35:26
Bhupen
yeah
00:35:32
Trio of Positivity
It's week one. I don't necessarily want to replace him, but I will say this. There's a lot of kickers out there that are kicking 60 pluses. The Steelers being one of them ah ah to win it.
00:35:45
Trio of Positivity
So like, are we, is the trend officially changing?
00:35:46
Bhupen
Yeah, like...
00:35:49
Trio of Positivity
Like I mentioned, right? that the kickers are going to be a lot more valuable and that we need a person that can kick 60 yarders with ease.
00:35:56
Bhupen
Like, my my concern with him is we know he's not... He's shaky above 50, right? We know that as a fact, but he was like... Between 40 and 49, he was pretty solid.
00:36:07
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:36:07
Bhupen
The fact that i was in his range and he missed is what I'm concerned about, but... It's not the first time we did that in preseason, too. We had brought this up. i don't know if you remember. it was a preseason game. He missed a kick.
00:36:19
Bhupen
um We won, I think, regardless. But, like, that was that was one of the things we had brought up. So, like, i don't know if you've seen a theme. Things that were, like, broken in the offseason are still broken is the theme, I feel like. The last one, and I don't know if this is on the punter, this, like, swung the game, in my opinion.
00:36:34
Bhupen
The blocked punter, like, when we were trying to punt in the fourth quarter,
00:36:37
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:36:38
Bhupen
Like, I think that that also needs to be brought up because special teams, like, we just assume they will do what they're supposed to do. That's special teams. either You come in for one play. But both of those plays, i feel like, at least swung the momentum in their favor.
00:36:51
Bhupen
We can argue how much, but definitely did not help our cause.
00:36:55
Trio of Positivity
So. Santos and looking at his stats. ah With the Bears, at least. um
00:37:05
Trio of Positivity
He's really only missed one 50 yard plus in the season, except for 2021, where he missed two. His longest as a bear has been 55, and that was in 2020.
00:37:21
Trio of Positivity
So this is another reason why I don't necessarily want to, you know, have have an issue.
00:37:27
Bhupen
I don't know. usually Usually, I'm not that reactive, but like the fact that like we we assumed he would be better between 40 and 49, that's his range.
00:37:31
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:37:38
Bhupen
that that That was like very shocking to me. And then, it had consequences, right? Let's not think it did not. Like, having that three points on the board would be huge. I'm not saying we would not have lost the game. Life without a bit, huge.
00:37:49
Trio of Positivity
I agree.
Special Teams Challenges for Bears
00:37:50
Trio of Positivity
i just, there's already so many questions with the bears. I just don't want to add special teams right now.
00:37:58
Bhupen
I know, but it didn't help.
00:37:58
Trio of Positivity
You know what i mean?
00:37:59
Bhupen
It didn't help. you would agree with me there.
00:38:01
Trio of Positivity
it didn't help, but with, okay let me, let me, let me,
00:38:04
Bhupen
yeah I think that punter is way worse than the kicker. I'll agree with you.
00:38:08
Trio of Positivity
let me, let me go back a step. Why are we doing the college style blocking of kicks? Is that new? that i Not a lot of teams are doing it.
00:38:18
Bhupen
Right.
00:38:19
Trio of Positivity
And the only argument that I said about the block punt is that if we were in a regular formation... where only the punters back there, no one else, you don't allow the edgers to get a a a free release a bit to kind of almost juke whoever's there.
00:38:40
Bhupen
right
00:38:40
Trio of Positivity
You're putting a body essentially in front of them to at least try to stop them where you want to hold them. You might be able to get the kickoff. Granted, hindsight being 20-20, is this the new norm? if If I see this formation next week, I will be criticizing the Bears if we get another block punt.
00:38:58
Bhupen
I feel like a lot of a lot of teams do this formation now.
00:38:58
Trio of Positivity
That's the only thing I i will say.
00:39:01
Bhupen
The two guys behind. like I've seen that a lot. I don't know what what's changed, why they do it differently. But um I think like you're saying, we have people up front if someone leaks. like you know Because like what they're trying to do is like, what it happened to us is they're overloading one side versus the other.
00:39:17
Bhupen
So one side just coming, you know?
00:39:19
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, but that's but that's fine. But there's always been a way to protect against that. Because if if you're going full protect, I guess that's what you call it. Like, it's full protect. You don't have the outside runners, right?
00:39:33
Trio of Positivity
Even if... Snap to kick is, what, two seconds?
00:39:37
Bhupen
Yeah, less than that, probably.
00:39:38
Trio of Positivity
Less than that, like...
00:39:39
Bhupen
Yeah, no, but he, like, and he's usually a very good punter, too. Like, that's just, like, again.
00:39:44
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, i don't i don't I don't fault the punter, but it's like the only thing that I saw different was the formation. And if we still have that formation, if it's like full protect,
00:39:54
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:39:56
Bhupen
No.
00:39:56
Trio of Positivity
don't I don't remember if we had like outside people too, but I'm i'm not i'm not sure. But I think that to me is the...
Fantasy Football Week One Reflections
00:40:03
Bhupen
I'm going to look it up some more, see if there was more things we could do or if it's just like a really freak play. But um all that being said, that was the entire recap. We have to end with a bow, give it a positivity score.
00:40:16
Trio of Positivity
i will I will say this. McCarthy looked good. People want to say that he looked bad. I think he looked good. um
00:40:23
Bhupen
i i That level of play, I don't think is going to get him successful. I know that was just
00:40:27
Trio of Positivity
No, but being his first game and being able to adjust and have the success that he had in the fourth quarter, I think supersedes what happened in the first half. like I think that performance is...
00:40:35
Bhupen
and like
00:40:39
Trio of Positivity
Pretty good. Not to mention the fact that he had the confidence of the team to kind of do that. Like, I think that shows a lot about him.
00:40:47
Bhupen
I am being a hater here probably, but like his supposedly high school record is like 83 and three. He's only lost three games ever and is from his high school till now.
00:40:59
Bhupen
So I've seen that meme everywhere. He's a winner and I'm just like over it. Like, He did not, but yes, you know, Bears defense stopped playing in the fourth quarter and they won the game, but...
00:41:10
Trio of Positivity
But see, you can't really say that the Bears' defense stopped playing. I don't... I think we got outcoached. I don't think the defense stopped.
00:41:19
Bhupen
I mean, they didn't, they physically didn't stop, but like, the way we were playing, the with the effort we were putting in the first three quarter, I think, went down.
00:41:21
Trio of Positivity
No, but I mean...
00:41:26
Bhupen
That's the only thing I could, because the talent didn't change. They got tired. Like, that's what I'm saying. Like, i this level of play will not get him so make him successful in NFL.
00:41:36
Bhupen
I know it's game one. It's probably a high bar to put on his end, but I don't think that'll get him successful.
00:41:43
Trio of Positivity
If he plays the same way and gets another win, do you still think that he's not good?
00:41:49
Bhupen
Dude, like, it almost reminded me of, like, the Team Tebow teams. I know that's a bad comparison, but they would find a way to win.
00:41:54
Trio of Positivity
Tebow still took a team to the playoffs and got a playoff win.
00:41:56
Bhupen
i i I know, but, like, That's what they did. Like, look bad for three quarters and then somehow find a way to win. That's what it seemed like. Maybe I'm being a hater right now that the loss is still stinks, but I was not impressed.
00:42:10
Bhupen
It's early, but I was not impressed.
00:42:12
Trio of Positivity
I just want to give him his flowers and for Jefferson also can't.
00:42:16
Bhupen
Jeff Jefferson's a baller. okay ki
00:42:18
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:42:18
Bhupen
all there Aaron Jones is a Bears killer. Hate him, but anyway.
00:42:21
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. You had to mention that too at the bar.
00:42:24
Bhupen
I did. I did, didn't That totally jinxed us.
00:42:27
Trio of Positivity
All right.
00:42:27
Bhupen
Our friends called out for sure on that. But, okay.
00:42:30
Trio of Positivity
Go ahead. Give us the positivity score.
00:42:31
Bhupen
ah Positivity score. We have to do this.
00:42:34
Trio of Positivity
Week one. Miller gave us a solid four.
00:42:38
Bhupen
Which is fair.
00:42:38
Trio of Positivity
i will I will say I thought his number would be higher. Boobin, what do you have?
00:42:42
Bhupen
ah i thought it would be lower, but um'm I'm like five and a half. Some positives. You know, like maybe people will stop saying Super Bowl around here a little bit more. But like, I think they were a better team on paper.
00:42:57
Bhupen
they They found a way to win. They have won a bunch of games recently. Like the coaching staff has been there for the last couple of years. It showed, I think. We are talented team, and we fell short. So I'm not discouraged. This sort of what I expect.
00:43:11
Bhupen
I was hoping we win because it's McCarthy's first game away. um You know, we had all the preseason hype coming behind us. But I wished we won. But this was kind of what I thought was going to happen.
00:43:22
Bhupen
So I'm at 5.5. I think i was probably at 6 last week. So I'm slightly below. But I'm not i'm not firing anybody.
00:43:27
Trio of Positivity
Did I give a score last week?
00:43:30
Bhupen
You did.
00:43:31
Trio of Positivity
Let me...
00:43:32
Bhupen
But we did offense, defense, and as with we did.
00:43:35
Trio of Positivity
Oh, we we split it, didn't we?
00:43:37
Bhupen
But I think we did an overall or average or something, too.
00:43:41
Trio of Positivity
OK, given what I saw. So there's a new way that I'm going to be doing the positivity score ah since I'm going back to school.
00:43:47
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:43:50
Trio of Positivity
I think I have to establish some sort of letter grading system. OK.
00:43:57
Bhupen
Okay.
00:43:58
Trio of Positivity
A plus, A, A minus, you know, that kind of grading scale.
00:44:02
Bhupen
OK, so 10 is like 100, so that makes sense.
00:44:05
Trio of Positivity
10 is 100. That's an A, right?
00:44:06
Bhupen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:44:07
Trio of Positivity
90 is still an A if we're going with standard scoring systems here.
00:44:12
Bhupen
Yeah, A.
00:44:14
Trio of Positivity
So my positivity score is actually a
00:44:19
Bhupen
Which is a C?
00:44:22
Bhupen
that Is was that a D?
00:44:23
Trio of Positivity
That's a D. That's a D.
00:44:24
Bhupen
Oh, OK.
00:44:25
Trio of Positivity
That's a low D. Now, some schools, they say if you get lower than 65, that's F. I'm not one of those people.
00:44:31
Bhupen
OK.
00:44:31
Trio of Positivity
Okay. Now, the reason that I'm giving it what I did is because I still love what a dunes. They did. i loved, you know, the fact that we looked balanced and we looked good to us to, ah to a significant degree in the first half.
00:44:51
Trio of Positivity
We use Swift correctly, even though we probably had some questionable plays, in my opinion. I think we used them.
00:44:56
Bhupen
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:44:57
Trio of Positivity
we We try to get some play action. And you can tell that Caleb is learning the timing routes. And I said it at the bar. I said, holy shit, this is really looking like a timing offense.
00:45:08
Trio of Positivity
And some of the throws that he missed, you can tell he was off on timing. So, like I mentioned in my predictions, I said the bears would lose, but I said that the season would be growing pains for this offense.
00:45:21
Trio of Positivity
And I think it's at the right track right now. Did I want to lose like this? No, I made a couple of wagers with Miller that not only would Caleb Williams throw over 200 yards, which he did over 20 completions, which he did.
00:45:37
Trio of Positivity
I said two touchdowns, which he didn't. So, I'm feeling very good of what I saw and I am not panicking yet.
00:45:48
Trio of Positivity
Some, some calls that we heard on six 70, some people were already upset.
00:45:52
Bhupen
I don't understand that. I truly don't. Anyway, that that's another.
00:45:56
Trio of Positivity
That's that's I think we need to talk about that with Miller. I think I would love to just have a segment where we literally just hear the worst takes or we hear some of the calls and we're like, why do you think that?
00:46:06
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:46:09
Bhupen
Right.
00:46:09
Trio of Positivity
ah Like someone mentioned trading more for a left tackle and then someone also mentioned.
00:46:15
Bhupen
Right tackle.
00:46:15
Trio of Positivity
um
00:46:16
Bhupen
Left tackle is good.
00:46:18
Trio of Positivity
or I'm sorry, it might have been and one of the tackles.
00:46:20
Bhupen
Because... Right.
00:46:22
Trio of Positivity
Don't quote me. I know it was like a a tackle of some kind. But then on the way back, we were hearing about how ah we knew that this is how Caleb was.
00:46:34
Trio of Positivity
And I'm like, you can't do that. Like, that's...
00:46:38
Bhupen
There were so many positives. for like I know we lost and it's hard to see that, but like... We, like, i don't know. It was just the first half, first three quarters. But, damn, we we look good for the first three quarters.
00:46:48
Bhupen
We look like, you know, offensive probably should have.
00:46:50
Trio of Positivity
We look like a different team.
00:46:51
Bhupen
Yeah, we look at a different team. With offensive line protecting, defensive playing hard, man, I was happy. i'm um I'm with you there. um Okay, so that was our
Positivity Score for Bears' Performance
00:47:01
Bhupen
positive score. Kind of split between four and six, which I kind of like. I thought that's what we were going to be, too.
00:47:06
Bhupen
I'm surprised to see Chris that high. But, hey, let's keep it going.
00:47:08
Trio of Positivity
I, like I said, i think if you understand my new system, my new grading system, I think my positivity scores are going to be a little bit more skewed.
00:47:18
Bhupen
Okay, good. You don't want people to fail. I like that. um All right, let's move on to the fantasy recap quickly.
00:47:22
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:47:27
Bhupen
Some high-level stuff, and then we'll move on to quickly to the preview for next week and wrap up the show. um Fantasy, week one was true to its form. a lot of big names disappointed.
00:47:38
Bhupen
Like, name probably topped 12 peaks.
00:47:38
Trio of Positivity
yeah
00:47:41
Bhupen
Eight of them probably didn't do much. Maybe ten of them didn't do much. And a lot of random people did a whole lot. Like, people you did not draft, second, third wide receivers, running back, did a lot.
00:47:52
Bhupen
um All I can say is, like, don't let week one dictate your drops. um Like, it's yeah hard. Like, I don't know if it's a trend, right? We can look at a trend in two to three weeks. If you're able to hold them and then make a decision, that's probably better. So, like, don't make snap judgments.
00:48:08
Bhupen
Usually that's when you lose fantasy football. So, hold on to the guy that's, like, you drafted very high. Don't trade him for pennies on a dollar. It's still early. day At least give it two weeks, three weeks, ideally.
00:48:21
Bhupen
um
00:48:21
Trio of Positivity
Well, three weeks, the buys start coming, right?
00:48:23
Bhupen
Like probably four, five. I don't think it's five maybe.
00:48:25
Trio of Positivity
If week, right.
00:48:28
Trio of Positivity
I'm going over some of the injuries. ah Quarterback Brock Purdy is dealing with a toe shoulder. ah Keep an eye on him for week two on the wide receiver sides. Xavier Worthy suffered a right shoulder dislocation. I'm not laughing at his injury. I'm laughing at.
00:48:44
Trio of Positivity
I believe he ran into Travis Kelsey and that's what caused it.
00:48:46
Bhupen
Travis Kelsey here.
00:48:48
Trio of Positivity
I mean, shit. Yeah.
00:48:50
Bhupen
He may play with a but the sling, but he will require surgery, so it's like, will he play until Rashi Rides comes back and then go get surgery?
00:48:54
Trio of Positivity
yeah
00:49:00
Bhupen
It's it's up in there.
00:49:01
Trio of Positivity
So that explains a lot of the rumors that are coming around of um the Chiefs looking to bring back um the wide receiver from Miami.
00:49:10
Bhupen
Tire kill.
00:49:11
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:49:11
Bhupen
Tire kill.
00:49:12
Trio of Positivity
um
00:49:12
Bhupen
Yeah, that's all that too.
00:49:13
Trio of Positivity
That's very interesting. Juwan Jennings, shoulder injuries day to day. ah Chris Olave, Drake London and Jalen Waddell still.
00:49:22
Bhupen
They all left the game. It's not clear how long they'll be out, but like they they all didn't finish the game. So just trying to throw it out there. These are all top 20 wide receivers. So just trying to throw it out there.
00:49:34
Bhupen
um Tight end is more concerning. George Kittle is on the IR.
00:49:37
Trio of Positivity
yeah Which that sucks for football.
00:49:41
Bhupen
That sucks.
00:49:41
Trio of Positivity
That... That sucks.
00:49:42
Bhupen
He's a great guy he's like He's a great guy. He's a great ambassador for the game.
00:49:46
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:49:47
Bhupen
I love having you out there. um Evan Ingram is... Has a calf injury, probably out a couple weeks. Keep an eye on that. Brock Bowers had a knee injury, too. Supposedly, he's day-to-day and will not miss any time, but...
00:49:59
Trio of Positivity
That scared me because I have them on my fantasy so that...
00:50:02
Bhupen
I do, too.
00:50:03
Trio of Positivity
um I will... I do want to give myself some props. Um...
00:50:09
Bhupen
You came through with a dub?
00:50:11
Trio of Positivity
No, not that kind of prop.
00:50:12
Bhupen
Oh.
00:50:12
Trio of Positivity
um Justin Fields becoming a fantasy game player. I think I said that I i see Justin Fields having a great year with the Jets. I'm glad he got me off on the right foot.
00:50:24
Trio of Positivity
um The Patriots actually gave me five points on the bench compared to other defenses like Pittsburgh, who was a top rated defense, basically got nothing.
00:50:32
Bhupen
Negative, yeah.
00:50:33
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. um
00:50:35
Bhupen
Baltimore, negative.
00:50:35
Trio of Positivity
So, yeah.
00:50:36
Bhupen
wow um Buffalo, negative. It was like, a again, I said, lot of weird, weird week ones.
00:50:38
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:50:41
Trio of Positivity
A lot of weird stuff happening. And there was one wide receiver that Miller told me, do not draft this person from the jets. Um, is it running back?
00:50:50
Bhupen
Running back, running back.
00:50:53
Trio of Positivity
I thought it was a wide receiver.
00:50:53
Bhupen
Breeze Hall? Breeze Hall?
00:50:55
Trio of Positivity
Ooh, no.
00:50:56
Bhupen
Breeze Hall?
00:50:57
Trio of Positivity
Oh, bre Oh yeah. Shit. It is running back. I think I was looking at wide receivers and then I confused it. Yes. Sorry. Um, not to draft him.
00:51:03
Bhupen
I know exactly. Yeah.
00:51:05
Trio of Positivity
And he ended up having over 20 or something like that.
00:51:08
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:51:08
Trio of Positivity
Um,
00:51:09
Bhupen
Another one. couple other ones. ah ETN from Jacksonville left for dead. No one wanted to draft him. People were like, he's getting traded, blah, blah, blah. Bigsby would be the number one. Like, he he showed. peace It was against Carolina, you know. So, maybe maybe it's not everything yet, but he he looked really good, too.
00:51:26
Bhupen
So, there were a couple of those, Chris, where he did.
00:51:27
Trio of Positivity
I think even Travis Hunter had a decent game and it was like, he might just be a permanent flex player. Like that's probably hit the best spot to have him on fantasy.
00:51:37
Bhupen
Yeah. um Just side offshoot, there's a couple leagues that people have Travis Hunter. They are pushing for Commissioner to make a change. like Just like if he gets a touchdown on defense for it to count, like if he gets a pick six for it to count, kind of like it does.
00:51:54
Bhupen
Remember back in the day, punt returners, if they had a touchdown, it would count against your stats or for your stats. That's what they want people to do. So that's one of the arguments happening in fancy circles.
00:52:03
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, I thought about that. I wanted that too, but then I thought you're double dipping if you have their defense too, and I think that would be unfair.
00:52:08
Bhupen
Right.
00:52:11
Bhupen
Yeah. I wonder how was he used to do it, but remember Edelman and them used to return punts back in the day? And sometimes its they would, like, score, and you would get their points.
00:52:17
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. They would get the miscellaneous. I think they got the miscellaneous.
00:52:21
Bhupen
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they would get the points. I don't know how they, I don't know why defense didn't get that, but somehow i think that conversation is happening again, which is very interesting. um But yeah, that that was a high-level fantasy.
00:52:34
Bhupen
We'll probably do a deeper dive next week when there's more stuff to talk about.
00:52:36
Trio of Positivity
I lost my fantasy.
00:52:36
Bhupen
Okay.
00:52:37
Trio of Positivity
How was your final how was your fantasy?
00:52:40
Bhupen
I have four teams. I have a problem. i went three and one. um The sad part is the one league I probably care about the most is the loss. ah So I don't know what that tells you about fantasy. The teams that I probably was like, oh, this guy might be fun. i won. And the one I'm like actually doing the research, I lost.
00:52:59
Bhupen
So three and one, not too sad.
00:53:00
Trio of Positivity
um
00:53:03
Trio of Positivity
I want to bring this up to you because had a conversation with Miller and Cooney on Sunday. We were just discussing it and I thought it, I would love to hear your opinion. Um, and Steve was there too. Shout out Steve. Hadn't seen him in forever.
00:53:20
Trio of Positivity
Uh,
00:53:21
Bhupen
Before you came down?
00:53:23
Trio of Positivity
this was Sunday.
00:53:24
Bhupen
Oh.
00:53:26
Trio of Positivity
Um, I talked to Miller.
00:53:26
Bhupen
You guys hang out without me?
00:53:28
Trio of Positivity
I got him. You know how I am. You invite me and I can go, I'll show up. But, There was talks about how do you feel about either either every five years or every 10 years, no keepers.
00:53:33
Bhupen
wow.
00:53:39
Trio of Positivity
It just resets.
00:53:41
Bhupen
Ooh.
00:53:42
Trio of Positivity
And and i think some people, if i'm I'm trying to remember the conversation, I was like.
00:53:42
Bhupen
o
00:53:50
Trio of Positivity
I think I would agree with that, but I don't i think you have to do a snake draft first. I wouldn't necessarily want to do an auction draft because the values of the players change depending on your league.
00:54:03
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:54:03
Trio of Positivity
um Miller didn't necessarily understand that because he felt that the money that would be spent would be what your website says, not what you in your league have done on the auction site.
00:54:13
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:54:17
Trio of Positivity
So like if you were paying 100
00:54:19
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
00:54:20
Trio of Positivity
on a player, but Yahoo says, well, this player is really only worth 40. You're probably only going to spend 50. So maybe you might still want to do the auction, but I felt like a snake draft to restart a keeper league just sounds so much better.
00:54:36
Bhupen
I this is so five ten years is exciting right I don't know if like if you keep a keeper for that long think of like Travis Kelsey or Tidek Hill they were both like not keepers this year because of the situation they were in right they were keepers for the longest I'll agree with that so like That's the interesting part.
00:54:54
Bhupen
So who would be a keeper for like five to ten years? Maybe like a quarterback, like a Josh Allen or somebody who you like.
00:55:00
Trio of Positivity
You could probably go quarterback, but I think Miller's not a fan of saying your keeper should be who you draft in the first round. So for me, Chase would be a great keeper for five years.
00:55:12
Bhupen
But like I think a lot of leagues don't allow you to keep keepers that much. They like first what three rounds you can't keep first two rounds, something like that. They do that.
00:55:21
Trio of Positivity
There's different rules, but I think I just like the I like how exciting it is.
00:55:23
Bhupen
i that See, i like the I like the auction part of it for that reason. Because if i want to keep McCaffrey for $60, I can't. It doesn't matter what pick, where. If I believe in the player, and if I'm okay spending that money, no one can tell me no. That's why I like the auction part of it. Either redraft or...
00:55:42
Bhupen
um keeper. you know like If I really, truly believe in that player, then I know that guy is going to be a positional difference. Same thing with Josh Allen. If you think he's truly the guy, it'll probably be like $40 next year, but you have him for $40, and will show up week in and week out showing why he's worth $40.
00:55:58
Bhupen
That's why I like the fantasy part of it, but I don't know. That that would be interesting, but I don't think... I could be wrong. I've not done any research, but I don't think you keep a guy for like five, ten years because fantasy changes so often.
00:56:12
Trio of Positivity
I think, I think you, you have a valid point.
00:56:12
Bhupen
i can't.
00:56:14
Trio of Positivity
I think you also have to look at the type of league you have, whether it's a 10, 12. I heard some people have a 14 team. Like that's rough to, and I think 14 teams, you need a keeper to keep it exciting.
00:56:21
Bhupen
yeah That's rough. Yeah.
00:56:27
Bhupen
Right.
00:56:27
Trio of Positivity
Um, but shit, I, I, I don't know. I also, I'm of the fan that if you make a great pickup, whether it's an undrafted player who becomes a stud or ah person that fell in the draft um and becomes a starter and you pick them up on the cheap or you pick them up on a waiver and you want to keep them for a couple of years. I think that's a great GM mode kind of thing.
00:56:52
Trio of Positivity
And you want to feel like you got rewarded for that. So like I'm very 50 50.
00:56:55
Bhupen
Yeah.
00:56:56
Trio of Positivity
I think I do agree with Miller. um i just wanted to hear your opinion, but I think it would suck.
00:57:03
Bhupen
But to think about that.
00:57:04
Trio of Positivity
depending on the type of league you have.
00:57:07
Bhupen
No, but think about it. so your guy, you found him off the waiver, right? If you can only keep him for five years, how would you feel? Like you probably feel robbed. And that's the value, right? That's why we go for these like third round drafted guy. That's like no one's paying attention. That's why we draft him thinking that that's where they would go. But that, don't know.
00:57:26
Bhupen
It would definitely reset a bunch of things because a lot of people are just on like auto draft mode. They're the thing. I have these keepers, you know, I can like kind of like play around the other players. that That would make it interesting.
00:57:37
Bhupen
ah One of the other leagues I have heard is you have one keeper, then you, like, I think put three players that you want to keep in ah in a draw, and one of them gets taken away.
00:57:50
Bhupen
Or maybe one of you get to keep one of them, two of them get taken away. So, like, if you there's someone you absolutely want to keep, but, like, I don't know, that that way it's like, you know, maybe there's a 50-50 chance you get Jamar...
00:57:55
Trio of Positivity
Oh, that kind of sucks.
00:58:04
Bhupen
Jamar or like Josh Allen back, but there's a 50-50 chance you don't, you know?
00:58:07
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, I think that's too much leaving it to chance. I think fantasy football is not a chance related thing when it comes to drafting and and waivers. I think there's so much stats and and like background stuff.
00:58:20
Trio of Positivity
I think you would feel cheated if you're like, man, I just lost it because of a 50-50 thing like that.
00:58:25
Bhupen
Right.
00:58:26
Trio of Positivity
I don't like that at all.
00:58:28
Bhupen
But that's the other thing.
00:58:29
Trio of Positivity
I think I would feel cheated too now that I'm like thinking about it.
00:58:31
Bhupen
But... But like that that that's the other way they do it. So like that way, you can hoard all the players. You'll have to eventually give them back kind of a thing. But um no, those are good fantasy conversations. Like I said, next week, we'll be able to talk some trends, give you some ideas about who to pick up.
00:58:47
Bhupen
Waivers run tonight, maybe tomorrow, like when this episode goes out. So, reminded there. But before we leave, Chris, let's do our week two
Bears vs. Lions Game Preview
00:58:56
Bhupen
preview.
00:58:56
Trio of Positivity
Let's do it, buddy. Here, I'll help you out. ah
00:58:59
Bhupen
Go for it.
00:59:00
Trio of Positivity
The Lions are hosting the Bears, both being 0-1 at Ford Field, which we've been to. I still remember that road trip. That's when I realized my snores were very loud.
00:59:08
Bhupen
we we We were nuts for doing that same day, but hey, we did it.
00:59:13
Trio of Positivity
Such a great time. It is a noon game. Lions are five and a half point favorite. I thought I saw some other sites showing a different number. Over under is 46 and a half.
00:59:24
Trio of Positivity
um We have the first game of Ben coming back to the Lions, not just facing his former team, but going back to the city. um So we have Miller's prediction, which I think this prediction is coming out of anger. I don't think he's really thought about it.
00:59:41
Bhupen
Hey, let the man be angry.
00:59:42
Trio of Positivity
He's saying, listen, I understand. He's saying 31-17 Lions. Now, before I continue, I just want to say i was the lone pick that got ah the prediction correct. I said the Vikings would win.
00:59:55
Trio of Positivity
um You guys said the Bears would win. So score does not matter. I get the point there. ah Boopin, I see your score. I need to hear your thought process. What do you got?
01:00:05
Bhupen
So, um yes, Lions look really bad, but he was against a pretty good, like probably top 10 defense. I don't think we are closer to that. Plus, it's at home for them.
01:00:17
Bhupen
Last game was away. I feel like they find their way. They score some points. I feel like they get up to 27, but I feel like um If, like, Jordan Love, you know, kind of pushed him around last game, we're hoping we we should be able to put up some points too.
01:00:33
Bhupen
So I give the Bears 21. twenty one So, like, kind of around what the spread is, which is 5.5. I have them covering, ah but Lions winning twenty seven twenty one
01:00:44
Trio of Positivity
So you have Lions covering, but you also have the overhitting.
01:00:47
Bhupen
ah the
01:00:48
Trio of Positivity
um Given that they only scored 13 points ah last game, it's very worrisome on that.
01:00:55
Bhupen
Yeah, and the 13 was too, like last second touchdown.
01:00:55
Trio of Positivity
So I...
01:00:58
Bhupen
They had six points all game.
01:00:59
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Yeah. So i I was kind of like Miller. at My original score was going to be thirty eight twenty um I think the Lions just want to prove a point and they want to win.
01:01:13
Bhupen
They are angry. Mm-hmm.
01:01:14
Trio of Positivity
They are angry. I think they got embarrassed. But at the same time, is Ben Johnson going to do something different that we haven't seen?
01:01:25
Trio of Positivity
So I think what I'm going to do is i believe Lions still win. And I'm going to stick with that score. I think. 3820 Lions sounds about right.
01:01:41
Bhupen
Damn, so over by a lot.
01:01:42
Trio of Positivity
um over by a lot now i was thinking maybe 38 14 but it's still over by a little bit i'm not trying to say i want the over to hit but i don't know if this offense has enough i think the defense still could get another touchdown don't get me wrong i think the bears defense can definitely get another pick six but i just don't know if the offense can kind of hang right now with that defense
01:01:48
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
01:02:09
Bhupen
I, I, I, like the, the, um, the presumption is Jared Goff is an indoor quarterback. They played indoors there. Don't know if you have the pass rush to really move him off his spot.
01:02:20
Bhupen
Those are two things he hates moving off his spot and playing outdoors. And both of those were true at the Packers. I feel like they find their way, but like, I'm not saying they're going to go crazy on us, but I don't think it's the same offense. I feel like they have a downgrade from Ben Johnson. So I don't,
01:02:37
Bhupen
they scored 33 every game last year, and that was with Ben Johnson.
01:02:40
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
01:02:41
Bhupen
I don't think they scored more than 38. I'll be surprised to see your score. But, like, the way I use the favorite, like, the over-under and the spread is, like, kind of, because that's what Vegas is saying, so, like, kind of helped me guide.
01:02:52
Trio of Positivity
yeah
01:02:53
Bhupen
So that's what I was saying that. But, hey, you were right. You were the person that got the point last week. So do whatever you got to do, man.
01:02:58
Trio of Positivity
But do you do you understand like my thought process? Do you think the Bears? I think all of us having the Bears at 17 2021.
01:03:06
Bhupen
Mm-hmm.
01:03:07
Trio of Positivity
It's safe to say we're not trusting this offense yet. I think that's a safe assumption.
01:03:11
Bhupen
I feel like
Ben Johnson's Mentorship and Strategy Dynamics
01:03:12
Bhupen
whatever Ben Johnson wants to do, Dan dan will know and Dan will like kind of like shut it down. it's like At least like maybe not shut it down, but he will not be able to run the table like he normally does, is my opinion of things.
01:03:24
Bhupen
like It's like a mentor and a mentee, right? It's like Bill Belichick playing against Ravel or something where yeah like everything you know, I taught you kind of a deal. and Maybe he'll prove me wrong.
01:03:34
Trio of Positivity
I don't know, dude.
01:03:35
Bhupen
i don't know.
01:03:35
Trio of Positivity
i i'm I just maybe I might change my score. i'm it might be, I don't know, like twenty eight fourteen Like, I'm just debating if because I feel like here's here's my thought.
01:03:48
Trio of Positivity
I don't think the Bears will score enough, but I think the Lions will score more than 13.
01:03:48
Bhupen
If... if
01:03:53
Trio of Positivity
That's where I'm at. You know what i mean?
01:03:54
Bhupen
here Here's what I'll tell you. For all the games in week one, only two hit the over. One was
Week One Game Reviews and Predictions
01:04:00
Bhupen
the Jets game, one was the Bills game. Everything else hit the under.
01:04:02
Trio of Positivity
ah thought the Bears also hit the over.
01:04:05
Bhupen
with that I'm wrong.
01:04:06
Trio of Positivity
That was 46 on Sunday night.
01:04:07
Bhupen
Sunday night. Sunday. Yeah, Sunday.
01:04:09
Trio of Positivity
Okay, okay.
01:04:09
Bhupen
Sunday. Till Sunday night.
01:04:11
Bhupen
monday Monday was a different... But but like yeah, only three games hit the over still. That was the...
01:04:11
Trio of Positivity
Okay.
01:04:15
Trio of Positivity
So for me to still say...
01:04:15
Bhupen
But I can't.
01:04:18
Trio of Positivity
All right, hold on then. If that's the case, I'm going to go 24-7 lines then.
01:04:27
Bhupen
Damn, that's, and you go from 58 points to like,
01:04:29
Trio of Positivity
i i Can you put both scores? I'm not going to get credit. If Lions win, I don't. Give me credit for the first one. You know what i mean
01:04:38
Bhupen
okay, or, okay, or 24 seven, right?
01:04:39
Trio of Positivity
Only the first one. But I think...
01:04:45
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. I think you see what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to like...
01:04:47
Bhupen
Yeah, you
01:04:49
Trio of Positivity
Because I don't trust the offense yet.
01:04:51
Bhupen
yeah, no.
01:04:52
Trio of Positivity
But I want, if i if we all hit Lions and the score becomes the thing, I want my 38-20 to be my official prediction, but I also want the second to kind of show like, like the Lions still win in in a dominant fashion.
01:05:03
Bhupen
ah
01:05:05
Bhupen
Bro, if it's twenty four seven God. like ah That i would that be very different movement on this show.
01:05:11
Trio of Positivity
You think so? Already suffering week two?
01:05:15
Bhupen
24-7 sounds bad. I want the i want us to i want to do what Justin Fields did.
01:05:18
Trio of Positivity
but But here's what I'm trying to say, though.
01:05:19
Bhupen
Lose, but you fucking balled out. That's what I want us to do.
01:05:23
Trio of Positivity
I understand that, but and I'm trying to come up on more. um I'm trying to be a more realistic person when it comes to the score.
01:05:30
Bhupen
True.
01:05:31
Trio of Positivity
Do you think the Bears can score? Let's just use 14 as a marker, not your 21. But do you think the Bears can score 14 at Detroit, given the circumstances of Ben Johnson going back?
01:05:45
Bhupen
I think Minnesota defense is better than the Lions, so I think we should score more than 14. Yeah.
01:05:50
Trio of Positivity
Okay, this is where my 20 comes in because I think you're right. I think the Bears should at least be able to score 14. fourteen That's two touchdowns, however you want to do it. And then I said the I think the Bears defense gets another touchdown.
01:06:03
Trio of Positivity
So that to me is like a one-in-one.
01:06:05
Bhupen
yeah
01:06:06
Trio of Positivity
This is where I think 20 is more realistic, but I think the Lions want to come out hungry and they want to prove That game was a fluke. We're at home. It's our home opener. Ben Johnson's coming back. Let's show him he made a mistake.
01:06:19
Trio of Positivity
And I think Campbell's going to be like, let's fucking blitz every down. like
Dan Campbell's Strategy and Motivational Tactics
01:06:23
Trio of Positivity
the Like the guy from ah Remember the Titans. Like, we blitz every down. and if you fuck up, don't like you will get benched.
01:06:31
Trio of Positivity
I feel like, I don't know why, but I feel like that's that's what's coming.
01:06:34
Bhupen
damn can I can see Dan Campbell actually actually saying that. i will
01:06:38
Trio of Positivity
Right?
01:06:38
Bhupen
I'll eat your night and kneecap or something.
01:06:40
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, like I will.
01:06:41
Bhupen
Whatever.
01:06:41
Trio of Positivity
We are blitzing every down. I don't care. And then it's like. But yeah, I that's that's the only reason why I said seven. I was going to say 10. ah
01:06:53
Trio of Positivity
Do I want to be a dick and change it to 2410? Bucket 2410. Give me 24. That's my second one. But I'm still going to say 3820. I think I still I still think the lines come out.
01:07:02
Bhupen
All right.
01:07:03
Trio of Positivity
right. I yapped way too long. all right.
01:07:05
Bhupen
All right.
01:07:05
Trio of Positivity
Boopin.
01:07:06
Bhupen
Let's do this.
01:07:07
Trio of Positivity
Let's yeah. Send us home, brother.
01:07:10
Bhupen
Thank you for listening, people. We hope
Podcast Closing and Future Plans
01:07:12
Bhupen
we brought some positivity into your life. We had a great time recording it. Hope you had fun time listening to it. um Keep the feedback coming. We love hearing that. um Maybe in some near future, maybe week two, more positivity.
01:07:25
Bhupen
Maybe not.
01:07:26
Trio of Positivity
Probably not.
01:07:26
Bhupen
But until then, we'll see you next time.
01:07:30
Trio of Positivity
Also, if you guys want less Miller, let us know because we actually got to finish our points today. but Bye.
01:07:34
Bhupen
Ha ha ha.