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Season 3 - Episode 7 - We Knew That Was Coming
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The Duo is here to talk about how the bears looked getting destroyed by the Lions. Lets see what positivity they can bring!
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Transcript
Intro and Podcast Setup
00:00:00
Trio of Positivity
Alright, we're recording. Loser has to host this episode. Ready?
00:00:03
Mike
Loser has to host. Okay.
00:00:04
Trio of Positivity
ah We shoot on go.
00:00:04
Mike
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:00:05
Trio of Positivity
Best of three?
00:00:05
Mike
wait Best of three.
00:00:06
Mike
Best of three. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:00:06
Trio of Positivity
Let's shoot on go.
00:00:08
Trio of Positivity
Okay. One, two, three, go.
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Mike
One, two, three.
00:00:13
Trio of Positivity
God damn it. Alright, we go again.
00:00:14
Mike
so
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Trio of Positivity
One, two, three.
00:00:16
Mike
One, two, three.
00:00:20
Trio of Positivity
Fuck.
00:00:21
Mike
Yes!
00:00:22
Trio of Positivity
Alright, here we go. That's one. Alright, here we go.
00:00:25
Mike
Wait, well, you were...
00:00:26
Trio of Positivity
We both went scissors first.
00:00:28
Mike
Oh. I couldn't- you need to move your shit up dude! You're like down here! You can't even see some fucking shit!
00:00:34
Trio of Positivity
here we go. Ready?
00:00:36
Mike
One, two, three, shoot!
00:00:36
Trio of Positivity
One, two, three, Damn it.
00:00:39
Mike
Fuck!
00:00:40
Trio of Positivity
All right. One, two, three, shoot.
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Mike
One, two, three!
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Trio of Positivity
Damn it. One, two, three, shoot.
00:00:47
Mike
One, two, three! Yes! Sucka sucka sucka sucka sucka!
00:00:55
Trio of Positivity
All right.
Podcast Introduction and Member Absence
00:01:07
Trio of Positivity
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Trio Positivity Podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today. it is not a trio. It is just the duo. ah We have one trio who just came back from last week. Miller is here.
00:01:20
Trio of Positivity
I am Chris. We're going to a shout out to Boopin, who is under the weather today. Even though I'm under the weather, I barely talk. I lost and we're basically hosting now, which I'm not happy about.
00:01:33
Mike
That's what happens when you suck at Rochambeau.
00:01:37
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, that is true. So I'm Chris. That's Miller. We're going to do the social plug here. ah You can try to find us on Facebook on a trio positivity podcast extra positivity, YouTube trio positivity podcast and tick tock question mark. That's the wrong burgundy.
00:01:54
Trio of Positivity
I always I was waiting for moving to do that and he never did it like tick tock. No, the talk is still there and we don't talk about the website anymore.
00:01:59
Mike
Tick tock?
00:02:04
Trio of Positivity
So. Let's get into it, shall we? ah Miller, want to talk to us a little bit about what you enjoyed from last week
Football Game Analysis: Lions vs. Bears
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Mike
Well,
00:02:14
Trio of Positivity
that you didn't get a chance to talk to us yet?
00:02:17
Mike
that comment was later, but since you're the host, I guess you get to make what the fuck.
00:02:20
Trio of Positivity
I am the host. i That is correct.
00:02:24
Mike
Okay, well, let me figure out what I was going to say.
00:02:27
Trio of Positivity
And the fall as always, he's not prepared, so we're just going to skip his comments because no one cares.
00:02:31
Mike
i am I am ready.
00:02:32
Trio of Positivity
So ah what let's get your reaction to week two.
00:02:33
Mike
am ready.
00:02:36
Mike
Can we go back to week one?
00:02:40
Trio of Positivity
Yes, we can go back to week one.
00:02:40
Mike
I mean, since I kicked your ass in Rochambo, I feel it's only necessary for me to pick what I want to talk about rather than like listening to you.
00:02:47
Trio of Positivity
We're fine.
00:02:48
Mike
And you're welcome. I'm back. The Better Third is here. Happy to bring some positivity into everybody's life.
00:02:52
Trio of Positivity
Mm, questionable. We had a great episode, Boopin and I.
00:02:56
Mike
and There was a lot of pieces that you guys didn't cover that I was a little bit disappointed in, but it's okay.
00:02:56
Trio of Positivity
was a fantastic episode.
00:03:01
Mike
We'll cover them today. But the comment from last week, I'm not going to get into all of it because you guys covered most of it, but I think i need to sit back and accept the aggressive nature of Ben Johnson based on the offensive performance that we saw last week and then continuing this week.
00:03:22
Mike
um I don't think you mentioned the performance the stats that i received from one of our good ah friends at Stathol Sports.
Tom Brady's Dual Roles: Owner and Commentator
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Mike
ah Thank you very much.
00:03:32
Trio of Positivity
I don't think we got it in time. I think we so we got it um after.
00:03:35
Mike
No, we had it. We had it.
00:03:37
Trio of Positivity
i think we got it after.
00:03:37
Mike
No, I had it. You didn't ask for it.
00:03:39
Trio of Positivity
You had it. I didn't have it.
00:03:41
Mike
So basically, I asked them to run some numbers on the Detroit Lions last year.
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Trio of Positivity
who gave you Who gave you that idea, by the way?
00:03:49
Mike
the Me.
00:03:53
Trio of Positivity
Oh, interesting.
00:03:53
Mike
No, I'll give you pride. Chris, my friend Chris, we watched the game together, and anyway it was his idea.
00:03:55
Trio of Positivity
In our and our fair and all fairness yeah and all fairness, to give some background, we were walking back home or back to the car. We weren't walking home that night. It was after the Monday night game.
00:04:06
Trio of Positivity
And I said, this is basically Ben Johnson. And Miller's like, no, I don't recall... seeing a lot of fourth down aggressiveness and I'm like Miller it's not the fourth hold on hold on hold on hold on I said it's not just the fourth down aggressiveness it was a yardage aggressiveness that the Lions had where whenever they seem to be inside the five I think I might have said they always seem to kind of go for it so now you can go ahead and give your point I I
00:04:13
Mike
Okay, whoa, who whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:04:27
Mike
No, we you're so wrong. You're not even close to what even I asked about. ah we i was specifically talking about aggressiveness on fourth downs between the yardage of 10 and 30, right?
00:04:43
Mike
So obviously if it's over 30, the likelihood of kicking a field goal and making it is a little lower. And if it's inside the 10, the likelihood of going for it and trying to get a touchdown than a field goal is going to be a little higher. So I wanted to exclude those and specifically go between the 10 and the 30 marker because there is like you should get three points out of it, but you're also risking turning the ball over.
00:05:07
Mike
So I asked him to look into it, and what he came back with was the Detroit Lions last year between the 10 and the 30 on fourth down, regardless of yardage,
00:05:18
Mike
they ran a play on fourth down 33% of the time. So yeah I don't know if that fits your narrative or how high, if you thought it was higher, lower or whatever, but specifically focusing on last week's game where it was a fourth and three inside the, the 30 yard line. I asked him to clarify on fourth and short, what the probability was in a situation like that.
00:05:41
Mike
He came back with, they had 12 opportunities fitting that fourth and three or shorter. They went for it 10 times. So that's a high percentage of aggressiveness out of his play calling.
00:05:54
Mike
Now, focusing on that play, to me, it wasn't necessary it wasn't necessarily the aggressive nature of it. It was the entirety of the situation.
00:06:06
Mike
I still didn't like the play call. I wanted the points. Two main reasons. One, this was the first game in our offense. Caleb had has not been running this offense for three years.
00:06:18
Mike
He's been running it for three quarters. Well, it was less than that for a quarter and a half at that point in ah in a real game.
00:06:24
Trio of Positivity
So we're just ignoring preseason.
00:06:27
Mike
And additionally, J.J. McCarthy looked like shit. Our defense was stopping him very successfully, and I wanted points on the board. We went for it, we didn't get it, and everybody knows what happened there. But aggressiveness from Brent Johnson is gonna happen this year.
00:06:46
Mike
Be ready for it, regardless of the situation. And you know what? Although I didn't support that one, I supported pretty much every one that happened in week two.
00:06:57
Mike
So we can transition into that, because that was basically the comment that I just wanted to talk about from last week. As we know, there's no positivity. this week based on the performance.
00:07:08
Trio of Positivity
Wait, we're going straight to the Bears? We're not going to talk about the NFL? Why are you... are Do you not follow an agenda here, brother? What's going on here?
00:07:15
Mike
you're You're blank. Do you want me to have a reaction week two?
00:07:18
Trio of Positivity
Yes, that it literally says reactions for week two and you have Tom Brady in Washington.
00:07:22
Mike
Sorry. Sorry.
00:07:25
Trio of Positivity
Go ahead. You start.
NFL Week 2 Highlights
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Mike
Sorry.
00:07:27
Trio of Positivity
Since you won Rochambeau. What?
00:07:33
Mike
um
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Trio of Positivity
yeah No, but in all in all seriousness, ah week two was actually pretty good from an NFL standpoint. We had some great games. ah
00:07:42
Mike
Yeah.
00:07:42
Trio of Positivity
But i i I do see that you have a Tom Brady-Washington thing. I'm actually intrigued to hear what you have about that. Go ahead.
00:07:47
Mike
I don't know if you've seen anything what happened, ah but basically yesterday in the game between the Oakland Raiders and the Chargers, they had a shot up into the coach's booth and sitting right there next to Chip Kelly, who's the offensive coordinator of the Raiders, was a partial owner, Tom Brady.
00:08:12
Trio of Positivity
He was wearing a headset.
00:08:12
Mike
Now this, he was wearing a headset and everything.
00:08:13
Trio of Positivity
Oh, OK, hold on.
00:08:17
Mike
So,
00:08:17
Trio of Positivity
That's I did not actually see that yesterday.
00:08:20
Mike
so this opened a can of worms and subsequently the conversation has been about it. And of course the NFL has come out and said that he has followed all the appropriate protocols of being blah, blah, blah, blah. blah blah blah blah blah Basically he's the NFL's golden boy, but In addition to that, if you really take a look at what's going to be coming for the ah Raiders, is we are a prime time game this week.
00:08:55
Mike
The Bears and the Cowboys. You know who does prime time games on Fox?
00:09:00
Trio of Positivity
That would be Tom Brady.
00:09:02
Mike
Do you know who our next opponent is?
00:09:06
Mike
The Las Vegas Raiders. So basically we have Tom Brady in our building getting exposed to our team
00:09:14
Trio of Positivity
Oh.
Bears vs. Lions Game Recap
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Mike
at some level, right?
00:09:16
Mike
We don't know how intricate he is. Apparently, according to the NFL, he does he's not really involved, but he's in our building. He gets to talk to players, limited probably, coaches, blah, blah, whatever.
00:09:28
Mike
And then he gets to go back to his people where the reporting comes out that he is having meetings three times a week with their offensive coordinator, Chip Kelly, discussing the offense.
00:09:40
Mike
And then we have to go play the Raiders after Tom Brady gets exclusive meetings with our team. And it's just getting really messy.
00:09:51
Mike
And the fact that he's this involved in the Raiders as well as this involved as an announcer, it's just not a good look. It's messy. And it's just like, what the fuck are we doing?
00:10:04
Mike
Why does he get to have this?
00:10:04
Trio of Positivity
mean So let me ask you a question. Do you think do you think Tom Brady is actually doing something with the information he might be getting?
00:10:17
Mike
I think that's a very
00:10:21
Mike
that's a very tough thing to talk about ah to to to so say because i don't think I don't think he's going to be doing anything directly.
00:10:23
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:30
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:10:31
Mike
But indirectly, he's going to get more access than a normal owner would get to the game on Sunday. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
00:10:41
Trio of Positivity
I disagree with that to an extent because I believe owners can be involved as much as they want. What we're talking about is being involved in opposite in the opponents.
00:10:53
Mike
That's what I mean.
00:10:53
Trio of Positivity
Like, okay.
00:10:54
Mike
Yeah.
00:10:54
Trio of Positivity
I took it as like him being an owner and him sitting next to Chip Kelly. I think any, I mean, the Colts owner also has a headset too, for her team.
00:11:02
Mike
Yes.
00:11:02
Trio of Positivity
ah So I feel like that's kind of okay.
00:11:06
Mike
I don't think, yeah, i't I agree with you.
00:11:06
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:11:07
Mike
I don't think there's any issue with the owner being involved. Look at Jerry Jones, the coach's owner.
00:11:10
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, so we're we're going to go past that.
00:11:12
Mike
Yeah.
00:11:12
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, we're going to past that.
00:11:13
Mike
I think the issue ah at hand is is Tom Brady's getting to dabble in all these other stadiums. all these other situations and learning information about other teams that may not be privy to most owners.
00:11:28
Mike
Maybe I'm just naive, but...
00:11:28
Trio of Positivity
So let me let me play devil's advocate, but if you're the owner of, let's say, the let's say you're the owner of the Bears. yeah you You find out Tom Brady's going to have your game and then you kind of know these things.
00:11:45
Trio of Positivity
Do you really think you would give him as much access as you want as an owner?
00:11:50
Mike
But do you have say of what access he gets? Because you have to understand, like, I mean, yes, but you also have a primetime game coming to your building.
00:11:53
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, it's your building. Yeah, it's your building.
00:11:59
Trio of Positivity
I understand
00:12:00
Mike
So they're going to want to do certain things, make sure everything's produced the correct way, run through that route.
00:12:04
Trio of Positivity
yeah no that that part i think that part is a different i think if you're talking from the media aspect i think that's a different conversation we're having what i'm saying is if you're the owner and you know tom brady who is going to be doing the game is also an owner or part owner however you want to word it i to me an owner is an owner matter what um you're probably going to limit the information that he's going to be getting like
00:12:29
Mike
Yeah, I just don't know how much an owner can do in that situation. I don't know how much say an owner has. Like, if I'm Fox and I want to do a special on Caleb Williams, does the owner have a say on that?
00:12:44
Mike
I would probably say no. Now, I mean, that doesn't...
00:12:47
Trio of Positivity
I would say
00:12:48
Mike
I'm not saying that the that has anything to do with Tom Brady. Don't get me wrong.
00:12:52
Trio of Positivity
that's what I was going to say.
00:12:52
Mike
But I just...
00:12:53
Trio of Positivity
I think if it's Tom Brady doing a sit down, I would have, I would have someone there with them just to be like, Hey, what kind of questions is he asking? But I'll be very honest with you. um This might be a me thing.
00:13:05
Trio of Positivity
um' I've been okay with the games that I've watched where he's talked. I feel like he's gotten better. So, I mean, whatever he's kind of
00:13:12
Mike
i don't really I'm going to be honest with you. I don't fucking listen to these people.
00:13:16
Trio of Positivity
No, you didn't. Well, the Philly Kansas City game to me was very like I actually enjoyed his performance, ah but not to get too carried away. I think we can probably talk about that for hours just because it's a very.
00:13:29
Mike
One last thing that I'll leave you with.
00:13:30
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, good. good
00:13:33
Mike
Owners of different teams rarely get to go to every building. I guess soll they'll go to few. but he's getting we We've established that he's getting more access than most.
00:13:42
Trio of Positivity
Correct.
00:13:42
Mike
And he's also getting inside knowledge of a situation. He's getting more exposure to coaches, players, and personnel than other owners would.
00:13:52
Trio of Positivity
But there's a difference.
00:13:54
Mike
So just let me leave you with this.
00:13:54
Trio of Positivity
But there's a difference. There's a difference.
00:13:58
Mike
He's gonna have more accessibility in down the line if they wanna hire a player, coach a coach, or anything like that.
00:14:09
Mike
like
00:14:10
Trio of Positivity
I you can't assume that I think a lot of that information is.
00:14:10
Mike
He's gonna have more information. How can assume that?
00:14:13
Trio of Positivity
Well, because a lot of that you can get with a press pass, like if you don't have a press pass, you're not going to have that information. So it's it's dependent on what each team wants to do with the ah um with the information or I'm sorry, let me rephrase that because I was going to go into two different tangents.
00:14:31
Trio of Positivity
He's going in there most likely with a press badge or with some press credentials that Fox is giving them. And because of that, the NFL has set rules as to what ah media outlets can do with press passes.
00:14:45
Trio of Positivity
If he's following that, I don't think it's an issue. Now, the only thing that I will concede is that you can revoke his press rights.
00:14:56
Trio of Positivity
If you don't want him around your building or if you feel like this is a thing, you can be that team and be like, hey, Tom, you can call the game. But during the week, we're going to revoke your press access. You're going to have to do so.
00:15:07
Trio of Positivity
I think that's totally OK.
00:15:09
Mike
The NFL won't go for that, but we can move move on. I don't know.
00:15:14
Trio of Positivity
OK.
00:15:14
Mike
I just, I don't like this situation.
00:15:14
Trio of Positivity
um it's It's not a best situation, I agree. um But I can... I don't know. I think I'm just gullible at that point. ah My reaction to Week 2 is very much short and sweet.
00:15:27
Trio of Positivity
It was a Super Bowl rematch. um They really hyped it up. ah They had the Fox Network down... in Kansas City for their pregame, which I found it. I found it oddly enough that it was for the afternoon game.
00:15:40
Trio of Positivity
ah But then I realized it was America's Game of the Week, which then I found out America's Game of the Week is usually in the afternoon. It's never the noon game, which
00:15:48
Mike
Yeah.
00:15:50
Trio of Positivity
Okay, I guess. I don't think we're going to be the game of the week, but whatever.
00:15:54
Mike
We are.
00:15:55
Trio of Positivity
um That's a horrible choice.
00:15:55
Mike
They, they, that's what they do.
00:15:56
Trio of Positivity
It's a horrible choice.
00:15:59
Mike
That's what they do.
00:15:59
Trio of Positivity
Okay. um Also, kickers seem to be kicking. i I can't believe like the way that the Cowboys game like the way that the cowboys game went and then the
00:16:07
Mike
Well, one kicker seems to be kicking.
00:16:13
Trio of Positivity
the leverage with the c colts
00:16:14
Mike
Oh, that was so funny.
00:16:17
Trio of Positivity
it's
00:16:17
Mike
No, but ah Brandon Aubrey is just ridiculous.
00:16:20
Trio of Positivity
yeah
00:16:20
Mike
A 64-yard field goal to tie the game to go to overtime, and he just casually goes up and just fucking smashes it.
00:16:23
Trio of Positivity
hi I heard you know what i yeah so I'm a big fan of Pat McAfee and I think Schefter think it was Schefter that said it or it might have been McAfee but he said that the kicker is the first in the NFL's modern era to kick a game tying ah game tying kick to go into overtime with zero seconds and then get a walk off kick to win it
00:16:50
Mike
With zero seconds, yeah.
00:16:51
Trio of Positivity
with zero seconds so that's impressive enough all right let's get down to it that was the longest conversation i think oh you want to expand on the cults
00:16:52
Mike
I saw that, yeah.
00:16:56
Mike
yeah Expanding on the Colts. if only we got If only we got that call against Green Bay last year. That would have been nice. But that was just horribly played.
00:17:06
Trio of Positivity
okay
00:17:08
Mike
i don't know how in-depth you watched it. The Colts got so lucky. like The fact that they what they did
00:17:13
Trio of Positivity
So i watched I watched the play, but can can we can we just kind of... ah I just want to dabble on it. The way the rule is written horrible.
00:17:26
Trio of Positivity
And I think there was an explanation done on that rule where it's like...
00:17:29
Mike
Oh, I wasn't necessarily arguing the rule. I was just talking about the situation.
00:17:32
Trio of Positivity
Okay, but no, no, no. But what I was going to say is if you read the rule, you can make the argument that leverage happens every kick. So...
00:17:41
Mike
Well, the point is, like, you can't touch the center. that's That's not what they said he did, right? Didn't they say that he touched his own guy and tried to push ah up off of him? Isn't that what the call was?
00:17:51
Trio of Positivity
Let me pull up because there was a statement um by the referee.
00:17:51
Mike
I don't really know.
00:17:57
Trio of Positivity
It says for leverage as a defender, you're not allowed to place your hand on an opponent or a teammate and push off to propel yourself into the air to block a kick. In this case, number 92 came across the line to the right guard and he put his hands on the right guard and pushed off to elevate himself in the air.
00:18:14
Trio of Positivity
You're not allowed to do that. It is a personal foul.
00:18:16
Mike
and See, that's the stupidest fucking rule.
00:18:16
Trio of Positivity
15 air penalty.
Critique of Bears' Performance and Strategy
00:18:18
Mike
That's even more dumb.
00:18:19
Trio of Positivity
So the way, and then someone had the rule, I think it was Pat McAfee again. They had the rule where it was kind of like written for leverage. And it was like, everyone's touching them.
00:18:31
Trio of Positivity
Like if you look at any play, you can, you make an argument that if you touch them and you just do one of these, are you really love it? No, you're just trying to move the guy across. Like, you know what i'm saying? Like, so.
00:18:41
Mike
like How do you know, like okay if you're blocking somebody, right and then you put one hand on his pads and jump with one hand, is that is that leverage then?
00:18:43
Trio of Positivity
I mean,
00:18:47
Trio of Positivity
and you're join trying to jump. ah you really That's the argument.
00:18:50
Mike
like it's just so it's so It's so dumb, and I get it.
00:18:51
Trio of Positivity
I think the way it was written, yeah, it's not it's not great.
00:18:54
Mike
and it's It's meant to be basically we can't have a fucking guy on my team and lift another guy up and throw him in the air. right That's the point of it.
00:19:05
Trio of Positivity
Right.
00:19:05
Mike
To have something so ticky-tack, and to call it a
00:19:05
Trio of Positivity
Right. That's where... But that's where the word propel comes into play, because when I think of propel, what's stopping players from, you know, doing the old thing to jump over a fence? You know, put your hands out.
00:19:19
Mike
Exactly.
00:19:19
Trio of Positivity
I'm going to throw your ass in the air and jump.
00:19:20
Mike
Yeah.
00:19:21
Trio of Positivity
There's that kind of propel. And then there's you're just literally placing your hand on the guy because the guy, the center is going to go down no matter what. The guard is most likely going to go down. So your hands are already going to be above them.
00:19:33
Trio of Positivity
Are you really trying to propel yourself or you're just trying to like lift, like but put your hands up to just and try to block the kick?
00:19:39
Mike
Yeah.
00:19:40
Trio of Positivity
We can go into a whole tangent on that. I talked to someone about it.
00:19:42
Mike
But congrats on the Colts for getting the win.
00:19:44
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:19:45
Mike
But the end of that game was embarrassing for them. We have some friends that are Colts fans, props to guys, but one of them was just like sick to his stomach on how they ran the end of that game.
00:19:50
Trio of Positivity
Yep.
00:19:56
Mike
They basically ran out the clock to kick a 60-yard field goal just running the ball. They knew they were running the ball, and they just ran it, ran it, ran it, got 0-0-0, basically zero yards to negative yards, resulted in a 60-yard field goal in which the kicker didn't even make it to the end zone.
00:20:14
Mike
He made it like halfway through the end zone. And then they got this lucky leverage call and subsequently made the game-winning field goal. So props to Indy. I would have never thought they would have been in this game against going against Denver in that defense. So props to them.
00:20:32
Mike
They have been historic. Two games without punting. If only we had that in Chicago, it would be nice.
00:20:41
Trio of Positivity
What a stat.
00:20:43
Mike
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:43
Trio of Positivity
What a stat to be proud of. All right. We actually went 20 minutes. I think it's the longest we've gone. Just you and I. um Well, most of it was you talking about the previous week, but let's ah let's bring it to let's bring it back down to earth. Shall we? ah We're going to talk about it. going to talk about the week to recap.
00:21:02
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. How do you want to start this, Miller? do you want I see we have some bullet points here in the agenda. ah Do you want to talk about it?
00:21:10
Mike
Well, let me just do a quick recap, okay?
00:21:12
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, go for it. Go for it.
00:21:14
Mike
The Bears, the the Chicago Bears, marched into Ford Field ready with their newly minted head coach, Ben Johnson, ready for revenge after the horrible Minnesota game.
00:21:28
Mike
And Ben Johnson was ready to pull a trick out of his ass to get this team the W. And you know what? It didn't work because we got our asses kicked. The Bears lost 52-21.
00:21:41
Mike
Yes, let me repeat. 52-21. The Bears defense gave up 511 yards. And Jared Groff threw for five touchdowns.
00:21:53
Mike
We got torched in the pass. We got torched on the run. And the offense... Well, while some people think it was embarrassing, I think it was decent.
00:22:04
Mike
It could have been better. But you know what? At some point, when you lose it's not good. And... twenty one it's not good and We can move on. yeah Any thoughts before I dive into the key plates that we're going to but just discuss?
00:22:18
Trio of Positivity
I think you and i are going to go in shambles of you define this game as decent. And what's funny is if you.
00:22:26
Mike
I have to find the offense is decent.
00:22:28
Trio of Positivity
I'm sorry, the offense, I stand corrected. um I had fun with AI today and I got to share it with the group, which I thought was hilarious. Even AI thinks the sources are actually at the bottom now when you type it in.
00:22:36
Mike
I still am waiting to see the sources.
00:22:42
Mike
Yeah, it's probably Twitter posts from John Schmo.
00:22:43
Trio of Positivity
They're numbered.
00:22:46
Trio of Positivity
Listen, we know how how much you believe the credibility of sources on the...
00:22:51
Mike
That's fair. As long as they got the blue check mark.
00:22:53
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, so...
00:22:53
Mike
I don't know if John Schmo has the blue check mark.
00:22:57
Trio of Positivity
You know what?
00:22:57
Mike
So let's just let's just touch on some key plays that resulted in the Bears getting their asses kicked.
00:22:57
Trio of Positivity
I enjoyed that recap. Let's just dive into this. Let's just go ahead. Yeah, go for it.
00:23:06
Mike
First, early on, I believe it was about 14-7,
00:23:12
Mike
The Bears were driving. They were on the Lions, I think, like 34 or something. I don't know. I think they were on the they they were driving. They were on the Lions side of the field.
00:23:25
Mike
Deontay Swift fumbled the ball, whatever his fucking name is. He fumbled the ball. It was a great play by the defense. Results in the turnover. Obviously stopped our drive.
00:23:36
Mike
I think we stopped him on that one. I don't think that one hurt. Subsequently, I think it might have been on the next drive. um Caleb's bad play for the day.
00:23:49
Mike
It was second and...
00:23:49
Trio of Positivity
bad. that's That's how you want to call it. That's just bad.
00:23:53
Mike
It was a bad play.
00:23:53
Trio of Positivity
You don't want to throw any other...
00:23:54
Mike
No, I don't need to throw any more adjectives because I'm getting to the point. After a first down...
00:23:59
Trio of Positivity
Get to it quicker, brother.
00:24:01
Mike
i don't know what the fuck happened. Something shitty, probably. After a shitty first down, are on the second down play... Our ah left guard, our left tackle, tackles played great in this game, by the way, both sides of the ball.
00:24:14
Mike
Our left tackle got called for face mask, got called for a face mask. When was the last time you heard an offensive lineman get called for a face mask? A face mask, which turned his second in 32.
00:24:27
Mike
Caleb Williams then dropped back, got pressured a little bit. rolled out and threw a bomb to the wrong team. So subsequently he said there was a miscommunication, but it was a really bad throw. at Initially, we didn't know if it was like he just fucked up and was meant to throw it out of bounds.
00:24:45
Mike
Apparently he was trying to go for a receiver, make a big play. This has subsequently started a debate because Chris believes it's the biggest deal in the world. the end of the day, it's second and 32. Yes, it could have been better. We could have got it to like a fourth and 10, something like that, and punted, flipped the field. I agree with you.
00:25:03
Mike
wasn't the greatest, but it's not the end of the world. It's not turned into a touchdown drive. It's not bigger than DeAndre Swift's fumble that resulted in us losing out on points. Sorry, not the biggest deal in the world.
00:25:15
Mike
Go ahead, spill your case so I can drink.
00:25:20
Trio of Positivity
right. So one thing I want to point out is that the first half was actually competitive. People seem to forget that the first half was actually competitive.
00:25:31
Trio of Positivity
Was it great? No, it was 1421 at some point when we got the Adunze touchdown. And then ah I think towards the end of the quarter, Lions got the touchdown to make it 2014.
00:25:46
Trio of Positivity
And then the shit show started after that.
00:25:50
Trio of Positivity
Funny enough. A lot of the plays again.
00:25:54
Mike
you're just You're just going to not talk about the interception?
00:25:55
Trio of Positivity
Hold on. I am. I'm getting there, though. But you talked about the swift fumble.
00:25:59
Mike
Okay.
00:26:02
Trio of Positivity
And it still resulted in a one yard punt. So it didn't do anything. The bear scored again on the opening drive under opening drive. That's two for two.
00:26:11
Mike
Two for two.
00:26:11
Trio of Positivity
That's the only that's that's a great positive that we can take from this. So many.
00:26:14
Mike
And we scored in the second quarter.
00:26:17
Trio of Positivity
ah Well, after that, it was a punt fumble down interception. Those are the following drives.
00:26:25
Mike
But we did score in the second quarter.
00:26:27
Trio of Positivity
Oh, in the second quarter. I thought you meant like the second drive. I'm like, no, brother, listen.
00:26:30
Mike
No, the second quarter. Because last game we scored in the first quarter and the fourth quarter, I think.
00:26:34
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, so we're we're one way from a bingo card. um
00:26:37
Mike
Yeah.
00:26:39
Trio of Positivity
So we're going talk about Caleb here next, but I think that play was kind of like a backbreaker in the sense of like, are you going I let you talk.
00:26:45
Mike
Oh my god, are you fucking kidding me? Continue. Go ahead.
00:26:50
Trio of Positivity
I let you talk.
00:26:50
Mike
Go ahead.
00:26:51
Trio of Positivity
I let you talk. You had three whole minutes, three whole minutes, and I let you talk, and this is how you get.
00:26:52
Mike
Go ahead. Go ahead. Fucking backbreaker. Go ahead.
00:26:57
Trio of Positivity
It was a backbreaker in the sense of like when he threw that, everyone in Chicago was like, what the hell was that? Was there miscommunication? miscommunication, but...
00:27:09
Trio of Positivity
there's miscommunication but The way that that play kind of unraveled, it could have easily been avoided. That's my only thing. So do we see growth in that right now? No, we don't.
00:27:22
Trio of Positivity
We talked a bit. We talked about it last week. Miller, I don't know what your your thoughts are on this. I'll ask you.
00:27:27
Mike
Jesus Christ.
00:27:28
Trio of Positivity
um Last week we saw.
00:27:31
Mike
Don't throw an interception, Caleb, because it's going to be a backbreaker. Fucking shit.
00:27:34
Trio of Positivity
No, that I said that one was a backbreaker. My question to you is going to be, we talked a lot about Caleb kind of using his legs to get out of certain situations, which again, in this Lions game, we kind of saw it.
00:27:49
Mike
We're not talking about Caleb. We're not done with the key plays.
00:27:52
Trio of Positivity
are you going to let me finish? Jesus Christ.
00:27:59
Mike
Who would have expected this to go like this?
00:28:00
Trio of Positivity
Do you, i know, so I'm going to ask you this question. Is that still an indicative of the offensive line getting better in this game compared to what we saw last time with the with the Vikings?
00:28:15
Trio of Positivity
Or do you still think that, which we're going to talk about next, his ability to kind of extend the plays is getting better, which is also making the line better. We didn't talk about it last week. That's why I'm bringing it up.
00:28:27
Mike
I'm going to be honest. I've watched some breakdown of this game, and I think while there are situations, this is why i didn't want to talk about this because we're not done with key plays yet.
00:28:40
Mike
There are situations in which he extends the play when it's just a complete meltdown on the front, but there are a lot of situations where he has an open man, and he needs to hit that because Ben Johnson does have a lot
00:28:51
Trio of Positivity
Okay, perfect. That's all. It's a timing. Yep. A timing place.
00:28:56
Mike
he these plays are competent. and And if you watch the play, there are several situations where he needs to get up, drop it to the tight end underneath.
00:29:07
Mike
He doesn't do that. He needs to get up, see the guy, throw the ball. He doesn't do that. Now he has made plays outside of that while he rolled out. He makes positive, spectacular plays.
00:29:16
Trio of Positivity
Okay, we don't need to talk about Caleb's performance. It was one. It was one thing that we needed to. was literally a question about the O line.
00:29:21
Mike
Okay. Well, this is why... as you
00:29:24
Trio of Positivity
This is literally a question about the O line. You're extending it, whatever. um So that's that. Did you talk about the fourth down sneaks already? Are we?
00:29:31
Mike
No, no, I didn't even talk about the halftime debacle, which is a fucking backbreaker.
00:29:31
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Okay. Oh, and
00:29:36
Mike
It's a second 32 interception. Oh my God, we're going Fucking idiot. Okay, so with about, what was it? About 15 seconds to go in the half, um Jared Goff launches a ball to their one of their Isaac Hassah, I think is that his name, down the line to about the two yard line.
00:30:00
Mike
It was caught The knee and the hand hit in bounds, touched by a Bears player, subsequently go through the process. Did he catch it? It was on the sideline. Was he out of bounds? Blah, blah, blah. The review comes. I think the initial... I wasn't really listening to the game. I was busy.
00:30:16
Mike
I believe the initial call was... We're going to halftime. It was like a 10-second runoff. Am I right? Am I right with that, I believe? And I thought we were going to go to halftime. And then a review came in from up top, I think, saying that he was down out of bounds.
00:30:32
Mike
So the play was dead. So there was result this resulted in six seconds being on the clock, which...
00:30:43
Mike
I mean, the Lions didn't have any timeouts at that point when he caught that in the bounds. So they were rushing up to run the play.
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00:30:52
Mike
I think they might have gotten the play off with two seconds left and spiked it or something along those lines.
00:30:57
Trio of Positivity
That is correct.
00:30:57
Mike
But it was just mass confusion. think after the fact, they came out on one of the announcers came out and said that didn't that didn't seem right. But basically, that miscue by the refs resulted in the Lions having a few more seconds to run an additional play, which resulted in a touchdown pass, which added that twenty eight to fourteen instead of going into halftime, 21-14, which, in my opinion, was a backbreaker because of the confusion.
00:31:31
Mike
That hurt a lot, and then...
00:31:36
Trio of Positivity
I just want to know what was said during the game to the coaches, because obviously in that time you can't challenge plays. And so like if you're to challenge that, you're essentially challenging that he was touched in bounds and you let the clock run.
00:31:51
Trio of Positivity
That would probably be the challenge. My thought process is either the replay official saw one angle and then i mean I don't know if the did the ref go up to see it himself, too.
00:32:04
Mike
No, I don't think there was actually a review.
00:32:06
Trio of Positivity
ah So it must have been ah the whole fast one where they. So I'm assuming they saw an angle where it looked like you. I'm not trying to defend it. ah It's a shitty call.
00:32:17
Trio of Positivity
There's there's no way to defend that. There was other reviews that even they said, no, he's inbound like the announcers called that he was inbound. So like. it's not just my opinion. um There must've been an angle that the referee was like, Hey, we got to get this play going quick.
00:32:33
Trio of Positivity
um You know, it's within a couple of seconds. So yeah, he's, he's, in he's out bounds, whatever.
00:32:39
Mike
It was just messy.
00:32:39
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Here's the reason, here's the reason why I don't think that is much of a backbreaker. That one is because it was out of our hands. Like the refs made that call.
00:32:47
Mike
No, but it I mean, that's that's that doesn' if that's your definition of a backbreaker, that's your definition of a backbreaker.
00:32:49
Trio of Positivity
I mean it from that state. That's just, I just, I'm just saying from that,
00:32:53
Mike
But to me, that's not a definition of a backbreaker just because it's out of our hands.
00:32:55
Trio of Positivity
I don't think that...
00:32:57
Mike
To me, it's going in when you you have the position. they' They were, what, on the 40-yard line or something? It was a long fucking pass. They were on the skirts of 29. ah twenty night They were on the 29-yard pass.
00:33:09
Mike
That was
00:33:10
Trio of Positivity
It was a 29-yard pass.
00:33:11
Mike
Oh, so they were closer than I thought. But like, so they were in field goal range, but it was just like um going into halftime after having the miscues that we had.
00:33:14
Trio of Positivity
They were in field range.
00:33:22
Mike
I think another key play that we had in the first half was the fucked up QB sneaks, if I'm remembering correctly.
00:33:30
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:31
Mike
That we'll get to next.
00:33:32
Trio of Positivity
Which we're going to talk about next.
00:33:34
Mike
But it was just, it just resulted in four more points on the board. You go from being competitive to now being down two touchdowns, and it's just deflating going into that. But moving on to the quarterback sneaks, basically there was a situation when we were in the 28-yard line of the Bears, our 28th.
00:33:55
Mike
And it was third and short. We decided to run a quarterback sneak, a legit one, not like a tush push, one of those, just like a normal quarterback sneak right into the fucking behind Drew Dahlman's ass.
00:34:08
Mike
And then the next he decided, Caleb ran the same exact play and decided to go sniff, um what's our new guard's ass? Tooney's ass. He decided to go sniff Tooney's ass.
00:34:20
Mike
Both resulted in no gains leading to a turnover. Thankfully no points were even scored because their kicker hit the upright. um But just...
00:34:32
Mike
it's To me, you can get your perspective. You can blame Caleb, whatever. My perspective is on this is when you have somebody like Ben Johnson that comes out in the offseason and sits there and legit gets the question, are you going to run the tush push?
00:34:46
Mike
And he goes, is a tush push an exciting play? And they're like, well, it gets what it gets it done. He's like, yeah, but it's not like it's only one yard. What is one yard? And then he proceeds to come out and run not one, but two QB sneaks, which are more embarrassing than a dush push.
00:35:05
Mike
I'm just like, if you're going to do this, at least get Cole Komett Loveland in the background backfield and just push his ass.
00:35:14
Trio of Positivity
ah
00:35:16
Mike
Like, if you want to call it a tush push or not, just at least push his ass.
00:35:16
Trio of Positivity
So...
00:35:20
Mike
Get some leverage besides the running back just sitting in the backfield just jerking it.
00:35:25
Trio of Positivity
What's funny is he mentioned that and then it was the tush push that helped clinch the Eagles' win against Kansas City, which that's a different um scenario.
00:35:36
Trio of Positivity
um Did they ever come out on who actually made the call? Was it Caleb's call to do the sneaks or was it Ben Johnson? I don't think we ever found that out, right?
00:35:44
Mike
No, I heard in my brief conversation that if there would be more uproar if Caleb made the change, so I'm thinking that it may not have been.
00:35:53
Trio of Positivity
Okay. um I understand the first sneak. The second one was questionable at best. I don't necessarily blame this on Caleb.
00:36:04
Trio of Positivity
This is more on the play calling. ah We have some running backs that we would love to use. Obviously, we're not going to use Swift in that scenario, but, you know, that's that was going to be my,
00:36:11
Mike
But where the fuck is Roshon Johnson? He was active. he didn't even touch the ball.
00:36:16
Trio of Positivity
yeah So there's a lot more questions that come of it. um I was talking to my buddy Z who is a Philly fan and he always tells me how much he missed Swift's ah when he was there. And I'm like, I think, and I sent him his message. I'm like, I think Swift might just become our workhorse now, which I wasn't expecting to truly be a workhorse.
00:36:36
Trio of Positivity
We didn't even use them in those scenarios. So it's kind of leading me to believe that we either don't trust our short yardage with our running backs or which I think we're kind of alluding to.
00:36:49
Trio of Positivity
um Do we just adopt a push push because we don't know how to run a QB sneak?
00:36:55
Mike
I don't know.
00:36:56
Mike
It was just messy. It was messy. Swift isn't going to run that. He's an east-west shifty motherfucker.
00:36:56
Trio of Positivity
I think that one.
00:37:01
Trio of Positivity
No, and but that's what i'm but that's what I'm saying. But that's what I'm saying. Like you you have someone that has that has the ability, at least in my opinion, know to just not give a fuck, put your head down and get at them.
00:37:10
Mike
Roshan was a great, great short yardage right back for us last year. And everybody thought going into this year that he was going to take that Jamal Williams role from the Detroit that had like 22 fucking touchdowns a few years back.
00:37:24
Mike
But obviously he was hurt last game. He must not have been gain in game shape. But if you're not in game shape, why the fuck are you on the field?
00:37:30
Trio of Positivity
Listen, I don't know. Listen, given the news that we got ah for injuries, that if someone's hurt, take your time. That's all going to say. If someone's hurt and the Bears take your time, recover, whatever, whatever you need to do, you got to recover.
00:37:39
Mike
Whatever.
00:37:44
Trio of Positivity
Like there's given the news that I recently heard. all right. I don't care about the next point.
00:37:48
Mike
Yeah, I was about to delete it.
00:37:48
Trio of Positivity
We're just going to skip that. um All right, let's get into Caleb's performance. So you, I don't know if this is you. I'm just going to read what the bullet point says in this beautiful agenda that was written.
00:37:58
Mike
No, don't read it. This is just bullet points.
00:38:00
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, I'm going to read it. So Caleb went 207 yards, two touchdowns, interception, several great play slash throws down the field. I didn't write that. PFF 86 when clean pocket drops to 31.8.
00:38:12
Mike
You sound like an idiot. Stop talking.
00:38:14
Trio of Positivity
it
00:38:15
Mike
Stop talking. Okay. So, obviously, Caleb, if you watched the game, he had several good throws to Rome. Rome had a really good game today.
00:38:22
Trio of Positivity
Rome had a great game.
00:38:23
Mike
We'll get we'll get into that in a little bit. um Caleb played very well within the pocket. He played better than his past past games.
00:38:29
Trio of Positivity
Questionable.
00:38:32
Mike
especially last year. He was able to spread the ball around, probably play more through the ball downfield further, although some people don't believe that. He did hit some longer passes, specifically to Rome, and he had I think, one to DJ.
00:38:45
Mike
um But he did miss a few. He missed a few that he should have hit.
00:38:48
Trio of Positivity
More than a few, but continue, yeah.
00:38:49
Mike
No, it was definitely not more than a few. He missed a few that he should have had. And he also, like I mentioned earlier, he needs to stop playing hero ball. they I think everybody in Chicago can state that the hero ball from last year compared to this year has improved.
00:39:06
Mike
He's not doing it as often. He's still hitting the the the dump down when he sees it. But there are moments where he he struggles. He doesn't read it right away. And then he misses the dump down, which results in him running and blah, blah, blah, blah. blah But he did PFF did grade him as an 86 when in a clean pocket.
00:39:25
Trio of Positivity
What do we call PFF? Thank you.
00:39:27
Mike
Pretty fucking false.
00:39:28
Trio of Positivity
Continue.
00:39:29
Mike
And then when he was under pressure, it was 31.8. So obviously a huge difference there. Surprisingly enough, last year he was pretty good against the Blitz. So it's kind of flipped.
00:39:40
Mike
um But yeah, go ahead.
00:39:45
Trio of Positivity
You can't just, you can't transition like that.
00:39:45
Mike
Say your shit.
00:39:47
Trio of Positivity
That's not how you transition. You, you, you need a question in there. You say, so Chris, so what do you think of everything that I read? Even though I tuned out most of it, but you still ask the question so that, you know, you, you,
00:39:57
Mike
and I just need to... I don't need to, didn't just, I know I'm going listen to bullshit, so I don't need to leave a question. I just say, go ahead.
00:40:05
Trio of Positivity
I just... So, also, did you know that last week was ah Caleb's first rushing touchdown? That surprised the fuck out of me. i I heard that and i was like, that can't be true.
00:40:16
Trio of Positivity
So, it's pretty surprising.
00:40:17
Mike
Yeah, it was pretty surprising.
00:40:20
Trio of Positivity
um So, I wouldn't necessarily say that... Okay, let's just start here. The whole offense... Not good. Let's just call a spade a spade.
00:40:32
Trio of Positivity
Sadly, a quarterback is the main point when it comes to the offense.
00:40:36
Mike
Okay, why do you say not good?
00:40:37
Trio of Positivity
are you going are you Are you going to let me finish? Are you going to let me finish?
00:40:43
Mike
Okay, go ahead.
00:40:43
Trio of Positivity
This is now this is now multiple times that I've let you spew this bullshit.
00:40:45
Mike
Go ahead. Go ahead. i know. I just hate your shit.
00:40:48
Trio of Positivity
and
00:40:50
Mike
Okay, go ahead. Okay.
00:40:51
Trio of Positivity
Also, if you're typing mute because I want the people to hear my voice. Okay? Thank you. So... so Damn it. Can you mute? I hear you typing. Jesus.
00:41:00
Mike
I did mute. I muted.
00:41:01
Trio of Positivity
No, obviously, because I can hear you.
00:41:02
Mike
You can't hear me.
00:41:03
Trio of Positivity
I literally can hear you. He says I can't hear him, and then I'm literally hearing him.
00:41:09
Mike
Well, that's not good. I don't know why you could hear me, but...
00:41:11
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, see, I can hear you.
00:41:11
Mike
I
00:41:12
Trio of Positivity
Anyway, um so to me, it's just how the offense is running. I did hear something. and Miller, ah do you still watch the postgame that was in old Comcast? do you remember the old? ah No.
00:41:24
Mike
don't have that channel.
00:41:25
Trio of Positivity
I don't either, but I saw a clip and I guess the old coach said it looked like the play calling compared to last week. This was more of a safer play call than what we saw against Minnesota.
00:41:40
Trio of Positivity
And that right there, when I heard him say that, I'm like, he might be right. We talked a little bit about how we didn't really see plays down the middle. We saw more plays down the middle, which is great. We finally got some tight end love. Not a lot, but we got some, which was better than nothing.
00:41:55
Trio of Positivity
um So you start to see the upward trend. I talked about the O-line because in the times that I think he's only gotten sacked, what, three times this past game?
00:42:04
Mike
It was four this last game.
00:42:05
Trio of Positivity
Was it four? So he's got a total of six.
00:42:07
Mike
Six. Yeah.
00:42:08
Trio of Positivity
Pretty good fucking number.
00:42:09
Mike
It's on pace for like 48.
00:42:11
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, pretty good fucking number.
00:42:11
Mike
It's better than last year.
00:42:12
Trio of Positivity
Better than last year. So it's like, where do you want to see the improvements? That's where I, a lot of times in the group chat and a lot of stuff of what I see is where do you see the improvement? Some people say, well, we play two really tough teams.
00:42:25
Trio of Positivity
You're right. We play two really tough teams, but that still doesn't give an excuse as to how the offense performed. The offense did not perform in a way that was you're playing against two great teams. we let them We let them off the hook against Minnesota, and it it just genuinely feels like we didn't show up in the second half ah for this game.
00:42:43
Trio of Positivity
So a lot of it is going to lead towards Caleb. And so when you guys start talking about, well, what improvements do you want to see? The one thing that I want to see, Miller, I want him to be vocal to his team.
00:42:55
Trio of Positivity
Our O-line continued to get penalties left and right and all of this. And you know what Caleb did? Just kind of stood there. just waited. You know what? i want to see some aggression.
00:43:06
Trio of Positivity
Like, Hey, these guys are fucking up your offense. Like show some emotion, do it on the sideline or something, or have the coaches show some kind of movement or bench someone. I don't care what you have to do.
00:43:17
Trio of Positivity
These, these penalties on the offensive side are awful. And until I see in your typing again, until I see, until I see that the penalty is kind of going down.
00:43:33
Trio of Positivity
i don't know. And that's a Ben Johnson thing. That's a Caleb thing. They got to work something out, but the O-line, just the penalties was just awful. So when you say it's average, I wish it could be more. I'm probably going to agree with you. This is probably an average performance on week two.
00:43:49
Trio of Positivity
I was hoping to see more being that it was Ben Johnson's return game. The Lions didn't give a fuck. It was, it was already out of hand and they still decided to put a touchdown on our throats to give them the 50 bomb.
00:44:00
Trio of Positivity
Um, the one thing that I wish I could say, and I, i think it's true. He does look a little bit more comfortable in the pocket. I seen that now two weeks in a row.
00:44:12
Trio of Positivity
He, he seems to be a little bit more comfortable. I think the timing is going to continue to come as the games go on, but to go from one week to another and, and say that there's improvement i don't think that there's necessarily improvement i just think that we're nitpicking on what we want to see improvement so there's my take
00:44:28
Mike
Okay, first, so you changed it to average, so I'm going to remove my first take because I don't think – how many times last year did we see 21 points?
00:44:37
Trio of Positivity
it doesn't matter because last week but last week we we didn't even get 21 as an offense the defense helped with one
00:44:38
Mike
It wasn't a lot.
00:44:44
Mike
we got – yeah, I mean, that's fair, but, I mean, defense is still – that's three touchdowns.
00:44:47
Trio of Positivity
So we're averaging two touchdowns, but we're averaging two touchdowns a game, basically.
00:44:53
Mike
We got, like, 17 points last week.
00:44:53
Trio of Positivity
No, less let last week was two touchdowns and a field goal, two touchdowns. We're averaging two touchdowns a game.
00:45:01
Mike
Two and a half.
00:45:04
Mike
I don't lose those arguments. But I'm just saying, how many times did we score 21 points last year? There was few and far between many games where we didn't even get 21 points. So I think that's average.
00:45:14
Trio of Positivity
but Okay, but here's the thing.
00:45:15
Mike
um there was also several There was also an interception that we threw that probably wouldn't resulted in anything.
00:45:16
Trio of Positivity
Last year... mother
00:45:21
Mike
But the fumble would have resulted in points.
00:45:23
Mike
That was points that the offense had down the field, moving the ball. That's points.
00:45:23
Trio of Positivity
that
00:45:28
Trio of Positivity
You can't make that assumption.
00:45:29
Mike
Caleb was benched in the fourth quarter.
00:45:30
Trio of Positivity
Hold on. You can't make that assumption on an interception and say on a second and 30 plus that, you oh, we weren't going get points. You can't make that assumption and then say, if we don't get that fumble, we might not, we might miss the field goal.
00:45:43
Trio of Positivity
You can't make that assumption.
00:45:46
Mike
Okay, come on, dude.
00:45:47
Trio of Positivity
Wait, no.
00:45:48
Mike
We're on the Detroit 33. You're not wrong, but come on.
00:45:50
Trio of Positivity
Okay, I'm not wrong. No, but you can't.
00:45:51
Mike
At some point, you have to say where we're we're in you're you're missing directly.
00:45:51
Trio of Positivity
well That's all I'm saying.
00:45:55
Mike
That is directly correlated to points. When you're in positive territory, that's directly correlated to points.
00:45:57
Trio of Positivity
okay Okay, but you can still... Okay, but given given the fact that we've seen 50 yarders become a norm now, or 50-plus become a norm, if the Bears got it to 4th and 1, I think they would have been past the... What was it? thirty Where was the pass at? The 37 of the Bears or something like that?
00:46:17
Trio of Positivity
And they were 20-plus?
00:46:17
Mike
yeah It was further than that. It was... further than that it was oh no.
00:46:21
Trio of Positivity
So further into Lions territory?
00:46:24
Mike
it was it it was thirty thirty Chicago and he threw it to, like, the
00:46:24
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:46:27
Trio of Positivity
So it would have been like at the 47. So they still would have tried if they wanted to, they probably could have kicked it, whatever the case. That's what I'm saying. So you can't make that assumption. You can't say that the interception wasn't as valuable as the fumble because you could still miss just like we could still could kick a field goal.
00:46:42
Mike
okay but the
00:46:42
Trio of Positivity
If and we made the, comple if we made a completion.
00:46:45
Mike
You're wrong. I'm not even going to talk about that. But, like, the bottom line is is, at that point, it was 14-7, and we were driving down the field.
00:46:56
Mike
We started on the 36 of our – the Chicago Bears 36, and we were on the 33 of Detroit. And we were driving, and it was a fumble. That's what happened.
00:47:05
Trio of Positivity
Right.
00:47:06
Mike
I count that as points.
00:47:06
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Okay, but that's fine.
00:47:07
Mike
You cannot, but whatever. I mean, moving on.
00:47:09
Trio of Positivity
That's fine. But after the fumble, did the Lions score? Hold on. After the fumble, did the Lions score?
00:47:13
Mike
No, they didn't. that's Again, that's irrelevant.
00:47:14
Trio of Positivity
After the interception, did Lions score?
00:47:17
Mike
I don't think they did.
00:47:18
Trio of Positivity
They did. They got a touchdown. Continue.
00:47:22
Mike
Whatever. Still irrelevant.
00:47:24
Trio of Positivity
No, it's very much relevant.
00:47:25
Mike
But these are still...
00:47:25
Trio of Positivity
It's a swing. It's a point swing.
00:47:28
Mike
You... Oh my fucking god. I'm done. Stop talking about the interception. I'm not talking you about it anymore. It's stupid. It's fucking basically a punt. um i said basically.
00:47:39
Trio of Positivity
We don't punt on second downs, Miller.
00:47:41
Mike
Basically. But your play calling to go further than that. One thing that was brought up today, because it's actually relevant to information other than an interception on the second and 32 actually impacting the game.
00:47:55
Mike
But um one thing that was brought up by Tim Jenkins, I don't know how Ben feels about him, but he's a he was a backup quarterback in the league and he does a lot of analysis. I don't know if you've seen it on Twitter.
00:48:07
Mike
I think he's pretty good. He pointed out, that Ben Johnson reran several plays multiple times.
00:48:21
Mike
i To me, it's fairly concerning. And it's also good. right It's concerning because...
00:48:29
Trio of Positivity
concerning and good alright I'm intrigued now
00:48:30
Mike
It's concerning because that means that Caleb isn't picking up the offense as quickly. Not necessarily as quickly, but he's still working on picking up the offense. These plays were very successful, so either they saw something that Detroit does that they exploited, and they just did it over and over again. I think they did it like three or four times. It was just one of those in-routes.
00:48:51
Mike
um But it's also good because how many times have you seen an offensive coordinator for the Bears play to their quarterback strength? We don't see that very often because these plays that were ran multiple times, they were successful.
00:49:06
Mike
And they did get chunk yards out of it. So it's not like they're running these bullshit wide receiver screens that donet that didn't go anywhere. These were successful plays. It's just he pointed out that normally you don't see somebody of Ben Johnson's caliber rerunning the same plays multiple times.
00:49:22
Trio of Positivity
And I think that goes back to the point where I said um it was a conservative playbook.
00:49:28
Mike
Yeah. And, I mean, it's kind of to be expected. I mean, many people have come out and said, Fuck, Caleb Williams coming into the league, basically a rookie based on last year's cluster.
00:49:41
Mike
um It's going to take him a while to learn this offense. It's not like Jared Goff, who was had four or five years under his belt and then going into an offense and learning it. He's brand new to the league, so he's going to take some time to learn it.
00:49:54
Mike
But I just felt like him kidding. I wish he threw a little bit more. Rome did have multiple bad drops down the field that could have... assisted in not only Caleb having a better performance, but also moving us down the field.
00:50:09
Mike
ah But going back to your emotion on penalties, dude, come on, man. You were the first one to fucking call him his ass out for being on the bench because he was hurt, and now you want him to show emotion? How's that going to fucking go?
00:50:21
Trio of Positivity
Wait, when went when was he hurt?
00:50:21
Mike
You're going to call him out last year when he was fucking writhing in pain because he got his ass kicked by the defensive line because our offensive line sucked. You called him out for his posture whatever.
00:50:33
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:50:34
Mike
So now youre you want to be aggressive on the sidelines? So then you can call him out for that?
00:50:37
Trio of Positivity
Okay, so so what do you want?
00:50:39
Mike
I'm sorry. i don't i don't buy this bullshit that you're spewing.
00:50:40
Trio of Positivity
So wait, so hold on. So wait a minute. So wait a minute. So if our offensive line gets another holding penalty, you just want them to be like, hey, Good job there, brother. we We don't want to give him, we don't want to give him yards.
00:50:52
Trio of Positivity
So we will take 10 yards back.
00:50:52
Mike
I don't necessarily want him at at this point of his career to start getting in one of these guys' faces.
00:50:57
Trio of Positivity
He's got a C in his chest for a reason. That's all I'll say. If you have a C, if you have a C, no, no, no.
00:51:02
Mike
I mean, you're fair, but he's gotten a lot of bad he's gotten a lot of bad media when he's done stuff like that.
00:51:08
Trio of Positivity
There's, okay, but Miller, Miller, there's,
00:51:08
Mike
So I don't necessarily think that you saying that it would be good is necessarily going to be great press.
00:51:14
Trio of Positivity
It would be good. It would be good. Okay. It doesn't matter about the press at that point, Miller. You're 0-2. How can, what, can it get worse?
00:51:22
Mike
You're o and one
00:51:23
Trio of Positivity
You're 0-2. Can it get worse?
00:51:25
Mike
At that point, they're 0-1, though.
00:51:27
Trio of Positivity
Okay. But at this point, you're 0-2. Can it get worse?
00:51:31
Mike
Yes, it could get worse.
00:51:33
Trio of Positivity
How can it get worse?
00:51:34
Mike
You lose the next fucking 15 games.
00:51:36
Trio of Positivity
Well, and and no one's really going to care. My whole thing is, and and and we're just going have to jump into the offensive side because we're already almost at an hour, which is incredible. um We'll talk about the defense here in a bit, but just to go on the offensive side, penalties killed us.
00:51:49
Mike
No, we're not. We don't.
00:51:50
Trio of Positivity
Penalties killed us. We got to be able to to do something during the game to fix it and to get everyone back in play. I think I saw another thing where we're running the line where it's like seven seconds on the play clock and we're still trying to figure that out.
00:52:03
Trio of Positivity
You would think that they have that after last week not be an issue. It's still an issue. I just saw a lot of inconsistencies that I saw from last week that I hope to get corrected.
00:52:14
Trio of Positivity
Hasn't been corrected. Now it is week two. There's not much that can be done. i understand. i give them that credit. All I was trying to say is like, if someone's fucking up and you wear the C for a reason, fuck.
00:52:27
Trio of Positivity
Like Peyton Manning did it. He didn't give a fuck.
00:52:29
Mike
He didn't do it when he fucking rookie, not rookie, but second year in the league.
00:52:30
Trio of Positivity
I'm not.
00:52:33
Mike
So calm down, dude.
00:52:34
Trio of Positivity
brother, he has the record for most interceptions as a rookie and he still managed to have a hall of fame career. And he yelled at Jeff Saturday.
00:52:39
Mike
Yeah, but he didn't get in his linemen fucking faces and start cursing him out in his second year.
00:52:40
Trio of Positivity
He did a bunch of shit. Yes, he did. Yes, he did.
00:52:45
Mike
No, he did not.
00:52:46
Trio of Positivity
Yes, he did.
00:52:46
Mike
Okay, so we're not going to skip over the defense. The last thing I'll talk about on the offense is the rushing needs to get better. Swift needs to be better. We're last in EPA um per carry, which is expected yardage.
00:53:00
Mike
ah Not good. ah Needs to be better. He did look okay, but come on, dude. We need to get some spark there. get Break some fucking tackles or something. Moving on to the defense, because I don't want to...
00:53:11
Mike
I don't want to move past this because while you blame the offense on their shittiness, I put this game mostly on the defense.
00:53:13
Trio of Positivity
Thank you.
00:53:19
Mike
um The defense didn't couldn't stop shit. ah they They stopped them maybe one or two times in the first quarter and then proceeded to allow seven scoring drives, which resulted in 52 points.
00:53:33
Mike
Like I mentioned earlier, they allowed 511 yards. enough – and crazy enough As we pointed out, Caleb Yessi threw an interception, we had a fumble, but it's not like they had short fields.
00:53:45
Mike
The average scoring drive for the Lions was 60 yards. So like these aren't short fields that these guys are getting, these guys are driving and we're just, they're just letting them go and they're just running it down our throat, throwing it down our throat.
00:53:59
Mike
the DBs, Jalen got hurt again. TJ Edwards got hurt again. We don't have DBs. Tyreek Stevenson, who was obviously the infamous cornerback, rookie quarterback last year for the Washington game, he's currently our number one corner spitting 158.3 quarterback rating against, which is phenomenal.
00:54:25
Trio of Positivity
I didn't even know they were tracking stats like that.
00:54:25
Mike
As our...
00:54:26
Trio of Positivity
I saw that in the group chat.
00:54:27
Mike
As our quarterback won. I'm sure they just found, oh, there he is. Oh, there's another completed pass. He's just getting run over. The whole defense is getting run over. Defensive line, it's getting a lot of hate, and I get it. We're not in the sacks where we need to be. We're not getting the sacks, but I have noticed a little more movement up front. Jared Goff did move around a little bit.
00:54:50
Mike
Not saying much when you're not getting to him, but compared to last year when it was a fucking steel wall, like, I don't know. We just need to see something from the defensive front. the Dennis Allen came in.
00:55:03
Mike
i was excited for Dennis Allen. He ran a good defense down in New Orleans. And to put up what we've put up, you're talking 73 points in the last five quarters. Like, what the fuck are we doing?
00:55:16
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. um I mean, we can talk about injuries and stuff like that. I just, I think Brian said it best in our group chat. Shout out Brian.
00:55:30
Trio of Positivity
It almost like the team had no heart. And then of course I had to use the meme from the replacements.
00:55:36
Mike
Yeah.
00:55:37
Trio of Positivity
that was That was great. That was perfect timing for that. um
00:55:42
Trio of Positivity
I don't know. i'm I'm very hesitant to talk about the defense because we kind of said that it was a breakdown on the Minnesota game. i think that game should have been won because of our defense and it was lost because of our defense.
00:55:55
Trio of Positivity
I think in this game, it was Ben Johnson's coming back. You would think that there would be something there, but I mean, we kind of called it, I think Detroit, this being a division game, I think Detroit was going to come out and rail us.
00:56:10
Trio of Positivity
And I, that kind of came to fruition.
00:56:12
Mike
They got embarrassed in week one.
00:56:13
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:56:13
Mike
They did. People were questioning their OC. People who were questioning their team. Like they had a lot going for them.
00:56:19
Trio of Positivity
yeah so I did too yeah so with that being said Miller was this a Lions win or a Bears loss
00:56:19
Mike
That's why we both, I think you predicted it, but I know I predicted a blowout, but.
00:56:32
Mike
This is a Lions win.
00:56:34
Trio of Positivity
okay all right we're on the same page I agree with that let's go into the positivity score oh god what's the question
00:56:34
Mike
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
00:56:40
Mike
No, I have a question of the day.
00:56:45
Mike
Obviously, Jalen Johnson is probably hands down the best player on the Bears, but he's currently not active and it looks like he's going to be out for the rest of the year. Who is the best active player on the Chicago Bears team?
00:56:57
Trio of Positivity
Offense and defense.
00:56:59
Mike
Yeah.
00:57:02
Trio of Positivity
A doomsday.
00:57:04
Mike
Isn't that fucking scary?
00:57:06
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Wait, did you agree with that?
00:57:08
Mike
I mean, he's probably like the only... I mean, how many players are there for do you to choose from? He's the only one that's done anything, right? was It's probably either him or Caleb, if you're being honest.
00:57:17
Trio of Positivity
I think... No. No, not Caleb. I think maybe Swift over Caleb. If I was, like...
00:57:23
Mike
I wouldn't say. I don't.
00:57:25
Trio of Positivity
ah You could flip-flop between Caleb and Swift, I would say.
00:57:28
Mike
But, like, nobody on the defensive side. It's just a funny thing.
00:57:31
Trio of Positivity
No.
00:57:31
Mike
It's just like this team is just full of trash players right now.
00:57:33
Trio of Positivity
Who...
00:57:35
Trio of Positivity
Or they're just hurt.
00:57:35
Mike
And it's it's scary. i mean I mean, you could make a case probably for Joe Tooney or something like that. But sorry, linemen. You don't get that much. credit, not credibility, but fame with me.
00:57:45
Trio of Positivity
Um... Yeah, I think if I – but also I wish you could see – I think it was probably Rome.
00:57:49
Mike
It's probably wrong.
00:57:52
Trio of Positivity
um You would probably want to see more kind of, you know, get more involved. But that's where I think it's like – that's where kind of Caleb kind of, you know, just has to be. Like we'll talk about the Bengals too, but it's like I want to see like you have a clear one with the Bengals and no matter who the quarterback is, everyone knows you look for your one.
00:58:12
Trio of Positivity
I don't, I don't know if Odunze is becoming that one and we're kind of starting to utilize them that way, but it's like your quarterback has to rely on your one has to rely on your tight end. And it's like, you're not seeing that as much as you want to say that he's.
00:58:22
Mike
No, you're seeing the one. I mean, he was targeted probably fucking 10 times. You're seeing it. He's the new one. He is.
00:58:29
Trio of Positivity
And. Okay.
00:58:29
Mike
He was targeted 11 times.
00:58:29
Trio of Positivity
So I'll.
00:58:32
Mike
DJ Moore targeted six times.
00:58:34
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. So like.
00:58:34
Mike
So Rome is the new one on this team, which was kind of expected.
00:58:34
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
00:58:39
Mike
But...
00:58:40
Trio of Positivity
i guess I guess that's where I'm at. um All right. We're gonna kind of speed this through a little bit. We're past Miller's bedtime. Positivity score. Our buddy Boopin wrote a four. Miller, I'm sorry.
00:58:51
Trio of Positivity
We are not doing a positivity score on Caleb or the Bears.
00:58:55
Mike
No, i'm not i'm not I'm not. I was just saying it's a combination.
00:58:57
Trio of Positivity
Okay.
00:58:59
Trio of Positivity
Go ahead.
00:59:00
Mike
So I'm at a three.
00:59:00
Trio of Positivity
What's your...
00:59:01
Mike
I'm at a three. The Bears as a whole is one, but Caleb, I'm at a five. So that gives me an average of a three. I do think Caleb has been taking some correct steps in the right direction.
00:59:14
Mike
He's going to slowly learn this offense, and I'm hoping that as he gets more regimented in it, that we start to see some positive changes.
00:59:22
Trio of Positivity
Can you define, okay, so can you define that for a little bit? Like, what is what do you want to see improvement for next week? What do you want to see?
00:59:35
Trio of Positivity
That's, I just want to ask that real quick. Okay.
00:59:38
Mike
i want to see what okay so I want to see some chunk plays. i want to see throws down the field, accurate throws, not turning the ball over. I'd like to see some throws down into the flat. I don't think we saw enough of that to avoid pressure.
00:59:54
Mike
don't think we saw enough of that this week. And just generally moving the ball, looking comfortable but behind the line. I mean, I'm not going to be.
01:00:03
Trio of Positivity
See, this is not improvements. This is just bullshit. All right. um Going into my positivity score, what do I want to see improved?
01:00:06
Mike
That's not, and so what do you want to see improved?
01:00:10
Trio of Positivity
I think I already said it. i just want to see...
01:00:16
Trio of Positivity
You know what?
01:00:17
Mike
Bullshit. Okay, we can move on.
01:00:17
Trio of Positivity
no Well, yeah, now that you put me on the spot, the only thing I will say is i hope we get to see more aggressiveness, but I i just want to see like the pacing. I just want to see more timing stuff, which on the times that I've seen it, I don't feel like it's it's very hit or miss. I just want to see consistency with one thing.
01:00:38
Trio of Positivity
Let's just start with one thing and then work our way All right, as you know, or you might not know, the positivity score, because I'm going back to school, I'm going back to a grading scale. ah This was a solid F.
01:00:48
Mike
Okay, don't do that stupid shit.
01:00:49
Trio of Positivity
Hold on. Hold on. It was a solid F.
01:00:52
Mike
does' it doesn't make any fucking sense.
01:00:52
Trio of Positivity
It's a 40%. It's a 40%. So on my positivity score is a four.
01:00:58
Mike
So you have you have one grade that's positive.
01:00:58
Trio of Positivity
I'm going to...
01:01:01
Mike
You have an A or B. And that's an 8, 9, or 10.
01:01:05
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
01:01:05
Mike
That's all you have.
01:01:06
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:07
Mike
That's so fucking dumb. Whatever. School does not apply outside school. you need to learn this.
01:01:14
Trio of Positivity
All right, we're going to blaze through this fantasy recap. I'm not going to let Miller talk because he's going to talk us to death.
01:01:18
Mike
yeah
01:01:21
Trio of Positivity
um According to this, the top QBs destroy teams. I don't know how we can say that after what happened to Burrow, but all right, Hurts definitely played well.
01:01:29
Mike
Did you lose?
01:01:30
Trio of Positivity
I won.
01:01:31
Mike
oh good for you.
01:01:33
Trio of Positivity
i know.
01:01:33
Mike
i lost with Burrow. No, I did win with Burrow going down, but.
01:01:36
Trio of Positivity
I won with Burrow going down, but i there's a lot that I have to discuss. I wish Boopin was here, but whatever. Um, uh, Burrow hurts Alan fields all under 15 fantasy points.
01:01:46
Trio of Positivity
The biggest injury to come out is Joe Burrow. He's going to be out for three months with turf toe. We'll have surgery, which and that's another, there was another quarterback that also had turf toe surgery. I can't remember who it was, but it was also like a fantasy thing. And then I remembered, oh yeah, that was a thing.
01:02:02
Trio of Positivity
Jaden Daniels, his injury,
01:02:02
Mike
you can Basically, the consensus is you can drop him. you You can put him on IR if you want, but he's droppable.
01:02:08
Trio of Positivity
yeah um jay it's december january yeah um well they're still two and oh so you never know um jayden daniels that injury report has been hit or miss because there's not a lot of stuff that people want to talk about uh there have been some reports of an injury they just didn't drop it
01:02:09
Mike
Because they're not thinking that he's... Even if he comes back after three months, their Bengals probably won't be in contention.
01:02:29
Mike
He has a knee injury, and he's questionable for...
01:02:31
Trio of Positivity
it wasn't properly It wasn't properly disclosed until like yesterday or something like that. there was There was talks about him being injured and they were saying no. And then they said he was injured.
01:02:40
Mike
Okay, well, he has a knee injury and he's questionable for Sunday.
01:02:44
Trio of Positivity
J.J. McCarthy was officially hurt. He has ah an ankle injury. I believe that was what I read. And then news came out today that Aaron Jones was placed on IR. No, not IR. What's the one where you missed four games?
01:02:54
Mike
No, you're right.
01:02:55
Trio of Positivity
Oh, is that the one you missed four games?
01:02:55
Mike
are.
01:02:56
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, ah that he was placed in four games. ah The one injury that I see that we're not talking about is Fields, who ah was trying to get cleared from the concussion protocol. ah He was also questionable at that point.
01:03:07
Mike
Well, when you put up the worst QBR of all time, do we really need to talk about it?
01:03:12
Trio of Positivity
ah You don't want to see the man hurt. All right. ah here's here's Here's my um my dilemma.
01:03:21
Mike
Oh, God.
01:03:22
Trio of Positivity
My available quarterbacks are not looking that great on my team because Burrow went out. So as you know, I have Caleb.
01:03:28
Mike
Do you have anybody on your team?
01:03:31
Trio of Positivity
calb
01:03:32
Mike
Play him. this is He's rated like the fifth fucking...
01:03:33
Trio of Positivity
Hold, hold, hold on.
Fantasy Football Strategy Discussion
01:03:37
Trio of Positivity
I don't want to use a waiver pick. So after talking to my buddy, hold on after talk, because I'm placed one on waivers and it doesn't look like quarterbacks are going to be taken.
01:03:41
Mike
why
01:03:47
Trio of Positivity
So I, I have a, the Seahawks quarterback, um And I also have Rogers available if I want a second pickup.
01:03:58
Trio of Positivity
So my thought process is if ah if I can't get the Seahawks, I can't think of his name right now. The Seahawks quarterback.
01:04:04
Mike
Darnold.
01:04:05
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, Darnold. I can pick up Darnold, play him because I think his matchups are looking pretty good for the next couple of weeks. or play Caleb, but still pick up a quarterback and do the quarterback dance of dropping quarterback and then picking up another one after waivers, all that stuff.
01:04:16
Mike
so
01:04:20
Trio of Positivity
So I can save my waiver pick for next week.
01:04:21
Mike
I don't know how your waivers work, but is that is that thing? Is it based on your waiver or is it based on activity?
01:04:25
Trio of Positivity
You do a pick. it It's based on if you make the pick, you drop down.
01:04:32
Mike
Okay, are you sure about that? It's not based on activity.
01:04:34
Trio of Positivity
Yes.
01:04:35
Mike
So if you don't do anything for waivers and you pick somebody free agency, it won't affect your waivers.
01:04:40
Trio of Positivity
That's my understanding.
01:04:41
Mike
Okay. Well, you should not do any quarterbacking waiver this week.
01:04:46
Trio of Positivity
but Right.
01:04:46
Mike
You should just wait because Caleb is projected to have a very good week this week.
01:04:46
Trio of Positivity
That's for free agent. Yes.
01:04:51
Trio of Positivity
Well.
01:04:51
Mike
He's going up against Dallas.
01:04:53
Trio of Positivity
Well, that's ah that's my situation. um But yeah, I won. Thankfully, Jamar Chase. God, I love that man. ah That man is just a beast. um
01:05:04
Mike
I got so lucky in my one of mine.
01:05:06
Trio of Positivity
But can I just say, I called the Patriots defense. They were better than Pittsburgh. Again. Not again. They were horrible last week. I just wanted to sound important.
01:05:15
Mike
They were horrible this week.
01:05:17
Trio of Positivity
Patriots got more points than Pittsburgh.
01:05:19
Mike
Well, Pittsburgh has been trash.
01:05:22
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
01:05:22
Mike
The only reason, what did they get, like seven?
01:05:25
Trio of Positivity
Eight.
01:05:26
Mike
Yeah, and they had a fucking return touchdown.
01:05:29
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, and they had, I think, like two interceptions or something like that.
01:05:30
Mike
has Yeah, so like they they have not been good.
01:05:31
Trio of Positivity
So, yeah, they gave up a lot of yards.
01:05:34
Mike
don't.
01:05:35
Trio of Positivity
But I did say that the Patriots would have like a really good defensive fantasy. So I'm still riding high
Bears vs. Cowboys Preview
01:05:41
Trio of Positivity
on that. All right.
01:05:41
Mike
They don't. they don't
01:05:43
Trio of Positivity
Miller, we're going to try to finish this in 10 minutes or less. We got the week three preview. I hate that you made me host, but I'm going to give this part to you.
01:05:52
Mike
I didn't make you host. You suck.
01:05:54
Trio of Positivity
all right. Fair enough.
01:05:56
Mike
but
01:05:56
Trio of Positivity
Bears are going to be playing at Cowboys in the afternoon game. ah Bears are 0-2. Cowboys are 1-1 after an overtime win. Go ahead.
01:06:07
Mike
um Yeah.
01:06:08
Trio of Positivity
Never mind. You weren't prepared. One of the best wide receiver duos in the league, ah Dennis Allen, changed his man-on-man scheme to...
01:06:09
Mike
I don't got shit, dude.
01:06:15
Mike
Okay. So obviously the Dallas Cowboys.
01:06:17
Trio of Positivity
There you go. See, this is why I start talking, and then he just starts doing this.
01:06:18
Mike
What are the Dallas Cowboys?
01:06:20
Trio of Positivity
Go ahead.
01:06:21
Mike
One of the Dallas Cowboys. Obviously, they have Dak Prescott. They were just in a nail-biter last week against the Giants, where Russell Wilson put up 400.
01:06:28
Trio of Positivity
The giant, the a nail biter against the giant.
01:06:30
Mike
The Giants. the giants
01:06:32
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
01:06:35
Mike
Russell Wilson put up 450 fucking yards passing and that game against the Dallas defense.
01:06:38
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Yeah. At Dallas.
01:06:42
Mike
So at at yeah at Dallas. So it was a great game. it was a fun game to watch. I wish the Giants won because there was a lot of eliminator teams that could have went out that could have helped me If they didn't, it's fine.
01:06:55
Mike
But um this team is going to be very much an offensive front and forward team. The defense should suck, just like our defense.
01:07:03
Trio of Positivity
Thank
01:07:05
Mike
um I don't know much about i would probably say the rushing defense would be a little better with the guy that they got from the Packers. I know you were you were Brian was super excited about that.
01:07:18
Mike
Because they they they took their ah the the run stopper and they gave them Micah Parsons. Yeah, fuck that.
01:07:25
Trio of Positivity
yeah
01:07:26
Mike
But um their run defense should be a little bit better. But again, Caleb should be opened up through the air. We'll see what he does against this defense. Come on, dude.
01:07:37
Mike
Like, at least give me a 300. three hundred I made a bet on you today. kind have i kind of might be a little drinking a little bit. ah if i If you don't get 300 yards, but come on, dude.
01:07:49
Mike
If Russell Wilson could put up 450, you better be able to put up 300. But realistically, when you're going to be watching this game, you're going be looking at obviously how our offense performs. It better move up and down the field.
01:08:00
Mike
But the problem is on the other side of the ball, you've got Dak Prescott throwing probably to the best wide receiver duo in the league in CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens. So what are we going to be able to do to stop him?
01:08:11
Mike
Obviously, Dennis Allen mainly plays man-on-man defense as far as cornerbacks are concerned. The question is, is he going to change that? Is he going to move to a different scheme since he doesn't have his best corner?
01:08:23
Mike
And really, we don't don't even have a corner. I think we could play corner better than these guys. Just kidding.
01:08:28
Trio of Positivity
Imagine my fat ass playing corner.
01:08:28
Mike
just It's a joke. It's a joke. It's a joke. um But it'll be interesting to see how we how we attack this offense because they are elite. Gervonta Williams has a little bit of pep in his step. He's had a few good weeks of running the ball.
01:08:44
Mike
So they really look like a complete offense. Now they did lose their center in the Giants game for 68 weeks. So we'll see how that affects the offense. But I don't know. it's it's gonna It should be a shootout, ladies and gentlemen. It should be a fun game. What's the over-under? Do you know?
01:09:00
Trio of Positivity
Over under on ESPN Sportbook is 49 and a half.
01:09:05
Mike
I'm thinking over that. But. Who knows? I think it would be over.
01:09:09
Trio of Positivity
All right. With that being said, ah we're going to go ahead and into our predictions. We're going to start with Boopin. Boopin, ah early in the season, said that the Bears would win against the Cowboys.
01:09:22
Mike
can we We have to do recaps.
01:09:22
Trio of Positivity
It looks like he's...
01:09:24
Mike
Come on.
01:09:24
Trio of Positivity
Huh? Huh?
01:09:25
Mike
Currently, Chris is leading at two and o
01:09:27
Trio of Positivity
Oh, yeah, that's right. My bad.
01:09:31
Mike
Boopin and I are tied at 1-1 going into this third game.
01:09:33
Trio of Positivity
Yes. And I was the closest with the score. ah Did you hear the episode about the two scores?
01:09:39
Mike
I don't know what your fucking score was because you had two scores listed.
01:09:41
Trio of Positivity
It was the first one. Yeah.
01:09:42
Mike
Okay, yeah, sure was.
01:09:43
Trio of Positivity
It was the first one.
01:09:43
Mike
It was the first one, yeah.
01:09:44
Trio of Positivity
No, I told Boobin, I was like, I'm going to stick with the first one, but I also had another score in my mind, but just write it down.
01:09:51
Mike
Yeah, I know. You love to play both sides of the fucking coin.
01:09:54
Trio of Positivity
Both sides are still right.
01:09:55
Mike
Fucking bullshit.
01:09:55
Trio of Positivity
2-0, brother.
01:09:57
Mike
Fucking bullshit.
01:09:58
Trio of Positivity
All right, back to what I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. ah Boopin has him coming out of this with a victory going 30-27.
01:10:06
Mike
No, the hope it was a loss.
01:10:06
Trio of Positivity
Miller, he has him as a loss now?
01:10:07
Mike
It was a loss. He has him as a loss. He has him losing it. Yes, he's a loss. That's probably my fault.
01:10:12
Trio of Positivity
oh so he switched his pick.
01:10:15
Mike
and No, he didn't. I did all the editing. I probably just...
01:10:17
Trio of Positivity
No, no, no.
01:10:18
Mike
I didn't know you were going to talk.
01:10:19
Trio of Positivity
No, he he had win in the schedule prediction, so he switched it to a loss.
01:10:24
Mike
Oh, oh okay okay.
01:10:25
Trio of Positivity
Yeah.
01:10:25
Mike
That may be the two case. But yes, he has it as a loss.
01:10:26
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Okay. ah It would have been great to hear, but he has a close score of 30 to 27 Miller. What do you got?
01:10:33
Mike
I am very similar. I have them at 31 to 27, Cowboys. Even though we are projected to win in Vegas, but we know how that goes. but
01:10:42
Trio of Positivity
So I also have them at a metal loss. I'm keeping trend. ah We are only going to score maybe 21 or 24 points. I think we're going to continue to average to two touchdowns per game. I don't think we're going to do anything else.
01:10:54
Trio of Positivity
I think the, well, I still, we might get a defensive one, but I'm kind of maintaining, um I'm maintaining the score of ah maintaining the score of going what we've seen in the past.
01:10:54
Mike
that That would be three touchdowns.
01:11:00
Mike
ah Okay.
01:11:06
Mike
And I'm the drunk one.
Bears' Team Challenges and Predictions
01:11:08
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Um, but I think like 21 seems to be the right number. 24 might be there. I think Cowboys come out with a 37, 34 or something like that. So my final score,
01:11:17
Mike
don't see you think a blowout.
01:11:18
Trio of Positivity
ah
01:11:19
Mike
Jesus Christ.
01:11:19
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, I think i think the over hits, I think it's going to be Bears 21, Cowboys 34.
01:11:26
Mike
We may not. We may be skipping the podcast next week if or if they blow us out.
01:11:32
Trio of Positivity
If they blow us out, i mean, you don't want to see. I would have wanted these games to be close, man. But just I think this last game.
01:11:39
Mike
The first one was close.
01:11:41
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, but I feel like I go back to like the first one you have them pinned against the wall and you just need to finish it.
01:11:47
Mike
have him by the balls, Chris.
01:11:48
Mike
you have them by the balls.
01:11:48
Trio of Positivity
Yeah, you you have to finish it.
01:11:51
Trio of Positivity
And then this next game, it's like you got caught cheating. So you just want to give them you know, you want to give them the pass. It's the Cowboys. I think it's a primetime game.
01:12:01
Trio of Positivity
Well, not a primetime game.
01:12:02
Mike
It's not prime time.
01:12:02
Trio of Positivity
don't even know what it's not.
01:12:02
Mike
It's game of the week.
01:12:03
Trio of Positivity
It's a game of the week, whatever the fuck it's called. I just I don't know, man.
01:12:07
Mike
Caleb against Dak.
01:12:07
Trio of Positivity
war The more that I see this season going, i just don't want to keep getting disappointed more and more. um But it's going to go with the trend that i said. I think the Bears are going to lose the first four games of the year. You guys criticized it.
01:12:21
Trio of Positivity
um But yeah, i I think we lose big.
01:12:24
Mike
we lose the Raiders, this fucking town may burn. um Did you see Gino last night? He played like shit.
01:12:30
Trio of Positivity
Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:32
Mike
they used their They stole our running back and he fucking played like shit.
01:12:32
Trio of Positivity
um
01:12:37
Trio of Positivity
Montgomery looked great, though, at Detroit. I don't know, dude. It's just there's so much that I want to say. And then I had to remind people that he's not.
01:12:43
Mike
he's not a full- time He's not a full-time running back.
01:12:46
Trio of Positivity
He's not. But we could have done the same fucking thing. Whatever. Also, we have to remind everyone in case.
01:12:49
Mike
Could we? We don't even have... We don't even have one running back that's good, let alone two.
01:12:53
Trio of Positivity
We have we have a half with with Swift. I still like Swift. Swift looks good, though.
01:12:58
Mike
he du He's not good.
01:12:58
Trio of Positivity
Just.
01:12:59
Mike
We talked about this.
01:13:00
Trio of Positivity
he Look, listen, listen.
01:13:01
Mike
He is like a negative expected yardage for play.
01:13:01
Trio of Positivity
No, no, no. You're not understanding what I'm saying. You're not, you're not understanding what I'm saying. I said, he looks good. He might not play good, but he looks good when he's out there.
01:13:10
Mike
He looks the part. He looks the part.
01:13:11
Trio of Positivity
He looks the part.
01:13:12
Mike
He's shifty.
01:13:12
Trio of Positivity
Yes.
01:13:13
Mike
He's shifty.
01:13:13
Trio of Positivity
He's shifty.
01:13:13
Mike
And then he just does this little shifty-shifty and then runs into the ass of the fucking offensive lineman.
01:13:15
Trio of Positivity
He does. He does. the move He makes people like he's just, he's just missing. What Saquon does is he Saquon causes him to miss and then boom goes out. Swift just, you know, like just does the little bit of the dabble, but I like, I like Swift.
01:13:28
Mike
The problem is Swift doesn't he doesn't break tackles. He doesn't do anything that he shouldn't do.
01:13:30
Trio of Positivity
No.
01:13:32
Mike
So when he gets hit, he goes down. That's just what he is.
01:13:34
Trio of Positivity
Also, i just want to know, we i couldn't go past it. I like talking about it, but it's becoming beating a
Podcast Conclusion and Future Guests
01:13:41
Trio of Positivity
dead horse kind of thing. The Bears still can't tackle on defense. I don't know.
01:13:45
Trio of Positivity
It just seems...
01:13:45
Mike
Jesus, you guys hold these people to too high of standards. Yes, people make mistakes. Fucking live with it.
01:13:52
Trio of Positivity
Hey, we kind of did it, Miller. We're about to hit a minute 15. let's ah
01:13:56
Mike
A minute, 15. We've only been talking for 75 seconds, guys.
01:14:00
Trio of Positivity
Or an hour 15. Sorry. An hour. and know i'm um'm I'm sick.
01:14:03
Mike
Again, I'm the drunk one.
01:14:04
Trio of Positivity
I'm out of it. I'm out of it. Yeah. all right. But Miller, Drunky, go ahead and send us home, brother.
01:14:10
Mike
Thank you for listening. This has been the Trio of Positivity Podcast. One of us is missing next week, but we will have a fill-in next week to assist us. Surprise, surprise. We'll see who that...
01:14:21
Trio of Positivity
It's Ben.
01:14:23
Mike
We'll see who that gentleman is. Maybe someday in the near future we can have some positivity, but realistically it's probably not going to happen for a while.
01:14:31
Trio of Positivity
No. Bye-bye.
01:14:32
Mike
Bye-bye!
01:14:33
Trio of Positivity
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