Chicago Bears Injury Update: Young Defensive Lineman Could Get HUGE Opportunity!

With Montez Sweat's suspension, an entirely new opportunity has been created for the young players on this team. We got to talk about what that could be for this defensive line and why that could mean quite a bit moving forward into this season. We'll talk about all that more on today's episode of the Windy City Breeze Sports Talk Daily. Let's go. Now, if you're new to the channel, please hit that like button. Please subscribe to the page. Do talk Chicago sports daily on this channel. The only channel that talks Chicago sports. How Chicago talks. Make sure that you stay in tune with us, man. And a big shout-out to the sponsor of today's episode, where you can trade $25, get $25 instantly added to your account using the promo code BREEZE. Make sure to check the link in the description below because the market has been looking great, especially if you are looking at this upcoming NBA season as well. Very interesting what $25 can get you on the Chicago Bulls 30-plus win target. So make sure to tap in with everything that they have going on over on Calshi again, use that promo code breeze to trade $25 and get $25 added to your account instantly. Appreciate them for being a sponsor of today's episode. All right. So the opportunity is there for this young Chicago Bears defense to actually start to take shape. Of course, we've seen Dylan Thienemann. Of course, we have seen Malik Muhammad and we've seen the exciting flashes of Austin Booker at the start of this season. But the reality of things is now with Montez Sweat being suspended for PDs over the next couple of games, there's a real opportunity to take a stronghold on a position if you are one of these young names. and shamar turner was activated off of that published yesterday with shamar being activated off of the published yesterday i think that that makes it very very interesting to see okay over these next couple of games what kind of snap share is he going to get because if you can start to prove that hey the guy that they drafted number one is gonna have the advantage so if you can prove a that we drafted you in the right spot and you are somebody competent on that opposite edge of Austin Booker over the next couple of games and b that Austin Booker is starting to take over you know as the as he said the more snaps he gets the more opportunity he gets the better the production is going to be if that is the case moving forward you could be talking about a changing of the guard happening here because what this does with this suspension is the rest of this season for Montez Sweat's contract is now non-guaranteed right which means if you wanted to move on from Montez Sweat you could now I do not believe that is the case here but what it now does is it takes a player who because he had guaranteed money because he had you know he was cemented into what you were doing you were kind of beholden to him today we got a role with you we're going to figure this thing out we're going to get it all together with the changes in the guarantees because of this suspension I think that it makes number one it can make Montez Sweat much more hungry and need to get after it a lot more but number two it puts you in a situation where now all of a sudden if you want him to be he can be an expendable player for you if somebody else is playing better now all of a sudden while yes you do have to pay him that money you're looking at this and going hey if we wanted to move on from him we could if he was unhappy in whatever role we want to put him in maybe they've wanted to make a change maybe they've wanted to go a different direction but because of Shamar Turner's injury you haven't been able to if shamar is able to return and look like the guy that they had hoped to get off of that opposite edge i think that it could be very interesting for this Chicago Bears rotation moving forward let me know how you guys feel down in the comments below do you feel that Montez Sweat and his PED suspension has opened the door for these young players on the defensive line uh drop a yes or no in the comments below because here's my thing right like in in a world where Montez has the guaranteed contract the rest of this year you were already trending towards we're probably going to move on from you unless you have an elite season as this season has started and now with the suspension you would have to have an out-of-body season right because you're going to miss two more games here we're in week five that will put you past week seven if you're going past week seven in that situation uh i think that it makes it so much now you would have to take what he has done and times it by a thousand for the bears to be sticking around for his money moving forward into next season right because he just hasn't played up to the contract that he has and the dead cap money is not that bad going into next year with that being said i think that you want to start that development process as soon as you can you want to get shamar in there and hopefully he's healthy and able to get out there and ready to go uh but you want to get him out there and see okay hey if this is somebody that we can trust in moving forward that's not a problem that we're going to have going into the draft and so i think that it just opens the opportunity for the snap count of montez sweat to go a direction that you didn't expect it to be able to go this season just because of how much you were beholden to him again let me know how uh you guys feel down in the comments below hit that like button subscribe to the page Little Five Star Review y'all know what to do do you think at Montez Sweat when he does come back is going to come back to a very different Chicago Bears role or do you think it's just status quo because it very much could be listen like the non-guaranteed money as much to do about nothing unless you cut him because next season's contract people are trying to make it you know spin this into like oh you know well next season now it's going to be easier to move on from it nothing changes about next season next season was going to be next season and like I said if you felt like you were going to move on from you probably would uh at the end of this year no matter what but if you feel like he's somebody who can't go out there I wish I could see what's happening behind the camera my apologies my son is just running around naked in the background over here he's getting ready to take a bath he's not just naked but it threw me off for a second there uh but no if you're somebody that feels that you know Montez's production is going to come back and he was going to be on the Bears let me know in the comments below as well big shout out to you guys for tuning in and showing love now a conversation that we continue to have and again I won't say you know Caleb is gonna play or he's gonna be back until Ben Johnson announces that right but per a lot of uh different insiders here Ian Rappaport talked about it yesterday and when you talk about uh Mike Garofalo today having the conversation on Caleb Williams continuing to trend up towards playing it seems like uh this coming week six we could be seeing Caleb Williams get back onto the field i don't know if you guys saw it as well but he dropped uh his profile picture on Instagram now as John Wick and his bio just says i'm inevitable and uh i i believe that is uh in in reference to in John Wick one if you haven't seen John Wick one where he gets towards the end of the movie and he's like people keep asking me if i'm back and i really haven't had an answer for him but i'll tell you what i'm thinking i'm back phenomenal movie phenomenal line love it all but i say all that to say you know you you're you're trending towards what feels like Caleb Williams playing this coming sunday which is a much needed difference for the Chicago Bears and when you add on top of that that it sounds like uh the DeAndre Swift is dealing with a little bit of injury and dealing with something trying to fight through it I guess that would make a heck of a lot more sense for what we saw in the second half of that Packer game although confusing right but if he is banged up if he is hurt even though that was wasn't something that was mentioned that could be you know the difference in why you saw him not run as much in the second half as you did in the first half but getting Caleb Williams back changes everything in the dynamic number one because of his ability to use his own legs I think that that's going to be something that is needed uh versus an atlanta defense that truly can get after you and can create a ton of pressure for your team and now you know turning the page onto this atlanta week unfortunately you had the last week you had in green bay you're going to get a Caleb Williams back who's trying to get himself quickly back on track who's trying to get himself quickly back into a position where he can actually you know put his stamp on this season realistically what we've seen is a game and a third of Caleb Will or a game and two thirds of Caleb Williams to this point. And it was really good. And it was a very different version of the player that we saw in one game. And then in the next game, it was, you know, we're kind of coming back to earth. Maybe it's because you're running more. Maybe it's because of the weather. We know what Brian Flores' defense can do to this Bears team, but just getting him back on the field, you see how different this offense is able to run just with a competent quarterback like Chase in there, right? Like or Chase, like when Case Keenum got into that game and I'm not sitting here telling you that it was immaculate, but all of a sudden it looked like an offense that we had talked about seeing over the last couple of years, what we saw last week and kind of what we saw a little bit the week before it truly just felt like, man, we haven't talked about a quarterback playing like this in a long time. This is really, really tough. And I think that, you know, seeing what can become of this offense when you have a Caleb Williams back in it seeing how Ben Johnson is able to run things how much freer he is able to play call I think that that changes things dramatically as you head into this Atlanta game and we'll see who's that quarterback in that Atlanta game but the offense has to go against a defense and a Javon Dexter who is going to know some tendencies who's going to know I mean he spent all of training camp with Caleb Williams and he's playing really really well down there right like he's going to know how to get after Caleb and how to get to Caleb in different ways uh that the rest of that Atlanta Falcons team is not going to know he's going to know how to beat Grady Jarrett in different ways that the rest of that Atlanta Falcons team is not going to know and so i think that you're going to see a very very good chess match in that game but at a minimum if Caleb is able to play it changes everything so much because you just get that that ability to have a dual threat quarterback that can use his legs but also has the arm talent to complete the passes that you want to see but then on the flip side of things right you you are taking a little bit of the load even more off of DeAndre Swift we'll probably end up dropping another video today uh just after once once we know what the injury report is and once we know kind of who's you know it would have practiced today who wouldn't have practiced today uh because Wednesday is usually more of a walkthrough period type of thing um it's going to be interesting to see kind of you know who's available and who's not but this bears team is incredibly banged up right now and they're trying to fight their way back towards trending in in a healthy direction and that's you know health changes a lot for this team and they just don't have it right now the hope is that soon we will be there but again it's good to hear that Caleb Williams is trending up feeling better about this upcoming week it's very difficult to turn the page on a Packer week but you got to turn the page and appreciate uh all the people who have stood with us through the struggles that we had during Packer week outside of just the Packer game. I keep saying that because it really means a lot that you guys stuck around and shared that tweet up and we're reaching out to Google on our behalf, man. We love you guys so much for that. But hey, man, appreciate y'all tuning in and showing love as always. It is your boy Pat the Designer back at it again. Y'all stay safe out there, Chicago. Bear down. One love. Peace.