Chicago Bears News: Bears Miss Out on Buckner ? | Montez Sweat & Kyle Monangai Updates

We got Montez Sweat and Kyle Menungai updates, and the Bears missed out on DeForest Buckner. Or did they? We'll talk about all that more on today's episode of the Windy City Breeze Sports Talk Daily. Let's go. If you are new to the channel, please hit that like button. Please subscribe to the page. You do talk Chicago sports daily on this channel. Only channel talks Chicago sports, how Chicago talks, and make sure that you stay in tune with us, man. All right, we're going to start with the updates, and then we'll get into the news that everybody wants to talk about here. But Montez Sweat is set to return this upcoming week. This is something that I think is going to be very interesting for the Chicago Bears for multiple reasons here. Number one, good to get Tez back in the rotation. But what kind of rotation is Montez Sweat coming back to with the changes in his contract, with the changes that he has now moving forward with his guarantees because of this suspension? There's a real conversation that Dennis Allick can have here and say, not for nothing we appreciate you returning and we appreciate you coming back and it sounded from what i've heard from a lot of people that are close to the situation that montez sweat truly was remorseful in his uh in his comments today and that you know it was i think the thing that you can kind of tell when looking into some of the PED history if it's something that's in something else right something that's a banned substance is like the 65th ingredient in something usually they give you the one to two weeks suspension on something like that. But if it is something that is more serious, legitimately a PED, Barry bonds, stick a needle in your backside type of thing. That's when you get the longer length ones. I would, from the time this injury happened, or I should say from the time the suspension happened, this is not an injury. I've kind of felt like this was a product was in something else that you were taking and have been taking for a while. And maybe now was added to the banned substance list either way though. I love the fact that Montez Sweat, for everything that we try to, you know, knock him for and everything that we say, you know, you got to play better and yada, yada, yada. He stood up there like a man. He took his punishment. And the hope is that he's able to return back. And you know how you put all of this to bed. You go out there and you get eight more sacks on the season and you create pressure on quarterbacks like pressure has never been created. I need that fire that you had from the first couple of games of the season versus what we saw on the final three leading up to the suspension that we saw from Montez Sweat. I think the big question now is what kind of snap count is Montez Sweat returning to? And when you look at some of the snaps that he played previously, there is probably an expectation in my mind, especially since this was an injury. To me, you got a two-week vacation for your body, whether it's actual vacation. From what I've heard, he was still in the building. He was still doing work last week. The week before, of course, he had to be away from the building because of the suspension. But it's a two-week rest for your body. I want to see you out there full regalia i want to see you ready to go but i do think that there's a real conversation if you do not see the production from montez sweat especially with this trade deadline coming up and things getting what seems to be a heck of a lot more serious very quick on names being moved around the nfl this could be a time uh where you see the chicago bears possibly if you're going to have a conversation on it take a contract that wasn't a very movable contract and maybe say, Hey, would you like a pass rusher who has had 10 sacks, who is having a little bit of a down year, but we'll take pennies on the dollar here. And we're, we're willing to move on from Montez because we feel that we're going to get somebody back who is better than him. Either a Khalil Mack, possibly in that conversation, or if you want to go big or go home, like I do a Jeffrey Simmons kind of name who you would still need Montez on that team for, or somebody else who can fill those shoes. If you feel that Daniel Hardy and Austin Booker have done enough either way i look at this as you know it's never a negative when you get back another body on that defensive line but it can be a negative if the production is not there and if you are kind of getting in the way this defensive line and maybe it is more because of kyler gordon i think that that is a massive part of it a massive part of it but when you see this defensive line over the last couple of weeks they have had more production without montez sweat in there than with him so to me Montez has a ton to prove coming back onto the field let me know how you guys feel down in the comments below uh drop a bird down in the comments if nothing else uh let me know though do you think that Montez is set to return and come back as a dominant force do you feel like there's maybe a little bit more fire lit behind that backside or do you feel like you're probably going to see more of the same more of what we have seen and no matter what you need to upgrade that position anyway let me know how you guys feel down in the comments below we also got to talk to you guys about the Chicago Bears uh situation here with Kyle Monangai because i can't call this an injury update because the latest that we have heard from Kyle Monangai at least today which was an extra practice because of the Monday Night Football is that he is not going or he is not back on the field just yet when you look at you know the production that you saw from Kyle this season and then him eventually going down. I think that there are some concerns within this running game, especially with the Chicago Bears activating Xavier Scott to the full 53 man roster. Now, a part of that reason is because he had no more practice squad elevations left. You either had to bring him onto the 53 man roster and fully activate him, or you would have had to possibly let him go. And somebody else could have picked him up. They have liked what they have seen from Xavier Scott on special teams on the last couple of weeks and there's probably a big part of this conversation that goes to Sam Roush now getting more snaps throughout the season and of course other tight ends possibly coming off of special teams for you there to actually play in the offense and so because of that you're now living in this world where you need to fill in some of those spots on special teams Xavier Scott has been able to do that over the last three or so weeks but I do think there's also a conversation to be had here on trying to strengthen up this running back room for potentially a little bit longer here with this Kyle Monangai injury. Now he is still not ruled out this week. We won't get an injury report till Thursday, but there's a conversation at a minimum to be had about Xavier Scott being the guy that comes in and replaces Roshawn Johnson. When you look at his history, six foot one, 222 pound running back. So body-wise fully replaces Roshawn at this point. But I think the part that is the most intriguing to me, because you haven't seen him, he played with Minnesota last year. You haven't seen him get a ton of run to this point. But when you look at what he was able to do in Minnesota in a game where he really got probably his most run, he had 16 rushing yards on two carries, but passing wise, I'm sorry, that's the wrong game. He had two attempts and had one rushing yard in that game, but passing wise, he was a big part of the offense that day, eight targets his way, six catches, 43 yards and a touchdown. He had a 75% catch percentage. And on the season that year, he had 16 targets, 14 catches. That's a guy that can catch the football out of the backfield. Ben Johnson is going to find a way to help him catch the football, to have him be a part of this offense. If he is somebody who you think can step up in place of Roshan, who only got two carries last week. And who I think that there is a very, very big conversation on, you know, as, as good as he is on special teams, you just haven't seen it pop for him in the run game. I think that he had a solid game in that one game. And excuse me here, just double-checking, making sure. Okay, my phone vibrated, so I had to make sure that it wasn't an update on a trade or anything. You saw him for that one game, right? 51 carries versus Atlanta. Did have the one fumble that ends up coming out. I thought that that was still very good technique that Roshan was showing. I thought it was a better defensive play in that moment they got that ball punched out. But for the most part, your backup running back room has not been good on the field since Kyle Menga has gone down. I wonder if this is kind of a conversation of if Kyle misses this week, if he were to miss more weeks here, subsequently, we're going to need somebody better in there than Roshan Johnson. And you know what? We're going to give Xavier Scott an opportunity to possibly be that guy. Let me know how you guys feel down in the comments below to make this move work. They did have to release DB Nick McCloud. So that is something to keep an eye on as well. But it kind of just feels like you're trying to bide your time until Manunga gets back. Hopefully that is this week. I'm not saying that he has ruled out this week, but if you're activating running backs off of the practice squad, I do think that there's a real conversation to be had on the possibility that Kyle Manunga misses another week. Let me know your thoughts down in the comments below. Do you think it's time to try somebody behind Kyle or behind DeAndre Swift outside of Roshan Johnson? or do you feel like Roshan's production has been good enough to this point? I'll be down in the comments talking with you guys as well. One final thing that we do want to get to on this episode, and like I said, hit that like button, subscribe to the page, leave a five-star review. Y'all know what to do. The Chicago Bears will not have DeForest Buckner on this team this year because he has been traded to the 49ers for a 2027 fourth round pick. Now, there's a lot of people that are going to say, ah, the bears missed out on DeForest Buckner. And I think that that is a conversation that I wouldn't push off the table just yet, but I think there is a bigger conversation on the kind of swing that the Chicago bears are hoping to make this season. So will this be a miss out or the bears looking to swing bigger than what other teams maybe are willing to go in on this season? You've heard me talk about it all week with the trade talks and different things like that, that I think your offense has proven to you to this point. I think that you have seen enough from Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams together to go, Hey, we've got one of the top offenses of football, and we're going to have one of the top teams in football as well, because of that offense, we need to go big on this defensive end. And if you told me that the bears were going to bring in somebody like, you know, Joshua is a tough one for me. I would not be all hype over Josh Sweat. That would be a wait-and-see approach for me if you got the Sweat brothers together here to finish out the season. Khalil Mack is a name that I like. I don't know if I'm sitting here over the moon about it, but I would love to see Khalil Mack back in a Chicago Bears uniform, especially if DeForest Buckner is going for a fourth. You're talking about possibly a fifth or a sixth for Khalil Mack. That would be something that definitely would interest me as well. I know they play different positions here, but I think defensively, when you talk about guys that you could bring in to me, DeForest Buckner is going to go for the higher capital. But my personal opinion and what I want to see this Bears team do, don't swing small. Swing big. Swing bigger than DeForest Buckner. You've got a couple of 0-6 teams out here. Jordan J.C. mentioned one of the names that I think could be very interesting when he brought up Tuli Polite. Ah, dang it. I thought I had it from memory. I'm sorry, Tuli. Hold on. Tui Pulotu, son of a, anyway, that's a name that I would love to see the Bears go after if he is somebody that is on the market for you. Or of course, you know, I've talked about it a ton over the last couple of weeks. If you have to swing big and you have to go for big names, why not go for the best of the big names? And to me, that is Jeffrey Simmons. So like if the Chicago Bears end up coming away with one of those names, I wouldn't be sitting here going, oh man, we missed out on DeForest Buckner, right? I think there's a real conversation to be had, and maybe I would rather see you go bigger on the defensive line, but we have seen a couple of listeners who have talked about this. Of course, JC talked about it on the Morning Breeze today as well. The possibility of still going DB, and if you feel like, as you see, the Indianapolis Colts are trading off pieces left and right here. If you feel like one of those DB names is up for grabs, a Sauce Gardner, who I don't know if that is going to be the case there, But a Sauce Gardner or, you know, name one of the guys that is out there, an Arik Woolen who had a rough night the other night. But, you know, it could also be that defensive line as well. But like if one of those names were available and you paired that up with the Khalil Mack, is that something that could interest you? Like those are the things for me where I don't want to see the Bears come out of this trade deadline and go, oh, you know, we feel very good about what we have. And we hope that, you know, we hope that we're going to get the most out of it. No, bring me guys that showed you the production on the field. Bring me guys that showed you that they have the answer on the field. And so while it sucks that DeForest Buckner is going to go to the San Francisco 49ers, that's somebody that you're going to hopefully have to see on the way as you get to an NFC title game, because I think that they are going to be there. You want to have an answer for that opposite of you as well. And you're seeing NFC teams left and right get better. The Seattle Seahawks, who were already a Super Bowl-caliber team, got better with their trade of Quenton Nelson. The San Francisco 49ers, who we talked about as a Super Bowl-caliber team this year with Brock Purdy, who was playing at an MVP level, just got better by adding DeForest Buckner. Do not be the team that is standing there going, well, we got our picks. Well, we feel good about it because we got our picks. You watch the Lions do that, and we can count the playoff wins on one hand because of that. We can count the Super Bowls on no hands because of that. That is not a world that I want the Chicago Bears to live in, and that is not a world that I hope that we end up living in here moving forward. But, hey, as I said, man, appreciate you guys for tuning in and showing love. As always, let me know your thoughts on the DeForest Buckner trade. Do you feel like the Bears missed out, or do you feel like there's a bigger trade coming down the pipeline? Let me know how you guys feel down in the comments below. 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.