Real Concerns About the Chicago Bears Are NOT Doubt!

Earlier today, my partner, Kron Pat, dropped a video expressing frustration with those who consistently doubt the Chicago. Consistently always have something negative to say about the team and what we put out on the field and not being able to relish in the fact that this isn't the Bears of old. This isn't the bad news. And I agree. I do agree to a point that there is a subset of individuals who always have something negative to say. Always have. We can be up 40. We should have been up 60. Chill out. Like, don't be that. But where I disagree with them is. Sometimes these comments, sometimes these sentiments that you're hearing from these individuals are not, they're legitimate. They're legitimate concerns because we are not, and I hate to say it, but we got to keep it real. We got to keep it above. We are good. We are one of the better teams in the league. But if you want to sit there and say that the Chicago Bears are head and shoulders better than everyone else in our division, you a fool. You a fool. We're not head and shoulders. We do have advantages. We do have a unique style of play compared to the other one. We do have advantages that we can maximize. I do trust my coach better than theirs. I do trust my quarterback better than theirs. But there are other instances in which maybe they got us a little bit. And that doesn't mean that I doubt our ability to go out there and play. It means that I actually have a healthy respect for my opponent, different between being doubtful and having a healthy level of concern. That's how Ben Johnson approaches everything. That's how every head coach approaches everything. You cannot sit there and take for granted your opponent. You can't dismiss your opponent. So some of these moves that we've made, no wonder. Or some moves that other teams have made, no wonder people ask, hey, what are we going to do to counter that? Because it's important. I made a video talking about Kirk Cousins. At first, it was just a joke. But let's be for real. Let's be for real. We haven't, we've played that defense once. We lost. Caleb Gaffer, it is what it is. Maybe we would have won. Maybe we wouldn't have. There was no, there was, we were not in control of that game. Things happen. Well, oh, if Swift doesn't do this, he fumbled. If it was a fifth, we'd all be drunk. He fumbled. Or such and such caught this pass, but he didn't. And guess what? That's accredited to the defense that other teams put on the field. We can't sit there and say, for sure, I think we would have won. You walked out, we would have won. That's what we do as hometown fans. That's what we do. We ride for our God. But there is no way to know for sure until it happens. And that game was too close to actually say that. Now, if we move forward, that team, who was very pedestrian, didn't have a QB then, now has a QB who has chemistry. That coach knows him. He knows that coach. He actually has chemistry with their star receiver. We don't have anyone that can cover that. Me walking into that game saying, hey, I don't know how we're going to handle that one. Jeffrey Simmons can't cover both. And guess what? Minnesota does have a decent line. A savvy QB can get that ball out quick. Tom Brady, I'm going to use this as an example, is one of the best quarterbacks of all time. He's also one of the least pressured QBs of all time. Under pressure, he looks got all. Under elite pressure, he looks got all. To negate being under pressure, a lot of underneath routes, a lot of slam, quick pass, back foot, get the defense back up. Had a decent run game. They did things to insulate and to protect him so that he wouldn't have to be in a situation to run. Do you honestly think that KLC is not going to do that for him? Or scheme it that way? If it's, I'm hoping Jeffrey Simmons is ready. Don't get me wrong. But you'd be a fool not to have a healthy concern for it. Take it to another one. Green Bay. They smack it. It is what it is. Caleb wasn't there. Totally get it. But you know what Caleb can't do? What Jeffrey Simmons may have, may impact. I'm not going to say that he can't because just. Jordan Love sat back in that pocket for a minute to get some of those passes off. But we can't cover those receivers. That part has not changed. That part has not improved. That is where they may have an edge. Caleb can't play offense and defense. That's not possible. He's not Travis Hunter. It doesn't work that way. So having a healthy fear or respect of that is okay. It is what makes the sport so interesting to watch. If we thought the Bills was going to win, everybody, it'd be like that time, I don't know if anyone remembers it, but I do remember there was a year with Denver Broncos. No one really watched the Super Bowl because they already knew who was going to win. I remember, I vividly remember everyone being outside. No one watched it. I vividly remember. I was a kid. I vividly remember it. Everyone said, I don't know who's going to win. We don't have that type of situation. Now, again, does this mean we can win? No. And for those who don't understand that nuance, get some help. Go back to school. I don't know what you need, but grow up. Because it's okay. The head coaches of the teams you root for have to take this approach so that they never underestimate their opponent. And sometimes that nuance gets lost. Someone sits there and brings up a good point that another team made an adjustment or they made a particular move that we may have difficulty with. Oh, you're rooting for that team? No. I have a healthy respect and I have a genuine concern about our ability to do something because I want us to be successful. I just want to know if, how we're going to do it. That's what you're supposed to do as you game through, things of that nature. It's a big difference. And some of those people who actually make those comments, I do think get lumped into just overall as a doubt. And that's not fair to them. Happens to me all the time on the show. I don't care. I rub it off as part of, it's almost like part of a bit at this point. I'm a mid defender. I'm always playing devil's advocate. No, I like to bring nuance and balance to a product that we put out to the show. Yeah, we're always going to drive the game. I'm not going to sit here and act like we don't have laws. The other team don't get paid millions of dollars to stop us from doing what we want to do. I'm not going to act like that's not true. Again, I don't think, and I don't want anyone else to think, that having real concern is doubt. It's not doubt. It is health. I will say this. I've said this. Whoever wins the North, my whole heart is with them. But when you're already, when you're 7-2 in the rest of the division, 6-6 win, and we have zero games against our division rival, Yeah, I'm not doubting that we can win it, but I'm concerned. When we're on a four-game win streak, at least so is Detroit. Packers are a two-game win streak. The Vikings are on a two-game losing streak in their sixth field season. It's not doubt when I sit there and say we might have to do something. It's a real concern, real. You know what? Until we play them, we can't sit there and beat our chest and say that we are better than any of them. We have not beat a Detroit team yet since Ben Johnson took over. First time we played them, we smacked them so bad, they looked like magnets. I turned around to get some nachos because the game started. I come back, they already scored. What the heck is going on? I think we got 50 balls. We have not beaten them. So, yeah, I look at that game and I go, you in for it. I don't know who's going to cover Omarazay Brown. Jared Goff gets the ball out quick because he knows he's not mobile. Yeah, I have a healthy respect for the team, and they have legitimate reasons to be. And so if you're like me and you like the different nuances of it, and this is what you keep going and feed into that, there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that at all. Voices. Keep voicing. Because guess what? That's the other side of the same point that we're all on. We're all fans. We just all cheer differently. We all want the same goal. We all want to win. We want our team to actually win a Super Bowl. Nothing wrong with that. But I want to hear your thoughts. I want to hear what you all think. How you all think of it. The nuances of it all. Put it in the comments. I'll be in there with you. Until next time. Peace.