Chicago Bears Trade Rumors: Is It Time to Go ALL IN?

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Appreciate y'all for tuning in and showing love, as always. who would have actually thought Jordan JC is on the morning breeze again he'll be wearing different clothes tomorrow so he'll be at work don't worry about it on today's episode man seems like the Chicago Bears per Jordan Schultz are going to be very heavily involved in this upcoming trade deadline and my question to you is not halfway not quarter of the way we can go all the way in yeah today's episode of the morning breeze hit that like button subscribe to the page leader five star view y'all know what to do ladies and gentlemen the date is 10 26 2026 7:03 in the morning and i'll tell you what i'm ready to put it all in let's go gotta go all this is what we do when i make an appearance you showed up as turtleneck Tony yeah here we go look at this guy just pull it all the way up over your head and wear it like a hoodie appreciate y'all for tuning in to show it love as always hit that like button subscribe to the page later find their review y'all know what to do come on push the button come on push the button come on push the button you heard what she said y'all heard what Su Yang said hit that like to the face no i got i now have to tell you this is a pre-recorded video because it looks insane if i'm drinking a beer seven o'clock you got problems this early in the morning we're stressed life is life hey you can drink whatever you want oh there's no judgment here no no no oh i've missed you jc these morning breezes just aren't the same without you hey man big shout out to Couchify you're the sponsor of today's episode you can trade 25 to get 25 added to your account instantly using that promo code breeze go over and check on the latest markets for the Chicago Bears and Chicago Bulls because they got a superstar in the making coming, baby. 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Especially when you hear Jordan Schultz, when you're talking about some guys like Josh Sweat, Khalil Mack, DeForest Buckner, and not saying that they're specifically names that the Chicago Bears are going to be tied to here, but that his belief in what he is hearing is that the Chicago Bears are one of the teams who is going to be very active at the trade deadline. And he expects this to be a very exciting trade deadline. Now we have heard this before, right? Remember Shams Charania at the deadline was like, there's going to be moves that changed. What did he say? He's like, there's going to be moves that make the Luca deal seem like it was nothing. And we were like, Oh, here we go. And it was like 80 left. It was nothing. Yeah. You gave us nothing on that nothing that we wanted to see but uh hopefully this is accurate because i do think that the Chicago Bears are going to be needing some help on that defensive line and for this reason JC i am in the the uh mindset that the Chicago Bears might need to go all in and what does all in mean uh i'm not talking about going for stopgap pieces i'm not talking about going after a Khalil Mack, who would be fun to have back. I like Khalil Mack. I love Khalil Mack, right? Would love to have him back in the building. You tell me a fifth round pick and Mack comes back, I would like to see Khalil Mack return. I'm not going to make the return of the Mack joke. You stop yourself. No, no, no. DeForest Buckner would be an interesting one as well as he's somebody who we know can bring a lot of value to this defensive line, especially on that interior. Josh Sweat, I've kind of been out on for a minute. I mean, him and Montez are kind of following the same trajectory at this point. I don't really want a Josh Sweat in the building. Maybe I've got sweat PTSD at this point. I don't know if that sounds weird or not. But no, I think that what you don't want to do, and I talked about this on yesterday's Chicago Bears podcast, is you don't want to make moves where if you feel that you can win a Super Bowl this season, and looking at the NFC as a whole looking at the NFC North looking at the AFC right now it feels like the Bears are in that conversation for top three four five team that could be one of the final teams standing here the thing that would piss me off the most is if a name like a Jeffrey Simmons does end up getting moved and it's not to the Chicago Bears because they wanted to hold on to their precious draft capital I'm not saying the draft capital is not precious but I love how Shane Norling said this yesterday on the podcast he said there's nobody in the 2027 draft that can help me win a 2026 Super Bowl and to me where the Chicago Bears are at right now not to say that they are one player away but what I would hate to see is them do the same thing over and over again you don't go after a Max Crosby you don't go after Trey Hendrickson but we got Dio and we got Grady and we got Montez well you're paying them a boatload of money too yeah and yet they're not as good as any of the other names that you kind of said well we don't need that guy to go out there and be successful for me if you're the Chicago Bears right now what's holding you back if not now then when it's not to say that you can't still acquire talent through the draft i'm not saying go out there and Mike Ditka rest in power this situation like he did when he was with uh the uh the New Orleans Saints I think the Saints and he traded his entire draft for Ricky Williams I'm not telling you to do that what I'm saying is if there is one of those elite names if there is a Max Crosby if there is a uh uh Jeffrey Simmons I gotta make sure I say Jeffrey I think I said like six different Simmons last night but uh but if there is one of those top names available the Chicago Bears should be the team that gets them especially knowing that there are teams within your division who have the capital as well to go after some of these names and could try to poach those names and keep you from taking that next step your thoughts well i mean where their smoke does fire you mentioned one name of an insider who's been saying that the bears are going to be one of the the top aggressive teams come deadline or trade deadline um with jordan Schultz. I've heard even from Jay Glazer that they've already kind of made calls to Los Angeles to kind of pry at the opportunity for Khalil Mack. I've heard Adam Schefter mention on ESPN that they've been exhaustingly trying to call LA for Khalil Mack and trying to get a deal done because LA is saying they don't want to give up anybody because they still trust in their season. They're on six. They need to know when to quit. So for me... Talk about the Chargers. Yes, the Chargers. I'm sorry. Los Angeles Chargers. And, uh, For me, I agree with what you said about going big or going all in, but I'll push back a little bit because if you're saying that maybe we don't aim for Khalil Mack or we don't aim for DeForest Buckner, I disagree that, to me, they're not on the same level of when Ryan Poles went out and got Dio and the Montezes and the Grady's. I think they're a step above, a step still better than the production and the talent level of what we already have here because if you were to even get them, I believe they're both in their final year of their deal, so they would be rentals. They would still be more impactful than anything we already have here. You put Khalil on the edge, I'd take him over Montez Wood, especially with what we already saw him not do this whole season. I mean, when he wasn't even off the field with the pads, we didn't notice that he was gone because Kyler came back in and acted like him on the line. And then DeForest Buckner I feel like is better than anything, Dio or Brady or Shamar or anybody even my boy Jordan Vandenberg can do on the interior so I'm fine if you go that route because that means that you're not giving up future draft capital that's going to be impactful for you to get more younger defensive ends and tackles to bring on this team next year because I believe the draft is going to be good with those so you're talking about maybe a fourth or fifth to get those two combined players maybe right maybe a third at the most for DeForest but if you're saying go all in and you get a Jeffrey Simmons or a name that I've been hearing a lot lately with again the Chargers truly Tuli Oluwatimi, I think is that I know what you were trying to say there yeah yeah that was close let's say Tuli let's just go with the first name Tuli uh a very very good young player that you can um um re-sign if you were to even talk about maybe getting him now they may not move on him because he's their future and he had a really good season last year in 2025 I'm looking at his numbers now 13 sacks uh 33 solo tackles like and even before that in 2024 he had eight and a half so he's an up-and-coming star very very young like I said um and if you were to talk about Max Crosby which I haven't heard anything but I mean if you want to throw his name in there then yes those are the big fish that you go after if you want to really say hey Ryan Poles you can see that Caleb is taking that next step you can see that this offense is something you can see that Ben Johnson's got everybody on the same page all we need is a few players for that defensive line to really make a big difference and have the defense catch up with the offense then i'm fine with going all in and maybe giving up a first for Jeffrey or giving up a first for uh Tuley or maybe a second or whatever the case may be yeah and then you're saying yes this is now the window to try and get a super i just i look at it in the sense of you know you could go out there and you could get your stop gaps and and go out try and draft that next guy right but like what is the point of getting Micah Parsons again when you now know that you're a very special team offensively and even in some senses defensively as well I mean we can't discount what the defense has done this is a top 10 defense for all intents and purposes right we know that they can be attacked in certain ways we know that they can be beaten in certain ways but this is a top 10 defense how Dennis Allen has utilized Kyler Gordon has added to the pass rush has made this team look a heck of a lot different like this is a defense that you feel realistically for what you have paid for it you're getting at least top 10 value out of in certain respects but to me i don't want to be left holding the bag again especially within the division as i see the Green Bay Packers get Micah Parsons now realistically because of the injury i'm sure a lot of bears fans feel better about it also the fact that you know they basically tied their teams to two players for the next you know we're going to win a super bowl with these two for the next five years but we know what michael means to that defense when he comes back you can't control the injury right if you didn't want to go after the injury prone player i can deal with that but like you know the kind of player that michael parsons is when he's on the football field you know the kind of difference that he makes to a game if he is in fact on the football field for me why would you take that situation and and everything that has happened from it and you say okay i don't want to be there again in a jeffrey simmons situation because detroit needs interior help too minnesota just wants it minnesota just wants as many pieces as they can get um i don't think that it's too quiet to say that the packers want that i don't think that it's too crazy to say that the rams want that i don't know how the rams would get it they've given up a lot of first round picks but like there are these teams we know san francisco san francisco is the other team that has been named in the jordan schultz report as well that wants to be heavily invested in some of these guys that are going to be available if you going to the nfc title game is the difference between san francisco having a guy like jeffrey simmons or you you need to have jeffrey simmons because you can't win Super Bowls in 2028 in 2026 you just can't and i what what i would hate to see this team doing this is no disrespect this is not a shot just the team in town that's done that's done it the most i would hate to see the Bears take a Cubs mentality oh you i would hate to see the Bears go you know what we gotta worry about the 2036 Cubs or the 2036 Bears oh Jed Hoyer yeah it's not to say you don't try to build things to produce that but you can't win a Super Bowl if at some point you don't go in and at this point right now there are names that are probably going to be on the market again. Heck, Matt, you lose the Raiders lose another game. Max Crosby might be back on the market, right? Like, you know that you're going to need draft capital out of that. Like, to me, a Khalil Mack does not have to be a and or situation. If you're talking about a fifth getting it done for Khalil Mack, let it be an and situation. I'll give you, you know, two first round picks for Jeffrey Simmons and maybe give you a fifth at some point and go get Khalil Mack. Because this year, I'm trying to win a Super Bowl with one of the most high-powered offenses in football. Well, realistically, with the most high-powered offense in football. Yeah, dang near, yeah. And so I don't want the Bears to shortchange this opportunity again to the point where we get to the playoffs and we get beat by things that we know are issues that can beat us. You know that they can beat you over the top. You know that the quarterback can stand back there in the pocket all day and he can take his time. Why get beat that way by things that you know? Doesn't mean that you can't build in the future. I'm not saying trade you and try a draft class but if there's a player available like a Jeffrey Simmons or if there is a you know a Tuli Pulitu I think that's how you say it Tuli Pulitu I believe that's how you say it I might be wrong on that I've been listening to Al Michaels for a little while so the names are kind of struggling I just heard Al and I ain't gonna lie to you Al is not the reason of the villain of my ire they really pissed me off playing that double doink yeah that really pissed me off it was very and i love prime vision i love the prime broadcast but that really pissed me off anyway but i just i look at this as do you believe that you have one of the best offenses in the nfl i think most people would say that we do dang near one and or two uh the biggest issue that you have is defensively And really the biggest issue you have defensively is just getting to the quarterback with the defensive lineman you have, who's coming out of the draft that you're going, Oh, that's going to win us a Superbowl this year. Nobody immediately. Yeah. And the NFC is wide open. There's not really that many teams that I think are better than the bears. Sam friend, see, I'll give respect to on the Superbowl tip. Yeah. And I ain't gonna lie to you. It might be a long day for, I don't know if you watched that game yesterday. I did. Well, I didn't, but I saw, I saw the important highlights. Wow. Yeah, they, Patrick Mahomes did not look good. Oh, no, I ain't talking about that. I'm talking about, well, I guess I am talking about that, yeah. I'm talking about JSN on the other side. Oh, yeah. Actually, that's a very good segue. That's a very good segue because we're talking about the defensive line and the needs there, which I believe is numero uno. I'm not going to sit here and say that nothing's more important than getting pressure on the quarterback. That's exactly what you need. You want pressure and sacks and tackles for loss and all those things that's important to get that up front but what i was also uh hearing and and what i think wouldn't be a bad idea as a backup maybe move is Reek Woolen is out there maybe as a potential uh uh get from the Philadelphia Eagles we know Reek Woolen was really really good especially in this time in Cincinnati not Cincinnati Seattle 27 years old 6-4 runs a 4-2 like he's everything that you would want in a cornerback because honestly i'm gonna say it jalen johnson needs to get either benched or cut oh i tweeted it out yeah i don't think you're cutting him you're not cutting him because of the dead cap that's the you don't cut him okay but but he needs to respectfully get out of the way because you're hurting the team there there there's so many different things that that that jalen johnson has lost a step on whether it's the lateral speed whether whether it's his quickness It's his 50-50 fighting with the receiver for the ball. Like, there's just so many things that have fallen off in his game that I think that he's hurting the team more than he's helping, even being on the field. And that's unfortunate to say, but, I mean, you need DB help. You need DB help, and Reek Woolen is a name out there that I've seen. Now, he hasn't had an all-world, all-pro season like he's had a few years See, that's the part for me where… Yeah, it's up in the air with him, but I ain't gonna lie, I'd still take him. But that's going to cost you high draft capital. What would it cost? Right, exactly. It's going to cost you high draft capital. Is the juice worth the squeeze? I'm not saying that you can't fix Reek Woolen, but I said this, was it Burosity? I think it was Burosity that commented this super chat. I might be wrong on that. Forgive me for forgetting. I'm sure that you don't. Whoever commented this yesterday on the Morning Breeze comment back, I want to say it was Burosity, but I might be wrong. they asked about Sauce Gardner and would you go after a player like Sauce Gardner who is on also a piss team and is probably going to be end up being made available at some point here yeah with everything that's going on in Indianapolis and them selling and things like that and here's my thing i don't want to bring Reek Woolen or Sauce Gardner to a situation where i know that a defensive line isn't it and the reality is Khalil Mack don't fix this D-line by himself he doesn't no Khalil Mack creates pressure and you you're gonna have Mack and you're gonna have Tez and hopefully that combination is cool but like he doesn't fix all the problems here by himself I'm not saying that anybody does but I don't think that Khalil instantly puts you in the mindset of oh that's an elite defensive line that is going to make things easier on the DBs behind them and so for me my focus is solely on getting this D-line right it don't mean that it's going to fix Jalen Johnson and some of the struggles that he has but it probably helps and what it will help is Malik Muhammad what it will help for sure is Tyree Stevenson what if he can stay healthy and things like that what it will help is Kyler Gordon and so like I I'm so focused on getting the trenches right here I like the name Tariq Willen but I wouldn't want to bring him to a situation where you don't have your defensive line in order and now you're looking at his deal now you're looking at his contract now you're looking at his play and saying it's not meeting the standard that we thought we were getting via a trade for more than likely a second or third round pick realistically if you were going to go after him and he ain't had that good of a season no like i get it it's a lot of things going on in philly but vic fangio is a heck of a dc oh yeah i wanted him here still you know what i mean like oh if i have a very difficult time seeing the season that somebody is having and saying yeah i know they're just a down year but it's just because everybody else is bad not saying that that don't happen i mean we saw it with kyler gordon not kyler gordon uh kyle fuller literally the defensive line was bad kyle fuller was mediocre defensive line got good it was a pro bowler like that can happen but i just i would caution against going cornerback right now i don't know how you fix that problem but i think it helps a lot if you have jalen johnson who we know knows how to play football maybe doesn't have the same skill set at this point but you can't throw them go balls if you got a jeffrey simmons in your face you can't throw them go balls if you got a khalil mack bearing down on your back you know look hey all i can say is i agree i think father time come catches us all because i mean i can sit here and say i know how to play basketball but uh gained a few pounds and i lost a few steps my legs are bad you know i'm probably a spot-up shooter now so you know you have to admit when things have fallen off so for me the difference is you're 33 he's 26 oh man i wish i was 33 do you you really don't know how old i am how old are you i'm 38 dang you old shut up don't give me the kevin hart i knew how old he was the whole time it was all a ploy a nice setup I hate you so much. You're talking about some day. No, look, DB is not the priority, obviously. I'm just saying maybe that's the fallback plan if things don't go the way we would like for them to, which I don't envision because I do believe Ryan's going to be aggressive. But going back to your point about kind of getting the best of both worlds, because, you know, in the words of P. Kidd, as always, you know, screw those picks. I feel like if you have Khalil Mack and you bring him in and you get a a jeffrey simmons or a max crosby for that matter you're getting the best of both worlds where now you're addressing the superstar status and the guy that will clearly impact your defensive line but also you got a guy who still is a savvy vet that can bring the experience that will be the locker room you know a a leader and and can still do those certain things kind of in the mode of what brady jared was you know is and supposed to be but on a on a better level in a sense Khalil Mack still has that those those different things that make him impactful like the pressures on the quarterback that's what this line needs that's what this team needs and so I'm with you on the fact that if you were to say hey you got to get two first round picks for Jeff uh Jeffrey Simmons and you've given up a fourth or fifth for Khalil Mack I'm fine with that or if you get Jeffrey Simmons and you get DeForest Buckner or you like whatever combination of superstar vet I think that it is now time for Ryan Poles to go all in in that matter and and like you mentioned there are other teams that are vying for that just because we're one of the hot names or hot teams that people are saying are going to be aggressive does not mean this division is just going to sleep or go to sleep please do not allow Detroit to get DeForest Buckner or Jeffrey Simmons please do not allow the Green Bay Packers to get those same names or Khalil Mack or the lions whatever the case may be or i mean the vikings especially the vikings with them being ahead of you and already having a killer defense under Brian Flores so what i i think i think the difference is though like it's not don't allow them to get some of those names it's just make sure you don't get the bargain name yes if they get those names yes right if they get Khalil Mack okay you traded for Khalil Mack that's tough i hate to see Khalil Mack go be a packer to finish out his career but i mean but i can stomach it a lot more if jeffrey simmons is in the middle You know what I mean? Like, that's really what it comes down to. It's not, the problem isn't that the Bears ended up with Dayo Adangbo. The problem is that you ended up with Dayo Adangbo as a high-paid piece. And meanwhile, for, what was he on? I think it was, you know, $15 million more. Now, that's a lot of money. I ain't saying it's not, but it's a lot more production. But $15 million more. Michael Parsons is up the road. The problem is the gap in production and the gap in pay ain't enough. Like, to me, I think that I can deal with, I think the Packers are going to try and make a move. I think that Detroit is going to try to make a move. I think that Minnesota and, you know, the 49ers and the Rams are all going to try and make moves to get better so that they can go out there and win a Super Bowl. What I don't want to see is you come back with the discount double-check pick. And you're sitting there, you're trying to sell us on, you know what, though, we saw this guy on the open market. We said, this is a perfect scheme fit. Then he's got two sacks over the next eight games when we get to the end of the year. And we're sitting there going, yeah, I don't know why that move didn't work out. You know, we didn't believe in that. We'll see what ends up happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. What was that laugh? Because that's how they try to say it. That's my laugh when Ryan Poles tries to sell us a six-pack of BS, and he knows it is. Yeah. like like early in the season where he said well you know i believe we have the corners to cover all of the field we're not even gonna need defensive linemen i'm paraphrasing obviously and being goofy but but like then we got into the season and it was like hey that's not how football works i've never heard anybody come up with this plan do you think it's going to work no what'd you see on your phone you look like you had a nice little no i'm i'm i'm looking at a name that i actually thought this player would probably be an under the radar pick uh uh and he's actually having a very good season 27 years old six five always has been on everybody's radar since he's coming to the league because he was drafted second overall chase young on a new york new york uh new orleans saints it's in new york that would feel like you got that now i mean he's he's playing well right but that would sacks that would feel like you got the discount guy though yeah but what if You got him and Jeffrey Simmons or and the big name. I think he's still having a seven sacks. Like the and for me is a Khalil Mack. Okay. You know what I mean? Like Khalil Mack is the and guy. I don't know if there's a lot of and guys on this team. Because my thing is, even though he's 27, everybody knows that Chase Young has had multiple opportunities with multiple teams to be the guy. And he's just kind of been a kind of a traveler now. A pure pass rusher. He's a pure. that that's that's what you need he's very good at what he does still i mean he is what he is and i think if you were to bring him in here he's not going to demand or the team New Orleans is not going to demand a first or second heck not even a third maybe you know at the most maybe a third or fourth if you're talking about well they're they're arguing about the production right now so so maybe they warrant that back but you could still address so many other things and get your big name while bringing somebody that's still in the prime which is crazy to say because I feel like Chase Young's been in the league for 20 years. Yeah. And do it that way. It does feel weird. He's definitely a well-tenured vet in this league. I don't know. I think my thing is there's names available to you. You have to find a way to get some of them. And in some – like, if you told me we ended up with DeForest Buckner and Khalil Mack, okay, I would not be mad, right? And maybe, you know, you're going all in on this year. they're both both of their contracts are up at the end of this year you're gonna have to pay you know the price to to to be to pay the cost to be the boss um over the rest of this season you're gonna have to figure out how to make the money work how to work contracts out you're gonna have to play that game but the but the reality of the situation is like if you told me you got both of them and nah i probably would if you told me you got both of them and like Green Bay Green Bay is a different situation but like the Lions end up with Jeffrey Simmons I probably still people and by the way this is this is only i don't know if Jeffrey Simmons is available i would assume the Titans don't want to give up Jeffrey Simmons but like if that is a name that is available if he is to the point where he's like get me out of here which i don't know if he is he just got the bag out there he seems like a guy that wants to play out his career there um but if that is the situation that is happening i want the Bears to be the name that's in there and i'm tired of being the team that gets the second or third best option. I'm tired of being the team that has to explain Dio. I'm tired of being the team that has to explain Montez. Tired of being the team that has to explain Grady Jerry. And by the way, all of these guys, well, not Montez, but most of these guys are having better seasons this year. And you're seeing better production. But they are not Jeffrey Simmons, Max Crosby, Trey Hendrickson. They're just, they're not on the same level as those guys. They don't make the same level of impact on a consistent basis as those guys do and for some reason the Bears love to live in this world of we're gonna go with the other guy what happened when you got the best uh left guard in football on the other side your entire offensive line looked a heck of a lot more competent when you went out there and you got arguably the best center on the market at that point and Drew Dahlman what happened i mean you drafted the best right tackle in my opinion in football i mean it is i might i might have a little too much dip on my chip on that one it's Penei Sewell is out there. Nah, I ain't gonna lie. I think Darnell took that over. You got Darnell over Penei right now. Penei is not having the same level of success, but I think that's a lot to do with the fluctuation on the offensive line. But maybe even so, right? Like, you saw how everything upgraded when you added Joe Tooney to this team and how the expectation upgraded of this team. That's what I want to see this Bears team do on the defensive line. You didn't go get the third or fourth best guard in football. you went and got the best and lo and behold your offensive line looks like the best in football like that's the part for me where even with the banged up injuries and stuff like that where i'm just like you see what happens when you go out there and you get the best of the best and yes it costs but you know what the price may be at the end of the day a lot easier to stomach with a Super Bowl ring on your hand yeah and that's the world that you're really living in this season with how pissed the nfc is yeah well that's my thing is is ryan poles and of course we've used this the same before let's just keep it simple keep it simple stupid and i think that even with the the the reports the rumors that the bears will be aggressive i think ryan poles has to attack it the right way and what i mean by that is yes be aggressive but make sure that you're getting the deal done in my opinion get it done quickly i feel like there are times where we have been aggressive in the past we've been in conversation for the max crosby's the trey hendrickson's the others that will be superstars or are superstars and you you you came up short because the discussions for the trade just kind of fell flat or it didn't work out man do whatever you got to do is what i'm saying to get this this all-in approach done don't wait for oh well we'll get back to you you know we we don't like the deal let's let's let's put a cherry on top of that let's let's get back to you in a couple of days i don't even know how the deals are done i'm not saying i'm in the rooms and on the phone obviously not a gm but it just seems like sometimes ryan poles despite his aggressive approach still comes up short and has to take that second fiddle that second level or tier of players and so let's not do this thing where we get the carlos boozers over the lebrons let's go all in and actually mean that by saying hey we're gonna put up two first what's up let's get jeffrey what say you tina tennessee oh you want you want two first and jalen all right there you go like all right well hey i mean at this point jalen's a throw in jalen's a throw in hey i think they're trying to write it somewhere on the street right now you want two first and jalen i'm okay with that i'm all right with that you you want that we got it you know so i don't know i just don't don't don't waste time as well i understand we got a minute before the trade deadline but don't don't waste your time i mean you don't really i mean the trade deadline is november 10th that's a week and a half from now you don't really have that much time to really go out there a lot you got to be on it and so we'll see what ends up happening i think that it's you know there's a there's a lot uh of excitement when you hear that the Chicago Bears could be in on a lot of the names that are out there when you hear that the Chicago Bears could be interested and at least the expectation is that they are going to be active at the trade deadline let's hope that we see this Bears team come away with somebody that can help them on the defensive side of things uh appreciate y'all for tuning in and showing love as always hit that like button subscribe to the page leave a five-star review y'all know what to do now i will i will ask you this though because i do think that we are now six games into the seven games seven games into the season, the Chicago Bears are 5-2 They have won every game outside of the division. inside of the division, the Chicago Bears are 0-2 and so you hope that you're going to win some of those divisional games moving forward. But you just beat the runner-up in the Super Bowl. And this Monday night, you play the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, a team that looked devastating to the Kansas City Chiefs last week they did, yeah If the Chicago Bears are able to go into Seattle and find a way to win the game, does that quiet a lot of the concerns that you have around this team? Do you kind of just have to go on the defensive side very much like we did on the offensive side last year, even though it felt like the weapons were there? on the defensive side, i don't know how to keep doing it, but they find ways to win Ride this out. Find a piece to add. find a Khalil Mack find a but like i'm in the world of let's go all in let's go get us a Super Bowl i think that this is the kind of offense that can do it let's find a way to do it boom but if you win versus Seattle does it go well maybe we don't need to spend massive draft capital to win a Super Bowl this year maybe we can get to the Super Bowl this season with the pieces that we have on this team and we just need to kind of i mean listen like there were so many complaints about the offense last year and then they would find a way to win at the end of the game and we just go ball up top i don't know what to say i don't they played perfect football for the last 12 minutes of the game can you live in that world defensively if the Bears go into Seattle and get a win if they get a win i'm gonna say this don't fool yourself into thinking that you can stand that and that somehow you figured some sort of formula out that will carry you into winning a Super Bowl as we always say any given Sunday a team can beat another team maybe maybe the Seattle Seahawks will just be off it will be surprising but i mean they're they're the i think they're first in the league and giving up total yards per game at about around 230 ish and and and like they haven't allowed i think i think the stat was they haven't allowed more than 133 passing yards yet yeah that's that's a tall task that's a tall task bro that is insane and all i have all the confidence in the world especially now with Caleb ascending i i'm not going to sit here and say that I don't think that he'll break through and try and do everything he can to be a superhero in that game. But if we if we just so happen to win, don't don't don't sit there and say, oh, we're good. We have everything we need. We can sit on our hands and, you know, we'll wait for next year and and get the first round and second round. No, no, no. That means you speed up the clock. If you sit there and you beat the the champions in their own building, do everything possible to make your team even more potent. So that's all systems go, that you beat the champions, we're going all in no matter what. Absolutely, yeah. And this may even sound crazier. If they lose, and I should say depending on how they lose, I still feel the same way, still go all in. If you lose by a field goal, if you lose by a two-score and hell may touchdown, if you lose by a run-in by Sam Darnold, whatever the case may be, and you know that it was a game, you didn't get blown out, you didn't get your your your weaknesses shown you didn't you know you did Jalen Johnson actually somehow miraculously did his thing and you know was able to cover a little bit in the defensive line gave a little pressure to Sam Darnold a couple of sacks here still go all in in my opinion and go for the big fish because what that means is oh we're just right there at the door and we we challenged the Super Bowl champions in their building but came up just short so now we need to add those pieces to now get over that hump because maybe the next time we see them we'll be even more prepared i'm i'm listen i don't hate it i don't hate the take because i think that why win by the the skin of your teeth when you can win kicking the door down just blow the doors off by the way the stat is that seattle is not allowed a single quarterback to throw over 200 yards a season oh boy that is going to be something for caleb i love caleb i think you should know that You know Ben is looking at it. You know Caleb's looking at it. He's like, let's go, baby. We got to do it. We got to be the ones to do it. Earl Madunas, they drop five. Open touchdown. But it's – I don't want – listen, you win the Super Bowl by any means necessary. It doesn't matter if you win by one. It doesn't matter if you win by a hundred. You won the Super Bowl. But what I don't want to see is on the way there, you feel like it's something small that holds you back. You feel like there's something small that you're missing. Hey, even looking at last season, as good as that Bears team was, and maybe it was just the Caleb-in experience throwing that ball to DJ, maybe it was DJ at that point was so banged up that the route doesn't come together the way that you need it to. Either way, you turn the football over. You're going to have a second year of Caleb Williams in the playoff. He's going to understand the feeling. He's going to understand the excitement. I mean, he's going to understand the pressure that comes along with being in a playoff game. He didn't understand any of that last year. He was just out there playing by, you know, balls to the wall. I don't know. Run to the left, throw it right, flip it up. Sketchback. I don't know. Holy crap, man. I mean, like, he didn't know how big that was going to be, how big of a moment that was going to be, that his life changes because of how he played in those playoffs. Yeah. Like, that is the difference in now a Caleb Williams that understand everything that goes into getting prepared for the playoffs, playing in a game, understanding the emotion, understanding how to throttle down. He didn't have any of that last year. And so now you're getting that guy going into these regular season games and he looks amazing. You're going to have that going into hopefully the playoffs this year as well. I want as much as I can on the other side because the only goal is to get the ball back in that guy's hands. Yeah. Because that is where most of these teams are going to be dangerous. And I'll tell you what, like, I was coming into this in the mindset of if you win, you can be comfortable with what you have. Like, I would stop questioning. Because if you beat Seattle, realistically speaking, with JSN just, like, running past everybody and a Chiefs defense that's really good, if you beat Seattle, bro, like, I don't know what to tell you anymore. That's insane, too. You know what I mean? Like, it's just like, okay, they're finding ways to win. Dennis Allen is calling it right. like they they have the juice and we just have to very very similar to what we did with the offense last year don't make sense just trust it just trust it when it gets to those last two minutes you're gonna find an interception or you're gonna find a fumble or you got something's gonna go your way it don't make sense but just trust it but there is something about being able to say confidently i have the best player two of the best players three of the best players realistically at their position on one side and i have oh i see trying to think it'd probably just be whoever you traded for i have jeffrey simmons on the other side i'm trying to think if i can say any of them were the best player at they well no i have two of the best players kyler gordon's out there i have two of the best players on the other side and you build around that now you're talking about a team that you can match up with and everything this is the thing that i think that people don't get there's you can throw a million things in the world at kyler gordon he's still gonna find his way in that backfield he's still gonna find a way to get to your quarterback because he's one of the best at what he does you you you saw caleb you throw anything you want at Caleb, Caleb gonna dip that shoulder deliver the ball real quick, don't spin out of it, flip it behind his back, it's gonna travel 60 yards, hit somebody in the hands touchdown, don't roll left, throw it right like there are some guys and i think this is where we're getting to with a lot of the analytics spaces and things like that that the analytics don't explain and it don't make sense, don't matter you sit there and go oh well you can't really stop him on third down then he goes nine for ten, oh well you know we just got to keep him from rolling out right, he don't care, he's gonna roll out right, he's gonna flip the ball up like that's the things where it's like you want as many of those players as you can get and if you can find that in the trade deadline this year, oh i truly think it after this trade deadline and of course heading into that uh november 26th game versus the detroit lions, by the time we come out of that game we're gonna know if the chicago bears are a super bowl team, not even a contending team, a super bowl team or not, agreed yeah and that's that's where i don't want them to lollygag on this, i don't want them to slow step this, i don't want them to be like well you know we got to worry about 2029 and 2030 and 2031 take these picks because if you accomplish the goal that you hope to accomplish they're going to be the 32nd pick in the draft, not to say you can't get good value there I mean we got Dylan at what 25 25 got Luther in the second get good value you can get good value but I like what's there in the second round next year I like what's there in the third round next year you got some good value in those rounds this year so to me I think that uh no matter the situation the end of the day the bottom line here's JC I want it all in I don't like how you're doing that at the camera it makes me uncomfortable I don't know what you're talking about I'm just makes me uncomfortable just hitting just hitting the point home that's all just just going all in there we go hey man we appreciate y'all for tuning in the show love as always hit that like button subscribe to the page leave a five-star review y'all know what to do I have a great day man another morning breeze in the books even though we're not officially back you won't see me ever again just so happened that we had some time in the evening to post this video in the morning y'all stay safe out there chicago better I want love that uh that little troll that little magician that uh is in the gift tiptoeing in my jaw I ain't seeing that you ain't oh my like the little ugly minion or whatever troll that's like dancing around the girl I know everybody knows what are you watching in your spare time JC I just keep getting all those outstanding uh AI videos they are hilarious every time Who's on the saxophone? Oh, yeah, the mini desk, tiny desk.