00:00Wait a second. What's all this regression candidacy talk?
00:04Turn in your robe. Wow. Not the robe.
00:09What's all this one in a million talk?
00:13Yeah, I mean, listen, I think, does anyone dispute it?
00:17Like three areas where I would say the Bears are not likely to regress, but will regress.
00:25They will not lead the league in fourth quarter comebacks.
00:30They will not have 80 percent of their offensive line play 90 percent or more of the snaps.
00:38Right. Left guard, left guard, center, right guard and right tackle last year all played 90 percent or more of
00:46the snaps.
00:48And what was the what was the third one?
00:50Maybe it was the takeaways.
00:52Yeah, offensive. Yeah, right. And leading the league in takeaways. Thank you.
00:55Yeah. Leading the league in takeaways, offensive line health and fourth quarter comebacks.
01:00It's very likely, if not inevitable, that all three of those areas backslide.
01:05And we've already seen one of them with the Dolman surprise retirement that that's like we already are going to
01:12have more uncertainty on the offensive line this year than last year.
01:17But that's just the case for regression, because the case for overcoming that regression is a very easy one.
01:27Caleb Williams will be better.
01:28Like, like that's like I am not that that segment.
01:32What you're pulling from there is like when I was doing tears and like grouping teams together.
01:36And so that we will talk about those teams as regression candidates.
01:41But the case for the Bears to back up what they did last year or take a step forward is
01:46how much of Caleb Williams is inevitable improvement and consistency of production on offense overcome all of that stuff.
01:55Like if they go from number one in takeaways to number nine and they go from one of the healthiest
01:59offensive lines to middle of the pack, but they are a top 10 or top five or top one offense
02:06and you don't need to rely on fourth quarter comebacks, you know, that that's how you overcome it.
02:12So what you're playing there was me making the case for regression, but the obvious case to overcome the regression
02:18is the offense is going to be better and the offense is going to be more consistent.
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