00:00is a guy that hasn't taken a snap since 2024 is the guy they're going to opt to go with
00:05here
00:05tonight in case Keenum. Badger will be available, but again, just cleared the concussion protocol.
00:12Caleb Williams is not there. So what is reasonable to expect from a guy that hasn't taken a snap in
00:19an NFL game in a couple of years? I don't know, but obviously Ben Johnson must have some faith
00:26in him. Otherwise, I don't know why you're throwing him out under center here to start
00:29this game. Yeah, backup quarterbacks have not looked all that great thus far in the NFL this
00:36season. Particularly, I think if really we thought about it at the beginning of the year,
00:42we may have said that Case Keenum is either on par or a slight upgrade to Cooper Rush.
00:50And boy, Cooper Rush did not play well at all. In fact, he now looks a lot worse now that
00:55Michael
00:55Penix has come in and did such a good job in his first game. So I'm a little worried
00:59I'm a little worried tonight that I think the one prop that I would look at
01:06for Keenum tonight is the total amount of pass attempts to the under. Because I do think that
01:13the only recipe the Bears are going to have to win tonight is to scale the playbook down.
01:18I know that's not what Ben Johnson normally does. And he's not that kind of quarterback,
01:22but I just don't know that he has that quarterback. And then the other part of this, too, is that
01:27if you're betting under on some of Keenum's props, Joe, is it farfetched to think that if the score is
01:3214-3 at the half, that all of a sudden Badger's feeling a lot better in the second half of
01:38that
01:38game, and they throw him in to try and see if he can win the game for them? I see
01:41that as a possibility,
01:42too. For all those reasons, this is a stay-away game tonight for me completely. I just don't have
01:50a great feel as to the way it's going to go. I still am very bullish on the Bears overall
01:55this
01:55season. And when they have their quarterback, I do think they're going to bounce back, start
01:58scoring a lot of points. I think the Eagles this season, to me, will be one of those prototypical
02:0210-win teams or 11-win teams that has a bad record against the spread, like winning but close
02:08games, and they don't look great. And then we see what happens in the playoffs. So
02:11not the strongest of opinions, sorry, on this one for me tonight, Joe. More of probably a watch,
02:18and then have fun with some baseball this week. I guess that's the direction I'm heading.
02:23I have no idea what you're going to get from Case Keenum. I do know what we got from the
02:29Bears
02:30last year in Philly was a demolition of the running game. The Bears ran all over this Philadelphia
02:41defense a year ago, where you had Swift had at least $1.30 in that game. Manoga also had
02:50120 yards in that game. I mean, they rushed for over 250 yards a year ago against Vic Fangio and
02:57this
02:57defense. Their zone running, and the Eagles had absolutely no answer for it. And it's not like
03:04the Eagles have been destroying the run in the first couple of weeks here. They haven't been great
03:08against a run to begin with. So maybe it doesn't matter who's under center for Chicago. Maybe Ben
03:15Johnson's answer is, we ran our zone blocking scheme a year ago, and we destroyed you. We're
03:21going to do it again. And, you know, at home this time, though, for Chicago, no wonder this thing went
03:28from 44 and a half down to, what are we at, 41 and a half, maybe 42 in this spot.
03:34The bigger
03:35question, I think Chicago's just going to run the ball, stop us if you can, because you couldn't
03:40last year. But tell me what we're going to get from Philadelphia here, who has no, it's not an injury
03:46concern. We know Jalen Hurts is there. We know Saquon is there. What are we going to get from
03:51Philadelphia offensively, I think is the bigger question than what we're going to get from Chicago
03:56here. It's strange that Philadelphia has become somewhat of a boring team in the NFL. You know,
04:02you don't really talk about them all that much. You just kind of know that they're going to go out,
04:06they're going to win their 10 games, 11 games, they're going to be in the playoffs and, you know,
04:11probably lose at some point. But if they get hot, they have a chance to go far. I guess like
04:15they
04:15don't have a lot of juice, you know, like it's, you know, Jalen Hurts is going to throw for a
04:20couple
04:20hundred, couple touchdowns. Barkley's not the same, but he's still pretty good. Their receivers in their
04:25room took a big hit without Brown, but you just, you know, to me, you know, the one thing about
04:31Philadelphia, maybe above all teams are close to it is that their GM is so good that no matter what,
04:37they're going to figure out a way to win games every year. Like it doesn't matter who the coach
04:40is. It doesn't matter who the personnel is. The Eagles are always going to be in the mix for the
04:44playoffs. So I expect a close game tonight, but it, but it is a tough one to call, not knowing
04:49the
04:49quarterback in Chicago.
