00:00We'll start in Atlanta here on this Sunday as the Chicago Bears will take on the Atlanta Falcons
00:05and they'll have their starting quarterback, Caleb Williams, back. Although he gave some
00:09mixed messages at a press conference this week, you know, sort of alluding to not being interested
00:13in telling exactly what his injury is, it does appear he will play. This line has kind of moved
00:19around a little bit. The Bears are still slight favorites, but naturally this is the time, Joe.
00:24If the Bears are going to get going, they now have their quarterback to do it. Tyson Badgett
00:29was flat out awful. I'm sure the Bears are now looking back on that deal and saying,
00:33what in the world were we thinking there? And meanwhile, you know, Michael Penix Jr. has
00:38done a really nice job since he's come back in. Although he couldn't finish the game the other
00:41day, he will play this week as well. Both defenses are certainly challenged, but I mean, look,
00:49this is one of the highest totals on the board this week. You would expect certainly a lot of
00:52points. Over 50 is the total here. I believe I'm seeing 51 or 52 and a half. What do you
00:58make of
00:58this game today? Is it the jump off point for the Chicago Bears as some expect?
01:04Well, it better be. I think now that Caleb Williams is back, you want to see this offense
01:09run because I think not even from a fancy perspective, but just from a Bears perspective
01:13right now, the inconsistencies of Luther Burton, of Colson Loveland, of everything that you were
01:18banking on, even Roma Dunze. And to a certain extent, you know, some of the injuries they've
01:22had now in the running back situation where, you know, Mononga has been out after that massive
01:26game that he had. And DeAndre Swift's been dealing with injuries. So Caleb Williams, will he fix all
01:31the ills for the Bears? Will he show some rust in this game? It's a lot of questions, but I'm
01:34going
01:35to come back to a point that you made, which is the defenses in this game and the defenses inability
01:40to stop people. And I think when you're in this controlled environment in Atlanta, this number was
01:4450 and a half when it started earlier this week. The early line, I jumped on the over. It's at
01:4952 and a
01:50half now. So people will clearly have been betting it up. I still feel pretty comfortable with that
01:55over. I think Caleb Williams will continue to find ways to make plays with his legs. That's what he
01:58does. He extends plays sometimes for good, sometimes for worse. But the thing that I'm looking for here
02:04in this one too, is the, is the reigniting of the spark of Colson Loveland, because last year down
02:10the stretch, Colson Loveland was a huge part of what the Bears did. It was a huge part going into
02:17the playoffs and what they did. And to write him off after week one, where week one, again,
02:23we always know means nothing. And then week two was an underwater game where it was nine, three. Okay.
02:28So let's not pretend like anybody was useful in that game. So I think that Colson Loveland can't put
02:33a ladder part of this season. We still got two thirds of a season left. This is hopefully where
02:37Colson Loveland gets back on track. So you can make all the noises you want. At the end of the
02:42day, I don't want to write off everything that I saw for the last eight weeks of the season last
02:46year
02:46into the playoffs where Colson Loveland was a rock star for this Bears team. And look for this Bears
02:51team to get back on track. I think he has to be a big part of it, to be honest.
02:54Yeah. I played him
02:55every week in fantasy and I said to myself after last week, this is it. This is it. I will
03:00not. I am.
03:02I can be shame on one shame on twice shame on five times, but this is it for me.
03:07Like this, I, I don't care. I'll find somebody else. You know, he's going to be great.
03:10Everybody has, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. No, I'm going to play him
03:15this
03:15week. This is it though. This is the end. All right. I don't care. I don't care what happens.
03:18If it, if three catches, 30 yards, fine. I can at least, I can at least build on that. But,
03:25but this zero catch stuff is just insane.
