00:00How excited are you to see, not only just tonight, but as time, as the season rolls on, about how
00:05this opens up how Dennis Allen calls his defense now?
00:09It changes everything. Ask an offensive play caller. Ben said it this week.
00:14I mean, Jeffrey Simmons alone, not unlike Leonard Williams, not unlike, I just saw, sexy Dexter Lawrence, who absolutely obliterated
00:23the game.
00:23I interviewed Tee Higgins after the game, guys. My instincts were to go to Dexter, and I should have. I
00:28love Tee.
00:29Tee had a hell of a game. So did Jamar Chase. I should have grabbed sexy Dexter because of the
00:33impact he made from the defensive interior.
00:36You could not defend him. You could not block him. You could not contain him.
00:40This is the player you're getting, Chris Jones with the Kansas City Chiefs.
00:45I mean, it changes everything, JP, because now you can actually allow your defensive backs to do some different things.
00:52I mean, you guys have seen the blitz rate from the Bears this season.
00:55It's been one of the tops in the NFL because they've deployed in all these different ways, whether it's a
00:59linebacker, it's a defensive back at the line of scrimmage, to manufacture a pass rush.
01:05And guess what? Who would have thought the Bears would be within the top 10 in sacks in the NFL?
01:09They are.
01:11And, you know, when I look at their statistical numbers, I get these cool, you know, research packets every week.
01:19And the green, I don't know if you can see it, but the green is all positives.
01:23This is the Bears defense. Look at all the green over here.
01:26I mean, this is really cool stuff.
01:28Like, Dennis Allen has been masterful this season, and now he gets a piece to where now you can move
01:35Simmons around a little bit, and now you can do some things with even like an Austin Booker, right?
01:41Montez Sweat.
01:42Montez Sweat and Jeffrey Simmons were teammates at Mississippi State, so there's already a cohesion right there.
01:48I do think it does take time to develop chemistry in any aspect of professional sports when you have a
01:54new ego on the team, although this is a really good ego.
01:58But these are all alphas, and they're all competing, and they're all united, and we'll see how quickly this thing
02:04forms and sort of molds together starting tonight at Lumen Field.
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