Chicago Bears - Byard, Thuney and Dalman named to the Pro Bowl

Summary

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered

Episode: "Chicago Bears - Byard, Thuney and Dalman named to the Pro Bowl"

Date: December 23, 2025

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of "Dan Bernstein Unfiltered" dives into the recent Pro Bowl announcements highlighting three Chicago Bears selections (Joe Thuney, Kevin Byard, and Drew Dalman), scrutinizes snubs (notably, NeShon Wright), and celebrates the Bears’ improbable triumph over the Packers. Dan and Matt also riff on the rare accountability in sports interviews, sports fandom psychology, current MLB news (notably regarding Munetaka Murakami and Luis Robert Jr.), and touch on health scares like radioactive shrimp. Expect trademark Chicago wit, deep dives into sports culture, and moments of pure sports fan delight.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Chicago Bears’ Pro Bowl Selections

• Joe Thuney (LG): Earns his fourth Pro Bowl, praised for being the Bears’ best player and embodying exactly what was expected of him as a high-impact acquisition.
• Kevin Byard (S): Veteran safety, recognized with his third Pro Bowl nod.
• Drew Dalman (C): Gets his first Pro Bowl selection, with the hosts noting his fit in an outside zone scheme—despite a recent poor performance.
• NeShon Wright Snub: Hosts are shocked Wright wasn’t included, considering he leads the league in takeaways after being thrust into action due to injuries, emphasizing his journey from roster afterthought to star.
  • “He’s leading the NFL in takeaways... to not be included in the first pass is bizarre.” (Matt, 02:15)
• Discussion on how Pro Bowl alternates and second-team All-Pro honors can sometimes recognize overlooked players.

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2. Pro Bowl Game Format Changes

• The physical Pro Bowl game has been de-emphasized to minimize injury risk, making the honor less fraught but still prestigious.
  • “As an honor, congratulations, we’re honoring you by making you do something that hurts... No, thank you.” (Dan, 02:12)

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3. The Divine Intervention Sports Riff

• Dan’s long-standing wish comes true: an athlete blames God after losing, not only crediting divine power for success.
  • Nate Hobbs (Packers CB) Locker Room Quote:

    “God already chose who was going to win the game... there was so many things that went their way that just wasn’t normal... It was already written.” (Nate Hobbs, 08:06)

• Dan is delighted by the matter-of-fact attribution and explores the theology and sports psychology of blaming (or crediting) a higher power.
  • “I've waited. I've lived long enough for an NFL player after the game, so matter-of-factly, you know, that's not a joke.” (Dan, 22:00)
• Extended riff between Dan and Matt on free will, predestination, and the humorous imagery of divine interventions (the “Holy Ghost setting a pick in the end zone”), playfully mixing sports analysis with theology.

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4. Fan Reactions and Sports Euphoria

• The hosts share personal anecdotes and observations about Bears fans’ ecstatic (and sometimes performative) post-game reactions.
  • Matt describes being secretly filmed by his wife during tense game moments—“That’s my pose too. When it gets real... standing sort of chin tucked to chest, arms folded...” (Dan, 12:41)
• They dissect emotional, involuntary reactions to sports wins (high-pitched joy, “surrender cobra” despair), and poke fun at over-the-top fan videos.
• Cheese-themed Bears-Packers rivalry gags are referenced, highlighting both those who “get the bit” and the angry, confused detractors:
  • “Those who get the bit, thank you. Those who don’t get the bit, a bigger thank you.” (Dan, 15:38)
• Reflection on how certain losses or wins are remembered much more deeply by competitors and fans—linking to poker and golf (23:02, 26:34).

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5. Golf and Memory in Sports

• Discussion shifts to personal experiences with golf, the importance of selective memory for enjoyment, and how some people (especially athletes and coaches like Sean McVay) have near-photographic recall of plays/games.
  • “For me, it’s three shots. I need of 18... and then I can enjoy being outside.” (Matt, 28:35)
• Contrast with pros who can vividly recount every play, and how that extends to other sports (LeBron James, Larry Bird, etc.) (30:17).

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6. MLB Notes: Murakami & Luis Robert Jr.

• Dan urges against exoticizing Japanese players, referencing the White Sox’ Munetaka Murakami signing and previous awkward fandom around players like Kosuke Fukudome.
  • “Please, please, please do not make this what we’ve had way too many times... It just turns gross... Japanese players, they’re baseball players.” (Dan, 41:45)
• Mentions previous Sox Japanese players (Tadahito Iguchi, Shingo Takatsu, and Fukudome himself) to make the point that having Japanese talent is not “exotic” anymore.
• Reports on Luis Robert Jr. trade talks: Sox possibly moving their once-bright star to the Reds and potentially eating half of his $20M salary—lamenting how quickly the championship window has slammed shut (45:11).

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7. Radioactive Shrimp Public Health Alert

• Humorous but earnest coverage of an FDA recall for potentially radioactive shrimp sold at many grocery chains, including Jewel Osco in Illinois.
  • “83,800 bags of frozen raw shrimp... might be contaminated with cesium-137...” (Dan, 48:29)
• Jokes about potential superhuman/superhorse effects should contaminated shrimp reach local animals (shrimp man, shrimp horse quirks).
  • “I’m a little worried we could get shrimp horse.” (Dan, 51:41)
• Practical advice: if you bought such shrimp at Jewel, take it back—don’t risk it.

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8. College Football & Off-Field Scandal

• Brief but scathing summary of new Athletic reporting on Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore, including workplace misconduct and propositioning multiple women on social media, and the surprising calls for “hearing his side” from Adam Schefter and some fans.
  • “Let’s not hold a blind eye to what’s right and wrong.” (Matt, 39:56)
• Notes the possibility of legal liability for the university (37:59).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On divine blame for losing:
  “God already chose who was going to win the game... it was already written.”
  — Nate Hobbs, Packers CB (08:06, played/referenced multiple times)

• Dan’s delight in hearing God blamed:
  “I've waited. I've lived long enough for an NFL player after the game, so matter-of-factly... that's not a joke.” (22:00)

• On Pro Bowl format:
  “Congratulations, we’re honoring you by making you do something that hurts. Here’s a broken leg, right? No, thank you.” (A: 02:13; B: 02:11)

• On Japanese players and cultural stereotyping:
  “Let’s not make this into some exotic thing... It's a worldwide game.” (41:45)

• On fan bit confusion:
  “Those who get the bit, thank you. Those who don’t get the bit, a bigger thank you.” (15:38)

• On selective sports memory:
  “All I need to do is remember enough good shots and forget the bad ones and enjoy being outside... I kind of stopped keeping score.” (Dan, 27:16)

• On radioactive shrimp:
  “Don't eat it. Take it back. You probably don't even want it around you, frankly... you don't want to become shrimp man.” (50:29)

• On athletes’ recall skills:
  “Most PGA guys can walk you through the entire... every club choice... LeBron is like that after a game. Larry Bird was like that.” (30:17)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Details | |-----------|----------------| | 00:00–03:50 | Pro Bowl announcements & immediate reactions | | 08:06 | Nate Hobbs’ “God chose who was going to win the game” quote | | 12:00–15:46 | Fan reaction videos, rivalry bits, and viral moment analysis | | 22:00 | Dan’s lifelong dream fulfilled—athlete blames God for loss | | 26:34 | Poker/golf memory digression—how painful losses imprint on psyche | | 41:44–43:35 | Cultural commentary on Munetaka Murakami, history of Japanese in Chicago MLB | | 48:29–51:41 | Radioactive shrimp recall—public safety with trademark show humor | | 37:59–40:09 | University of Michigan, Sherrone Moore misconduct allegations | | 45:11–46:46 | Sox-Reds trade rumors, Luis Robert Jr. emotional recap |

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Tone & Language

True to the show's title, the language is candid, witty, and at times irreverent—mixing sports expertise with classic Chicago snark and humor. The dynamic between Dan and Matt vacillates between in-depth sports analysis, lighthearted banter, and moments of over-the-top ridicule of both opponents and zealous fans.

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Conclusion

This episode encapsulates what makes Chicago sports talk unique: a blend of passionate support, hard-edged skepticism, and good-natured fun—always with an unfiltered edge. From dissecting football honors and divine interventions in outcomes, to poking fun at radioactive shrimp or the pitfalls of cultural stereotyping, Dan and Matt keep things brisk, insightful, and very Chicago.

Transcript

[A]

Dan Bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports. It is Pro bowl announcement day across the NFL. And here on Dan Bernstein unfiltered on 312 sports, we congratulate these three bears. Joe Tuney, the best player on the Chicago Bears is properly rewarded with his fourth Pro bowl selection in his career. The Bears left guard having a stalwart year, as is veteran safety Kevin Byard, who has been named to his third Pro Bowl. And it is the first such honor for Bears starting center Drew Dahlman. So this is a pretty nice set of feathers to be placed in the cap of one Ryan polls.

[B]

It is, but it's missing the.

[A]

The name that is missing that may be surprising is that of Nishan Wright.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Who seemed to put together a year special enough. Forced into action due to injury was an end of roster pickup, who out outperformed every expectation, with the exception perhaps of defensive backs coach Al Harris, who had been touting this guy for a while and picked him off the back end of the Vikings roster. And maybe he indeed will find his way onto the Pro bowl roster because this is just the first pass. This is the one that actually counts.

[B]

Yeah, it's the one that matters. It's the one that he should be involved in. He's leading the NFL in takeaways.

[A]

And then we will have the various players decline participation, although it's probably less now because they don't actually play a game. So maybe they've done away with that by saying, look, you don't have to put your body in danger. You don't have to do something that hurts. As an honor, congratulations, we're honoring you by making you do something that hurts.

[B]

Here's a broken leg, right?

[A]

No, thank you.

[B]

He's leading the NFL in takeaways.

[A]

Correct. I think when you combine the interceptions and the forced fumbles. Yeah.

[B]

I think he's number one in the league, which is bizarre to not be included in the first pass.

[A]

It's. I have a feeling he'll find his way to some honors if that. And look, was it, was it Jalen Johnson who made second team all Pro without making a Pro Bowl?

[B]

That sounds. Right.

[A]

I want to say that. Yeah, that sounds. That has happened. And that's because there is. There's other components to the way the voting works. But we have three Chicago Bears and that's probably right for one of the good teams in the league having a really good year to have three Pro Bowlers. Pro Bowler Harlan Hill side circuit. Congratulations to these guys. But yeah, not surprised here. Joe Tuney, acquired by the Bears to do exactly what he's doing at the level that he's doing it and helped set an example and we called it. We said if Drew Dahlman was asked to run a primarily outside zone scheme, he could be the ideal center for it. Unfortunately coming off his worst game as a Bear. But great work. Three guys, Byard, Tuney and Dalman all make it to the Pro bowl and then we will see what other honors roll in for these guys and see where down the line some of the alternates and some of these other possibilities are for the Pro Bowl. But that is your top line just announced 20 minutes ago. Yep. As we get started here, VRBO last.

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[A]

I'm burying what was going to be the lead here. And that is something happened after the Bears game. I should mention too, before I get into this, that we are brought to you in partnership with my bookie here on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. Something happened that I. This is no exaggeration. I have been waiting my entire professional career for this. No joke, you know me. And I think this is the kind of thing that I had said probably going back to even before I was with the score. I think I made a point about this on my first ever radio show back in Rockford on wnta on the Sports Attack with Dan and Dex. I think I saw you were part.

[B]

Of a show called the Sports Attack.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh man.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Lame.

[A]

It's terribly lame. I was 24, 23 or 24 and we had our little weekly Your high pitched, squeaky voice. 40 minutes. It was good. We had a blast on that show, I'm sure. Took a couple callers here and there. We had so much fun.

[B]

But that's where that Sports attack, those.

[A]

Were the tapes I sent into the score. That was the stuff I did part of this. Not the stuff, I think real low bar. Yeah, but that was back in the day. But I think I made this point then this goes back to like 1993 or 1994. And I always have said, if you're going to thank a higher power for your on field success, okay. Therefore, I said just once, I want someone to blame the higher power for their failure. That there are innumerable times after any game, at any level, any sport, when asked, all praise is due to name the higher power, whatever one worships, whatever it may be. And I think the classic example of this was the late, not so great comedian George Miller. If you know George Miller, he was the sort of awkward friend of David Letterman who Letterman would have him on once every couple of years and George Miller would stand there in his sweater and he would do a couple of jokes and every once he had a couple of funny jokes that I really liked. And he would tell this joke and he said, I want to hear a player, when asked, say into the microphone, well, the game was going great until Jesus made me fumble. And it happened. It happened. We finally have a player living up to it. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to present to you. This is not edited. I should give credit where it's due. I saw this in the athletic, the coverage, their coverage of the Green Bay Packers. This is packers cornerback Nate Hobbs.

[E]

God already chose who was going to win the game because there was so many things that went their way that just wasn't normal. It's like you got to live with those. You know what I'm saying? We played our bus off, we controlled most of the game and feel like God set it up that way. It was already written.

[A]

God already chose who was going to win the game. God set it up that way. It was already written. Yep. Nate Hobbs, congratulations. I will never forget your name. You did it. It happened. What can you do if it is preordained that the Bears were going to win because God wanted the Bears to win. There is absolutely nothing, you or anyone on the Green Bay packers, any coaches, any players, there was nothing to be done. So it has been written and so shall it be done. To quote Yul Brenner as Ramesses the Pharaoh, he was Ramesses 2, right?

[B]

I wanna say 2. That sounds correct.

[A]

The sequel to the original Ramses. Ramses said. So it has been written, so shall it be done. And there it was. All my years, I never thought I would hear it. And Nate Hobbs has blamed God for being a Bears fan. And it makes sense because this is the year that Bob from Dalton.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Bob from Dalton is Pope. He's Pope. He's got the. He's got the hotline to God. Maybe put in a call and I don't know which God. I don't know. I'm not going to. I'm going to let you. You can pick one. It could be Yahweh. It could be Hashem. It could be Allah. It could be Vishnu. It could be Ra. You name one. But whatever one was in the mind of Nate Hobbs, whatever God controls the outcome of football games is favoring. The Chicago Bears wrote that the Bears would win that game.

[B]

It was written.

[A]

I'm so happy.

[B]

So you got it. You got what you wanted.

[A]

I'm so happy. It's taken all of these years, 40.

[B]

Years in the making.

[A]

All of these years and we had the sound bite.

[B]

35 years in the making. You got it.

[A]

And listen to the resignation just. I want you to just listen to this guy that. There's no. He's not joking. This is the matter of fact resignation with all the things. And I've seen it and I've seen. I can't stop watching it.

[B]

I don't know about you.

[A]

I've watched every version that has crossed my timeline, whatever has been sent to me. There's one where all of the plays are strung together set to the rising Moneyball montage music.

[B]

Oh, you're talking about all the Bears highlights from that game. Yeah. There's the Titanic music is used.

[A]

The Moneyball music is really good too.

[B]

Yeah, The Titanic is good too.

[A]

Titanic's good. And just the build and the build and the build to DJ Moore doing the James Brown. I can't do no more lying in the end zone.

[B]

The best video I saw was put out by the Bears themselves. And it's to the percolator. Oh, it's really. It was really. It was really good. It was a really good one.

[A]

Yeah, that's a great. That's.

[B]

It wasn't just. It wasn't just those plays. It's just a highlight reels and shots of guys and it's just. It's really good. Into the percolate. It was really good.

[A]

Good.

[B]

I like the mix.

[A]

I like the Moneyball one. I Got to check the percolator one out. But if it crosses my timeline, I'm watching it. I. I have probably watched that throw, no joke, 25 times.

[B]

At least. At least. Yeah.

[A]

I'm not exaggerating.

[B]

So my favorite thing has been the video reactions of people watching it.

[A]

A lot of those are performative. A lot of the, like Packer fan loses my.

[B]

I'm talking about Bears fans, like, being videoed without knowing, like, I was when I sent you.

[A]

So I had very simple.

[B]

I had no idea my wife was videoing me for like the final like four or five minutes.

[A]

I thought it was Hank.

[B]

Oh, no, it was Natalie.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I had no idea because I'm standing in front of the TV and so she's behind me on the couch. I can't see her. I'm not even looking.

[A]

That's my pose too. When it gets real.

[B]

Oh, dude. Yeah. Cause I sit at the edge of the couch.

[A]

I can't sit.

[B]

I sit in the edge and then I stand. When it gets.

[A]

I will stand like an NBA coach. My pose. When things get real and I really care about it. I've got arms folded and I. And I'm standing sort of chin tucked to chest, arms folded, you know, looking over the top of my eyes to watch these things that matter.

[B]

I mean, I'm probably a foot away from the tv. I'm just. I can't. And so she videos it. So those are the ones I love seeing. It's the. It's the unbridled, just pure ecstasy reactions. And we all, including myself, because I was in one of these videos. The octave is a level that I could never get to in normal effort. And everyone has the same high pitched reaction. It's really crazy what that is. What triggers that in our body to get to that high pitched level?

[A]

I don't know. There is something definitely reflexive similarly to its opposite. The surrender cobra. That movement.

[B]

Oh, that move.

[A]

Yeah, the hands on head surrender cobra. As in, oh my God, what just happened? And. And we've been there too many times.

[B]

So one. One of the videos that she showed me after the fact was when the packers mishandle the onside kick. And I put my hand on my mouth because I just. I just can't believe it. I'm in just. I'm like such shock. And then the audio that follows is, how did the packers fucking let that happen? Like, I. I just, I could not. It wasn't even joy. I was. I was so shocked that it happened.

[A]

It hit a wide receiver in the hands.

[B]

A Hands guy.

[A]

It hit your wide receiver. Starting wide receiver in the hands. You're right.

[B]

And then you got a boo boo.

[A]

I hurt. I can't.

[B]

I'm gonna lay here because I hurt. I got a boo boo.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Come carry me off.

[A]

Yeah. It gets. It gets better every time. Really. And I don't even need to wear the cheese grater hat.

[B]

Oh, don't start again. We've ruined so many people's lives, apparently.

[A]

No, the reaction. That has been phenomenal. Nonstop, nonstop. I came in this morning and I've been clearing out all I've been saying. Hey, thanks for the feedback. Thanks for the feedback. Got it. Ha, ha ha. Whatever. And I come in and it's full again.

[B]

It just doesn't stop.

[A]

You don't understand. Or the really creative people. We'll get to it on Friday. Feedback Friday. The really creative people going out of their way to over explain and have some alternate explanations about why it's a good thing about the meaning of it and the multi level meaning of what we're actually doing, what we're theoretically doing, what we're actually doing. And then specific cheeses being involved. Those who get the bit. Thank you.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Those who don't get the bit, a bigger thing. Thank you.

[B]

You beat me to it 100%.

[A]

Yes. I am more entertained perhaps by those.

[B]

Who don't get the bit that are so angry. People are dropping f bombs.

[A]

One guy cussed us out.

[B]

Hatred.

[A]

Yeah. So I thought, okay, this guy's acting. This guy's iani.

[B]

I don't think so.

[A]

But it would have to be a tremendous acting job for the decision.

[B]

That's real anger.

[A]

I think it's actual anger. How mad that guy was. But here, just once again, can I just luxuriate in this?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Can I just. This is like a hot tub of sports joy for me. And I could just sit here with like a pina colada and just kind of lean back and this again, I just want you to hear how serious and how matter of fact Nate Hobbs is.

[B]

He really believes this.

[A]

He believes this. And it also, when you think about it, absolves him from blame. That's the best part. It's like, what can you be asked to do? You can go to meetings and the coach will be pointing and stopping the film. And what this does, it takes everything out of your hands. If it is preordained by a higher power that is omnipotent and omnipresent. I don't know if we're going to debate whether or not this omnipotent omnipresent. Power is wholly good. That's probably for another time, but it's apparently not the fault of Nate Hobbs or anybody else.

[E]

God already chose who's going to win the game because there was so many things that went their way that just wasn't normal. It's like you got to live with those. You know what I'm saying? We played our bus off, we controlled most of the game, and feel like God set it up that way. It was already written.

[A]

Okay, now, the question a reporter should ask there. When did you decide this?

[B]

Oh, when it's over.

[A]

Okay, maybe not. Maybe he knew. Maybe he knew earlier.

[B]

No, because if you know going into it, you don't play, there's no reason to play then.

[A]

But how do you know after the fact that it was.

[B]

There's no other explanation for it. But the point is, that's the ego within that athlete.

[A]

But if it's written, why play at all?

[B]

Because you're not informed that it's written until it's done.

[A]

But if this is all scripted, but.

[B]

You don't see the script until it's over.

[A]

But there's.

[B]

That's how it works.

[A]

Yeah, but if you're not in control of your own. He's saying he doesn't have free will.

[B]

No, he does have free will. That's why he goes out and performs. But yet it was written in the book of life previously, and you're just not clued in on that.

[A]

Yeah, but if it's written, you don't have free will.

[B]

But you have free will to go out and perform or not. That's your free will. Your free will is to go out and do the job, to still put.

[A]

The effort, do the job. That has been. Where your movements have been already preordained.

[B]

Well, not your movements, but no. So what happened? Judea Walker, touchdown. Because, you know, there's the Father, there's the Son, there's the Holy Ghost. It's one. One being.

[A]

And three, if it's that God.

[B]

It is. It's got to be that God because of Pope Bob. So let's.

[A]

For the purpose of that discussion.

[B]

Okay, so on that. That blown coverage, what happened was the Holy Ghost is in the end zone.

[A]

Sets a pick, okay?

[B]

That's what prevents Nixon from getting over to cover Jade Walker. All right, so he's wide open for a touchdown. That's got to be spiritual intervention, okay? Otherwise that doesn't happen.

[A]

I have to defer to you when it comes to the triumvirate nature of.

[B]

Scriptures and that God.

[A]

Yeah, because the only thing. Because believe me, I got clobbered in my first year of art history because I didn't know these things. When they said, well, that white bird symbolizes the Holy Spirit, I said, okay, so that's God. Like, no, no, no, no, no. That's only a third of God.

[B]

Yeah, because there's the Father, there's the Son.

[A]

I was.

[B]

Holy Ghost gets down there, sets a pick, they score the game tying touchdown.

[A]

When they're calling it this year. So you've got to be really good at that. Yeah, you got to know how to.

[B]

So and so then on the game winning touchdown, the Holy Ghost gets in between Nixon and DJ Moore.

[A]

Okay?

[B]

So even though he was. It was pass interference because he was hanging on him, he wasn't directly hanging on DJ Moore. He was directly hanging on the Holy Spirit. DJ Moore was still allowed to use his arms to catch the ball because even though it was written, he still had to put forth the effort and act and movement of his body to catch the ball.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Because if he doesn't try, he keeps his arms to his side, that ball falls, but he. But God's not gonna create a miracle for a football game and have it stick to his chest.

[A]

But it isn't really up to. He's not in control. If there is something pulling the strings of every action. None of this is on a whim.

[B]

No, but it's not about God creating the actions. It's about God knowing in advance what's going to happen. And your free will is going out and performing and acting. Okay, doing your job.

[A]

But ultimately the result of your job is not up to you.

[B]

Because our free will allows us to make mistakes and deviate from what is written in God's plan.

[A]

But it can't.

[B]

Yes, it can.

[A]

For an omnipotent being. If the being infallible and omnipotent.

[B]

Yeah, he didn't make the mistake. We did.

[A]

Okay, well, it's one thing for something to be known. It's possible the omnipotent being knows exactly what's gonna happen.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

That's different than deciding what's gonna happen.

[B]

Well, see, now that's Nate Hobbs making his own theology here. Saying that God decided the Bears would win.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Instead of saying that that's the leap, they would win.

[A]

That's the big leap.

[B]

Right. So that's just his own ego and his own sinful nature within him that absolves himself of not making the plays that were needed at the time or his teammates.

[A]

It's very interesting because that gets to the George Miller joke. That gets. Not my fault. Jesus made me fumble. All right. Okay. Obviously, either you're in control of your actions or you're not.

[B]

So it happened. You finally got what you wanted.

[A]

That's it. Like, I kind of. I don't know what to do.

[B]

That's it. Let's shut it down.

[A]

I've only go over phone call over. I've waited. I've lived long enough for an NFL player after the game. So matter of factly, you know, that's not a joke.

[B]

There's more locker room sound. I didn't pull all of it. I just pulled Nate Hobbs. But that's the kind of game, and I'm being serious with this, that that's the kind of game that you don't forget as a player, that you walk away and that impacts your next game. There's only two games left in the season, and I know they're. They're currently the seventh seed in the NFC playoffs, but the Lions are just a game behind with winnable games coming up. Still for the Lions, who play at Minnesota and then against the Bears, all they have to do is win one of those. The packers lose their remaining two versus the Ravens at Minnesota. Minnesota can play a big spoiler against the packers and knock them out of the playoffs if the Lions can get a win this weekend against Minnesota.

[A]

Well, you're right. And we talked about this last week.

[B]

Because those guys were. And it's. It's not just being dejected that, like, your soul was ripped out of your body in that loss.

[A]

Remember what we discussed last week about let him off the hook and about. You know, I was relating the fact that most fishermen remember the fish. They lose. Oh, yeah, for sure. Much more so psychologically than the ones that you land. And every. Everyone you lose hurts doubly than the ones that you. You catch feel good.

[B]

And if that happens to you down the street here, you can go back the next day and catch another fish. Right. The Bears lost that one. Let him off the hook. Had the momentum in their mindset going into the next game, which was only two games later.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

They had the revenge there. The opportunity to get him back on the hook, reel them in. The packers don't have that now.

[A]

Right.

[B]

The packers are. That was it. They. They just lost their opportunity to get back in the division lead, and now they have two more games with that still in their brain, and they don't get a chance to play the Bears again until sometime next year.

[A]

Well, that was Written as well. It was, I'm telling you, that Bob from Dalton, our guy Leo, who is a Bob from the 815.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Don't tell me how I know. But, you know, I, for a fact, I should.

[B]

You showed me.

[A]

I showed you. Someone I know has, has his cell, he's got an iPhone.

[B]

It's 815.

[A]

And the rest of the number was blacked out when it was sent to me.

[B]

Right.

[A]

But it said.

[B]

Which is a good thing.

[A]

It said Robert Prevost. And it's an 815 area coat. So this is a bob from the 815 is the first human earthly connection to God.

[B]

I mean, because you, you look at the packers going into that, that game last weekend, and Jeff Hap, Jeff Halfley was taking it very personal that all the questions were asked about his defense without Micah Parsons. It was a top five defense last year, excuse me, before they had Parsons. So he was taking it personal. Then you go out and you dominate the game for basically 57 minutes and you hold down and you have a.

[A]

99.5 chance of winning, percent likelihood of.

[B]

Winning, and you have a top 10 scoring team that you held without a touchdown the entire game, and then it ends that way for you. I'm telling you, that's going to, that's going to impact these final two games for this team. And I know they're pros and you know, and maybe I'm probably wrong, not necessarily because they are pros and they have a job to do and they're still in the playoff hunt. It's not like they were eliminated because of that loss. But man, hearing like, you don't hear professional athletes talk like that and sound like that on a regular, on a normal basis.

[A]

When we were talking about that and how it feels to lose, how it feels to let something off the hook. Someone sent me a study that was done among high level professional poker players. When it came to testing their memory of previous events, many of them couldn't remember the exact circumstances of winning some of the biggest pots. But all of them could remember their worst beat. Yeah, all of them could tell you where they were, what the cards were, who was at the table, what the betting was. Every single one could take you through the sequence of a bad beat.

[B]

I'm sure they could tell you where they were at, what city they were in, what time of day, possible, everything.

[A]

But whether it was the turn or the river and what the, the. What every hand was, they couldn't do it with the wins, but they could do it with the losses.

[B]

See, that's. You know, and I think some people are like that. And I don't think everyone is though, even because I've never been like that with golf.

[A]

A lot of conscience. You know what?

[B]

I've, I've played, I've played golf with, with buddies, casual golfers. Not, not even close to being anywhere close to being a pro. But a cat, like casual weekend guy can remember every shot, even going back years.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

You get to a course, be like, oh yeah, I remember we played here three years ago. Oh yeah, 17 has that one dog leg left.

[A]

My dad can do that.

[B]

I never, I can't.

[A]

My dad's like that, my son's like that. I am not.

[B]

I am not.

[A]

And I'm so glad you brought that up because what made. When I was able to be back in control of enjoying golf was when I knew it was a me problem. And because I got pretty good for a while, like after high school and into college. And I played a lot. I mean, not, not great, but like I could score in the 80s and I was pretty competitive with myself. I played a lot when I lived in Rockford because public golf there was so good and so cheap.

[B]

If you're shooting the 80s for a weekend golfer, that's great.

[A]

Yeah, that's great. And it was great. But then I got competitive with myself and then I couldn't play enough and I stopped liking it. And then when I got back to thinking, you know what I. All I need to do is remember enough good shots and forget the bad ones and enjoy being outside and enjoy being with friends and family and just look at this as it's going to be fun no matter what. And I kind of stopped keeping score and all I needed were three or four or five really good shots. And I flipped the script on it and it was work. I figured out I could do that, you know, I could do it on my terms. And that made all the difference in the world.

[B]

I'm the same. So for me, it's three shots. I need of, of 18. I need one good drive.

[A]

One good.

[B]

Whether it's, even if it's a five, you know, you know, a par five or a part, I don't care. I need one good drive, I need one good approach and you gotta, you.

[A]

Gotta run in a 15 footer.

[B]

And I need a, I need a good putt. And if I, if I get, if I sink one good putt, I have one good approach and I have one good drive, I'm good to go. And then I, because I The whole idea is being outside and just to enjoy that and the company of the people you're playing golf with. I stopped playing for two years, and this was a while ago when I lost my mind and threw my clubs over the fence because I was so pissed. I snapped the club first, then grabbed the bag out of the golf cart, threw it over the fence.

[A]

That's a pretty good watershed moment for some self assessment.

[B]

Yeah. So I didn't play for two years, and then I got new clubs and said, all right, I'll start playing again because I can enjoy it.

[A]

Yeah. And just realizing that it's. It's in my control. Yeah. I can decide what matters. And, you know, you want to. You want to go play in a. In a best ball scramble.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Have the absolute time of my life out there.

[B]

Yeah. So I'll finish 18, and you could. You could go back and name all 79 shots you had. I'll name three. Hopefully I can name those three. Hopefully. I have one good drive, one good approach, one good putt there.

[A]

There's your advice for the day.

[B]

That's. That's psycho to me, though. People that can do that.

[A]

That.

[B]

There's something. There's something off, man.

[A]

That's weird. But there's crazy talk after a basketball.

[B]

I literally can finish 18. And what'd you shoot in the first. Oh, God. Let me take a look at the card. Where'd you drive go?

[A]

I. Most. Most PGA guys can walk you through the entire. Every club choice, every distance from jump.

[B]

Oh, dude. Who was it? Was it.

[A]

They all can.

[B]

I don't know if it was Sean Payton or Jon Gruden or maybe it was. It was definitely Sean McVeigh. A name.

[A]

McVeigh can do it.

[B]

It was McVeigh. Yeah. He knows when he was an assistant for a team.

[A]

It's amazing.

[B]

And it was years ago.

[A]

He might be making it up, but I don't care.

[B]

No, no. Because a guy had the script right in front of him and said, all right, third quarter, you know, 1325 to go. Right. Okay. That was at Arizona.

[A]

That was third and six. We were in trips left.

[B]

So unless they set it up for the video. He knew it. It was. It was insane.

[A]

Yeah. LeBron is like that after a game. He can do. Larry Bird was like that.

[B]

Was Jordan like that.

[A]

I didn't know that he was. Yeah.

[B]

I don't ever see.

[A]

I don't remember seeing things or hearing. He never really would take you through the play by play like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Where LeBron can. LeBron from TIP.

[B]

Because Michael. It was basically so Michael, here's the play. Third, second quarter, I got the ball and I scored.

[A]

Right, Right.

[B]

Okay. How about I got the ball and.

[A]

I scored, and then they made him.

[B]

Cry and I punched somebody on the way out.

[A]

But it was. There are all kinds of athletes that have memories like that that can simply just do that.

[B]

Because it's not just pro athletes, though. There's. I mean, either you have that or you don't.

[A]

Well. And either way, if you're not in charge of the script, or if there's a higher power in charge of the script and you remember the script, good for you, Nate Hobbs. But, yeah, this is just a long way of saying Nate Hobbs. Thank you.

[B]

All right, one last time for you, because I know this was.

[A]

Yeah. Same as meaningful.

[E]

Over 30 years, God already chose who's going in the game because there was so many things that went their way that just wasn't normal. It's like, you gotta live with those. You know what I'm saying? We played our bus off. We controlled most of the game and feel like God set it up that way. It was already. It was already written.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

So you didn't control most of the game. You only thought you thought you did. You controlled most of the game. But, Nate, thank you.

[B]

Or maybe they did, and God said, all right, I'm going to step in with three minutes to.

[A]

God's like, all right, here we go, you stupid bastards.

[B]

It's time.

[A]

Yep. All right. Okay. Gets up off the couch.

[B]

Like, Bob. Bob finally said. Like, it was the. It was the final prayer that got it over the edge.

[A]

Bob's on the phone, like, not yet. Not yet. All right, now.

[B]

No, it was. It was just. It was that one last prayer.

[A]

Oh. He was beseeching.

[B]

Yes. Maybe it was like the 500th prayer. Please let the Bears win. And it was finally the point where God said, all right, my servant, you've done enough. I'll step in.

[A]

He was just waiting for the threshold. He's like, all right, not yet.

[B]

It's like one of those big red meters people are donating.

[A]

Yeah. The thermometer. Yes.

[B]

He's just filling it up.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

And then you just burst at the.

[A]

Top, gets to the point. There it is. Nicely done.

[B]

Thanks, Bob.

[A]

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[B]

Yeah, I was wondering if people are still waiting to hear his side of the story. That's all. I'm just curious still. Yeah, there was a lot of those.

[A]

And you know, I was amazed when we talked about that. And it was my response to the Adam Schefter, the water carrying, where we talked about how much he obviously was trying to take the side of more or more people or his agents.

[B]

Adam Schefter actually said in his video, we need to hear his side of the story.

[A]

Right.

[B]

It was actually Adam Schefter said that.

[A]

Correct. And I was surprised of how many people said innocent until proven guilty. Of course we have to hear his side cuz they're out to get him. That was the other thing that Schefter said, that he parroting Moore's comments about people at the university having it in for him or. Or being out to get him. I don't think so. Yeah.

[B]

Cause when people are out to get you and there's some kind of conspiracy theory against you or about you or people are against you. You don't break into this woman's house that you had an affair with and pull a knife and threaten to kill yourself and take her down, too.

[A]

Right. Or be propositioning multiple women all over social media and trying to fly them in and bring them in and doing this on game days. But this is almost your primary job, which is taking precedence over the football coaching, is propositioning women.

[B]

That one action of breaking into her home and pulling a knife, whether it's butter knife or not, like, that was known. And people are still commenting. Innocent till proven guilty. You got to hear his how to. Like, come on now.

[A]

Right?

[B]

Like, it's fine. Like, you want to love your football program. Great. Love your football program. But let's not hold a blind eye to what's right and what's wrong.

[A]

We mentioned. I think it was yesterday. I'm losing.

[B]

409.

[A]

Basket time. Oh, don't even start on that.

[B]

Yeah, I know.

[A]

You know not to. Don't get. Don't get me going on the Penn State stuff.

[B]

Move on to the next thing.

[A]

So the White Sox made news with the signing of Munetaka Murakami. And so a couple notes on this as we're following up. I'm already seeing the initial looks of something I want to avoid. I saw the term, like, Munetake mania.

[B]

I saw Moonwall.

[A]

Okay. M U N E. He might be a good baseball player, he might not be a good baseball player. He might be fun. But can we avoid something here and avoid somehow making this into some exotic idea of having a Japanese player? Japanese players. They're baseball players. Now. We. Please, please, please do not make this what we've had way too many times with Kosuke Fukudome and the headbands, and it just turns gross. We're over it. It's enough already. Japanese. There's enough Japanese players. The greatest single baseball player who's ever walked the planet of the Earth. The planet of the Earth. The planet Earth happens to be Japanese. All of these teams have had Japanese players before. Let's not make this some exotic thing.

[B]

Where.

[A]

Oh, who. Who is this mysterious and inscrutable mystic player from the Far east who comes in here with his culture? We don't understand. Stop it.

[B]

Yeah, I'm not excus.

[A]

Or this is not 1962.

[B]

Right, but stop. When Fukudome came to the Cubs, that was the first Japanese player they had. Look, again, not excusing it. I'm just. But yes or no?

[A]

Right?

[B]

Okay. And then. Is this the First Japanese player for the White Sox.

[A]

They know. Remember Tadahito Iguchi?

[B]

Oh, I. Gucci. That's right.

[A]

They won the World Series.

[B]

No, they didn't win the World Series.

[A]

Oh, that's right. They apparently didn't win the World Series.

[B]

Took it away.

[A]

Yeah, there was. The national media has removed the White Sox World Series. And you know who else the White Sox had? Kosuke Fukudome.

[B]

They did?

[A]

Yes. Oh, yes.

[B]

Must have missed that day. Yeah. And I was homesick.

[A]

And remember who their closer was when they won the World Series?

[B]

Bobby Jenks. Was he Japanese?

[A]

No. Shingo takatsu to start the year.

[B]

I didn't know that.

[A]

No. Bobby Jenks. The late Bobby Jenks.

[B]

No, he was not Japanese.

[A]

Bobby Jenks was the third closer because Dustin Hermanson took over.

[B]

Not Japanese.

[A]

Also no. Remember Dustin Herman sent in his magic grape juice. Remember when he was in the Ponzi scheme and he was selling the acai juice? And we had him on and he said his back hurt, but his back was cured by the magic grape juice, and he needed other people to start selling the magic grape juice.

[B]

That's called wine.

[A]

Well, no, this was.

[B]

That'll make any pain.

[A]

This was acai juice. And then it turned out it didn't cure him, and he was done for the year. But because magic grape juice doesn't cure back problems.

[B]

No, because it was written already.

[A]

Well, he didn't say that.

[B]

God knew that.

[A]

He didn't say that.

[B]

Nate Hobbs did.

[A]

No, he didn't at the time. So let's enjoy having somebody who could be a good fun slugger. And home run.

[B]

It seems like he's gonna be fun. That's nice.

[A]

Yes. But please, let's not do the whole thing.

[B]

So they shouldn't make special T shirts and.

[A]

Yeah. No hats. And you can, but. But not because he happens to be Japanese. Okay, I think we've got enough. Who are, you know, winning World Series, breaking every record, redefining how we think about baseball players, that this is. It's a worldwide game. So let's.

[B]

So you just broke some guy's heart who's like. He took the cheese head and the cheese grater hat idea and he's like. Like. Like a sushi replaced benti box or something. Yeah. And now he's like, oh, I shouldn't. I shouldn't.

[A]

Damn it, Bernstein, you're taking the fun out of my sushi head thing. The giant nigiri. The rice thing.

[B]

It looks like rice with the shrimp on top.

[A]

Yes. Yeah, that would be ebby.

[B]

We could do that.

[A]

Or it could Be. I would do that. I would do. My favorite is the uni, but it's.

[B]

No. I would do a bento box. That would work best for the type of hat you're wearing.

[A]

You think, nice lacquered bento box.

[B]

Yeah, but it's foam rubber kind of thing.

[A]

And believe it or not, you know what else I have? I have another White Sox note.

[B]

You do?

[A]

Yeah. In case you missed it, the Cincinnati Inquirer is reporting that talks are on between the Reds and Sox that would. For a trade that would send Luis Robert Jr. To Cincinnati. The White Sox are said to be willing to eat money, perhaps as much as half of the $20 million he is owed to facilitate a trade. The Reds are deep in young pitching.

[B]

Is he the final piece of what was their championship window puzzle team?

[A]

I don't know if he was the final piece, but he was the one that had me the most excited as.

[B]

Far as being the last one left. Right. Isn't he?

[A]

I think so. I don't know that I'm in touch with the roster.

[B]

Well, so they make this trade, they could just shut that window completely.

[A]

That might be it.

[B]

Is that window closed yet?

[A]

Unbelievable. What? This guy had a. I have the Baseball Reference page open here. So a B war in 2023 of 5.3. He was an all star. He got MVP votes. Silver slugger, slash line of.264.315.542, an OPS plus of 130.

[B]

That's good stuff.

[A]

In the last couple years, he's had the same year in 24 and 25 with an OPS plus of 86 in 2024, an OPS plus of 85 in 2025. And just dismal numbers across the board. Absolutely dismal.

[B]

Was he like, core injuries?

[A]

Oblique series of injuries. Right.

[B]

I know, but were they all, like core stuff?

[A]

Soft tissue, a lot of hamstring and quads and. Yeah, there was. There was the vision at one point. Remember, he had a. Yeah.

[B]

His eyes were closed and he kept.

[A]

He wouldn't open them. No, he did. He had an actual.

[B]

Like.

[A]

Remember, there was double vision.

[B]

Like, if you open your eyes, you'll play better.

[A]

Well, I. I feel bad. You know, this is the guy.

[B]

Me, too. I do.

[A]

It was bummed so exciting when he chose the Sox and the Sox chose him, and they give him the big money and everything looked good. And here's Eloy Jimenez and Tim Anderson.

[B]

And what a team that was going to be.

[A]

And it just wasn't.

[B]

No. It just still gets me.

[A]

Hasn't been traded yet. But if you're, if you're now eating money to try to pry some young pitching off the Reds, I'm not saying it's the wrong thing to do. It's just too bad if that's the way it ends. So we will keep an eye on that possibility and see if Luis Robert actually ends up a Cincinnati Red. Now, on a more important note, this was an email that came in to. Breaking news on Dan Bernstein unfiltered. We have for you a radioactive shrimp update. It's not over. Just when we thought the outbreak of radioactive shrimp in our grocery stores was contained, we get news that it's not. Dateline Washington. More than 80,000 bags of shrimp have been added to a growing recall over potential radioactive contamination. The Food and Drug Administration announced Direct Source Seafood LLC is now recalling 83,800 bags of frozen raw shrimp.

[B]

How many?

[A]

83,83,800 bags of frozen raw shrimp imported from Indonesia because the products may have been prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions that could have led to contamination with cesium 137. According to a recall notice issued December 19, that is just four days ago. The shrimp was sold under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brands at multiple grocery chains including Price Chopper, Albertsons, Safeway, Lucky Supermarket. Apparently not, and Jewel Osco.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

No illnesses have been reported. Well, of course not, because it takes years for the cesium 137 isotope to infiltrate your body and cause whatever cancers and radiation poisoning it may cause. Cesium 137 is a man made radioactive isotope that can appear in food and water at trace levels. The FDA warns that long term repeated low dose exposure may damage DNA in human cells and increase the risk of cancer.

[B]

But it wasn't Dick's grocery store, right?

[A]

No, but Waterfront Bistro brand frozen raw shrimp sold at Jewel Osco, Albertsons, Safeway and Lucky supermarkets were sold at stores in Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming in two pound bags. So if you purchased a two pound bag of Waterfront Bistro brand frozen shrimp at the jewels, don't eat it.

[B]

Yeah, I wouldn't eat it.

[A]

Take it back. Yeah, do say. And you probably don't even want it around you, frankly, because if there's cesium 137 in there, I don't even think you have to necessarily eat it.

[B]

I would probably clean out your freezer.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Get rid of all the stuff it was around.

[A]

I think you might want to do that too because you don't want to become shrimp man.

[B]

Yeah. If you have a family member that touched the bag, get rid of them.

[A]

Get rid of the family member.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Get a new one.

[A]

Yep. Get a different family member. Trade the family member in. Get a better one. Because this is. It's finally hit home. I believe this is the first time in the saga of the radioactive shrimp from Indonesia that we have Illinois grocery stores involved. And especially if it is the jewel in Wayne where the horse strangles. The horse with strangles could be there. I'm a little worried that we could get shrimp horse because it may just be that the case of the strangles would create an environment in which the cesium 137 might be able to act faster on the susceptible horse. And we were looking at this all wrong. That rather than creating shrimp man, shrimp woman, shrimp person, shrimp people, walk like shrimp, talk like people, that we end up with shrimp horse.

[B]

So if people in Wayne fed this shrimp to their horse. Any suggestions?

[A]

I don't. I'm not a horse person. I believe we would need a horse expert and possibly a shrimp expert involved to decide. But this, this is here now. Like waterfront bistro. I know how this stuff works. And that has been your latest radioactive shrimp update on Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered further bulletins as events warrant. So we start with pro bowl nods. We finish with the fear of cesium 137 in our freezers. And I don't want it to. To get anywhere near my Omaha steaks products.

[B]

Didn't just stop them. It's cesium.

[A]

So I don't want to affect my caramel apple tartlets, which I have yet to eat. And by the way, I'm so happy. Thanks to Ginny Hubbard, the chairman CEO, owner of Hubbard Broadcasting. Did you get your box of chocolate?

[B]

Yeah, I ate him yesterday with Lucas, my youngest stepson.

[A]

I ate him without Lucas.

[B]

Yeah, we at the box.

[A]

I ate all nine. And I was worried because I didn't. There's no key on the back. There are nine lovely chocolates.

[B]

Yeah. You just had to dig into them and see what you got. The caramel, the caramel was the best one, was incredible. You could tell which ones had the caramel because it was the little salt flakes on top of those. And they were the lighter. They were the milk chocolate color. The dark chocolate ones had like the chocolate ganache inside.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And there was one that had some sort of like a. Was it a chestnut flavored nougat or a hazelnut flavor? There was one that had something else in it.

[B]

Yeah, I think they were roasted nuts, roasted chestnuts.

[A]

Yar. But it was. It was outstanding. And I ate all of them.

[B]

I'm sure you did.

[A]

While staying up to make sure that that football game had been decided. A little shaken baked pork chops and some potatoes and close it off with the. With the entire box.

[B]

Shake and bake again.

[A]

Last night Jason wanted it.

[B]

So that's like once a week you're getting into the shake and bake.

[A]

It was good.

[B]

How did you shake it this time?

[A]

Did you use a jewel bag, like a Polaroid picture?

[B]

What'd you do?

[A]

No, the jewel bag had a hole in the bottom that I pulled out. So I had.

[B]

So that goes in the luggage section?

[A]

Yes. That would be personal luggage because I could still carry my toiletries. No, it was a different shopping, like plastic shopping bag.

[B]

Final note, though, on football here for this game. Is that so? Philip Rivers is an annoying bastard to. Jesus, man. Like, it's tough to get through also every snap, man. Like, equipment manager needs a. Like maybe step up one size John Hannah helmet going. But man, he's annoying.

[A]

Well, I'll tell you this, though. He could. He can't really throw it.

[B]

He can. He can't throw anymore. But he can direct. He knows what to do, man. Like, that dude knows that offense.

[A]

Yes, he does.

[B]

Like, he.

[A]

Look, he blew the over unders out of the water.

[B]

If you watch that game and you didn't know anything about the story and said, tell me how long this guy's been here. You'd say, all right, this is probably his 20th season with this team and it's his final run and he's retiring after this season. But he's been there for the last two decades.

[A]

And that guy was a downs. The wide receiver that runs some great routes. He runs some terrific routes.

[B]

I told you lay five and a half with the Niners that hit. That's seven in a row now.

[A]

Well, we are going to get into on forward progress, certainly. Did you. I. I don't want to. I'll just tease it. Did you get a lot of texts from people who are noticing other NFC teams now for the first time? Because I did.

[B]

Oh, people watching the Niners. Because this is probably the first Niners game they've watched.

[A]

Exactly. A lot of people saying these Niners look like they could be trouble. Like, because now. Now. And I said, yeah. Have you seen Seattle?

[B]

I mean, The Niners are 11 and 4.

[A]

Have you seen Seattle?

[B]

Seattle's 12 and 3 and your buddies, your people that were texting you. The first Seattle game they probably saw was that overtime game, right? This is probably the first 49ers game that they've watched.

[A]

Not to mention, you want to play the packers again. I'm just saying, like now. Now you're starting to think now that now something's at stake. Now it is just like, hey, hooray, Bears. This is fun. Good, better, best. Yeah. Good, better, best has got some work to do.

[B]

Well, I'm going to set you up, Dan, in forward progress with a scenario that gets the Bears the number one seed.

[A]

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