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Welcome to Dan Bernstein unfiltered on 312 Sports. I am Dan Bernstein, that is Matt Abaticola and we are brought to you in partnership with my bookie. You know, we were talking the last couple days about what we want in this upcoming Bears game and why we want it. And I think wanting to vanquish the Terminator that has been Aaron Rodgers and just getting that sense that at some point it's got to be over. Why not at least put that back bookend in? And I think I came around to your way of thinking on that because I think you're correct and I'm glad you were because it made me think about it more. And as much as you say, yeah, we'd rather see Mason Rudolph, I don't know what the hell. It's one game. Go ahead and own this. Ben Johnson doesn't care. Ben Johnson is unburdened by history. But you know what this is going to take and as I hear, build up to this game and you've got these heritage teams and the family ownership and meeting outside at Soldier failed and all of that. That's involved with a couple of teams winning records and the Bears are embarking on this new series of tests and herculean tasks that they must complete, they must fulfill, they must show their mettle before they're proven playoff ready. A lot of that buys in to a lot of the whole learning to win garbage. And I'm not sure that I, that I have a lot of time for the whole idea of what it means to learn to win other than just doing your job and coming away with a win each week. But it is clear that if they have any aspirations to be better at this, the pass rush has to improve. Rush the passer better, especially Aaron Rodgers, especially somebody that's this much of a surgeon, even at the late stage of his career, he knows what's going on. He can still, if he's comfortable in the pocket physically, he can still zip the ball enough. But he has to be. I think with age comes more of a drop off that you always feel good when you're in charge of your environment. And you might be, what is he, 41? He might be 41 and still like, boy, you can get out there and sling it around a little bit when you're wearing that red jersey in practice and you can get out there and if you're unencumbered, if the pocket's clean, if your feet are clean and you're in rhythm, that's a good way to feel like you're 26 again. But boy, it goes downhill when there is an angry man running right at your fe face mask. And I'm looking at some of these Bears numbers here, and frankly, it's. It's simply not good enough. I think they've done okay stopping the run, and I think Pittsburgh's run game, there's an injury there we're still looking at. And we'll get the injury report a little bit later on today. We'll obviously be talking about that because it matters a lot now who's going and who's not going. Always has. But I think we're better about injury reporting now that there's legalized gambling and this idea of being able to stop the run to put yourself in a position to rush the passer. And the Bears have. Bears are right in the middle of the league as far as blitz percentage, which is not what Dennis Allen prefers. He would rather not necessarily bring guys every single time. And no defensive coordinator, unless you're Brian Flores and your reputation is all about the exotics. No defensive coordinator wants to blitz too much. So maybe it's all right. Maybe the Bears are right in the middle and it gives them some opportunities, especially With Allen using somebody like Kyler Gordon and now C.J. gardner, Johnson as that wild card, that the nickel move piece. But they're the Bears pressure percentage and that counts. Pressure percentage counts. Hurries, knockdowns and all. Sacks, every kind. Even if you force the quarterback to run out of bounds behind everything counts as a sack is part of pressure percentage. The Bears are 27th of 32. They're 23rd in sacks with 21. They are 24th in hurry percentage. And what's even more important for a game like this, and more important for what I'm talking about, about the physical toll that you should exact on an opposing quarterback. They're 29th in quarterback knockdown percentage. How many times do we see Caleb Williams fall down after a play? More often than I can count. I don't know if I have knockdown percentage against. Yeah. And part of it is he gets out of the pocket and he brings it on himself a little bit by keeping these plays alive and sort of moving into some onrushers late in a. In a play. I'm not blaming the victim here, but it always seems like somebody's shoving him down and he's falling and having to dust himself off and get back up. Bears are 29th of 32 in knocking down the opposing quarterback. I want that number to come up and I want it to come up without stupidity because stop making me cringe on every quarterback hit and waiting, waiting, waiting for the referee to throw that flag. And it is the referee because it is the ref themself is behind the play there in making that decision. Ostensibly, if everybody's positioned correctly. And I hate that. I hate the fact that. Did he go low? Did he go high? Was there incidental contact with the head or the face or something that's going to bring that flag out? Did the guy fall on him, quote, unquote, with his full weight, without turning, but hit Aaron Rodgers, hit him early and hit him repeatedly. The game will change. And that goes for any quarterback. It especially goes for old quarterbacks. We saw it with Brady and we'll see it with Rogers. If you get after him and especially in those A gaps, make him think about it. Get up there and show that you're coming and do it a couple times. Get up in there and disrupt the timing and hands in the air for knockdowns as well, for some of those quick passes. But these numbers are a little bit alarming. If you want to talk about the distance the Bears have to go to prove that there's something more than what their record Says they are. Minus what? Minus the eye test. Because that's sort of the math we're working with here. We look at the record and then we subtract what we know based on their. The play that we see and what they've had to do to win games against bad teams. It's okay, you can say it. It's all right. I like to think it's their identity and we don't have to hide from it. We don't have to play fanboy. Don't say anything bad about my team. You suck. Okay, great, whatever. But we know it. We all know it. It's all right. We're here. We all have televisions. 24th and hurry percentage, 29th and knockdown percentage, 23rd in sacks, 27th in pressure percentage. And we're 10 games in. 11 weeks and 10 games in. I think that tells you. I don't, I don't know that these numbers are going to, Are going to change significantly with a rise in class of opponent now. I don't know, but it's not that hard to identify. Not that hard to look and see. All right, well, what can they do? Is it learning how to win? No, it's rushing the passer. I think it's fairly simple. We all, we obsess about Caleb Williams and we will. He's a quarterback of the team. It's okay. I'm not apologizing for obsessing over Caleb Williams and whether or not he can hit this pass or that pass. The offense is fine. They want the most productive offenses in the league and, and we're nitpicking everything that they can do, but the offense. All right. The glaring weakness this team has is threatening the passer. You don't have to get home every time. I'm not saying that, but just get in the backfield and not on a play where you have to send six or you have to skew the numbers and be. I don't, I don't want to blitz Aaron Rodgers. I want Montez Sweat to beat that double team. That's what I want. I want Austin Booker to take advantage of this opportunity. Do you know how many kids, how many guys in his position would hope against hope for a chance like this? You never hope for a teammate to get injured. But this is when people, unlikely guys become stars. When a highly paid free agent was brought in, gets hurt, he's out. Kid, here's your shot. Grab it. Prove it. I thought he made a couple of really good plays in the last game, but if you want to Say, my turn, my time. Here you go. Here you go. Knock Aaron Rodgers down a couple times.