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Matt Nagy PTSD has new meaning, Friday Feedback Friday, Top 10 Chicago Bears training camp memories
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But for now, while it feels that everything's going to be different and everything's going to be awesome and Ben Johnson is ushering in an entirely new era, take a look at what happened with Matt Negi in New York. We already showed you yesterday we talked about the John Harbaugh win. You know, what's important now today win, today necessary. And I, I guess coaches are never going to stop doing this. They're never going to stop. I was happy that the Bulls knew that after Bryson Graham said what he said about the SLAP acronym that there, there was some chatter behind the scenes where I was told that Bryson Graham was said, hey, you know, not knock off the acronym stuff. It's not well received that ever since Matt Eberfluss came in here with the HITS principle from the very first press conference, let the record show there was at least one person that immediately upon the unveiling of Matt Eberfluss when the first words out of his mouth were we playing the HITS principle. And here's what it stands for, that when you get that whole Tim Beckman wint Oski thing, it's always, always, always a sign that there could be a problem. Well, it's not just John Harbaugh with the Giants because Matt Negy is, is back. He's ready to go. He is, he is climbing the ladder again. And, and what's amazing is that Negi was able to use the same springboard as before and nobody's learned the lesson. Previously it was his affiliation with Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense. He was the quarterback's coach. And sure, in his brief opportunity to prove himself as a play caller, he failed. But it's all right. He was there. He was part of the whole Chiefs thing, was going to bring that all with him. And we know how that went. Well, he went back to Kansas City as the nominal coordinator, even though they have a guy there who's Been there for a while, is pretty good at coordinating offenses. And the quarterback himself now probably doesn't need somebody whispering in his ear explaining everything to him. But it happened again. Just by being affiliated with Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, it has re elevated Matt Nagy now to run the Giants offense. So here he is standing in the meeting room with his PowerPoint presentation and he decided to show a slide that has his new mantra, his new motto. I present to you. I am. I promise you I'm not making this up. Okay? Promise. Matt Nagy stood in front of the New York Giants and introduced them to physical, tough, smart and detailed. Physical, tough, smart and detailed. And that would be ptsd, which coincidentally also stands for post traumatic stress disorder. See that? How, how can somebody, somebody in that office, I don't know how many people will say, hey, here's the deck I'm putting together and I'm going to show this to the players. Here's, here's, here's what I'm doing. Is there anyone in the Giants office? An intern, somebody in data entry, whoever had to make the slides, whoever had to do that say, hey Matt, maybe, maybe PTSD isn't your best bet. I find this endless, hilarious. I can't. It is. And part of it too is the whole thing. When will coaches stop doing things like this? Why is this mandatory? Why still, still is the idea of coaching NFL players reminiscent of like a Tuesday at 11am in an either overheated or over cooled meeting room on the first floor of a Schaumburg hotel? That's what this feels like. It that all this stuff just feels like warmed over regional business conference where gentlemen, this is, this is what our company stands for. And everybody's like this the whole time. So seriously, like these are NFL players, these are NFL, these are football players. Show them where to go, show them who to hit. Get them into their meeting rooms and say, these are your assignments. Learn these assignments and then get them on the practice field. Does anybody like this? Is anybody made better by the, a middle level factotum standing in front of them and having a meeting? That could easily have been an email. I, I don't get it. I don't get it. But it's, I will say the amount of comedy that we've gotten from this, that I've gotten from these coaches and, and their mottos and their meetings and the silliness. I get it in college. College is half about being silly. But that's changing too because they're all professionals and they don't want to hear it either. But I, I guess that we're never going to stop. So. Matt Negy, I got two words. I have two words for you, Matt. Be you. There you go. And never stop.
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Yeah, I mean for me I think that this is just another. It just adds another, another tab to his, his folder of. I don't even know how to explain it. Just funny moments where he tells you to be you and being you. Matt is not working out, but we'll see how he does in New York. And after a couple years with the Chiefs and one. Another super what two Super Bowls with them after going back, something like that. So I don't know. I, I just, I think that it's. That it's definitely not helping his cause to be another head coach. He's offensive coordinator in New York. But I definitely think at the very least it's, it's definitely some. It'll probably be a long running joke in that, in that locker room with, with Giants players.
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So Pete, ptsd after, after everything, you got this shot. You're in the number one media market in the United States and you don't even think to maybe have that vetted and say, look, is there anything that is wrong with this, Anything that might fall flat, Anything that might keep me away from, from driving home the critical message. Stop doing these acronyms. Stop doing motivational posters you find in the back of an airline magazine. Stop doing, doing these like regional work conferences that everybody hates. Coach your team. Find ways for them to, to smack people around on offense and defense and put the ball in the end zone. But if we'd be denied a lot of material if they stopped that, that
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and also if the Giants turn out to be a good team, then like it'll just, it. Not only will it still remain a joke, but will like people will just start embracing it in some weird way.
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But you can't be, you can't be motivated by trying to lean into your own mistake. I mean that's. But, but Matt Nagy, please, please, please, please be. Time now for DBU picks that are presented by my bookie. And because I'm going to the White Sox game tonight, I am going to make a White Sox pick and I am going to take Munetaka Murakami to hit a home run because he is, he is plus 226 now. He's plus over 1500 for two homers. I'm not going there, but I will take Munetaka Murakami to homer for the Chicago White Sox tonight. And that is my DBU pick that is presented by my bookie. Lock in your picks now with with my bookie bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. You it is Friday and that means we have feedback on this Friday. I can't wait for the top 10 list, by the way. I'm going to be doing that so you're going to be happy you stuck around. But first note of Friday feedback Friday came from what I asked for yesterday and that was your folk remedies for my issue with multiple yellow jacket stings. If you're just joining us here on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. We had a little issue a couple of days ago on Wednesday when I went fishing. I stepped on a yellow jacket nest and I, I was stung all over the place. And it was so I've heard multiple home remedies because nothing's really helped so far. I've tried hydrocortisone. I've tried diphenhydramine. I have tried a different antihistamine. I've tried Benadryl. I've tried prescription strength benzocaine. And what was. I tried baking soda. I've tried.
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You tried everything.
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Everything. And I've been in, in like I was, I was starting here. The hand is still really swollen for whatever reason. And I'm again, I'm not allergic because if I, if I were allergic, I would be dead and this would be superhero origin. Yellow Jacket Man. And the and the reason I stayed out and kept fishing was because I wanted to. And I, I ended up being rewarded for it. But two things. One, one of you said jewel weed, which I had never heard of. You can't buy it. It's just something in the field. He gave me like a botanical description and pictures and all that. And apparently you break the stem of the jewel, you rub it on there. I just think of the jewels weed, where you go to, you go to the jewels and maybe the guy in the back will sell you weed. And that's what you can get from the guy who is taking his break perhaps from the butcher shop. And the other suggestion, and this actually got some traction was Adolph's brand meat tenderizer powder, which I guess is that extract of papaya known as papain. That is then that's the chemical that's used by like the, the inexpensive steakhouses with like the inexpensive steakhouse chains. And they buy super cheap meat and they inject it with this stuff that almost pre digests it and makes really cheap meat softer because the enzymes in it are basically doing the stuff your stomach is going to do. They're just doing it before you eat it. So I have not tried that. I think it's probably too late for that. But if things stay the way they are, I might run out and grab myself some of the Adolfs. But I will say thank you. That was asked, it was answered and I appreciate you doing that. But the process for Friday feedback Friday, it starts when people sometimes you will even respond to immediately what was said on a Friday is when it starts coming in. So I start cataloging these things usually in the order in which they arrive and and then afterwards go back and edit and see what makes the cut, what doesn't and just to see what kind of gets you going, gets you excited. Mike in Tampa sent in a note who said on Friday forward progress. You're going over the Athletics annual Bears fan survey and you got to that question about everyone's all time favorite Bears. And Dan, you mentioned that you were surprised that there weren't that many 85 Bears on the list. Dan, I'm 45. I am a subscriber to the Athletic. I was five years old when they won the Super Bowl. Most most people old enough to consider an 85 bear their absolute favorite of all time probably can't even figure out how to read the Athletic, let alone participate in an online survey. Thank you, Mike. Yes, you're probably right. And what jumps into my mind and again, this will probably date me too. But remember in Die Hard when Agent Johnson and Special Agent Johnson, played by Robert Davi, are on the, on the helicopter and they're going to go, they were, they were expecting transports, not gunships. And he goes, ha, just like Vietnam. And he looks at him and he goes I was in junior high. And that is exactly what Mike is trying to say. He's just being much nicer about it and I appreciate it. So thank you. We also last week talked about Canfield Soda and I brought up the great chocolate fudge flavor. And then we got the feedback from somebody who has was connected to the owners of the company for a long time. And I had mentioned in my reply that I was a big fan of 5050 and I call I made the mistake of calling it lemon lime. Now more than one person I'm going to read this note from Scott, but several people said you're wrong. Bernstein, you said Canfield's 5050 lemon lime.
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It's not.
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And Scott and oak park said Canfield's 5050 is grapefruit lime. Not wanting to be a pedant, but it is among the things at which you are best and then he says, never mind. I also thrive at being a pedant as well. Yeah, come on, this is the show for you. This is absolutely there. You don't have to apologize for being pedantic. I and it's probably why I liked 5050 with because of the because it was grapefruit soda. Squirt was awesome. I used to get the squirt in the actual glass bottle out of the machine where you could pull the bottle out. And because the squirt bottle was like a had a spiral kind of ridge on it, it always made that cool noise. But yeah, I guess. I guess that is why I like 50 50. So thank you and Skypoint Shout out Canfields Once again, the Bottomless monkey Emails hello sir. I hope you're well. I said I was fascinated to hear your discussion last Friday of the 10 worst Chicago all Star selections. I was waiting to hear Jerry Morales's name. I was gratified when he topped your list because I remember that 77 season. I was 13 and although I was a Sox fan, I attended several Cub games that year and watched many others. I was versed in stat. In addition to being a questionable at best All Star choice, Jerry Morales was also an example of falling off a cliff in the second half. On July 10, the Cubs 80th game, Morales is 2 for 3 with a homer and a double and drove In a run his 50th of the season. Batting average.330. In the remaining half of the season, he drove in only 19 more. His average dropped 40 points. And that's not why I called, because I remember him being an absolute butcher in the outfield. Which has something to do with the fact that for his major league career, 1969-1983, he had one season where he had more than one win over replacement. He had a career WAR of negative two. In nine of 15 seasons he was a negative WAR player, including 77 that All Star year and every single fly ball hit to him was an adventure. And yet the Cubs trotted him out to center 125 times that season. I was amazed at how bad a fielder he was, even more amazed that he was an All Star. That is absolutely right.
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It's way before my time. But that's that's interesting to see. Or to hear that they retrott at a guy out there who was a negative WAR player.
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Yes, yes. For that long. And and then made an All Star team and was popular. Brandon Notes Hey Dan, I listened to you mention the hilariousness of the Jed Hoyer Twitter Account run by the genius that is Theo Epstein. And yeah, we allegedly. Yes, allegedly, allegedly run by Theo Epstein. And this came up because Theo was just had that, that all time moment with the twinkle D and twinkle dumb shirt that will just. I mean, I don't know what you do there, but I said that there were two tweets on the Jed Hoyer account and the one that said spanking it, the other that said, ah, anybody got a hand towel right after they won the World Series. And Brandon says, I want to point out there was a third, third message put on the account. It was put out right after Theo left and Jed was promoted to the big job.
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Yep.
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He says the video has since been set to private, but there's a screenshot and he posts the screenshot. It featured Jed as Dirk Diggler whipping out a cubby blue dong while citing his famous I'm a star line. And then after fading to black, a zipper sound can be heard with a hilarious ouch right after. This was 3:32pm on November 17th of 2020. And indeed it says, finally, I am a star. I'm a star. I'm a star. I'm a star. I'm a big, bright shining star. And yes, that was done. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly by Theo Epstein.
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Did you, did you happen to see David Ross's Instagram post this week? Like, post like those celebr World Series celebration this weekend. Like pictures from the weekend it was on Instagram. There's an incredible photo in the carousel and it's like Rizzo, David Ross, a few other players and then Theo Epstein in the middle just flipping off the camera. And I just thought it was the most hilarious photo that I've ever seen. And it goes along with this Twitter account. I think, like, it's just.
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That's great.
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Theo is the best. He's just the absolute best.
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As far as the famous photos of somebody giving the bird, I would say the, the Johnny Cash photo is probably number one if you look that up. The famous Johnny Cash given the finger. And then there's the Ditka one from, from Platteville. Or maybe that wasn't. Yeah, I think that that was in Platteville. And we'll, we'll get to training camp memories in just a little bit. But yeah, those are. We get it. We could add Theos to that list. Yeah. Here's Mike, who says, having listened to the Bears fan survey on your show, I'm left astonished at the responses to the stadium issue, that anyone claimed a significant amount of frustration with the process or assigned blame to anyone other than the franchise itself is a small marvel of misdirected grievance. Let us be precise. This is a Bears problem and theirs alone. No one is forcing them to relocate. Soldier Field is not crumbling into the lake. The city is not evicting them. They wish, quite simply, to fatten the pockets of their dim witted brood. And they presume the rest of us will foot the bill for the privilege of watching them do it. From the start, it was plain that the Bears and Kevin Warren catastrophically overestimated the enthusiasm of fans, legislators and the taxpayers of Illinois for this vanity project that the McCaskeys imagine anyone owes them a subsidy. An ownership group whose sole achievement is the good fortune of their surname, whose tenure is a monument to business incompetence and whose instinct through it all has been to raise prices, reveals a family that is at once oblivious, misinformed and inherently incapable of honest self assessment. I could not care less how much money fills the McCaskeys coffers. You can spare me the cross marketing synergies and the earnest talk of leveraging the brand. I want a product worth watching when I need not. Apologize for supporting. Let him rot at Soldier Field, flee to Indiana, wash up in Mexico City. It's all the same to me so long as not a single dollar of mine underwrites that spectacularly buffoonish clan. The greatest gift the McCaskeys could bestow upon this fan base would be to just sell the team and go. It's extremely well written. Thank you.
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Yeah, I think a lot of fans feel that way. And yeah, I mean he has a point like it's not like the the city is forcing them to leave Soldier Field. I have, I have my issues with Soldier Field and the get, the getting in and the getting out of Soldier Field. But you know, this process has just gone way too long.
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So there's a Cubs thought here and it came from Bridgeport of all places. Pat in Bridgeport had this oh I saw this one significant Cubs point. I like this and I think the most important part here is he's we were talking about why the stakes feel higher this year and what the energy is like in Wrigley and how crazy everything feels. And he said a large part of that feeling is because we were told this team was going to compete. It is not just because of that or that the 16 Cubs have raised our expectations, but the absolutely crazy lightning strike that's developing in center field. Pete Crow Armstrong is getting into super special territory. Jed Hoyer signing him to that deal has put the franchise in an even more critical spot that this is Caleb Williams on a rookie quarterback contract. You have to cash in with someone like him locked in at that price.
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I agree. He's making 4 million. He's making $4 million this year. And then even moving forward, you know he's going to be making like 19 million. And it's like if, if he is a, like at this point, it feels like a five WAR season is, is the floor for him because he's a six WAR player at the All Star break this year and he was like a five WAR player at the All
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Star break last year.
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If, if, if five wins above replacement is the floor. You know, if his bat at least shows up for half the season. Like, yeah, you, you're, you're getting immense value on, on what's going on in center field for the Chicago Cubs. Like he's, he's not wrong. I agree. And that's, that's why when we, when we talk back and forth about how the Cubs should operate the trade deadline, it's like, man, like is it. Is, is Pete Cromston going to have another season like this again? You don't know. You think theoretically you should because of his age and how much he's improved year to year. But you know, I felt the same way about Chris Bryant. Injuries happen, man. So it, it does feel like you, you gotta strike while the, while the, you know, the iron is hot. Iron is hot. Thank you.
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Thank you for finishing it for me. I thought you wandered into a corner there.
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Thank you.
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There was a lot of response and probably the topic that generated the most response was the anthem incident at Wrigley Field. And there were a lot of people weighing in. So I tried to pick some selections here and Johnny and Plainfield says, I'm glad you covered that because it was equal parts embarrassing and absurd. As someone who has served in the military, I've noticed a funny trend. This isn't peer reviewed science, don't cite me in a dissertation, but about 99% of the people who fantasize about body checking someone for not standing during the anthem or cheer it on from the comfort of their recliner have never served a day in uniform. Meanwhile, the veterans I know, especially combat veterans, generally have the same reaction. Who appointed Boomer Patriot the National Anthem Hall Monitor? The entire point of serving this country is protecting people's freedom to make their own choices, including choices we personally might not agree with. The Constitution doesn't come with an asterisk that says unless some bloated geriatric in row 18 decides it's wrong. Watching that guy waddle over to confront another fan was like watching someone who peaked during the Reagan administration decide he was about to save America one folding stadium seat at a time.
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Him.
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I have never wanted to see an old man slapped more than I did that night. Wrigley should ban him. He should be embarrassed publicly. The whole incident irritated me. So I appreciate you guys talking about it. Thanks, Johnny. Well, I appreciate you sending that in.
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Yeah, I mean, I understand why, like, there's so much, you know, back and forth with it and the state of just how our society is right now, but you can't. You can't just openly hit someone in public.
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No.
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And that my biggest problem and you guys talked about it, is just the Cubs just laying down to both sides of it, like, just setting an example that violence is okay at Wrigley Field. And like, you know, and in the past, you can go back to certain instances, like there. You remember that gesture that was shown behind Doug Glanville back in, like, 2019 and they banned that fan?
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Yeah, that was. Yeah, that was not good.
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Yeah, like, I do remember that. And. And I, you know, as a person of color, I'll just say that, like, did I think that fan deserved to be banned back then? Like, probably not. Like, he was made. He was making a joke. And some people don't view it as a joke. This is a. To me, the incident that happened this week is so much more serious than what happened in 2019 with the guy behind Doug Glanville. In my opinion.
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Interesting. People are.
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People are open to. To feeling different about that. That's fine. I don't That I. I understand that. But to me, like, what happened this week is so much more serious than. Than that incident. And it's largely just because they're like, someone put their hands on someone and then nothing. Nothing happened. I give the guy, like, the two guys credit for, like, making amends and the guy bought him a beer and like, they were able to talk it out and like, it shows that 2.2of individuals can work things out, but it still doesn't make come up with an excuse for what. For how it started to begin with. And the Cubs allowing that just is a bad look on the organization.
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There's a story here that was shared by Matt, and he said the Wrigley incident reminded me of an experience I had at a Madison Mallard's game. I was with a few law school friends and for background, one guy in our group is a veteran he was an enlisted soldier in the army before pursuing higher level education and as a consequence of these career paths, my friend knows the actual legal requirements set forth by federal when it comes to flag code, decorum during the anthem, etc. And we were seated next to a middle aged woman and behind a younger man wearing a Marine's hat, the type you only get if you're actually in the Marines. When the anthem began, the Marines stood up and saluted the flag, but did not take off his hat. The woman next to us took exception to this and let her displeasure be known in a crescendo of angry commentary, practically screaming by the end of the song the irony of her own disrespectful towards the anthem and a literal soldier having been lost on her. When the anthem finished, my friend turned to her and citing actual legal authority, explained to her that active military members need not remove their hats in that situation. In fact, it is apparently disrespectful for members of the military to remove their hats while rendering a salute to the flag. And after stammering for a bit, she stormed off with her predictably rotund husband, providing us with some much needed extra space from which to enjoy the game. And this crystallizes the hypocrisy of these performative patriots. The decision to verbally or physically accost someone over the anthem signals you believe that the national anthem sacred, but you're still willing to hijack that moment for your own self aggrandizement. That is orders of magnitude more disrespectful than not standing or failing to remove one's hat. But then again, I only learned the first verse to the Star Spangled Banner. So what do I know? Thank you so much.
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Yeah, well said.
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This is Eric. He said, boys, this is far and away the dumbest reason I've ever pulled out my phone to email you.
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Great.
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But he says I also frequent Subway relatively often and usually once a week or so. And I was, because I mentioned that whole thing with the slicers that they just sit there, that they made this huge thing and spent a ton of money spending these state of the art slicers to every subway and they just sit there. And he said I've never seen one in action. A giant paperweight. It reminds me of the potbelly stoves they have in potbelly. Look at what we used to use to make sandwiches. So I walked into a subway to grab a sandwich after a work appointment. I look over and the employee next to the slicer is absolutely working it. This thing is just going to town. It's fancy, it does it by itself and she's just supervising. There are bits of meat flying everywhere. It's clearly been working for some time. Heavy use is obvious and I started laughing my ass off and she probably thought I was nuts. Yar I immediately thought of you guys and had to report it. Maybe they listen to the pod. Maybe. Look, you saw it. I. I can't deny it. It was used. You saw it being used. It's it.
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It's been. Oh man, it's probably been 10 years since I stepped into a subway. But yeah, I understand like what why you guys said what you said. I never seen them use that thing either.
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So yeah, I go. I go relatively often. But like I say, my sandwich order is is a tuna so it has nothing there's there. You can't slice it unless they want to bring out a tuna and start slicing it. Here's something that's closer to the old sports ARU here from Phil said when we all laughed at the Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen declaration that the Bears defense would be better just because we're going to emphasize the fundamentals and coach harder, I thought it was a misdirection to cover for the glaring act lack of not addressing the defensive line. They added bodies to back up or become part of the rotation and that's about all. But I dug into some next gen type stats and I do think there is the potential for the D line play to be better. Here's what I found in Expected points added Bears defense finished between 19th and 21st for overall EPA. If they hadn't led the league in takeaways it would have been lower. 23rd in points allowed, 28th in total yards and in DVOA which is defense adjusted value over average, bears were 24th in total nothing there would yell big defensive rebound year but the trend line and other factors giving you a glimmer of hope. The Bears defense improved in the second half using those tools. Most of Montez sweats, sacks or pressures second half he was disruptive in playoff games. Austin Booker out for the first half he got more effective and for the meager contribution Diodangbo provided. We never saw a rotation of sweat Booker Odengbo and the secondary was missing two to three starters. An optimist would cling to the above and say so you're saying there's a chance because there will be injuries, a tougher schedule and a number of new rotational players.
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But.
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But Ben and Dennis may be on to something. Might be a Red herring, but time will tell. Hey, man, I, I appreciate optimism out of nowhere.
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I like, we need it, man. We need it for, especially for the Bears even coming off last season. Yeah, I think a lot of this fan base is disappointed in how they, how they didn't address the edge or any kind of defensive line early in the draft. And so it's a good, it's a good view to have going into training camp. And we'll see.
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That was good.
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And I'm going to close Friday Feedback Friday with this from Kevin and Jefferson Park Gentlemen. What a summer. The weather, the World cup, the rollicking local sports aru. We have to catch our breath in this wildfire. Smoke tinged air. This feels like the Wild west. And it's only fitting that the Cubs have abdicated their stadium peacekeeping practices for some good old fashioned frontier justice. They've deputized their own baseball police and somewhere Tony La Russa gibbers in a gin and tonic at a stop sign approvingly. So it happens. In a fortuitous bit of timing, I've obtained a copy of the Cubs updated list of acceptable fan administered peer to peer penalties for unacceptable baseball conduct. It is as follows. For sitting during our poorly written National Anthem, slap on the back of the head, not standing up quickly enough to honor said anthem. Front kick to the solar plexus. Not standing during Take Me out to the Ball Game sledgehammer to the face, Gallagher style. Not saying Cubbies instead of home team during Take me out to the ball game thrown off the upper deck through a folding table a la Buffalo Bills cutting in line for a hot dog put into and shot out of Circus Cannon Spilling a beer results in being kicked by a horse wearing opposing team apparel, held down and forced to listen to a Patrick Kane fan explain why the key to the Blackhawks resurgence is a coddled, slack jawed, broken down 38 year old winger not showing proper enthusiasm after a Cubs home run lit on fire, leaving the game early set upon by wild dogs not singing Go Cubs go. In the event of a Cubs win drone strike, anyone accused of the above can sue for trial by combat which will be carried out at Murphy's Bleachers officiated by Rick Sutcliffe and or Clark the Cub, both of whom will be pantsless.
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Yeah, there you go.
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I also obtained a similar document pertaining to White Sox games, but the penalties are just shot by mystery gun before Vanilla Ice concert Baseball Bring the kids, bring the wife brings Slap a Stranger it's the time of your life. Thank you Kevin.
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Well you should. You should email those again. I want to save them. Thank you.
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I've got them. I will send them over to you, but thank you and and there were a bunch loaded in here that I'm not gonna be able to get to and I apologize for that. But to everyone who sends their stuff in, not everything makes the cut. Sorry, but time creeps up on me. This July it is time to ride smoke. Repeat right away on any qualifying new Harley Davidson motorcycle from Woodstock Harley Davidson and you'll take home a free Traeger smoker, a new bike for the open road, a new smoker for the backyard. It is one incredible summer. But don't wait. This offer is only available through July 31st and it's while supplies. Last stop by Woodstock Harley Davidson today before this deal goes up in smoke. Offer valid through July 31, 20261 Traeger smoker with qualifying new motorcycle purchase no substitutions or cash value. See dealer for complete details or online@woodstock hd.com if you're a baseball fan in Chicago, you know the season isn't one in April, May or even June. It's one in the grind. Every series matters. Every bullpen decision gets second guessed. Every at bat feels like it could swing the conversation the next morning. Whether you're riding with the Cubs through a pennant race or hoping the White Sox give you something to believe in, baseball gives you opportunities every single day. That's why my bookie is for you. Sure, you can bet the game. But the prop board is where things get interesting. Strikeouts, hits, home runs, total bases. There's plenty of ways to get involved without worrying about picking a final score. And because it's all under one account, you can jump from baseball to live betting or even the casino while you're waiting for the late game to start. Go to MyBookie AG, use promo code DBU and get your first bet covered, up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit, use your bet back, bonus token, and run it back. Don't just watch. Another night at the ballpark. Make it pay with my bookie.
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We got breaking news.
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Yes.
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LeBron James signing with the Philadelphia 76. Two years, eight million dollar with a player option.
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The Sixers.
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Yeah, I had to, like, make sure that this wasn't a fake account. This is from Shams. Yeah.
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So that is. Okay. So that's why my. My phone was going to. Crazy.
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Yeah, that team's good. I mean, I know LeBron is old, but, man, like, he's what, like the third, fourth option on that team now? Like, it's not a bad fourth option.
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Wow, he's gonna look good in that uniform. That is. Oh, that all of a sudden just got real. I mean, it probably was before, considering all the firepower they have, but. Okay, LeBron James to the Sixers. We're confirmed on that. That's all checked.
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And. And it's from. From Shams.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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All right. Because I. I only got the. The text I got from Jason just says Braun. Yeah, it's just four letters. It just says Braun Brown. Okay, great. I do have a top 10 list for you. And in honor of the Chicago Bears getting ready to go to training camp, I thought I would provide my top 10 training camp memories from my experiences at Bears training camp. And I think I'm gonna start with some honorable mentions, because when it comes to Bears training camp, I did go one year as a fan to Platteville. My cousin and I made the trip. We stayed at a bed and breakfast, and we went there and watched our. Our Bears just as fans. So I. I definitely remember doing that.
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I went to Bourbon a once.
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Okay. And then I went to Platteville as a reporter multiple years, and Bourbon a as reporter host for any number of years before while we still went to camp. So my honorable mentions are that trip as a fan, which is really just a drunken mess, as I remember correctly. And then. And then I lost a lot of money at the dog track in Dubuque, so I'm. I'm not good at Betting dogs, I guess. So we kind of ran out of money. And the. The other. The two experiences that I would say are honorable mention would be when we were. I was reporting and score was broadcasting from the sidelines there on the lower field. And there was this massive thunderstorm that swept through. And we had to take all the other equipment out of the tent and then put it back. And everybody ran into the gym and brought back out. And the. The heavy fuel crew started up again and they plugged everything in and electrocuted d the first thing, okay, let's do this. And then we got knocked off the air and he touched the cart machine and he like, fell backwards in his chair. And Terry would not stop. Like, they could barely do a show because it's all Terry talked about for the entire remainder of their show. That guy's electrocute. I can't say all the stuff that he said, but that. That is one of my top memories. And I don't even know if it still exists, but the main grocery store, the regional grocery store that was in Platteville, where it was the only one. It's where everybody went was Dick's. And the frequent customer card or the program was known as the Dicks Insider program. And you had your Dicks Insider card. And this you talk about. We're saying like with Matt Nagy, with somebody not knowing. You would think if you are a. A regional grocery chain, somebody in some meeting might stand up and be like,
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maybe.
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I've.
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Personally, I've never heard of the store. Like, who. Who are they? Is it just.
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I'm sure they've been since purchased by Safeway or Albertsons or one of the Kroger probably. It's all Kroger now. One of the massive.
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Right.
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They're all the same company. I'm so. I'm sure it's been subsumed in one of the transactions. But man and I and we used to get. They had local cheese from the America's best cheese state. It was Schulzburg Creamery, I think. And I would get all the. The sharp cheddar cheese and I would get the Dick's cold fried chicken and live on that as long as I was in Platteville. It was awesome. So that is a memory as well. But number 10 on my list of training camp memories, it was the days of practice in Platteville between the Bears and the Saints. They would always have their. Their two team practices. And one morning there was a huge scare because Rick Venturi passed out on the field. It was like 95 degrees. And Rick Venturi, who I think former Northwestern head coach, just collapsed and we all thought he was dead. Wow. And, and it, it turns out that they, the, the ambulance came, they took him in the ambulance, they drove away. Where. I don't even know where a hospital is around there. But the report came back he had collapsed from dehydration. And they asked. The story went, he was fine. But as the story went, the doctor apparently said, okay, well, what, what have you eaten today? And he said, I had a cup of coffee and what else have you had? And he's like, well, I had a half a pack of cigarettes. So that was, that was. His entire breakfast was a cup of coffee and a half a pack of cigarettes. And then he walks out on the 95 degree practice field and keels over. But he was okay. I just, I just remembered that his hydration and nutrition are probably important if you're a football coach in hot weather. Number nine, training camp memory. The Platteville media slash Bears personnel basketball games. We played every night, every night. And there were good runs. There were some full court runs where the Platteville women's team would come play. Sometimes they'd have players out there and, you know, the Bears PR staff would play if Scott Hagel would dominate. He's probably still good at basketball. He was incredible. And all I remember is Peggy Kuzinski beating the living out of me, you know, because there was like no quarter given at all. Like, you know, elbow to the back of the neck, forearm in the lower back. And it was like, okay. You'd see, I would see her coming and be like, oh, it's going to be a long day. It's a long night. It's a long night because look, I, and, and then, then it's like I gotta run around a lot. And I. But that, that was never fun. I never wanted to see Peggy coming because I always knew I was gonna get bruised up because that's just the way she played. But we, we had a, we had such a great time in those games. And I would say my favorite memory was one day we were playing and it was in between games and the, the weight room was right there in, in the gym there that the Bears would use the, the Wisconsin Platteville weight room. John Theory comes out. John Theory is wearing mesh practice shorts and he, otherwise, you know, he's wearing flip flops and he's shirtless. And that guy looked unbelievable as just an athletic specimen. I mean, just, just an incredible build. And you, I can see why teams would fantasize about how effective he could be. And he comes over, he doesn't even really smile. He just kind of, you know, gives the. The nod, like, pass me the ball. And again, shower shoes on, bounce the ball to him. He walks over to the basket with his back to the basket, jumps up in the air, rubs the ball off the glass on the way up. Boom, boom. Dunks with both hands. I almost knocked my stuff over on me. And he dunks with both hands and just walks away.
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Wow.
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That was after lifting. That was coming out of his weight workout. And we're just like, oh, that's. That's what they saw when they started talking about traits. And I. And I always thought about that when he never got good at football. Number eight, training camp memory was the plight of Mike Miano. I don't know if you remember the name Mike Miano. He was a seventh round draft pick, I think, out of Kansas. One morning, one early morning, he was found taped to the goalpost. This is a Bears defensive tackle. It took a lot of tape. We never found out what happened. We never knew if they cared who did it to him. But. But this was a. A rookie who was hanging there, asking for people to help take him down because he had been taped. I saw it literally taped to a
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goalpost, like at the bottom part. Or is he.
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Yep.
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Like.
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Like, not. Not like on. Just under the crossbar. Yeah, on the main standard there. Oh, wow. Yeah. 280 pound guy. 290 pound guy. Guy. Still don't know what happened. I just. I. I remember it vividly.
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Sounds like rookie hazing to me.
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Oh, no, no. We're gonna get. Wait till you get to number one.
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Okay.
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Number seven, Rambo. And if you have. Had never been to Platteville, you wouldn't. You wouldn't know who this guy is or where he came from or what he does or what the hell was going on. He was a. There was something wrong with this dude.
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Dude.
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Clearly something he had. He had some kind of issue. But he would wear a bear's jersey that said Rambo on the back. He would set up in the public area, almost like an Uncle Rico kind of setup, where he'd have a football and he would pretend. He'd scream at the top of his lungs and pretend to be passing the ball and pretend to be taking the snap from center. And he would scream out cadences and pretend to drop back to pass and fake handoffs. And then he would sort of like pump fake throws. And he would do this for hours and scream. And he used to make Us crazy that after we go to talk to the players, we're going to talk to the coaches and you would still hear Rambo or I think his name was John screaming in the back. And there were all sorts of folk tales about who he was and where he came from and no one really knew. But it's the kind of thing where if that were to happen now, somebody would just get him out of there. So we'd be like, this is. They would find a way to remove him. But they, for whatever reason, the Bears didn't. He was just part of the local color. It was just a weird artifact of the way things used to be. Number six Bears training camp memory. The biggest hits because they used to clobber each other in training camp. And I was, I did go to see as a fan, the Ditka Oklahoma drill, the famous Oklahoma drill. I would see that and, you know, watch. There were two versions. One was just two guys, just the bull ring and the other was a blocker and a runner moving laterally outside and a tackler that had to attack the blocker and then hit the runner. And it was. The sounds were just incredible and the impacts were just incredible. But first day of inside run after the Bears had signed Brian Cox, everybody is in full pads. They, it's. And they're, they're whipping them into a frenzy with all the cheering and jumping and it was. There's just like spittle flying everywhere. They're still screaming at each other. First inside run drill and Eric Kramer hands it to Raymond Harris. Raymond Harris hits the hole. And Brian Cox knew the play call. Brian Cox was already on the other side of the line of scrimmage after Raymond took that first step and flattened him one on one, right through him, flattened him. The, the, the, the intensity and the energy, the play because they just signed this guy. Huge free agent signing in. Brian Cox, massive personality, fascinating guy, really smart, really funny, really interesting, really unique dude. And it was the. Nobody expected it to have that kind of impact. And it took Raymond a little while to get up, but he was okay. The other one was not okay. And it was Rico McDonald, a linebacker they signed from the Bengals, who was an absolute loose cannon, complete maniac. And you never knew what he was going to do. It was a non hitting drill. Tight end Ryan Wetnight, undersized tight end out of Stanford. The late Ryan Wet night catches a pass on the sideline and Rico McDonald was coming up, up. Well, Wet Knight had his head turned and he went crown of helmet to ear hole as hard as he possibly could put him to sleep. Out, out, knocked out. Lying there right, right in front of us. Lying there, lying there, eyes rolled back in his head, unconscious in a non hitting drill. And it's as angry as I've seen Dave Wanstead. That and Carl Reeves in the, in the game against the Oilers. But Dave wants that pulled McDonald out of practice and it was dumb fun. Like baby was scared I'd be like, what are you, what are you doing? What are you doing? Enrico? I don't know. He was over. That's what I do. I hit people. It was one of those kind of things. It was gross. Number five, Rick Meyer's first practice after they traded a first round pick for the guy who's going to be the Bears new quarterback. And they send that first rounder to Seattle. Like okay, Rick Meyer, who put up a lot of counting stats the year before. I believe he was like a second team all rookie performer. Here's the next quarterback of the Bears after that. The, the first three throws we looked at each other like what the did they do? Because he couldn't get it near anybody. He was throwing it 20ft over their head. He was throwing it into the ground like couldn't get the ball out of his hand. And it never got better. That entire training camp was trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with this guy. And they traded for somebody who couldn't play. He couldn't throw the ball to a guy in practice from the very first practice that like that's how bad it was. He was like, it's not like, well, wait till the games, wait till the games count. We, we left. Like I, I don't even know if that guy's a quarterback. I don't know what's going on. So that was very bizarre. Number four all time memory of Bears training camp. Reuben Brown strangling me. This was in Bourbon A. This was in TJ Donlin's. This was late at night when the players used to go out and drink. And I was talking to Manoli and Robbie Gold and Maynard because those are my guys. I'm hanging out with the dorks, right?
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So.
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Or relative dorks compared to these, you know, the other dudes, the special team. And I think we're playing Golden Tea and hanging out and all of a sudden I feel hands around my neck and I turn around and I had earlier in the night I had seen Reuben Brown drinking a bottle of Goldschlag. And by that I mean drinking not only from the bottle of Goldschlager, but drinking the entire bottle. This is a large man. And he had hands on my neck, and I hadn't really said hello to him or anything. And I kind of turn around, and he repositions his hands on my neck and his eyes are huge. And he says to me, they tell me you're a hater. And I said, like, I can't speak for what they say. They tell me you're a hater. I don't like haters. And then he released me and he walked back to his table. So that was my experience. And other people were kind of just shaking their heads and laughing. But, yeah, technically, it was an assault. But, yeah, I, I, yeah, it was. I, I don't know. It was late at night. We're in a bar. I'm just like, okay, I'm hungry. Let's go to Taco Bell. But. But I always. And, and he. Good player. Really good player. And actually, it turned out a really nice guy. I never had a problem with it. Just he was in an interesting space that night. Number three, training camp Memory. And I heard this secondhand, but this happened in Bourbon A. The dorms and the player. The team offices are. There's some distance from the practice field. It's not terribly far. But Dick Juran had walked off the practice field and was heading into the lunchroom while a bunch of media was there. And the security person, who was just a college student and all they do, they check. Check IDs. They check. It was a college student, stops Dick Jaron, the head coach of the Bears, and says, I'm. I'm sorry, sir, but I need to see your credential. Didn't know who. Yeah, he doesn't really look like anything remarkable. So instead of saying, even nicely, instead of saying, get out of here, kid. I'm the coach of the Bears. Instead of saying, oh, I'm sorry. I'm Dick Jaron. And maybe showing his id, Dick Duran said, I'm sorry, you're right. He left, walked all the way back to his apartment or office, got his credential, walked all the way back to lunch. Like, what NFL coach could you imagine doing that? And that just. I thought it spoke volumes about the kind of person Dick Jaron was who had enough respect for this person's temporary authority to do that. And it wasn't even. Not a jerk about it, just went out of his way to follow proper protocol so this person could do their job. And it was a lasting memory of the late dicturan. Number two is a little bit like the Reuben Brown Thing. And it was the annual tradition of Olin Kreutz telling me he was going to kill me. Which also technically is assault. But I always used to say that training camp in Bourbon A hadn't started unless I've been threatened by Olen Cruz. So it was usually in the bathroom at Donlin's where I would go into the bathroom and then I would, I'd be by myself because it's small bathroom. And then the door would open behind me and I'd hear it. And then I'd kind of be like, oh God, here we go again. And it would be Olin in whatever state he was in. And he would say something like, this might be the year, Bernstein. This. It might. This, this might be the year where it happens. And like, all right, I don't know. I've survived this long, so we'll see. And the, the punchline of that joke was, after Olin retired, he and I ended up doing a five hour show together in Bourbon A. That, that we co hosted a show. It was actually really good too. He was really good on the air and I enjoyed it. Number one training camp memory, the Todd Sauerbrun incident. Bears punter Todd Sauerbrun, they used a draft pick on this guy. And if you remember, total like New Jersey tough guy, barbed wire, biceps tattoo. He had a license plate on his car that said hang time on it. And he. Punter, brash, loud punter. Sounds like Pat McAfee maybe a little bit.
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Yeah.
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And the team did not take kindly to him. There were some people who did not like him. There were some offensive linemen who did not. With a lot of people didn't like him. I think there's still a lot of people that don't like him. He's run into some issues. He's had some problems with violence and steroids and, and some charges. I don't even know where he is now, but boy, I didn't realize how much they didn't like him until one day before practice he sought me out and I looked at him, I said, oh my God, what happened to you? I looked at. His hair was all messed up. They're like chunks taken out of it. He was, he, he looked like he hadn't slept and like, dude, what's up? And he was shaking. He was actually like close to tears. And he's like, they came into my room. They came into my room and it was, it was a code red. And I, to this day I'm. I'm 99 sure that it was Andy Heck that was the and his his son is playing in the NFL now and I think Andy Hexa offensive line coach but I'm 99 certain from what I could figure out it was Andy Heck and some others that broke into his room, held him down, beat him up and then shaved his head, shaved chunks of hair out of his head. And I that is I just remember how scared he was and thinking like what this is the NFL? Like what are we doing here? What is this? And it was one of the reasons and I didn't like Towers Todd Sauerburn that much he either but it was still, it was still somebody and to me at that moment just the difference between big, swaggering, tough football player and scared kid. I remember seeing the scared kid and it never left me. So when we heard about other, other hazing stuff that's gone on and the stuff that happened with Northwestern under Fitzgerald, all that where I've got a, I've got a zero tolerance for that because when I saw it at the NFL level and, and you know I mentioned Mike Miano before but that thing was sour Brun. It really had an impact on me, really left me with with a lot of strong thoughts about that. I hate to end on a sad note, but those are the top 10 Bears training camp memories for you to enjoy this weekend or take into your weekend as we get set to get into some real football next next week. And this has been Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. It has been brought to you by Chicago Window guys. Call Russ Armstrong at 847-302-9171. Check out the five star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com and by Harley Davidson Woodstock right away in any qualifying new Harley Davidson motorcycle from Woodstock Harley Davidson. You'll take them a free Traeger smoker seed dealer for complete details or you can find all that online@woodstockhd.com this has been DBU on 312 sports. Dan Bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports. Thanks for listening to today's episode brought to you by my bookie. If your bed feels like a sauna every summer, it's time for Sheiks. Chic makes cooling sheets, pillows, comforters and sleepwear designed to help end overheating and sleep disrupting temperature swings. Their sheets transfer heat 10 times more effectively, feel cool to the touch and they're backed by a 60 night guarantee. Thousands of five star reviews have made Sheiks a favorite for cooler, deeper sleep. Go to sheiks.com that's s h e e x.com and shop sheiks now for cooler nights all season long.