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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
Were the Chicago Bears being arrogant or practical in their approach to the 2026 NFL Draft?
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Dan Bernstein
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Dan Bernstein
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Lou
Thank you. Thanks.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm proud of you. It's, it's a big deal. You know, if on take two I could do it without swallowing the microphone. So yes, everything. It's impressive though. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just, you know, I'm trying to be a, trying to be a leader here in the clubhouse. Leader of men, trying to help the ball club. So this is my question about your Chicago Bears and I do this with love and I'm not even sure what the answer to this is. So I'm going to, I'm going to do this open endedly. Are they practical or are the Bears arrogant in a way that is maybe something you want to celebrate. Certainly something we have never seen or heard before. Because I want to just look at this through the lens of being counterparts of being another NFL team Hearing how the Bears described their approach to the draft. Okay, and they got a bunch of guys. We don't know if they're good, but I just want to make sure I have this right. Ryan Polls, the general manager essentially said, I'm paraphrasing but the point was these aren't really developmental picks. If I got this right and you could correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I understand it, these were. These were picks that they could make envisioning their depth chart, looking at their roster where they were luxury shopping. They were looking for a fit for a specific role on this roster. They're not necessarily, with the exception of maybe the, you know, the big tight end and the center, they're not looking at these guys as full on developmental picks anymore. The Bears are at a different phase of their existence. The Bears are good and trying to get to great.
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Lou
Mm.
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Dan Bernstein
And I'm not gonna fall into some little good, better best thing, I promise. But I've never heard, I've heard a general manager say stuff like this before. Say hey you know what? We. A lot of our spots are set. We're good variation of this is a tough roster to make, which is why they took a gadget guy. Again, you know, this is. That's. And we're still getting got the Valous Jones easily triggered by things that might remind us of Bayless Jones. When you take Xavier on Thomas there that that's a gadget dude. And then you start saying things like, well, we. This will be a competition at linebacker or this is. This is our backup center. Like these are. These are supposed to be luxury picks. Then I heard a coach say something that I had to go back. I had to listen to it again and I had to read it because I've never heard this before. I've never heard when asked, hey, Ben Johnson. Yeah. Why didn't you address the glaring need on this team in your front seven, however you want to say it, whether it is your rock solid defensive tackle that's going to draw attention and allow your edges to be more successful or I don't know, one of those edges who can rush the passer because the pass rush last year was bad, the defense was not great overall. Sure, you took a safety and that's always nice to have. But this whole. So what did he say again, this is new to me. Why are these same players that you're bringing back on this defensive line now going to produce more sacks, more pressures, more hurries, more hits, more ability to stop the run than they did last year. He said, we're certainly going to coach better than we did a year ago. It starts there. We've made a concerted effort in how we're going to get that done. We're going to coach them better. That's that I've never heard. I'm serious. That's on us. We're bringing the same guys back. We are going to coach them better. All right. Okay, cool.
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Lou
Now, to be fair to Ben Johnson as well too, he made that an overall theme about the entire roster.
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Dan Bernstein
He did, yes. And you're correct to point that out. He did.
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Lou
But there's more typically about that pass rush. He went in greater detail with it.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. He said, we're excited about the guys that ended up finishing the season on ir. The trajectory that they were on Day O Dengbo, Shemar, Turner. When you look at it for the start of the season to the point where they both got injured, we saw growth, we saw them trending in the right direction in terms of what we want to see on game day. Okay. I think Montez Sweatt had one of his better years in the NFL. Whether that shows up in the sack total or not. He's a very complete player. I'd like it. To show up in the sack total. That's just me. He said, I think you saw tremendous growth from Austin Booker when we were finally able to get him back. The combination of us being able to coach better and those guys taking the next step, I think we have some pretty good pieces to work with with. This is the first we've really heard that because I didn't think that Odengbo was playing all that well before he got hurt.
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Lou
He wasn't.
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Dan Bernstein
I, I didn't think so. And I, I, I hate to disagree with your police work there, Lou, but I don't know, man, that if you're Matt LaFleur and you hear your rival, I guess, or your like self created nemesis say stuff like that, why are they going to be better coaching? We're going to coach them better. All right, let's, let's watch that in action.
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Lou
Hey, I'm all for, you know, self reflection and understanding how one can improve in their job. I'm all for that. But when it comes to a football roster, give me talent, give me the best guy at that individual job and you pair that with doing your job better as a second year coaching staff together, I'm all for that.
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Dan Bernstein
Sure, it's great, it's great. But when did you know you had to coach them better when you didn't draft anybody at their positions because it didn't work out that way or after they got hurt. Did you sit down at the end of last year and say, we, we, we gotta coach these guys better? Like, I just, I want to know how, how coincidental it is that you don't sign anybody impactful in free agency. That's it. That's a decision. You don't address it in the draft. That's a decision. You didn't address it in the trade market. That's a decision where you sat down, you watched the entire film of the entire year and you as a staff said, oh, man, we didn't, we didn't coach them well enough. So how does that get decided? I need to pull Dayo Adangbo aside in practice and talk to him about different things. We need to show him different film. We need to have his body shaped differently. We need to have him conditioned differently. Same with Shemar Turner, young kid coming off an ACL reconstruction. We got to coach him better. And if you can follow that up with material gains of production, that's pretty awesome that you will come out and say something like that. But why, why didn't you start it last year then?
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Lou
Let me ask you this question, though, then, Dan. If Dayo and Shemar Turner were. The trajectory was, was in the right direction and there was growth, and if Montez Sweat had his. One of his better NFL seasons ever, and if Austin Booker is going to take the next step, if they're all doing the right things, why do you
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Dan Bernstein
have to coach him better?
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Lou
Why do they coach him better?
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Dan Bernstein
This. That's why I'm asking the question I have.
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Lou
If he would have said, yeah, these guys just didn't live up to the expectations we had for them. There was X, Y and Z. There was this, we saw. There was this we want to see get better there. And they just didn't quite do the job they needed to do. But we're going to coach them differently and better. Okay, I'd say, okay, I understand that you see their potential still and you're going to influence more of how you coach them and direct them and guide them. But if they're all doing the right things and all in the right direction
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Dan Bernstein
and really doing really well, which is it? Right, which is it, which is it? And God, it made me, when I heard that, it made me want to be a beat reporter for that moment. It really did. And nothing against anybody in that room, but, but, oh, I would have been all over that. If somebody says, well, words and coach are better. Okay. Who. Who else needs to be coached better? And why do you look at every aspect of the team and are there certain aspects of the team that you coached better than others last year? Well, we know.
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Lou
We know the head coach wasn't happy with the wide receivers or the wide receiver coaches because they didn't do a good enough job, either of them. And any of them, I should say.
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Dan Bernstein
And they. And they actually made some changes at the position that reflects that.
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Lou
Correct.
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Dan Bernstein
This is.
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Lou
Now, you know, if you would have been the beat reporter on this, I still would have been. On Friday night's thing about maybe with our cornerbacks and our safeties, the opposing quarterbacks are holding the ball longer now. I'm still stuck on that.
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Dan Bernstein
They said, well, maybe they're holding the ball longer and maybe that'll allow the pass rush to be better because they don't know where to throw.
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Lou
They're going to hold the ball for 12 seconds now.
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Dan Bernstein
And. And you, you were. And we're coaching them better. But when you say something like that, like, I would think around the league, there's guys spitting their coffee out when they read that. There's other coaches like, oh, oh, you're going to coach him better. Well, that's. That's really cool. All right. Okay. Like this, this puts it on you, man. This really does. And I love. Arrogance from a football coach is not necessarily a bad thing. Do not get me wrong.
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Lou
You have to.
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Dan Bernstein
In the NFL, it is absolutely fun to hear the Bears coach. Why should this group that was bad be better? Me coaching, I'm. I could just make them better.
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Lou
All right, let me ask you this.
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Dan Bernstein
Let's hear. That's. That's. That is. That's awesome.
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Lou
Let's go back to the beginning. You asked the question.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I haven't made the other argument yet.
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Lou
That's what I'm saying. So is it them being practical or them being arrogant?
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Dan Bernstein
All right, I haven't made. I haven't made the practical argument yet. Okay. So that would be the argument for arrogance. Arrogance. If I were arguing practicality, here's what I would say. This is the Bears way of telling you this draft sucks. This is the Bears when they start talking about luxury items, essentially, when they start saying, we need very. This draft, we're going to find the right guys in the right spots to be on this roster where they're telling you they're not really just amassing developmental talent. This is not a raw materials draft. This is. Well, we need a return guy. We need a Gadget guy, return guy. So let's take him this high because he ran a four two eight. Okay, cool. But it tells you if they're kind of nibbling around taking shots and maybe this guy can be this. Or yeah. The tight end. Easy. Is he an upgrade on Durham Smythe and maybe this allows us to get some money back if we let Cole Comet go. I think that's probably what we're looking at there. In. In Roush of them say for the moment he's your third tight end. But there was a restructuring of commit's deal. Reportedly that will allow for a little more cap savings this year and that next that 2027 cap number for commit might be enough to push him out the door. And you say if somebody else wants to pay you when you're 30, we're going to let them do it and we're. We're going to get a little bit younger at the blocking tight end position if that's something they're doing. You can see that from here. But I do think it might just be the Bears telling you what do you want us to do in this draft? There isn't really much here. We're picking 25 and we'll bring in somebody who is going to start and can help us. And we know that we've got an older center prospect here. He's got a super high floor and and if he takes over for Bradbury's on a one year deal that's fine. Like this is that it may just be their way of describing this is telling you there wasn't a. There wasn't an edge rusher that we were going to take at 25 at that point that was going to make us that much better that we just. There just isn't. We don't like the guys in this. They're never going to say that. But by doing what they did well. Why is this group going to be better? Coaching. Coaching. We're going to. We've just decided that they're going to be better because we're going to tell them how to be better and what we. And play harder and better because we're good coaches. That maybe that's. That's just their way of. Of spinning a really bad draft and saying. Coming out and saying that we're at a point as a team where this isn't about development anymore. We need guys to help right now. We need you to be a contributor at this point to a winning team with whatever you may do. Do you have a skill that can actually help Us win games right now. So there's an argument for practicality. I will also say I did. I asked some. Some pointed questions about Ben Johnson's power. I want to make sure that I have this exact response in front of me, but I didn't want to make any assumptions as to who's doing what in the draft room. And the best way I can describe it is as the board got made and I. And I bounced this off some people who would know. And I said, is this a fair description? It's Ryan Poles draft. He's in charge of doing all the legwork here. But they don't go into it without knowing what the coaching staff's ideal prototypes are. And the response that I got was as follows. They do all the work, and then they take any player off their draft board who doesn't fit the scheme that they look at. Everybody but Ben then can sit there and Dennis Allen, whoever they want, like the. The scouting staff and the personnel people do all that. Then they say, all right, here's how we look at the entire field. Here's how we look at this class. And then the coaches also watch film, and the coaches talk to their friends, and they do their coaching level scouting. And then they can go say, yeah, this guy. No, no, we're not interested, not interested, not interested. And that's how the editing process is done on their board, which makes sense. And then they're all on the same page. Nobody feels like their work wasn't meaningful. And I'm sure they have difficult conversations of saying, yeah, this guy's not a scheme fit, but, oh, my God, can he move? Are you sure you can't find a place for him? We love this kid. And it's. It was just a little bit of a window into the process of just doing it by editing and saying, let's. Let's scout everybody. Let's organize, prioritize. And then the next level is, all right, coaches, now you pick it over and tell me if this is in, out, yes, no. And that way we know we're not bringing in anybody that you don't want that you haven't said you're cool with. And. And I think that makes perfect sense when you. When there's a coach that you trust, that's how it should be. And ultimately the coach should have that kind of power, because if he doesn't have that, you. You've got an organization that is working across purposes, and it does not sound like the Bears are. So I'm going to leave it to you and the, we're going to have this continuum for this judgment at Arrogant over here. Oh yeah, we, we had to pick specialty players, players for special jobs on this roster and oh well, this. We have to worry. We don't have to draft anybody there. We're going to coach them better. Watch this, watch us coach. Okay. Or it's a tacit recognition if not admission that we're not going to get, we're not going to just go find people in this draft that are coming and play that. We had to be very specific and we had to pick and choose and say and look and with an honest look at our roster and say there aren't a lot of spots here and the guys who do have the spots are going to, they'll compete for this or maybe he'll unseat this guy and we'll, we'll find a place for the, for the gadget return guy and see what we can do. And then we hear all the rest of this. So it's somewhere, somewhere between there. This isn't a judgment of bad or good. It just, it's, it's, it's very strange to wake up to the Chicago Bears having the, the young cocky head coach putting it out there for everybody. I don't need to, I don't need to draft all these play. I'm just going to coach them up. All right, man, go, go. Go ahead. Because I would, I'd follow back. This is. As a reporter, you, you grab this as a reporter. This is something where you want to make sure that he knows once he said this, he's got to back it up.
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Lou
Yeah. It's interesting, Dan, because you look back at last season where they had great success, great success at 11 and 6 and they get to the divisional round of the playoffs and you remember early on what Ben Johnson said about his players, they weren't practicing the right way. They weren't practicing like a championship caliber team. And he put it on them. You veterans go fix this, make this better. Because we as coaches have done all that we can. I want to know during this evaluation process of the 2025 season, when did Ben Johnson say, well, you know what? We really didn't do all we can as coaches because we can do more. So which, which one was it? Were the players not responding or you not coaching well enough as a staff?
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Dan Bernstein
When did you realize that?
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Lou
Right. And that's fine if you did. And that's fine if you did. You know, I would love to know, and we're never going to know this, but there's so many questions like, did you realize it? What did you realize you weren't doing? What are you going to do differently? What would that have looked like had you been doing it better?
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Dan Bernstein
These are all perfectly valid questions that weren't asked.
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Lou
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
You know, when did you decide, hey, don't worry about defensive line. Did you go tell Ryan polls that or is that just something you came up with afterward?
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Lou
Like Dyo and Shemar Turner and those guys, they were, they were on the right path and it just, they, they got, they. What happened to them were the. In the injuries got in the way of, of stopping this growth they were on. And if they hadn't gotten hurt and if we were doing better jobs as coaches, we wouldn't have been the 31st pass rush win rate team in the NFL. We wouldn't have been the 29th pressure percentage rate of the defenses in the NFL.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I just, I want you to know that when we do forward progress today, we're going to get into every one of the names, every one of the strengths and weaknesses and all of that stuff that you want. I just think that the. For me, the story coming out of this in some ways was that was the spin and something I just, I've never heard before. And coaches say things. You remember when Dave wants that said all the pieces are in place. That. And they were like, oh, they are. I remember when he said it. I remember where I was and what happened. All the pieces are in place.
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Lou
Yeah, that's your fault. What he meant was all the pieces were in place to feel the football team.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, they. But that and, and barely. But that was cool. That was a thing. It was like, well, they are. And obviously the Bears fell on their faces and the pieces were not in place or they were the wrong pieces in the wrong places and they were in a place just not the place, I guess. But that's. It is something when your coach steps out and says that. And I also wonder if you're diodangbo and you. It's like you're the guy who supposedly is going to be coached harder or differently. Do you start going through your head like, geez, I, I thought I was doing everything he told me. What's he gonna tell me differently?
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Lou
No. Is he. Does he look back now at his, at his 20, 25 season before it ended in injury and say, yeah, I was doing all the right things. If these guys were just there to help me do X, Y and Z, I could have been better?
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Dan Bernstein
Gee, I did. I didn't know I was supposed to have my hand over here or I.
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Lou
Why didn't anyone tell me that?
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't know exactly where my feet were supposed to be. And if, and if we have a shift on the line right before this. Oh, oh, now I got it.
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Lou
So in evaluating the 2026 NFL Draft for the Chicago Bears, you asked the question where the Bears coaching staff, front office, are they. Were they being practical in their approach to this draft or were they being arrogant?
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Dan Bernstein
We're pretty much fine. We got coaches that can automatically make a bad pass rush good just because they're just, they're just going decide to. And we don't. We can draft a return man here because we got everything we need elsewhere. So. And there's. It's, it's not some. You know, I'm not making any personality judgments here, but. And I'm not saying arrogance is a bad thing because you can, if you can back it up, that's, that's swagger. That's confidence. If you can back it up. We're just not used to it here. And I, I had, I would, I would have had so many follow up questions to some of this stuff. And because that was like, wait, what? What? I had to go back. I had to go back. Did he, did he really just say that? Why should we expect all these players to be better? Me. That's why.
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Lou
Well, I want to. I want to.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm sitting here.
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Lou
Dig a little deeper on that real quick too. The idea of we're not used to the arrogance here. We're not used to smart, intelligent, successful arrogance.
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Dan Bernstein
Exactly. Yeah, right. I mean, there's plenty of stupid arrogance.
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Lou
Yes, yes.
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Dan Bernstein
We believe in the hits principle. Okay, awesome.
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Lou
Let's not do that.
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Dan Bernstein
Let's have fun with that.
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Lou
We're good.
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Dan Bernstein
The H stands for us. The I. Yeah, there's. I mean, that's. Yeah. Idiot. But. Well, this, this is fun. This is fun. And I will allow you to, to decide where that little slider bar is on unpractical arrogant or maybe both. And maybe it's a use of arrogance because they can't be as honest as they want to be about their practicality. Ben knows what he needs. He knows what he doesn't need. We're going to take guys, we're going to kind of pick around and pick and choose and pick and choose. And we think we know our roster better than, you know, the roster this year, next year, and down the line. And then we'll, we'll ask whatever questions you want to ask. These Players are going to get to minicamp. They'll figure out how to. How to put their pro stuff on and go out there and take the field. Right?
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Lou
And we're going to win games 63 to 56.
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Dan Bernstein
Hey, I'm down. Those. Those wins count, too. What did I say to you in the text? What is it? 52 to 48?
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Lou
Yes, that's what you said.
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Dan Bernstein
Go ahead. Do you know how much fun that would be? Think of every game were like the Bengals game from last year. I want you to think about the Bengals game where they have a huge lead, and then you're like, oh, they're losing and there's only like two minutes left. And then they throw that ridiculous pass to Loveland and they miss, like 14 tackles and he spins his way into end.
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Lou
So, like, what, they win 48, 42.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't remember if every game is like that, if that's what we're talking about. And Ben's like, I don't care about the defense because I'm just. We're going to score every time we touch the ball. Cool. Because that. That's going to be a hell of a year. And they're going to. They would break every offensive record if they want to do something like that. You know, whenever the stakes are high, my bookie is where you turn bets into bankroll. There's always a big matchup on the schedule. Everybody's watching, everybody has a take. Regardless of the sport, the props can be just as fun as the final score. And that's why my bookie is what you should use. It's what I'm going to use a little bit later on when we do our DBU picks on this Monday. It's that prop board. It's deep, it's fun to play. Player performances, game milestones, all in between whatever action that you like that keeps things interesting all game long. Regardless of what's going on in the actual scoreboard, if there's ever a time to get in, it's right now. Go to my bookie Ag. That's where everything lives. One account, one wallet. However you like to bet, you want to live better in the action. You like spreads you like money lines, parlays. You can jump at the casino during halftime between games. Everything that you need is at MyBookie AG. Even the code that you need is right here. It's dbu. What does that code do? It gets your first bet covered up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit, you use a bet back bonus token that you get with DBU and then you run it back. So don't just watch the action. Make it pay with my bookie and your code dbu. The Cubs got a bit of a heat check. That was 10 wins in a row. That was great. It was fun. Friday night's game was just spectacular with so much fun stuff going on. Once I found the game, I did find it took me a little bit, but I'm like, oh yeah. And I knew it was. Even knowing where stuff is doesn't help me. I don't know if you have the same problem because I will register it in my head. I will register in my head it's on Apple or it's on Paramount or it's on prime, whatever it is. And then I the same thing happens and I get home and I turn on the TV and I put on the regular channels. I'm like what happened? Where? Where is it? And then I have to go look it up again and I need to get better at that. But I found it. I found it. Listen to our guy, the ran dazzler.
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Lou
He's great.
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Dan Bernstein
Been a guest here on 312 sports before he and former Cub who was still saying very nice things about the Cubs, former former Cubs prospect Dontrell Willis doing that game of just watching that has got to be one of the games of the year. No matter what happens. Just because of the. The defense, the star turns, the quality of play that we saw. But the numbers about the injured pitchers. I really don't know what you do here. I was just looking. According to the athletic or the pressing issue, the sheer volume of Cubs pictured pitchers on the injured list. 11 of the 26 pitchers on the 40 man roster. 11 of 26.
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Lou
That's almost half Dan are hurt.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. So the. And this is how Craig Counsel looks at things. And this is why Craig Counsel sometimes looks older than his years. The club needs to cover 1200 innings over the next five months. That's 3600 outs. Think of it that way. Just the Number of outs, 3600 outs. Say when council pulls or pushes starters, how to maximize the best relievers and where the organization will turn when more problems arise. It's all interconnected. Jed Hoyer said. It feels like we're 70 games in when it's actually 28. And that was before Sunday's game. Riley Martin shut down left elbow inflammation. He was sent back here for testing. So that's not great. And if you want to hear all of the discussion about the Cubs this day or every day, you should, of course go to off the Ivy here on three. One, two. Sports. It's the very first pot of the day that we record. We with Matty and Cody Delmendo and we addressed a lot of the stuff there, looking at some of the specifics, but there is, this is tough on a team. Yeah, it is.
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Lou
Because he probably didn't account for Yaxiel Rios or Vince Velasquez accounting for any of those outs.
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Dan Bernstein
How could you. Right. How can you say, well, who's going to get some of these outs? Well, Vince Velasquez. Isn't he out of baseball? Yes.
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Lou
He'll get us a dozen in the old spin the bullpen wheel of pitchers. Craig. Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. Some of these guys are. And that's fine. We'll see how it works. But this, it's not good. And this one way or another, no matter how good your defense is, it can start to hurt after a while.
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Lou
It can start to hurt after a while, but it's when you have one of the better offenses and you have the best defense in baseball. It certainly those are two good tools to have if you're going to face some pitching injuries.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. You want it to be as manageable as it possibly can at that point. And I'm hopeful that luck will break their way at some point and maybe it already is doing that. When you, when we know that Palencia Maton on the way back, I thought Maytown was more sort of a phantom Il get his head straight. But I guess the knee is a big deal and they just have to figure out why it keeps becoming a problem and figure out where it is in the kinetic chain that this early in a season he's already having like this wear and tear injury. Right.
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Lou
And we, and we've seen if you're, if you're lower half, we've seen that with, with Shota last year in comparative to what he's done this year, minus that start yesterday against the Dodgers. You get healthy and your lower half is healthy and you can, you know, you can pitch the way you're supposed to pitch. We can see the difference that makes and hopefully that he can get healthy and remain healthy the rest of the year.
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Dan Bernstein
Can we talk a little basketball here and the, the basketball.
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Lou
As long as it's not Bulls, we can do that.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Well, I mean the Bulls are working on some stuff too. But I want to discuss the basketball performance of the weekend and I will come clean. I never ever, not in a million years thought when, not just when they Drafted him in the second round. But even when he made the roster and was out there at Boston playing defense in the opener, I knew that he was probably better than the scouting reports indicated. But I watched I.O. dasuma was a bull and I said, okay. High motor, smart player, good instincts. The jumper is weird looking, but it goes in. Boy, he's all right handed. He can't really elevate and finish. Not a great leaper around the rim. I said, yeah, maybe complimentary player. And he kept getting better and he kept adding aspects to his game. He put that little left handed dribble in there. The defense kept staying at that level even as his offense got better. But if you missed that performance two nights ago, IO Desumu had 43 points in 42 minutes. He shot 13 of 17. There are unbelievable numbers in that game. He was the first. First player in NBA history with 40 or more points, 75% field goal shooting, five or more threes without a miss, and 10 or more free throws without a miss in any game ever regular season or playoffs. Off the bench or not off the bench. He is the first player in NBA history to do that.
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Lou
So historical performance on top of being one of only five players to ever come off the bench in the playoffs and score more than 40.
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Dan Bernstein
Now, I looked at that list and I had so much fun. This is the list of names here about these playoff scoring performances. The only guys who've scored 40. I'm just looking at the top five here. Number one, Fred Brown. Or as some of us would know him, downtown. Downtown. Freddie Brown.
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Lou
Wait, so this is. This is. This is coming off the bench.
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Dan Bernstein
Most 40 or more, most points off the bench in NBA playoff history. Number one is Freddie Brown.
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Lou
What was I owe the fifth or sixth guy to do it? I don't know which one. I said, I think he's one of five or one of six.
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Dan Bernstein
What is the. I was the fourth guy to do it. Okay. Fourth guy to hit 40. Okay. And IO had 43 points. Freddie Brown had only had two more. 45. Next, number three on this list from 2016, Steph Curry. Yeah.
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Lou
Dealing with an injury coming back.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Came off the bench. Number four, 2003, Nick Van Exel.
- [36:49]
Lou
Nuggets.
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Dan Bernstein
Dallas.
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Lou
Dallas.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. At Sacramento, number five, Thurl Bailey, who did it in 88 Utah against Portland. These are. If you know, you know, these are. You take Curry out of it. But just looking at Fred Brown, Nick Van Exel, Thorough Bailey, some of the other names as we go down this list, Lou Williams, Calvin Murphy, Eddie Johnson. Ricky Pierce, Andrew, Tony, these guys all scored over 40. No, these guys, these are on the list.
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Lou
Okay, on the list, but okay, so, so he, so he's the fifth guy ever to score more than 40 coming off the bench.
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Dan Bernstein
No, fourth. He's the fourth. He joins Fred Brown, Steph Curry and Nick Van Axel. But the rest we were talking about 39, 37, 36, 35. But just on the list of highest scoring bench NBA playoff games. When you, when you start talking about Eddie Johnson, Ricky Pierce, Andrew Tony, Thorold Bailey, Nick Van Exel, Freddie Brown, these are dudes.
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Lou
How many points at Bailey score?
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Dan Bernstein
39, 39.
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Lou
Okay, so he was just off.
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Dan Bernstein
It was the first. Okay, these are all dudes. These are real players. These aren't schmucks. Lou Williams. These are some of the best bench players to have done this over a consistent period of time. You're talking about career scorers. Andrew Toney, the Boston Strangler. You know, Pierce and Eddie, like this is. I always put himself near the top of this list. That's just really cool. If you're a hoop head and you know, if you know, you know some of these names and I will tell you too, this list is coming back. I don't want you to look ahead too far. But this, there, there is a trivia question in here that is going to be asked on organizations win championships on, on Wednesday as part of this. It's going to be a hell of a lot of fun. But that is. And, and every time you thought, well, I was having a great. He had 25 points over the game before and you lose ant to a hyperextended knee, that's done. You lose divincenzo. But oh ow. And that you knew it when it happened with another Achilles popping.
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Lou
There was a report on ESPN that he was out with hypertension in his knee, which I thought, wow, that's a really bad heart condition if it's in your knee.
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Dan Bernstein
If you've got high blood pressure only in your knee, that's bad. There's another basketball note here that I think is important and we are not going to really know what's going on with this story until later in the season. And it's too bad. Did you hear the post game? Did you hear Wemby talking about how his concussion was handled?
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Lou
Well, yeah, I heard it until the mic went out.
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Dan Bernstein
Uh huh. Because that was just as he was saying. I won't get into details. I don't want it to become a distraction. Ask me again at the end of the season all the doctors, especially on the spurs, the doctors all around, they were great, took care of me. But the way the situation was handled was very disappointing. Not on the spurs, as I said. I won't get into details. And I'm not saying playing was a good or bad decision. It was a decision. I'm not saying it was good or bad, but the way the situation was handled, very disappointing. That is removing him from concussion protocol
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Lou
because he says he was ready to play in game three,
- [40:45]
Dan Bernstein
and he.
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Lou
But he didn't get the final clearance until an hour before game four.
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Dan Bernstein
And. And he. And he played well. But I would say good job by Wemby drawing the attention to it and basically, you know, saying, hey, circle back here. Ask me later about how this was handled, because I said it and you said it, that it's not like there was some gray area of whether or not he had a traumatic brain injury. And I know it's not football, that the likelihood of Second impact syndrome, the likelihood of something tragic occurring, is very low. First of all, his head is two feet above everybody else's head. I'm not kidding. No, really, it does. And the fact that that was a rare fall that he took, it's not as if his head is anywhere near anybody else's elbows. Like, when you talk about the likelihoods of him hitting his head again, rim, rim, hoop and rim, backboard, backboard. Those are really. You're in, you know, a fall or rim or backboard he's not going to take, you know, unless he's, like, got his head down low, driving to the basket and somebody gets him on the way up. He's just too damn tall. But. But still, when. When a player of his stature literally and figuratively says something like this, like, hey, ask me at the end of the season, get back to this one, because I don't like how this was handled. It. It wasn't a good decision or a bad decision. It was a decision that tells me there's something in his mind that suggests maybe it was a bad decision and is. Is worth taking a little bit of time to. To. To ask and figure that out.
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Lou
He certainly is wise beyond his years.
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Dan Bernstein
Agreed. Agreed. Yes, he is. So is Russ Armstrong, actually. Although that is a lot of years, though I. I may have to take that back. But Russ is the owner of Chicago Window Guys, and if you say, boy, it's a big purchase, I've got a lot of trepidation when it comes to windows. All you have to do is call Russ and he'll. He will Come over and he'll sit in your kitchen and talk to you about what this is and what he's going to do. And rather than be on the phone with a call center or with an AI dealing with some sort of national company that does its stuff through a local vendor, this strips all of that out. When you're dealing with Russ, he is Chicago window guys. He's here in Chicago. His factory is here in Chicago. Everything's right here. He's the decision maker. There aren't all of these different layers that you have to go through of when you figure out, well, from who am I buying my windows? You're getting it from Russ. He makes them. His people put them in the house and they're great. I've got a house full of Chicago window guys windows. And you should as well. Because when you make a big decision like this, you want the absolute best windows and the absolute best experience. When you call 847-302-9171 or you go to ChicagoNowBeyond.com you can start that process. And it's a big deal. When you know the crew that's doing the installation, he knows all the people that are coming and doing the measuring. They all work for him. He doesn't pick up third party people in some parking lot and pile them into a van and have them come to your house and do the work for that day. It's his crew and they're great windows. No matter how fancy you want or how simple or anything in between, Russ can take care of that for you. I know it from experience and I recommend him and his windows unreservedly. 847-302-9171 and check out Russ's 5 star reviews at ChicagoNowdownGuys.com I do find it
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Lou
odd though that you have a house full of Chicago window guys.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, they, I like them. They, they were there, they finished the installation, they're hanging out. So, you know, when, whenever.
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Lou
Moving in was a. That was an interesting step, though.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I knew what you did with the committee and I just thought it was time.
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Lou
We're jealous.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. I was envious of you having the committee there, you know, like to watch games with.
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Lou
Yeah, they actually, they left this morning, so it was, it was sad to see them go.
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Dan Bernstein
I know you're cleaning up all the pizza boxes, everything that you were doing.
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Dan Bernstein
In other news and you can decide if this is scary or this is interesting or bad. Both. Did you see the pingpong robot?
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Lou
Oh yeah, I did.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Lou
It's frightening.
- [46:53]
Dan Bernstein
It's.
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Lou
There is no question about it. There is no option either.
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Dan Bernstein
It's. I. I was scared because generally I'm not scared of. I like robots. I love robot umpires. But when you start talking about what this pingpong playing robotic army was able to do, like they didn't make it look cool. Like they didn't make it humanoid.
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Lou
It's ba.
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Dan Bernstein
It's just this automatic arm that holds a paddle and kicks your fucking ass in ping pong. So this is the AP story. A paddle wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them. According to a new study that reflects how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots even more agile. Japanese electronics giant Sony built the robotic arm it calls ace. Hey ace. What's happening ace? They should paint it like ace. Freely they've pitted it against professional athletes. ACE proved a worthy Adversary, although one with some non human attributes. Nine camera eyes positioned around the court and and an uncanny ability to follow the ball's logo to measure its spin. The robot learned how to play the sport using the AI method known as reinforcement learning, according to Peter Durr. D U R R But he has the umlaut over the. Over the U. So he's Peter Dur Der Dur I don't know. So there's no way to program a robot by hand to play table tennis. You have to learn how to play from experience. He's the co author of the study published in the science journal Nature. To conduct the experiments, Sony built an Olympic sized table tennis court at its headquarters in Tokyo to give professional and other highly skilled athletes a level playing field with the robot. Some of the athletes said they were surprised by Ace's prowess. Sony says it's the first time a robot has achieved human expert level play in a commonly played competitive sport in the physical world. This isn't chess, this isn't war games. This is me talking here. This is actually putting a paddle in its grip and saying go play. It's a milestone for AI and robotics research. The custom built robot has eight joints that direct its movements or degrees freedom, enabling it to position the racket, execute shots and swiftly respond to an opponent's rallies. The president of Sony AI Michael Spranger said speed is one of the fundamental issues in robotics today, especially in scenarios or environments that are not fixed. We see a lot of robots that are in factories that are very, very fast, but they're doing the same trajectory over and over again. With this technology we show it's possible to train robots and to be adaptive and competitive and fast in uncertain environments that constantly change.
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Lou
Well
- [50:12]
Dan Bernstein
when the terminators come blame so that when once they're like, oh, it can do this and it can follow this like this. This is, this is the first step toward the Terminators. I don't know about the morphing shape shifting one, but at least the first round, the Arnold looking ones that you take the skin off and they're the one you got to get in the hydraulic drill press to kill them. And they got the red eyes, that thing that we're more than down the road to that because the video on this is pretty scary.
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Lou
It's all frightening.
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Dan Bernstein
It's all frightening. It is all frightened. The fact that it's seeing the logo on a ping pong ball at that speed and able to react. It can see it, process it and then hit it back. It can hit A winner back. Like, come on, man. This is. This is the very beginning of maybe teams not having to pay players. It's going to be like that video game cyberball. And you know you got smoke coming out of one and you take it off and you put another one out there. You don't need salary caps, and you don't have to worry about conditioning. And you still have your leagues, and everybody has their. Their favorite robots and they wear their robots jerseys. But we're not going to get apocalyptic here. We're just going to, ooh. Wow. Fun, exciting. Happy, happy robot, shiny happy robots hitting balls. The NBA playoffs are easy money at my bookie if you just kind of stop overthinking it. Because you don't need crazy parlays if you don't want one. You don't have to get out spreadsheets and do all this analysis. You need a team you trust. And that's why playoff basketball can hit so well at my bookie clean board. And if you want to keep it simple, you keep it simple. Back the thunder, back the Celtics. Ride the team's built to win. Let the playoffs do the rest. Celtics looked like just a monster last night, man. And if you are new to my bookie, if you've never made a deposit, there's even more reason to not sit this one out and jump in. And the reason is this code, dbu. That stands for Dan Bernstein unfiltered. And then any bet you choose up to $500 becomes fully covered, you make your play, and oh, doesn't hit. Oh, my gosh. I'm out.499.99. No, you're not. You get it right back. Because you can opt in then using the bet back bonus token. So pick a squad, take the shot. MyBookie AG is where everything lives. Go there, use the promo code dbu. Then you're not just watching the playoffs, you're cashing in on them. And it's only at my bookie. I came in this morning and I opened the door, and there was a big box sitting right over there, right there on the counter. And I thought, oh, that's. That's from a listener. What were we sent? We got a gift.
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Lou
Hey, what was it?
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Dan Bernstein
I know I have a gift here, for you, by the way. This is. Just want to make sure. Here. This is the Carl Hiason book I was wrecking.
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Lou
Oh, yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Fever be last week.
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Lou
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
And I just. I love the bookmark that it says, I read banned books. This one not banned, but although if the Powers that be. Read this. I. It would not surprise me if. If indeed this. This ended up. This is because it's a fun one. But what is in this box? Is the question.
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Lou
What's in the box?
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Dan Bernstein
What's in the box? It's from a listener named David. There's two bags here. Oh,
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Lou
family size sterlings. Stir. What is it? Stir.
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Dan Bernstein
Thank you, David, for sending us Stirzings potato chips.
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Lou
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Their slogan is always fresh and crisp. All right.
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Lou
You know I love a good potato chip.
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Dan Bernstein
Now, first of all, can I tell you how heavy this bag is?
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Lou
It seems pretty full, too.
- [54:28]
Dan Bernstein
It is, yeah, it's. It's full. It weighs 14 ounces. Okay, that's. That's almost a pound. That's the family size.
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Lou
All right.
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Dan Bernstein
But still just.
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Lou
And so he sent these and two bags of those two bags. And the reasoning behind sending these potato chips is.
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Dan Bernstein
We were talking about potato chips.
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Lou
Yeah, that I remember.
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Dan Bernstein
He's very proud of this particular local potato chip. Okay, let me just. I'm gonna read this. It says, Since 1933, Stirzings has become the Midwest's favorite local potato chip.
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Lou
I'm in the Midwest.
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Dan Bernstein
He said, make sure you try some. They call it a bit of Americana. Located in southeast Iowa. They said the. The chips are made using the same cooking process that was used when the company was founded in 1933. Exclusive recipe. They are shipped these potato chips shipped daily to individual customers throughout the United States in various parts of the world. They started shipping to fulfill the needs of servicemen and women overseas in the 1960s. Can you name. There are three ingredients in these. Can you name the three ingredients?
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Lou
I'm going to go out on a limb, Jim, and say potatoes would be the first ingredient.
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Dan Bernstein
Bingo. See, you can't get anything by Matabata Cola on a Monday.
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Lou
So potatoes. I'm going to go with a salt.
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Dan Bernstein
I need more specifics.
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Lou
Sea salt.
- [56:04]
Dan Bernstein
Sea salt is correct. Okay.
- [56:06]
Lou
And the third ingredient, I'm going to go with an oil of some kind.
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Dan Bernstein
I need the specific kind of cooking fat that is used.
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Lou
1933, same process. Cooking fat that is used. Let's just. Let's just. Let's just take a stab at this. That. I mean, I think, like, health conscious probably wasn't a thought back in 1933, but flavor and taste, availability. Lard. Nope.
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Dan Bernstein
Wrong animal. Right. Right idea. Wrong animal.
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Lou
Oh, is it like. Is it like in. Is it like pig fat? Bacon fat?
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Dan Bernstein
That's lard.
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Lou
Oh, lard is. Lard is pork.
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Dan Bernstein
Lard is. Lard is pig fat.
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Lou
Is it really?
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Dan Bernstein
There's a different word. There's a different word for the fat rendered from a different animal.
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Lou
So tallow.
- [57:05]
Dan Bernstein
That's all? Yep, that's all. It says ingredients, selected potatoes, as opposed to the unselected potatoes. They're set to potato hell, piggies, lard. All right. Yeah. Selected potatoes, comma, tallow, comma, and sea salt. So they do use the Oxford comma also. So whoever's in charge at Stirzings of the Oxford comma, I do like that.
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Lou
So these are potatoes cooked in beef tallow.
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Dan Bernstein
Yup.
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Lou
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Huh. All right. So this bag is coming home with me.
- [57:41]
Lou
Yeah, there better be a bag.
- [57:42]
Dan Bernstein
The other bag right here, I'm leaving. I'm leaving it right on the floor next to this chair.
- [57:46]
Lou
Can you get it off the floor so someone doesn't step on it, though?
- [57:49]
Dan Bernstein
What do you think Vic is going to come in and step on it
- [57:52]
Lou
while he's not notice it? Yeah, don't put it on top of the. Yeah, don't put it on top of the turntable. Maybe just put it on the counter
- [57:58]
Dan Bernstein
off to the side. Like, you know, that's a multi thousand dollar turntable over there. That's a. That's a text techniques, you know, you could do.
- [58:04]
Lou
You could throw it on my desk for me. Be a.
- [58:06]
Dan Bernstein
Be a real sweetheart and do that. That's what I'll do. I will do that. I'll put the book and I'll put this on your.
- [58:10]
Lou
Oh, yes. Book two.
- [58:12]
Dan Bernstein
Yes.
- [58:12]
Lou
And I'll probably. I won't read the book while eating the chips.
- [58:15]
Dan Bernstein
I don't care.
- [58:16]
Lou
So as to not get the pages all greasy.
- [58:18]
Dan Bernstein
And that doesn't matter.
- [58:19]
Lou
Full of sea salt and tallow and crumbs.
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Dan Bernstein
There's worse things, I guess. And that is going to lead us to DBU picks. DBU picks are brought to you by my bookie. And I've got a very simple one today. Okay. I think that the defense on Nicole Jokic has been excellent. I think the entire game plan on Nikola Jokic has been excellent by the Minnesota Timberwolves. They're. They're out of dudes, though. I mean, you're down a couple. Your star players. IO isn't going to do this again. No, because now he'll get a little bit more attention. You're not going to have the crazy IO all.
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Lou
He's not going to have that kind
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Dan Bernstein
of shooting either playoff game. Of course. Of course he isn't. And I think the same is true in the opposite end for Jokic. He's going to have a game in a series, and I'm betting on that being tonight. So I'm going to go jokic over the 30 points. And there's other, you know, you can look like over 32, over 34. I just think after his shooting percentages have just been so damn low. I also figured out what the plan is on Jokic. Do you remember years ago when the Bulls had Omar Ashik. Omer. Ashik. And Omer, the big Turkish center and pretty effective player in his own right. I always said you knew he was in the game when his nose turned purple, because he just did. He would get flushed and he would. When he was running the floor and he would. He'd run with his thumbs up. And you knew that the game was on the. The. It was engaged when Omer would have his big purple nose. There is a corollary to that that applies to Jokic. And his whole face turns pink. And when. When Jokic is out there working, first of all, you know, he gets all of those, like, linoleum knife cuts on all over his shoulders and his neck because everybody's fingernails grab. He's always bleeding, but he's not into a game until his face is pink. And their strategy has been make Jokic pink earlier. Like, get him.
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Lou
They.
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Dan Bernstein
They have been. They're going right at him defensively, not letting him kind of settle his way into a game. He's been working ridiculously hard on both ends of the floor. They're. They're not letting him take defense off or take offense off. They're. They're continuing to get him involved. Chasing and pick and rolls, going right at him. And they make Jokic pink earlier has paid off. I think he's going to. He's going to respond and you're going to get a bit of a. A reversal tonight.
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Lou
All right. We have three NBA playoff games this evening. I'm going to look at all three games, give you what I think is going to happen. The Thunder will close out the series with Phoenix. Despite being at Phoenix, we're going to lay the ten and a half and give OKC the win. Denver, I have the same thoughts about Jokic. I'm going to lay the 11 and a half against Minnesota tonight at home there for Denver, and they're going to close that series gap to three, three games to two. So Denver minus 11 and a half. And then I think Orlando takes a three one lead on Detroit. And I'm going to take the three and a half points for Orlando. So Orlando plus three and a half. Denver minus eleven and a half OKC minus ten and a half.
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Dan Bernstein
Those are DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. Also, don't miss forward progress today because the full scouting reports and everybody the Bears took and we're going to get into the details where they fit what the depth chart looks like. So you don't want to miss forward progress today. If you are a Bears fan. As we cover the Bears and the NFL, that is going to do it for Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered that has been brought to you by Chicago Window Guys. Call Russ Armstrong at 847-302-9171 and in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312 Sports.