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A (0:00)
I mean, if you're a Bears fan, you're thinking forward progress. Come on. Forward Progress A Chicago Bears podcast with Dan Bernstein and Matt Abeticola on 312 Sports.
B (0:22)
We give you forward progress on 312 Sports as we cover your Chicago Bears and their pursuit of a Super bowl championship this season. There isn't much left to be determined, but there are some possibilities that we will go through all the playoff permutations once again for this last game of the season. The Bears will be kicking off 3:25 same time as the Eagles and the Commanders, a game they will be watching. And we got our first injury report of the week you yesterday. It's an estimation because they only had a walk through and Joe Tryon Shoinka and Roma Dunze were the only DNPs. They did not participate. Josh Blackwell limited participation with a shoulder injury. Luther Burden with his quad also limited. Same goes for Nick McLeod with an illness and Ozzie Tripillo with a knee injury and a quad injury listed full participation for wide receiver Lamide Zacchaeus coming off the illness that kept him out of the last game. So things look okay and I don't know where you are on how they make some of these decisions and where Ben Johnson's we're playing to win edict falls on how they decide who's going to go and who's not.
A (1:40)
Yeah, then jts by the way, he had a concussion. I don't remember the incident in the game. Do you recall that? Maybe I just, it just slipped my memory.
B (1:48)
No, I think that that was in between plays they had mentioned something that he had been taken out. I don't know remember seeing a specific Neither do I.
A (1:56)
Okay. But yeah, he's dealing with concussion and then on the lion side of things, the three well for me the most significant guys that were still active and playing your guy anal zone with a concussion, Sewell with an ankle and then St Brown with a knee and ankle were all DNPs. And just another note from our previous game here against the Niners. CMC and Williams were out Tuesday and Wednesday from their walkthroughs. Normally they sit out Tuesdays as veteran rest days, but they were actually listed with injuries. So CMC with the back and then Williams obviously with the hamstring. So that was a little significant change in their injury report for the Niners who were playing a big game against the Seahawks this weekend, battling for the number one seed in the nfc. So as far as, as far as I'm concerned, Roma dunes a even if he can go shouldn't go. There's no, there's no reason for him to be out there. I'd give it another week and let's get ready for the playoffs. One one area and this might be controversial or maybe even stupid on my part, but Jalen Johnson, we've talked about his performance. We've talked about how we can all recognize that he's just not quite there yet and we can't without being inside his head. We don't know if it's active, that he's just not putting the effort there or if he just doesn't have the ability right now to put the effort forth that we're used to seeing him on the football field. Obviously the coaches have seen something in that he was sat last week in the second half for Tyreek Stephenson. Then afterwards he was didn't seem happy. The tone that in the response he gave about being benched that he's 100% healthy doesn't quite get it and I don't know if they would be able to pull this off without losing the player further mentally if he's not quite ready. I'd rather sit him too. I would rather sit him and give him another week of not having game participation just because of trying to get back to it. But does that slow down that timeline of the reps and the time on task, as Ben Johnson always says in playing the game itself to get back to where we're used to seeing him play? Is that even possible this year?