NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Bears-Eagles Week 3 MNF Recap: Letting Our Case Keenum Flag Fly!
Episode Date: September 29, 2026Gregg Rosenthal and Jourdan Rodrigue discuss Case Keenum and the Bears big win against Jalen Hurts and the Eagles in the week three Monday Night Football game.NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.co...m/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Third and goal at the one.
Bears have been here before and been turned away.
727 to go in the game.
Keenham under center, swift the loan back.
Play clock to one, zero.
Gets the playoff.
Keenham, the sneak for the touchdown.
Touchdown bears.
Out on the clock and Case Keenham, invigorating.
The 38-year-old making his first career start at Soldier Field.
gets a rushing touchdown
and it's 26-7 Bears
with 719 to go.
Man, I can't believe this is real life.
That was Kis Keenham.
Letting his flag fly
all over Soldier Field
all over this great country.
As we go live on YouTube
with Jordan Roderig,
to my left is an interview
between Laura Rutledge live on ESPN and Case Keenham just beaming post-game after he puts up three touchdowns, almost 250 yards,
that includes that quarterback sneak at the end, a flawless performance in a beatdown of the Philadelphia Eagles 27 to 7.
What just happened, Jordan?
Old guys rule.
That was wild.
You know, we should have seen this coming.
The second they did the first camera cut to Ben Johnson,
who I don't think changed facial expressions the entire game on the sideline.
And you're like, oh, this is going to get weird in like the best way if you're the Chicago Bears.
Because this one had a different feeling to it.
As soon as the second half started and the bears started to really pull away and the Eagles imploded,
this was Case Keenham and the Bears' game all night long.
Yeah, it was an incredible coaching.
job by Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen, their defensive coordinator. There were some Nick Siriani
decisions we want to get into. There is the new Eagles offense and some of the troubles we saw in
the first couple of weeks really coming out in this game. But to me, that's all secondary.
I was rooting for Case Keenum in this game. Each and every week, we have a player of the week
presented by Nationwide. And it of course has to be our 38-year-old king. Let's listen to the moment where
I realize they are actually going to do this.
In motion, right, burden picked up by Cooper Degh.
Here's a snap and a throw by Keenham.
Over the middle wide open.
Raymond 20, 1510, running away from the pack to the end zone.
Touchdown.
Touchdown Bears.
Caliph Raymond from Case Keenum, 41-yard catch and run.
Man, Khalif Raymond has turned into one of the best free agent pickups of any
team. We can talk about him. That was one of the easier throws that Case Keenum made all night,
although it was under pressure. And I got some numbers for you for Case Keenum. Because what got me
in this game was it was not dink and dunk. It was not all game manager in that third quarter drive
he had earlier. He's pushing the ball down the field. And the in the stats show it on throws over 10 yards,
six for nine, 126 yards, and a touchdown.
Against the blitz, 10 for 11 for 136 yards.
Getting rid of the ball quickly, the Eagles pass rush, not really getting there.
And then under pressure, six for nine for over 80 yards.
All those incredibly efficient.
He played a little dangerously a couple times as Case Keenham is going to do.
But that aggression paid off.
And he really played great quarterback.
He wasn't the only story tonight, but he absolutely was.
the story. Jordan, I don't know if this was your first experience letting your case
Keenum flag fly, but did you enjoy it? I did enjoy it. No, this was not my first
case Keenum freak flag experience. But to your point, I thought he played the game like,
you know, a more mature, older, wiser case Keenum where yeah, there were a couple of
risky plays. He was nearly intercepted three times. Two were great plays on the
made by Quinion Mitchell, one really tight near the goal line that would have definitely been
returned for a touchdown had he come, come away with it in his hands.
Cooper DeGine made another play on the ball.
But that Khalif Raymond touchdown, to me, told much more of a story of what the
disadvantage for the Eagles and the advantage for the Bears' offense was, which was the Eagles
defense couldn't make a stop through so much of this game.
Their first force punt, I think, was, or their first three and out force punt was in the
third quarter. And yeah, their first three and out force of the night was in the third quarter. And so
to me, that plus the fact that there were voids to be capitalized on, in Case Keenham and Khalif
Raymond, uh, totally unexpected that he would be one of the favorite targets of this young
season so far were the ones who were moving the ball down the field the way that they were. Um,
to me, that play in particular told so much of the story of what happened to the bear's favor tonight.
Yeah, the parts that surprised me were when he was pushing it down the field,
there was on that first third quarter drive where he has two different sideline throws.
He has a couple throws against his body, like across his body where like,
oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
But it went well.
And then there was some like traditional dropback on third and ten where he gets to his second read
and he fits it into tight windows.
It was not totally fluky.
He got a little wild when he started scrambling late.
And, you know, he looked like a guy who was like trying to get out of his aisle at the movie theater without, you know, anyone having to stand up.
And I was like, okay, case, like, don't blow this.
I fumbled the ball on that play, but quickly recovered it.
But it just goes to show the quarterback factory.
I don't know if you remember that old quote, Howie Roseman had.
We want to be a quarterback factory when they just kept adding quarterback.
The real quarterback factory is in Chicago.
They got a quarterback controversy right now.
They got to start Case Keatim next week, I guess, over Tyson Baygent,
who they gave a huge contract to, assuming Caleb Williams doesn't play in that game.
Either way, great problems to have.
And a really great feather in the cap of Ben Johnson,
what did you see out of him and what he wanted to do tonight?
Well, it was like subtle, smaller things that made a huge difference.
Dan Casey, who is one of my favorite follows on social media,
breaks down a lot of film, also writes great books.
he noticed that there were fake pulling guards on the Case Keenum sneak.
So they looked like they were going to pull and then ended up instead like almost
shooting forward and creating a funnel and then picking up whoever would come right up the gap
for Case Keenham and crash into him essentially.
And it was really, it was like they created a wind tunnel for him or something, which was so funny
to me.
It's like a, you know, like a plunger.
They just squeezed right through.
And it was like, well, if your guy.
sneak in the football is 38 years old and you're going to call a sneak. You better do something
funky and cool with it, a little flourish on the inside. And that to me was sort of the story of
the game. It was very straightforward game from Ben Johnson as a play caller. And it was exactly
this. It was start taking out, taking what the defense gives you. The Eagles at first were trying
and pretty clear their intent was to stop the run and make Case Keenum beat them with his arm.
the problem is I don't know that anybody, maybe Case Keenham did,
but I don't know that anybody expected on that field
that Case Keenham was actually going to go beat them with his arm and he did.
Right. The bears end up with 128 yards on the ground on 35 carries
and the success rate finishes solid.
They closed the game out well.
Yeah.
But through two and a half quarters, that success rate was way lower.
The yardage wasn't there.
There actually wasn't that much room for D'Andre Swift.
And they moved the ball with some great passes,
some timely penalties or untimely, if you're a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
But I've been mentioning letting our Case Keenum flag fly.
And let's fly up an old tweet I found earlier today
where it was our great friend, Chris Wesseling.
The first mention I could find,
and this was something he would talk about on our old podcast around the NFL,
but we would just talk about it in the newsroom too.
When Case Keenum first came out as an undrafted,
free agent. I think there was a stat that I also found another one where he quoted for an undrafted
rookie in his first two starts. He was the best undrafted rookie of all time in those two starts.
And here he is, 38 years old, kind of making the improbable look possible. The NFL research
from our website sent out something tonight comparing him to other 38-year-old plus
quarterbacks, the only ones to have ever gone over 240 passing yards, two passing touchdowns,
and rushing touchdown in a game. Case Keenham, Hall of Famer Tom Brady. Yeah, famously mobile,
Tom Brady, yeah. Right. His rushing touchdown, I'm sure, was about the same length as Case Keatoms.
Drew Breeze, who liked to sneak at the goal line. John Elway, another Hall of Famer. Doug Flutie,
Hall of Fame cool guy, which I'm putting Case Keenum in as well. And then Fran Tarkenton,
another Hall of Famers. It's basically Case Keenham and some of the biggest names at quarterback
in NFL history. That was the player of the week presented by Nationwide for your insurance
and financial needs nationwide is on your side. Where do you want to go next? You want to talk about
kind of how the end of the first half finished for the Eagles and the Bears because I think
it speaks to a little bit how like this game was lost for the Eagles.
Eagles. Why don't we start with the sequence where the Eagles get down to the goal line,
but Jalen Hertz left the game? You know, they had to check a concussion spotter,
comes on and tells Jalen Hertz, he has to come out of the game. At that point, I believe
it's second and goal at about the half yard line. How did you think the Eagles handled everything,
including the decision to make Andy Dalton their backup over Tanner McKee after that moment?
The quarterback factory Philadelphia Eagles put Andy Dalton on the field where he promptly threw a goal line interception.
Yeah, we had Case Keenham and Andy Dalton both playing in the same football game tonight.
I just want to sort of let that sink in for a moment.
The really curious thing to me, and I am sure that Nick Seriani is in his press conference right now,
taking plenty of time to speak with the Eagles reporters.
and why didn't he call a time out is my question.
And what I want to explain too, it's a genuine question for me.
It's not a rhetorical.
That whole process of going in the blue tent and they really don't want coaches near the blue tent,
first and foremost that Brian Daibel was problematic with that last year.
And so the NFL really does not want coaches near that entire operation.
There's no real understanding or idea of how quickly something like that is going to go.
So all of that to say, I understand maybe in the moment why you're not making that decision,
if that is in fact the explanation.
But in black and white, you need to call a time out to give your group time to figure out how long.
If you can even figure out, is he going to come out quickly?
If he's not, then yeah, okay, Andy Dalton goes in the game, I guess.
And then you figure out what your sequencing is for that.
And you recalibrate a little bit.
But that was such a crucial situation.
It just felt like, I mean, it's what, seven zero still bears at that time.
And you still have a shot at kind of regathering yourself and resetting what this is going to be and what this plan is going to be.
And instead this happens.
It becomes a really pivotal swing moment.
And it just, it was, you know, what is it?
The bears go down the other side and hit a field goal and all of that.
It's just to me, there could have been a pause there.
There could have been an enforced pause.
Nick Siriani did not make this decision.
I'm sorry I'm rambling.
I got really carried away watching the highlights there
because I was like the meme of him coming out of the blue 10.
Oh, my God.
Well, have you ever seen Jalen Hertz look more angry than he did in that moment?
No, I never have.
Which made sense.
And look, I think what Nick Siriani said going into halftime was composed more than he was, you know,
in terms of decision making on the field when he said they're trying to keep our players safe.
And that makes sense.
The timeout would have been a great move.
Also a great move would have just been being able to run the ball in from second and goal.
And they weren't able to do that.
They take a two-yard loss.
They could have snuck the ball with Annie Dalton.
That sneak would work with anyone, but maybe they weren't ready for it or do it.
In theory, you know, with a tight end, but they don't have any healthy tight ends.
Like they normally would do Dallas Goddert, but instead you have Zach Ertz.
And Seekwon started the game so well, but they could not get anything done in short yardage.
in that scenario.
And I thought Sequin was gas.
It's one of those like bad luck situations.
He got knocked out at about the half yard line.
And when they showed the replay of that run,
he looked totally gassed.
He had about 56 to 60 yards on that drive.
So even before first down,
I thought he was like ready to leave the game.
And they gave him two tired carries in a row,
brought in tank Bigsby,
and then it all fell apart.
And Dalton, I hate to think about it, Jordan.
I guess I don't hate that much because I did it.
I mean,
there's a decent chance, A, that's the last throw of his career.
I mean, this is at least a chance, right?
I was surprised he got a job after the way he played last year.
It did not look like Andy Dalton last year.
And then number two, there's an even bigger chance he will finish this season,
O for one with one interception, which would be an all time.
I can't imagine that's ever happened before.
Do you think that watching that play sequence inspired Ben Johnson to throw a little bit of
an FU call in at the end of the game?
and call a design sneak that sets your quarterback up for minimal damage,
your old man quarterback up for minimal damage,
and a high success probability play of that quarterback sneak,
actually working again with an old man quarterback.
I don't know.
I'm just wondering because it just seems like something maybe he would do.
And I mean that as a compliment.
You are absolutely right.
He is all about showing off how good he is.
and he is good.
You've heard the chaos.
Now you can see it.
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Now there was a successful quarterback sneak.
I thought Jalen Hertz, and I saw that you agreed on Blue Sky, played a really good first half.
Let's actually watch the very end to the first half.
It's a two-play sequence after Jalen Hertz has a great drive, bringing the Eagles back down the field.
It results in a touchdown that we go to halftime with.
And at that point, I'm thinking, okay, the Eagles have settled this game down.
Takes this drop, the bus is coming, he puts it in the air, he wants Smitty, who comes up, he's got it in...
His back, he's looking, he screens it out to the far side, to Smith, who is running and pushing, and he is dead at the one.
Oh, they've got a hurry, they've got a hurry, eight seconds, seven seconds, six seconds, five seconds, four seconds, it's second of one, one second, one second.
is a handoff inside and it is touchdown.
That was well put together by Kyrie there.
I liked that a lot.
To me, that was not only was that drive incredible Devante Smith
with the body control and similar to what we've seen for his entire career,
but especially the last couple of weeks
when Jalen Hertz and Devante Smith really try to go take over a game or a drive
like that incredible.
Well, they had also gotten their outside runs working.
So you mentioned that Sequin Barclay had popped like 60 yards on that drive.
On outside runs specifically, he was getting seven and a half yards per carry and he had eight of them between the first and the second quarter.
But specifically in that second quarter was when the majority came along for 60 yards.
And it was looking like this outside zone run game and where you're sort of mitigating the damage on a very unsteady interior offensive line for the Eagles right now was working.
And then for Jalen Hertz to go in and manage that situation, that is his call in the moment.
That is not the head coach's decision in that moment.
The quarterback can decide whether or not to kneel to spike to stop the clock or, excuse me,
to spike to stop the clock or whether to run a play.
He made the right decision and he did it so coolly calmly.
You thought, okay, when they go in at halftime, it felt like the Eagles were really figuring something out.
And then the third quarter happens and they completely implode.
And this was the Eagles thing from a year ago.
It's really crazy how they come out of halftime.
And last year it was more they just had different stretches in the games.
It wasn't always after half time.
Sometimes it was very often the first half.
They didn't do anything.
And then they woke up and did something in the second half.
So far coming out of halftime, and this is his next Greg stats.
So there's always a chance.
It could be wrong.
I have counted eight three and outs on 11 third quarter possessions this year.
two field goals on the two other possessions with neither of which were in this game.
This was three straight, three and outs.
And then an interception by Jalen Hertz.
And this to me by T.J. Edwards was the first nail in the coffin.
And I do want to listen to the call because I do want to give the Bears defense some credit here for a fantastic night.
They are under man in terms of overall talent.
I don't think their pass rush was that great to me.
And yet, players like T.J. Edwards were showing up in big spots.
Hertz making checks in the din of soldier field.
They're making some noise in the final half minute of the third quarter.
Bears look like they're going to bring the blitz.
Here comes the heat.
They're bringing extra as the throw.
Intercepted by T.J. Edwards, another zone drop.
Good call there.
Look, we've had a lot of jobs.
Jeff Joniak on WMVP this year.
He's done a great job helping us out tonight.
Also, Merrill Reese on WIP earlier on those calls.
They blitzed about 41% of the time.
Look, I think the Eagles made some mistakes tonight,
but the Bears, to me, played the type of defense
that allowed their opponent to make mistakes.
And as the Bears kind of learned last year,
if you can do that, plus force enough turnovers.
And in this game, they force three.
They forced six so far overall this season, which is a good clip.
They can let their offense win the game for them, no matter who's that quarterback.
And the Eagles didn't help themselves either because some of the turnovers were, I mean,
they don't technically count, but on downs, you know, the turnover on downs on in the fourth,
on that fourth down early on when they, you know, or excuse me, that's the interception.
Then earlier they punted, getting all confused with all of the,
Like, cacophony of errors.
Can we talk about the fourth down decision?
I want to.
I want to.
Siriani passed on taking a fourth and one on the 49 yard line, like late in the third
quarter.
So on eagles.
Like what did you make of that?
Yeah, it was weird because so they're at a fourth and one.
And then they, it really, when they put the ball down for the spot, it really shows that
they're at a fourth and one and a half, a little bit too far for the tush push,
especially with that new interior.
reshuffle that they've done.
To me, I'm thinking about what's going on in the quarterback's helmet with the play caller
and how the communication has cut off probably at that point, how it's loud there as well.
And perhaps you have one play call in, but you don't have the second play call in.
And perhaps in that moment, that's when the head coach, again, calls a time out.
I don't know.
I mean, would you have, that's like I'm not a head coach, obviously.
But in that moment, when I'm thinking about.
out that situation and how that is a must go situation. I don't care analytically. I don't care if
you're, you know, 95 years old and hate computers. Like that, you go on that fourth down. And so,
like, that to me, I'm confused as to when it's very clear that the play clock's winding down,
that your down, that your distance from the go, like from the conversion line is what it is.
You understand there's no headset comms at that point because you are also in the headset.
with the quarterback and the offensive coordinator.
Like, I'm, they had three timeouts.
I know you don't want to, like, burn one that early in the game, but like, in the second
half, but like that to me, I would, I would have liked to see perhaps a pause there,
a reset, get two more plays in.
You don't like the first one, go to the second one, go for it on that fourth down.
Well, just, and it's easier said than done, but just have that, have that buttoned up before
the 15 seconds.
You hate, in that situation, burning a timeout is an absolute killer, but you,
saw Jalen Hertz look over to the sideline and he was absolutely confused and no matter what it was.
He thought a timeout was coming. That's his gesture toward the, like he, yeah.
It was a failure of an operation. And then every time you don't go for a fourth down,
you inevitably go for a longer one almost right after, which they did. That was a fourth and five,
which they also should have gone for at that point. That turns into an interception. The Eagles offense just
doesn't look right.
And I thought the interior
offensive line played better
in this game.
You mentioned the good outside runs.
Tyler Steen had one holding call
that took back a big run
that was unfortunate for them.
But they haven't looked that far away.
But suddenly,
and I saw this with the Bengals this week too,
the whole offseason narrative
went completely away in this game.
I mean, he was throwing out of shotgun
basically the entire game.
If they were under center,
it was a total giveaway.
They ran the ball.
I think he ended up throwing
the ball like twice from under center all night and they ran it, you know, 12, 13 times. And the whole
idea of playing that way is, is to be able to pass from under center. And tonight it was a little
more of the old Jalen Hertz and Eagles offense. And even though it looked okay at points in the
first half, he did not throw a pass to the middle of the field until I believe that late
garbage time drive. So it was kind of the old problems that we've gotten used to. And I want to
you know, end on positives for the bears.
But it is amazing, Jordan, how quickly seasons change.
Because suddenly the Eagles who were 2 and O
and they were feeling pretty good going into a Case Keenum,
you know, game on the road that they thought was going to be brutal,
but suddenly they were big favorites.
Now they're 2 and 1.
They got the Rams next week.
They got the Jags the week after that.
And now you kind of look back on the last two weeks
and you recognize the Eagles have not really put together
a complete game. And I include their defense in that. Like each week has been rickety at points on both
sides of the ball. The offense is taking a little while to figure itself out under Sean
Manny. And then the defense has not been dominant. It's been okay. And tonight, maybe even a little less
than okay. Yeah, they're banged up. We were sort of laughing because again, when you're 38 years old and
you're playing quarterback, you use every trick at your possible disposal. I loved what we got from the
ESPN mics tonight.
We got Case Keenham hard count, cadence.
We got a lot of calls.
We got a lot of checks.
We got a lot of mixing up with mixing,
changing up the cadence, which I thought.
And that got the Eagles defensive line on one play.
That was pretty important.
They just seemed undisciplined.
Their penalty numbers,
and you can argue for against maybe a couple of them,
but their penalty numbers were more than what they had in their first two games.
This to me is a team that did not look prepared tonight, which is wild because they have so much talent on both sides of the ball.
And I know they are banged up on defense, but they have so much talent.
And conceptually, you should see them take steps forward.
Maybe you could argue their run game did take a small step forward in spots tonight.
But having that defense be as susceptible as it was was weird.
and having them not get as much movement early on up front,
having Case Keenham be, yes, he was getting the ball out really fast as well at times,
having him be able to move the ball down the field the way that he did.
Again, perhaps their plan the whole time was,
we don't think he can do that.
So let's just sell out for the run, perhaps.
But they still do play that shell behind it.
So to me, it's like, okay, it just, they seemed listless by the 30.
quarter, certainly during that third quarter. And it was wild to me, Greg, how quickly this game
felt over. And especially in light of the fact that it's a 38-year-old backup quarterback on the other
side. And a defense that has been giving up for the Bears has been giving up big plays and just could not,
it just felt over by the third quarter. Because it's the Eagles and they close games like that and
because it was the Bears defense, I kept thinking that was going to happen. So I was wrong. You were, you were right.
Titans game last week and I was like, something's going to happen.
Something's going to happen.
Yes.
I, like, I watched this offense enough and we have a comment in the YouTube chat that
cracks me up that points out that Sean Mannion was a terrible quarterback back in the day.
And it reminded me, first of all, it's not fair.
I mean, he was a professional quarterback, but he was teammates with the Case Keenum,
with Case Keenum at one point.
Do you know the team?
Oh, I was reading the comments.
What did you ask me?
That, I, that Sean Mannion and Case Keenham teammates on what squad.
The Rams, the L.A. Rams.
The 2016 Los Angeles Rams.
And so maybe maybe that helped.
What a time to be alive.
Look, look, the Eagles actually got Jonathan Grenard back.
They used them as a situational pass pressure tank.
He was effective.
They're healthy, healthy enough on defense.
I mean, they basically have their, their entire defensive line there for the first time.
you have your linebackers there.
Dejean's not 100%, but he's out there.
They really have no excuses, and I think it really was game plan that beat them tonight.
So the Eagles will have to regroup, and the Bears, who were probably thinking, man, this is going to be a tough stretch without Caleb Williams,
are now looking at the division.
Okay, Minnesota's at 3 and 0, but we just won a game.
This is what I talk about when I say managing the schedule.
You just won a game in prime time with your backup.
You've got to feel better about what's happening moving forward.
What the heck, Kyrie?
Let's get one more Case Keenham touchdown into this show.
Let's listen to his first one, to Luther Burton.
Six-minute drive, four different receivers, caught the ball third and two at the eight-yard line.
Two receivers left.
There's a toss up front on the pitch to Burden.
He's fighting and fighting inside the five.
Can he get the first down?
Heck no.
He got the touchdown.
The scrump.
Pushed them right into the end zone.
Touchdown burden.
Touchdown Bears.
Oh, that's great.
I love that Caleb Williams is doing a really, I hope, intentional impression of the,
she doesn't even go here, guy.
You've never seen mean girls, I'm sure, but.
I have.
You know, I weirdly watched it for the first time in the last two years.
I'm trying to think, Gwen, but it was, and it was great.
It was great.
The bears have the jets, the Packers, the, the,
Falcons coming up. We'll see when Caleb Williams is back, but all those games feel winnable.
I don't think their defense is going to hold opponents to under 10 points each and every week.
But with Caleb, with Khalif Raymond out there, with Luther Burden, who's looking good,
Colston Loveland finally made some catches. I mean, if Roma Dunzee didn't drop a great toss by
Kays Keenum, he would have had another touchdown pass tonight. Before we go, Jordan, if you have
any final thoughts about what you learned. Got my cards. Who you want to give a shout out to,
or just life advice for people trying to make their way in this crazy world. Go for it now.
Life advice, man. I still think that because, you know, I trust the Eagles defense over the long
term. I do. And we talked about this for the Eagles is layer by layer, this is how something.
Now, I don't know much about Sean Mannion as a play caller.
I don't know how that's going to go.
In terms of this system itself, layer by layer,
and especially his experiences out of this system,
which he also mentioned like the Matliflor offense
and Gary Kubiak, and especially this run game,
it's supposed to unfold in layers.
It might take a minute.
Saquan Barkley seems to be more hurt than maybe we are used to seeing
or know a folly.
He had the...
I thought he looked great.
great tonight. Am I crazy?
I don't know.
He had the neck roll on. Anytime I see that, I think, man, you're hurting a lot more.
Fair. I just thought, like, how he started the game and definitely an infinite, but, like,
he was explosive in his movement.
What I thought he did well, was seeing the layers of the outside zone blocking much better
than the first two weeks of the season. So that, to me, shows promise.
Meanwhile, if you're the bears, you just take what you can get here, right?
They've got two quality backups in Tyson Baygent, too, who is back.
from the injury. So it's kind of like play the hot hand, kind of a situation for Ben Johnson.
I'm just curious. I mean, they were in prime time here tonight. I'm curious what they change.
I'm curious how they flip up the cadences again because he was mic the way that he was.
I'm curious about just some of the little wrinkles that they throw in. You need every advantage right now
to try to win games with a backup quarterback. And I like that we're seeing Ben Johnson do this for
the first time in his career. I think backups right now are undefeated and starts this.
year. It's either 5 and 0 or 6 and now. So shout out to Marcus Mariotta and
Case Keel. Leading the way. Right. And all the backups that we thought we're going to make the
games unwatchable. We don't want them to be the, you know, playing each and every week.
James Winston, unfortunately, he's going to be there until it's JJ McCarthy. Check out our
breaking news show from earlier today. Oh, Daily Buzz. I hear that name finally stuck.
Whose suggestion was that, Greg? Daily Buzz. Good job by Jordan with that training camp suggestion.
And yeah, we'll keep an eye on Braxton Jones, the left tackle of the Bears, who was injured in this game.
But overall, the Bears' offensive line, I thought, did a really nice job protecting Kayakian him, as did the game plan.
All right, let's get out of here.
We are going to be back on Tuesday.
Hit that music, Kyrie.
We will be in the studio.
It's going to be my friend, Colleen Wolf.
We are going to be drafting, not just like wide receivers, quarterbacks.
We are going to be drafting the most ridiculous storylines.
of the 2026 season.
Maybe Kisketem will be part of it,
but we gave him his love tonight.
We'll see you then.
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