NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Commanders-Bears Week 5 TNF Recap

Episode Date: October 6, 2023

In a room with two heroes -  Dan Hanzus and Marc Sessler recap the Week 5 Thursday night football clash between the Washington Commanders and the Chicago Bears . We break down the impressive performance by Justin Fields and the Bears offense, examine what went wrong for Washington and pay our respects to the late, great Dick Butkus.NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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third and 14 four man rush again fields to the end zone more touchdown wide open touchdown curtis samuel he's pulled in by more gets free Washington gambles and lose the gamble that time 56 yards touchdown oh thank goodness you. Bears fans of America and beyond. You needed this one. And you got it. The Chicago Bears, the Monsters of the Midway. The erstwhile monsters of the Midway. And maybe once more is some

things connect finally win a game 40 to 20 doubling up the Washington commanders on the road in Landover Dan hands us here with Mark Sessler and this was a game that the bear is absolutely controlled from the start taking a 27 to 3 lead into the half Washington wakes up and they have a chance to pull within one score in the fourth quarter, a missed field goal followed by that gamble by the Washington DB leads to the third DJ Moore touchdown of the night, the fifth Justin Fields touchdown pass of the night and Mark Sessler, the Chicago bears get a little scare there, but ultimately, such a positive night for the organization and an important one, bottom line.

Absolutely. I mean, there was a moment where I thought, is this, are they doubling as the Washington generals of the NFL where it's like you're going to kind of toy with someone, but ultimately you're the clown? Could they possibly blow a 21 point lead two times in less than a week? But they got it done. And it's like they snap a 14 game losing streak. And this is an organization because I think Bears fans have quietly been through. We talk about the Jets, the Browns, other organizations. Like, They've been through a lot. Like, they haven't had a 14-game losing streak since the Chicago Bears were the Chicago Cardinals that lost 14 games back when you didn't play 1,000 games in a season from 1942 to 1945. So it's been a long time. These guys have been through a drought. And if you look at the last, if you look at what they, I know they lost the Broncos game, but if you look at that game and what Justin Fields did in that game, and you pair it with

tonight, and you pair it with some other aspects, and you look at DJ Moore who, like, The box score for the ages, eight catches, 230 yards, three touchdowns. It's a confusing state for Bears fans because there is hope here. And like you kind of saw like Luke Getzzi's offense, which dazzled down the stretch last year, start to take hold tonight. They absolutely dominated in certain plays. Big plays were starting to be produced. I just know if I can believe it.

Like even like the defense, which had two sacks coming into this game, a pass rush, which, you know, Greg and I got into an argument about. on one of our shows. It's like, are they real or not? Like, they blew up tonight. Everything kind of came together. I feel like that's how Thursday night football is, but I thought this would be Washington's Thursday night football coronation.

I really believe in Sam Howl, but it went in a totally different direction. And Chicago came in and completely disrupted that coronation and created a disruptive poem that went in the wrong way for Washington. Yeah, and let's not get it twisted. And commanders fans that are listening right now, and good job. by you. You have our eternal respect. They've been through it too. I mean, they've been through a

really, really rough century so far that you finally feel like there's some hope with Daniel Snyder's ass out the door. And you got the Josh, bad beat for Harris when they come back from commercial when it's 273 or whatever. And he's yucking it up and showing people his phone. That's things you'll learn as the owner. You have to be very stern in your etiquette and know that the camera can find you any time. And it felt like that was going to be like kind of what this night was going to be, just an ugly grim night for the commanders when, like you said, it felt like this was going to be a celebration of a new era for Washington football. And that could still happen. This is still a team that has talent, that has ability. The young quarterback does do things every time

you watch them that gets you excited and maybe Sam Howell will continue to develop. But this was not the commander's night. And you could say about this bear's performance. Well, don't get too excited. I mean, they're still just one and four. There's still a lot of things wrong with this team. They came very close to letting this one get away in the way that they let last week's get away. But I think it's so in terms of morale and this idea that there is something building here, you will absolutely be over the moon when you, when you know that I said, Mark,

one of the worst feelings as a sports fan or just in life is when something really bad happens. and then you know when you wake up the next morning, it's the first thing that you'll remember, oh, wait, that bad thing happened. That's happened a lot for Chicago fans. They get to wake up in the morning and go revisit the box score where Justin Fields averaged almost 10 yards in attempt.

He threw four touchdown passes. Excuse me, it was five, right? Correct. It was four touchdown passes according to this box room, my bet. And you'll look at DJ Moore. The guy that was brought here that was his job was to be a, true number one for this kid quarterback that you believed in, that you traded the number one overall pick away for it because you thought if we just give him a surrounding cast and we give

him a true number one, he will blossom. And after a very poor start to the season, you've seen that these last two weeks. Fields all of a sudden does not look helpless. In fact, he looks quite dangerous with DJ Moore who has, yes, like you said, one of the great performances in the history of Thursday Night Football, which has been on for about 10 years now. So yeah, we don't know what the rest of the season holds and maybe this is a blip in the radar but it's also possible mark that the bears after a horrendous start to the season are finding their footing on offense now and while they're probably not going to the playoffs and they're probably not going to the super bowl that does not mean that this is not a season where they can continue to grow

and it's just that it's a night that creates optimism in chicago and the thought of that even being possible a week or so ago it was you know it felt impossible yeah and i think like we live in a world football-wise, with no patience, where it's like, oh, you're a rebuild. You've got five weeks to rebuild the program. It's like, this team was a disaster a year ago. And part of it is coaching, but if you're Matt Iberfluse and you're not unlike those Bears fans, you wake up tomorrow morning, and you can look at where you were at halftime. Because I think it's like these games get a little bit out of hand, but like at halftime, the Bears had 307 yards of offense and his defense, Matt Eberflus' defense, against a solid weapons, not I wouldn't say

weapons rich, but weapons equipped commanders' offense. They had 84 yards, 20 minutes of, 19 minutes of possession for the bears, 122 yards of rushing, 13 for the commanders. I don't know what happened to their ground game tonight. It vanished. They dominated in every possible way. And part of me a little bit, It's like everyone is killing Iber Fluse left and right and for a good reason, okay? But it's Ron Rivera a little bit to me that stands out in these game situations because this is the guy that I think everyone is, we respect Ron Rivera. He's a nice person. He's going to give you a nice solid season year after year.

You're not going to go too high. You're not going to go too low. But it's like there was one decision tonight that stood out for me that separated a difference-making opportunity for the commanders. They're down 27 to 11, late in the third quarter, fourth and two from Chicago's 13, and he kicks a field goal. I mean, like, this was riverboat Ron. The riverboat at this point has been shot down by alien nuclear satellites.

Like, what are we doing here? Like, why are we not taking our young team and saying, we believe in us, we're going to go for it? I get there's a lot of time left, but I just, I don't know. It just seems to me like a bit of a departure from the norm where it's like, What makes this coaching staff special? And like you're kind of leaving the entire. You're like that you're you may not get that close again.

And it's like that fourth and two from the 13, you got to, you have to go for it. I see why you would. And I'm wondering what the analytics said, the old go for it or kick, where they came down on that in terms of win probability. I was okay with it only because it just seemed the way these types of games go, you could feel it. You could sense it, like, with respect to Claibon, the momentum had clearly shifted, and

they had a chance to continue to put points on the board. It was still early in the second half. And to that point, Joey Sly lines up for a 46-yard field goal, which in today's game is a kick, you expect your kicker to pipe. And he makes that kick, and it's a seven-point game with five minutes to play. And he doesn't make the kick. And so I think the way he played, it's taking the points then. was looking at the long game

and feeling like they had really, they were starting to really gather momentum in this game. So I didn't have a big issue with it, but I see what you're saying. Like, this is the guy that in Carolina had the nickname, which is one of the great all-time coach nicknames of Riverboat Ron. And you expect him to roll the dice there.

And he didn't. And yeah, and if you're a commander's fan and you agree with Mark's take, I get it. In general, this was a deeply frustrating night because like we said, this felt like it was supposed to be a celebration for the organization.

And instead, you totally no show you give up a touchdown on a vicious coverage bus to start the game and you go down you go to the locker room down 273 and it's just like what what are we doing here so there's a lot of frustration on the Washington side I think the second half mark was very it felt predictable and it was my concern because I really was rooting hard for Chicago I just I don't know I guess hapless teams they stick together and and these are kind of two hapless teams in the last 20 years or so. But when they started to get a little more conservative,

they were having these like 90-second drives, and then they were letting Sam Hagel go up and down the field. I really had an ominous feeling that this was going to be a second collapse. There was a play that I was certain would be the one you would remember from this game where the commanders had scored, maybe even had scored 10 points to cut into the lead. and on a third in about five fields rolled to his left, feeling pressure. He goes, he sees Khalil Herbert, who's all by himself on the sideline. If he can get the ball to Herbert, he's walking into the end zone, 40 yards for a touchdown.

Instead, fields in the, with a hand in his face out of fairness, shorts the ball. It skips to Herbert who wrenches his knee and is out for the game pretty much from that point with an injury. And then they punt, which leads to, I believe, another score for Washington. like, oh my God, this is happening. So credit Chicago for not letting this thing get away. And credit to Matt Ebroflus and the offense for getting aggressive mark on that last touchdown to DJ Moore after the slime miss. They could have done the thing that so many coaches do when they're scared and trying to just run out the clock and run the ball three times and then punt again. But he called the pass from Fields to Moore, which had worked beautifully all night.

And one more time, DJ Moore was the better player. He took it to the house and away we go. celebration time yeah it's like this was the coaching scenario coaching effort that you would want from iber flus and the bears coaches like it it looked like a team that is rebuilding that's taking steps i could point to a play too they're down 27 to 11 the commanders logan thomas he basically the bar like the ball jar loose from by terrell smith at the bears 46 like in that that to me like that like the bears defense made a big play um there was also hidden among all the other dj more big catches a 32 yard grab that basically set up a field goal that made it 30 to 14 like these little moments where the bears could have collapsed and like i mean we were texting

during this i was like you know what this is like every NFL game it's going to go to i know it's going to go to overtime we're going to deal with the bears and commanders in like a fifth period and instead like the bears found their way out of these little moments over and over and uh we haven't seen them do that. They just haven't done that. And like, it was a bit of a different coaching scenario, a bit of coaching effort. And so, like, I appreciate that from that side of it. If you're a Bears fan, like, I don't know if you're rooting for this coaching staff to survive or not. Like, I mean, we haven't seen a lot. And so this is a little ray of hope, a little open window. I don't know what, like a game like this, like I struggle to make too, to put too much

meaning on a Thursday night game between the commanders and bears and say, we're in a new direction here i think that's what that's what happens with tnf but it's like we'll see we'll see it's it's a strange it's a strange setup um for me chicago like you needed this you got it we'll see we'll see what the carryover is yeah we i i hope it's not coming off that way like all of a sudden the bears are fine and justin fields will no i don't think so but but that's two straight games that now to where they started the season this he actually it's interesting he did run the ball effectively uh but he was again, it's not like when Fields was hot as a pistol in the middle of last season, last November or so where he was just carving teams up for 120 yards on the ground and just

running roughshod over defenses. Like these last two games, he's looked a lot sharper as a passers, which that's what will make him a star. And if you continue to build off these last two weeks, you have a lot to be excited about. And you look at their upcoming schedule, the Vikings defense up next. That's not overly daunting. You have the Raiders after that and then they're in Los Angeles against the Chargers after that. So there's a chance here. Maybe the Bears aren't going to win all or any of these games. But I feel like

the runway is now set up for fields to really kind of find himself and start building in what's such a pivotal year for him in his development. So good stuff. There's a couple things, Mark. A couple other things here.

Did you have any of thoughts on the other side of the ball before we move on about Washington? Well, the one thing I'd say is like, because When I say that the game doesn't ultimately have, like, universal meaning, maybe it will, but, like, I think that, like, I came out of it being, like, my biggest note was my fifth week of watching Sam Howell. And, you know, five weeks now, maybe it changes. But, like, there's something about him. He's not a massive physical specimen.

He's not perfect. He's not teaching us how to throw the ball compared to all of the quarterbacks. But, like, there's something about him that I don't. believe in and like i i kind of just want him to be in a situation that's stable that allows him to grow and like he's got some weapons around him but it's like i i he's fascinating to watch and like i know they lost and he's getting killed behind they's like that he he walks into sacks like he's making some mistakes but there's something about him that i dig and it's not just i know he seems a little baker mayfieldish but it's like um i i don't know what what his future is but like i came out

of this again being like there's something about sam how that i just dig i like he's i like makes me want to watch the commanders you know i like him too there's only he had the one wipeout game um what was it against buffalo but otherwise has been really fun to watch and again like he's more athletic than baker like he's more athletic than ryan fitzpatrick some other guys that might kind of come to mind in terms of the his build the way he some of those scrambles like frantarkin dinner something the way he he dodges bounces off tackles he had one scramble in the red zone where it was a third and for or second and forever. I think it was the third and forever. And he, he bounces off numerous guys. He toe, he tow taps along the sideline, then cuts back in, which is not necessarily what you want from your quarterback. But that's just his character. And he's, he's, he's a guy that kept slinging. He's, he's kind of exactly the quarterback. You never want to be down 27.3. But he's the type of quarterback that can throw you back into the game, like a Baker, like a Fitzpatrick, if he starts feeling it and the other defense starts to let up a little bit. So,

that's part of the reason this game became a game in the second half. So I'm with you totally on that. And it's fun to watch. Now, a couple things. From FedEx Field, you know, we have Young and sweaty, the combination of Montez sweat and Chase Young. Today they combined in a losing effort. Let's not get over the moon about Washington's defense today.

They combined for two sacks and five QB hits in general. they're starting to fulfill that promise together, and it helps that they have Duran Payne and Jonathan Allen there as well. The movement, the young and sweaty nickname movement, gained some significant steam. And if you're watching this on YouTube, you could see the tweet that Big Funk is putting up right now. We have Melissa Buckley, thank you.

The tradition lives on, and she's got a young headband. It's a white headband that says young across it, and then a buddy doing the plus sign, and then her friend, I assume her friend, could be her enemy. Maybe that's why the man is in between with a headband that says sweaty. So I think it's real. And now it's just a matter of us continue Washington fans to send us young and sweaty support for the great nickname of the area.

This is, Dan, this is, you know, we, part of our job is to come up with monikers, nicknames, and to attempt to start movements. And some of them go dry, some of them take off. And, like, I think this is a big step here. What I love the most about it is when they get separated, and you've got the girl on the right walking around the stadium. That's a tough one. Yeah, she's got to go do what she's going to do.

And she's got to wearing a headband just that says sweaty, which it's not a bad thing. It's just like it raises some questions. I'm not sure what she's attempting to tell people. But when you get them together, you get it. Quite frankly, it's the better, it's the better tradeoff. But another woman just walking around the concourse with a headband that says young on it is also kind of.

a weird thing if you want to think about it that way it's a bit of a brag i guess i don't know it's like it depends who like she both of them fit both of them are doing fine in the role like a different pair of um representatives would struggle potentially like sweaty would work with a lot of people that i know like young not so much uh another news item um around the bears on this otherwise joyous uh evening in chicago bears general manager uh he ended any any any thought that Chase Claypool will ever play another snap for the Bears, the wide receiver who they acquired for a 30 second overall pick last year, just last year. He was on ESPN 1000, their pregame radio show today. And this was his quote mark. I don't know if you saw this. I think Chase,

which is Claypool, is going to learn from this situation. We all will. He's like, I won't trade basically a first round pick for a malcontent wide receiver. We all will. We all will. and I wish him luck moving forward throughout his career. He go. I mean, it's like a, it's an interesting, this was sort of a flush out toxins week for the NFL because we just saw like J.C. Jackson who completely failed

with the Chargers go back to New England. He's going back home. It's like Chase Claypool, not going to go back to Pittsburgh, I'd imagine. But like, you know, the one thing I'd say, like some of these GMs, it's like I guess if you wanted to be real, like we talked about mission accomplished and way to go Brownie, during our show today. It's like, if you really want to dig in,

yeah, you just, but you could just stick with these guys that you failed with. Like, we're going to keep you because we just refuse to acknowledge we felt. It's like, we're going to flush these guys out. We get it. Like, we're moving on. I like that at least.

Like, let's, I don't want to hear four more weeks of Chase Claypool drama in Chicago. I don't have to hear about that anymore. I don't know if it helps Ryan Poles's, um, trade leverage, but I don't imagine he had much, uh,

to start with. And he, in that same conversation, And he also talked about the reasoning behind the doom trade. He said they wanted to add another receiver to the offense, not only to help us be more productive, but also to help Justin take the next step. So that was the thought process then.

And I think, again, on a positive night for the Bears, they now have that guy. The guy that they wanted Chase Claypool to be and they miscast him from the very beginning is DJ Moore. And in that trade where they sent the number one overall pick to Charlotte, getting more in their building what you've seen in these last two weeks, That could change the entire trajectory of Fields' career. So Ryan Pohl still has a job after one of the worst trades of the decade,

and maybe DJ Moore will help save it going forward. Finally, Mark, this is a bittersweet day for the Bears, because on the same day that they wiped out the commanders on Thursday night football, we learned that Dick Buccas, one of the most famous of all Chicago Bears, passed away at the age of 80. Hall of Famer, a nine-year career, started in 1965, known as like a giant amongst his peers, a middle linebacker who was well known and feared by contemporaries as a guy that was vicious in terms of how hard he would hit you.

He said in interviews after his career, like he wanted to be the type of player that when you get hit by him, they don't even have to get up and say who hit them. They say, just by feeling it, you knew it was a Dick Butkus hit. And in a lot of ways, he's emblematic of what the NFL was in the mid-20th century and kind of a legendary figure and icon of that era of the sport. So to lose him today is very sad. But the man lived an incredible life at that that spanned not just football, but also as a very well-known celebrity pitchman and also actor. He showed up in movies and TV shows, just kind of an American giant in terms of what he did in his life. Yeah, it was like sort of the first multi-platform star in a way. I mean, we were relatively

the same age where we grew up where, you know, Dick Buck has finished his career. He played from 65 to 73 with the Bears. I was born in 73. So it's like, we didn't watch him in person, but there was no way you became a football fan in the 80s, early 90s without not having Dick Puckus lead off kind of like the highlight reel that would lead you into pregame shows. It's like he was still a massive figure in terms of like the way that someone today would think of, frankly, like Peyton Manning. Like it's like he's removed, but not that far removed. And it's like still the star that you look back on. Or if you're a basketball fan, a Michael Jordan where it's like everyone knows this person. And, you know, the bears of the weird

team out there that's like somehow spent six decades fashioning their image off of inside and linebackers in general. It's like, there's no other team doing that. But they are. And like, I think it started with him. And, um, I mean, I grew up watching and buying like VHS tapes about like the NFL's most devastating hits from 1986. It's like they don't, they don't produce that anymore. But like, Butkus in general would always be like on these like historical biggest hits devastating and to knock you out with a forearm kind of guy. But then like you and I watch TV shows that he suddenly became, I wouldn't say cuddly, but he kind of play his tough self but be have a cuddly side of us on McGiver. I think I saw about 200 episodes of my two dads. He was featured on

that like largely. It's like I knew him in two different ways and it's like. Was he one of the dads in my two dads? No, it was definitely not. No, no, no. He would not have played that role. But I will say, this is a really weird side note, but the daughter on my two dads, Stacey Keenan. I was in a screenwriting class, okay? And there was a competition in our little class to have your screenplay read and mine got to the end. And like, they brought in some, our guy that, like, taught the class started different strokes. He, that show. And so like, he knew all these actors and actresses and brought in Stacey Keenan to lead like the fit in the main female role.

And I'm like sitting there as like a 20-something year old like freaking out because it's the girl from my two dads. But that is like the my Kevin Bacon one step removed from Dick Putkus. Like she spent a ton of time on set with Dick Buckkus. And it's like he spanned all these different roles and stuff. But really his imprint on the NFL, I would say he's like a top five, top 10 person that move the NFL from stage A to B to C and gave it a national presence. And then as an actor, I think always you hark back to who he was.

Just an incredible figure and an incredible Chicago Bears. It's like the Bears really haven't changed that much to me and who they are, who their fans are, what they love, what they fall for, who they fall for. And he's still at that center, that epicenter. And it's like, man, it's, you lose, we're at the point where we're losing these NFL people left and right. And people a lot younger than Dick Buccas, but like this is a legend gone into the mist. Yeah. Yeah, everything you're saying about, you know, the linebacker, like, he's the Midwest. He is that sensibility and that's part of the reason he was so beloved. And he was a son of Illinois. Like he was born in Chicago, played high school ball in Chicago, went to school, the University of Illinois, became a star there, then played his entire career with the Chicago Bears. So, I mean, he is Chicago. In fact, we have a good clip here that, uh, uh, uh, uh,

Big Funk dug up from a press conference where he was honored, I believe, at his college, where he's an alumnus of Illinois, and he was talked a little bit about, you know, the game and why he loved it. It's very a humbling deal. And, you know, when you wonder, you know, why, man. You know, I did what I thought I was supposed to do. And I, you know, I had fun. knocking the shit out of people, you know.

So if it was that unusual, I guess you take it, you know. I had fun knocking the shit out of people. He was one of one, rest in peace, Dick Buccas. You're right, though, Mark, like we lost Jim Brown. We lose Buccas, and it feels like all these kind of heroes of the 20th century, you know you you know the passage of time undefeated mark undefeated as you yourself uh coming up upon your 50th birthday time stalls for no one not you know not something i'm like i'm not one of these uh i don't know who's doing this i don't want to tag like target or tag certain genres or types but they want to

celebrate their birthday for two months in a row and go to like 48 dinners with 72 friend groups Like, I will allow it to come and go. I can't believe that will be my age. I don't see myself that way. But you know what? No one does. And then suddenly time tells you, good luck with your own wishes. You don't know what you're doing.

So my favorite, I don't know what. Like also that statement. What are we going? My favorite all time article ever, or at least headline from the Onion. Another Chicago-based legendary product. Uh, in it, and it, and it, how do you pronounce this? inexorable, inexorable? Yeah. Inexorable march of time brings TV's Jerry Mathers, one step closer to death. And the whole article is just about how Jerry Mathers, the, he was

leaving to beaver. He was just getting older. That is an article. It's sad. It's, uh, it's accurate. It's logical. Um, okay. Good stuff. Anything else, Mark, before we say goodbye. No, but I want to go track. down this um magiver episode or episodes that dick buckus was on like uh you know that was a complex show there were a lot of like problems being solved i don't know what role he played i would say probably a villain i want to go find out right and i uh yeah we are separated by a few years so while i remember my two dads um the show i remember stacey keenan from was step by step uh which uh the patrick duffy

Suzanne Summers' vehicle. And I'll tell you what, but a 10-year-old Zuzzer found Stacey to be someone that I would have wanted to marry at that time of my life. That's what I want my wife to look like. So the fact that you shared some type of classroom or hall in the corridors off USC's campus is I'm pretty jealous, I must say. Well, so wait, I will add no more than 10 seconds context to this. But like, So my professor created step-by-step, and that's how we knew her. And so when that's, that's how he kind of said, hey, come like take time out of your day to do this and not get paid for. It stays. Remember what I cast. Yeah. Come read this. Come read this like non-ruffians, like, totally failed script. And like, she read the main female part.

But like the whole time, I don't know what my role was in that class other than at that point, we had already written a thing. I was just sitting there, like, listening to it. And I'm like, what is the girl from my two dads doing here? I was my sensibilities were very aligned with yours and I was like internally freaking out like I had been in LA for like six months and I was like this is the craziest thing that's ever happened to me and like I think at some point I attempted to speak to her probably went very poorly and then everyone vanished it's like I don't know you got one shot and I did I totally whiffed on that shot that's for sure um listen we all if you shot you shot that's the most important thing because then you can't live with regret let that be a I shot it into the bleachers, I think. You know, it's like, I think the basketball hit a woman in the head who was like trying to like drink a glass of milk. But you shot it. That woman's in a coma at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center, but you shot the ball. And that's what's most important.

Kids, don't forget that. Leave it all on the court. All right. By the way, Dick played Earl Dent on McGiver. And I look at fun coming through again. Check it out on YouTube. There you go. There he is.

You know, a real man, a Midwestern man has broad shoulders. and a nice mustache and a masculine face. That was Butkus. He kind of checked all the boxes. I'm not surprised at all that he was able to transition into a successful career in Hollywood. All right, that's it. Good stuff, good conversation.

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