Patriots-Bears Week 7 TNF Recap: Bears Grind Out Win Over Patriots
00:00This is an I-Heart podcast.Guaranteed Human.Stacked receivers to the right,the empty switch, snap, off the right screen with a lot of blockers in front for Burden.Inside the 10th, 5!Touchdown!Touchdown, Luther Burden, touchdown Bears.I mean, there was a armory of blockers out in front,
00:20and Burton turned down the jets.Oh, welcome to NFL Daily.Luther Burton goes into the end zone right at the end of the first half.One would think,But there was more football to be played.Patrick Claibon here with Nick Shook, wrapping up Thursday night football on a day and a night right there alongside Lake Michigan and Soldier Field, Nick, where a lot of things happened, made for a very interesting game with two very talented young quarterbacks with bears outlasting the Patriots making the plays.The Patriots didn't.Yeah, outlasting is, I think, the proper way to describe this game because it very easily could have gone in the opposite direction had the Patriots made a few more plays.
00:58But you have to give all the credit in the world, I think, to the Patriots.the Bears for coming through in the most important moments, whether it's their, I believe it wastheir final drive of the game where Caleb's facing a third and long in the shadow of his own goalpost and steps up and rips a bullet to Roma Dunezay for a key completion or finding ways tosustain drives, hitting plays like that before halftime on one of the better blocked receiverscreens you're going to see, but also credits a Luther burden for navigating through that trafficand outrunning the rest of the defense for the touchdown. It wasn't perfect by any means for eitherteam. Both made their mental mistakes, both made some questionable decisions in key spots.
01:32You had a field goal, you know, kick or miss a field goal, Cairo Santos. But ultimately, it was agame between two teams that I believe both belong in the playoffs and will end up in the playoffs.They're obviously on opposite sides conference-wise, so we're not going to see them until theyperhaps would make the Super Bowl. But it was one of those Thursday night games where you're like,these are two quality squads. They deserve to be back and forth battling. And the onethat made fewer mistakes and came through in the key spots won the game.Also interesting and intriguing football to see the coaching matchup in this one where Mike Braville making the adjustments over the course of the,between the first half and the second half,
02:09because you talked about the Luther Burden play.In fact, why don't we just go ahead and look back on this Luther Burden screen for the touchdown?Because ultimately, the way that that happens, the bears have a solid drive towards the end of the first half.over 130 yards receiving for Luther Burden.So much of it based off of linebackers kind of getting misplaced by the play action.We saw that a whole lot in the first half where he's running the crosses.The linebacker gets put in conflict.And it just creates these open passing lanes for Caleb Williams,
02:43where you mentioned the past Romo Dunzee.The ball's getting out quick.It's on time.And it's on target in a place where Luther Burden,who's so dangerous with the ball in his hands,gets the ball in position where he can make those plays.And it's just kind of the full imagining of what we thought the spin Johnson offense could look like,what we thought Luther Burden could grow and turn into.
03:04And it's like fully expressed, but the way Vrable adjusted to it in the second half,it kind of diminished their capacity to do that.And then, you know, weird stuff happens at the Patriots stay in the game.Yeah, yeah.It was a good example of a chess match.But I do like the way that you describe the Bears offense being fully expressedbecause there was a stat, I think, early in the third quarter in which over 60% of the Bears,total plays are out of play action.
03:28And it kind of defines Ben Johnson's desire to establish the run and work out of the run.And it wasn't a big night for DeAndre Swift.He had some nice runs for a decent amount of yards.I mean, he finished his 22 for 78 and a touchdown.But it was in the small spaces, you know, turning a two-yard gain into a five-yard game.That sort of thing that keeps the defense honest and has to respect the run.And then you can build out of it with that.But what I saw more than anything from this entire bear's offense is a level of comfort
03:53and a willingness to be aggressivebecause you have your quarterback back.Like this was,the bears have been trying to get bywithout Caleb Williams in recent weeksbecause he was out with the hamstring injury.They did a good job against the Eagles with Kay's Keenum.It was very up and down from then on out
04:09with Bejan and Case Keenom.But they're back to who they want to be.And so much of this game,it felt like, you know, you have shifting pockets.You have, you know, Caleb dropping backoftentimes out of play action,stepping up, navigating, and firingthat most quarterbacks just don't do,
04:26but that's what makes him special.And that's what enables this offense to dowhat Ben Johnson wants to do with it.And so you get these plays in these key spotslike the throws to burden,whether it was the long completion that we showedor the touchdown just before halftimeor the throw to Doones A on third and long
04:43or even a beautiful ball of Colston Loveland that he dropsand then ends up making another catch shortly thereafter.It's just an offense that can hit you from so manydifferent directions, but they can only do that because their quarterback is a specialplayer who marries really well with an offensive genius in Ben Johnson.And over on the other side, where we've kind of seen in terms of Drake May and this Patriotsoffense, the protection over the stretch where you had Drake May as the fantasy QB1 back-to-backweek, so he had a solid game, a completion percentage low ultimately last week, but he had
05:15those big chunk plays where we saw this offense be successful. They were getting time.So there was, you know, you saw both sides of the coin where, you know, you pressure Drake May, you force the ball out quick, make him make some odd decisions, which, you know, as frustrating as, and we'll talk about the end of the half for Chicago here shortly, as frustrating as that situation was, you get plays like this in the red zone where Drake May is picked off in the late second quarter.He carries 22 yards from May, 7.3 average. He takes and he's going to throw. He's got an intercept.in the end zone, intercepted bythe Marco Jackson D-Jack with a huge play.And that'll give the bears the ball back with 325 to go.Drake May through a bunch of interceptions in his first game,but that's his eighth red zone interception in his career.
06:09Good example of why Prime Vision remains the best way to watch football.I say this every Thursday, and it remains king this week.Watching that in Prime Vision, when you see Drake step up and throw that ball,as soon as he lets it go, you're like,There's only one place that this is going to work.And if it's over the back outside shoulder of Eli Raarden for a touchdown, you've gotto throw it over the linebacker.And then you go back and look at the replay.
06:29And he's holding the safety with his eyes and basically goes to throw that ball predeterminedbefore he even looks and throws it right into the window where DeMarco Jackson is for an interception.That was really his only big mistake of the night.And the Patriots were able to overcome that.And it's frustrating in that moment, but it's not a sign of like, oh, that's May strugglingwith turnovers again.It was just one bad decision that he has to learn from.I give him credit for bouncing back and finding a way to stay in this game and mount scoring drives from there.
06:56But, you know, it's one of those things that he's a third-year quarterback,and he'll learn a lesson from that and had many, many more good plays than that bad play.Just ultimately, Dennis Allen, this bear's defense, being able to speed up the process to an extentwhere you get a play like that, you get points.And then there's the 100%, 180 other side of this where,okay why don't you guys just listen to the call we'll try to break down the calamitythe biggest late first half error that you could possibly make three receivers to thenear side one brown may drop back he's going to throw it underneath loms it to stevenson
07:37runs it right 35 30 yard line chased from the 25 cuts a left at the point from under stevensontakes it into his hands and runs through the worst team so patriots fans have been watching theKenyon Drake play for years, they probably still will.Going back to that particular miracle in Miami,where the path is somewhat similar,the tackling, similar to Gronks on that play.You set the stage for, you know, our audio exclusives.It's 20 to 7.
08:14The Bears have just scored a touchdown 15 seconds to go in the half.And, you know, they go into pressure Hail Mary.And I know there's a lot of people like me as kids like,Hail Mary situation, call a screen,you know, get blockers out in front.This is what so many of us have been waiting for, Shook,but not everybody's pressure on hail mirrors.We saw it go the other way for a couple of other teams.
08:37And you get sacked.It's like, oh, how is Jane Daniels getting sacked on this plate?Well, they're bringing pressure.This time I worked out for the offense.This is, this was a moment that made,that kind of caused a crisis of confidence within myself.Because you and I, I believe, are on the same page that in these scenarios,you never rush three.
08:54You at least rush four.But I thought in that moment after it happened,And I was like, well, maybe it would have been better to rush threebecause at least you have eight back there to defend.Because what you saw was six guys rushing, five left to defend, a convoy of blockers,and some really poor pursuit angles.And another example where when you're watching in the prime vision angle,you see him weave and you see the space created and then you look upfield as he's running toward daylight
09:17and you realize there is daylight and he's going to score.Like I shouted just sitting there watching.I was like, oh my God, he's going to score.And it immediately wipes out the momentum that the bear is just built by taking a 20 to 7.lead in which they felt like they were on the precipice of running away with this game,had played the better half, deserved to have a two score lead in a halftime,until their defense takes, you know, they don't execute.And you got a question what Dennis Allen does, you know, approach-wise when it comes
09:44to sending that many rushes.There's three seconds of the clock when that ball is snapped.You're not trying to keep a team out of field goal range.This will be the last play of the half.There's no reason to do this.And yet they find themselves in that.It's a teachable moment.And it was funny as the halftime interview with Mike,
09:58able was Kaylee Hartzong asked him, you know, how did you, you know, what do you think about thatplay? And he's like, well, that's why you practice those types of plays on Saturday. And I'm thinking,this wasn't a gadget play. It was just a screen. It was a poorly defended screen. They went for atouchdown with a running back who didn't look like he was running particularly fast. And then youwatch it from the sideline angle, the standard broadcast view. And you're like,God, this play looks like it happened in slow motion. But that's just where these guys were.They were out of position defensively, took some poor angles and they paid the price for it.But I got to give them a lot of credit because they did not let them, you know, sink them.
10:28and knocked them off course.Lesser teams would have gone to the locker and been like, wow.And that would have, how do we let that happen?That would have affected them mentally throughout the entire second half, not this team.And that's another reason why the Bears, you know, in a very difficult division,you have to be looked at as one of the legitimate contenders to win it.And generally, that was my takeaway from this game,was a team that can make plays, that has explosive playmakers
10:52and can overcome catastrophic errors because you can get a third and 11 in a,clock killing drive situation and have Caleb rip one through three defenders to Romo Dunzee whomakes a clutch catch, right? You can have DeAndre Swift on fourth down being able to get a linebackerto peek back inside and then use the speed to get to the corner. And like over the course of a 60 minutegame, these bears can make plays where you wonder who the Patriots are, you know, you want A.J. Brown to bein these situations. I think there was one deep shot to A.J. Brown that was clearly past interference.I want to say, I don't know, I'm not sure if they tracked it as a drop on the broadcast.I think they like kind of insinuated that they thought he dropped it.
11:32It was very clearly past interference.It was hailed as good coverage on the broadcast by a rookie cornerback, but it was definitelypass interference.But it was another game though.And you're right.You talk about the difference between teams that made plays versus teams that couldn't.AJ Brown's return has been tough for the Patriots.You know, we know about his, his drops that he dealt with against the Jets last week.
11:51It was more about tonight not getting a lot of targets, just not really being a full.local point of the offense. And I think that was a product too of Chicago doing a decent job ofgetting Drake May, you know, kind of off his spot and a little uncomfortable. He managed and handledmost of that really well, but it ended up being a lot of scrambling, check down to the tight endtypes of plays. And just at that point, Brown is eliminated. I think that, you know, if the Patriotsreally want to figure out how to generate more than than the, what, 24 points that they ended upwith tonight in this loss, which is, you know, a respectable total. But if you want to put morepoints up, they're probably going to look at some of their approach, you know, their approaches
12:24in certain situations.There was, I think, a second and shortwhere they run a QB sneak,but they've got A.J. Brown clearlyin one-on-one coverage.And it's like, just give your guy a shot,just to get him involved.Like, a shooter coming off the, you know,
12:36the injured list in the NBA,let them get some shots upand watch a few fall and get into a rhythm.I think that's something that they're going to have to focuson going forward to really maximize their,their capabilities of this offense,which they just lack tonight.But more than anything, it's what you said,
12:47which is that they didn't make enough playsand the Bears did.Yeah, and ultimately,the caveat and the disclaimer that NGS pressure numbers are proximity alert.We try to let people know that at any point because any number of agencies that track pressures,track it differently.When pressure, Drake May was 11 of 12 for 151 yards and a touchdown.Now he's a guy who can, has been known to hold onto the ball.
13:12When he holds onto the ball, you know, there's a better opportunity for people to get openin situations where he's athletic enough to get there.And so I think there's the caveat.out. But there were times where you wondered, hey, Dennis Allen, maybe this whole pressuresituation isn't working, especially in those Patriots drives where things were successful,because the coverage, albeit, you know, the one, if you're watching the video here,again, that was pass interference. The arms raking prior to the ball getting there.I don't know what definition you would be using that wouldn't qualify that as, you know,
13:46contract with the pass cash, where it creates an advantage for the defender, you know,ball hits the turf and, you know, they go to the next play, which is weird because Herbie wastalking about, you know, having a conversation with A.J. Brown before the game, it seems like they'recordial. You know, maybe you point that out on the call. But ultimately, you know, they didn't.They make those plays. They get it, they get a donated seven points. You mentioned Cairo Santos,ultimately missing the field goal immediately prior before he absolutely nails an absolute clutchfield goal where you just see the confidence.You see the confidence in the play calling,
14:24the belief in his team to execute.I notice the times where, you know,you could say we're in October,we're almost in November.Teams in terms of the way they get to the line of scrimmageand execute with the play clock winding down,there's a lot of teams that aren't doing as well as the Bears did.And this is Caleb's second game back from the hamstring,
14:44the slight hamstring tear.You know, it's always easy to say a tear is slightwhen it's somebody else's hamstring.but those moments the play is in the quarterback's ready the line's ready he's calling plays thatare functionally illegal i think ben johnson knows that handoff to joe tini's illegal thank youi'm so glad we're to cover this because i'm pretty sure ben jonson is well aware that that is againstthe rules he was just hoping they wouldn't call it because the dude's a great player he's been a greatplayer for a long time and he reed didn't get a touchdown he says dagnapp and i'm a give
15:13it's one of the plays that i think defines exactly where the bears are you know just only two weeksinto having Caleb back in their offense, which is that there's enough confidence that they can justtry out weird stuff. And the weird stuff being, we're going to fake a jet sweep. We're going to haveJoe Tuny act as if he's pulling. We're going to stuff the ball into what should have been hisstomach, but ended up being his chest. He's going to bend over and act like he doesn't have the ballto try to hide it. You can't hide a football like that, but he did. He at least fooled one defender.And he's going to run forward. It was a small gain. It was immediately deemed illegal.It was illegal under a call that I don't think I've ever heard from an official, which was
15:44illegal forward handoff to an offensive lineman.Didn't know that rule was in the book, but it is illegal.And I thought like it was more than anything, it was a test.Like, you know, like, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, you know, if you ain't pushingthe rules, I guess, you ain't trying.And Ben Johnson was trying to keep some officials honest to see if they would actually spotthat and know that it was illegal.I had somebody hit me on social media that's just that.
16:08I think he just wants it on tape just as a tester and figure out how to iterate on that,like going forward.Honestly, I loved it.as a former offensive lineman,as somebody who spent a lot of time playing guard.Joe Tuny lived my dream for about seven seconds,even though it was illegal.I just love the creativity and the brashness of doing that.
16:25Like, you're just like, you know what?We feel pretty good about where we areand that we can score.Let's try this player that we know is illegaland see if they'll call us for it or not.And it just speaks to where they are confidence-wise right now.Also, we've already covered it,but a big knife for screens, you know?
16:41Like neither team really took a lot of deep shotsthroughout most of this game, especially not designed deep shots,more out of structure deep shots than anything.And yet you've got big time touchdowns happening on screensback to back at the end of the half.It wasn't the only time that that happened and found success.The diversity of the Chicago offense,New England's willingness to try to get more diverse to keep up.
17:02It just made for an entertaining game that I think that, you know,sometimes these primetime games, Thursday nights have been pretty decent.They've been pretty close for most of the season so far.Sometimes these primetime games end up being clunkers or whatever.This was not.This is one that you're going to want to go watch back again because you're going to see just exactly where the bears are and how they feel about their team against a legitimate team that they were willing to take risks like that.Yeah.And over, again, the bears were spectacular in terms of their playmaking.
17:29To contrast that the Patriots leading rush around the ground in terms of yards per carry was Drake May.Remandre at 3.7.Corey Kiner with 3.3, just six carries for Remandre.and you've wondered, I mean, we've wondered and had concerns about this Patriots run game and their capacity to be explosive when Travion, clearly we're not at even 90% Trayvon at this point where they get the explosives in the run game because, you know, we've seen the Bears defense give up some, you know, the offense has made teams kind of abandon the run.They did it again tonight, but the Patriots and Josh McDaniels just seemed unwilling and unable to have success on the ground.I felt like it was a good example, though, of a team trying to adjust in a game.You already kind of highlighted it with, you know, what the Patriots did in the second half to try to, you know, move closer in a game that, you know, was a two-score game, there was a one-score game.And they were trying to keep pace, right?
18:23But it was also a game in which it was a good example of players overcoming their own mistakes.Like we had the May interception on a target to Rairdon, the DeMarco Jackson picks off, right, in the end zone.Well, then they hit a touchdown pass in a similar fashion to Rairden for a score in the second half.Rairden, that was right after he had committed a false start in a key spot that backed him up in their five yards.And he was so upset with himself that he just stood there, wide stance, just staring.Like, no movement just staring.Like, I cannot believe I just do that.This is a rookie tight end who's actually had a bigger place in this offense than most would have expected.
18:56I think about on the flip side, where it's, you had a Colston Loveland drop on third and two.He ends up making a key catch later in the game.You have Santos, who misses a field goal, bangs one from,his career long of 58 with the game on the line.Not only is their confidence, there's overcoming earlier mistakes.There's also some guts.Sam Cassell, if you know, you know,Ben Johnson very much facing the risk of handing the Patriots the ball
19:23at the 50-yard line in the final couple of minutes of the game with a six-point lead says,you know what, screw it.I believe in my kicker.Yes, this is three yards longer than his career long, but I believe in him.And he drills it.Like those are the types of things that separate a good, like a legitimate team from a,an aspiring team, a team that wants to be in that group.Not to say that the Patriots weren't, we know they made the Super Bowl last year,
19:43but on a night like tonight, that was kind of the difference.Trusting your guys to make those plays,trusting your guys to overcome the earlier mistakes.And I felt like we saw examples of that on both sides,strongly more in favor of the Bears.Yeah.And I think the field goal decision, right?If Santos doesn't bang that, if he yanks it to the right,
20:02there's conversations.But also, it's kind of,confidence and belief that, okay, the Patriots have a very short field.They're going to get the ball around the 48 yard line at this point.And if they do score, we're going to have a few seconds and a timeout with which to operate.So it's belief in everybody.It's belief in your kickers, it's belief in your defense that's made plays all night asidefrom the one glaring absence of a play that was to be made on the field.
20:34And a general belief and trust, which this team,and Ben Johnson have earned at this point,and they share that.And not that, you know, a decision to the contrary would have been fearful.It was just a fearless approach to where the bears get to go to five and twoand continue this and get kind of the mini-buyer that winning on Thursday night provides.And the complete opposite for a Patriots team that did weather some of the pressure.I mean, you had Dylan Thineman with three pressures tonight.
21:08I think multiple guys in the secondary were listed with multiple pressures.And they know their pressure percentage stats are crazy because they're only, they're only blitzing so often.But just a weird pressure scheme game from Dennis Allen, which, you know, surprise.It's kind of becoming the norm of this defense.And it's out of necessity because we know that this defense has somewhat of a limited ceiling and has been exceeding that expectation for most of the year,say for when they got detonated by the Packers a couple of weeks ago.And it's really refreshing to me to be able to watch a game,especially from that Thursday Night Prime Vision perspective
21:44and to see other teams show these lookswhere you've got eight guys up on the line of scrimmageand you have no idea where the pressure is coming from.This is like taking off in the NFL right now.Obviously, we know Brian Flores for it.We know Seattle does that as well.Chicago is adopting it more.And what I think is the most interesting chess
22:02match counter to that is the insert. It's let's move a tight end. Let's move a running back up justbehind the center in the A gap to potentially pick up one of these guys. And I felt the Patriotsdid a decent job of picking up. They're also dealing with injuries in their offensive line. They'reon like their fourth string guard at this point, which most teams don't, you teams don't have afourth string. That's when you elevate somebody from the practice squad or add somebody. That'swhere they're at right now. And yet they were still able to be competitive in this game. So like from thebigger picture, it's confirmation of what I feel about the bears, which is that they're a goodfootball team and in these matchups, they can do what is necessary to win football games in prime time
22:35by leaning on your best players and trusting your guys to get the job done. And it's a Patriots team thatplayed competitively with one of the better teams in the NFL, I believe. And so it doesn'treally knock like my opinion of them right now. I think that they're still in a really good spot.They've turned around what was a disastrous start to the season. And they'll be fine. They'll beable to clean some things up from this and realize that they miss some opportunities in this gameand hopefully apply those lessons going forward. I just, again, when it comes to their offense,they got to find a way to involve AJ Brown morebecause it's one thing to get a guy back from injury
23:03and have a little bit of rust.It's another thing to have that guy on the fieldand not make an impact.Like tonight, how many targets did he get?Receiving wise, he got six targets.He caught three for 48.And I think until the fourth quarter,he was down to like maybe one reception.
23:16Like he just wasn't a factor.And when you don't have a running gameand you lean on your tight ends like Henry and Raarden,you've got to have a threat outsidewith a guy like AJ Brown,who the bears were in certain instanceswilling to just completely leave in single coverageand just take their,
23:29risk because they knew that there was more value in generating pressure. So that's the areasthat they got to get better in. But as a team, I think that both teams are fine. Both teams are onthe right track. And it was just a classic case of two strong teams competing to the end in oneteam making the right plays to win the game. The Patriots are going to have the Miami Dolphins,you know, barring a victory over the Jets this week. The Dolphins might end up still beingwinless with that game coming up probably. Not probably. Definitely the more intriguingmatchup out of this game would be the bears going up against the Seattle Seahawks.That's going to be coming up is on Monday night football after the Seahawks finish
24:05the Kenneth Walker revenge game that we are looking forward to here in week seven of the NFLseason.Before we go, let's see, my last note from the game shook on the first LutherBurden catch where he inserts his route into the sea gap.I don't know if you noticed this.But he ran his route in between the tackle, the left tackle and the left guard.Ultimately, you know, somehow the corners still get able to get there.But, you know, Caleb hits him with a great throw on a crosser.
24:39And I think, again, like, just to note the way that Ben Johnson calls this game,like I can see the linkage there and also handing a ball to Joe Tuny.Like it makes sense.Eventually we may have a guard pull around and Caleb spin out from under center.and hand it backwards to the guard.Or, yeah, backwards to the guard or naked boot in the opposite direction.And they both go with the flow of the play.And then he's just gone by himself and he's fast enough to actually turn that into a big gainer.
25:04Like there's so many different things that you can do off of plays like that.So you're absolutely right.Yeah.It's a fun team.Fun team to watch Patriots can be too.You just got to, you know, hopefully Romeo Dobbs comes back.This, this offense can be what we were expecting coming into this is your final thoughts.This, this, that the insert exit, essentially, like going through the C gap to run your route.
25:28We talk a lot about different coaching trees like the McVeigh tree and how it spawns so many different coaches elsewhere and how they share, you know, characteristics.Whether it's, you know, usage of tight ends in personnel packages, whatever.We are seeing the first steps of the Ben Johnson tree that is both Ben Johnson and Declan Doyle.Because you know who did that last week was Declan Doyle's offense with Josh Kwevis going through the A gap and completelyconfusing a linebacker. It's essentially like it's the same idea as handing the ballto Joe Tuny because you're just trying to mislead and deceive a defense by sneaking a guy outand putting a linebacker in a position that he's just not comfortable with. You mean I got tocover this guy who's in the A gap and he's exiting and going out into the flat. I got to run with
26:11that guy while I'm still trying to take my read step and read the play. I got to cover LutherBurden who's running out of the C gap here. Like he, as soon as he motions and he's inside thetackles or whatever you think, all right, well, you know, maybe.he runs to the flat. Maybe he stays and just provides some sort of protection. No, he'srunning around and you're going to have to keep up with him from an unorthodox location.This is one of the next steps in the evolution of offenses in the NFL. And it all hasconnective tissue back to where these coaches came from with Doyle being, you know, a Johnson-relatedcoach. And that's what's so fun about this game. And that's what's so fun about watching a
26:40Thursday night game. Again, my last advertisement for Prime Vision at this point, though, is just thatyou can see this stuff happen in real time that you don't see from the traditional broadcast view.and it is so much more fascinating and enjoyable and entertaining for football nerdsto just see it like they're playing madden because a lot of people understand footballfrom that perspective on the field and how things work,whether it's personnel packages,the way you condense a formation,whatever you might want to do.
27:01And to see it happen in real time and be able to spot where these plays are goingin the flow of the play really helps everybody.And if elected,I will make every NFL game, you know,seen from the prime vision perspective because it's just that much better.But it's really fun from just the football nerd perspective to see these types of thingsgrow and proliferate in the NFL, which has always been a copycat league.One of the most important things I learned at WTVY News for in Dothan, Alabama,
27:27was don't pitch a story that you're not willing to do because you'd end up assigning somebodyelse work.I love Sam.Me and Sam been Twitter Mutuals for a while.We could keep the mic on the whole game.We would like to hear the All-Sam broadcast of Prime Vision.You know, if you've got to take breaks, maybe you're coughing, maybe you're having a conversation,but it's okay just let us hear you sound
27:50that's what you have the cop button for come onwe want to hear youfrom kickoff to the final whistleand because yeah it's a great way to consume the gameyou can see how difficult these throws areand with a quarterback matchup like tonightit was an absolute must we do throws of the yearon you know obviously on NFL Daily right and
28:09and I don't know if it's going to qualifybut I would like to submit that third and long throwthat Caleb made from basically his own end zoneto Romo Dunzee it wasabsurd. The way that he got around the traffic in the pocket and just let it absolutelyrip, I mean, I'm talking to RPG off the right shoulder to O'Donzee, who makes an absurdcatch to get them out of a situation in which they were likely punting and giving the Patriotsa short field. Let's put that in there. Eric, I know you're listening. Put it in the group.
28:39I want that considered for throw of the year because that was just insane. Yeah, no, it's, it's,You know, I, we'll see, you know, what the call is from France.Greg has a lot of say in the toady circumstance, but, you know.I'll meet him at customs.Yeah, we got a substitute teacher at this point.We will use our collective pool to get a throw-of-the-year nominee from Thursday night football,while Greg is, you know, what time is it, you know, nine o'clock?It's early in France right now.
29:11Yeah, it's tomorrow in France.We'll say that, you know, 6 a.m. as Eric is better at math than I am.The math tonight, the Bears beat the Patriots, 30 to 24.They've got the Seahawks coming up next.The Patriots will go and take on the Miami Dolphins and probably get a win.So great Thursday night, great opportunity to talk with you, Nick Shook.In fact, we are going to do this again on Sunday.After all the festivities in Paris, Shook and I will finish up the tail end of
29:43the Sunday slate as well as Sunday night football.So for Nick Schiff, I'm Patrick Claybop.Thanks for listening to NFL Daily, and we'll see you on Sunday.This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human.
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