Patriots-Bears Week 7 TNF Recap: Bears Grind Out Win Over Patriots

Stacked receivers to the right, the empty switch, snap, off the right screen with a lot of blockers in front for Burden inside the 10, 5, touchdown, touchdown Luther Burden, touchdown Bears! I mean there was a armory of blockers out in front and Burden turned down the Jets.

Welcome to NFL Daily, Luther Burden 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 Claiborne 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. But you have to give all the credit in the world, I think, to the Bears for coming through in the most important moments, whether it's their, I believe it was their 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 dunes a for a key completion or finding ways to sustain drives hitting plays like that before halftime on one of the better blocked receiver screens you're going to see but also credit to Luther burden for navigating through that traffic

and out running the rest of the defense for the touchdown. It wasn't perfect by any means for either team. Both made their mental mistakes. Both made some questionable decisions in key spots. You had a kicker miss a field goal, Cairo Santos. But ultimately, it was a game 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 they perhaps 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 one that 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, because 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 Burton, 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 where you mentioned the pass to Romo Dunzey. 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 this Ben Johnson offense could look like, what we thought Luther Burden could grow and turn into. And it's fully expressed, but the way Vrabel adjusted to it in the second half, it kind of diminished their capacity to do that. And

then weird stuff happens and 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 described the Bears' offense being fully expressed because there was a stat, I think, early in the third quarter in which over 60% of the Bears' total plays were out of play action. And 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 in a touchdown, but it was in the small spaces, you know, turning a two-yard gain into a five-yard gain, 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 Bears offense is a level of comfort and a willingness to be aggressive because you have your quarterback back. The Bears have been trying to get by without Caleb Williams in recent weeks because he was out with a hamstring injury. They did a good job against the Eagles with Case Keenum.

It was very up and down from then on out with with Bajan and Case Keenum. 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 back oftentimes out of play action, stepping up, navigating and firing that most quarterbacks just don't do.

But that's what makes him special. And that's what enables this offense to do what Ben Johnson wants to do with it. And so you get these plays in these key spots, like the throws to burden, whether it was the long completion that we showed or the, the touchdown just before halftime or the throw to dunes a on third and long, or even a beautiful ball at Colston Loveland that he drops and then ends up making another catch shortly thereafter. It's just an offense that can hit you from so many different directions, but they can only do that because their quarterback is a special player 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 Patriots offense, the protection over the stretch where you had Drake May as the fantasy QB one back-to-back week, so he had a solid game. Completion percentage low ultimately last week, but he had those big chunk plays where we saw this offense be successful. They were getting time. And 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 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 for May. 7.3 average.

He takes and he's going to throw.

He's got it.

It's intercepted in the end zone.

Intercepted by DeMarco Jackson.

D-Jack with a huge play. And that will give the Bears the ball back with 3.25 to go. Drake May. through a bunch of interceptions in his first game, and that's his eighth red zone interception in his career. Good example of why prime vision remains the best way to watch football. I see 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 Reardon for a touchdown.

You got to throw it over the linebacker. And then you go back and look at the replay and he's holding the safety with his eyes and basically goes to throw that ball predetermined before 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.

It's frustrating in that moment, but it's not a sign of like, oh, that's May struggling with 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. But, 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 Bears defense, being able to speed up the process to an extent. where 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 calamity, the biggest late first half error that you could possibly make.

Three receivers to the near side. One is Brown. May drop back. He's going to throw it underneath. Lobs it to Stephenson. Runs it right. 35-30 on the line. Chased from the 25. Cuts and left at the 20. Ramond Ray Stephenson. He's going to score! Touchdown, Patriots! Who needs a prayer? Ramond Ray Stephenson takes it into his hands and runs through the first defense.

A touchdown to close the first half. So, Patriots fans have been watching the Kenyan Drake play For years, they probably still will. Going back to that particular miracle in Miami where the path is somewhat similar, the tackling is similar to Gronk's on that play. It's not the stage for our audio exclusives. It's 20-7. The 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. They'll get blockers out in front. This is what so many of us have been waiting for. But not everybody's pressure and on hail mirrors.

We saw it go the other way for a couple of other teams. And you get sacked. It's like, oh, how is Jane Daniels getting sacked on this play? Well, they're bringing pressure. This time it 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. You at least rush four. But I thought in that moment after it happened, I was like, well, maybe it would have been better to rush three because 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, and 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 Bears had just built by taking a 20-7 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 the halftime until their defense takes, you know, they don't execute. And you got to question what Dennis Allen does, you know, approach wise when it comes to sending that many rushes. There's three seconds on 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 Vrabel was Kaylee Hartzog asked, you know, how did you, you know, what do you think about that play? And he's like, well, that's why you practiced it. 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 that went for a touchdown with a running back who didn't look like he was running particularly fast. And then you watch 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 let that, you know, sink them and knock them off course. Lesser teams would have gone to the locker room and been like, wow. And that would have, how do we let that happen? And that would have affected them mentally throughout the entire second half,

not this team. And, and that's another reason why the bears, you know, in a very difficult division, you have to be looked at, 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. and 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 Dunzey, who makes a clutch catch, right? You can have DeAndre Swift on fourth down being able to get a linebacker to peek back inside and then use his speed to get to the corner. And over the course of a 60-minute game, these Bears can make plays where you wonder who the Patriots are. You want A.J. Brown to be in these situations.

I think there was one deep shot to A.J. Brown that was clearly past interference.

I want to say, I'm not sure if they tracked it as a drop on the broadcast. I think they kind of insinuated that they thought he dropped it. It was very clearly past interference. It was hailed as good coverage on the broadcast by a rookie cornerback, but it was definitely past 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. A.J. Brown's return has been tough for the Patriots. You know, we know about his drops that he dealt with against the Jets last week. It was more about tonight not getting a lot of targets, just not really being a focal point of the offense. And I think that was a product, too, of Chicago doing a decent job of getting Drake May, you know, kind of off his spot and a little uncomfortable.

He managed and handled most of that really well, but it ended up being a lot of scrambling, check down to the tight end types of plays. And just at that point, Brown is eliminated. I think that If the Patriots really want to figure out how to generate more than the 24 points that they ended up with tonight in this loss, which is a respectable total, but if you want to put more points up, they're probably going to look at some of their approaches in certain situations.

There was, I think, a second and short where they run a QB sneak, but they've got A.J. Brown clearly in 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 injured list in the NBA, let him get some shots up and watch a few fall and get into a rhythm. I think that's something that they're going to have to focus on going forward to really maximize their capabilities of this offense, which they just lack tonight.

But more than anything, it's what you said, which is that they didn't make enough plays and 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. When he holds onto the ball, you know, there's a better opportunity for people to get open in situations where he's athletic enough to get there.

And so I think there's the caveat, but there were times where you wondered, Hey, Dennis Allen, maybe, maybe this, this whole pressure situation isn't working, especially in those Patriots drives where things were successful because the coverage was I'll be it. You know, the one, if you're watching the video here, again, that was pass interference that the arms raking prior to the ball. I don't know what definition you would be using that wouldn't qualify that as, you know, contract with the pass cash or that creates an advantage for the defender. You know, the ball hits the turf and, you know, they go to the next play, which is weird because Herbie was talking about, you know, having a conversation with AJ Brown before the game. It seems like

they're cordial. maybe you point that out on the call. But ultimately, they didn't. They make those plays. They get a donated seven points. You mentioned Cairo Santos ultimately missing the field goal immediately prior before he absolutely nails an absolute clutch field goal where you just see the confidence.

You see the confidence in the play calling, the belief in his team to execute. I noticed the times where And, 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 scrimmage and 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, the slight hamstring tear.

You know, it's always easy to say a tear is slight when 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 that are functionally illegal. I think Ben Johnson knows that handoff to Joe Toney is illegal. Thank you.

I'm so glad we're going to cover this because.

I'm pretty sure Ben Johnson is well aware that that is against the rules. He was just hoping they wouldn't call it because the dude's a great player. He's been a great player for a long time. Andy Reid didn't get a touchdown. He says... Dagnabbit, I'm going to give it one.

It's one of the plays that I think defines exactly where the Bears are, you know, just only two weeks into having Caleb back in their offense, which is that there's enough confidence that they can just try out weird stuff. And the weird stuff being, we're going to fake a jet sweep. We're going to have Joe Tooney act as if he's pulling. We're going to stuff the ball into what should have been his stomach, but ended up being his chest. He's going to bend over and act like he doesn't have the ball to 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 offensively. under a call that I don't think I've ever heard from an official, which was a legal forward handoff to an offensive lineman. Didn't know that rule was in the book, but it is illegal.

And I felt 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 pushing the rules, I guess you ain't trying. And Ben Johnson was trying to keep some officials honest to see if they would actually spot that and know that it was illegal. I had somebody hit me on social media that just said, I think he just wants it on tape just as a tester and figure out how to iterate on that, like going forward. And honestly, I loved it. As a former offensive lineman, as somebody who spent a lot of time playing guard, Joe Tooney lived my dream for about seven seconds, even though it was illegal. I just love the creativity and the... the brashness of doing that. Like,

you're just like, you know what? We feel pretty good about where we are and that we can score. Let's try this player that we know is illegal and 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, like neither team really took a lot of deep shots throughout most of this game, especially not design deep shots, more out of structure, deep shots than anything.

And yet you've got big time touchdowns happening on screens back 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, it just made for an entertaining game. I think that 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 was 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. To contrast that, the Patriots leading rusher on the ground in terms of yards per carry was Drake May. Ramondre had 3.7. Corey Kiner with 3.3. Just six carries for Ramondre. 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% Travion 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? But 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 that DeMarco Jackson picks off, right? In the end zone. Well, then they hit a touchdown pass in a similar fashion to Rairdon for a score in the second half. Rairdon, 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 at Like, no movement, just staring. Like, I cannot believe I just did that. This is a rookie tight end who's actually had a bigger place in this offense than most would have expected. I think about on the flip side, where 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 few little bangs one from...

his career long of 58 with the game on the line, not only is there confidence, there's overcoming earlier mistakes. There's also some guts, Sam Cassell. If you know, you know, he Ben Johnson very much facing the risk of handing the Patriots, the ball at 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 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, but 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 the um i think the field goal decision right if santos doesn't bang that if he yanks it to the right um there's conversations but also it's confidence and belief that okay the patriots have a very short field they're gonna get the ball you know 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 kicker. It's belief in your defense that's made plays all night aside from the one glaring absence of a play that was to be made on the field.

And 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 5-2 and continue this and get kind of the mini-buy 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 Thienemann with three pressures tonight. I think multiple guys in the secondary were listed with multiple pressures.

Their pressure percentage stats are crazy because they're only blitzing so often. Just a weird pressure scheme game from Dennis Allen, which You know, it's becoming the norm.

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, you know, 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. And to see other teams show these looks where you've got eight guys up on the line of scrimmage and you have no idea where the pressure is coming from. This is, this is like taking off in the NFL right now. Obviously we know Brian Flores for it. We know Seattle does that as well. Um, Chicago is adopting it more. Um, And what I think

is the most interesting chess match counter to that is the insert. It's let's move a tight end. Let's move a running back up just behind the center in the a gap to potentially pick up one of these guys. And I felt the Patriots did a decent job of picking it up. They're also dealing with injuries in their offensive line. They're on like their fourth string guard at this point, which most teams don't, your teams don't have a fourth string. That's when you elevate somebody from the practice squad or add somebody that's where they're at right now.

And yet they were still able to be competitive in this game. So like from the bigger picture, It's it's confirmation of what I feel about the Bears, which is that they're a good football team. And in these matchups, they can do what is necessary to win football games in primetime. by leaning on your best players and trusting your guys to get the job done. And it's a Patriots team that played competitively with one of the better teams in the NFL, I believe. And so it doesn't really 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 be able to clean some things up from this and realize that they missed some

opportunities in this game and 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 more because they're, it's one thing to get a guy back from injury and have a little bit of rust. It's another thing to have that guy on the field and not make an impact. Like tonight, how many targets did he get? Receiving wise, he got six targets. He got three for 48. And I think until the fourth quarter, he was down to like maybe one reception. Like he just wasn't a factor. And when you don't have a running game and you lean on your tight ends, like Henry and Raredon, you've got to have a threat outside.

But the guy, you know, like AJ Brown, who the Bears were in certain instances willing to just completely leave in single coverage and just take their risk because they knew that there was more value in generating pressure. So that's the areas that they got to get better in. But as a team, I think that both teams are fine.

Both teams are on the right track. And it was just a classic case of two strong teams competing to the end and one team making the right plays to win the game.

And 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 being winless. with that game coming up probably, not probably, definitely the more intriguing matchup out of this game would be the Bears going up against the Seattle Seahawks. That's going to be coming up on Monday Night Football after the Seahawks finish the Kenneth Walker revenge game that we are looking forward to here in week seven of the NFL season. Before we go, let's see, my last note from the game shook. On the first Luther Burden catch where he inserts his route into the C gap. I don't know if you, 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 corner still get able to get there, but you know, Caleb hits him with a great throw on a crosser. And 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 Tooney. Like, like it makes, 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, or yeah, backwards to the guard or naked boot in the opposite direction. 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. Like 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 gotta, you know, hopefully romeo dobbs comes back this this offense can be yeah what what what we were expecting uh coming into.

This i do have to say this uh this this that the the insert exit essentially like going through the c gap to run your route we talk a lot about um different coaching trees like the mcveigh tree and how it spawns so many different coaches elsewhere and how they shared 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 Quavis going through the a gap and completely confusing a linebacker.

It's essentially like, it's the same idea as handing the ball to Joe Tooney, because you're just trying to mislead and deceive a defense by sneaking a guy out and putting a linebacker in a position that he's just not comfortable with. You mean I got to cover this guy who's in the A gap and he's exiting and going out into the flat? I got to run with that guy while I'm still trying to take my read step and read the play? I got to cover Luther Burden, who's running out of the sea gap here. As soon as he motions and he's inside the tackles or whatever, you think, all right, well, maybe he runs to the flat.

Maybe he stays and just provides some sort of protection. No, he's running 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 has connective tissue back to where these coaches came from, with Doyle being a Johnson-related coach.

And that's what's so fun about this game. And that's what's so fun about watching a Thursday night game. Again, my last advertisement for Prime Vision at this point, though, is just that you 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 nerds to just see it like they're playing Madden. Because a lot of people understand football from 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. And to see it happen in real time and be able to spot where these plays are going in the flow of the play is

really helps everybody. Um, 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, it's really fun from just the football nerd perspective to see these types of things grow and, and, 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 was don't pitch a story that you're not willing to do, uh, because you would end up assigning somebody else work, uh, I love Sam. Me and Sam have been Twitter mutuals for a while. We can keep the mic on the whole game. We would like to hear the all-Sam broadcast of Prime Vision.

You know, 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, Sam.

That's what I have the cough button for. Come on.

Yeah. We want to hear you from kickoff to the final whistle. Because, yeah, it's a great way to consume the game. You can see how difficult these throws are. Um, and with a quarterback matchup, like, like tonight, it was an absolute loss.

We do throws of the year on, you know, obviously on NFL daily. Right. And, and I don't know if it's going to qualify, but I would like to submit that third and long throw that Caleb made from basically his own end zone to Roman dunes. It was absurd the way that he got around the traffic in the pocket and just let it absolutely rip. I mean, I'm talking RPG off the right shoulder to, to Odunze who makes an absurd catch to get them out of a situation in which they were likely punting and giving the Patriots a short field. Let's put that in there. Put it in Eric. I know you're listening, put it in the group. I want that considered for throw of the year.

Cause that was just insane.

Yeah, no, it's, it's, you know, I, we'll see um you know what the call is from france uh greg has a lot of say in the in the toady uh circumstance but you know i'll meet him at customs yeah we got we got a substitute teacher at this point we will we will use our collective pool uh to get a throw of the year nominee from thursday night football while greg is you know what what time is it you know nine o'clock it's um early in France right now.

Yeah, 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 the Sunday. slate as well as sunday night football so for nick shook i'm patrick claybottom thanks for listening to nfl daily and we'll see you on sunday

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