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And Joe Tooney has been there before.
All of our mutual friend, Luke Kanellis, he was asking me about it in Bears Game Day Live yesterday when we were doing our pregame coverage.
I had a hard time wrapping my mind around the bears doing that for the first time this season, because that question has been presented to me previous times this year.
Might the bears just pop Joe Tooney out to left tackle.
And my response was consistently in the hall of fame career that Joe Tooney has put together.
The only time that he struggled has been when he's been at left tackle.
So if you've,
spent all these resources to have him play guard and Jonah Jackson play guard and Drew Dallman play center and you feel great about right tackle, then just get left tackle figured out with one of these other bodies and supply a bunch of resources to make sure your left tackle doesn't get exposed.
And I thought the Bears did that so much
throughout this season so it did surprise me the move yesterday what didn't surprise me was that Joe Tooney held up Joe Tooney against a physical Rams pass rush he held up well at left tackle on passing downs but in evaluating some of the rundowns I think that's where to your point Marshall the Bears run game didn't look and it's you know even before they had to make this move the Bears run game hasn't been nearly as dominant as it once was and
for yesterday's game was part of that because of having McFadden in at guard, Tooney out at tackle.
Did that contribute to some of the run game being a little bit off base?
I think that's possibly a factor.
It's too bad that between Caleb and DJ, so much of this season, like the early portion as we watch, and it feels like eons ago, but we think back to the early part of the year where a big topic of discussion was Caleb and DJ not being on the same page.
Some of the side adjustments.
And some of that was in the red zone where just trying to figure out where is Caleb trying to go with the ball?
Why is DJ just a little bit off center from where he's trying to deliver it?
And then we've just seen so many special moments from the two of them together, especially late in the season.
And times where DJ Moore seemingly gets knocked out of the game and he's splayed out on the field or laying down on the opposing sideline.