Mark Grote

Bears fans know that for all the years that he was with the Packers.

That guy was able to catch anything that was thrown to him and get open in space at will.

I remember so many times down the sidelines, he would get open against a lot of those Bears defenses back in the day.

So we're all very familiar with, if I can bring back a term I use with Dennis Allen,

the trauma of dealing with Devontae Adams back in the day.

Yeah, Richard Hightower was really good today.

Some really good stuff from him.

And Cairo Santos kind of put on a clinic in that first game, especially relative to his counterpart with the Packers.

With Cairo going three for three, boots that 51-yarder, which really, considering the conditions and the confidence with which he booted that ball, was pretty excellent.

And we know that McManus missed the two field goals, missed an extra point as well.

So he just kind of pantsed his counterpart in that as well.

But yeah, Cairo Santos has to deal with the elements.

So does this entire special teams.

And here's Richard Hightower talking about that.

And we're going to get yet another testimonial in terms of what the crowd was like and what it should be like here from HT.

The testimonials that continue to roll in here are just amazing because sometimes players, coaches, you say what you have to say.

Oh, the crowd was great.

It's like, oh, we're a great crowd.

We love our fans.

But to have all of these players and coaches going to such extremes, like genuine extremes, to say it's the rowdiest atmosphere that they've ever been a part of continues to blow me away.