Mark Grote

So I brought what's in front of them, using 2023, of course, to talk about what's in front of them.

Yeah, well, first of all, good old number 69, Henry Melton, really good to hear your voice.

Yeah, so glad that you're back in the studio.

I'm glad that you're on our team, my friend, so to speak.

Yeah, Pukunuku, just for you, Henry, the numbers, 1,715 yards this year, 10 touchdowns, a 3.3 yards per catch average this year.

I thought a really interesting, I think it was Herb Howard,

who asks specifically about, is this group, the Bears secondary, is this group more suited to go up against a guy like Pukunukua, who doesn't necessarily, as you heard Dennis Allen saying, doesn't necessarily do it with speed.

Like he's not one of those guys who you get to stopwatch out for.

Is this group, because this Bears group is a fairly physical group in the secondary.

And Dennis Allen, when asked that question,

kind of rolled with it.

He was like, yeah, kind of like almost saying like, good point.

Like, we do think that we are, this group is more capable against a guy like that than maybe some of, as it was put, I believe again by Herb, the quick twitch guys, like those types of guys that can really get under your skin.

So this is not to say that the Bears have an upper hand in any way, shape or form against Puka Nakua because nobody has, but at least it's a bit of a silver lining.

And then you deal with the guy that the adjective that everybody uses to describe Devontae Adams is an absolute technician.

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.