Chapter 1: What updates did Mark Grody provide from Halas Hall?
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That's Mark Brody's music. He joins us via the Circus Sports Illinois hotline. Download the Circus Sports app today. He is live from Hallis Hall. And you can catch our show on Twitch, twitch.tv slash Chicago 670. The score, Henry Melton, the former Bears defensive lineman, the pro bowler, hanging out with us for this hour on Rahimi Harrison Brody on the score.
Let's go live to Hallis Hall and Mark Brody. Mark, what's going on?
Guys, love hearing the Metallica coming into this segment because the Bears are having a real practice today outdoors in the cold.
Chapter 2: How did the Bears practice in cold weather impact their performance?
Sunshine, though, so that kind of quells some of the cold or takes some of the edge off, I would say. But... As I walked out there, full blast Metallica. Seek and destroy being played on the Bears practice field today. So I thought that was really nice. The Bears will have a real injury report today. Everything was just estimated yesterday.
We know that the headliner of that group yesterday was C.J. Gardner-Johnson. So we'll hopefully continue to get good full practice health reports from him.
Chapter 3: What notable performance did Puka Nacua have against the Bears?
I'm also going to get into the locker room a little bit later on. But first... The coordinators and Dennis Allen, the Bears defensive coordinator, who once was the head coach in New Orleans and in a game in 2023 against his Saints, Pukanukua had nine catches for 164 yards and a touchdown.
It's not always pleasant having to ask those kind of questions, but here's how it went down with Dennis Allen.
Okay, guys, go ahead.
against your Saints back in 2023. Thank you. Yeah, sorry. What do you remember about that game, if you'd like to, if the trauma's not too much? And what are a couple of traits about him that stand out?
Yeah, well, it was my first time playing against him. And, you know, obviously, you come away from there thoroughly impressed. I mean, he runs as fast as he needs to to get the job done. He's big. He's physical. you know, he catches everything that's remotely close to him. So he's got great ball skills, um, and he's tremendous, you know, with the run after the catch.
Um, and so, uh, I just think he, he does, he does everything, uh, that you want a receiver to be able to do. Um, he runs good routes, he gets open, makes contested catches, really good run after the catch. Um,
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Chapter 4: What traits make Puka Nacua a standout player?
So he's an outstanding player.
When you say he runs as fast as he needs to, does that mean he's good at varying his speed?
Well, I just think if you go back to whatever his 40 time comes out as, it may not look all that impressive in terms of what his time speed is. You watch the guy play, he plays extremely fast. And so don't let that fool you.
Yeah, Mark, sounds like a problem, and I'm glad you just got right into the teeth of the matter with Dennis Allen.
Hey, he doesn't like talking about the previous games. He's one of those guys who gets up there and is like, let's talk about what's in front of us. So I brought what's in front of them, using 2023, of course, to talk about what's in front of them.
Well, I mean, but that's it. We're trying to figure out how much of that defense from 2023 is going to have looks against a known commodity in Matt Stafford, an understood commodity in Puka Nakua, and then that running game, and everybody knows Devontae Adams here. So I feel like that's a fair question. I think it probably starts with the biggest weapon being outside of Stafford being Nakua.
I don't know. Henry, I don't know. You may have a different thought on it too, but let us know what you think.
yeah no i mean puka's a weapon what was he what he come in first second third second in yards like he's he's gonna eat him up like that's that's encouraging i mean he's gonna get his it is what it is we have that that's been our defense all year dude like we have we are very bend bendy like about as bend as you can get before like that bench Yes. Except we're broke. Yes, exactly.
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Chapter 5: How does Dennis Allen view the Bears' defensive capabilities against Puka Nacua?
We can't do that. We can't be the bench. We can't be the bench. So that's our default. We know Puka's going to get his. And all we got to do is get, you know, we have to get our hands up. We got to get a tip. We got to get... We have to get an overthrow. We are two and six when we do not get a turnover or lead the game in turnover. We are not the same team if we do not get that ball.
And I hope they know that. We have to be punching at it. What did Stevenson do that one time? Just ran up and ripped it out? We have to be hungry for that because we know that if we do not do that, we will not win this game.
Mark, what do you think?
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.
Chapter 6: What are the challenges the Bears face with Devontae Adams?
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.
Yeah, absolutely. And I feel like he's very much respected when it comes to this Rams offense. Mark, we talked a lot about the cold as well. Asked Henry what it was like playing firsthand in the cold and how much of a slog that can be.
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Chapter 7: How do the Bears plan to handle the upcoming playoff atmosphere?
I understand you hit up Richard Hightower about this.
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.
We always expect the unexpected. So to us, it's bare weather. So what it was like was like, come on with it. This is awesome, all right? Whatever happens, let's deal with it and let's be ready to deal. But we know everything's unpredictable at Soldier. And that's what's so great about kicking and playing there. And then the way the crowd was into that game, I've never heard a place like that.
I've been in the league 18 years.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts were shared about the Bears' playoff readiness?
I've never heard a place like that. So that was unbelievable.
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.
maybe because of the fact that and i know the acoustics are better at soldier field now or since they did the renovation years ago but it like soldier field has just never been even as a music venue and i've been to tons of concerts there it's just never been a great um like audible place like you don't think of soldier field as being like one of those places that just gets that loud and it has been so it's just it's it's really heartening to hear that and i still i can't
Imagine where the frenzy that this crowd is going to get itself into right around kickoff at 530 on Sunday.
I want to bounce this to Henry because he was there and not in the security of the press box like some people.
Did you go with him? Did you go with him again? No, no. Did you turn down Henry's?
I'm good. I had my one experience. I don't need to go back in person unless I'm in a working capacity. Henry, how would you compare the crowd in this last game versus previous games?
um i mean like the game we went to yes that game too unbelievable i've never heard i've never seen it like that i've never heard it like that i mean and i just feel like it's just a sound of like believers man like like you know like no one like towards the end people started leaving for our game
Right. No one left in this one.
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