Bears should prioritize left tackle position this offseason

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Rahimi Harrison-Groovy, Midday's Table 2, on Chicago Sports Radio 1243.

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They're going to take it. Right again, Walker to bounce to the outside. There he goes. Walker down the sideline. Kenneth Walker into Patriots territory. Might be out of bounds farther back around the 46-yard line. What a strong run by Walker for the first half.

Marshall Harris 0:27

30 on the game. We had a chance to watch Kenneth Walker in practice the other day. And so many times, he's casual with the ball at first, and then he makes one of those jump cuts and takes off. I don't think I've seen a guy in practice faster than he is.

Leila Rahimi 0:43

That is courtesy of NBC. That is Mike Tirico and Chris Collinsworth on the call. This is Rahimi Harrison Brody as we continue to recap Super Bowl 60 and discuss some of the finer points. And Nick Costos was funny. Yeah, he's going to say the game stunk. And I get it. It wasn't. It wasn't great, but there was still, I think, a lot of lessons to be learned and observations after watching the Bears play not one but two games in this NFL playoffs and then understanding how the Seahawks got there and how the Patriots fared as well. So to me, there's still a lot of finer points that you can take away with. There are lessons to be learned and strategy to be understood. And I don't know, if you like football, you're still watching through a lens that has the Bears also helping you figure it out.

Mark Grote 1:31

The biggest takeaway for me was understanding just how good that Seahawks defense is. Not like I didn't understand it, but to see it on the biggest stage and the biggest moment, just the ferocity of it all, right? The amount of upgrade that's not only going to have to happen with the Bears' defense, but also with their offense to be able to attack a defense like that in the same manner that, let's say, the Rams did. Because the Rams put up numbers on the Seahawks' defense. They became shootouts. That's what I'm looking for. And that's why I was so disappointed to see just how bad the Patriots looked.

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Yeah, I mean, at times, yeah, they look like they didn't belong. Exactly. And that was the part where I was like, oh, wow. Like, there's some embarrassment going on here. But then how much of it is Seattle? And I like what you're saying, too, about, like, if we are applying things to the Bears.

Leila Rahimi 2:24

Yeah.

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Some of the ballsy blitzes by both teams, even Vrabel, leaving cover zero. And to Chris Collinsworth's credit, when that blitz happened, he would say, that's going to leave somebody wide open. And in a couple cases it was. Actually, it was a Denver all-out blitz that left somebody open for Seattle. And Darnold, he missed a few passes himself on plays. Oh.

Leila Rahimi 2:48

There was enough inconsistent offense to go around. Both sides. But, you know, Ernest Jones had a really good postgame interview on the Four Letter Network postgame show. I was watching it, and he talked about two things that really stuck with me. Number one, he said to Berger McFarlane, the game plan was we were not going to put a spy or put an extra man on Drake May just knowing he could run. They said, we're going to let him get his yards. We're not going to change our defensive plan just because of Drake Mays running. And I think that what we've seen, even for teams who defended Caleb Williams and the Bears, we saw a lot of teams put a spy on Caleb Williams, notably the Cowboys. You know, Matt Iberflus' defense, they did that because Caleb was running more in that game.

Leila Rahimi 3:33

But there are other teams who would commit somebody defensively. to drake may's legs or have a spy on him or something that would cause somebody else to get open or open up and then that would change the plan so i thought that that was a really sound scouting point that he made when it came to how confident this team is in their personnel and that's why you're able to do that is because you don't necessarily have to have extra resources on somebody because you trust everybody's assignments too i thought that was such a good point that was made

Mark Grote 4:04

I'm not trying to make excuses for anyone to play in the game.