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Ten takes. You clicked. I love you for it. We do it in exactly ten minutes and then there's an incendiary device that explodes at the end of it. Beat that on your shows. You can't. Let's start the clock right now. Take number one. The Bears were good enough to win the game, and Lambo Caleb could not finish it. He just couldn't. I don't want to hear anything at all about that fourth and one play call. I don't know what Ben Johnson is doing. What are you calling that? Why are you getting queued on fourth and one? The play call was perfect. He had a receiver open early. He had a receiver open late. He threw it to neither of them at the right time. And at the end, he threw it way too late and way too low. And it was an easy interception. And I just feel like Caleb was not quite ready there.

He did not make the right play. He did not make the right throw. I sat with him last week. I'd like him. I support him. He was generous. I have a job to do. And my job tells me to say that the Bears were good enough to win that game. And Caleb did not make a good play at the end of the game. You know what's frustrating about it, even if you're just a neutral observer, don't care, bears pack Packers, anything. If Caleb throws that touchdown early and accurately to Cole commit in the back of the end zone, I think Ben Johnson goes for two. They would have been down one. I think he said screw it, go for two. He'd probably had some nifty two-point conversion play that he's been sitting on all year. And whether you like the bears or hate him, would have been great theater to see him try to go to Lambo and win the thing with a two-point conversion. The Bears were good in the second half. They were terrible in the first half. It was the worst first half they played probably all year. I just think in that one moment, Caleb kind of short-circuited and just didn't make the right play. Take number two, another thing about the Bears. I don't want to hear the Bears fans say anything resembling

this take. Hey, not bad, right? I mean, we're getting better. If someone had come to us back in

August and said, you'll be in Lambo in December with a chance to go 10 and 3 and come up a

place short, hey, you'll take that every single time. Shut up. That's such a lame take. It's so patronizing. That's a loser talk. Don't sit there and rationalize. Say, hey, listen, we've gotten a lot better. The game was right there to be had. Winning teams win games. Then don't say, well, we'll get him in Chicago either. It splits not too bad.

Get both.

You know how many times the Packers have gotten both on Chicago?

Pretty much every single year, it feels like the play was right there to be made.

You didn't do it.

I don't want to hear any rationalization or any like keep your chin up nonsense about.

Hey, remember, this was pretty good.

You've done a lot of good things this year. You should be proud of that. No, when you're nine and three and you lose a game on the

last play to your arch rival, you should be upset about it. That's sports. It was right there.

Don't tell me that. Take number three. I'm still not admitting the chiefs are done. I won't do it.

They never win. They look bad. The body language is

bad. Andy Reed looks bad. Everyone around my homes looks bad. It's just all bad. Scoring 10 points in

the head is on the chopping block game and Arrowhead Stadium against the Texans is bad. And yet I

won't give up. They're not officially eliminated.

I've said there's one thing that will let me let them go and it's mathematics. When they're mathematically eliminated, I will let the chiefs go. And by the way, I may not do it then either. Even if they lose the rest of their games, I'm still going to feel like there's a way they could get in because as I've said many times before, I want them in. I don't want the Royal Rumble without Stone Cold, all right?

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