Good morning, everybody.

Today is Thursday, June 29th.

Thank you for making me a part of your morning.

Before we get into the Bears episode today, I want to remind everybody that we'll take a couple days off after the episode tomorrow.

So if you come back Monday or Tuesday looking for the podcast during the long weekend,

if it's not there, you know why.

We'll be back next Wednesday after the episode tomorrow.

Let's talk about the Chicago Bears.

Chicago right now is a team that nobody can really say anything negative about.

It's actually incredible how a team that finished as poorly as they did last year getting the number one pick has every single comment about them being, for the most part, optimistic or positive.

Let's focus on the offense for the sake of this episode.

We'll leave Everflus and the defense and how soft that is for the full preview coming later in July.

But let's talk about the offense, specifically Justin Fields.

If you do a search on him, Twitter, Google, anywhere you go, you can find anything you want to hear about Justin Fields that will paint this offense in a good way.

You see that he can take the next step as a passer.

You can see comments where offensive coordinator Luke Getzzi is saying that this passing game is ready to take off.

You can see articles that say Fields is night and day from

where he was a year ago. Everything about this working with Michael Vic, becoming a better passer,

it's all positive for the Chicago Bears. Passing issues have been really related to his decision

making and willingness to put the ball downfield.

Of all the numbers to me that stood up from a year ago, it was the fact that Justin Fields

ranked dead last in the NFL for aggression percentage. And that's a next-gen stat that looks at

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