Bears-Vikings Week 1 MNF Recap, 49ers Injuries and an Eagles-Jags Trade!
NFL: Good Morning Football
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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What a Week 1! Gregg Rosenthal and Nick Shook round out Kickoff Week with a recap of Monday Night Football between the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings. The duo talks an incredibly determined debut from J.J. McCarthy, Caleb Williams' potential, as well as both the Bears' and Vikings' defensive schemes. Later, Gregg and Nick cover the most pressing news topics and injury updates as of Monday, September 8.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | It is a one-pass option. |
| 0:07.0 | McCarthy takes off to the right, to the 10. |
| 0:09.8 | Stutter steps at the five. |
| 0:12.1 | Touchdown! |
| 0:16.1 | He's J.J. McCarthy. |
| 0:19.8 | He is J.J. McCarthy, He is J.J. McCarthy. |
| 0:22.2 | And that is Paul Allen of KF.A.N. |
| 0:26.8 | Great to have his voice back on NFL Daily. |
| 0:30.2 | I am Greg Rosenthal. |
| 0:31.4 | I am joined, as always, on primetime games by Nick Shook to talk about another big time comeback in a prime time games. |
| 0:41.5 | Not all comebacks are equal, but this one, the Vikings trailing 17 to 6, going into the fourth |
| 0:49.5 | quarter is an example. Unlike that Bill's Ravens won the other night, that sometimes the restorative power of a great defense can lead you to a comeback. |
| 0:59.6 | And the Vikings defense just kept stopping the Bears over and over and over again until finally J.J. McCarthy suddenly got religion on offense. Everything slowed down for him, |
| 1:13.3 | and he scored three touchdowns in successive drives, usually off good field position, and the |
| 1:19.5 | Minnesota Vikings go into Chicago and steal one 27 to 24. Nick, to me, this was more improbable than the bills come back because the bills have |
| 1:32.7 | Josh Allen at quarterback and J.J. McCarthy for three quarters of this game look completely lost, |
| 1:38.8 | but that's why we watch this. That's why we love this. Yeah, J.J. McCarthy found God and what |
| 1:44.0 | Kevin O'Connell did was found simplification of the offense. |
| 1:47.0 | I mean, the operation of the Vikings' offense for the first three quarters was too complex. |
| 1:51.0 | They were having a hard time getting snaps off before the expiration of the play clock. |
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