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Aturo, your hometown, tire aturo.com. Brian, good morning. How you doing? Good morning, guys. I'm doing fantastic. You know, getting ready for week four here. How about them bears? They finally won a game. How about them, bears? Yeah. And it was impressive. I mean, it was 14 nothing before you blinked.

It would help, you know, if the Cowboys actually covered one of the receivers. But, you know, I mean, I've never seen four guys more open than what they saw on Sunday, including, you know, the opening one to Roma Dunzee, and Luther Burden was wide open, and Colquimetteette and I mean DJ Moore there was nobody 10 yards

near DJ Moore in that last one so but I mean but regardless I mean the offense line protected

and and they wiped the Cowboys up pretty good so it was a good you know you want to kind of build

upon that you know right now given the quality of the competition or the lack thereof, Brian, when you look at

the bears, what is the most sustainable part of what we saw against the Cowboys? What do you think

will be able to carry over easiest against the Raiders? Well, I mean, last week, the commanders

without Jaden Daniels, ran for over 200 yards against the Raiders. That's still the area of the Bears' offense that, you know, needs to wake up. They need to get better at running the football. They haven't run it very well all year. They didn't run it well against the Cowboys. But I mean, I think there's opportunities, you know, to do that against the Raiders.

Now, you know, can they protect against Max Crosby and some of those guys as well as it did against the Cowboys?

Max is 10 times better than anybody the Cowboys put on the field.

So you've got to have a game plan for him because he was very active last week. But I think, you know, the protection against the Raiders outside of Max, there's not really

anybody that scares you. I think protecting Caleb, and you could tell, like, he's very,

very, he's making a very concentrated effort to stay in the pocket and not start running around

and scrambling. And so that's what I would look for in week two is can he make the throws that he made,

albeit they're not going to be as open, but the Raiders break down on the back end just as well.

Can he stay there, you know, on that spot behind Drew Dalman and deliver the ball like he did a week ago?

That's what I would look for to see if that could be more sustainable, because that's what Ben Johnson wants. That's what he had in Jared Gough. That's what I would look for to see if that could be more sustainable, because

that's what Ben Johnson wants. That's what he had in Jared Gough. That's what he would like

Caleb to be able to do. You know, I got to tell you, it was the first time, I think, this

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