Welcome in to another edition of the Under Center podcast here on NBC Sports Chicago.

I'm J.J. Stankovic, joined, as always, by John Moon, Mullen.

And, Moon, before we even start anything on this, I want to tee you up to explain to everyone

why it's not the bye week it's the off week the

buy week a buy is when you advance in a tournament of some kind the buy is what you're playing

this whole season to you know try to try to get out of playing a wild card game that's when

you advance around i don't know whenever it got called what whenever it got dubbed the buy week, because some people in the league

office still referred to it as the buy.

You know, Serena Williams gets a buy if she doesn't have to play a first-round opponent.

Yeah, this is basically a vacation week, and Matt Nagy and the Bears have made it that for the players,

too.

Yeah, players got the whole week off that was not contingent on them winning the game

Sunday against Tampa Bay.

They were going to get this whole week off regardless.

You know, which Matt Nagy said on Monday, I can also vouch for the fact that when the Bears

sent their media schedule out for the off week last week, that it didn't include any player

access.

So it's, you know, not revisionist history or anything. They were getting this whole week off. And I mean, that's something

that we've seen from Matt Nagy, where whether it's resting, you know, most of his starters against

Kansas City in the third week of the preseason, or now giving them the whole week off,

he does value rest for his guys. But the question I have, Moon, is, is week five for a team

that seemingly has some momentum going forward? Is this a good time for the off week, or preferably

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