Does more rest equal more wins in the NFL? Chicago Bears sign two new players

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:02]I mean, if you're a Bears fan, you're thinking forward progress. COME ON.

[00:00:08]>> 219.

[00:00:14]>> Forward progress.

[00:00:16]>> A Chicago Bears podcast with Dan Bernstein and Matt Aakola on 312 Sports.

[00:00:24]As always, we give you forward progress here on 312 Sports, a Chicago Bears podcast, Bernstein and Abatacola. And first things first, there is some news today as we're trying to understand what all of this the over complicated political issues that are that are bubbling out of Springfield mean right now. And if you want to listen to some of the opening segments of Dan Bernstein unfiltered, which is already out, that's going to give you a lot more details into the, to put it simply, a communication issue, political communication problems that are those of the Bears and from the Bears that need some sorting. They they have to figure out who's talking to whom, what's being represented, and why, and who's in charge of any of this, and who is speaking on the Bears's behalf, and who is not. They need to get that ironed out. That's the short story.

[00:01:20]>> Yeah. And it's unfortunate that the Bears are required to say, "Hey, there are there's one spot in Illinois that we want to build a stadium, and it's at Arlington Park."

[00:01:29]>> And downtown in the city itself proper is not a viable option. is not something they're considering, talking about, thinking about, looking to do.

[00:01:38]>> No, but >> they have said that a second option is Hammond, even though that's not a realistic option. That's of course all a leverage game. The only place the Bears want to build are going to build is in Arlington Heights. And yet everything has been confused and over complicated because the Bears have been sloppy in what they've communicated and when. And this is this appears to be an entirely self-created issue during the endgame of the pilot program that is being discussed in the Illinois State Senate.

[00:02:12]>> Yeah. It's just >> problem. And I think when we talked about it yesterday a little bit about George McCowsky, the that he the self-awareness of not being involved in things that he thinks he shouldn't be or doesn't want to be has created a certain vacuum of space that is being sucked up by someone within the organization that probably shouldn't be doing it. Keep an eye on it. All the information is going to be there and I imagine I'm going to have more as more of this gets out. There are different news outlets that are beginning to put together a story. And I think I did the interpolation slashinformed speculation on DBU if you want all of some of the gory details there.

[00:02:59]>> Yeah. So, go take a listen to Dan Bernstein unfiltered here on 312 Sports from earlier today. The Bears uh did sign a couple players though, so there are some signing news.

[00:03:11]Well, I' I've got I've got safety Anthony Johnson Jr. that's been reported by Jordan Schulz, a former seventh round pick of the Packers >> as a rookie. 12 games, four starts. He was released by the Packers as part of final roster cuts the following offseason after 2023. And then he went to the Giants where he was primarily a special teams player and looks like a depth piece behind their new starting safeties of Kobe Bryant and Dylan Theamman and an opportunity to compete to be on the back end of the roster as a depth and special teamer Anthony Johnson Jr.

[00:03:51]>> Yep. And they also signed a running back Salon Akmed. Uh he was a 2020 undrafted free agent from Washington.

[00:04:00]>> Okay. and played with a few teams, practice squads, was been with a few different NFL teams. Uh suffered a gruesome ankle injury that almost cost him his career on a drop tackle. Hm. Uh, but apparently he's worked hard to get back and is going to be apparently from what I've read just someone to compete with maybe Roshan Johnson, Britain Brown behind Kyle Manungai and a DeAndre Swift obviously, but a 27year-old undrafted free agent in 2020 out of Washington.

[00:04:33]There you have it. new names to consider on whichever depth chart you choose to to consider. I like the hourlad's depth chart. Whichever one you consult, >> I guess to where you can add names and and move them around on there in a way that lines it up and makes it easy to understand who's where. Uh we have we're lucky here at 312 Sports.

[00:04:57]>> Yes, we are. We are lucky not only to to have this fabulous place to talk about Chicago sports and beyond in the way that we want. We also have listeners who are better at things than we are.

[00:05:12]>> A lot of things.

[00:05:13]>> A lot of things. Who are willing for free to create and think and analyze for us.

[00:05:23]I love it when you analyze.

[00:05:26]and a couple of guys have done this for us. I want to single out the work of Matt and Spencer who individually independently have decided to take up the quest of figuring out if net rest matters >> because you started this Maddie. you started it when you started putting together all of the these the these analyses of the bears being more rested than their opponents whether it is their opponents not coming off a buy and the bears coming off a buy travel etc. So does it matter is the question does it matter?

[00:06:12]>> So first I want to start with what Matt sent in and it goes without saying thank you guys for doing this stuff. I I know you have better things to do in your lives, but I don't know, some people just love this kind of thing. So Matt decided to dig in where he said I wasn't sure if it made a difference. I ran the numbers. I looked at every season since 1980 with the exception of strike years of 82 and 87. I threw out other weird results, ties, games without spreads, cancellations. The final data set was very robust. It consisted of over 10,000 games.

[00:06:54]So I said the first analysis I did was calculating each team's ELO, which is not electric light orchestra and Jeff Lynn and don't bring me down and and Mr. Blue Sky. It's the the chess quality rating system, but he said, "I created a rating of how good a given team is based on past results through each week of each season." modeling a home team's win probability based on its own ELO and the ELO of its opponent in a given week. The next item was to compare team season winning percentages with their overall cumulative net rest in that season. How much extra rest the team had in comparison to its opponents. And he attached the charts here. He's showing his work. He actually has a PDF with these charts.

[00:07:40]and he said that in the first analysis a net rest advantage was a very slight detriment instead of an advantage but it's not meaningful.

[00:07:50]>> I knew her a net rest.

[00:07:52]>> A net rest.

[00:07:53]>> Oh, you know we forgot yesterday too was um >> another player Wade mode. Yes.

[00:07:58]>> Wade mode. Everybody's everybody says the this and apparently the cybert truck wade mode is designed to help the truck navigate through low through high standing water.

[00:08:10]>> Not to drive into ponds, >> not to drive into a lake or the ocean.

[00:08:13]Don't do that. Real bad. So in the second analysis he said again it shows essentially no difference. The third analysis I did was the effect of weekly net rest differential. the number of days since the home team last played minus the number of days since the away team last played on home teams winning percentages outright and with the spread when they're favorites and when underdogs. The comparisons you will find on pages 3 to six of the attached charts. Yet again, rest makes very little difference. The final analysis looked at cumulative net rest differential, the extra days each team had in comparison to all of its opponents to date to account for the possibility that additional net rest earlier will pay dividends later.

[00:09:02]>> Mhm.

[00:09:02]>> He said again, perhaps predictably at this point, there seems to be little effect.

[00:09:09]>> If anything, a positive cumulative net rest differential makes home favorites more likely to win or cover. and home underdogs less likely to win or recover.

[00:09:18]The opposite of a positive weekly net rest differential. Now, Matt says, "Admittedly, I became a lawyer because statistical analysis isn't my strong suit, but it's fair to say net rest means absolutely nothing. Of course, it won't stop the meatball in me from thinking it's a huge advantage for the Bears because it beats me worrying about the pass rush for the next 3 months."

[00:09:45]Yeah. No, I love it. It's great stuff.

[00:09:47]And like we found with travel, uh even just going back one season, travel didn't impact the championship for last year for the Seattle >> Seahawks, who I think traveled second or third most last year.

[00:09:59]>> Um the meatball in me is still going to believe that traveling less is better than traveling more.

[00:10:04]>> Okay. But we we we keep thinking that.

[00:10:06]But we're not even done yet. That's just that's just the study from Matt.

[00:10:09]>> Yes.

[00:10:09]>> That's just one volunteer study. We didn't request it. We didn't commission it. You're doing this on your own time just because you want to help out Forward Progress.

[00:10:20]>> And I'm sure I I could I know how Matt was feeling too because you you you get into something and you're going through it and man, you get, you know, spreadsheets going and you're like, "Oh man, this is going to reveal some great information. I'm going to look like a hero. This is going to be great. I'm going to show some great results." Oh, it means nothing.

[00:10:36]>> But that's okay. That's >> okay. No, it it showed. It showed. But it just it was like I'm sure he was feeling like really great. He's in the middle of it and he's like probably skipping work that he wants to do and there's some like case he should be studying or getting ready for a trial.

[00:10:50]HE'S LIKE, "NO, NO, NO. I HAVE MORE IMPORTANT meatball things to do."

[00:10:53]>> Right. He's got a client who was falsely imprisoned who's actually being walked to death row.

[00:10:58]>> And he calls the And he's like, "Listen, I can't check in with a with the governor's office." Yeah. I don't know.

[00:11:03]I'm out today. I don't know. My Yeah.

[00:11:06]Send it to voicemail.

[00:11:08]>> Yeah.

[00:11:08]>> Yeah. But they're strapping me into the electric chair right now. Uh, no. I'm I got bare stuff I got to do for forward progress. So, the Spencer says, "I'm here to run the numbers on a 312 sports rhetorical question you probably thought no idiot would be willing to waste their time trying to answer." And no, >> it's not. He said, "No, it's not regarding the comedic merit of exploding taint. We don't need to waste my precious skills building a statistical model for that one."

[00:11:37]And he said, "After all, there are roughly 6 billion adult humans on this planet. Given that I personally care about 100 of them, and exploding taint is roughly 99.999983% of the time funny."

[00:11:52]>> 100? That's a lot.

[00:11:54]>> Yeah. Thank he said. But no, >> these are distances uh that are different. He said, "The Bears have a light travel schedule, one of the lightest in the league. Anecdotally, we know longer flights are difficult for teams. they're at a disadvantage from fatigue. It turns out that this matters about as much as which team wants it more.

[00:12:14]He said, "I looked at all 32 teams, 10 seasons, win percentages, total roundtrip miles, the most traveled seasons, the least traveled seasons.

[00:12:25]The relationship between winning percentage and travel bucketed into 20th percentiles.

[00:12:32]Five levels here, five parts of the chart, five bar graphs here. This might be hard to convey on audio, but it's five vertical bars of roughly the same height with nothing resembling an observable observable pattern or trend.

[00:12:48]I did the actual regression analysis.

[00:12:53]Total travel for a given season has absolutely zero effect on a team's winning percentage for that season.

[00:13:03]I tried looking at individual divisions, filtering out international travel, limiting to more recent years as the international schedule has grown. All of it tells the same story. Despite our shared experience of how much getting to the airport, getting on a plane, and sitting there sucks, despite the conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence that a team's performance suffers for it, it all comes out in the wash.

[00:13:28]>> Yeah, there it is.

[00:13:32]>> I'm still going to believe though. I'm still going to believe that it makes a difference.

[00:13:35]>> You are undeterred. Even now.

[00:13:38]>> Even now. I love the research. Thanks for the information, but I'm going to say that it's it's it has to make a difference, even though I know it doesn't. He did include another chart that says how funny fatal taint swelling is based on how well I know that person.

[00:13:57]>> Oh boy.

[00:13:58]>> Okay.

[00:13:58]>> Yep.

[00:13:59]>> Complete stranger. Funny if I know them well. Not funny. If I know of them, really funny. And if it happens to me, it's all negative. A red bar listed as tragedy.

[00:14:17]>> Good stuff.

[00:14:18]>> There you go. So, >> that one I can I can get into.

[00:14:20]>> Yeah, that one that one I get. Yeah, I think that I think that is a a graphic way of explaining also the Mel Brooks theory of comedy versus tragedy. But thank you. I saw a funny uh not funny, geez. Um, I saw an interesting uh headline that caught my eye on NFL.com from Eric Edol, >> and he uh he wrote down from each team the next three most likely Hall of Fame um inductees from each each organization.

[00:14:48]>> So, I thought, well, that's really interesting. I mean, we're in a a very dark time of of no information, no football >> beyond players.

[00:14:56]>> Uh he included Yeah. Not just players, too. So, he looked at each organization and the the like most three the next three likely uh Hall of Fame inductees from each organization. So, I just thought, "All right, I'm going to take a look at the Bears and see who he has for the Chicago Bears."

[00:15:12]>> Is it Tony Medlin?

[00:15:15]>> It is not. He has >> the best equipment manager.

[00:15:19]>> He says, "I think at least um at least one more member of the Lovey Smith 2000's Bears defense will get in after Brian Erlocker made it in 2018." either Briggs, Peanut.

[00:15:31]That's really it. Briggs or Peanut.

[00:15:32]>> Yeah. So, he says it's possible Olen Cruz joins them from the offensive side one day. Uh but he talks about um Lance Briggs and Charles Tilman. He says Briggs might have a slightly stronger resume on paper than Tilman. Uh and he's been eligible one more year than Tilman, but don't overlook the power of the peanut punch. Tilman dislodged a stunning 44 fumbles in his career.

[00:15:54]>> Changed the game. His trademark punchout is still referenced regularly in media and by fans. That reputation, which seemingly has only increased since retirement, could be enough to push Tilman through. He also says Virginia Macsy, the second city's first lady for many decades, is a sleeper candidate to beat them all into the hall. Uh there was only one contributor finalist per cycle, making it tougher to forecast exactly when the late Bears matriarch and daughter of George will make it. So, I just thought that was interesting to see because when I I saw the headline, I thought, "All right, Bears." I immediately thought Briggs and Tilman >> wanted to see where he'd go with the third one. But I thought uh thought that was an interesting piece. One other one that that caught my attention was on ESPN from Bill Barnwell.

[00:16:38]>> Yeah. and he went through >> venerable Bill Barnwell >> went through the AFC and he looked at each team and rated all of the deals they've made and gave the best deal each team made the worst deal each team made in the off season and he started with the AFC and so I was like all right this is interesting want to see it go through and I come across the Buffalo Bills he said the worst deal the Buffalo Bills made >> everything that Uh, let me guess.

[00:17:10]>> Go ahead.

[00:17:11]>> Was it uh did it involve a noted Chicago Bears wide receiver?

[00:17:16]>> Everything that happened with DJ Moore.

[00:17:21]Uh, he says under the lens making a significant move for a receiver made sense. I'm just not sure this was the right one.

[00:17:31]Moore is coming off what is uh comfortably as his worst season as a pro. one in which he seemingly fell out of favor with Ben Johnson in the Chicago offense. The Bears had little leverage in dealing more given that they were about to be on the hook for 49 million over the next two seasons for a guy who might have been their fourth option in the passing game heading into 2026. This should have essentially been a salary dump scenario for Ryan Ples. Instead, the Bills sent a second round pick to the Bears for more. That was already a curious choice by Bean, the general manager. Even more inexplicably, the Bears uh the Bills ate all of the salary that was already owed to more and then guaranteed their new wide out 13.5 million in 2028, committing money three years down the line to a player who had no leverage as part of this trade.

[00:18:32]If Moore had a no trade clause or was about to become a free agent, making that sort of move might have made sense.

[00:18:39]H Well, there's a reason everybody here loved that deal.

[00:18:44]>> Yes.

[00:18:45]I I didn't really hear a dissenting opinion on that deal. What are they? Oh, they got a second.

[00:18:52]>> Well, yeah, if you remember, I was shocked they got a second.

[00:18:55]>> Yes.

[00:18:58]>> Yeah. Absolutely shocked. But I mean, just seeing it written that way and talked about that way because we were just like, "All right, you're getting a second round pick for DJ. Great. Let's do it. We'll do it." But to have all those numbers there and to have all that put in place and then the fact that they've guaranteed money three years down the road for 2028.

[00:19:18]>> Yeah. Not quite sure what that was all about.

[00:19:20]>> While you're talking about the Bills, I I want to note something here that caught me a little offguard today.

[00:19:27]>> Mhm. Guess who turns 30 today?

[00:19:34]>> Josh Allen turned 30.

[00:19:35]>> Josh Allen is 30 today.

[00:19:37]>> Is he really?

[00:19:38]>> Yeah, that I had the same reaction.

[00:19:41]Like, wait, I thought I had the wrong Allen. I guess he is.

[00:19:45]>> Yeah. I mean, it makes sense. No, but >> NFL seasons, eight seasons already. He's second behind Patrick Mahomes in wins before the age of 30 by only one.

[00:19:58]Mahomes has 89. Allen has 88.

[00:20:01]>> Lamar Jackson Lamar Jackson has a chance to pass both of them because he's tied for third at 80 with Ben Rothosberger and Payton Manning. Allen is fourth in career touchdown passes by 30 with 220.

[00:20:17]Patrick Mahomes leads with 247. Dan Marino is second, 245. Pton Manning is 244.

[00:20:25]>> Wow. I didn't realize he was 30 years old already. But unfortunately, Lamar Jackson will not get that opportunity.

[00:20:32]>> Well, because he is.

[00:20:33]>> Yeah. I mean, if if Skip Bis and I have our way, he'll be the starter before.

[00:20:37]>> Are you hearing anything about the his his further progress or >> No, I haven't I haven't heard anything or seen anything, which man makes me sad.

[00:20:46]>> No, he's >> Or that could be good news, though, too.

[00:20:48]>> Yes. cuz they they don't want you to know.

[00:20:50]>> Yeah. He's a secret weapon.

[00:20:52]>> He's going into his special lab.

[00:20:54]>> Yeah. All I need is just one >> one play.

[00:20:57]>> Just need one snap. That's it.

[00:20:59]>> One snap.

[00:21:01]>> Steak dinner. Boom.

[00:21:02]>> Mhm. Did you see what Aaron Rogers said in some He was on a podcast.

[00:21:07]>> I about this being his last year.

[00:21:10]>> Yes.

[00:21:10]>> And now you're Because I wrote it down.

[00:21:13]I said, "Do you believe Aaron Rogers is one of the questions I wanted to ask on this?" Okay. So, it's funny because uh >> I literally wrote that >> I heard it on the radio and then I'm like, "All right, I'm gonna find the podcast because I want to see him actually say it. I want to see his face." And >> um and then I heard it. I'm like, "Oh."

[00:21:29]And then the very first thing I that came to my brain, I don't believe you. I don't believe you.

[00:21:37]>> Let me single somebody out here, too.

[00:21:39]Let me single somebody out because my old buddy Lisa Fielding who anchors the afternoon drive WBBM news radio broadcast, you know, the the toyen of radio news in this town and a living legend and a friend going back to the days in Rockford when we were sitting in the the Rockford Royals press box and Rockford Cubby's press box. She was the the first woman PA announcer for an affiliated baseball team when I was doing playbyplay.

[00:22:14]She she must hate Aaron Rogers. There is not a lot of editorialization that goes on on WBBM news radio.

[00:22:22]>> You're not really allowed to.

[00:22:23]>> I know, but when she sends it to the sports cast and there's anything about Aaron Rodgers, you can hear her like saying, "Oh yeah, that guy whatever."

[00:22:35]And then even after whoever's doing the sports cast whe whether it's, you know, Espazito or Stzinski or whoever it is, she'll be like, "Yeah, yeah, that Aaron Rogers guy, I'm sure. Yeah, he'll he's done until he can't be done soon enough." There's always a bad word in there or you can hear the I just love it. I love it. She cannot contain herself. I I don't know exactly why when I see her down here in the lobby or like in the parking garage, I'm going to ask.

[00:23:03]Or I should just text her because >> Yeah, you could just do that, too.

[00:23:07]>> Oh my god, I've been I've been laughing so hard at all of her unkind stuff for Aaron Rogers because it's exactly what I'm thinking and it's just rare.

[00:23:14]>> Well, did she say something about this?

[00:23:17]>> It was something like this. He's declared it his final season and she's like, "Yeah, she had Yeah, she has thoughts."

[00:23:26]I don't know why it only comes through regarding Aaron Rogers, but it's great.

[00:23:31]>> Yeah, that's the the Yeah, the first thing I thought after I watched it, I was like, okay, they wanted to see it. I was like, "Yep, sorry, Aaron. I don't believe you."

[00:23:38]>> Mhm.

[00:23:38]>> There's no shot. If he has anything resembling a good year >> or an offer.

[00:23:44]>> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Or an offer. But >> anything even resembling an offer.

[00:23:48]>> I just think if he plays well, there's no way his ego is going to say, "Oh, yeah. I I'm done doing this. I can still do it." if if he can still do it, he's going to find an offer somewhere.

[00:23:57]>> Mhm. And by the looks of the quarterback room, it could be Pittsburgh next year, too.

[00:24:03]We'll see. I mean, he was bad last year.

[00:24:06]He might be bad this year. I I just somebody who is at completely embodying my distaste for him and the the understanding that there's no way his narcissism will allow him to go quietly.

[00:24:20]No way. Well, we'll see. We shall see.

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[00:26:45]>> Oh, you know what I found yesterday?

[00:26:47]>> Um, they uh Mariano sells the Panera mac and cheese bowls.

[00:26:52]>> Yeah, they Yeah, they do.

[00:26:53]>> And I found the I saw one yesterday. It was the uh the cheddar and broccoli mac and cheese bowl from Panera. And it was sell by today's date. So, it was $2.37.

[00:27:04]Huge. Oh, a huge deal.

[00:27:06]>> Huge. Great deal. And so many people are compelled now to send me pictures of their Marianos victories or the or wherever it may be. Jewel or other places. I think somebody out in the out in the plains state sent me something from like look what I got. LOOK WHAT I GOT. Even out here. I found it. It was like it was like four pounds of ground beef they got for $8. I Yes. What a deal.

[00:27:31]>> Yes. Yes. You got to act on these things. Um, I went down the soup aisle too yesterday just to check the cans of Campbell soups. So, they were they're originally it said 439 with a price cut to 419.

[00:27:45]>> Price cut?

[00:27:46]>> Yes.

[00:27:47]>> Okay. What? Yeah. Ah, they're down to 419.

[00:27:53]>> So, 419. And you said normally a like a Cham a Campbell chunky soup can is how much?

[00:27:58]>> 225.

[00:27:59]>> Okay. Wow. I must not have bought soup in a long time then.

[00:28:05]Yeah, I started buying Campbell's chunky soup only. There's one specific dinner that I do with one specific Subway sub.

[00:28:11]I started doing this last year for some reason and it just hit where I'd get my tuna sub at Subway, >> which is tuna and a half. So, it's not double tuna, but it's it's deluxe, which is half again. So, it's six of the uh ice cream scoops instead of four. Okay.

[00:28:31]And a so a foot long with six scoops of tuna.

[00:28:33]>> Foot long Italian. Six scoops of tuna.

[00:28:36]Lettuce, tomato, banana, pepper, olive, and salt and pepper.

[00:28:42]>> Okay. Nice.

[00:28:43]>> Which is a great sandwich.

[00:28:45]>> Okay. So, you start there. That's what you get.

[00:28:47]>> I get that and then I will but I will start the meal with a can of the right whatever the right chunky soup is for my mood.

[00:28:57]>> Okay. And so what's what's your what's your normal go-tos?

[00:29:00]>> The uh the bean with bacon.

[00:29:03]>> Okay. So I I got a I got a can of the oldfashioned vegetable beef.

[00:29:07]>> That works too. Like I used I used to like the sirloin burger until they they changed it. They cheaped out on the sirloin burgers now.

[00:29:14]>> Mhm.

[00:29:14]>> Now they're like >> I used to like that one too.

[00:29:16]>> Oh when it was an actual sirloin burger.

[00:29:18]>> Yeah.

[00:29:19]>> And they had the little the little grill marks. I love little grill marks.

[00:29:24]>> The little Yes, they sure did. So cute that they had little elves in the back flipping them over.

[00:29:29]>> The little tiny grill. Yeah, >> a little teeny grill and little elves with bells on their shoes making the sirloin burgers. These match is ready and they come running in. Oh, put them in the soup.

[00:29:41]>> Thanks for throwing us.

[00:29:43]>> Yep. Uh so I did that and or or the the new one. There's like a cheesy baked potato soup.

[00:29:50]>> Oh, I haven't seen >> It's a cream soup. It's like a cream cheesy baked potato chowder.

[00:29:54]>> Okay. Yeah, because again I I haven't bought canned soup in a long long time and so yeah, I just felt the uh the need to go check the price and I grabbed one of those oldfashioned vegetable beefs.

[00:30:04]>> Good.

[00:30:05]>> Yeah, cuz they're very respectful. The oldfashioned vegetables.

[00:30:08]>> You open the can. Hello, good sir.

[00:30:10]>> They send you a handwritten thank you note afterward.

[00:30:13]>> Thank you for eating us, kind Yeah. Very polite.

[00:30:17]>> Really very nice of them. Yes.

[00:30:19]>> Yeah. Always well behaved. Well, because right next to them is the the can of uh it's the Gen X vegetables and beef.

[00:30:27]>> Yeah.

[00:30:27]>> That that it can ever pay attention long enough to to for you to know what it's doing.

[00:30:32]>> Yeah. It's just not not as good.

[00:30:34]>> It's just distracted and worldweary.

[00:30:37]>> Yes. Always on its phone.

[00:30:39]>> Always. It always Yeah. Always talking.

[00:30:41]Laughing at some meme you don't understand.

[00:30:44]>> Yeah. Or saying things I don't understand. Yeah. Using different vocabulary. So, >> yeah. Tasty.

[00:30:50]>> All right. Um, yeah. I think that's about it.

[00:30:52]>> I think that's about it, too.

[00:30:53]>> Oh, I got one other thing, and I I need to get this off my chest real quick, but I'll bring this back tomorrow. I've gotten a lot of emails and comments about Pete Cro Armstrong, but I have I have more emails. I can show you these, too. People typing P C instead of PCA. So either they don't know his name because if you look at the keyboard, A and K are nowhere near each other.

[00:31:23]They're they're across the middle road from each other.

[00:31:26]>> PCK >> people I've seen PCK more than I have PCA. And I don't know if it's people that don't support the team and just want to give me about Pete Cro Armstrong, >> but man oh man, there was two more that just came through while we're sitting here.

[00:31:44]PCK Anyway, >> okay. So, I'm glad you got that off your chest.

[00:31:52]>> Yeah, I know. I'm saving it for for Off the Ivy, which is our Chicago Cubs podcast, by the way. Here. That's right.

[00:31:58]Sports, >> which also confuses some people.

[00:32:01]>> It sure does.

[00:32:02]>> Yeah. Like the whole talk more hockey thing. It's It's just an interesting thing to send a Cubs podcast.

[00:32:08]>> Yes. But it's appreciated. The listenership as always is immensely appreciated and thank you for it.

[00:32:15]>> Yeah. And that's uh forward progress for today here on 312 sports.

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