Eddie Jackson

Well, you start thinking, okay, well then we've got Marlon Humphrey at a corner.

We got Eddie Jackson at a safety.

We got Mark Barron at a safety.

We got Javier Arenas at the Husky and we got Patrick Sertan at the other corner.

And at the same time, that defense, as great as it was, they were down guys.

Eddie Jackson out.

They had guys that were out.

But still, if you had told me they just need a stop to win the National Championship with what they did have – I still would have thought they would have gotten the job.

It was a lot.

I mean, they give up two first-round picks, a third-rounder, a sixth-rounder, $141 million for Mack, not a six-year extension, but for the production that... production doesn't last long for many players in the league the splash of 2018 the 12 and a half sacks and I realized how that season ended but what that was the last time I'm how many times can we look in Bears history and say that was an elite defense and that's exactly what that was and Khalil Mack had a lot to do with it I realized that there were other star players like Akeem Hicks and Eddie Jackson and Kyle Fuller and all of those guys but I always say that yeah while it did decrescendo it did fade away he did provide that necessary splash that's the way the nfl works it's so temporary it's so the margins are so small that yes i i do think it it was worth their while as for the question of do the bears did you say win a super bowl or i just said reach you

reach up here up here in a super bowl like just get to that level right

I'm not sure.

Alright, Game Awards.

The first award, since you already alluded to it, is the Eddie Jackson Award for Abrupt Hatred and Defensive Backplay.

And that's sadly going to go to Jalen Johnson.

The award, of course, in honor of Eddie Jackson, a beloved homegrown talent who was drafted by the Bears.

Deep, I think it was mid-round, like fourth round pick, was... became a star early in his career.

And then through a mix of kind of declining play after his big contract, followed by some lackluster tackling and effort in that department made the fans turn on him abruptly in a way that's kind of weird when you think about it.

I'm just going to align where I need to align, and I'm going to do my job.

You know, it's both sides of the ball, right? And, again, I talk about the Eddie Jackson interception against Clemson all the time, but the things that these guys do, like an Eddie Jackson, You know, they make up for mistakes made by other players.

You know, they get other guys aligned correctly.

You know, they've seen things on film and they know what to expect, so they may deviate from what they're actually supposed to do.

We saw that with Nick Saban.

I mean, Josh Jacobs is the most famous, but there was plenty of Eddie Jackson's guys that just boom out of the way.

And, you know, I remember that.

Nobody remembers the melts that reversed.