Bears Shock Eagles: Case Keenum's Stellar Performance!

Because Case Keenum, everybody, stunned the Eagles on Monday night. Yes, it was at home. Yes, it was in Chicago. But this was not supposed to happen. The Bears were basically down to only Case Keenum at quarterback. They're facing an unbeaten Eagles team in prime time. And they didn't just keep Chicago in the game. He didn't just keep Chicago in the game. They dominated the Philadelphia Eagles on defense and offensively. Keenum threw two touchdowns. He ran for another one. They had a 41-yard touchdown to Kalief Raymond to put the Bears up 20-7 in the third quarter. Caleb Williams is sidelined for the next couple weeks. John, your thoughts on the Case Keenum game in Chicago? Okay. First off, Case Keenum ordered a deep-fried turkey. And cooked that bird all the way to the core, where the inner meat was still juicy. I'm talking about had that thing in the fryer for three and a half hours till it came out crispy brown. This is a Ben Johnson game. We can give Case Keenum all the credit we want. Case Keenum executed the game plan to a T. This is why you saw Case Keenum and not Tyson Bajent, who was medically cleared to play, and is the backup who they gave $10 million to in the offseason on a two-year deal. You saw Case Keenum because Ben Johnson needs somebody to just execute. He don't need heroes. He needs soldiers. And that's what he got tonight. Case Keenum went out there and just threw the ball where he was told to throw the ball, when he was told to throw the ball. If you notice the game, the Eagles usually are defensively styled up front, but they didn't really, they weren't even able to get to him because Ben Johnson kept them off balance with play calling. I thought Ben Johnson made a single mistake tonight and not going for three when they went forward on fourth and goal, and they didn't get it. Outside of that, I thought Ben Johnson got as close to perfect as a play caller as you could absolutely get. He had a lot of help with the Eagles secondary because the Eagles secondary, buddy, y'all gotta, it ain't a high school dance. Y'all gotta stop holding. They had a late defensive holding. They had, I think, was it 11 penalties? They had more penalties in this game than they've had all year. The secondary in the red zone did entirely too much holding, and so the defense, no defense can keep stopping the team if you keep getting these holding calls in the secondary. It's just, it makes it impossible. It makes it entirely too impossible, but I thought tonight belonged to Ben Johnson. I think as I was telling, we were talking about earlier, I was telling Rob earlier, we may need to put Ben Johnson's hat into the, it doesn't matter who the quarterback is conversation, because Kyle Shanahan can have that conversation. Sean McVay can have that conversation. Kevin O'Connell, Andy Reid, and Ben Johnson. It may be time to put Ben Johnson's hat in there as it doesn't matter who the quarterback is. You do what I asked you to do, and we can get some dubs. I remember we were talking about this, I think in the preview show or the prediction show for week three, and we were talking about, okay, this is Ben Johnson's chance to get into that category where there's the Kyle Shanahan's of the world, the McVay's, all the Kevin O'Connell's, like you said, I even threw Liam Cohen's name in there because he's just such a good offensive mind, but- That's the number one pick. Sure, sure. That's why tonight was so important. That's why tonight was important for Ben Johnson because he did it with a journeyman pretty much in case Penum. Right, and this just shows to me that he is in that tier to where I don't care who is out there. If you give him a playbook, if you give that quarterback anything with Ben Johnson, he's going to get you to where you need to go, and we saw that with Sean McVay with Ty Simpson in preseason. It's like, bro, just make the quick pass. We're just going to learn things here. Everyone's like, well, why don't you just let him air it out? That's not how Sean McVay works. That's not how Kyle Shanahan works. Maybe Brock Purdy can make those passes, but we're going to play within our system. We're going to let him, we're going to let our system do the work and just let him follow it. That's exactly what the Bears did with Case Keenum, but I got to say, John, there were some throws. There was a throw to Luther Burden for 25 yards. There's one to your guy, Roma Dunzey, for 22 yards. Don't bring up Roma Dunzey on this show, bro. Don't bring up Roma Dunzey. You said you wanted to talk about Rome. I did, but they won the game. When he dropped that, I was telling them I wanted to fade. I wanted to fade when he dropped that touchdown in the end zone, bro. I wanted the ones, bro. Run me them ones, Rome. I did that, bro. Okay, now you can make me do it. Roma Dunzey is a top 10 pick, okay? A top 10 pick. He's done next to nothing for what is required from a top 10 pick at the wide receiver position. That's the second highest a wide receiver has been taken in the Chicago Bear franchise history. The first one was Kevin White. He was god-awful injured, injured. Roma Dunzey just doesn't make enough plays to garner where he was taken. If you would have told me he was a third-round pick or a fourth-round pick, this is gold. I like it, but as a top 10 pick, he's a failure.