Chicago Bears Making MORE Moves? | Jordan Elliott Workout Could Create Best Of Both Worlds Scenario

The Chicago Bears might be able to live in a best of both worlds situation by adding to the defensive line and still adding to this DB room with a new development that is out. And unfortunately, it seems like one wanted reunion might be ruined because the Chargers are bastards. All that and more in today's episode of the Windy City Breeze Sports Talk Daily. Let's go. As always, if you are new to the channel, leave, hit that like button, subscribe to the page, leave a five star review. Y'all know what to do. Come on, push the button. Y'all heard what Sue Young said. Hit that like button, subscribe to the page, and make sure that you have the notification bell selected so you get notified every single time we drop content. All right, so this report came out yesterday per Jordan Schultz. He says, per sources, the Bears will work out former Titans defensive tackle. Jordan Elliott next week, Tennessee head coach, Robert Sala has been an advocate for Elliott who made 65 career stats while amassing 159 tackles, 11 tackles for loss and five sacks. Now. If you don't know what happened with Jordan Elliott, he was released, I believe, last week or maybe two weeks ago, somewhere in that time frame, because he did, he got into it with a teammate, don't know what was said, don't know, you know, the back and forth that went on, it got to a point where he was so mad that he goes to his car and grabs his firearm, he brings it back on to the facility, and of course, right, everybody gets in between them before anything escalates to a point where things can get worse. You know, it does bring up a very big concern if you're going to bring a player like that in. Why would we even be talking about a player like this? Well, it's because of this. And I don't know if you guys have ever seen this. Maybe you can give me another example. But I couldn't think of one, right? Robert Sala came out, you know, yesterday or a couple of days ago. And basically was talking about the man himself. And he was like, I want people to understand this is not who Jordan is. This is not what we have seen him be. He has been nothing but a professional. He has been an amazing teammate. All of his teammates here couldn't believe that this happened when he went up to the NFL league office. I have never seen this get overturned so fast. Like we're talking about a week and a half situation here pretty much. And he has an ability to be signed by another team after being released. The NFL usually does very, very lengthy investigations into things like this. And I thought Robert Salas said it best, right? He said he looks at this because there's nothing in his past. There's never been a crime. There's never been anything that has really gotten him to this point. He says he looks at this as a cry for help more than a guy. Who committed a crime. And so he's not going to sit there and crucify Jordan Elliott. And I think also the fact that the Bears are willing to bring him in and talk with him. Of course you have Jeffrey Simmons in the building. They played next to each other. They have a rapport with each other so that there is that value as well. But the fact you, we, we know how the Bears are, you know what I mean? We know what the Bears are about. The fact that you're willing to bring a guy like Jordan Elliott in the fact that Robert Sala is out front and we've seen coaches defend their guys for much worse things, right? But the fact that he's out front, he's like, this has never been a situation. Everyone was surprised. And the fact that the NFL just went, what are you doing here? Yeah. Like, don't do that anymore. Get back out there. I think that it allows you to then go, okay, maybe this was just a massive mistake. It has, you know, cost him a contract that was probably very good for him. Uh, it is, it has cost him, you know, getting high paid contracts, at least unless you're able to go out there and show it on the field for a couple of years here, you got to be able to reprove and rebuild that reputation back up. There's going to be a punishment that is, uh, that is he's hit with, but At the end of the day, it should not cost him his career. That's what the NFL is saying. That's what Robert Saleh is saying. That's what teams are saying by bringing him in to work him out. Now, this does not mean that the Chicago Bears will be all in on bringing in Jordan Elliott. But at a minimum, it means that they're willing to have that conversation with him. And I think that now it allows you to talk about the football player that is. Because just because the Bears are bringing him in for a workout does not mean there is a guarantee that he is going to find his spot. On a roster, there's a lot of coaching that has to be done here to get him back moving in the right direction, because in 2023, Elliott ranked 12th in the NFL with a 40 percent run stop win rate, according to ESPN data. I mean, like he was one of the best that the 49ers had. I mean, there is evidence there that this guy can be a great. Run stopper in this league. And that is more of what he is. I would say, don't look at his pass rush numbers. He's got a 2.1% pass rush win rate. He's not a pass rusher. He is a run stuffing defensive tackle here in the middle, but you look over the last couple of years and what he is. He hasn't been very good at 2025. You're talking about a guy who was ranked 112 out of 127 interior defensive lineman. He had a 44.5 pass rush or a run rush win rate. Great. All the rushes. Start to get me away. When you look at 2026 this season, he has struggled versus the run as well. And, and the Tennessee Titans, you know, that, that is a team that you definitely could run on outside of Jeffrey Simmons. Now is there a part of that, right? Because of the struggles of the entire defense is a part of that because of some technique things that can be fixed here, or is it that, you know, Jordan Elliott, isn't very good? That's what the Bears are going to have to figure out right as they bring him in for this workout. But there is something that it could allow you to do. If you do like what you see, if you feel like you can coach the most out of him, you can get the best out of him, and you can put him next to a player, next to a leader. That he has been willing to be led by in previous years and Jeffrey Simmons and you add him on to this Bears defensive line rotation. It does do a couple of things for you. Number one, especially in this trade conversation, you won't have to give up more draft capital to go add defensive line help. And so if you don't have to give up more draft capital in that situation, I think it would be very interesting to see what a. You know what Eric Woolen could bring now, because you're getting that extra bit of help on the defensive line that you were hoping to bring in, and on top of that, you're also possibly going to be able to fix some things in your secondary. Again, I don't think that Eric Woolen fixes a lot. He has not played very well this season. Maybe they can cut. I mean, he's the kind of DB that Al Harris likes, right? Six foot four, long arms, can get to the ball, can be a ball hawking type of guy, has won a Super Bowl. But... You, you don't want to be, you know, giving up too much for him. And when you hear that bidding war between Detroit, that was, that has been my biggest question. But if you want to go a little bit more in on a guy like Eric Woolen, I think that this would be a very good option to continue to add to your defensive line without having to say like, F the picks, you know what I mean? Like to me, this is the best opportunity that the Bears are going to have. To answer both questions here, but it does depend on if you feel like you can get Jordan Elliott in the building and you can coach him back into being that guy that was 12th in the NFL with a 40% run stop win rate. We haven't seen that over the last couple of years. That has not been who he is, but at a minimum, you're probably going to be able to get Jordan Elliott very cheap right now, which means it's not going to be a burden on your cap space moving forward. You are probably going to sign him to a deal just through the rest of this year, see what he looks like, and then have another conversation when we get to the offseason. I wouldn't be surprised as well if this is also a favor kind of to the Titans owner and the Titans GM after getting a job, getting a trade done here for Jeffrey Simmons saying, yo, would you give our guy a look and see if he fits what you do better than how he fit here? This is a great player. This is a great guy. And it gets the storyline moving for him in a positive manner. I think that there's a lot of good that you could get out of this, but it does come down to, do you feel like the defensive line coaching of Jeremy Garrett is going to be able to get get the most out of a player like Jordan Elliott in that. That run-stop realm, especially with him standing next to a guy like Jeff Simmons. One thing that I do think it opens up, and hit that like button if you agree. Subscribe to the page, leave a five-star review. Y'all know what to do. One thing that I do think that it brings, though, is a little bit more of a certainty that you're going to have more bodies in the middle that can do, at a minimum, the basics of the job. Because remember, you're without Contavious Street. To this point on top of that, you are also, uh, with a limited Grady Jarrett here because of that groin injury. Hopefully he's going to be able to bounce back from that and be fine. But as an older player, that's something that you have to keep an eye on. That is something that you have to watch out for, especially if you are going to, you know, have a long season run here with a strong group of defensive tackles. And I think if you brought Jordan Elliott in, if you're able to get the most out of them, that is the hope, right? You don't want to bring them in and just get mediocre. But if you're able to get the most out of them, you could have a very dangerous interior defensive tackle rotation. And I think that that is something that the Chicago bears would relish in. Let me know again, how you guys feel down in the comments below, man. We appreciate you guys for tuning in and showing love as always one thing of note before we get out of here, because we did get this from Adam Schefter and this is going to suck. Let me know how you guys feel about this in the comments below as well. It sounds like. The Chargers are completely out on trading Khalil Mack. It is going to turn into a situation where they truly think that they can run off. Nine or 10 straight games here, and they can finish the season and still make the playoffs. They are not going to give up. They are not going to pull the plug. I have to believe that this has a lot to do with Jim Harbaugh, but apparently from all the reports we have heard, the bears were on the phone trying to get Khalil Mack here. You got to give Ryan Poles credit, right? Didn't give up on it said we want, we want to get Mack in the building. This is a guy that we want to have on this team. He continued to make the phone calls, continued to reach out doing his due him credit for going after it, right? I'm not saying that he was saying, but at the end of the day, he was like, we want to get this defensive line as good as possible. Hopefully if you were able to add Jordan Elliott and get the most out of it, that could do that. It does still open. I mean, this is also still a world where you have Montez coming off of the edge with Jeffrey Simmons in the middle and you have Austin Booker and you have Daniel Hardy, two guys that showed you a lot, a lot in the time that Montez Sweat was out for those two games. So I'm not overly Generally concerned. About the Chicago Bears being out on Khalil Mack, but it does suck because that kind of reunion would have been very, very fun for this team. And I think if you add Mack as your third pass rusher, that could have been game changing for you. But if you told me we come out of this trade deadline with Jordan Elliott, Jeffrey Simmons, and Reek Woolen. To improve your team moving forward, I would tell you that you got a heck of a combination happening there. Again, let me know how you guys feel down in the comments below. There's going to need to be a lot of coaching on the other end of this if you get this all done. But I don't think that it is a worse situation after the trade deadline than where you were at before the trade deadline. And that's always the goal of coming out of the trade deadline, being better than where you were when you started this entire thing. And I think we can clearly say that that's where the Chicago Bears are. Let me know again how you guys feel down in the comments below. I'll be down there talking with you guys as well. As always, it is your boy, Pat, the designer, back at it again. Y'all stay safe out there, Chicago. Bear down. One love. Peace.