 because it's time to dig into more unanswered questions. You've been doing this division by division. We kicked it off yesterday in the NFC East. Now we go to the NFC North. It's their turn. And I want to start with the Bears. You know, I love Chicago. It's where I grew up. I love the direction. The team is headed under Ryan Poles. I love it all. They're not yelling. What's the question? I want everyone to yell at me today. Get to the question. Here's the question for Chicago. Is Justin Fields as good as we think? That's what it is. Plenty of reasons to be excited about Justin last year. We saw some awesome runs. They were explosive, highlight, real throws, big-time fantasy performances, but the Bears still finish with the worst record in the NFL. I'm not saying that it's Justin's fault. I think the Bears roster was super flawed, especially when it comes to receiving core and the offensive line. I don't think that's that case anymore. Take a look at these additions. Oh, this makes my heart sing. The Bears made the trade for DJ Moore. They spent their first round around tackle Darnal Wright to straighten the O-line. They add Robert Tungian, Deonti Foreman, Nate Davis. Listen, they took some skilled players in the middle rounds as well. So GM Ryan Poles, he's gone all in to try to support his guy. And that is a wonderful thing. And it's exactly what you want to see as someone from Chicago or if you're just a Bears fan from anywhere. But it really puts it all on Justin. That's true. Listen, we've surrounded you with all the support you need. If you can't thrive here, tough, okay? So while last year, the feeling was kind of, you know, we know this team isn't going to be a contender right now. We just want to see good things out of Justin. That was the whole, that's all I wanted last year. Now it's time to start winning some games, beating some W's in that column, okay? And that's about way more than stats and it's about way more than highlight reels. And I will say this, I believe in fields and I do think Chicago found their quarterback and has him. But there are things that need to be proven before we can remove the think from the equation and consider Justin one of the upperclassmen of the quarterbacks in this league. All right, let's try this again. Now take a look at, you guys can tweet the show, by the way, at Up an Adam show. And we would love for you to do that. I love getting tweets during the program. So thanks for joining us this morning. Let's take a look at Detroit. Let's go up there to Motor City. People might think, oh, she's gonna bring up the question about Jared Goff, is he good? But that actually isn't my question for them. Start yelling at me, God. What's the question? Get to the question. Come on. It's not about Jared Goff, come on, I love you. I just love everything about you. It's not about Jared Goff. It's not about that, do you know anything? He deserves a lot of credit. This lion's team does, they finished in the mix while having a 30 second total defense. Get to the D, get the question. Okay, I'll get to the question. My question for the Lions is this, did they do enough to help the defense? The defense was so terrible. Listen, let's look at here. They made some big moves, okay? These are the defensive additions. Landing CJ Gardner Johnson in free agency. They get corners, Cameron Sutton and Emmanuel Mosley and they address all three levels of the defense in the draft. They get their mammoth linebacker, Jack Campbell out of Iowa in the first. They got it, Brian Branch, who I love, the first little friend of the show, DB. Out of Bama, that's the second rounder for them and a big nose tackle, Broderick Martin out of Western Kentucky that they took in the third round. But their decisions weren't non-controversial, okay? There are people questioning the move to draft running back Gibbs out of Alabama, 12th overall with cornerback Gonzalez on the board. Gonzalez, of course, went to the Patriots. Or I don't know, like, do you wanna draft a linebacker like Campbell when there were other premium positions available? Question mark, we will see how the moves pan out but if this Lions defense, man, if they're even in the middle of the pack when it comes to the whole league at any point this season and this offense, which was top five, continues to be top five, the way it did during that seven and two stretch that they had, to end the year, I think there's a really good chance we do see the Lions claim their first division title since 1993 and I believe, Connor, tell me I'm wrong, that the Lions odds are over at Fanville Sportsbook right now, if you wanna get down on it early and have a little fun, the Lions looking down upon everybody else below them in the NFC North, including the Packers. So the Packers, they're going through, I mean, they're going through it. They're going through major transition right now, Aaron Rodgers is gone, but it doesn't mean they're going to be irrelevant this year, right? What's the question? What's your question? Hold on, it's a friendship that's had five losing seasons guys, only five losing seasons in 31 years. So what's the question? Get to it. The question is pretty obvious. What is Jordan Love? Baby don't hurt me, baby don't hurt me no more, okay? What is Jordan Love? He's probably the biggest mystery. I would, I would behoove you, what is that? I would like you to find a bigger NFL mystery this year and tweet me, add up and add up show. What is the bigger mystery? Jordan Love is it. The question is clear, okay? So stop yelling, the question's clear. I think people are underestimating the impact that the answer might have. There were celebrations. There were like colors confetti and T-shirt guns around the NFC North when Rodgers was traded to New York. But fans did not learn anything from far to Rodgers and that situation that happened, come on. I'm not saying Love will be as good as Rodgers, but he's a talented guy, okay? He's a good quarterback. He went the first round for a reason and this roster still has a ton of juice. This standoff doesn't happen between Rodgers and the Packers and the Jets. The trait doesn't happen unless the Packers are completely comfortable with what they've got. And Goody pulled off a complete overhaul of Love's weapons, okay? He snags a receiver, Jane Reed in the second round. He gets a couple of tight ends. He got Tucker Kraft, Luke Musgraves, second, third round picks there and two other receivers later in the draft. I'm just saying there's not one team in this division that has proven enough to overlook the Packers. I will say that and I love the Lions. And the Vikings were really exciting last year and Chicago's got the good things happening, good things coming. Nobody has made it a shut book case that the Packers are just not going to be at the top. So that's what I would say. The question is. All right, finally. There's gotta be a question. Oh, there is a question. And this is my, I wanna handle this a little gently. This is a tortured fan base. It really is. Last year's division champs, the Vikings. They've gotta be so pissed. Fandal Sportsbook, Lions at the top. Jared Goff led Lions are leading. Like, what are we doing here? It was a big year for Minnesota last year. It's an even bigger one in 2023. They have not won back-to-back NFC North titles since 2008, 2009. Get to the question. Call them on, Jake. So you just throw paper ball at me? My God, I see the flashbacks. The seventh grade Matthew Nierman used to wear a bread farmed dress. We're not going down that thing. This kid used to wear a Packers jersey and used to throw things at me in class. So this one's for you. About the Vikings, though. My question for Minnesota is. Get to it. Are the Vikings good or are they? They're good. What is the good? Yeah, listen, despite their 13 and four record, the analytics did not love the Vikings last year and the Giants bounced them in the first round in the playoffs. I don't know if I've ever seen the 13 team win get so little love. I hate it for you. But before we pin it all on her cousins, the passing game was the biggest strength of this team last year. This team's biggest issue came in the run game. They were 27th and, by the way, on defense where only the Lions were worse and they weren't able to do a ton to improve this offseason because they only had six picks in the draft and they lost some key vets like Patrick Peterson and Adam Thielen. So while last year they were a trendy pick to win the North and they followed through. This year it seems like everybody's on the outs. If you look at the updated odds and here they go and you can see where it all shakes out over if you wanna have some fun on Fandall Sportsbook. This is after the draft now. The Vikings are tied with the Bears for the longest odds to win the division. Minnesota, are you gonna take this disrespect? Are you gonna fall apart after a rough end to this season or are you gonna use this chip on your shoulder to shut everybody up? This is a contract year for court cousins and if a playoff run doesn't happen you may be closing in on that R word, the rebuilds in Minnesota. Courcousins, historically, does pretty well in a contract year, so we'll see how it goes but those are my questions. Great questions. Thank you for the NFC North. All I wanted was for Drew to yell at me. I said in the production meeting if he starts yelling we will make my day but he didn't, he's just smiling. And he says, you're lovely, you're beautiful. All right, we'll be back. We've got Sean Serania on the program. You see him on run it back, you see him breaking draft news for the NFL and now he's here with us on Up and Atms, we'll be back.