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Speaker 1: coming up at six ZH eight and then at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, one of the Bear's rookie classmates,
Speaker 1: Kelly Herbert, the running back. We're very impressed with he'll
Speaker 1: be joining us at six thirty time. Good evening. How
Speaker 1: you doing, big, Jeff, I'm good. It's exciting to see
Speaker 1: the guys on the field, in their cleats, inside of
Speaker 1: a huddle, breaking the huddle, running patterns downfield, look in
Speaker 1: the defense that Sean Desai is gonna put together, and
Speaker 1: see what his formula of attack is. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of building blocks that when you're witnessed too, from
Speaker 1: day one, it's interesting to see how these guys throughout
Speaker 1: the process within a week, within three weeks, and then
Speaker 1: when you get ready to go to training camp. So
Speaker 1: it is an exciting time, but it's no more exciting
Speaker 1: than for the draft choices, for the young guys, the
Speaker 1: guys that are fighting for position, some of the guys
Speaker 1: that have been traded to the Bears. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's exciting to look at the development the growth of
Speaker 1: some of these young guys and Obama for desk new
Speaker 1: Sim suffered a shoulder injury, so he's going to be
Speaker 1: out of it. I feel bad for him, obviously, that's
Speaker 1: a part of the game. And you know Daz's you know,
Speaker 1: has to show some resiliency here that he's willing to
Speaker 1: do the work that it takes to recover from this injury,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to diminish what he's capable of
Speaker 1: achieving in the long run of his career. You know,
Speaker 1: you go up and you try to make a catch
Speaker 1: for your quarterback and you awkwardly fall down, and you
Speaker 1: know that's always the threat of the game. However, I
Speaker 1: still think we're gonna be able to talk a lot
Speaker 1: about Daz Newsome and the development of his career. All right,
Speaker 1: here's what we do on these shows, right, we take
Speaker 1: a look at back at what's going on over the
Speaker 1: course of the week in terms of interviews that were
Speaker 1: made available to the media, and Andy Dalton was one
Speaker 1: of them as he met the media for the first
Speaker 1: time as a bare quarterback and got a chance to
Speaker 1: see him and watch him play and already earned the
Speaker 1: nickname of the Fiery Redhead from head coach Matt Nagy. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it comes with experience and you know, understanding
Speaker 1: how things should look and playing the position of quarterback,
Speaker 1: you're obviously going to have a voice. But then you
Speaker 1: throw the experience and you know how long I've been
Speaker 1: doing this into the mix too. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's you're in that leadership position and you want
Speaker 1: to make sure things are going the right way. And
Speaker 1: so I'm sure that's what he's alluding to with the
Speaker 1: fiery redhead comments. But um, you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do everything I can to to make us the best
Speaker 1: team that we will be come come to fall. And frankly,
Speaker 1: I want my quarterback to be able to challenge the
Speaker 1: skill position players, the receivers to be in the right
Speaker 1: place at the right time. It can't just be the
Speaker 1: head coach. It's got to be the quarterback. This is
Speaker 1: only not only the receivers. Jeff, I remember getting yelled at,
Speaker 1: scolded face to face by Jim McMahon at Denver Bronco's
Speaker 1: Monday night game and it still lingers with me because
Speaker 1: he's the guy that took the abuse of my mistake.
Speaker 1: And so when you talk about Andy Dalton and now
Speaker 1: he's trying to take this big lab of clay and
Speaker 1: molded into an offense that works efficiently, hey, then everything
Speaker 1: can't be said on a you know, as he's trying
Speaker 1: to earn the sash of mister Congeniality. It's about making
Speaker 1: sure this is the best team possible come Week one
Speaker 1: against against the Rams as their opponent. So um, that's
Speaker 1: kind of the fun part of being involved in sports,
Speaker 1: and one of the challenges is that you're gonna get
Speaker 1: yelled at in front of your peers, buy one of
Speaker 1: your peers, or you're gonna be encouraged, whatever the case is.
Speaker 1: It's always a part of the growth process. All right,
Speaker 1: what you do in that Monday that game, I gave
Speaker 1: up a sack I think to Michael Dean Perry to
Speaker 1: Jim McMahon on a three step drop that he should
Speaker 1: have never got in and I had just enough time
Speaker 1: to turn and yell look out and he hit him
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, the abuse just bullrush. Now, if you
Speaker 1: tell me bullrush man, I'll be disappointed. Grab my wrist
Speaker 1: and turn my body. And the rest was McMahon, the
Speaker 1: history of getting in. I'd like to hear these old stories.
Speaker 1: We'll get more from Jim Miller. Coming up next, This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access with our producer Sean Anderson. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniyak with Tom there on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score and welcome back to Bears All Access.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Jonyak welcoming in from SYBA, Sex Time, NFL Radios,
Speaker 1: moving the chains, Jim Miller, the former Chicago Bears quarterback.
Speaker 1: Good evening, Jim, how's this June third treating you? Everything's
Speaker 1: going good, Jeff, Tom always good to talk football with you, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot going on. It never ends in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's always twenty four seven. It'll start to quiet down
Speaker 1: after these last OTAs in mini camps finish up. But
Speaker 1: it sounds like a lot of teams are getting you know,
Speaker 1: just the volume of players. There is a high attendance rate,
Speaker 1: and that's a that's a good thing, and it tells
Speaker 1: you that the players are motivated to go and put
Speaker 1: in the work and have a successful season. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: as a football fan, I don't want it to slow down.
Speaker 1: I don't mind if it goes right up. Maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks in July, let me have a summer vacation.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I'm good with it. I'm good
Speaker 1: with it. I'm gonna poke this to you in your
Speaker 1: direction here with Andy Dalton and what Matteggie had to
Speaker 1: say yesterday Jim about his job and what I essentially
Speaker 1: call and I don't mean this in a demeaning way
Speaker 1: at all, but he is a point guard type of quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I think the explanation is really there on the
Speaker 1: table with this bite from Matteggie yesterday. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of young wide receivers and so they're saying that
Speaker 1: if you don't get your tail to that spot, he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw to football. And if you're not there and
Speaker 1: it's an incompletion and it's your fault, then we got
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, are we gonna keep letting
Speaker 1: that happen or we're gonna get somebody else? And that's
Speaker 1: kind of that's what I think is need to see.
Speaker 1: And Andy he's got a red hair too, so he's
Speaker 1: like he's got that fire, you know. He's like he said,
Speaker 1: he'll get pissed now and tell you if if you
Speaker 1: do something wrong, he's gonna tell you. I kind of
Speaker 1: like that. It sounds like a Jim Miller quarterback right there.
Speaker 1: But in terms of the fiery emotion that players like
Speaker 1: to follow. In terms of that, is that selling him
Speaker 1: short at all when I when I say point guard
Speaker 1: quarterback because distributing the ball, getting into the guys that
Speaker 1: are open, and being there on time and on target. No,
Speaker 1: I think Andy's a better athlete than what people give
Speaker 1: him credit for. The guys got twenty two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It was interesting we had a call or call in
Speaker 1: h you know, thinking really highly of Jamis Winston and
Speaker 1: hiring guard. He thought Jamies should be rated that the
Speaker 1: third best quarterback in football for his athleticism. And I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: I'm like, He goes, well, probably just Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: uh Patrick Mahomes are ahead of him, and and that's
Speaker 1: about it. And I go, what about uh, you know,
Speaker 1: guys like Aaron Rodgers who was the league VP, or
Speaker 1: the athleticism of Josh Allen. And so I went through
Speaker 1: in some numbers last night, I would put Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: ahead of Jamie's two on that list, you know, Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: all these guys, And he's got twenty two rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: for his career, so he can move around, he can
Speaker 1: extend plays, and he's always been a good athlete. But
Speaker 1: I think what's what's critical about Andy He's always been
Speaker 1: a very good processor of information. People forget he was
Speaker 1: thrust into lineup early. You know, Carson Palmer was retiring.
Speaker 1: They drafted Andy Dalton. He had to play right away,
Speaker 1: and he played well his rookie season as a Cincinnati Bengal. So,
Speaker 1: but Andy knows two because he's a timing and rhythm guy,
Speaker 1: because he is an accurate passer, he needs those guys
Speaker 1: to be at that that spot when he can get
Speaker 1: rid of the football. There's always that time clock that
Speaker 1: is going off in your head. And I think he's
Speaker 1: got the leadership and he can elevate guys, uh you know,
Speaker 1: their play to bring him that to that level. Again,
Speaker 1: he's he's led teams to the postseason numerous times and
Speaker 1: has played at a very high level his entire NFL career.
Speaker 1: He's kind of gets short changed how good he really
Speaker 1: is as a quarterback. Tom hous that impact the O line, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the old line wants a count on. The
Speaker 1: offense is gonna move according to the direction that they have,
Speaker 1: you know, been instructed up front, whether it's protection or
Speaker 1: the running game. And Andy Dalton, they have to know
Speaker 1: that he's going to be in the area where they
Speaker 1: expect him to be in depending upon the design of
Speaker 1: the protection. When you have a quarterback that you're uncertain
Speaker 1: where he's going to be behind you, you're just susceptible
Speaker 1: to giving up sacks. It changes, It changes the most
Speaker 1: dominant part of the protection. So again it's a part
Speaker 1: of what you know. Great quarterbacks are capable of where
Speaker 1: you want him to be. You want to make sure
Speaker 1: they're in the right position when you break the huddle
Speaker 1: according to again, according to the protection. All right, and
Speaker 1: high praise for Justin fields from Matt Naggie. Justin wants
Speaker 1: to do right now. It's football. That's all he cares about.
Speaker 1: He just wants to be the best quarterback he can
Speaker 1: possibly be. He wants us to be able to teach
Speaker 1: him everything we can teach him. He wants to be
Speaker 1: able to learn from Andy. Coach Flip and coach Laser
Speaker 1: are doing a phenomenal job right now. Man, You want
Speaker 1: to talk about obsessed and passionate about helping these quarterbacks out.
Speaker 1: So it's neat to see you feel it. And we
Speaker 1: just got to keep that going and again work to
Speaker 1: that plan that we talked about with all those quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and then just let these guys grow at their own
Speaker 1: pace and then let us be able to evaluate them quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's the greatest thing about these guys being in the
Speaker 1: building because every second they're sponging the information they're getting
Speaker 1: from all the different directions, all the different coaches. They're
Speaker 1: able to talk to the players about football, and you
Speaker 1: want to be able to talk about your job and
Speaker 1: how it affects their job. And when you're a young
Speaker 1: quarterback like this and you're in the development stages of
Speaker 1: the NFL, whether it's talking about the cadence, talking about
Speaker 1: the huddle, talking about the running game, the passing game,
Speaker 1: you know, it's nice to see that you have a
Speaker 1: guy that his main sole interest right now is football
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Sandwich between two veteran quarterbacks that are accomplished
Speaker 1: with Andy Dalton as the starter and Nick Foles as
Speaker 1: the number three, and that conversation took place. It's probably
Speaker 1: never easy to hear, is it. Well, yeah, it is
Speaker 1: never easy to hear. But I think they're going to
Speaker 1: break up the reps, you know, and he'll get a
Speaker 1: ton of work. Again, I don't think they want to.
Speaker 1: They're trying to force feed him, but yet they gotta
Speaker 1: go at the pace where the players, you know, willing
Speaker 1: to have growth every single every every single day. And
Speaker 1: I think having the veterans because I think both those
Speaker 1: guys are great teammates. I've pre heard nothing but great
Speaker 1: things about Nick Foles, no matter no matter where he's been,
Speaker 1: about his locker room presence, how hopeful he is as
Speaker 1: as a player. And Andy Dalton. I mentioned Paul Alexander,
Speaker 1: who coached with him. You know, raves about Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: and his ability to lead and help out teammates. So
Speaker 1: this guy is insulated very well with guys who have
Speaker 1: played the game, have had success in the league and
Speaker 1: know how to approach the position and know how to
Speaker 1: prepare themselves four games. So out of ranking all the
Speaker 1: all the quarterback rooms this offseason, Bears are definitely in
Speaker 1: the top ten. And I'm just waiting to see what
Speaker 1: happens down in Houston because if DeShawn Watson's note no
Speaker 1: longer there, Bears would be in top five of quarterback
Speaker 1: rooms were on the NFL. That's all good. I think
Speaker 1: that position is right now for Chicago. One thing I
Speaker 1: don't like about OTAs if there is such a thing
Speaker 1: of not liking them, because as a football person, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see everybody on the field. But the media
Speaker 1: gets one day a week out of the you know,
Speaker 1: week long festivities, and then that's their snapshot of performance.
Speaker 1: Who's doing well, who's not, And sometimes that gets lost
Speaker 1: in the conversation a little bit for the readers or
Speaker 1: the listeners. And you know, who's there at the given time.
Speaker 1: You know, that doesn't mean they haven't been there. We
Speaker 1: don't have the attendance of what exactly is there. But
Speaker 1: yesterday there was one defensive starter in Roquan Smith, so
Speaker 1: a lot of the defensive guys not I'm assuming you
Speaker 1: know that that that that's a story that people are
Speaker 1: gonna latch onto. But Jim, don't you think that's a
Speaker 1: one thing the league makes a little bit unfair on
Speaker 1: its own players and coaching staffs. What just the day
Speaker 1: analysis is on one one day one week. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're you're right. I mean, you know, guys that don't
Speaker 1: show up, I mean they may they may have had
Speaker 1: something else planned that that day. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: so I don't think you can you can really just
Speaker 1: take that that one day as as as a whole.
Speaker 1: It's really about the collective. If a player shows up,
Speaker 1: you know, typically teams want you to be there ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the time. And I think for the players,
Speaker 1: most of those players are coming in right at that
Speaker 1: number at about ninety percent of the time because you
Speaker 1: got workout bonuses and things tied to the contract that
Speaker 1: where a player can can make some money. So they're
Speaker 1: going to make certain that they do their part and
Speaker 1: in order to get compensated. But yet they're still jelly
Speaker 1: with the team and creating that cambaraderie things that are
Speaker 1: so important that you've got to build in the offseason.
Speaker 1: And primarily it is geared more towards the young players,
Speaker 1: the first and second year players that are looking to
Speaker 1: take a jump. You want the veterans there because they're
Speaker 1: the ones that pull those guys along to see how
Speaker 1: it's done, and they see how you're working and maybe
Speaker 1: the reps and they're still breaking down the tape and
Speaker 1: see how the veterans doing it, and so that they
Speaker 1: can their process of growing can be broad around a
Speaker 1: lot quickly. So you know, I don't look at it
Speaker 1: that way. I've been pretty amazed at the participation, at
Speaker 1: the participation rates of the entire NFL. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: the NFLPA really programmed the players all you should opt
Speaker 1: out and all those things, and Bruce Arians kind of
Speaker 1: put it out there on the thing, Hey, man, if
Speaker 1: you're a veteran not coming here, these young guys, they're
Speaker 1: working to take your job, and so that factors in
Speaker 1: as well. And I think overall, spend a great motivation
Speaker 1: motivating factor and why you've seen great attendance rates. I
Speaker 1: always always motivated by the fear of losing my job.
Speaker 1: And if I was a veteran, if I was a
Speaker 1: friend fringe veteran, I'd be living at these OTAs. I'd
Speaker 1: be taking every possible rep that I could I could get.
Speaker 1: If I was inside of a defense that's learning from
Speaker 1: a new defensive coordinator, I would want to I would
Speaker 1: want to learn all the information efficiently and be on
Speaker 1: the field in order to get those no pad reps.
Speaker 1: I you know, my football career, I've loved nopad football
Speaker 1: because it was the greatest time for camaraderie. Yeah you
Speaker 1: were out there learning, Yeah you were exhausted, you were
Speaker 1: going through conditioning, but you know, there wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: any collisions that we're gonna was gonna chase change the
Speaker 1: course of your career, and I known das new some
Speaker 1: you know fell awkwardly when he and he did hurt
Speaker 1: his break his collar bone. However, you know, just the
Speaker 1: whole building blocks of no pad football is fun and
Speaker 1: so I look forward to it. All right, that's time there,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, Jeff Joniak. As we move on here on
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Speaker 1: Miller from Serious XM NFL Radio is moving the chains
Speaker 1: with Pat Kerwin and coming up in moments running back
Speaker 1: Cladil Herbert, the Bear's sixth round pick. Focus on running
Speaker 1: game right now. David Montgomery yesterday was quite opened and
Speaker 1: ripped open the curtain a little bit on his own
Speaker 1: performance in twenty twenty. Like I said, I don't think
Speaker 1: I was vocal enough and I don't think I left
Speaker 1: it all on the foot as I should. Add I
Speaker 1: think I could have done better for my guys around me.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I saw him for a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's the day off seasons for for me to
Speaker 1: go back and get to the drawing board and trying
Speaker 1: to fix the things that I felt as if I
Speaker 1: didn't do all one and just trying to improve them.
Speaker 1: I know this year, I'm not here to let my
Speaker 1: guys down, and I'm here for whatever may come my way. Well, fellas,
Speaker 1: he wants to be more of a leader and be
Speaker 1: one not just for the running back room, but for
Speaker 1: the entire team. He's got that in him. Obviously, that's
Speaker 1: what he was at Iowa State. Culture changer type of guy,
Speaker 1: but the rare guy that admits that, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think I left a little bit on the table
Speaker 1: last year on the field, quite the admission he finished
Speaker 1: strong in the final six. How do you take those
Speaker 1: comments big time? You know, I'm super impressed with everything
Speaker 1: I've seen out of David Montgomery up unto this point.
Speaker 1: But now I'm even more impressed with David Montgomery from
Speaker 1: listening to him talk about his own performance and how
Speaker 1: he's not necessarily one hundred percent satisfied and he has
Speaker 1: room for growth and improvement, because look, man, this guy's legit.
Speaker 1: He's a first, second, third down back. He does everything
Speaker 1: that's required of him, and he does it at a
Speaker 1: high level. And just for him to inspire himself to
Speaker 1: work harder, it says a lot what he can do
Speaker 1: for the bearers, Jim. Sometimes you might have a guy
Speaker 1: that just says that, you know, words are words, but
Speaker 1: you know he backs it up. He is this type
Speaker 1: of player. I would not think anything other than the
Speaker 1: truth from him on this one and how he evaluates
Speaker 1: himself because this goes back to his roots in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: growing up. Yeah. Well, we know coming out of college
Speaker 1: he broke a ton of tackles. I mean that he
Speaker 1: was the number one player in the country from that
Speaker 1: standpoint overall, I'm with you, Jeff. I thought he finished
Speaker 1: real strong. I mean, he can finish six overall in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He probably wants to get to double digit touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Thinks he's capable of that, and I think he believes
Speaker 1: he's capable of more explosive plays. He had five plus
Speaker 1: twenty yard explosive runs in two plus forty. You look
Speaker 1: at other guys around the league, they're ripping off of
Speaker 1: like four when he got guys like Delvin Cook and
Speaker 1: guys like Aaron Jones, And I think David Montgomery has
Speaker 1: that type of ability where he can have more explosive plays.
Speaker 1: It's all got to come together as one. That the
Speaker 1: you know, that was kind of disjointed and how the
Speaker 1: season was, but he did kick it in gear down
Speaker 1: the stretch and WI finished so strong, and he says
Speaker 1: he's working out his speed. This office probably the best
Speaker 1: speed runner in the world. The name is Chris Corfus.
Speaker 1: He's actually teaching me how to run. Like I'm twenty
Speaker 1: three years old, getting ready to turn twenty four here
Speaker 1: soon a couple of days. But I have not know
Speaker 1: I've not been able to run properly the entire of
Speaker 1: my life, me not really realizing how I didn't know
Speaker 1: how to run. He's definitely like clear that image up
Speaker 1: for me and it's definitely helping me out a lot.
Speaker 1: Another crazy admission when you think about it. Then our
Speaker 1: Mark Roady, you had a follow up question. You know
Speaker 1: what specifically has this individual his speed coach taught him.
Speaker 1: He said, well, you know, I have to. It's like
Speaker 1: giving up my mama's chicken recipe, fried chicken recipe. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. And you know that's the competitive
Speaker 1: advantage of a lot of guys don't want to tell
Speaker 1: you exactly what they did in the offseason, but Toms,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting takeaway as well from David Mountmory. But
Speaker 1: I hope you're able to compliment the weight room with
Speaker 1: the style of running that he's being encouraged to use,
Speaker 1: because I don't, you know, the one thing I don't
Speaker 1: want to a track coach to tell me how to
Speaker 1: run fast and then it gets me out of the
Speaker 1: weight room. Because the recovery ability of David Montgomery, the
Speaker 1: abuse his yards after contact. It's because he has such
Speaker 1: a strong, dominant running back frame in the weight room
Speaker 1: is needed as much as his running ability. So I
Speaker 1: hope each compliments each other and one doesn't take away
Speaker 1: from the other. Well, like anything, I don't think you
Speaker 1: can assume everything. I remember a few years ago when
Speaker 1: Prince Amukamara admitted, he goes, you know, we were questioning
Speaker 1: about the lack of an interceptions and he goes, I
Speaker 1: really didn't learn how to catch a football. So I
Speaker 1: got here to the Chicago Bears and it was Eddie
Speaker 1: donatell said, you know, you just you figure a player,
Speaker 1: as you know, this guy was on a world championship
Speaker 1: team with the Giants. You just assume he knows how
Speaker 1: to catch a football, and it was Eddie donatell taught
Speaker 1: him out of Hey, you know, if the ball's low,
Speaker 1: you know, put your pinkies together. If the ball's high,
Speaker 1: put your thumbs together. And he got on the jugs
Speaker 1: machine and learn and learned how to catch. And I
Speaker 1: think that year he got four interceptions for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: So you can't assume everything just because David Montgomery has
Speaker 1: played running back. You know, there's a technique to running
Speaker 1: where you know how you you know, pump your arms
Speaker 1: that you can accelerate quicker and things like that. But
Speaker 1: he still has to come away with, you know, things
Speaker 1: about avoiding tackles and you're going to be at awkward angles.
Speaker 1: But the the just the style and the technique of running.
Speaker 1: You know, he's trying to better himself. And so I
Speaker 1: give him a lot of credit from that standpoint. Hey, fellas,
Speaker 1: real quick before I hit this break, did you guys
Speaker 1: gets and your exit interviews every year or if you
Speaker 1: had them, because now it sounds like everybody does and
Speaker 1: they get this is what you want, we want you
Speaker 1: to work on or this why don't you wanted to
Speaker 1: add this, lose this in terms of way to or
Speaker 1: did you guys look yourselves in there and say I
Speaker 1: need to do this specific aspect of my job better
Speaker 1: and out. This is one of my work out of
Speaker 1: the off season. Time you first and what is it
Speaker 1: to me? It was always what is Clyde Amer going
Speaker 1: to do with me in the off season? How is
Speaker 1: he going to make me a stronger football player? And
Speaker 1: then we took it to the field and we're able
Speaker 1: to convert weight room strength into into running coordination. Jim Jim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, definitely when the Bearers went to
Speaker 1: the West Coast offense under John Chop, I knew I
Speaker 1: was gonna have to work a lot on my footwork.
Speaker 1: I was kind of laxadaisical in my in my dropbacks,
Speaker 1: but in that system because it's a lot of it
Speaker 1: is a timing and rhythm. Your feet's got to be
Speaker 1: your feet have to be like pistons and you know,
Speaker 1: in an engine. And I literally in one off season
Speaker 1: so that's all I did, is just a tough footwork
Speaker 1: and drops and things like that. And I literally came
Speaker 1: back the next fall. I was at the training camp
Speaker 1: and I'm watching myself on tape, and I'm like, that
Speaker 1: doesn't even look like me. You know, I look like
Speaker 1: a whole new player, you know it did. I just
Speaker 1: looked like a totally different player from what I was
Speaker 1: and what I worked on and then how I applied
Speaker 1: it after and you definitely could see the improvement coming
Speaker 1: up next, Cadille Herbert, Bears sixth round running back, joins
Speaker 1: the program with Sean Anderson, our producer. I'm Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: with Tom There and Jim Miller here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The segment of
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Speaker 1: to score with Top There, Jim and our Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: and our special guest Tonight, Bears rookie running back and
Speaker 1: he's a good one. Godille Herbert joining the program from
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech after a career at Kansas and hellel thanks
Speaker 1: for taking the time to join us. Now you're getting
Speaker 1: your your feet wet and settling down. Watching you both
Speaker 1: at a rookie mini camp and then watching you at
Speaker 1: the OTA this past Wednesday, I commented the top there.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting when you read about a guy
Speaker 1: or watch a guy, but seeing them up close. You
Speaker 1: are a thick side running back and you are very
Speaker 1: impressive in terms of how you move out there. It's
Speaker 1: on a five nine two ten frame. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's your current weight, but obviously you got a
Speaker 1: lot to you otherwise they're not giving you the nickname Juice, right, Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely I appreciate that. Yeah, I feel like just being
Speaker 1: able to be that size and that weight, but definitely
Speaker 1: being able to move and run and run fast helps
Speaker 1: me on. That's kind of how I got the nickname.
Speaker 1: Two questions is the gift of the size is that?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you a weight room invested guy throughout
Speaker 1: being a young guy? Number one? And number two. Every
Speaker 1: complimentary thing I read about you until we have a
Speaker 1: chance to watch you was about your vision, and i've
Speaker 1: viously your vision has to transfer well when you did
Speaker 1: transfer college programs, but how long does that vision take
Speaker 1: to catch up to a new system now that you're
Speaker 1: in the Bear system. Yeah, you know, I definitely think
Speaker 1: it just comes with reps um. The same thing happened
Speaker 1: when I left Kansas to VT. Just getting in the offense,
Speaker 1: getting comfortable with the names, the terminology, the formation is
Speaker 1: the plays um. So then once you're once you're comfortable
Speaker 1: with with the offense, you're able to go out there
Speaker 1: and play fast and just lay lay your talents do
Speaker 1: what they do. Um. So, really just becoming comfortable with
Speaker 1: the offense, I think that I'll start to um slow
Speaker 1: things down for me and allow me to just go
Speaker 1: out there and play and use my abilities to help
Speaker 1: me out. Well, Khalil Jim Miller here, welcome to Chicago,
Speaker 1: and you look at that you mentioned transferring. You have
Speaker 1: just a breakout season and what I love about you, dude,
Speaker 1: you don't fumble. Man. I mean you had over five
Speaker 1: hundred carries and and you coughed up the rock only twice.
Speaker 1: Maybe talk about that because your ability could to break
Speaker 1: tackles and probably that asset alone, the teams are gonna
Speaker 1: love you, and I know the Bears are gonna love
Speaker 1: you playing for the Chicago Bearers. So where that where
Speaker 1: does that come from? And why isn't such a successful
Speaker 1: season last year after you transferred. Yeah, definitely, I give
Speaker 1: the kudos to the success of season last year, just
Speaker 1: to my coaches and my teammates at VT. They believed
Speaker 1: in me. They allowed me to go out there and
Speaker 1: play my game, and they pushed me a lot during
Speaker 1: the offseason and during camp. But there's no fumbles. I
Speaker 1: definitely think it comes from one of my time at Kansas.
Speaker 1: Whenever on film the ball would get away from our
Speaker 1: body or anybody would fumble, or anytime you could see
Speaker 1: the ball on film, we'd have up downs every five
Speaker 1: yards um. So we do probably five or six hundred
Speaker 1: dollars five or six hundred yards up down after practice
Speaker 1: every day until you know, people stopped, people start taking
Speaker 1: care of the ball. So after that, definitely to pay brother,
Speaker 1: that's I don't know if the listeners know what the
Speaker 1: updowns are, are, but how many you did, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty stiff pellow. You guys are pretty hard on yourselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I mean it helps because we stopped doing it.
Speaker 1: We didn't want to do up down, so we make
Speaker 1: sure we took care of the ball man and it translated.
Speaker 1: So Kylele Herbert Ard guests along with Tom and Jeff
Speaker 1: here and Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score with that vein of conversation. If you
Speaker 1: you're familiar with Charles Peanut Tillman, right, Charles Tillman one
Speaker 1: of the best cornerbacks in Bears history, arguably the best,
Speaker 1: and Bear and the peanut punch. So I know teams
Speaker 1: do practice. I don't know if the defense is doing
Speaker 1: that up at Hollis all these days, but you know,
Speaker 1: that guy could do things I've never seen before, and
Speaker 1: therefore it's it's a namesake for him. That would have
Speaker 1: been a nice challenge for you up downs with the
Speaker 1: peanut punch, right, Yeah, definitely, definitely, But you know, that's
Speaker 1: kind of one thing we harp us. We've pried ourselves
Speaker 1: on taking care of the ball to make sure the
Speaker 1: defense doesn't get it. So it'd be a good challenge well,
Speaker 1: catching the ball going forward. It doesn't seem that you
Speaker 1: were you know, I had a heavy duty amount of
Speaker 1: catching the ball in college. So when you talk about
Speaker 1: developing that aspect of your game, because it's something that's
Speaker 1: needed in the modern day NFL offenses, is that something
Speaker 1: that comes with reps from the quarterback from the jugs
Speaker 1: machine or just uh, you know, something that you're able
Speaker 1: to work on it during during your own downtime in
Speaker 1: the off season. Yeah, it definitely comes from both. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just working on it on my own
Speaker 1: in off season, making sure I'm I'm catching the ball
Speaker 1: and I'm getting reps just mentally catching either tens balls
Speaker 1: or footballs, but then getting with the quarterbacks, you know,
Speaker 1: before practice, after practice, during practice, making sure that I'm
Speaker 1: I'm looking the ball in just making sure I'm doing
Speaker 1: the little things to catch the ball, and it definitely helps.
Speaker 1: But catching the ball has never really been a problem
Speaker 1: with me. I've always been able to do it, just
Speaker 1: never got the opportunity to do it that much of CODs,
Speaker 1: But I'm definitely looking forward to being able to do
Speaker 1: it here. Well, it's hard to work on it now
Speaker 1: because you're not in pads. And what I mean specifically
Speaker 1: is you know, third down blocking or blitz picking up
Speaker 1: the blitz and and things like that. But what overall
Speaker 1: do you feel you need to focus on and want
Speaker 1: to take your game to to another level that maybe
Speaker 1: you need to shore up a little bit more. Definitely
Speaker 1: passed brom definitely just really learning my assignment so I
Speaker 1: know everything I gotta do Pastor takes in learning my assignment,
Speaker 1: so whenever I get the opportunity, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: So i'd say those two things are two things I'm
Speaker 1: really focusing on just getting better at and definitely helping
Speaker 1: out on special teams. Just learning my role, learning my job,
Speaker 1: and trying to learn as many different positions as I
Speaker 1: can to help the team. Because they Harvard our guests,
Speaker 1: one of the Bear sixth round draft picks out of
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech, a Florida kid born and read. And uh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I know this lingers with players, and
Speaker 1: I'm certain it's it's in the back of your mind
Speaker 1: if not. But you know, when I think of guys,
Speaker 1: all purpose guys, and I talked to Tom about this today,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about guys that put up a lot of all,
Speaker 1: you know, yards from scrimmage or all purpose yards. And
Speaker 1: you were great at that. Obviously you led the ACC
Speaker 1: in all purpose yards in twenty But you think of
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, you think of Dalvin Cook, and then the
Speaker 1: guy that's had the most in the last two years
Speaker 1: in the league. And I quizzed Tom on this because
Speaker 1: we don't see the Chargers much. But it's Austin Eckler
Speaker 1: from Western Colorado University. You know, undrafted Alfred Morris out
Speaker 1: of Florida Atlantic in his rookie year, sixth round pick,
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred yards. As a rookie. You'll hear the story
Speaker 1: about Terrell Davis, now a Hall of Famer of the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos at Georgia sixth round pick. It doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: does it, where you're picked. Once you're here, you don't
Speaker 1: need to have the pedigree of a first round pick.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? When you when you
Speaker 1: hear some of those names, Yeah, definitely. Those guys are
Speaker 1: are guys that I've looked up to growing up. I
Speaker 1: watched and kind of patted my game after. But to
Speaker 1: see where they started, you know, it's not where he
Speaker 1: starts how you finish. So you know they took wherever
Speaker 1: they got picked up with the chip and or with
Speaker 1: a chip on the sleeve. Um, but they got an
Speaker 1: opportunity at the end of the day and they made
Speaker 1: the best of their opportunity. UM. So I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do the same exact thing. But really, just you know,
Speaker 1: you got to foot it in the door right now.
Speaker 1: It's what you do with it with that foot in
Speaker 1: the door. So just being grateful for the opportunity and
Speaker 1: going out and you know, fully investing in getting taken
Speaker 1: advantage of it. You know, Khalil, you know, what can
Speaker 1: you learn from the backs in front of you? Because
Speaker 1: David Montgomery is one of the best backs in the
Speaker 1: NFL at yards after contact. But that's also one of
Speaker 1: the positive evaluations that I've read about you is they
Speaker 1: said the best back in the draft at yards after contact?
Speaker 1: Is that just something comes with the territory or could
Speaker 1: you actually watch tape of a guy who's good at
Speaker 1: it and learn something or is it just something that
Speaker 1: you're good at and you get better at it every
Speaker 1: every time you get that opportunity. I definitely think it's
Speaker 1: a combination of both, being would have watched guys and
Speaker 1: see different ways they break tackles, different ways they make
Speaker 1: people miss. Definitely something I do. But then again it
Speaker 1: comes down to just you know, carrying the ball and
Speaker 1: getting used to breaking that contact too. So I definitely
Speaker 1: think it's a combination of both. But like you said, Dave,
Speaker 1: he's one of the best in the league. At it.
Speaker 1: So being able to watch these guys in practice and
Speaker 1: learn from them has definitely helped me a lot in
Speaker 1: a short amount of time so far. I definitely think
Speaker 1: it'll continue to Well, what's the plan for you, Khalil?
Speaker 1: After the OTAs and everything ends here pretty shortly here
Speaker 1: in the in the next week we stay in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Are you going back home to work with a certain
Speaker 1: specialist or do you have really a program that you're
Speaker 1: going to attach to and where you're gonna do it
Speaker 1: at Yeah, I think I'll be going back to home.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a place out here, and then once
Speaker 1: I found a place, I'll probably go back home for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, just recharge, and then come back
Speaker 1: and be ready to go. Khalil Herbert our guest here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio Activty The
Speaker 1: Score brought to you by AGF Energy. Last one from
Speaker 1: us before we let you go. We really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It's always interesting to me when I start doing the
Speaker 1: draft prep of where your journeys all begins as players,
Speaker 1: and you know, I knew you played at American Heritage
Speaker 1: High School, which was a star studded program with great talent.
Speaker 1: Many of your classmates drafted around the National Football League,
Speaker 1: including Patrick Sir, tan Tyson Campbell, and many others. Furness
Speaker 1: a two part question. But first, you know, did that
Speaker 1: sharpen the steal in you because there were so many
Speaker 1: great players in that program. You guys won state championships repeatedly.
Speaker 1: You were there only one year because you were at
Speaker 1: Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, which people know that the
Speaker 1: Parkland tragedy back in the day, That was your first
Speaker 1: three years. What did those two experiences do for you
Speaker 1: as now an NFL player, both the tragedy and also
Speaker 1: the success of that pro grandmother the great players. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: That's why I transferred the heritage. UM. I wanted to
Speaker 1: play against I wanted to play against the best in
Speaker 1: practice and and you know, compete against the best UM
Speaker 1: teams in the nation. UM. I wanted to go there
Speaker 1: and show coaches that coaches in college that and one
Speaker 1: of the best facts in the state and one of
Speaker 1: the best facts in the country. So to be the best,
Speaker 1: you got to play with the best UM in practice,
Speaker 1: you know, in games. Definitely helped. Just being there with
Speaker 1: the top notch guys. UM we always went out of
Speaker 1: We always sharpened each other in practice, and they always help. Um,
Speaker 1: we always compete, and I think that's one thing that
Speaker 1: I definitely learned and it helped me when I went
Speaker 1: there and then the parking tragedy. Um, definitely, it was
Speaker 1: was something you know, to this day, I still have
Speaker 1: no words to kind of explain how it makes me feel.
Speaker 1: But just one of those things that you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of are a reminder of, and to be grateful
Speaker 1: for where you are and where you're doing, and to
Speaker 1: make sure that you love on people because you never
Speaker 1: know when they're gonna go, no matter what the situation is.
Speaker 1: So just being able to after all that, you know,
Speaker 1: I went home and we're able to see everybody, but
Speaker 1: just being able to connect with everybody in and make
Speaker 1: sure everybody's good and take care of people. It's kind
Speaker 1: of one of the things that ever since that day,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of trying to do every day and make
Speaker 1: sure everybody's okay. You never know what anybody's going through. Well,
Speaker 1: we really appreciate time. We appreciate having you here and
Speaker 1: being a Chicago bearing wishing nothing but success and what
Speaker 1: is an outstanding running back room and I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna be a big part of the Bears. We didn't
Speaker 1: even talk about your return ability because you can do
Speaker 1: that too, So we'll be looking forward to seeing your
Speaker 1: rookie year winds up. Clail, thanks for joining us. Thank
Speaker 1: you appreciate you have our pleasure. Clail Herbert. Our guests
Speaker 1: will continue with Jim Miller and Tom Thayre after this
Speaker 1: break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. The
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Speaker 1: with us. Clil Herbert, that's a pro right there. I
Speaker 1: love this kid. Very excited about what he's gonna bring
Speaker 1: to the tables, special teams and on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. A crowd of backfield, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: That's a terrific room right now. But Anthony Adams. So
Speaker 1: you know what, almost once a week, for some reason,
Speaker 1: fellas on my iPhone, I will butt dial Anthony Adams
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. All of a sudden, I see Anthony
Speaker 1: Adams and I'm calling him. I hurry up and hang up.
Speaker 1: So double a if you're listening, hit me up one
Speaker 1: of these days. I there's it has to have happened
Speaker 1: ten or twelve times in the last month alone. And
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I'll snug the jeans are you're were?
Speaker 1: You better? You better look uff a little bit? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, it's be running. It's on my runs. I
Speaker 1: you know, I don't get it. But anyway, you get
Speaker 1: into your car right and it goes to Anthony. He's
Speaker 1: the first letter in the alphabet, Anthony Adams and Rady
Speaker 1: worst on the list. So you're hopping into your car
Speaker 1: and and that's that's what's going on. Jeff. You got
Speaker 1: to move it to a different pocket, That's what I maybe.
Speaker 1: But maybe what's worse on this the commentary is that
Speaker 1: he hasn't called me back, so not even checking out me.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's an emergency. So I'm certain Big Tim and
Speaker 1: oh there's Jeff jog Bud dyaling me again. You know
Speaker 1: he knows you're not even there. Hey, a great thing
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Speaker 1: a job, all right. Before we let you go, Jim tonight,
Speaker 1: before we handed off to Mark Rody and then Cubs
Speaker 1: Baseball there in San Francisco battle of first place clubs.
Speaker 1: The news today brought a lot of emotion out of
Speaker 1: my guy Tom there, Jim Miller, because the USFL is
Speaker 1: coming back out of mothballs after four decades. Spring in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the eight teams at a minimum. But
Speaker 1: if if those eight teams are in the cities that
Speaker 1: they were back, then they're going to have the original
Speaker 1: logos that colors all that. And then you got two
Speaker 1: spring leads now Fellas. So how's this working? Maybe I
Speaker 1: should start with Tommy because that's an emotional start for you.
Speaker 1: The USFLA the USFL played a really important role in
Speaker 1: the develop me as an NFL player because I had
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame coaches like George Allen, I had one
Speaker 1: of the most winning Super Bowl coaches in the history
Speaker 1: of the league, and John Tierlink as our defensive line coach,
Speaker 1: who taught me a lot about offensive line play and
Speaker 1: it was instrumental in my development. But it's also it
Speaker 1: showcases a lot of guys out there that are super
Speaker 1: hungry to play football. I could give you a hundred
Speaker 1: names of guys you'd never heard of that played football
Speaker 1: in the USFL that that the only three years of
Speaker 1: professional football in their life was that USFL. I could
Speaker 1: tell you about one hundred NFL veterans that it was
Speaker 1: able to extend their career because of the USFL. And
Speaker 1: then you have guys that I brought up today, Sam Mills,
Speaker 1: Montclair State, became an NFL great, all time great, you know,
Speaker 1: an all pro guy in every way, shape or the forum, character,
Speaker 1: preparation and play, and he would have never got a
Speaker 1: chance because he didn't pass the eye test. But I
Speaker 1: want to tell you what, if you want to take
Speaker 1: a linebacker in the NFL that stands about five six,
Speaker 1: he is one of the most dominant players in the
Speaker 1: history of the league. You look at the linebackers he
Speaker 1: played with down at New Orleans in Vaughan Johnson was
Speaker 1: another guy that played in the USFL with along with
Speaker 1: Sam Mills. So I think it plays an important role.
Speaker 1: You know, I have guys from my high school, a
Speaker 1: guy like Tie Isaac who has as much desire to
Speaker 1: be a running back in professional football as anybody that's
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But this is going to give him
Speaker 1: an opportunity. This is going to present an opportunity. And
Speaker 1: no matter what spring league you're talking about, there's guys
Speaker 1: out there that are just chopping at the bit for
Speaker 1: their one opportunity in life to see if they can
Speaker 1: make it from that league into the NFL, just like
Speaker 1: every one of these guys playing minor league baseball. I
Speaker 1: want to see, Okay, sorry about the reverb. Everybody, Jim,
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't typically last these leagues. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was mentioned at tom earlier day, NFL Europe did.
Speaker 1: It was a long standing thing and you were in it,
Speaker 1: so you you both have experience in other leagues. How
Speaker 1: did that impact you? And because it was necessary, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was NFL backed right at that point, every team
Speaker 1: were allocating players, so every team basically chipped in like
Speaker 1: a million dollars, I think is what it was back
Speaker 1: and so you know, you could you could have a
Speaker 1: legitimate league that could function, and they were owned by
Speaker 1: European owners, but it was still you know, backed by
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And I agree with Tom. I
Speaker 1: mean it was an avenue to get more reps. It
Speaker 1: was an avenue to hone your craft. And I definitely
Speaker 1: came back from NFL Europa and I was more equipped
Speaker 1: and better equipped to step on the on the field
Speaker 1: in play. So and I'm always for that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's more opportunities for guys. It's not just players as coaches,
Speaker 1: it's officials, it's you name it, training staffs, equipment staff,
Speaker 1: so all that's involved. So it supports a lot of
Speaker 1: people and so you know, I think it's a it's
Speaker 1: a good thing, and it'll be a good brand of
Speaker 1: ball and we'll see how it's rolled out and how
Speaker 1: effective they are. I just want to know if Tom's
Speaker 1: going to roll out as Chicago Blitzes. You still have
Speaker 1: his Blitz jersey and his Blitz helmet. I gotta know
Speaker 1: if Tom still has those things. Jam listen, man, I
Speaker 1: got Arizona Wranglers, Arizona laws, as Chicago Blitz. I amn't
Speaker 1: gonna be mister USFL vintage when I go out there,
Speaker 1: an are pulling out my equipment and starts sporting around.
Speaker 1: But you know, listen, you know everybody knows what the
Speaker 1: White Sox are doing. If you look at what your
Speaker 1: main Mercedes did in order to get his opportunity, I
Speaker 1: think he's in his thirties in the road that he
Speaker 1: traveled in order to get to Major League Baseball, that's
Speaker 1: the same desire there. There's a lot of grown men
Speaker 1: that have that want to play football, and they're willing
Speaker 1: to get those reps in order to get themselves onto
Speaker 1: a football field, and it's always going to be their
Speaker 1: desire to play in the NFL. When I was playing
Speaker 1: in the USFL alongside some of the all time greats
Speaker 1: and all the Hall of famers that came from the
Speaker 1: USFL to the NFL. It was their goal to get
Speaker 1: into the NFL, just like it was my goal. So listen,
Speaker 1: if it provides an opportunity or a spark in their life,
Speaker 1: or Jim talked about all the supports staffings that will
Speaker 1: be hired, I'm all for it. Well, you know, Jim,
Speaker 1: he lost that. You're on the air Zona Wranglers when
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Stars won the championship eighty four and it's
Speaker 1: sixty two thousand in tap. But so you remember that
Speaker 1: game because right after that year, on the way to
Speaker 1: Halis or two the next year, the next another year
Speaker 1: with the Arizona Outlaws. Okay, okay, okay, came right to
Speaker 1: the Bears. I came from a Saturday night game that
Speaker 1: finished in Arizona State Stadium. I got in my car
Speaker 1: after the game, drove straight through to Platteville, Wisconsin, and
Speaker 1: started full pad training cap that Monday morning. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I can tell you just growing up, I was a
Speaker 1: huge USFL fan because here in our ear the obviously
Speaker 1: the Michigan Panthers. Bobby Abar was a quarterback. Anthony Carter
Speaker 1: was a their star receiver, and he grew up and
Speaker 1: played locally right there at University of Michigan. So and
Speaker 1: they won it all. I mean, it was USFL really.
Speaker 1: Maybe they started too fast, but they were trying to
Speaker 1: arrival the National Football League. Certainly this model is going
Speaker 1: to be a little bit different for them, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a good thing overall for everybody, right, and two
Speaker 1: spring leagues that'll be interesting, And as long as it
Speaker 1: stays in the spring, the NFL will not have an
Speaker 1: issue with it, I would think, and so more than merrier,
Speaker 1: keep playing the game. Everybody loves you. Got games being broadcast.
Speaker 1: Fox is going to be a part of that USFL package,
Speaker 1: so it should be interesting. All right, Fellas, we're running
Speaker 1: out of time, Jim, Thanks as always. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next week, all right, guys, looking forward to it,
Speaker 1: and you guys have a great weekend, all right, you two.
Speaker 1: Thanks as always to our score staff and our producer
Speaker 1: today Sean Anderson, Jordan Truentup and Dan Billy are Bears
Speaker 1: producers and of course Cleil Herbert Bears running back outstanding
Speaker 1: stories there for Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac Mark Rody
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