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Speaker 1: beautiful Thursday nights. Welcome back to the show, our once
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Speaker 1: from WBBM, Tim There and Jim Meller from sirius XM
Speaker 1: NFL Radio, Moving the chains with Pat Kerwin. Good evening, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: how are you doing today? Like you said, it's a
Speaker 1: beautiful day to day, and you know, maybe there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of conversation on the horizon about sports and
Speaker 1: baseball being one of them, but you know we're here
Speaker 1: to talk about the Bears and what's going on ahead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jim metters conference how today with the NFL owners and
Speaker 1: they're continuing to plow forward, hoping to play on time.
Speaker 1: Training camps on time. July twenty eighth, for most teams
Speaker 1: reporting date. If you got guys that are rookies, quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: maybe guys that are banged up, they can report a
Speaker 1: little earlier. But how are you looking at this right now?
Speaker 1: Because the league is certainly looking at it from a
Speaker 1: positive point of view. Yeah, they are, and I think
Speaker 1: Roger Gondell making a statement today they do plan on
Speaker 1: moving forward with training camps at July twenty eighth. You know,
Speaker 1: the unfortunate cancelation of the Hall of Fame game. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people expected that between the Steelers
Speaker 1: in the Dallas Cowboys. So now those two teams will
Speaker 1: probably report on that same reporting date, July twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: And you know, but I think the NFL, even they
Speaker 1: announced today, depending on the fans and the stadiums, they'll
Speaker 1: probably have distancing. The first eight rows of every stadium
Speaker 1: will be off limits. So who's ever got a seat
Speaker 1: in row nine? They're probably a static because they just
Speaker 1: moved to the front row. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: they are. They're trying to anticipate everything, but as always,
Speaker 1: adapt adjust, be flexible. But I think much like baseball,
Speaker 1: they're starting up July first, I believe, so that's not
Speaker 1: a few days away. The players are on board with
Speaker 1: it now in baseball, and I think those negotiations are
Speaker 1: happening between the NFLPA and the NFL right now to
Speaker 1: make the players feel confident, ensure that they're gonna that
Speaker 1: they're gonna play what I think is interesting, and I've
Speaker 1: talked to a lot of players, Jeff and Tom. I
Speaker 1: certainly want to get your thoughts on this. If I'm
Speaker 1: a player and we know the average career is four years,
Speaker 1: you know, you basically be used losing twenty five percent
Speaker 1: of that window if they were not to play football,
Speaker 1: and I think players are willing to take that risk.
Speaker 1: I think the majority of the rank and file would
Speaker 1: want to play. I talked to a couple of players today.
Speaker 1: They said, absolutely, I'm ready to play some football. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go to work. They understand that that the
Speaker 1: percentages of them unless there's underlying issues. And there are
Speaker 1: players like James Conner he's had cancer for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: There's other players that have the sickle trait in them.
Speaker 1: There's other players that have diabetes. Maybe they are a
Speaker 1: little bit cautious and then you know they don't want
Speaker 1: to take it home to their families, So, but I
Speaker 1: do think players would definitely take that risk to play
Speaker 1: football here in twenty twenty. You know, Jim and Jeff.
Speaker 1: I was never in the tax bracket where I could
Speaker 1: say no to playing football. And sometimes that's even the
Speaker 1: result that you play injured throughout the season because you
Speaker 1: know that you're not in that level. So when you're
Speaker 1: talking about some of these guys that are outspoken, you
Speaker 1: got to see what economic bracket they're in in terms
Speaker 1: of their roster and how much money they've made. Because
Speaker 1: I know, coming from my background, I never had the
Speaker 1: luxury of saying no, I won't play. It's always what
Speaker 1: can you do to get me on the field, And
Speaker 1: that's some of the pain relieving shots that you took
Speaker 1: before the game, or even when you tweak something early
Speaker 1: in the season and you overlooked it to keep playing well.
Speaker 1: Saint safety Malcolm Jenkins, appearing on CNN today, called football
Speaker 1: non essential and the risk of COVID must be eliminated
Speaker 1: for him to feel comfortable playing. Fellas, you're going to
Speaker 1: hear a pocket of these types of guys as well. Tom.
Speaker 1: You I did text that to you today and you
Speaker 1: alluded to the economics of the individual. But is it
Speaker 1: more than that? Fellas well, There's there is more to
Speaker 1: it than that, Jeff. But you know, you have to
Speaker 1: look at it from a young, naive kid like Tom
Speaker 1: Thare that's going into the NFL at twenty three or
Speaker 1: twenty four years old, and I have no past, and
Speaker 1: I think my future earning potential is through football. So
Speaker 1: then you're young and your naive, and you may overlook
Speaker 1: some things you're talking about Malcolm Jenks. Malcolm Jenkins, who's
Speaker 1: an experienced life guy. He understands more than sports and
Speaker 1: he's looking at a bigger picture here. I still believe
Speaker 1: that there has to be some kind of protection from
Speaker 1: the virus if if sports is going to go on.
Speaker 1: But again, where are you in terms of your life?
Speaker 1: And like Jim said, three point two years as a career,
Speaker 1: you miss a year, you may be missing out on
Speaker 1: your last season or the one opportunity you have to
Speaker 1: make it into the NFL. And I think players, and
Speaker 1: I agree with Tom, I think players. You know, if
Speaker 1: I were to make that decision, you know, and if
Speaker 1: I wanted to put myself in a bubble meeting, I'd
Speaker 1: tell my wife and kids because I'd want to play football.
Speaker 1: That's just me personally. I would want to play football
Speaker 1: for all the reasons that Tom just mentioned. And if
Speaker 1: that causes me to make the decision of me and
Speaker 1: my wife and my kids. You want to know what, honey,
Speaker 1: I think I can. You know, I can commit myself
Speaker 1: to six months. Will We'll talk via virtual meetings, I'll
Speaker 1: talk to the kids, call them all those type of
Speaker 1: things so I don't put them at risk, and that
Speaker 1: I'm still able to go to work, do what I
Speaker 1: love to do and play football because it means that
Speaker 1: much to me as a player, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't have to subject them to that. And some players
Speaker 1: may come to that decision, you know, the the you know,
Speaker 1: all sports are different. You know, from the NBA side
Speaker 1: of it, in their negotiations the players, because they're gonna
Speaker 1: be down in Orlando, right the from the NBA players
Speaker 1: side of it, they thought the NBA was being too restrictive.
Speaker 1: They wanted to put those players in the bubble and
Speaker 1: a lot of those players thought, hey, this is too prohibitive.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to go out and you know,
Speaker 1: go out to dinner or things like that and do
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And yet still play basketball, you know football.
Speaker 1: They're probably making those negotiations right now. I think one
Speaker 1: negotiation that is definitely going to happen is you have
Speaker 1: to have an increased roster You need to have roster exemptions.
Speaker 1: If a player does test positive for COVID and it's
Speaker 1: not when or it's not if it's when. I think
Speaker 1: we understand these players that are healthy and not at
Speaker 1: risk in terms of the percentage of dying unless there's
Speaker 1: underlying issues. I think you're going to have to have
Speaker 1: roster exemptions. Here is Zekiel Elliott just tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, the symptoms only hit me for
Speaker 1: about two days. He said, I feel good, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm back to normal. So they're responding very quickly.
Speaker 1: But yet he would be quarantined for two weeks. You
Speaker 1: need to have that roster exemption for him to be
Speaker 1: able to sign a player. I don't care who it is,
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy, whatever. Let's say five guys comes down with it,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that number should be an exact number.
Speaker 1: It should be different for every team. If one team
Speaker 1: has five guys that are quarantine, they need five roster exemptions.
Speaker 1: If one team has ten. They need ten roster exemptions
Speaker 1: so that they're able to adapt and adjust if players
Speaker 1: do come down with the illness during the season. Well,
Speaker 1: the NFL Chief Medical officer Alan still saying there's active
Speaker 1: discussion with the union on testing, screening, and travel, emphasizing
Speaker 1: testing alone quote isn't going to be good enough to
Speaker 1: keep everybody healthy. So again, managing risk is a big
Speaker 1: part of this right now. Fellas guys like Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and his guys in Pampa Bay, the Lions, and Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford today, I'm sure around the league players are working
Speaker 1: out together. Again, it's not a violation of NFL policy,
Speaker 1: but they have been disregarding the advice of the union,
Speaker 1: which is supported by the NFL, that they shouldn't be
Speaker 1: working out in groups at the moment, given the spikes
Speaker 1: around the certain areas of the nation right now, including Florida, Texas, Californa, etc. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, Jeff, they do have to work out,
Speaker 1: but they don't have to work out in groups. They
Speaker 1: still have to get their individual self prepared for whatever
Speaker 1: position they play to be ready for that July twenty
Speaker 1: eighth date. And it's not like something you can take
Speaker 1: four or five weeks off and get ready July twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: You're bait. You're baiting, You're begging for injury. So when
Speaker 1: you see these guys work out together, the biggest threat
Speaker 1: of contact is each of them touching the football. They
Speaker 1: don't have to be in the same area, and Jim
Speaker 1: knows that there's more communication at the width of the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage than there is in the huddle nowadays,
Speaker 1: so they can be protective. I think it's all about
Speaker 1: contact with the football. Jim, would you be doing it
Speaker 1: right now? I probably would. Jeff, you know, I'd be
Speaker 1: willing to take that risk. And I think whether it's Tom,
Speaker 1: but it's not just Tom Brady. I know he's been
Speaker 1: the one that's really been the point man, but a
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has done it with the Baltimore Ravens. Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray flew in twenty guys to Texas from the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That they can work together because they know they've missed
Speaker 1: a lot of work here this offseason, and that chemistry,
Speaker 1: that jelly that we've talked about on the show that
Speaker 1: is critical to your team's success. I think these guys,
Speaker 1: you know, are trying to get that worked out right now,
Speaker 1: and I think they're willing to take the risk. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that they think they're invincible, you know. I
Speaker 1: think they understand that they can test positive, but they
Speaker 1: are willing to take that risk. And hopefully they're just
Speaker 1: being smart about, you know, washing their hands and doing
Speaker 1: all those things, because of course they don't want to
Speaker 1: go home and I don't think and I know Tom
Speaker 1: Brady personally, he doesn't want to go home and spread
Speaker 1: it to anybody in his family either. But at the
Speaker 1: same point, much like a young player who doesn't want
Speaker 1: to miss a quarter of their season, Tom Brady basically said,
Speaker 1: I'm only playing two more years and he's going all
Speaker 1: out to make sure that he continues to have the
Speaker 1: success he is and hopefully he's just doing it responsibly.
Speaker 1: But they're going to work, do you have They have to,
Speaker 1: that's the only way you get better at your craft.
Speaker 1: That's former Bears quarterback Jim Miller timp Fare with You
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac along with Tom There and Jim Miller. Coming
Speaker 1: up at the bottom of the hour. Champ Kelly of
Speaker 1: the Bears talking about a lot of different things. And
Speaker 1: last week, obviously we heard from the Bears assistant coaches.
Speaker 1: We played some of those extended portions of those interviews,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do it again here with new offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Bill Leezerfellas as he looks at how the quarterback
Speaker 1: competition might look from his experienced point of view and
Speaker 1: just being one of the many new coaches in the
Speaker 1: offensive reset for the twenty twenty Bears. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it sounds like a cliche, but you just have
Speaker 1: to let the thing play out, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: let guys earn it. Sometimes your gut tells you. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you it helps to look at the statistics every day,
Speaker 1: you know, though it's not a game situation but of practice,
Speaker 1: and you just take in all the information. I worked
Speaker 1: for a coach one time, and actually the battle was
Speaker 1: this was a very old wise coach, one numerous Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: and the battle is for the backup quarterback job. And
Speaker 1: I just remember after one of the preseason games, he
Speaker 1: came to me, he said, you know, when that guy
Speaker 1: went in the huddle, I just watched how the team changed,
Speaker 1: you know. And so there are so many different factors
Speaker 1: that go into it. Some of it is real statistical
Speaker 1: and some of it is watching a guy and how
Speaker 1: he presents himself. And hopefully we have plenty of preseason
Speaker 1: games because I think that's the most fair way I
Speaker 1: think for the guys is to let them play on
Speaker 1: the game field. That's the most fair. So hopefully, hopefully
Speaker 1: they get an opportunity to do that, and it could
Speaker 1: be reduced fellas that will also impact the number of snaps.
Speaker 1: But maybe there's some compensatory way to make this, you know, happen.
Speaker 1: Where they get as many snaps as possible, and we've
Speaker 1: heard this from head coach Matt Naggy that he's going
Speaker 1: to try to get these guys matched up with the
Speaker 1: first unit as much as possible and make it fair. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, one thing you said early is one
Speaker 1: thing about football, you kind of let the competition play
Speaker 1: itself out and then you're it's gonna be all figured
Speaker 1: out after that. I think that's true for any position,
Speaker 1: that there's a battle going into this training camp, but
Speaker 1: it's more unique in terms of the quarterback from because
Speaker 1: the time that the verbiage starts coming out of their
Speaker 1: mouth and the huddle, the evaluation process starts when you're
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. The evaluation process that starts when you
Speaker 1: come out of your stance. You go, you go contact
Speaker 1: to contact and how long can you maintain that and
Speaker 1: do you contribute to the success or failure the play.
Speaker 1: Quarterback sometimes a lot of times, most times when they're
Speaker 1: throwing the ball is going to determine the fate and
Speaker 1: the success of the play. So yeah, these battles and
Speaker 1: football have a tendency of working themselves out. I think
Speaker 1: there's more decision processes along the way when you're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out the quarterback position. Yeah, I think for
Speaker 1: the most part, it will declare itself. I've been in
Speaker 1: three way quarterback battles in Pittsburgh. It doesn't work. Try,
Speaker 1: you know, distributing the reps a third of each guy.
Speaker 1: It's just to me, that's too hard. Two guys is
Speaker 1: a legit competition. And I do think it will declare itself.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't, then that's where you're really come into
Speaker 1: the trouble areas. But all the things coach Bill Laser
Speaker 1: talked about just how the team responds to whatever quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in there, just some guys, you know, have the ability
Speaker 1: to motivate and that's part of the job of a quarterback.
Speaker 1: And statistically, how they grade out, how they evaluate are
Speaker 1: they going to the right receiver, are they making the
Speaker 1: correct reads, are they making the correct checks. All that's
Speaker 1: being evaluated every single day. And I think it'll declare
Speaker 1: itself and the cream always rises to the top. And
Speaker 1: we'll see if it happens here through training camp for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. What do you want to see? What
Speaker 1: do you exactly you want to see in this QB battle?
Speaker 1: And how I mean from my perspective, I want to
Speaker 1: see how it elevates everybody else on the field as well.
Speaker 1: You know, Jim, for me as as naive you know,
Speaker 1: well not naive, just not as experienced at the quarterback
Speaker 1: position as you are. For some of us that sit
Speaker 1: back and you watch the quarterback battles, you know, it's
Speaker 1: as much as watching the how quickly the ball gets
Speaker 1: out of the quarterback's hands when you know it's an
Speaker 1: obvious passing play and sometimes the defense is alerted to it,
Speaker 1: so it makes it a little bit more different. But
Speaker 1: I think, like any quarterback or Jim, with your experience,
Speaker 1: the whether the quarterback made the right decision according to
Speaker 1: the defense that you had scripted form and the play
Speaker 1: you wrote down. A lot of times you can see
Speaker 1: that decision in the time frame in which they work
Speaker 1: with successfully or not is some of the obvious you know,
Speaker 1: the obvious chances behind it. Yeah, there's no doubt, and
Speaker 1: you know those coaches know it exactly in terms of
Speaker 1: how the script is and where a ball should go,
Speaker 1: say versus a certain coverage. And now they've got to
Speaker 1: evaluate whether each quarterback is only ultimately going to make
Speaker 1: that decision and they can script those things to happen
Speaker 1: so that they can evaluate things like that. But decision
Speaker 1: making this paramount. There's no doubt about that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: how you elevate your teammates command of the offense, And
Speaker 1: I think situational play. You know, has Mitch Rubisky grown
Speaker 1: in terms of situational play? Hey, when the punt of football?
Speaker 1: When did not take a sack? There are certain no
Speaker 1: sack situations. Did he throw the ball away to avoid
Speaker 1: putting the ball in harm's way? And I think all
Speaker 1: those things are so critical at the position, and bottom
Speaker 1: line is you got to motivate your team and it's
Speaker 1: about winning games and those practices, whether it's a winning
Speaker 1: effort day in and day out, those coaches be able
Speaker 1: to determine, Hey, this guy gives us the opportunity to
Speaker 1: win because we've evaluated all, he's accomplished it all, and
Speaker 1: we expected to carry over on the field. As he's
Speaker 1: going to be named the starting quarterback of this team.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one is going to be, but
Speaker 1: that's where it ultimately has to go. For the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: they have steadfastly avoided talking about scheme and specifics of
Speaker 1: what it's going to look like I called it an
Speaker 1: offensive reset, it's still Matt Nagee's overall system that he
Speaker 1: is taught to them, and they've tweaked it, and we're
Speaker 1: very excited to see how that's going to look. What
Speaker 1: do you guys anticipate what it might look like no
Speaker 1: matter who the starting quarterback is in twenty twenty in
Speaker 1: terms of changes, tweaks, whatever. Well to me, I think,
Speaker 1: and I talked a little bit about this that you know,
Speaker 1: want Castillo, He's got more experience with Matt nage than
Speaker 1: Matt from the offensive line perspective has around him before him.
Speaker 1: Wand Castillo was a more experienced coached before Matt got
Speaker 1: in to the coaching ranks and then elevate to the
Speaker 1: head job. I think it starts with the physical play
Speaker 1: of the offensive line, Jeff. And if you talk about
Speaker 1: what these quarterbacks can contribute, how deceptive they can be
Speaker 1: in the play action game, how dominant David Montgomery can become.
Speaker 1: I think the one element, and I'm not forgetting about
Speaker 1: the tight end position because I know that contributions is important,
Speaker 1: But if they don't have a more aggressive approach at
Speaker 1: the running at the running line of scrimmage. I think
Speaker 1: that'll be a hindrance to a lot of other player development. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I do. I think it cleans up a lot
Speaker 1: of reads for a young quarterback. If you're able to
Speaker 1: run the football and use the play action side of it,
Speaker 1: it cleans up a lot of reads and it creates
Speaker 1: bigger windows from that standpoint. So I do think they
Speaker 1: need to run the ball a lot better. As Tom
Speaker 1: mentioned the tight end position. How many shows have we
Speaker 1: talked about this offseason about it being a tight end
Speaker 1: centric offense? The Bears address this position. Jimmy Graham needs
Speaker 1: to be a factor Cole commit. I don't think he
Speaker 1: needs to be a star, but he needs to be
Speaker 1: a contributor his first year and I think they expect
Speaker 1: big things from him. But that position has to improve
Speaker 1: and produce more so try to factor in. Go back
Speaker 1: two years ago when Naggie showed up, had big years
Speaker 1: from Trey Burton. They want to go back to that
Speaker 1: tight end centric offense and get that position going because
Speaker 1: that's where they had a lot of success, because that's
Speaker 1: what this offense is based on. All Right, this is
Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The
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Speaker 1: jony Ac and Tom Fair along with Jim Miller coming
Speaker 1: up around six thirty. We'll be joined by our pal,
Speaker 1: and he's an enlightening guy, indeed, the Bears Assistant Director
Speaker 1: of Player Personnel, Champ Kelly. For the time being, let's
Speaker 1: talk a little Bears defense, fellas, because as as great
Speaker 1: as the outside linebackers are as outstanding as the front
Speaker 1: seven is what happens up front, still in the trenches.
Speaker 1: Dictate a lot and Jay Rodgers. Last week, it was
Speaker 1: asked about what specifics he got out of the Zoom
Speaker 1: meetings that impacted him and a couple of occasions. He
Speaker 1: twisted it up a little bit for the fellas to
Speaker 1: enlighten each other. What I did was I put together
Speaker 1: some clips of the guys doing their jobs really well.
Speaker 1: And I just had the guys talk the entire time
Speaker 1: rather than me, you know, sit and install the defense
Speaker 1: or goal over certain plays. I just had the guys
Speaker 1: talk and I'd ask a Keem. I said, all right,
Speaker 1: you're you're taking on a double team right here, you know,
Speaker 1: talk to the young guys about what made you dominate
Speaker 1: this double team. And really for the entire hour and
Speaker 1: a half, and both both those sessions run and passed.
Speaker 1: They just spoke. And again, each guy is different. What
Speaker 1: Eddie does is maybe different than what a Keem does,
Speaker 1: which is different what Roy does. They're all different body types.
Speaker 1: And I know you have heard me say that before,
Speaker 1: but to hear what works for one guy may help
Speaker 1: somebody else. And I think that this former college quarterback
Speaker 1: has a unique perspective. Obviously he hasn't been the guy
Speaker 1: on the trenches, but why not turn it over to
Speaker 1: the guys who have and give him real specifics on
Speaker 1: and which a keem does routinely. Anyway, we know the story.
Speaker 1: He's done it for Bala Nichols from the moment he
Speaker 1: got into the National Football League, and Roy Robertson Harris
Speaker 1: soaking it up as well. Eddie Goldman. Those guys up
Speaker 1: front also need to have just another impactful season, and
Speaker 1: I think with Jay's tutoring and Keem being healthy, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be big things for the front seven, right, But
Speaker 1: you know it's about him movement of their style play,
Speaker 1: their technique, their fundamentals, And yeah, you can learn it
Speaker 1: from a chem Hicks because he is so dominating and
Speaker 1: so powerful, and when you look at his tape of accomplishment,
Speaker 1: he has a long highlight reel. But then you take
Speaker 1: a guy like Roy Robertson, then you see these snippet
Speaker 1: dominant great plays that come in a couple of games.
Speaker 1: And I think Jay and that press conference referred to
Speaker 1: the first Green Bay game in the first Minnesota game.
Speaker 1: But then how he wants to see Roy rob be
Speaker 1: able to play like that more often. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the key ingredient here, is because we saw what
Speaker 1: happened to the defensive front when the Chem Hicks got hurt.
Speaker 1: But now you have these other guys that have, you know,
Speaker 1: similar structure, style, strength, bodystyle, athleticism. They need to start
Speaker 1: getting the more valuable reps out of themselves that they
Speaker 1: see a Chem Hicks on his highlight tapes, and I
Speaker 1: think it's always important, you know, to be you know,
Speaker 1: listening to the veterans. You know, they may have a
Speaker 1: tool in their bag they're sharing with you that you
Speaker 1: may want that tool in your bag to utilize versus
Speaker 1: you know, in a certain situation or maybe it's a
Speaker 1: certain point in the game. Hey, I remember what Keem
Speaker 1: Hicks talked about this and this was a tip that
Speaker 1: he gave me, and maybe it's something that you can
Speaker 1: add to your game. Certainly, not every player is as
Speaker 1: dominant or as physically gifted as a Keem Hicks, but
Speaker 1: it's it's sometimes those tips that are really from the
Speaker 1: neck up that give you an edge or leverage in
Speaker 1: a certain game situation that can put your play over
Speaker 1: the top. From that sometimes it's about playing smarter, it's
Speaker 1: not about playing harder and just using those tips to
Speaker 1: your advantage on game day. I'm just fortunate, and I
Speaker 1: think the Bears are and to have a guy like
Speaker 1: Keem willing to do that because I remember back in
Speaker 1: the day, the late Brian Robinson, he was on the
Speaker 1: rams at one point he said, no one wanted to
Speaker 1: share any information. You know, he'd asked they wouldn't help them,
Speaker 1: is they're a fearful of of, you know, helping a
Speaker 1: player take their position or whatever. And I think those
Speaker 1: days are gone in the National Football League, And maybe
Speaker 1: you guys felt the same way. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: sharing knowledge is a sure sign of that locker room's tight. Well,
Speaker 1: you know one thing that about veterans that are really
Speaker 1: good at what they do, they have to see that
Speaker 1: a young guy is invested as much as he was
Speaker 1: as a young person climbing up the ranks. Because if
Speaker 1: you have a guy and you can kind of see
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have the work ethic, the determination, the
Speaker 1: willingness of the dedication, you're kind of just wasting your breath.
Speaker 1: So when you see a keem going out to reach
Speaker 1: out to Roy rob or Eddie Goldman or Blam Nichols
Speaker 1: and these guys, that's when you gain more of an
Speaker 1: appreciation from a keem because he's taking his experience and
Speaker 1: handing it downward. So those guys when they are in
Speaker 1: a cheam shoes, they can hand it downward themselves. I
Speaker 1: don't know if those are completely gone, Jeff, because I
Speaker 1: remember Lamar Jackson got drafted by Baltimore and I believe
Speaker 1: the quote from Jill Flecko is I'm not here to
Speaker 1: mentor anybody. I don't know if they're completely gone. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it from an idealistic point of view, you know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I'm certain it isn't. But it
Speaker 1: is good to have a team full of guys that
Speaker 1: are willing to step up and ment her, some of
Speaker 1: these young guys, that's for sure. All Right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: step away and we come back. We're gonna be joined
Speaker 1: by Champ Kelly, Bears Assistant director of player Personnel, to
Speaker 1: talk about it, even he's got coming up this weekend
Speaker 1: and also when he was a part of this week
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Speaker 1: Here Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score please to
Speaker 1: be joined this evening by the Bear Assistant Director of
Speaker 1: Player Personnel Champ Kelly Champ, how you doing and most
Speaker 1: importantly Champ Happy, belated Father's Day to a great girl, dad,
Speaker 1: three daughters, lovely wife Stephanie. How's the family? Oh, they're
Speaker 1: doing well. We literally just pulled into my grandmother's house
Speaker 1: in Florida from a ten hour drive from Saint Louis
Speaker 1: and we made it. We're happy, we stay, we're safe.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the Father's Day. Wish I miss you guys. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: when we're gonna see each other here it looks like
Speaker 1: it's coming. It looks like it's coming for training camp.
Speaker 1: But the key is stay safe and stay healthy out
Speaker 1: there while you're ready for the season. Absolutely. Yeah, So listen.
Speaker 1: You were a part of a terrific event and invitation
Speaker 1: from the National Football League. Same story for the Bears
Speaker 1: running back coach Charles London, the NFL and partnership with
Speaker 1: the Black Black College Football Hall of Fame, and it
Speaker 1: had a great on it And if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: you've been a part of this before to help strengthen
Speaker 1: diversity across the league. It's aimed to build coaching and
Speaker 1: personnel development pipelines. What was it like on Monday Tuesday?
Speaker 1: Because it was a virtual obviously can't get face to face,
Speaker 1: But was it rewarding and what'd what'd you get out
Speaker 1: of it? You know? You know, first of all, I
Speaker 1: was blessed to be able to participate in it, you know,
Speaker 1: especially with the climate of what's going on in the
Speaker 1: NFL and them trying to improve diversity and race relations
Speaker 1: in the league and also what's going on in our
Speaker 1: country right now. So to be a part of this group, um,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the founders of this were Doug
Speaker 1: Williams and Shack Harris and the College Football Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame and Troy Vincent Man. They did, they did an
Speaker 1: awesome job these last couple of days. Hey, Champ, First
Speaker 1: of all, I read Wikipedia. I see your first names Anthony,
Speaker 1: and I never knew that. Why aren't we calling you
Speaker 1: Tony Anthony? Why we calling you Champ Kelly? So when
Speaker 1: I was raised, when when I was born, the doctor
Speaker 1: handed me to my mom. My mother said, we made it,
Speaker 1: didn't we Champ, and so everyone knew me as Champ
Speaker 1: from that point on. But when she was asked to
Speaker 1: sign the birth certificate, she said, I am going to
Speaker 1: give my baby Anthony as his first name if he's
Speaker 1: one day to become the president of the United States,
Speaker 1: And so she wanted me to have a name that,
Speaker 1: you know, was more relatable. But when I started playing sports,
Speaker 1: and everybody from my hometown just knows me as Champ
Speaker 1: and it is kind of stuff. Hey, Champ, and the
Speaker 1: event that you participated in this weekend, I read that
Speaker 1: all NFL teams didn't participate in it, and that you
Speaker 1: guys are trying to attract more teams in it. Why
Speaker 1: would teams be reluctant from participating in Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that they were probably twenty or more NFL
Speaker 1: teams and there were out of collegiance, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: personnel and coaches that were involved in this event. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know the reluctancy to allow, you know,
Speaker 1: people to have this opportunity. Um, they had, I mean
Speaker 1: just a tremendous amount of great speakers. You know, they
Speaker 1: talked about you know, Mike Vrabel talked about building the
Speaker 1: staff and then you hear you. Jackson talked about the
Speaker 1: first thirty days on the job. I mean they had
Speaker 1: one of the best panels that I that I've been
Speaker 1: a part of, that had Bruce Areas and Um, Javier
Speaker 1: Lawyer from the Houston Texas John Marra, Ozzie Knews, some
Speaker 1: Art rudey Um and Steve Weisch kind of moderated that section. So, man,
Speaker 1: it was just a tremendous opportunity just to gain a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of wealth and knowledge about the game of football.
Speaker 1: It went so far beyond like race relations This was
Speaker 1: general like let me prepare you to be to make
Speaker 1: your football team better and all sort of better your
Speaker 1: career and advance your career. Ay Champ Jim Miller here,
Speaker 1: and hey, I love the name. Who wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: be called Champ? You know what I'm saying. That's that's
Speaker 1: where it's just that's where it starts. You're winning everything,
Speaker 1: my friend, Well, it sounds like twenty two teams did participate.
Speaker 1: And let me ask you this because as you do,
Speaker 1: as you get to develop relationships with new people, like
Speaker 1: you said John Marra, and football has always been that
Speaker 1: kind of way. It's always been a friend of a friend,
Speaker 1: or maybe you get a tip or a insight from
Speaker 1: another coach. Hey, I really like this guy over here,
Speaker 1: and and it's always been that way. And do you
Speaker 1: think with summits like this this coach QB Coaching Summit,
Speaker 1: that those relationships will help create diversity in the NFL
Speaker 1: moving forward? Hey Jim, But one thing I would say
Speaker 1: before we move on is too much as given, much
Speaker 1: as required. So if you have a name right champ,
Speaker 1: your standards have to be extremely eyes So there's impression
Speaker 1: of that. But when it when it comes to relations
Speaker 1: in the NFL, man, I truly believe you know the
Speaker 1: more that especially minority candidates have an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: to know some of these owners, some of these head coaches,
Speaker 1: some of these general managers UM. Then these owners, general managers,
Speaker 1: head coaches will be willing UM to sponsor and hire
Speaker 1: UM some of these minority candidates. The one thing that
Speaker 1: I that I will you know adamantly and firmly say
Speaker 1: as at their experiencing a summit like this, is that
Speaker 1: the cupboard is not there. UM. There's a vast, a vast,
Speaker 1: vast pool of highly educated, highly qualified UM minorities and um,
Speaker 1: you know that have that have the that have the
Speaker 1: ability to be great head coaches and general managers and
Speaker 1: presidents of of of organizations. And I do believe that
Speaker 1: that change is coming, and you know, I just want
Speaker 1: to be on the right side of history when it
Speaker 1: starts to take place us. What God into the personnel
Speaker 1: side of it, because we've had great you know, whether
Speaker 1: Chad Harris or look at Ozzie knew some of the
Speaker 1: success he's had on the personnel side of it. What
Speaker 1: interested you on the personnel side of it more than say,
Speaker 1: the coaching side of it here as you move forward
Speaker 1: in the NFL, That's a great question, Jim. I actually
Speaker 1: coached in the indoor League. I played in a coach
Speaker 1: in the indoor league. I also became a general manager
Speaker 1: in the indoor league. And basically I spent four years
Speaker 1: trying to get an interview, to even get one interview
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And when I got that opportunity, it
Speaker 1: was in personnel. And initially I thought, you know, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I would go personnel and then you know, try
Speaker 1: to get into coaching and parlied from that way. But
Speaker 1: once I got into personnel, I truly realized that I
Speaker 1: love that aspect of it. I love the hunt. I
Speaker 1: love finding the player, identifying the traits. I tell everybody
Speaker 1: the sermon as a gift of mind. I love working
Speaker 1: and the team of competitive scouts that we have, especially
Speaker 1: in Chicago, led by Ryan Pastons, Josh Lucas, and Mark Sandowski.
Speaker 1: Like I love being that part of that group. And
Speaker 1: you know, more so than just coaching, and and also
Speaker 1: you know, coaches were there all nice, a little bit
Speaker 1: more volatile, and I knew that. I knew I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a family guy. I wanted to be hold
Speaker 1: with my daughters every night, and so personnel ended up
Speaker 1: being a thing that fit my lifestyle better. Bear's assistant
Speaker 1: Director Player Personnel, Champ Kelly, our guest here on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score brought to you by
Speaker 1: Igs Energy, Jeff, Tim and Jim with Champion Champ. I
Speaker 1: see that there were and they've done this. I think
Speaker 1: of the combine as well for coaches and minority coaches
Speaker 1: in particular, and they had mock interviews for head coach
Speaker 1: mostly focusing as I understand, on developing more offensive coaches
Speaker 1: for this purpose, offensive coordinator, quarterback, coach, whatever. But did
Speaker 1: you go through as as being a personnel guy with
Speaker 1: no question a dream of becoming a general manager in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, go through any mock interviews because
Speaker 1: you have interviewed for GM jobs in the National Football
Speaker 1: and have been a candidate for them as well. Yes, yeah, so,
Speaker 1: jeff yees So, I actually did the mock interview at
Speaker 1: the Combine while I was with Denver in twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: before I came to Chicago, and then this year they
Speaker 1: wanted to update that particular interview, so um, this year
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl, I actually updated the interview that
Speaker 1: I did for twenty fifteen. I think that's an excellent job,
Speaker 1: a tool that they provide for upcoming coaches and scouts,
Speaker 1: maybe even expanded it this year to some guys that
Speaker 1: are probably be ready for coordinator jobs, because I think
Speaker 1: it allows you know, owners and decision makers to go
Speaker 1: to a website or and be able to pull up
Speaker 1: you know my name or you know, pull up Josh
Speaker 1: Lucas's name, UM and get a chance to hear us,
Speaker 1: hear us answer questions, and ultimately hopefully become a little
Speaker 1: bit more familiar with us UH and more confident and
Speaker 1: giving us giving us a job, you know, because it's
Speaker 1: it's it's so hard inside this lead. You know, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't know what I do
Speaker 1: or what I've done, or what a lot of scouts
Speaker 1: have done, and so so it's hard for them to
Speaker 1: know unless they go those videos they're really listen in. Well,
Speaker 1: you were really successful. So it's kind of a natural
Speaker 1: opportunity for you to stay in the business of football.
Speaker 1: But how can people that don't play football start into
Speaker 1: the coaching life or even starting to the front office life.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're they're simple tools um out there. Now.
Speaker 1: You know what I what I tell a lot of
Speaker 1: people is before you decide you want to do this,
Speaker 1: you have to have passion for this game. You can't
Speaker 1: just like it and expect it to you, right. You
Speaker 1: have to make it priorities um as far as careers concerned.
Speaker 1: And if you make it priority, you can be successful
Speaker 1: in it. Um. The main thing is if you want
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get it, to get a job or
Speaker 1: get a position UM in the NFL, obviously you have
Speaker 1: to usually you have to have some experience of playing
Speaker 1: on so considerable knowledge about the game, and you have
Speaker 1: to be where scouts or coaches are at you know,
Speaker 1: if you're whether that's the senior bow, whether that's a combine,
Speaker 1: you have to make yourself no, you have to be there,
Speaker 1: and you have to distinguish yourself from the several other
Speaker 1: other hundred resumes that we get, you know, per week
Speaker 1: um and sometimes it's hard, but present yourself in a
Speaker 1: manner that makes the team want to have your trait
Speaker 1: to develop, to grow and to help their teams get better.
Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you this, Chap, and I
Speaker 1: want to go back to the ownership side of it.
Speaker 1: Like you said, if you're sitting in front of an
Speaker 1: owner for an interview and having you know, even at
Speaker 1: this quarterback coaching summit they were at and the owners
Speaker 1: that you talked to there, how interesting was it, maybe
Speaker 1: from your perspective when you hear how an owner looks
Speaker 1: a thing and what they're hiring, and maybe you thought, man,
Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. You know, I guess I
Speaker 1: understand where the owner's coming from. But there's probably maybe
Speaker 1: some criteria that whether whether it's general manager or personnel
Speaker 1: or coaching, that how ownership looks at it and to
Speaker 1: be prepared for when that opportunity arises when you when
Speaker 1: you have that in your toolbag that you can present
Speaker 1: in an interview. Absolutely. Uh. You know, first of all,
Speaker 1: you trying to learn from every experience that you go through. UM.
Speaker 1: I've had a chance to you know, sit down with
Speaker 1: our owners um, UM, George mccasky and Miss Virginia UM,
Speaker 1: and just have a tremendous amount of respecting and love
Speaker 1: for those those guys. UM. And you know, at this
Speaker 1: at this particular summit, um, Art Rooney spoke about the
Speaker 1: qualities that his head coaches have had in Pittsburgh. And
Speaker 1: so from listening to him speak about the qualities and
Speaker 1: which his head coaches had, UM, he spoke about they
Speaker 1: were tremendous um communicators. UM. You know when they walked
Speaker 1: in the room, they could command the room. You knew
Speaker 1: they were set apart. They were different. UM. He spoke
Speaker 1: about Chuck Nole and Chuck no being very calm and
Speaker 1: a disciplinarian. He spoke about Bill Kawer, you know, basically saying,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to block out the noise, you know,
Speaker 1: don't allow any noise to come through. And they talked
Speaker 1: about Mike Tumbling being a little bit different he saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's so much noise going on in nowadays world and
Speaker 1: Nowaday's football that we can't just tell them to block
Speaker 1: it out. We have to affuilp them to be able
Speaker 1: to handle that noise. And so you learn what you know,
Speaker 1: Art Rooney looks for, what John Marral looks for in
Speaker 1: an interview, and basically, you know, you just hope that
Speaker 1: you get an opportunity to put your best foot forward,
Speaker 1: be yourself like I worked under you know, John Elway
Speaker 1: and John Fox and Ryan Pace and Matt Naggie and
Speaker 1: you know it goes home Mike Shanahan. But when I
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to interview, when I get an opportunity
Speaker 1: or to run a football team, ultimately, I just have
Speaker 1: to be myself. Obviously don't want to take what I've
Speaker 1: got from my mentors, but I have to be my
Speaker 1: authentic self. I have to be confident with me, and
Speaker 1: that owner has to be confident and trustworthy in the
Speaker 1: vision that we collectively put together and the goals that
Speaker 1: we sent for our football teams. Kelly Bears, Assistant Director
Speaker 1: of Player of Personnel or guests here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the score with Tom there, Jim Moller,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac. Before we let you go, I first have
Speaker 1: thought because when I see you around the building, you're
Speaker 1: a guy that never has a bad day, or at
Speaker 1: least if he is, you're not showing it because you
Speaker 1: got an ear to ear grin and you are a
Speaker 1: gifted communicator. You are very relatable to the players. You
Speaker 1: have tight relationships with the players. I see you go
Speaker 1: to them on the practice field. I laughed, I thought,
Speaker 1: a nugget. Whatever. You're a very inspirational individual. So that's
Speaker 1: my perspective of you, and I wish you luck as
Speaker 1: you climb the NFL ladder and now reach your dreams.
Speaker 1: But I'd like it to be here in Chicago, you know,
Speaker 1: stick around champ you know the rosters looking good. Also,
Speaker 1: you're down in Florida and you're gonna have an event
Speaker 1: coming up on June twenty eighth at Browntown Park down
Speaker 1: in Florida. Tell us about it and what it means
Speaker 1: to you because you started something too called heart Power
Speaker 1: Ink and what does all that take into account for
Speaker 1: you down there? Jed, First of all, thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for saying day I don't believe in
Speaker 1: bad days, I believe I tell myself that I'm allowed
Speaker 1: bad moments. Obviously, sometimes moments can turn into days, but
Speaker 1: I never allow a moment to just continually get the
Speaker 1: best of me. It may steal my happiness for a point,
Speaker 1: but I never allowed to steal my joy because ultimately
Speaker 1: my joy comes from a higher power. And so that's
Speaker 1: how I live. That's how I live my life. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. And this Sunday, we're having Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: cookout and just informational and ultimately what we want to
Speaker 1: do in this event, it's just spread unity. There's so
Speaker 1: much there's so much division and missions for information that's
Speaker 1: that's being spread. I want people to be able to
Speaker 1: talk with authenticity, but I want the entire community, black, white, red, whatever,
Speaker 1: to be there and to learn together. We're going to
Speaker 1: eat together, um, and we're gonna heal together. I have
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of hope for our country. UM. I
Speaker 1: believe in the magnitude of the game of football and
Speaker 1: what it can what it can mean to healing. UM.
Speaker 1: And I've been blessed to have been a part of
Speaker 1: our organization Heart Power for eleven years now, providing you know,
Speaker 1: camps in several different states for free and in places
Speaker 1: that are more at risk communities to try to help
Speaker 1: your back. And that's all I want to do with
Speaker 1: your back. Let's get it done. Thank you so much, Champ,
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Good luck with the event, and we'll
Speaker 1: see you soon next month, how about it? All right,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, bless you guys, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: All right, Champ. Kelly Bears, Assistant director of Player Personnel,
Speaker 1: our guest. One final segment to go with Jim and Tom.
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Speaker 1: more minutes before we hand it off the top of
Speaker 1: the hour here on the score. All right, I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't prepare you guys for this, but I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw it out right now, make you put your
Speaker 1: thinking cap on real quick. I have an idea where
Speaker 1: Tom might go with this. But Jim and Tom and
Speaker 1: I'll chime into, don't worry, I won't be I won't
Speaker 1: be leaving you guys hanging out to dry. Name a
Speaker 1: player on the ninety man or roster that right now
Speaker 1: that you might be or maybe the media and the
Speaker 1: fans might be sleeping on right now that we might
Speaker 1: see a bigger year than maybe we expect from a player.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with. I'm gonna start with Big Tom.
Speaker 1: I'll go David Montgomery. I think he's the most I
Speaker 1: think he's the most said, unappreciated, overlooked player on the roster.
Speaker 1: Why but I think he has a bigger impact in
Speaker 1: the league. You know what. You go back and you
Speaker 1: look at a videotape of David Montgomery, and you look
Speaker 1: at what he provides. He's got vision, he's got tackle impact,
Speaker 1: he can hit the hole. He's got the ability to
Speaker 1: catch downfield and out of the backfield. So the more
Speaker 1: active he becomes inside and out side of this offense,
Speaker 1: the better this offense will will be. He's a tough guy.
Speaker 1: He can be the number one running back on your team.
Speaker 1: He can play all three downs. I just think David
Speaker 1: Montgomery his best friend needs to be Juan Castillo. He
Speaker 1: needs to learn how this offensive line's gonna work in
Speaker 1: front of him, and you're gonna see more profit from
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with if
Speaker 1: the tight end position makes the impact, I think it will.
Speaker 1: I think the player that is going to have a
Speaker 1: good year and I think will rebound. And he's dealt
Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury the past couple of years, Anthony Miller.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be big out of the slot,
Speaker 1: is my prediction for him. So again that that shoulder
Speaker 1: injury somewhat set him back, but had seven touchdowns his
Speaker 1: first year. Needs to come back and I think he
Speaker 1: I expect a big year from Anthony Miller. All Right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw on. I'm going into trenches and I'm
Speaker 1: going with James Daniels because each year I look at
Speaker 1: the roster and this is common, okay, as teams have
Speaker 1: guys enter year three. It's really it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: your takeoff year. And I believe that with a new
Speaker 1: way of looking at things more strength, he is now
Speaker 1: a maturing player that national football. He came in young
Speaker 1: and mature as a matter of fact, but maybe a
Speaker 1: little more vocal upfront with the kind of tutoring he
Speaker 1: is expected to get, drilling fundamentals like Wan Castio anticipates
Speaker 1: doing just his body the way he's built. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking for him to become a guy who's gonna live
Speaker 1: up to his potential and he's gonna have a takeoff year.
Speaker 1: In James Daniels, what do you think about that one?
Speaker 1: It's a competitive position, Jeff. I mean, James Daniels has
Speaker 1: to get better as his position, and he's got to
Speaker 1: get better throughout the season. If you look at Jermaine Fetti,
Speaker 1: you look at Rashad Coward, you look at Alex Bars,
Speaker 1: you look at some of the other guys that they
Speaker 1: have here, there's gonna be competition there. You can again,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go out there probably with the first team
Speaker 1: day one. But I don't think the guys behind him
Speaker 1: are just a foregone conclusion. It's gonna be James's job
Speaker 1: to have however he is. He has got a lot
Speaker 1: of talent, and he's got in terror and talent to
Speaker 1: play more than one interior position. But you know right
Speaker 1: now the competition will be a guard all right. Well,
Speaker 1: fellas are running out of time and I just can't
Speaker 1: wait to training camp kids here and hopefully all goes well.
Speaker 1: I know you guys feel the same. Thanks again, as
Speaker 1: always fellas. I hope you guys have a great west
Speaker 1: of your weekend. We'll talk to you next Thursday. That's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. For Jim and Tom and
Speaker 1: Jordan trut Up and Dan Briley, our producers, Jordan Malley
Speaker 1: tonight at the Score. Thanks for listening, everybody, and thanks
Speaker 1: to Champ Kelly, our guest tonight, the Bears Assistant director
Speaker 1: of Player Personnel. This is Bears All Access, brought to
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