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Speaker 1: The head coaches here. It is game week, Broan Callahan. Welcome, Yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome to kickoff week. It's exciting.
Speaker 2: It is exciting, and we obviously have a lot of
Speaker 2: football stuff to talk about. But before we get to
Speaker 2: the kickoff week stuff, I want to rewind just a
Speaker 2: hair because I want to talk to you about last
Speaker 2: week's and evening with the Titans dinner event. Sure, and
Speaker 2: at that event, you made the decision to announce the
Speaker 2: caps for this team at that event, which I think
Speaker 2: is surprised a lot of people. What was your thinking
Speaker 2: behind doing that?
Speaker 3: I wanted them to make it special for the guys
Speaker 3: being announced. I thought it was a cool venue to do,
Speaker 3: so I can't take full credit for it. Tom Jones
Speaker 3: does deserve some credit. He had initially brought the idea
Speaker 3: up to me and I said, yeah, if we can
Speaker 3: get the jerseys done. So we called Joey in and
Speaker 3: our equipment head of equipment, and I said, hey, can
Speaker 3: you get these first of all, do you have any
Speaker 3: C patches?
Speaker 1: The captage patch?
Speaker 3: Yes, the patch, and can you get it on these
Speaker 3: jerseys in you know, think three hours. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 3: no problem, we can. We can get it done. And
Speaker 3: he goes, let me check and make sure I have
Speaker 3: the patches first, and thankfully he found them somewhere in
Speaker 3: the equipment room. He'd had them stashed away, and he
Speaker 3: was able to get those jerseys done. And I think
Speaker 3: I got a text from I gotta talk to more Cox,
Speaker 3: and then I got a text for some other from
Speaker 3: Will and just how they didn't even realize how much
Speaker 3: that was going to mean to them. I know, Jeff
Speaker 3: was really excited to have the C patch on his jersey,
Speaker 3: and in the moment he was, you could see how
Speaker 3: excited he was, and Morgan had said that he hadn't
Speaker 3: he just he goes, I didn't think it wouldn't mean
Speaker 3: that much because I couldn't stop looking at it, you know,
Speaker 3: like I had a jersey home that night, And so
Speaker 3: it means a lot to those guys and I thought
Speaker 3: that was the proper form for us to kind of
Speaker 3: publicly our team was there for the most part. Now
Speaker 3: our whole coaching staff wasn't, but our team was there,
Speaker 3: and I thought that was a good venue to make
Speaker 3: it feel a little bit more special than just me
Speaker 3: telling him in the team meeting.
Speaker 2: Why is it important to you to establish traditions like
Speaker 2: that here in your very first year as a head coach.
Speaker 3: Because you're always trying to put your own twist on things,
Speaker 3: in your own spin on whatever it is you do
Speaker 3: on a day to day basis, and so things that
Speaker 3: are new and exciting are new and exciting for the
Speaker 3: players too, and so I think that they enjoy those things.
Speaker 3: They enjoy things different than what they've experienced before. And
Speaker 3: you know, there's when you build tradition and you build
Speaker 3: your program, you want to have certain markers during the
Speaker 3: course of the season in the offseason that did that
Speaker 3: have some meaning and everyone's got their things. But I
Speaker 3: thought that was a good place to, you know, try
Speaker 3: to put a little bit of emphasis on those captains
Speaker 3: and then representing our team.
Speaker 1: Aby I didn't make Morgan Cox very happy because while
Speaker 1: he was standing up there with Brian I said, hey,
Speaker 1: when you were at Tennessee, did you ever play against
Speaker 1: Brian when he was at UCLA? And Borgan gave me
Speaker 1: this look and he stopped me in the lunch room too,
Speaker 1: to again let me know he wasn't thrilled with me
Speaker 1: pointing out his age. They didn't by the way, they
Speaker 1: did not play against one another. They just missed each other.
Speaker 1: Brian did admit it to dinner. He played against Nick
Speaker 1: Folk when he was at Arizona.
Speaker 3: That is correct too.
Speaker 1: But I've got a better one though. This Sunday, you're
Speaker 1: going to see Mercedes Lewis, forty year olds tight end.
Speaker 1: Marcedes Lewis the former first round pick of the Jaguars
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. Their second round pick was
Speaker 1: Maurice Jones Drew, who's now been on TV for ten years.
Speaker 1: What is it about Marcedes Lewis that has allowed him
Speaker 1: to play in the NFL?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. At that position, yes, traditionally one
Speaker 3: that deals with injury at a pretty regular rate. Just
Speaker 3: they're usually smaller than who they play against. History says
Speaker 3: they all get hurt at some point, they break down
Speaker 3: a bit. But what he's been able to accomplish has
Speaker 3: been incredible. Mercedes and I were in the same recruiting
Speaker 3: class at UCLA. He lived in the room right across
Speaker 3: the hall from me, So I was teammates at Mercedes
Speaker 3: for four years and he's the best. He's great. What
Speaker 3: he's been able to do for the as long as
Speaker 3: he's been able to do it is an incredible testament
Speaker 3: to his toughness, his love of the game. Boy, you
Speaker 3: gotta love it to play that many years at that position,
Speaker 3: and he's been you know, he was, he was, he's
Speaker 3: he's six almost sixty seven. He's two hundred and seventy
Speaker 3: pounds now, I mean he's he's a big person, so
Speaker 3: he doesn't wear down maybe as much as some other
Speaker 3: guys that played the position too, but incredible tip of
Speaker 3: the cap to him that I think he is the
Speaker 3: longest tenured tight end the history of football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it has to be.
Speaker 3: I actually played against Mercedes. I didn't play in this
Speaker 3: particular game, but we played against Mercedes when I was
Speaker 3: in high school. Dels L High School of Conquered California
Speaker 3: went down to play Long Beach Poly High School in
Speaker 3: two thousand and two thousand and one, and it was
Speaker 3: the first time at the number one and number two
Speaker 3: ranked high school teams played each other in a regular
Speaker 3: season game. Mercedes was on that Long Beach Poly team,
Speaker 3: which was loaded with talent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're generally as they always are, generally Okay, so
Speaker 1: he was.
Speaker 3: He uh yeah, but what I mean, what an incredible
Speaker 3: what an incredible player in person?
Speaker 1: He is?
Speaker 3: He's I'm looking forward to saying load to him for
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about that game a little bit, because
Speaker 2: we are officially in preparation for Week one against the
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. How do you kick off that preparation this week?
Speaker 1: Slowly?
Speaker 3: This week because we get a bonus day to day,
Speaker 3: so players were off. For those that don't know, players
Speaker 3: were off the weekend Friday, Saturday, Sundays. You saw a
Speaker 3: lot of guys back at their alma maters and things
Speaker 3: like that. It's a good weekend to just take a
Speaker 3: deep breath from training camp and really try to transition
Speaker 3: into the regular season. So we came back today as
Speaker 3: a bonus day, so we still practiced and it was
Speaker 3: regular practice. We just kind of went against ourselves and
Speaker 3: we didn't do any real prep. Even my team meeting
Speaker 3: today wasn't even about Chicago. It's there, They're just we're
Speaker 3: not quite there yet, even though you can feel it.
Speaker 3: And it is a game week. But Tuesdays the off day,
Speaker 3: and Wednesday will start the regular prep. We've we've gotten
Speaker 3: ahead as a coaching staff. We've introduced bits and pieces
Speaker 3: to the players. But I've always found that too much
Speaker 3: time on your hands tends to be literally lead to
Speaker 3: some over analysis and overthinking when you just you know,
Speaker 3: you don't get this extra time for any other game.
Speaker 3: So just treat it the same and start Wednesday when
Speaker 3: you're supposed to start.
Speaker 1: Go back your business. Yea, So the injury report will
Speaker 1: come out on Wednesday, and for a player who's been
Speaker 1: injured like a DeAndre Hopkins who hasn't practiced in several weeks,
Speaker 1: as you prepare to go forward from a game plan standpoint,
Speaker 1: when do you need to have an idea you're gonna
Speaker 1: have players like that available or you're not.
Speaker 3: Earlier is always better, But you can manage that at
Speaker 3: some positions a little easier than others. You know where
Speaker 3: you can you can wait till a Thursday or Friday
Speaker 3: and just make sure they have the handful of plays
Speaker 3: that you that they need to make sure they're focused
Speaker 3: in on. That's where it does get easier now, is
Speaker 3: that now you're working through a game plan, and so
Speaker 3: there's only so many plays you have up in a game,
Speaker 3: and it's not like training camp where you're pulling from
Speaker 3: eight or nine or ten installs in your entire offense,
Speaker 3: and there's just a lot more. Everything tightens down, and
Speaker 3: so you can you can use players in limited roles
Speaker 3: or whatever role their physical ability lets them play in.
Speaker 3: So not a huge deal. If it's you know, for him,
Speaker 3: if we don't get the green light by Friday, or
Speaker 3: if it's we get the red light on Wednesday, it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. I can manage either either one of those
Speaker 3: scenarios with a guy like that.
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Speaker 1: we continue with Brian Callahan, let's now talk defense.
Speaker 2: So let's start with linebacker Ernest Jones. How do you
Speaker 2: expect to utilize him on Sunday?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna play. I mean, he's he's we we
Speaker 3: we traded for him and signed him for a reason,
Speaker 3: and that's to help us. Obviously, Jack Gibbons has certainly
Speaker 3: has more time on task and so that's probably where
Speaker 3: the game starts. But but he's gonna have a role
Speaker 3: and he's gonna play some. And really, the more comfortable
Speaker 3: he gets, the more he learns. It's like learning a
Speaker 3: new language. You know, he's got to pick up the verbage.
Speaker 3: And again it's it's a little easier in a game
Speaker 3: week because it's tighter, the package is tighter, But it's
Speaker 3: really gonna be up to him on how fast he
Speaker 3: learns and feels comfortable and can communicate the verbage in terminology.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to seeing that role grow for him.
Speaker 3: And and we're gonna use all our linebackers. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's all kinds of roles those guys can fill. So
Speaker 3: I would anticipate seeing him on the field.
Speaker 2: We did not see Harold Landry at all in the preseason,
Speaker 2: but he ended the twenty twenty three season in a
Speaker 2: pretty remarkable fashion. He was one of the best past
Speaker 2: rushers in the National Football League. How do we think
Speaker 2: that he is going to be able to pick up
Speaker 2: where he left off in the twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3: Everything about what Harold's done and where he's at will
Speaker 3: lead me to believe that he's not far from where
Speaker 3: he was when he finished. He's been He's had a
Speaker 3: really really good training camp, he had a hell of
Speaker 3: an offseason in terms of workout wise. He's really was
Speaker 3: in shape, he was dialed in, he was he was fantastic.
Speaker 3: And so he's also done this for a while now.
Speaker 3: And those are the guys as they stack years in
Speaker 3: the league where you end up saying, I know what
Speaker 3: it's going to look like. So I feel really good
Speaker 3: about where Harold's at and what that's going to look
Speaker 3: like for us. But he's I anticipate him playing really
Speaker 3: good football. Him and you know him and Jeff, the
Speaker 3: two guys that have you been here probably the longest
Speaker 3: almost and then the guys that have played the most
Speaker 3: for us over the years, and so those guys are
Speaker 3: anticipate seeing the same version of those guys that everybody
Speaker 3: knows and loves.
Speaker 1: Harold, Landry arden Key and Ben. Who else do you
Speaker 1: expect to see take part in the rotation at outside
Speaker 1: linebacker this weekend at Soldier Field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be those guys. It'll
Speaker 3: be you know, Jalen, Harold will play, Caleb Murphy will play.
Speaker 3: We'll see how far all he comes along. Those guys
Speaker 3: are all viable options. I think we get you know,
Speaker 3: you got six guys for probably what's gonna be five
Speaker 3: active spots on the game day roster. But you know,
Speaker 3: what that rotation looks like will kind of be determined.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna need those guys to help us and
Speaker 3: step in and play a role, because it's hard to
Speaker 3: play every snap if you're Harold and Arden. So we're
Speaker 3: gonna need two more guys to be able to step
Speaker 3: up and play for us.
Speaker 2: You also have four defensive linemen on the roster. Depth wise,
Speaker 2: do you feel like you can mix and match enough
Speaker 2: defensive personnel to get through the game with four defensive linemen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we probably won't go in with four. We'll probably
Speaker 3: elevate from the practice squad most likely just to get
Speaker 3: the fifth. We'll carry five most most games, with some
Speaker 3: version of five d linemen for the for the active roster,
Speaker 3: just because you need those spots. So the answer is no,
Speaker 3: I don't feel comfortable with four, and that's that's why
Speaker 3: we have the practice squad spots and we can do
Speaker 3: some standard elevations that you should get a few of them,
Speaker 3: and then we'll go from there and we'll see where
Speaker 3: the roster's at in two three weeks.
Speaker 1: All right, A lot of new on the Chicago Bears offense.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen at wide receiver, DeAndre Swift in the running
Speaker 1: back position obviously, Caleb Williams, the rookie quarterback Shane Waldron,
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. Is it hard to get a handle
Speaker 1: on what Chicago's offense is going to look like with
Speaker 1: all the new?
Speaker 3: Probably no harder than it is for them to get
Speaker 3: a handle on us with all the new. I think
Speaker 3: it's very similar in that regard that they got new coaching,
Speaker 3: new players, quite a few, and some unknowns in a
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback, and so we're gonna find out. You know,
Speaker 3: you can you can watch what they've been in their
Speaker 3: previous places. Obviously we know what keithan Allen can do
Speaker 3: in swift and you watch Kayleb Williams as a college player,
Speaker 3: you know what he's capable, and you see his preseason
Speaker 3: tape and you see the things that you saw when
Speaker 3: he was in college, and so all of those things
Speaker 3: will be They'll be dealing with the same things that
Speaker 3: we are with. There's some unknown there's some new. Not
Speaker 3: a ton of continuity across the board, but certain spots
Speaker 3: have some And you know, I think Shane's I've known
Speaker 3: Shane for a long time. I think Shane's a really
Speaker 3: really good football coach, and they did a really nice
Speaker 3: job in Seattle. And so you try to base on
Speaker 3: what maybe he's done before and what things he leans on.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, they got a
Speaker 3: different set of players than he did in Seattle, and
Speaker 3: so he'll have his own twist for their roster they
Speaker 3: have now. So just a matter of settling in and
Speaker 3: finding your way through. The first part of the game
Speaker 3: is usually always the always the hardest part.
Speaker 2: Switching to offense. What is Will Levis's main challenge this
Speaker 2: Sunday against Chicago's secondary?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good defense. I wish we got to
Speaker 3: open up against like Southwestern State, you know, so we
Speaker 3: could so we could really get our get our bearings.
Speaker 3: But now we got to go against the Chicago Bears
Speaker 3: and that defense that's they go. Yes, But I just
Speaker 3: think that he's going to have to be smart with
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The name of the game usually in this first week
Speaker 3: or two of the season is is how well you
Speaker 3: take care of the football, how much you minimize your
Speaker 3: own mistakes, you know what I mean? There's a there's
Speaker 3: an element of we just need to do our jobs
Speaker 3: first and need to worry about what we can do
Speaker 3: and not necessarily worry as much about them, because that's
Speaker 3: where sometimes the mistakes happen you try to do too much,
Speaker 3: and that's what wins and loses. He's opening a couple
Speaker 3: of games probably the first three weeks of the season
Speaker 3: is how well do you just execute what you're good at?
Speaker 3: And that's what I'm gonna ask of Will is just
Speaker 3: do the things he's good at and manage the game
Speaker 3: from that standpoint and keep the ball in our possession
Speaker 3: and make sure we're making good decisions and completing the
Speaker 3: football and then we'll be aggressive when we need to.
Speaker 3: But there's definitely a don't beat yourself in the first week,
Speaker 3: and that's going to be a big part of it.
Speaker 3: Is playing smart football.
Speaker 1: It's Bears coach Matt Eberflus's defense, that's his background. But
Speaker 1: there is a new defensive coordinator in Eric Washington. Do
Speaker 1: you expect any tweaks from what you've seen from an
Speaker 1: Eberflus defense, especially when he was totally running it at
Speaker 1: the end of twenty.
Speaker 3: Twenty three, You know, I think that's his mo that's
Speaker 3: what he's cut his teeth on his defensive football, and
Speaker 3: he's been a part a lot of really good defenses.
Speaker 3: I got a ton of respect for coach abraflues and
Speaker 3: places he's been times I played against him. I know
Speaker 3: what they're all about. I know what we're in for,
Speaker 3: So I anticipating a lot of that. Now. Eric Washington
Speaker 3: has had a really good run in Buffalo, and they
Speaker 3: did a really nice package of things in Buffalo on defense,
Speaker 3: and so I'm assuming we'll see some flavor of what
Speaker 3: he's done. That's why they hired him, is to bring
Speaker 3: some maybe new ideas, a new perspective, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: he'll do that. And so they've not shown much, and
Speaker 3: of course I'm sure they'll have planning to show us
Speaker 3: on Sunday. So I'm anticipating a little bit of maybe
Speaker 3: some things he's done in his past mixed with what
Speaker 3: they major in with with coach ebflu So I think
Speaker 3: they got the makings of a pretty pretty dang good defense.
Speaker 2: So the Bears only had twenty sacks last season, which
Speaker 2: is why they added players like Montes Sweat, So you
Speaker 2: have to figure that they're going to be trying to
Speaker 2: set a tone on Sunday. How does Bill Callahan prepare
Speaker 2: the offensive line for what figures to be a full
Speaker 2: on assault?
Speaker 3: Say, they know what they're in for. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: That's the one thing about having a coach that's been
Speaker 3: coaching for forty plus years. He knows how to do it,
Speaker 3: and so that that much I do know is that
Speaker 3: they will be prepared for what they're about to face,
Speaker 3: both schematically and an intensity. I think all those things
Speaker 3: will be We'll be ready to match whatever it is
Speaker 3: we're seeing and hopefully exceed it. But yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: You got a team that's trying to make a mark.
Speaker 3: They have a lot of a lot of enthusiasm around
Speaker 3: their their building, and they should. They are a very
Speaker 3: good football team, and our job is to is to
Speaker 3: not let that get off the ground week one. They
Speaker 3: can have it after us, but week one, I'd like
Speaker 3: to not let them have all that momentum. But it's
Speaker 3: it's it's a tough task going.
Speaker 1: On the road.
Speaker 3: That place will be low. Chicago's a great place to play.
Speaker 3: It's a great football city. They're excited about their team.
Speaker 3: They got a young quarterback that everyone wants to see,
Speaker 3: so uh, yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty
Speaker 3: hilatious environment. What constitutes a successful rushing performance for the
Speaker 3: Titans on Sunday in Chicago what's good running the ball? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you always, I really get more into the
Speaker 3: the carries can be skewed, you know, if you're just
Speaker 3: looking for volume of carries because hopefully you have a
Speaker 3: lead and you're in the fourth quarter trying to run
Speaker 3: a ball a bunch to kill the game, and that's
Speaker 3: where you can that's where those carries up take a ton.
Speaker 3: I'm really more concerned about the yards per carry mark
Speaker 3: and and our and our rush efficiency and our ability
Speaker 3: to generate some explosives. Love to be able to run
Speaker 3: the ball and hit a few explosives in there. And
Speaker 3: then the efficiency to us is always a really critical
Speaker 3: stat you know, are we are we up above fifty
Speaker 3: percent in our efficiency? And are we are we earning positive.
Speaker 1: EPA?
Speaker 3: We use epay quite a bit, so are we are
Speaker 3: we earning positive EPA every time we had the ball
Speaker 3: off or it was a negative, and so all those
Speaker 3: things factor in. But I think we look a lot
Speaker 3: at that the the yards per carry, which means you're
Speaker 3: getting explosives, and your ability to have positive EPA either
Speaker 3: percentage and or outcomes. So it's kind of nerdy, but
Speaker 3: that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, it's for example. I mean, if you have
Speaker 1: third and one and you get two, that's a positive
Speaker 1: carry even though you only got two yards on a carry.
Speaker 3: Correct, So that's that's we use all those things. If
Speaker 3: you're if it's first and ten and you get you know,
Speaker 3: you get six or you get five, that's a huge
Speaker 3: that's that's a really good run for the spot. If
Speaker 3: it's second and four and you get a first down,
Speaker 3: it's only four yards, but it's a first down, that's
Speaker 3: much more positive play then you get it.
Speaker 1: But that's I love that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I called you a nerd.
Speaker 1: That's okay.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about tight end, shall we. You've got five
Speaker 2: tight ends on this roster. Realistically, can five tight ends
Speaker 2: be active on Sunday in Chicago?
Speaker 1: No? No, they can't.
Speaker 3: I mean no, they dumb this.
Speaker 1: No, they can't. Take good question it is.
Speaker 3: I mean it would, it would. If you win it
Speaker 3: five tight ends, you'd be really thin somewhere else. Probably
Speaker 3: they fill similar special teams roles. You probably are given
Speaker 3: and taken at linebacker or safety. That those three positions
Speaker 3: sort of make up your core special team. So No.
Speaker 3: Five is a lot. It's just going to be a
Speaker 3: determination between the fourth active tight end and the fifth
Speaker 3: active linebacker or the fifth or fourth active safety. It's
Speaker 3: just that's just going to be a weekly gymnastics for
Speaker 3: us on where they factor in the game plan versus
Speaker 3: where the factor on special team. So there's could be
Speaker 3: weeks where they're both down and we only carry three,
Speaker 3: or there could be weeks where it's just one one
Speaker 3: versus another, or sometimes injury sort of settles that for you.
Speaker 3: But it's a week to week thing.
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Speaker 2: Bears fans with their rookie quarterback opening at home for
Speaker 2: this new season, filled with optimism for their team. You
Speaker 2: know you're going to be walking into a crazy soldier field.
Speaker 2: Are there concerns or how are you adjusting for the
Speaker 2: fact that communication is probably going to be a bit
Speaker 2: of a struggle because it will be quite loud.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that's every road we every road game in
Speaker 3: some of these stadiums. You know, it's it's particulate to
Speaker 3: be particularly loud and boisterous. I think for the opening
Speaker 3: game for all the reasons you said, But we just
Speaker 3: have to work our process. We we work our silent
Speaker 3: cadence all through training camp. We use noise, We work
Speaker 3: on our nonverbal communication. On both sides of the ball.
Speaker 3: It's obviously a lot louder for us on offense, than
Speaker 3: it is for our defense should be pretty quiet for them,
Speaker 3: But that's always a process where we continually works. It's
Speaker 3: not when we take for granted, and it's one that
Speaker 3: we actually do spend quite a bit of time on.
Speaker 3: So I feel good about where we're at there. I
Speaker 3: mean not to say it's going to be super smooth.
Speaker 3: I mean, you'd hope to not have any false starts,
Speaker 3: but it's going to be a tough environment. So we'll
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Speaker 3: can on the on the penalty sheet, and and hopefully
Speaker 3: we can communicate well enough to operate.
Speaker 1: You are going to a place that is very special
Speaker 1: to the Callahan family. Dad is very much from there.
Speaker 1: I think you were born there where you know, I
Speaker 1: was born in Champagne, Okay, just Illinois Ish, but I
Speaker 1: mean I grew up. I grew up a bearsman, because
Speaker 1: that's what you know, Bears, Bulls, and black Hawks. When
Speaker 1: I was a kid, that's what we were at the
Speaker 1: University of Wisconsin. Is before my dad was in pro football,
Speaker 1: and so the only real football team I used to
Speaker 1: remember watching was was the Bears because that's what all
Speaker 1: my uncles and everybody lived in Chicago, and when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, we were down there all the time
Speaker 1: I've spent I mean, I've been to all those the zoos,
Speaker 1: the museums and up and I've been all over Chicago
Speaker 1: for a long time. And it's I have very fond
Speaker 1: memories of Chicago, even though I didn't grow up there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, my mom and dad are are Chicago is
Speaker 1: through and through, and uh, to open up at at
Speaker 1: Chicago has got to be a little cool for my dad,
Speaker 1: I think to some degree. But it's it's a great place.
Speaker 1: It's a great city, it's a great football city. It's
Speaker 1: great history there, it's a it's a fantastic organization, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's one that's been hungry for for
Speaker 1: what they have right now, and that's a team that
Speaker 1: people are excited to come watch. Great story about your
Speaker 1: dad during the Wisconsin Days in the Athletic at the
Speaker 1: end of last week.
Speaker 3: It was I thought, yeah, I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people saw it, but but
Speaker 3: I thought Joe did a really nice job researching and
Speaker 3: writing it. It was really well done. And yeah, there's
Speaker 3: some things that sometimes I still learned some things every
Speaker 3: now and again about about how he was back then.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a that was a wild time
Speaker 3: those Wisconsin years and all that all the things that
Speaker 3: they did to turn that program around was was it
Speaker 3: was pretty awesome. But it was really well done and
Speaker 3: really well researched by Joe rex Road there at the Athletic.
Speaker 1: Brian Callahan, thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 3: Always a pleasure for Amy.
Speaker 1: Well to coach Brian Callahan. I'm Mike Keith, thanking you
Speaker 1: the OT people for joining us for the OT