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Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, effort and that's the thing that was the
Speaker 4: most encouraging thing to me is my thoughts. You saw
Speaker 4: an aggressive front on the defense. Eric Washington did a
Speaker 4: nice job of bringing a bunch of different personnel groupings
Speaker 4: in he kind of alternated their kind of expected lineup
Speaker 4: spots inside this defense that made the offensive line adjust
Speaker 4: and exposed Darnold to some big hits, got an interception
Speaker 4: by Tarik and you know things that to me is
Speaker 4: the effort that's encouraging. It's not a team that has
Speaker 4: their car started and their U hauls pack. They're ready
Speaker 4: to go on the field and give the effort that's needed.
Speaker 4: And then when you look at the offensive side of
Speaker 4: the ball, we're still talking about a developing rookie quarterback
Speaker 4: that has a tremendous upside. Notification that the offensive line
Speaker 4: has to make another adjustment twenty four hours before the
Speaker 4: start of the game. And I've been in those same
Speaker 4: shoes as Toronto Maagaji, a Coronamagaji, and it's it's not
Speaker 4: an easy adjustment, but with a you know, a couple
Speaker 4: of plays that if they would have gone the other way,
Speaker 4: the whole outcome of.
Speaker 2: The game would have been different.
Speaker 1: Concerns at all about the frustration that Caleb may be feeling,
Speaker 1: he doesn't show it necessarily, as you'll hear in an
Speaker 1: interview with the head coach Thomas Brown. There are snapshots
Speaker 1: that people post that you can define it as frustration.
Speaker 1: Of course he's going to have some, but just playing
Speaker 1: the role of survivor at times with the pressure he's
Speaker 1: facing from defenses, and there was pressure. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of doubt of blitzes, but there was still pressure
Speaker 1: by the vikings.
Speaker 4: So when you go off the field, the first person
Speaker 4: they're going to put a camera on is the quarterback,
Speaker 4: especially on Monday Night football, and whatever he does on
Speaker 4: the sideline, you're going to get a reaction from somebody
Speaker 4: in the media on that. But you could probably go
Speaker 4: to six or eight plays during the course of the
Speaker 4: game and you can watch an offensive lineman limping back
Speaker 4: to the huddle. You can watch a defensive lineman that
Speaker 4: has to get some assistance to get off the field,
Speaker 4: but two plays later he's back on the field. But
Speaker 4: the quarterback is such a high file position, and Caleb
Speaker 4: is such a high profile guy right now in the NFL,
Speaker 4: every move he makes is gonna be on the camera.
Speaker 2: And yeah, if you.
Speaker 4: Show a little discomfort coming off the field after a season,
Speaker 4: someone's gonna highlight it and they're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 4: But I think when you take every one of these guys,
Speaker 4: some of the hits that we see DJ and Keenan
Speaker 4: in Rome take some of the you know, the other
Speaker 4: offensive lineman, defensive players, linebackers, dbs. Everybody is exposed to
Speaker 4: those instances of pain, but they don't have a camera
Speaker 4: on them every move they make.
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Speaker 4: Of course. I think when if you know Magaji is
Speaker 4: a left tackle moving forward, I think he'll be able
Speaker 4: to implement different types of protections under the difficult down
Speaker 4: and distance, the third and extremely long and this week
Speaker 4: he's going to have the opportunity to be a completely
Speaker 4: different reacting football player because he's going to be able
Speaker 4: to hear the count out of Caleb and I think
Speaker 4: you'll see a more aggressive, more athletic left tackle than
Speaker 4: an offensive line that's an eighth of a second slower
Speaker 4: off the ball than the defensive line. Because of the
Speaker 4: contributing crowd noise, and to me, if Karan uh is
Speaker 4: going to play again, I'm excited to what he'll do
Speaker 4: in front of a home crowd rather than one of
Speaker 4: the most difficult atmospheres in the last thirty five years
Speaker 4: to play at in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a rare first experience as an NFL starter.
Speaker 4: You know, That's the thing about it is, so he
Speaker 4: had twenty four hours notice that he was going to
Speaker 4: be the starting offensive lineman, and I'm just the comparable
Speaker 4: to what my first experience was in that same Minnesota stadium.
Speaker 4: The old one was when Kurt Becker got injured in
Speaker 4: the offensive line. Coach Stick Staffold comes up and says, hey,
Speaker 4: you're in the game. So we and you and I
Speaker 4: have talked about this a lot. When you're you're the
Speaker 4: depth of a position, there is not notification that you
Speaker 4: have to go in and you have to be ready
Speaker 4: in an instant's notice. Karan I completely believe that he's
Speaker 4: ready to play mentally, physically and everything that he's worked
Speaker 4: through when he showed up with an injury. But and
Speaker 4: I do think that he has a tremendous upside when
Speaker 4: he finally decides what position he's ultimately gonna play.
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Speaker 1: with the head coach? Hey, what's what's this for you
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. I'm always an honest person.
Speaker 3: It's frustrating because I feel good about the prep that
Speaker 3: we put in, the messaging in the building and then
Speaker 3: not being able to get the desired result on the
Speaker 3: football fields always a frustrating part. But I am also
Speaker 3: still encouraged by the flight of our football team, the
Speaker 3: fact that we still continue to keep showing up. Our
Speaker 3: guys are positive in the building and in the mix
Speaker 3: of everything that's going on, we're still find ways to
Speaker 3: stay united.
Speaker 1: How do you find ways to diffuse your frustration and
Speaker 1: not let players suffer the same kind of affliction? You know,
Speaker 1: and something like.
Speaker 2: This, Yeah, I mean I get it. Out of my system.
Speaker 3: I'll talk about it, and I think being able to
Speaker 3: have games kind of back to back help with that process.
Speaker 3: Got to be able to move on and get ready
Speaker 3: for the next opponent, so you can't dwell on it.
Speaker 3: That's one of the beauties of the NFL when you're
Speaker 3: in season because it's a week to week process, So
Speaker 3: you try to figure out what you can make the
Speaker 3: corrections from from the previous week, but also what you
Speaker 3: can build upon that was positive and pay it forward
Speaker 3: to the next game.
Speaker 1: Kind Of a strange question since I've never been in
Speaker 1: a team meeting with the entire team. So when you
Speaker 1: start a season in your position as passing game coordinator
Speaker 1: and move and see all the elevation, So when you
Speaker 1: look out, do you see the same reaction on the
Speaker 1: faces of the players at this point in the season
Speaker 1: when you know their own frustration is bubbling up and
Speaker 1: some guys are vocal about it, some aren't, so they
Speaker 1: kind of keep it inside. I mean, do you have
Speaker 1: to take almost a psychological approach to your job as
Speaker 1: well as you scan the room?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think I got did a really good
Speaker 3: job since the moment I've had an opportunity to step
Speaker 3: into this entimal role a few weeks ago of always
Speaker 3: been engaged in meetings. Every time I started meeting, I
Speaker 3: have everybody's eyes, nobody's looking around and wondering, and so
Speaker 3: I do appreciate that attention and focus, but I think
Speaker 3: it comes to me being able to be consistent with
Speaker 3: the message but I delivered to those guys. But again,
Speaker 3: I'm always gonna be upfront and honest person, believe in clear,
Speaker 3: open and honest communication as we continue to try to
Speaker 3: find ways to work through potential problems but also prepare
Speaker 3: for the next opponent.
Speaker 1: Do you still have the leadership Council meetings?
Speaker 3: Yes, we have a Captain's meeting every week, So I
Speaker 3: meet with those guys before special Teams meetings start every Wednesday,
Speaker 3: so I'll meet with them again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: And so in those meetings they kind of.
Speaker 3: Just kind of give a recap of not recap, but
Speaker 3: preview of the of the coming week when it comes
Speaker 3: to the schedules, what the plan is and thought process is.
Speaker 3: But also I preview with those guys what the message
Speaker 3: for the group is going to be for this coming opponent.
Speaker 3: And also that time I always open the floor for
Speaker 3: those guys give any feedback or communicate with me back
Speaker 3: and forth about if there is anything on their minds,
Speaker 3: which they've done a great job of for the most part,
Speaker 3: you know. So it's kind of a collabortive effort when
Speaker 3: it comes trying to find ways to help lead this
Speaker 3: football team.
Speaker 1: This is a crazy situation because you know you'd like
Speaker 1: to keep this head coaching job here. Do you feel
Speaker 1: that different a little bit now that you're in this
Speaker 1: position or are you just a veteran that knows, Hey,
Speaker 1: everybody's looking at me anyway, so I'm gonna keep being me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, honest, I don't just peru. I've had that same
Speaker 3: thought process most of my career. I think I learned
Speaker 3: early on my first couple of years in coaching that
Speaker 3: everything you do is evaluated by somebody. Obviously, now it's
Speaker 3: on a bigger stage because you're in an interim head
Speaker 3: coach role with everybody listen to your press conferences, watches
Speaker 3: your body language, you're message in front of the group,
Speaker 3: They watch how you organize, communicate with players. So of
Speaker 3: course there's more scrutiny when there's coings with more responsibility,
Speaker 3: which is it's part of the course but I started
Speaker 3: to just think about it from the standpoint of what
Speaker 3: I can control and be locked in on that. And
Speaker 3: I don't control the future, never had, never will know
Speaker 3: do I try to concern myself control in the future.
Speaker 3: I think any time you have an opportunity to take
Speaker 3: over in any capacity, it's obviously normally not for a
Speaker 3: good reason.
Speaker 2: There's obviously some.
Speaker 3: Issues that need to be fixed, and so I understood
Speaker 3: kind of walk it into it.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be an easy task at all.
Speaker 3: I think it's also totally different when you have a
Speaker 3: chance to, you know, get high as a head coach,
Speaker 3: have the entire offseason, you know, build a staff, you know,
Speaker 3: pour into the players bitter thing, from the foundation, from
Speaker 3: the ground.
Speaker 2: Depth is a little bit different than the world that
Speaker 2: I'm in right now.
Speaker 3: But have complete confidence and the prep that I've done,
Speaker 3: but also the guys around me, So I'll continue leaning
Speaker 3: to them and we'll just work at one day to.
Speaker 1: Sound all right, let's look at some things football wise.
Speaker 1: Something struck me when you met the media earlier in
Speaker 1: the day about a fourth and one, a third and one,
Speaker 1: the importance of just getting that one yard in the NFL,
Speaker 1: what it does for the mindset of a football team
Speaker 1: from a physicality point of view, to what the offensive
Speaker 1: line is feeling when you entrust them to get that
Speaker 1: one yard and the and the opposite of when it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, because those can be as big a play
Speaker 1: as any in the NFL, as much as a big
Speaker 1: play and explosive play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I betely.
Speaker 3: I think football is a game of inchest Sometimes life
Speaker 3: is the game of it is when it comes to
Speaker 3: how close things already having success and working out but
Speaker 3: still getting have no regrets about the thought process behind it.
Speaker 3: Talk to those guys kind of going into the game
Speaker 3: about call them more aggressive game and taking some so
Speaker 3: called chances. Still standing by the thought process and believe
Speaker 3: that we should better get a yard in the NFL
Speaker 3: when it comes to how we execute, and I can
Speaker 3: continue to try to find way to be creative with
Speaker 3: the play call and put us in the best spot
Speaker 3: so we can execute. But definitely, we had two opportunities
Speaker 3: for fourth and wares we stopped on both of those
Speaker 3: and that's something we've got to do a better job of.
Speaker 2: Correcting and fixing.
Speaker 3: But also we talk about being a physical football team,
Speaker 3: you can't really talk about being a physical if you
Speaker 3: don't run the football, and also are gonn to be
Speaker 3: committed to going forward?
Speaker 2: And when we have this a yard of the game.
Speaker 1: Because Troy Aikman did the game, I've always remembered his
Speaker 1: rookie season and he brought it up in the broadcast.
Speaker 1: I believe just reading about it. Started eleven games as
Speaker 1: a rookie, lost them all. Two years later he was
Speaker 1: a pro bowler six in a row. So there's some wisdom,
Speaker 1: aar and some explanation of how hard this is. Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning led the NFL and interceptions his rookie year, So
Speaker 1: it is a tool an instrument say hey, listen, man,
Speaker 1: this is not There's nothing easy about this, and I'm
Speaker 1: certain that Caleb understands that anyway. But is it a
Speaker 1: good reminder.
Speaker 2: Though, that definitely is a good reminder.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, most guys have an opportunity when
Speaker 3: they come in have high expectations for themselves, especially when
Speaker 3: you're drafting them one overall and you're starting quarterback, to
Speaker 3: have the bigts of being the champion, of leading the
Speaker 3: football team, of making miraculous plays and and going on
Speaker 3: winning streaks, which is somebody he's definitely capable of and
Speaker 3: we'll be doing for a long time of my opinion.
Speaker 3: But also it's still a rookie in the NFL. It's tough.
Speaker 3: It's hard deal, and to me, I think it's even
Speaker 3: harder in today's world because the expectations places though rookie
Speaker 3: quarterbacks by the outside world is like completely unrealistic and it's.
Speaker 2: Part of problem. In my opinion.
Speaker 3: It won't stop, it's gonna continue to be. How is
Speaker 3: fruit and is highly hyped up. But I think the
Speaker 3: understanding of what it takes to play the position, what
Speaker 3: all goes into it, or the development that it takes,
Speaker 3: and it actually takes time to grow and be the
Speaker 3: best version of yourself, and you have an opportunity to
Speaker 3: live it out in front the entire world weekend and
Speaker 3: week out. So I think it takes a lot of
Speaker 3: you know, mental capacity to be able to stay strolling,
Speaker 3: to ignore the outside and know where to focus almost
Speaker 3: the most important thing in the team, to try to
Speaker 3: find ways to now be h be harding yourself, but
Speaker 3: also give yourself some grace so you have time room
Speaker 3: to grow.
Speaker 1: You know, And because of the way the world is
Speaker 1: now with with social media, it can take a clip
Speaker 1: off a TV broadcast and it's posted immediately. And so
Speaker 1: the hit on Kala by Jahi Ward as a pretty
Speaker 1: vicious hit goes to the sidelines and he looked like
Speaker 1: he was in pain for whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: But a lot of conclusions are drawn from just that
Speaker 1: three second shot of what you know, Yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to shake that off, but it kind of paints
Speaker 1: a different picture and the reality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, perception is reality even when there's not.
Speaker 3: And that's the difficult thing sometimes when it comes to
Speaker 3: life in general. But you mentioned obviously with it be
Speaker 3: in a social media generation, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: times misery loves company. So I think when people have
Speaker 3: issues in their own lives, it makes it easy to
Speaker 3: go to the internet and voice their pages about other
Speaker 3: people's lives that they don't live and can't live. And
Speaker 3: so that's why I just ignore it altogether. As I
Speaker 3: mentioned several times, whether it's positive or negative, those things
Speaker 3: don't matter. Literally affects unless you're allowed to affect you.
Speaker 3: So I think being able to always understand the perspective
Speaker 3: and being with your feet are and always trying to
Speaker 3: find ways to seek out growth is always the most
Speaker 3: important thing.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Caleb giving himself some grace with the same
Speaker 1: apply this morning, this afternoon for Karanai Magaji.
Speaker 2: I mean one thousand percent.
Speaker 3: I think again, people just don't understand the mental gymnasts
Speaker 3: that go into finding out twenty four hours before that
Speaker 3: you're about to go start your first NFL on top
Speaker 3: of that on the road, and on top of that
Speaker 3: versus top opponent that is, you know and clearly and
Speaker 3: clearing in the playoff picture in a loud environment. So
Speaker 3: my head goes off to him because there was never
Speaker 3: any flinch or doubt or hesitation on his part. Obviously
Speaker 3: he'll continue to go. He went to some growing paints
Speaker 3: as well, which is again is part of being at ricky.
Speaker 3: I don't care what position you play, but what do
Speaker 3: you playing quarterback or play on left tackle. It's not
Speaker 3: gonna be easy. Wasn't meant to be easy. If it
Speaker 3: was it was easy, we just pick anybody to go
Speaker 3: do it. And so there's only a select field guys
Speaker 3: that can be able to do it from a physical standpoint,
Speaker 3: but also mentally.
Speaker 1: I got to give a tip of the cap to
Speaker 1: Dominique Robinson because you speak about playing violent football. He
Speaker 1: was violent on that punt block. I mean that was
Speaker 1: a bang bang violent play and a guy who has
Speaker 1: not had many opportunities but has kept up pretty pretty
Speaker 1: positive mindset about about himself.
Speaker 3: That's a great example of being in your best when
Speaker 3: your best is required. As you mentioned, not having a
Speaker 3: ton of opportunities. But when his number got called, he
Speaker 3: made the play in the game. It actually led to
Speaker 3: us being able to get a score on that same drive.
Speaker 3: Whi's also why is baffling. I mean when people talk
Speaker 3: about the football team quitting, right, you don't block punts
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter and sport touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: The football team quits, are we not getting a result
Speaker 2: we desire? Of course not.
Speaker 3: Is that frustrated, absolutely, but the label somebody as a
Speaker 3: quitter to me is a completely different deal which is egregious,
Speaker 3: which is why shout this guys on if you believe
Speaker 3: that poor the tape, I'm gon show me an example
Speaker 3: of that of who you say is quitting and when
Speaker 3: we're quitting. So but definitely kudos to him to being
Speaker 3: able to to rise at the moment, make a critical
Speaker 3: play in the game and give us some life.
Speaker 1: Oh we mentioned this earlier. Now the Lions, and that'll
Speaker 1: be the tape Dan Campbell's watching, so I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: gonna remind these guys, say, hey, this Bears team's not
Speaker 1: gonna gonna fold up the tenth anya and they're wounded too.
Speaker 2: Definitely are.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're still a very competitive football teams still
Speaker 3: battle last week even though they end up losing.
Speaker 2: But he's a.
Speaker 3: Gutsy head coach when it comes to taking chances and
Speaker 3: making some you know what. People will call it Tom's
Speaker 3: critical calls throughout the game. But it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: tough opponent for us. We batted against him the first
Speaker 3: time with their place, put ourselves in a deficit, say
Speaker 3: to go battle back to the end of it. Had
Speaker 3: twenty points in the second half and we're driving. Had
Speaker 3: server opportunities to close the game out and we didn't
Speaker 3: capitalize on it. But looking forward to the opportunity to
Speaker 3: come back at home and go to battle.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time as always, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I really enjoy speaking Timmy. He's very polished as a speaker,
Speaker 1: but he also just tells you what he feels. There's
Speaker 1: no there's nothing more than that he just he's very
Speaker 1: direct and as he's indicated many times, but I like
Speaker 1: the way he is handling this. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: his shot too. You got to remember that it's not
Speaker 1: just about the Bears. It's also his shot too, And
Speaker 1: so he's trying to compartmentalize all of that and be
Speaker 1: the leader of this football team for the remaining games.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, you can tell about Thomas Brown. He's
Speaker 4: a super intelligent guy because these are not pre prepared
Speaker 4: answers or questions given to him beforehand. He is speaking
Speaker 4: from the heart and off the top of his head
Speaker 4: throughout his other experiences in his coaching life, whether it's
Speaker 4: an example from another head coach that he played for,
Speaker 4: or the development of him as a position coach throughout
Speaker 4: his career. And I like the seriousness of his voice
Speaker 4: in the tone that he's not going to let these
Speaker 4: players just cash it in, that he's expecting effort and
Speaker 4: he wants to see better effort out of him. And
Speaker 4: I do think that in Minnesota we saw a better
Speaker 4: effort out of the football team than San Francisco. I
Speaker 4: just think that these guys went into Minnesota and they
Speaker 4: knew what happened in San Francisco, and they kind of
Speaker 4: respect what the coach is doing for them, and they
Speaker 4: came out and they showed they had a better example
Speaker 4: of a more physical, energy guys brand of football.
Speaker 1: You know, he mentioned about the aggressive decisions and he
Speaker 1: category them with us in the postgame show on Monday night,
Speaker 1: but also afterwards. But I get what he's saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's got to be a spark of some sort to
Speaker 1: light a fire in this first half, first quarter. Three
Speaker 1: straight games no points in the first half. That's rare
Speaker 1: five times this season, so that there's got to be
Speaker 1: something that ignites it. And it all it takes in
Speaker 1: many cases, is that just that yard or in the
Speaker 1: you know, like the touchdown that was wiped out. The details,
Speaker 1: the details matter.
Speaker 4: I don't disagree with his decision to go forward on
Speaker 4: fourth down. I do think that when as a head coach,
Speaker 4: as a staff, you probably go back and you re evaluate,
Speaker 4: all right, what are we seeing on screen from what
Speaker 4: the defense is offering us? What is a do we
Speaker 4: have a better option than the plays we called? And
Speaker 4: that's the exploratory that you go through every single week,
Speaker 4: every single tape that you study against your opponent. So Listen,
Speaker 4: I'm all for Thomas Brown making those decisions to be
Speaker 4: aggressive and go for it, because you get those two
Speaker 4: fourth and ones, you get Kramer to go in there
Speaker 4: and report to the official. You and I are sitting
Speaker 4: here right now talking about a completely different outcome. So listen,
Speaker 4: don't stop being aggressive, because I think that's one thing
Speaker 4: that endears you to a football team in the final
Speaker 4: few weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: Time now bar Geico gives you more football stat of
Speaker 1: the weak catab Williams. This is from Doug Coletti, our
Speaker 1: directive of Research and Statistics. He did this yesterday. The
Speaker 1: only quarterback in NFL history with four hundred and more
Speaker 1: passing attempts, a second percentage greater than eleven percent, but
Speaker 1: only five interceptions. Insane math when you get right down
Speaker 1: to it, Tommy, and we've seen a lot of insane
Speaker 1: math and our career together. But when you think about
Speaker 1: it and the eight straight games without an interception, which
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback has not done since at least nineteen fifty, it's.
Speaker 4: An amazing stat you know, because Doug is the stats
Speaker 4: He's the king of pre predicted numbers. What can happen
Speaker 4: to a football team, offense, defense or special teams. And
Speaker 4: Caleb has ignored the number man. He keeps just going
Speaker 4: and throwing the ball and making sure that he's buying
Speaker 4: time behind the line of scrimmage, delivering the ball accurately,
Speaker 4: making some big plays, but again being super protective of
Speaker 4: the football. And I do think when you're a Bears fan,
Speaker 4: like I have been my whole life, I'm super encouraged
Speaker 4: to see where.
Speaker 2: This kid's going.
Speaker 4: And I'm, you know, like Doug is emphasizing the point
Speaker 4: that he's having some remarkable success in some difficult circumstances.
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Speaker 1: I got to talk about Dominie Robinson. I've always appreciated Dominique.
Speaker 1: He he never you know, you talk about Caleb at
Speaker 1: the podium. We mentioned last week there's never any you know,
Speaker 1: woe is me? Look to him, there's always a positive
Speaker 1: out look. He's not he's hurting inside. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: losses are mounting. He's never experienced such loss in his
Speaker 1: career at the high school or college level, and nor
Speaker 1: do many of these players ever experienced something like this.
Speaker 1: But but Dominique has not been able to get on
Speaker 1: the field much and the opportunities are rare. But boy,
Speaker 1: that that as I mentioned with Thomas, that was a
Speaker 1: violent play. Wait, I couldn't stop watching it.
Speaker 4: You know one thing about Dominique Robinson, the reason I
Speaker 4: pulled so hard for him, is because there's evidence in
Speaker 4: his desire and a lot of that started when he
Speaker 4: showed back up this year after spending the off season
Speaker 4: away and he looked like a completely different sculpted body.
Speaker 4: And that's the effort that I want out of all
Speaker 4: these players, is what Dominique Robinson did to himself to
Speaker 4: be more prepared physically for the game of football. And
Speaker 4: no matter what's they're asking him to do, to run
Speaker 4: sixty yards and make a block, make make a play,
Speaker 4: make a tackle, He's willing to do it. If he's
Speaker 4: lined up on the line of scrimmage and they're asking
Speaker 4: him to go after the punter, and then he wins
Speaker 4: and he gets into the punter's body and blocks that punt.
Speaker 4: I love to see him as an example of a
Speaker 4: self made success and I pull for him and I
Speaker 4: want his best yet to come.
Speaker 1: Guy I pull four two all the time? Is DeMarcus Walker?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you two?
Speaker 1: I do de Marcus. You know, he's got these bursts
Speaker 1: of dominance, and he had it in Week one against
Speaker 1: Tennessee and he did it again yesterday with four pressures,
Speaker 1: four hits on the quarterback and he's now got twenty
Speaker 1: five career high, career high in pressures in a single season.
Speaker 1: He still had three games to go. We're talking about
Speaker 1: an underrated impact.
Speaker 4: Well, I think more of people don't appreciate his versatility
Speaker 4: because when you're talking about a guy that can play
Speaker 4: inside outside, it's two different characteristics. If you're playing on
Speaker 4: the outside, you have to have get off speed and
Speaker 4: you have to have the hand fighting ability to disengage
Speaker 4: from an offensive tackle that at the arm length, that's
Speaker 4: you know what they always have to fight through, and
Speaker 4: he has the ability to do that. But then you
Speaker 4: also have to have the strength and the stoutness to
Speaker 4: be able to play on the inside, to being able
Speaker 4: to go physical against physical, strength against strength against some
Speaker 4: of the bigger offensive guards in the in the league.
Speaker 4: And he has that ability. So I like DeMarcus Walker
Speaker 4: because he's always chattering at practice and I like that
Speaker 4: kind of ankst that he creates, and he it's kind
Speaker 4: of an inks that it creates encouragement, and that's what
Speaker 4: I like about him. But you know, what he's able
Speaker 4: to do on the field, I think it's super helpful
Speaker 4: to the defense if you do have injuries, no matter
Speaker 4: inside or outside. He can fill the role effectively at
Speaker 4: each of those positions. And then I like a football attitude,
Speaker 4: and I think it's super important to have those guys
Speaker 4: on the team.
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Speaker 1: dipping in to what the week ahead lies. A short week,
Speaker 1: they're going to adjust the practice schedule accordingly and get
Speaker 1: ready for a Lions team That is kind of an
Speaker 1: interesting position. They're getting reevaluated by the analysts and experts
Speaker 1: out there on top. Are they really going to maintain
Speaker 1: their Super Bowl contending status given the degradation of a
Speaker 1: defense in particular has lost so many key players, and
Speaker 1: maybe arguably outside of Aiden Hudginson, one of the most
Speaker 1: valuable players in that team is David Montgomery. The mindset
Speaker 1: he brings and the toughness that this team is labeled with,
Speaker 1: that grit they talk about out for the year, Aleem McNeil,
Speaker 1: torres acl very good defensive tackle, out for the year,
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis has a chance to return, he's out on
Speaker 1: injury reserve, maybe able to return late. And then Koaldil
Speaker 1: Dorsey an underrated special teams player in corner. So are
Speaker 1: they positioned to whether that storm. Not that we really
Speaker 1: care because we're Bears fans, but going into this battle
Speaker 1: here in Chicago on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, you talk about a couple of key
Speaker 4: players that are going to miss the remainder at the time. Montgomery, McNeil,
Speaker 4: the just two guys. Now the guys that are standing
Speaker 4: in the line behind them, are they going to be
Speaker 4: able to withstand the increased role at this stage of
Speaker 4: the season because there's going to be more required of them.
Speaker 4: Jamar Gibbs, is he going to be able to take
Speaker 4: fifteen carries to thirty carries? Is the defensive tackle that's
Speaker 4: playing in a backup role part of a rotation as
Speaker 4: a defensive lineman, is he going to be able to
Speaker 4: go from fifteen reps to thirty five reps? And that's
Speaker 4: the uncertainty in the unknown when you have some of
Speaker 4: these replacements come in late in the season in their
Speaker 4: role is increased, but they're also at the downside of
Speaker 4: the physical approach that the season. You know, the physical
Speaker 4: toll that takes on all these guys, and that's yet
Speaker 4: to be seen. I was listening to an attitude with
Speaker 4: Dan Campbell and he's the guy that gets up to
Speaker 4: the mic and says, there are no excuses and we
Speaker 4: don't have We're not thinking anything less goal oriented than
Speaker 4: we were with every one of those guys. And that's
Speaker 4: the right message to send and get into your locker room.
Speaker 4: But you know you're taking a warm weather team. I
Speaker 4: almost said, but you're taking a team that plays a
Speaker 4: majority of his games indoors or in the warm weather.
Speaker 4: Now you're going to bring him out outdoors on a
Speaker 4: thirty degree day on natural grass. So there's a lot
Speaker 4: of evaluation that's going to go into this Detroit Lions team.
Speaker 4: And I'm excited to see the Bears take Soldier Field
Speaker 4: and see what they do to Detroit well.
Speaker 1: Crossing blue shield of Illinois right here at home, driving
Speaker 1: access toward healthier communities through it all, the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: put up five hundred and sixty two yards a total offense.
Speaker 1: Everybody is now giving the MVP to Josh Allen for
Speaker 1: that performance and what he's done all season long, eight
Speaker 1: point two yards per play, and they were forced to
Speaker 1: punt only one time. So that's what happens when you
Speaker 1: lose so many players on defense and so many game
Speaker 1: changers on that side of the ball. But we'll bring
Speaker 1: it to you a noon start from Soldier Field on
Speaker 1: ESPN one thousand of the Bears Radio Network time.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll be there early.
Speaker 4: As always, I'm you know what, I'm already jacked up
Speaker 4: for this game and I'm excited to talk about it
Speaker 4: later in the week with you because you know, the
Speaker 4: Bears have some work ahead of them. Detroit has them
Speaker 4: uncertainty ahead of them. But the Bears need to get
Speaker 4: back home, man. They need to get back home and
Speaker 4: do something exciting in front of their fans. Get the
Speaker 4: fans on their side immediately, and get this thing jacked
Speaker 4: up and going hip.
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