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Speaker 3: Well back together again with you tonight on Bears Weekly.
Speaker 3: Good to have you alongside the final week of the
Speaker 3: regular season with Super Bowl winning Bears.
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Speaker 3: and executive producer the Bears Radio Network, Eric Ostratski. Coming
Speaker 3: up an interview with Bears defensive tackle Jonavan Ford and
Speaker 3: coordinator Thursday Tommy Here in week eighteen.
Speaker 4: Some thoughts from the Big Three.
Speaker 3: Chris Beatty on the offensive side of court, Coach Washington
Speaker 3: on the defense of Richard high Tower on special teams.
Speaker 3: So a little bit everything as we preview the pack.
Speaker 3: You know, give me a couple of give me a story,
Speaker 3: Give me a story on a Bears packer. I mean,
Speaker 3: because they never get old. Give me something maybe you
Speaker 3: haven't said in a while. Give me one at Lambeau too.
Speaker 3: At Lambeau that's a lot of pressure. I wish he
Speaker 3: would have told me this this afternoon. Paid attention to
Speaker 3: the Notre Dame Georgia game.
Speaker 5: But listen, every every story about the Bears packers is unreal.
Speaker 5: It's like the first time that we were getting ready.
Speaker 5: We went to Lambeau Field knowing that William Perry was
Speaker 5: going to catch a pass and he was most likely
Speaker 5: going to catch a touchdown pass. He was inserted in
Speaker 5: the lineup a couple of times, so there's high expectations that.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a lead blocker. He could possibly
Speaker 2: carry the ball.
Speaker 5: But they didn't know what Ditka was willing to do
Speaker 5: with them next, and all of a sudden, here we
Speaker 5: are at Lambeau.
Speaker 2: Field in the in the red zone.
Speaker 5: Will William Perry, after the snap of the ball, he
Speaker 5: goes as if he's going to kick out the outside
Speaker 5: man on the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: The guy goes to take him on.
Speaker 5: William Perry kind of olays him, goes out there and
Speaker 5: makes a perfect catch for a touchdown, and just the
Speaker 5: stardom grew from there and he just became a.
Speaker 2: Bigger, one of the bigger personalities in the world.
Speaker 5: And you think of what this game, if you do
Speaker 5: something great in this game, it can.
Speaker 2: Do for you and your future.
Speaker 3: All right, let's think, all right, the one of the
Speaker 3: biggest hits, good or bad, that happened in a Bears
Speaker 3: pack that just I'm thinking remember Tim Harris. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think it was late eighties. There was a little something
Speaker 3: with you and the Packers. Well, Tim Harris wasn't a
Speaker 3: big hitter.
Speaker 5: He was a good sacker and he would come up
Speaker 5: and he would line up against you, and I just
Speaker 5: remember one game he had had got a couple of
Speaker 5: sacks already and he lined up across from me and
Speaker 5: he can, oh, you know, I haven't gotten a sack
Speaker 5: off of you yet.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go here.
Speaker 5: And he he kind of gives you a four warning beforehand,
Speaker 5: So now, alls you're doing okay.
Speaker 2: He's not an overpowering guy.
Speaker 5: So if you get your hands on him, then it
Speaker 5: you know, you can usually get him stopped and then
Speaker 5: be in control of the block. The funny thing was
Speaker 5: once we're in goal line, his shoe came off, and
Speaker 5: Jay picked up his shoe and he acted like he
Speaker 5: threw it in the stands, but he tucked it in
Speaker 5: the back of his pants. And Tim Harris was running
Speaker 5: around thinking that his shoe was in the stands and
Speaker 5: asking for them to return it.
Speaker 3: How about the Mkowski game? What do you remember?
Speaker 5: Oh, that was just a bad, bad time because that's
Speaker 5: the first time we got beat up in Lambeau and
Speaker 5: there was no replay back. Then Mkowski crossed the line
Speaker 5: of scrimmage, he threw a touchdown pass, we ended up
Speaker 5: getting beat and Dick could just treated us bad from
Speaker 5: the moment we walked in the locker room to watch
Speaker 5: him film the next.
Speaker 2: Day, and it, you know, was was not.
Speaker 5: A really good that the conclusion of that week and
Speaker 5: the week leading up to the next game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just reading about it from a Packer perspective.
Speaker 4: That was the instant replay game, right.
Speaker 3: Then enjoyed a winning season in seven years and that
Speaker 3: and beaten you guys in five So that was And
Speaker 3: Brian Noble, Yeah, mine bath for front of mine. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he is quoted as saying I'm overwhelmed with emotion. Guys
Speaker 3: were crying, Guys were screaming. I was crying and screaming,
Speaker 3: and we've been through these games and coming down to
Speaker 3: the wire like this one. We finally found ourselves, you know,
Speaker 3: on the winning end of it for a change, which
Speaker 3: is a lesson that can apply to today, because the
Speaker 3: Bears obviously have a long losing streak against the Packers,
Speaker 3: and by any means necessary Week eighteen, week one, it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. Hopefully they can feel some sense of victory
Speaker 3: in Green Bay on twelve o'clock kickoff time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Brian Noble is a good friend of mine.
Speaker 5: I met him when he was a freshman in college
Speaker 5: at Arizona State, and then he went on to play
Speaker 5: with the Packers.
Speaker 2: He got injured once in the Bears.
Speaker 5: Packer gave me he hurt his neck, and I went
Speaker 5: and knelt down next to him just to make sure
Speaker 5: that he was all right, you know, because sometimes you
Speaker 5: got to separate the humanality of the game from the
Speaker 5: the rivalry. And people were criticizing me for showing that
Speaker 5: type of compassion for a Packer.
Speaker 4: During the game, really.
Speaker 2: Barry yelling, I was.
Speaker 5: He was in the end zone and I and they
Speaker 5: were yelling from the stands.
Speaker 2: Get away from him, leave thelone.
Speaker 3: He's just a packer, you know, all right, right, so yeah, yeah, well, hey,
Speaker 3: the temperature runs hot in this thing.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: You know, the Packers, as we discussed in our podcast
Speaker 3: earlier today, You and I Bears podcast, you know the Packers,
Speaker 3: they're six or seven. It's a matter of, you know,
Speaker 3: if if they can figure out a way to win
Speaker 3: this game with whatever they're gonna choose to do with
Speaker 3: their players, starters, if they're gonna play a lot. Josh
Speaker 3: Jacobs keeps saying, it didn't think he's gonna get the
Speaker 3: ball much, you know, stuff like that. It's either going
Speaker 3: to be the Rams or it's going to be Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: So but we don't care about that. But I'm just
Speaker 4: I'm just saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, if you think the Green Bay Packers are
Speaker 5: going to be having this speech before the game of
Speaker 5: take it easy on the Bears and if you're not
Speaker 5: gonna play, just grab a warm glass of cider and
Speaker 5: sit there and enjoy the game.
Speaker 2: That's not the case because you just can't.
Speaker 5: Like Difka always used to say, and there's nothing more
Speaker 5: true about sports and especially football. He goes, you can't
Speaker 5: turn the switch off and then back on. Once you
Speaker 5: turn it off, it's over because you're not going to
Speaker 5: just be able to turn it turn it back on
Speaker 5: in a week. And you know that's the same thing
Speaker 5: about the way that these guys are preparing for this game,
Speaker 5: or that the Bears players should be prepared preparing for
Speaker 5: their opportunity time.
Speaker 3: Did you hear Caleb Williams yesterday Wednesday at a Hallis
Speaker 3: saw He had some really interesting comments to make about
Speaker 3: He was asked obviously about what he'd like to see
Speaker 3: as a coach and how his progression has happened the
Speaker 3: offensive line. Uh, let's listen into a chunk of that
Speaker 3: and get your reaction to some of it. Caleb Williams
Speaker 3: at the podium Wednesday at Hallis Hall.
Speaker 6: It's the challenges myself, whether his offense scording their head
Speaker 6: coach challenges myself but also challenges you know, us us
Speaker 6: as players.
Speaker 7: Whether it's on the field or character, doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: Just just just a coach that challenges us, A man
Speaker 6: of a man of his work.
Speaker 8: A.
Speaker 6: A discipline coach meaning whatever his rules are, you know,
Speaker 6: whatever you know, you know he's he's gonna bring rule
Speaker 6: wise or how he's gonna you know, control the team
Speaker 6: and and managing you know, control the team, things like that.
Speaker 7: Things like that, I would.
Speaker 6: Say, uh, you know, uh. Another one would be just
Speaker 6: a person, you know, a guy that wants to win
Speaker 6: and finding and helping and you know, finding ways and
Speaker 6: helping us players and helping coaches or whatever case was,
Speaker 6: to just you know, pull out wins throughout the season,
Speaker 6: whether it's a tough win or or we blow out somebody,
Speaker 6: you know, just just helping.
Speaker 7: Us and and and and and finding ways to win.
Speaker 9: Because I know a lot of times offensive coordinators some
Speaker 9: of them may have played the position, some of them not.
Speaker 9: Do you think there's a benefit for you having whether
Speaker 9: it's head coach, oh se whoever next year, like in
Speaker 9: your ear, somebody actually played the position.
Speaker 7: I think it's I think it's helpful.
Speaker 6: I mean, but if you're good at your job, you're
Speaker 6: good at your job. It doesn't matter, uh necessarily if
Speaker 6: you uh you know, you play quarterback, I think it
Speaker 6: helps because you just you've been in a multitude of
Speaker 6: different situations as a player and then being able to
Speaker 6: see it from a different lens. But if not then
Speaker 6: you know, as long as you're good at your job,
Speaker 6: demanding of us, and like I said, for a bunch
Speaker 6: of the qualities, I think, uh you know, I think
Speaker 6: you you fit the job and description and just find
Speaker 6: ways win games.
Speaker 10: Looking back on Thursday, of the sacks you took, which
Speaker 10: ones were would you take?
Speaker 7: Would you sit there and say that's my responsibility to not?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think throughout this throughout this year, there's been
Speaker 6: a there's been.
Speaker 7: A stupid excuse my language, but a.
Speaker 6: Stupid idea behind my offens a lineman, I will say
Speaker 6: that there's been Yes, everybody gives up sacks, everybody messes up,
Speaker 6: everybody missed the block, everybody drops a pass, everybody those
Speaker 6: pick I got six and I got a couple of
Speaker 6: fumbles and things like that.
Speaker 2: So you know, the.
Speaker 6: Connotation behind you know, my offensive line has been annoying
Speaker 6: and uh frustrating because uh you know, they worked there.
Speaker 6: They work their tail off to be able to go
Speaker 6: out there, and you know the guys that whether you know,
Speaker 6: guys are fighting injuries, whether guys can't play, and we
Speaker 6: got other guys stepping up at whether the guys you know,
Speaker 6: been playing the whole season and so you know, the
Speaker 6: the negative connotation behind them. Uh they come in here
Speaker 6: and work their boat off each each day and each week.
Speaker 6: And uh, you know I've taken I've taken sax yes,
Speaker 6: and and uh you know a good amount of been
Speaker 6: on me, whether it's a small you know, small things
Speaker 6: of getting the ball out of my hands and and
Speaker 6: you know, just maybe durting it, you know, maybe not
Speaker 6: trying to uh find the the you know, the perfect route,
Speaker 6: perfect play all of that for you know that that
Speaker 6: situation maybe is just throwing it thrown out of balance,
Speaker 6: durting it, uh, find the checkdown faster. And then and
Speaker 6: then the other one was just not trying to make
Speaker 6: plays all the time and understanding that.
Speaker 7: So, like I said, this, the the and.
Speaker 6: I don't misjudge words, Uh, the stupid connotation behind uh
Speaker 6: my offensive line being bad is is not the true
Speaker 6: I've taken a I've taken a good amount.
Speaker 7: Of sacks that have been on my fault, been my fault.
Speaker 6: And you know, and and and a couple uh throughout
Speaker 6: that last game we're mine, uh like the one and
Speaker 6: empty where I believe I'm trying to remember what number
Speaker 6: sacked me, but you know didn't make the easy you
Speaker 6: know flipper check, and uh that guy blitzed and tried
Speaker 6: to make a play and you know, and and took
Speaker 6: a sack instead of Okay, I messed up and uh
Speaker 6: didn't make the flipper check, throwed out of bounds over
Speaker 6: the due's head or over the the.
Speaker 7: Hot you know, the hot or check downs head.
Speaker 6: And so uh, you know it took a took a
Speaker 6: fourteen yard sack on that one, I think it was,
Speaker 6: and put.
Speaker 7: Us in a bad situation.
Speaker 6: So there's been many times this season where yes, you know,
Speaker 6: people have given up sacks. Sure, and then and then
Speaker 6: you know, myself is is completely a part of that.
Speaker 4: All right, So that's a chunk of it. Anyway, you
Speaker 4: know a lot.
Speaker 3: First of all, there's a lot on the plate obviously
Speaker 3: that he is explaining about what roocky quarterbacks do go
Speaker 3: through and so he'll conquer this over time. But overall,
Speaker 3: you know, he's doing what he as a team leader.
Speaker 3: He's taking responsibility also recognizing that these things have happened
Speaker 3: over the course of the season.
Speaker 5: First of all, the very first question they asked him
Speaker 5: about what he wanted a new coach. Now this is
Speaker 5: two players this week, both Kyler Gordon, Yeah, and Caleb
Speaker 5: that talk about accountability. They want to coach that holds
Speaker 5: these guys to a discipline standard of preparation. Interesting that
Speaker 5: two guys that are I think widely respected in the
Speaker 5: locker room kind of have the same answer for the
Speaker 5: offensive line question.
Speaker 2: That's not for Caleb to answer during the season.
Speaker 5: That's something that if he wants to reminisce or think
Speaker 5: or talk about during the offseason, then that's fine because
Speaker 5: when you talk about the offensive line this year year
Speaker 5: and the differences in the lineups and the player.
Speaker 2: Change and playing out a position, there's so.
Speaker 5: Many different factors that go into the performance of the
Speaker 5: offensive line, and that's not for that's not for Caleb
Speaker 5: to answer.
Speaker 3: All right, coming up next, Well, listen it to Chris Beatty,
Speaker 3: the Bears offensive.
Speaker 4: Coordinator, and you're fighting Irish victorious today, Tom.
Speaker 3: They knock off Georgia in a pretty convincing fashion and
Speaker 3: Marcus Freeman and company have not lost since the NIU upset.
Speaker 3: And just imagine how that would have looked if they
Speaker 3: managed to conquer that one. Because it's been they've been dominant.
Speaker 3: They've won by an average of twenty seven points a
Speaker 3: game since that loss, so state gratulations, just stay focused.
Speaker 4: All right, that's out there.
Speaker 3: I'm Jeff Joniek and this is Bears Weekly on the
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Speaker 3: Jeff and Tom with you as the Bears get ready
Speaker 3: to meet the Green Bay Packers. Chris Beatty, Bears offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: Of some things to say today, Tommy as a lot
Speaker 3: about Caleb Williams and putting it in some context given that,
Speaker 3: you know, he's a young man in a league where
Speaker 3: there's a whole mix of different types of quarterbacks, veterans
Speaker 3: and even the young guys who've played, you know, like
Speaker 3: he's gonna mention Bo Knicks, who played six years in
Speaker 3: college football.
Speaker 4: Let's listen in just on the maturation of a young quarterback.
Speaker 11: I do think there's some maturity that goes through the
Speaker 11: process of this. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: we're looking at it a couple of weeks ago, where
Speaker 11: Bo Knicks is twenty three or twenty four and Caleb
Speaker 11: is three years out. Those guys are six years in,
Speaker 11: you know, having played. So I do think there's some
Speaker 11: maturity things that way. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: I think stability is huge for everybody, you know, particularly
Speaker 11: the quarterback and him being not being exposed to as
Speaker 11: much as maybe Michael Pennix or some of those other guys,
Speaker 11: Bo Nicks and those guys.
Speaker 7: You know, those things do.
Speaker 11: Experiences everything, and so in his case, I think he's
Speaker 11: learning through this experience.
Speaker 10: What are the big things you think he needs that
Speaker 10: he can't improve on his own? Yeah, in this building
Speaker 10: us a couple of months.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think his footwork.
Speaker 11: Speeding up his footwork would help, you know, I think
Speaker 11: those things I think you know when you look at it,
Speaker 11: you know, like Patrick Mahomes gets so much depth away
Speaker 11: from the pocket and so and then he's able to
Speaker 11: step up where you know, I think Caleb hasn't learned
Speaker 11: yet that hey, we might need to get a little
Speaker 11: deeper in our drop to be able to step up
Speaker 11: and be able to hold the pocket in the middle.
Speaker 11: So sometimes he's stepping up on top of the lineman
Speaker 11: because it's all you know, those things that you learn
Speaker 11: through the process of experience. Again, I keep saying the
Speaker 11: same thing, but at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 11: I think those things I think getting with these guys.
Speaker 11: I talk to our guys in the receiver room. It's
Speaker 11: going to be important for the people that are back
Speaker 11: to be able to do those things in the off season,
Speaker 11: whether it's the OTAs everybody's showing up or the groups
Speaker 11: going out somewhere warm and practicing and getting their timing
Speaker 11: down and being able to see things the same. To
Speaker 11: your point, you know, we talked about that as far
Speaker 11: as we've got to make sure that we get to
Speaker 11: a level or you know that we all see first window,
Speaker 11: second window, third window the same and not see it
Speaker 11: differently based upon where we are in the offense or
Speaker 11: in our location. So I think those things would definitely
Speaker 11: help them. But I think the greatest thing for Caleb
Speaker 11: is the experience and being a little bit Now you
Speaker 11: sit back and you know that, hey, this is a
Speaker 11: little harder than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 11: I think we all go through that, like you know,
Speaker 11: we come in and we think we'll take this thing over,
Speaker 11: and then you get humbled. This league is humbling. It's
Speaker 11: like golf, you know, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: you want to learn how to to make sure you
Speaker 11: know my game is where it needs to be before
Speaker 11: I start getting mad at everybody else.
Speaker 7: So I think it's all a process.
Speaker 10: What do you appreciate about Keenan during the course of
Speaker 10: his career and even though it might not have kind
Speaker 10: of come.
Speaker 7: Off, Yeah, I mean, Keenan is a pros pro, you know.
Speaker 11: Like I said, I think he's you know, people pattern
Speaker 11: their game after him. It's amazing because I was in
Speaker 11: college and we would watch Keenan Allen cutups, and then
Speaker 11: the next thing, I'm in front of him coaching them,
Speaker 11: and I'm like, Okay, how am I going to tell
Speaker 11: this guy with how to run these routes when I've
Speaker 11: been teaching our guys off of his stuff. So, you know,
Speaker 11: but I appreciate Keenan more than I could really express
Speaker 11: because he's allowed me to coach him. You know, I
Speaker 11: think there's a lot of stars in this league that
Speaker 11: don't want to be coached, but then the great ones
Speaker 11: allow you to coach him and try to help make
Speaker 11: them better. So I appreciate that, and I think the
Speaker 11: fans should appreciate the fact that he gives everything he has.
Speaker 11: He sits back and coaches our guys, you know, as
Speaker 11: far as he has a meeting with all the skill
Speaker 11: guys on Thursdays to be able to just talk about
Speaker 11: it and see, hey, this is how we see it.
Speaker 7: Make sure the.
Speaker 11: Quarterback sees it the same, and we're all kind of
Speaker 11: seeing things the same, you know, because he's you know,
Speaker 11: Encyclopedia football.
Speaker 4: All right, it's a couple of interesting things there.
Speaker 3: Let's go back to the very beginning, because he said
Speaker 3: the magic word, and you know what it is regarding
Speaker 3: Caleb Tom and any young quarterback is just continuity consistency.
Speaker 3: You know, can't have a bunch of constant change because
Speaker 3: that's going to hurt any quarterback.
Speaker 5: Well, what he said, he says said there's nothing like experience,
Speaker 5: and that if you that's the whole thing that capitalizes
Speaker 5: what Caleb needs. And experience within the same system, experience
Speaker 5: within your protections, experience and understanding what you just said
Speaker 5: in the huddle and how it pertains to what you
Speaker 5: can do after the ball is snapped.
Speaker 2: And one thing about.
Speaker 5: It is, Caleb is if you want to you talk
Speaker 5: about a quarterback dropping deeper in the pocket, well you
Speaker 5: better know if your offensive tackles can sustain a one
Speaker 5: on one pass blocking assignment, so you can get deeper
Speaker 5: in the pocket, because if you get so deep in
Speaker 5: the pocket, you really open accessibility to the defensive ends
Speaker 5: to where you're setting up.
Speaker 2: So there's so many things you have to take into
Speaker 2: account of.
Speaker 5: Just oh, I got to get deeper. But yeah, both
Speaker 5: of my tackles are getting beat. And I'm not saying
Speaker 5: the Bears tackles. I'm just saying in terms of the
Speaker 5: protection a guy like Patrick Mahomes and stuff, because you know,
Speaker 5: he's been around the same system, the same terminology for
Speaker 5: quite a few years.
Speaker 3: And then a great point about Keenan Allen, because you know,
Speaker 3: these coaches are teaching guys who've been you know, all pros,
Speaker 3: and you know they are they willing to hear what
Speaker 3: a coach has to say. You know, it's it's very
Speaker 3: especially in young staffs. If you have a young coach
Speaker 3: that brings in a lot of young coaches, maybe some
Speaker 3: who have never played in the NFL, and you're you're
Speaker 3: teaching a guy that you know, it says a lot
Speaker 3: to me about the professionalism of Keenan Allen that he
Speaker 3: would take that coaching and he's turning it around and
Speaker 3: giving his knowledge to these guys once a week meeting
Speaker 3: with these skill position players.
Speaker 4: I think that's a pretty cool compl.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, But you know, it's also when you
Speaker 5: have guys like just Tyler Scott, for example, if you
Speaker 5: don't sit there and take and digest every single thing
Speaker 5: that's said by Keenan and DJ inside the meetings, or
Speaker 5: maybe they have some suggestions in a game plan against
Speaker 5: a certain coverage, or else they see a vulnerability of
Speaker 5: a defensive back that they can take advantage of. Those
Speaker 5: are the things that you want the young guys on
Speaker 5: your football team to take advantage of, as well as
Speaker 5: the teaching of the position coach that's making sure you
Speaker 5: understand all of your assignments and responsibility.
Speaker 3: Did you ever take anybody under your wing in your
Speaker 3: NFL career?
Speaker 4: Similarly, I didn't, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, when I was here where they
Speaker 5: drafted Jerry Fontina probably to come in and take my job,
Speaker 5: But then they ended up trading Jay to Cleveland and
Speaker 5: Jerry moved over to center. So then you start having
Speaker 5: more discussions about what can I do to help you
Speaker 5: and what can you do to help me? The same
Speaker 5: discussions that I when I start playing. You know, Jay
Speaker 5: was kind of filling me in of how I could
Speaker 5: help him, and you know the same discussions that you
Speaker 5: know Keith would tell me because he had so much expense.
Speaker 3: If you were a twelve year veteran, thirteen fourteen year veteran.
Speaker 4: Tack our guard tack or whatever.
Speaker 3: And the coach, Hey, Tom, you're a starter, but I
Speaker 3: need you to work with this guy behind you.
Speaker 4: I need you get him ready. What would Tom say?
Speaker 3: Because you know what you know, I'm putting on the
Speaker 3: spot because I kind of know your answer, I think,
Speaker 3: but no, you're you're you tell me, Okay.
Speaker 5: If I was making the money that the guys are
Speaker 5: making today, I would be more than happy to help
Speaker 5: a guy behind me. If I was trying to survive
Speaker 5: in the in the financial world like we had to
Speaker 5: back in the day, I would probably be a little
Speaker 5: bit more selfish because when guys came into the building,
Speaker 5: I didn't encourage them to come to the weight room
Speaker 5: with me every day and say, hey, let's go and
Speaker 5: get stronger, bigger, and faster so you can take my
Speaker 5: job a year or two sooner than you're going to Anyways,
Speaker 5: it's just kind of an odd combination back then to now.
Speaker 3: Well, and believe me, it has changed because even I
Speaker 3: remember guys here. I'm not going to name names, but
Speaker 3: guys would tell me from they come from other teams.
Speaker 3: They say, Man, nobody helped me as a rookie. They
Speaker 3: had they want, they'd be telling me the wrong information,
Speaker 3: not the right information, because they didn't want me to
Speaker 3: take their job. And and these players, and there was
Speaker 3: more than a handful that would I chose not to
Speaker 3: do that to the next game. I'm gonna help guys,
Speaker 3: And so it's a matter of perspectives on everything.
Speaker 5: I never I never relied on anybody to teach me
Speaker 5: the assignments.
Speaker 2: That was that I had to do myself.
Speaker 5: But you know, the watching a guy a specific technique,
Speaker 5: watching technique they are going to practice against a guy
Speaker 5: like Steve McMichael because ming's going full speed all the time,
Speaker 5: So you better be. You better practice at a pretty
Speaker 5: good tempo WHI else he's gonna make you.
Speaker 2: Work look worse than he already did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine that was some kind of an
Speaker 3: eye opener for a lot of guys.
Speaker 4: All right, coming up next.
Speaker 3: You know, we've been fortunate to have some conversations with
Speaker 3: with a lot of guys that don't get a ton
Speaker 3: of attention, and one of the new the newest, the
Speaker 3: newest defensive lineman on the team, Jonathan Ford, caught it
Speaker 3: enough to join us. We'll hear from him coming up
Speaker 3: next here on Bears Weekly with Tom Fair. I'm Jeff
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Speaker 3: Radio Network with Tom Fair. I'm Jeff Joniyak. Tom will
Speaker 3: be along just a moment. We've got one of the
Speaker 3: newer Bears, Jonathan Ford, joining us, a third year player
Speaker 3: out of the University of Miami. I'm gonna start right
Speaker 3: out of the gate. You're not gonna like this. I'm
Speaker 3: an Iowa State graduate. We got you by one, but
Speaker 3: it was reminded to me they took Cam out in
Speaker 3: the second half.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Did you watch the game?
Speaker 12: I watched it. It was hard to watch for a while.
Speaker 12: I mean, first half we came out, we were pretty good, yeah,
Speaker 12: but we just I wanted us to do a little
Speaker 12: more on defense, So that was hard to watch.
Speaker 4: But it was a fun game.
Speaker 12: Though. It was a real fun game, real fun game.
Speaker 12: Guys came to compete. I can't say that nobody got
Speaker 12: off the bus ready for the season to be over.
Speaker 12: Everybody was ready, ready to go, but I wanted us
Speaker 12: to get to win.
Speaker 3: So there's something about Miami guys. They stick together throughout
Speaker 3: their entire careers. I'm sure when you were there, all
Speaker 3: the guys come back, right. How cool is it to
Speaker 3: be a hurricane?
Speaker 4: Very cool?
Speaker 12: I mean just to see guys like ed Ree Jonathan
Speaker 12: Vilma every morning he's in the weight room working out.
Speaker 12: You got everybody that come back, Bryan McKinney, all these
Speaker 12: people that reach out to you on social media, whether
Speaker 12: they're in the building, whether you have their number. Like
Speaker 12: I could remember at the combine, I didn't know he
Speaker 12: was there. Reggie Wayne approached me. I didn't even know it.
Speaker 12: I didn't even know he knew me, but he approached
Speaker 12: me and told me I had a good day and
Speaker 12: just came to me as a hurricane, And I was
Speaker 12: like a special moment for me.
Speaker 3: So does it feel like a burst of confidence when
Speaker 3: they recognize this, you know, and you did it do
Speaker 3: a lot for you.
Speaker 12: It does. It does because I like, like I said,
Speaker 12: I didn't know he knew me, so when he approached me,
Speaker 12: it gave me that confidence, especially going out there to
Speaker 12: workout in front of the whole world at National Combat
Speaker 12: Scouting COMBA, and uh, it definitely did something to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd imagine you could pick up a lot of
Speaker 3: pointers from guys, especially the technique heavy positions offense, defensive line,
Speaker 3: like unlocking your hands or the slightest footwork. Did you
Speaker 3: get a lot of that instruction from just guys? Hey,
Speaker 3: you know I caught your act in this game and
Speaker 3: maybe try this or you know whatever, maybe in practice
Speaker 3: or something when they're watching.
Speaker 12: Yeah, more practice, mover practice. We have a Warren shot.
Speaker 12: One time he came in and critiqued us and everything
Speaker 12: and gave everybody pointers. It wasn't just really me, but
Speaker 12: it was more of as a defensive line like he
Speaker 12: was in the room telling us we were watching some
Speaker 12: of his old tape and he gave us some pointers
Speaker 12: and everything. Yeah, very animated dude, but good dude.
Speaker 3: And met ed Reid at Devin Hester's Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: induction over the summer, and boy, what a nice guy man.
Speaker 3: He he's the he's the youngest looking Wait no, he's
Speaker 3: the oldest looking young guy really, but what a player.
Speaker 12: He was a great dude as well. I can remember
Speaker 12: him in the locker room every day, you know, him
Speaker 12: telling us the little things that helped teams win championships,
Speaker 12: like cleaning up the locker room, like guys bonding outside,
Speaker 12: like he talked about the little things where it wasn't
Speaker 12: really all about football, because he knew you got to
Speaker 12: go out there and do your job and you have
Speaker 12: to play as a team. But he talked about the
Speaker 12: little things for us and he stretched that every day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, now you've been in the league for a few years,
Speaker 3: getting your most appreciable playing time obviously here with the Bears.
Speaker 2: Is he right?
Speaker 3: The little things matter on winning a snap or making
Speaker 3: it to the fifty three, or getting that opportunity and
Speaker 3: taking advantage of it.
Speaker 2: It does, It does.
Speaker 12: I think over these past few years for me, it's
Speaker 12: just been a learning experience for me as far as
Speaker 12: just learning how to be a pro. So me getting
Speaker 12: into the league and seeing guys that's been in the
Speaker 12: league for a few years or more years, more years
Speaker 12: than me just watching. I'm a big observer, so I
Speaker 12: watch everybody and I watch what people does do and
Speaker 12: that was something that helped me throughout the time in
Speaker 12: the league and helped me grow as a player, and
Speaker 12: also just taking it serious and going out there and
Speaker 12: playing as hard as I can.
Speaker 3: How hard has it been to wait your opportunity because
Speaker 3: you had two years on that practice squad with the Packers, yep,
Speaker 3: and then you know, we bring you here and you're
Speaker 3: leaving a playoff team to come here. You need playing time, right,
Speaker 3: you need for your long term career, You need playing
Speaker 3: time there?
Speaker 12: You do h It was very hard. I mean for
Speaker 12: the first year, you know, I felt like it was
Speaker 12: a learning year, so I didn't really stress about it
Speaker 12: as much. But the second year, I felt like I
Speaker 12: can go and I didn't get the opportunity being released
Speaker 12: and everything being on practice squad a whole nother year,
Speaker 12: so that that definitely took a toll on me over
Speaker 12: time mentally, especially this year. I think I have my
Speaker 12: best preseason, you know, coming into the season, and I
Speaker 12: ended up tweaking my calv so I ended up on
Speaker 12: the injury reserve. But when I got off, I felt
Speaker 12: like I was ready to go on ready to play,
Speaker 12: but I didn't. The opportunity wasn't presented to me at
Speaker 12: that time. But God is real, you know. He came
Speaker 12: and gave me an opportunity here, and I just had
Speaker 12: to take my opportunity and run with it.
Speaker 3: Well, you certainly have with Jonathan Ford, Bears defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: He's a big man. He's a big man. Right now,
Speaker 3: what are you tipping right now?
Speaker 12: The scale somewhere just heavy?
Speaker 3: But do you still feel good though you feel or
Speaker 3: would you like to be if the season were starting
Speaker 3: tomorrow all over again, you'd like to be be a
Speaker 3: little lighter or do you feel good at the way
Speaker 3: you're at?
Speaker 4: I feel good. I feel good.
Speaker 12: I see it is wrong for improvement with everything, you know,
Speaker 12: but I feel good. Feel like I'm shaping everything like that,
Speaker 12: and yeah, I feel good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how has the transition?
Speaker 3: Ben?
Speaker 4: Because you made an immediate impact?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you feel you on tape, You could feel your
Speaker 3: presence on tape.
Speaker 12: I think that was just all hunger and just me
Speaker 12: wanting to show and prove that I can play in
Speaker 12: this league, you know, like even you know my time
Speaker 12: in Green Bay, like I was told that I could
Speaker 12: play this league, but I didn't believe it for a
Speaker 12: while because of our contulities that wasn't presented at that time.
Speaker 12: So h me coming here, it was a smooth transition
Speaker 12: with the scheme and everything, and then with my mentality
Speaker 12: of just wanting to go out there and contribute with
Speaker 12: this defense and just help the team as much as
Speaker 12: I can.
Speaker 3: You know, it's the rare player that will be as
Speaker 3: honest as you just were, like, Okay, somebody drafted me.
Speaker 3: I don't care if I was unsigned. Somebody drafted me.
Speaker 3: They thought enough of me on my traits. But then
Speaker 3: if you don't get the opportunity, you start want well,
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe maybe it's not going to be
Speaker 3: for me, right, And so how challenging was that to
Speaker 3: try to get yourself mentally right to say, listen, man,
Speaker 3: I don't care what anybody.
Speaker 4: Else I know, I can do this.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it wasn't like throughout like my first few years
Speaker 12: of hard. But as I gotten to this point my
Speaker 12: third year, I kind of became mumb because I started
Speaker 12: to understand the business and understand how things work. So uh,
Speaker 12: it wasn't that hard for me. I just knew that
Speaker 12: I really don't have nothing to lose, but a lot
Speaker 12: to gain. We're just going out there and just giving
Speaker 12: everything I have and just putting it on tape.
Speaker 3: Uh. There's a guy on this team that I've become
Speaker 3: fond of, and it's Chris Williams, Bronx kid, tough as nails.
Speaker 3: You know, we just sat down recently and he said,
Speaker 3: I don't want the season, and like, you know a
Speaker 3: lot of guys, and it's been it's been.
Speaker 4: It's been hard. It's been a long season. But you
Speaker 4: know he shut like you.
Speaker 3: He just got his opportunity here and he's made plays.
Speaker 3: He's got three sacks and it's part of that rotation.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've befriended him at all or
Speaker 3: how that, but you guys strike me as maybe similar
Speaker 3: mentality about.
Speaker 4: This is that? Is that a fair statement? It is?
Speaker 12: It is? Because it's crazy that that was the guy
Speaker 12: who I chose to sit by in the mean room
Speaker 12: because he's quiet, guy observed like me and everything. But uh, Chris, Like,
Speaker 12: I remember talking to him one day and we were
Speaker 12: just talking about our journey and everything like that, and
Speaker 12: he was just like, man like, I'm not like, I'm
Speaker 12: not upset about nothing losing or anything. I'm just happy
Speaker 12: that this organization gave me opportunity. And I felt the
Speaker 12: same way, you know, when I got the call saying
Speaker 12: they wanted me to what they signed me here, I'm like, man,
Speaker 12: I don't care what the record is anything. I'm just
Speaker 12: like happy to have an opportunity here. So him like
Speaker 12: me and him like we we jailed on that, on that,
Speaker 12: on that type of time. And you know, once I
Speaker 12: got here.
Speaker 3: The interesting diversity in backgrounds because you know, he said, Hey,
Speaker 3: people don't even think there was football in New York City.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a Coney Island kid, you're Lauderdale football hotbed.
Speaker 3: I mean, have you guys chopped it up about some
Speaker 3: of those backgrounds.
Speaker 12: I try, I try to stay away from that car guys.
Speaker 12: Guys think Florida guys. It's just like cocky and everything.
Speaker 12: And we got it all that. Man, You're full of
Speaker 12: a lot of athletes in South Florida. So I mean
Speaker 12: with guys like uh, with guys liked Walk and BC,
Speaker 12: like we all talk about Florida guys, so we encow. Yeah,
Speaker 12: we talk about you know, the Florida just the pipeline
Speaker 12: of guys that comes out of Florida.
Speaker 3: So as in aside Hester, you know, he and I
Speaker 3: are closely relying aligned because of his success and me
Speaker 3: calling his plays. But so I did a story. I
Speaker 3: went down to Orlando where he lived, and he's coaching
Speaker 3: his son. And I'd never been to a youth football
Speaker 3: game in Florida. In Orlando is where it was. And
Speaker 3: I was taking a back.
Speaker 4: I was like, man, they are serious right here with
Speaker 4: these kids.
Speaker 3: The moms, the screaming, the yelling, where the they take
Speaker 3: it quite seriously. Uh, And everybody kept, hey, it's different here,
Speaker 3: and I you know, that's almost cliche, but I don't
Speaker 3: think it. It is different there, explain it from your
Speaker 3: perspective growing up in Why why at even that levels.
Speaker 4: It's so different.
Speaker 12: It's just the I would say, definitely backgrounds. You know,
Speaker 12: some some people that's all they got, Like that's that's
Speaker 12: all they have, just to just to get to the
Speaker 12: get to where they want to get in life. I
Speaker 12: mean also just growing up, that's all we do. We
Speaker 12: play football in the street, play football. Like me growing up,
Speaker 12: we played football on the basketball court. We play football
Speaker 12: in the streets. We play football on a grass field
Speaker 12: somewhere in the neighborhood and everything like, that's just what
Speaker 12: we we do down there. We love football. We always
Speaker 12: like that's that's the way we bond together. That's the
Speaker 12: way we come together with just sports and everything like that.
Speaker 12: And it's a lot of guys that's just natural athletes,
Speaker 12: you know that come from where I come from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but all right, I gotta cut it off there
Speaker 3: because we're running out of time in the segment big time.
Speaker 3: But I know you appreciate guys like that. Guys are
Speaker 3: just getting their opportunity. You can hear the hunger in
Speaker 3: his voice.
Speaker 2: That I hope is around here for a long time.
Speaker 5: And he's not going to be a guy that you're
Speaker 5: going to have to go and give an inspiring speech
Speaker 5: to him Sunday morning before the Packers games. He's going
Speaker 5: to be the guy that you want to sit around
Speaker 5: to realize the importance of what the moment is. I
Speaker 5: love these interviews when we get introduced to these guys
Speaker 5: that we don't know a lot about, because, like you said,
Speaker 5: you could hear it in his voice how important it
Speaker 5: is to him.
Speaker 3: What have you seen from him in the short time
Speaker 3: he's been here. Because as soon as he got out
Speaker 3: of the roster they put him in there, and you know,
Speaker 3: I think he's got eight or nine tackles in a
Speaker 3: couple of games here playing good defense up front.
Speaker 2: He one thing he reminds me of William Perry.
Speaker 5: William Perry had the innate ability to predict the snap
Speaker 5: count and he had an explosiveness that he could get
Speaker 5: off the ball that at times he was almost unblockable.
Speaker 5: And one thing about Jonathan Ford, he has the ability
Speaker 5: to be disciplined about not just off side, but being
Speaker 5: disciplined to explode when the ball is snapped. And that's
Speaker 5: what I'd like to see out of him. I do
Speaker 5: think he had one off side since he's been playing.
Speaker 5: But you can see that innate ability in him to
Speaker 5: understand that he's paying attention to the football.
Speaker 3: He's not listening to the quarterbacks. Cadence listed at three five,
Speaker 3: big deal. He's a big man, big big, heats up.
Speaker 3: He fills the doorway town. Yeah for sure, all right,
Speaker 3: we got to take a break.
Speaker 4: That's time there.
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Speaker 3: Jeff and Tom with you as the Bears get ready
Speaker 3: to meet the Green Bay Packers. Tom, anything you see
Speaker 3: on tape that they're doing better, worse, or the same
Speaker 3: since Week eleven, when the Bears lost by a single
Speaker 3: point to the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field.
Speaker 5: You know, there's nothing necessarily that stands out. But you know,
Speaker 5: Josh Jacobs, he good running back. I don't know if
Speaker 5: he's gonna play this Sunday. Jordan Love he is, uh,
Speaker 5: he has big play potential when he has all the
Speaker 5: receivers in place. Tucker Kraft is a good tight end.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's gonna play or nothdy. I
Speaker 5: know he had some it was ill. Maybe it was
Speaker 5: just a rest practice. But you know, it's more like
Speaker 5: on the defensive side of the ball, because we didn't
Speaker 5: know what was gonna happen when they hired a new
Speaker 5: defensive coordinator, if they were gonna take a step ahead
Speaker 5: or a step back and they're a little bit more
Speaker 5: unpredictable about the pressures.
Speaker 2: They want to bring. Even though they've had some key
Speaker 2: injuries on the defense.
Speaker 5: They still have a good variety of upfront packages that
Speaker 5: you better understand your assignments and how to fit your
Speaker 5: protection the best against them.
Speaker 3: Right, they take the ball away, that's for sure. They
Speaker 3: take a ball away. They're getting points in every imagine
Speaker 3: a way. They got seventy takeaway points. Uh, and it's
Speaker 3: it's it's it's been interesting to watch them. Half Lee,
Speaker 3: the defensive coordinator, has made an impact and, like you said.
Speaker 4: A little unpredictable. I don't know if he's gonna play either.
Speaker 3: Brenton Cox, he didn't play any snaps before Week eleven,
Speaker 3: and since that time, this defensive ent out of the
Speaker 3: University of Florida, undrafted last year, has four sacks, seven
Speaker 3: hits on the quarterback, five tackles for lof eight and
Speaker 3: a half Herry's force fumble, and he's making an impact. Well,
Speaker 3: he's he's a little banged up, but ever since they
Speaker 3: got rid of Preston Smith, he went in and he's
Speaker 3: been playing well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's the word that you always use.
Speaker 5: How do you deploy your assets and they put him
Speaker 5: in position to get into a winning rush or you know,
Speaker 5: at the right down and distance where they give him
Speaker 5: the opportunity.
Speaker 2: So it is, you know, his how how deployable he is.
Speaker 3: And the other guy that's playing really well is the
Speaker 3: their top pick, linebacker Edgerrin Cooper. He's he's he's going
Speaker 3: to be a problem in years to come.
Speaker 4: He's very active.
Speaker 3: Bears defensive coordinator Eric Washington on Jalen Johnson named to
Speaker 3: his second consecutive Pro Bowl.
Speaker 8: It's a job by him. Really excited for him and
Speaker 8: our defense and well deserved and just really excited for
Speaker 8: him and proud of it.
Speaker 3: Eric, What do you want to see out of your
Speaker 3: group in this last game against Green pay A Lambofield.
Speaker 8: The same thing we saw last week. I wanted to
Speaker 8: play with passion, with intensity. I want to be situationally smart.
Speaker 8: I want us to limit their rushing attack and just
Speaker 8: play with the kind of the executioner we saw the
Speaker 8: other night against Seattle.
Speaker 6: Where are you some us growth from Jami next year?
Speaker 8: This year, well, his rush production has really picked up
Speaker 8: and he's been impactful as a rusher and he's also
Speaker 8: been able to finish against the quarterback, and I think
Speaker 8: that was a targeted area for him. And there's a
Speaker 8: lot more to gain as he continues to work and
Speaker 8: to get better and to get stronger and all the
Speaker 8: things that you want to see in terms.
Speaker 7: Of his growth. What have you seen in Jordan Love
Speaker 7: in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: Since you faced the last Yeah, Well, the accuracy is
Speaker 8: really there.
Speaker 7: He's not missing a lot of targets.
Speaker 8: He knows where he wants to go with the football,
Speaker 8: he's diagnosing the coverages, he's going to his secondary targets,
Speaker 8: and he's really taking care of the football. They have
Speaker 8: not turned the ball over a lot in the last
Speaker 8: two or three weeks.
Speaker 3: Yep, six straight games without an interception for the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Jordan Love the rare team town that runs the ball
Speaker 3: more on a percentage basis than they do passing the football,
Speaker 3: and on first down they run it sixty two percent
Speaker 3: of the time. That's right there at the top of
Speaker 3: the league. So I expect them to run the ball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so do Why but Seattle ran the ball a
Speaker 5: lot last week and the Bears only ended up giving
Speaker 5: up six points to Seattle, and they had dynamic receivers
Speaker 5: like green Bay. They had a you know, Gino Smith
Speaker 5: playing quarterback. Jordan Love is a younger version. So if
Speaker 5: Eric can get his defense to put the same performance
Speaker 5: out there and hold Green Bay to six points at home,
Speaker 5: this is a game that the Bears should win. So
Speaker 5: it's a lot of disappointment leaving that stadium with the
Speaker 5: Bears losing six to three. But I want to see
Speaker 5: the same performance by the Bears defense and the Bears
Speaker 5: walk out of there with more points than six.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Bears still allowing the fourth fewest points in the second
Speaker 3: half in overtime this season, one hundred and forty two.
Speaker 3: That is right there behind the Green Bay Packers at
Speaker 3: number four. The Packers are number three. They've only allowed
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty so points. It's going to be
Speaker 3: a top one way or another. They score a lot.
Speaker 3: Bears have been stingy, and let's see what happens. We've
Speaker 3: gotta take one more break.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the temperatures will invite some type of
Speaker 5: weird turnover one way or the other.
Speaker 4: All right, a bouncing ball. We'll follow it with out there.
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Speaker 13: He's really helped our football team in a major way.
Speaker 13: And I think people can agree to disagree on the pick,
Speaker 13: but I think the pick was outstanding and phenomenal. The
Speaker 13: way he's helped our football team, A lot of people
Speaker 13: can't tell because you really have to study it. You
Speaker 13: really have to know how that helps the defense, how
Speaker 13: it helps the offense, how it helps everyone. When you
Speaker 13: got somebody that can flip the field position that on
Speaker 13: a consistent basis, it's.
Speaker 9: A game changer.
Speaker 13: And a lot of other coordinators and a lot of
Speaker 13: other people talk to me about it pregame all the time,
Speaker 13: like that dude is a dude and he's going to
Speaker 13: be a dude for a long time, and he's just
Speaker 13: a baby right now learning how to play. So it's
Speaker 13: for him, it's one game at a time.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 13: And I want to see him. I want to see
Speaker 13: him performing. I'm challenging his behind to perform in this weather.
Speaker 13: So that's what I want to see from him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the weather is, like you indicate, it's going
Speaker 3: to be a little different there in Lambeaull Little Chilli.
Speaker 5: Well, you got to make sure that first of all,
Speaker 5: it's ball security, whether you're a quarterback taking a shotgun
Speaker 5: snap or a punter taking a long snap. And you
Speaker 5: got and say you're backed up a little bit, so
Speaker 5: you know there's going to be a little bit quicker
Speaker 5: pressure provided. So you just have to make sure that
Speaker 5: you pay attention to details because it is his first
Speaker 5: time up there and the conditions are not going to
Speaker 5: be favorable from the crowd out of the field.
Speaker 3: All Right, we got thirty seconds. What your biggest key
Speaker 3: to the game for the Bears to end the season
Speaker 3: on a high note here?
Speaker 2: A vertical passing game.
Speaker 5: I you know, I'm not frustrated with the horizontal passing game,
Speaker 5: but I think they have the people in place that
Speaker 5: they can be more threat vertically and see if they
Speaker 5: can get one of those chunk plays or scoring plays.
Speaker 4: All right, Tom, that's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 3: Special thanks to Bears defensive tackle Jonathan Ford, the executive
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Speaker 4: Sure for tent there, I'm Jeff Joniak.
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