WEBVTT - Catching up with Jonathan Ford | Bears Weekly 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:04.920 Welcome in to Bears Weekly, powered by IGS Energy by 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.840 Chicago Bears Network Production. Bears Weekly is brought to you 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.719 by Advocate Healthcare. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.120 Athletico Physical Apparently, cd. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.640 Gwany, Connie's Pizza, IGS Energy. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:17.600 And Mener Liked. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.640 Here are your hosts, Jeff Chiliac, aka the Mayor of 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:25.439 Bearsville and his sidekick Tom the Surfmaster Thayers. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.720 Well back together again with you tonight on Bears Weekly. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.880 Good to have you alongside the final week of the 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:33.800 regular season with Super Bowl winning Bears. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.040 Guard top that Ray. I'm Jeff Joniac justin Potting. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.040 You're handling the controls at our ESPN studios thanks to 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.640 our producers Dan Brilly and Jordan Treda from the Bears 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.440 and executive producer the Bears Radio Network, Eric Ostratski. Coming 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.760 up an interview with Bears defensive tackle Jonavan Ford and 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.240 coordinator Thursday Tommy Here in week eighteen. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.360 Some thoughts from the Big Three. 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.720 Chris Beatty on the offensive side of court, Coach Washington 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.080 on the defense of Richard high Tower on special teams. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.560 So a little bit everything as we preview the pack. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.200 You know, give me a couple of give me a story, 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.640 Give me a story on a Bears packer. I mean, 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.920 because they never get old. Give me something maybe you 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.200 haven't said in a while. Give me one at Lambeau too. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.560 At Lambeau that's a lot of pressure. I wish he 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.760 would have told me this this afternoon. Paid attention to 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.199 the Notre Dame Georgia game. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:26.120 But listen, every every story about the Bears packers is unreal. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.600 It's like the first time that we were getting ready. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.640 We went to Lambeau Field knowing that William Perry was 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.920 going to catch a pass and he was most likely 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.520 going to catch a touchdown pass. He was inserted in 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.959 the lineup a couple of times, so there's high expectations that. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.280 He's going to be a lead blocker. He could possibly 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:43.040 carry the ball. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.560 But they didn't know what Ditka was willing to do 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.720 with them next, and all of a sudden, here we 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:48.880 are at Lambeau. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.720 Field in the in the red zone. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.040 Will William Perry, after the snap of the ball, he 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.160 goes as if he's going to kick out the outside 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.480 man on the line of scrimmage. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.320 The guy goes to take him on. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.880 William Perry kind of olays him, goes out there and 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.079 makes a perfect catch for a touchdown, and just the 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.080 stardom grew from there and he just became a. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.760 Bigger, one of the bigger personalities in the world. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.440 And you think of what this game, if you do 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.840 something great in this game, it can. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.359 Do for you and your future. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.120 All right, let's think, all right, the one of the 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.960 biggest hits, good or bad, that happened in a Bears 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.920 pack that just I'm thinking remember Tim Harris. Yeah, I 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.040 think it was late eighties. There was a little something 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.360 with you and the Packers. Well, Tim Harris wasn't a 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:40.880 big hitter. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.640 He was a good sacker and he would come up 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.680 and he would line up against you, and I just 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.760 remember one game he had had got a couple of 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.560 sacks already and he lined up across from me and 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.880 he can, oh, you know, I haven't gotten a sack 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:55.679 off of you yet. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.040 I think I'm gonna go here. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.520 And he he kind of gives you a four warning beforehand, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.079 So now, alls you're doing okay. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.080 He's not an overpowering guy. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.040 So if you get your hands on him, then it 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.799 you know, you can usually get him stopped and then 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.720 be in control of the block. The funny thing was 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.400 once we're in goal line, his shoe came off, and 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.760 Jay picked up his shoe and he acted like he 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.560 threw it in the stands, but he tucked it in 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:27.680 the back of his pants. And Tim Harris was running 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.360 around thinking that his shoe was in the stands and 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.920 asking for them to return it. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.760 How about the Mkowski game? What do you remember? 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.560 Oh, that was just a bad, bad time because that's 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.840 the first time we got beat up in Lambeau and 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.000 there was no replay back. Then Mkowski crossed the line 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.120 of scrimmage, he threw a touchdown pass, we ended up 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:56.680 getting beat and Dick could just treated us bad from 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.840 the moment we walked in the locker room to watch 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.920 him film the next. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.840 Day, and it, you know, was was not. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:07.840 A really good that the conclusion of that week and 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.880 the week leading up to the next game. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.240 Yeah, I'm just reading about it from a Packer perspective. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.520 That was the instant replay game, right. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.680 Then enjoyed a winning season in seven years and that 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.560 and beaten you guys in five So that was And 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.520 Brian Noble, Yeah, mine bath for front of mine. Yeah, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.479 he is quoted as saying I'm overwhelmed with emotion. Guys 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.280 were crying, Guys were screaming. I was crying and screaming, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.120 and we've been through these games and coming down to 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:41.120 the wire like this one. We finally found ourselves, you know, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.400 on the winning end of it for a change, which 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.719 is a lesson that can apply to today, because the 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.719 Bears obviously have a long losing streak against the Packers, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.400 and by any means necessary Week eighteen, week one, it 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.360 doesn't matter. Hopefully they can feel some sense of victory 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.960 in Green Bay on twelve o'clock kickoff time. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:03.960 Yeah, you know, Brian Noble is a good friend of mine. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.839 I met him when he was a freshman in college 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.039 at Arizona State, and then he went on to play 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:08.679 with the Packers. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.440 He got injured once in the Bears. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.680 Packer gave me he hurt his neck, and I went 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.440 and knelt down next to him just to make sure 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.760 that he was all right, you know, because sometimes you 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.479 got to separate the humanality of the game from the 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:27.840 the rivalry. And people were criticizing me for showing that 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.440 type of compassion for a Packer. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.080 During the game, really. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:34.800 Barry yelling, I was. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.040 He was in the end zone and I and they 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.040 were yelling from the stands. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.640 Get away from him, leave thelone. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:46.120 He's just a packer, you know, all right, right, so yeah, yeah, well, hey, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.360 the temperature runs hot in this thing. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:49.000 So I don't know. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.719 You know, the Packers, as we discussed in our podcast 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.960 earlier today, You and I Bears podcast, you know the Packers, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.920 they're six or seven. It's a matter of, you know, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.839 if if they can figure out a way to win 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.880 this game with whatever they're gonna choose to do with 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.159 their players, starters, if they're gonna play a lot. Josh 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:08.880 Jacobs keeps saying, it didn't think he's gonna get the 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.599 ball much, you know, stuff like that. It's either going 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.400 to be the Rams or it's going to be Philadelphia. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.280 So but we don't care about that. But I'm just 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:19.200 I'm just saying. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.560 Yeah, listen, if you think the Green Bay Packers are 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.120 going to be having this speech before the game of 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.000 take it easy on the Bears and if you're not 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.400 gonna play, just grab a warm glass of cider and 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.480 sit there and enjoy the game. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.960 That's not the case because you just can't. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.640 Like Difka always used to say, and there's nothing more 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.520 true about sports and especially football. He goes, you can't 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.479 turn the switch off and then back on. Once you 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.320 turn it off, it's over because you're not going to 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.240 just be able to turn it turn it back on 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.200 in a week. And you know that's the same thing 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.359 about the way that these guys are preparing for this game, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.200 or that the Bears players should be prepared preparing for 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.560 their opportunity time. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.200 Did you hear Caleb Williams yesterday Wednesday at a Hallis 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.000 saw He had some really interesting comments to make about 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.680 He was asked obviously about what he'd like to see 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.320 as a coach and how his progression has happened the 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.280 offensive line. Uh, let's listen into a chunk of that 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.320 and get your reaction to some of it. Caleb Williams 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.920 at the podium Wednesday at Hallis Hall. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.920 It's the challenges myself, whether his offense scording their head 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.080 coach challenges myself but also challenges you know, us us 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:27.640 as players. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.040 Whether it's on the field or character, doesn't matter. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:37.360 Just just just a coach that challenges us, A man 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:38.600 of a man of his work. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.600 A. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:47.800 A discipline coach meaning whatever his rules are, you know, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.680 whatever you know, you know he's he's gonna bring rule 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.040 wise or how he's gonna you know, control the team 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.480 and and managing you know, control the team, things like that. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.440 Things like that, I would. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:02.520 Say, uh, you know, uh. Another one would be just 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.000 a person, you know, a guy that wants to win 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.640 and finding and helping and you know, finding ways and 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.840 helping us players and helping coaches or whatever case was, 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.840 to just you know, pull out wins throughout the season, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.240 whether it's a tough win or or we blow out somebody, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.200 you know, just just helping. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.120 Us and and and and and finding ways to win. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.160 Because I know a lot of times offensive coordinators some 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.280 of them may have played the position, some of them not. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.480 Do you think there's a benefit for you having whether 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.800 it's head coach, oh se whoever next year, like in 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.720 your ear, somebody actually played the position. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.120 I think it's I think it's helpful. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.240 I mean, but if you're good at your job, you're 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.360 good at your job. It doesn't matter, uh necessarily if 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.960 you uh you know, you play quarterback, I think it 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.000 helps because you just you've been in a multitude of 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.839 different situations as a player and then being able to 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.600 see it from a different lens. But if not then 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.720 you know, as long as you're good at your job, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.680 demanding of us, and like I said, for a bunch 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.040 of the qualities, I think, uh you know, I think 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.800 you you fit the job and description and just find 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:03.480 ways win games. 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.280 Looking back on Thursday, of the sacks you took, which 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.000 ones were would you take? 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.800 Would you sit there and say that's my responsibility to not? 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.800 Yeah, I think throughout this throughout this year, there's been 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.559 a there's been. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.520 A stupid excuse my language, but a. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:30.880 Stupid idea behind my offens a lineman, I will say 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:35.360 that there's been Yes, everybody gives up sacks, everybody messes up, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.400 everybody missed the block, everybody drops a pass, everybody those 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.760 pick I got six and I got a couple of 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:41.720 fumbles and things like that. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.840 So you know, the. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.800 Connotation behind you know, my offensive line has been annoying 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.000 and uh frustrating because uh you know, they worked there. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:54.640 They work their tail off to be able to go 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.280 out there, and you know the guys that whether you know, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.000 guys are fighting injuries, whether guys can't play, and we 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.200 got other guys stepping up at whether the guys you know, 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.439 been playing the whole season and so you know, the 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.400 the negative connotation behind them. Uh they come in here 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.520 and work their boat off each each day and each week. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.560 And uh, you know I've taken I've taken sax yes, 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.640 and and uh you know a good amount of been 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:24.080 on me, whether it's a small you know, small things 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.400 of getting the ball out of my hands and and 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.199 you know, just maybe durting it, you know, maybe not 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.160 trying to uh find the the you know, the perfect route, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.040 perfect play all of that for you know that that 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.679 situation maybe is just throwing it thrown out of balance, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:45.160 durting it, uh, find the checkdown faster. And then and 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.120 then the other one was just not trying to make 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.600 plays all the time and understanding that. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.040 So, like I said, this, the the and. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:57.600 I don't misjudge words, Uh, the stupid connotation behind uh 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.000 my offensive line being bad is is not the true 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.760 I've taken a I've taken a good amount. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.600 Of sacks that have been on my fault, been my fault. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:10.120 And you know, and and and a couple uh throughout 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.480 that last game we're mine, uh like the one and 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.720 empty where I believe I'm trying to remember what number 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.040 sacked me, but you know didn't make the easy you 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.320 know flipper check, and uh that guy blitzed and tried 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.160 to make a play and you know, and and took 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.840 a sack instead of Okay, I messed up and uh 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.640 didn't make the flipper check, throwed out of bounds over 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.680 the due's head or over the the. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.559 Hot you know, the hot or check downs head. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.280 And so uh, you know it took a took a 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.320 fourteen yard sack on that one, I think it was, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:43.360 and put. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:44.079 Us in a bad situation. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.439 So there's been many times this season where yes, you know, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.360 people have given up sacks. Sure, and then and then 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.839 you know, myself is is completely a part of that. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.840 All right, So that's a chunk of it. Anyway, you 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.120 know a lot. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.679 First of all, there's a lot on the plate obviously 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.080 that he is explaining about what roocky quarterbacks do go 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.840 through and so he'll conquer this over time. But overall, 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.720 you know, he's doing what he as a team leader. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.800 He's taking responsibility also recognizing that these things have happened 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:16.760 over the course of the season. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.080 First of all, the very first question they asked him 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:21.920 about what he wanted a new coach. Now this is 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:26.880 two players this week, both Kyler Gordon, Yeah, and Caleb 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.120 that talk about accountability. They want to coach that holds 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:37.120 these guys to a discipline standard of preparation. Interesting that 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.160 two guys that are I think widely respected in the 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.720 locker room kind of have the same answer for the 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:45.959 offensive line question. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.000 That's not for Caleb to answer during the season. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.080 That's something that if he wants to reminisce or think 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:57.280 or talk about during the offseason, then that's fine because 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.240 when you talk about the offensive line this year year 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.880 and the differences in the lineups and the player. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.520 Change and playing out a position, there's so. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:10.600 Many different factors that go into the performance of the 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.520 offensive line, and that's not for that's not for Caleb 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.080 to answer. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.640 All right, coming up next, Well, listen it to Chris Beatty, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.120 the Bears offensive. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.320 Coordinator, and you're fighting Irish victorious today, Tom. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.280 They knock off Georgia in a pretty convincing fashion and 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.520 Marcus Freeman and company have not lost since the NIU upset. 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.480 And just imagine how that would have looked if they 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.520 managed to conquer that one. Because it's been they've been dominant. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.160 They've won by an average of twenty seven points a 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.839 game since that loss, so state gratulations, just stay focused. 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:40.920 All right, that's out there. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.360 I'm Jeff Joniek and this is Bears Weekly on the 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.160 ESPN one thousand of the Bears Radio Network, and this 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.200 segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you by Igs Energy. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.080 Jeff and Tom with you as the Bears get ready 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:57.480 to meet the Green Bay Packers. Chris Beatty, Bears offensive coordinator. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.160 Of some things to say today, Tommy as a lot 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.880 about Caleb Williams and putting it in some context given that, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.880 you know, he's a young man in a league where 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.720 there's a whole mix of different types of quarterbacks, veterans 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.880 and even the young guys who've played, you know, like 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.920 he's gonna mention Bo Knicks, who played six years in 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:16.640 college football. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.640 Let's listen in just on the maturation of a young quarterback. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.040 I do think there's some maturity that goes through the 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.360 process of this. And at the end of the day, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.040 we're looking at it a couple of weeks ago, where 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:33.040 Bo Knicks is twenty three or twenty four and Caleb 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.680 is three years out. Those guys are six years in, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.520 you know, having played. So I do think there's some 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.240 maturity things that way. But at the end of the day, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.680 I think stability is huge for everybody, you know, particularly 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.800 the quarterback and him being not being exposed to as 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.000 much as maybe Michael Pennix or some of those other guys, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.440 Bo Nicks and those guys. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:55.640 You know, those things do. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.640 Experiences everything, and so in his case, I think he's 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.400 learning through this experience. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.400 What are the big things you think he needs that 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.000 he can't improve on his own? Yeah, in this building 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.360 us a couple of months. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.760 Yeah, I think his footwork. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.080 Speeding up his footwork would help, you know, I think 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.640 those things I think you know when you look at it, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.600 you know, like Patrick Mahomes gets so much depth away 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.560 from the pocket and so and then he's able to 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.280 step up where you know, I think Caleb hasn't learned 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:25.800 yet that hey, we might need to get a little 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.840 deeper in our drop to be able to step up 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.160 and be able to hold the pocket in the middle. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.960 So sometimes he's stepping up on top of the lineman 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.040 because it's all you know, those things that you learn 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.840 through the process of experience. Again, I keep saying the 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.600 same thing, but at the end of the day, you know, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.760 I think those things I think getting with these guys. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.640 I talk to our guys in the receiver room. It's 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.120 going to be important for the people that are back 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.400 to be able to do those things in the off season, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.440 whether it's the OTAs everybody's showing up or the groups 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.400 going out somewhere warm and practicing and getting their timing 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.000 down and being able to see things the same. To 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.640 your point, you know, we talked about that as far 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.840 as we've got to make sure that we get to 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.360 a level or you know that we all see first window, 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.040 second window, third window the same and not see it 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.840 differently based upon where we are in the offense or 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.360 in our location. So I think those things would definitely 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.040 help them. But I think the greatest thing for Caleb 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.120 is the experience and being a little bit Now you 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.080 sit back and you know that, hey, this is a 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:32.840 little harder than I thought it was going to be. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.480 I think we all go through that, like you know, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.120 we come in and we think we'll take this thing over, 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.360 and then you get humbled. This league is humbling. It's 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.720 like golf, you know, and at the end of the day, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.040 you want to learn how to to make sure you 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.120 know my game is where it needs to be before 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.880 I start getting mad at everybody else. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.360 So I think it's all a process. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.480 What do you appreciate about Keenan during the course of 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.680 his career and even though it might not have kind 0:16:59.680 --> 0:16:59.960 of come. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.159 Off, Yeah, I mean, Keenan is a pros pro, you know. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.720 Like I said, I think he's you know, people pattern 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.719 their game after him. It's amazing because I was in 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.320 college and we would watch Keenan Allen cutups, and then 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.240 the next thing, I'm in front of him coaching them, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.360 and I'm like, Okay, how am I going to tell 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.240 this guy with how to run these routes when I've 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.919 been teaching our guys off of his stuff. So, you know, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.440 but I appreciate Keenan more than I could really express 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.960 because he's allowed me to coach him. You know, I 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.000 think there's a lot of stars in this league that 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.600 don't want to be coached, but then the great ones 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.719 allow you to coach him and try to help make 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.480 them better. So I appreciate that, and I think the 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.200 fans should appreciate the fact that he gives everything he has. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.239 He sits back and coaches our guys, you know, as 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.080 far as he has a meeting with all the skill 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.520 guys on Thursdays to be able to just talk about 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.520 it and see, hey, this is how we see it. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:55.320 Make sure the. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.200 Quarterback sees it the same, and we're all kind of 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.160 seeing things the same, you know, because he's you know, 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:03.600 Encyclopedia football. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.159 All right, it's a couple of interesting things there. 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:07.920 Let's go back to the very beginning, because he said 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.000 the magic word, and you know what it is regarding 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.840 Caleb Tom and any young quarterback is just continuity consistency. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:20.080 You know, can't have a bunch of constant change because 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:21.400 that's going to hurt any quarterback. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.600 Well, what he said, he says said there's nothing like experience, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.880 and that if you that's the whole thing that capitalizes 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:34.200 what Caleb needs. And experience within the same system, experience 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:38.360 within your protections, experience and understanding what you just said 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.720 in the huddle and how it pertains to what you 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.200 can do after the ball is snapped. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.080 And one thing about. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.880 It is, Caleb is if you want to you talk 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.639 about a quarterback dropping deeper in the pocket, well you 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.840 better know if your offensive tackles can sustain a one 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.760 on one pass blocking assignment, so you can get deeper 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.159 in the pocket, because if you get so deep in 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.600 the pocket, you really open accessibility to the defensive ends 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:04.840 to where you're setting up. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.000 So there's so many things you have to take into 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:07.840 account of. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.440 Just oh, I got to get deeper. But yeah, both 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.600 of my tackles are getting beat. And I'm not saying 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.359 the Bears tackles. I'm just saying in terms of the 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.520 protection a guy like Patrick Mahomes and stuff, because you know, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.359