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Speaker 1: I am Jeff Jonihaclitz is not Donny go us. What
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Speaker 1: About a half hour outside of downtown Indianapolis, in the
Speaker 1: suburb of Carmel, Indiana, at Westfield, a nice practice field
Speaker 1: with the Bears in Indianapolis Colts to get the week underway.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniak along with Tom Thayer wrapping up what
Speaker 1: was a very entertaining practice on a gorgeous night here
Speaker 1: in Indiana. Mild temperature, sunny skies, and a big crowd
Speaker 1: I believe to be around eight thousand people. This is
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Speaker 1: Time Chicago. I happened to ride on the bus back
Speaker 1: time drove back because I needed to listen to some
Speaker 1: of the news conferences. But I was on the bus
Speaker 1: with the players and I gotta tell you, man, they
Speaker 1: were funny on the bus. They enjoyed it. I think
Speaker 1: it was the perfect time for them to have this
Speaker 1: kind of practice, and I think Cole Combet said it
Speaker 1: in the postgame interviews post practice interviews, and it was
Speaker 1: just it felt like real football, and it was a
Speaker 1: great night and energy was very high.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, but it's all in the setup. It's
Speaker 3: a great facility. There's enough area of space for both
Speaker 3: teams to get done what they need to get done.
Speaker 3: And then the practices were physical, they are fast, they
Speaker 3: are exciting. They got a lot of good work done.
Speaker 3: The crowd responded in every way, shape or form they could.
Speaker 3: The weather conditions were perfect, the field conditions were perfect.
Speaker 3: So I will say of the ten or fifteen joint
Speaker 3: practices I've ever been to in my career, this was
Speaker 3: probably the most efficient run. But there was physical that
Speaker 3: didn't didn't erupt into fights. It was a physical play
Speaker 3: here or there, and yeah, you'd hear a little bit
Speaker 3: of John going on, but it didn't take away from
Speaker 3: the practice and it was not distract.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because obviously a game starts with
Speaker 1: a special Teams play with the opening kickoff, and so
Speaker 1: when they got to the special teams period, sure enough,
Speaker 1: this is when it starts. You hear the John, and
Speaker 1: you know that group kind of sets a tone. It's
Speaker 1: an agitated group. I don't care when they practiced, but boy,
Speaker 1: they were loud on both sides and nobody was backing
Speaker 1: down just a little John for the fun of it.
Speaker 2: But didn't you get a kick out of that though?
Speaker 2: But you know, so I was caught.
Speaker 3: I was talking to coach High Tower on the field
Speaker 3: and I was talking to him about the training camp
Speaker 3: practices at Hallas Hall, how the Special Teams they start
Speaker 3: the practice and he says, I feel responsible for getting
Speaker 3: the momentum of the practice pointed in the right direction.
Speaker 3: And I think it was a great point by him,
Speaker 3: because you know, special teams a lot of times they.
Speaker 2: Get over looked.
Speaker 3: But those are the guys that are looking to make
Speaker 3: the team. They're looking to make an influence or an
Speaker 3: impression on their coach. And I think that the way
Speaker 3: the Special Teams went about the business today, the guys
Speaker 3: that aren't on the special teams were able to join
Speaker 3: in on the excitement, and I think that was a
Speaker 3: fun part of it. And again it wasn't fisticuffs, it
Speaker 3: was more physical.
Speaker 1: Now that could come, It could come tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's always a part of football.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Listen, it's like you lay the groundwork or something right.
Speaker 1: If somebody gets under right.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, these guys are gonna come back and
Speaker 3: they're going to watch the practice team, and so all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, if there's somebody that takes offense to
Speaker 3: something somebody did to him in today's practice, we'll probably
Speaker 3: see a reaction to it in tomorrow's practice.
Speaker 2: And if it happens, it happens.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with it because I think when coach Eberflus
Speaker 3: came here and he talks about developing a callousness within
Speaker 3: your own team, this is the way you go about it.
Speaker 3: And he's got familiarity here because he was a coach
Speaker 3: here one time. But it's all about the effort that
Speaker 3: the players are putting on the practice field so they
Speaker 3: can become better football players.
Speaker 2: Which leads them to be a better team.
Speaker 1: Game day snacking calls for good foods, chunky guacamolele made
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Speaker 1: It's the perfect snack to watch while.
Speaker 2: The Bears win.
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Speaker 1: is Guak Day. Jeff and Tom on the Bears, et
Speaker 1: cetera podcast coming to you from outside of Carmel, Indiana
Speaker 1: and a great setup. The Bears have the whole hotel,
Speaker 1: so it feels like it's it's you know, they have
Speaker 1: this thing Rams House out in LA they set up
Speaker 1: for training camp, and this feels like Bears House here.
Speaker 2: It's just all Bears.
Speaker 1: They got a separate area for the players to have
Speaker 1: a little time if they want to play some games,
Speaker 1: ping pong, whatever, get the food down there. And you know,
Speaker 1: Cole was talking about this and Kyler Gordon that it's
Speaker 1: allowed everybody to kind of hang out a little bit more,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're going out to dinner. You know,
Speaker 1: they're going out to have they have some time to
Speaker 1: do that if they so desire. Yesterday and you didn't
Speaker 1: to know each other in a different way.
Speaker 3: So I've never been a part of a training camp
Speaker 3: that is this luxuriously run but there's no distractions from
Speaker 3: just some businessman checking in to see what room he's
Speaker 3: going to get and walking down the hall or No,
Speaker 3: it's all business. It's all business all day. And I
Speaker 3: didn't know what to expect on my drive down here today,
Speaker 3: but I just I really enjoyed the practice, the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: We got to catch up with a lot of old
Speaker 3: friends from the Indianapolis Colts. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, they got something out of the practice, and
Speaker 3: I think that's exactly what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1: All right, what'd you see specifics?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, you sit there and you go and
Speaker 3: you watch one on one, so you get the Bears
Speaker 3: offensive line against the Indianapolis Colts defensive line and they
Speaker 3: have a couple of good defensive linemen, and then you
Speaker 3: want to see how your guys hold up. So the
Speaker 3: guy that really hasn't disappointed me is Darnell. Right, here's
Speaker 3: a guy that's a rookie finally getting some look at
Speaker 3: some outside guys for an extended period of time because
Speaker 3: he played longer today than he did in the preseason game,
Speaker 3: and he didn't disappoint me. Braxton Jones, you know you
Speaker 3: hear about the unlikely a guy that started every single
Speaker 3: game and I played every single play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is improving.
Speaker 3: He looks better, he looks more fluid, and Cody whitehair
Speaker 3: look good. So now it's about the rest of the development.
Speaker 3: Cole komet I like his attitude after he catches the
Speaker 3: football because.
Speaker 2: He is made right and that's what I'm saying. You're
Speaker 2: going to avoid me. I'm not going to avoid you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna lower my shoulder and if you want to
Speaker 3: hit me, we're gonna have contact.
Speaker 2: And so I like who.
Speaker 3: Johns.
Speaker 2: Yes he does in the news conference.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know how this is gonna go over, honestly,
Speaker 1: but this is how he thinks. He goes I use
Speaker 1: my body as a weapon, of course, I mean right,
Speaker 1: I mean I love that quote from this young man
Speaker 1: from Texas. I use my body as a weapon. The
Speaker 1: guy he invites contact and he he's not like absorbing,
Speaker 1: He's delivering.
Speaker 2: And there is the difference.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, as that one play that he ran
Speaker 3: and you, I and Jason McKee were sitting off to
Speaker 3: the side, and you know, it's nice to have Jason's
Speaker 3: perspective because he's a running back and he sees things
Speaker 3: a little differently, and then he has some terms that
Speaker 3: he uses that you know, you kind of get introduced to,
Speaker 3: you kind of get used to hearing I'm saying. And
Speaker 3: you know, I like the fact that he's impressed with
Speaker 3: ro Sean and so am I. I've been impressed with
Speaker 3: him since no pad practices, and I wanted to see
Speaker 3: how it carried over to full padded practices. I was
Speaker 3: super impressed with his run in the game the other day,
Speaker 3: how he ran through an attempt to tackle by a linebacker,
Speaker 3: and then in today's game he made contact. It really
Speaker 3: didn't make him go in a completely different direction. He
Speaker 3: bounced off the defender and kept his feet going lively upfield.
Speaker 1: Yeah, taking some first team snaps he did on Monday
Speaker 1: up in Hallisaw, and he is doing it again.
Speaker 3: I don't want to dismiss Khalil Herbert either, because he
Speaker 3: had a couple of nice runs and the nine on
Speaker 3: seven period. Nine and seven period is the defense knows
Speaker 3: you're going to run the ball at him, and that's
Speaker 3: an offensive run period. In Khalil Herbert, he's got good vision,
Speaker 3: he's good has good outside instincts. He's got the ability
Speaker 3: to get low and stay with his power. So it's
Speaker 3: not the Row Shawn Johnson show, but he's part of
Speaker 3: a running back room that's really talented.
Speaker 1: Dante Foreman yea, yeah, he slowed through a nice hole,
Speaker 1: got small in the hole, ripped off a big chunk.
Speaker 1: Obviously they're touching off or thudding up as they say,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm trusting that he's going to get
Speaker 1: yards after contact, which he did.
Speaker 2: Thud against your own team is a thud.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a noise at the end of the
Speaker 3: play that the defense isn't going to come up and
Speaker 3: rock you.
Speaker 2: Thud.
Speaker 3: When you have a practice against another team, it's more
Speaker 3: of a hit and so.
Speaker 1: But you're not going down to the no But.
Speaker 3: It's also it's impacts the way the running back shows
Speaker 3: his balance, shows his ability to bounce off tackle.
Speaker 2: So again, I like what I saw.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about V twelve Vaylas Jones junior
Speaker 1: number twelve. He did take some punts cleanly, received all
Speaker 1: of those, but where he made his mark on this
Speaker 1: day was his speed to stretch the field and he
Speaker 1: caught two very nice passes, one for a touchdown assuming
Speaker 1: his feet were in and we were standing right there
Speaker 1: were saying, you put your hands up, you were excited,
Speaker 1: you were right there break, you were making the call.
Speaker 1: Tom also at one point boot the officials. Yes, I
Speaker 1: want to hear about that too. I mean, we had
Speaker 1: a great spot between two long fields, and so you
Speaker 1: really are your head's not a swivel. You can't there's
Speaker 1: so much going on, you can't absorb it all. Even
Speaker 1: one of the Bear scouts was talking to me, goes man,
Speaker 1: I just there's so much going on, you know, And
Speaker 1: but tell us about Baylis on those because if you're
Speaker 1: going to be a field stretcher, you got that great speed,
Speaker 1: you got to finish through the catch again.
Speaker 2: And he did just a backtrack of half a second
Speaker 2: talking Ryan Poles on the field.
Speaker 3: And this is like going to a college practice to scout.
Speaker 3: You're trying to look at so many guys that your
Speaker 3: head is constantly spinning. And I've said the same thing.
Speaker 3: I said, I don't know where to anchor myself. And
Speaker 3: so that's kind of the example of how much you're
Speaker 3: looking at. And when you talk about Vayalus today, I'm
Speaker 3: glad that, first of all, he was catching punts in
Speaker 3: an open air stadium where there's a little flight to
Speaker 3: the football. I think it makes them concentrate a little
Speaker 3: harder because the flyers of the opponent of the Indianapolis
Speaker 3: Colts were coming down at your hard and fast, and
Speaker 3: so it elevated the concentration and I'm glad he rebounded it.
Speaker 3: I know there are still some people that are disappointed
Speaker 3: in what happened on Saturday's game, but the thing about
Speaker 3: valis it can't happen again. And then to rebound and
Speaker 3: make the big catches that he did. He's able to
Speaker 3: track the football in the process of having a defensive
Speaker 3: back right on your heels but never losing sight of
Speaker 3: the catch point and being able to turn his body
Speaker 3: in mid air make the catch and get to the
Speaker 3: two feet inbounds.
Speaker 2: And the official even.
Speaker 3: He backed me up when I knew it was a catch,
Speaker 3: and so I was happy to see it because listen, man,
Speaker 3: I want to see Valas succeed. I don't ever wish
Speaker 3: for a player, ever, ever, ever to fail. And so
Speaker 3: when you look at the skills and what Vealis can
Speaker 3: contribute to this football team in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 3: from a punt returner, from a kick returner, from a
Speaker 3: wide receiver, from possible running back position. He's you know,
Speaker 3: he's got a plate full and I want to see
Speaker 3: him do well.
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Speaker 1: as we break down a Wednesday practice. Join us on
Speaker 1: Thursday night, six o'clock Chicago time. Tom and I have
Speaker 1: a show called Bears Weekly, and we will be talking
Speaker 1: with Khalil Herbert. He was kind of enough to spend
Speaker 1: some time with me earlier here in this week at
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and broke down how he's looking at his future
Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears. All right, let's talk about some
Speaker 1: other things that may have popped in your mind. Why
Speaker 1: did you get mad at the official.
Speaker 3: Because they were going through a special team period. And
Speaker 3: one thing I really like about Coach high Tower is
Speaker 3: he's very very serious about the physical element of special teams.
Speaker 3: And the Bears did a great job of protecting for
Speaker 3: the punter and the one of the blockers had a
Speaker 3: perfect angle of attack and he earholed the guy and
Speaker 3: he went down to the ground and he took offense
Speaker 3: to it, and then the official through a flag and
Speaker 3: I we don't get the explanation. So I don't know
Speaker 3: if he was thinking it was a bad block in
Speaker 3: the back or a helmet to helmet contact, and so
Speaker 3: I boot him because he deserved it, and it was.
Speaker 2: A great play it.
Speaker 3: You know what the thing about it is is, first
Speaker 3: of all, before the conclusion of the play, you watched
Speaker 3: the effort during the play, and that's what I was
Speaker 3: most impressed with, was the effort for the Bears personnel
Speaker 3: to get in the right spot to make the block.
Speaker 3: Because if you make that block in a game, the
Speaker 3: punt returner is going to have a long gain or
Speaker 3: possibly a touchdown. But that's the effort that you have
Speaker 3: to have attached to these plays because that's the effort
Speaker 3: you need in the game.
Speaker 1: Let's talking about QB one. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: you saw. I broke away from you after one on
Speaker 1: ones and kind of did my own thing for a
Speaker 1: bit and we just kind of moved where we moved.
Speaker 1: So what did you see from QB one? Anything stick out?
Speaker 3: You know the thing that it's hard to escape how
Speaker 3: well justin moves. But the fact of the matter is is,
Speaker 3: you know DJ Moore is still evident he didn't have
Speaker 3: Chase Claypool e Q Saint Brown is out there. Nice
Speaker 3: catches by Cole kamt to me, I think if you
Speaker 3: go to tomorrow's practice and then you see this practice
Speaker 3: the second time around, I think Justin will have a
Speaker 3: better practice.
Speaker 2: I don't think he had a bad practice.
Speaker 3: However, whether whatever you think about Justin, he's still in
Speaker 3: the learning stages of playing the quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 3: and I do see growth and I do see improvement.
Speaker 3: But I think because of Justin is who he is
Speaker 3: and where he is fantasy football and what they expect
Speaker 3: out of them, people always expect the super play, and
Speaker 3: I don't deny it.
Speaker 2: So do I.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope they both play on Saturday Night, and
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they will. But Anthony Richardson, the fourth overall pick,
Speaker 1: the kid out of Florida named a starter today by
Speaker 1: Staying Shane Steichen, the head coach, the new head coach,
Speaker 1: the former Eagles assistant, obviously work with Jalen Hurtz. He's
Speaker 1: worked with Justin Herbert and now he's working with this
Speaker 1: unbelievable athlete two hundred and fifty pounds with very little
Speaker 1: body fat on him and his arm. He just flicks it.
Speaker 1: The ball travels a great distance in a tight spiral.
Speaker 1: But you're talking about two tremendous and different, dynamic athletes
Speaker 1: to share the field on Saturday night to start the
Speaker 1: first quarter of this game against the Colts and Bears
Speaker 1: at Lucas Oil Stadium. I hope I get to see it.
Speaker 1: I hope that's what happens too. We'll find out the coaches.
Speaker 1: But you just can't help take your eyes off either
Speaker 1: of them now. I mean, every movement is just they
Speaker 1: move like Gazelle's. It's almost effortless movements, you know, as
Speaker 1: the mobility of these guys, and just how they throw
Speaker 1: deep balls, I mean, pretty impressive. Obviously there were some,
Speaker 1: you know, some bad plays and some good places for
Speaker 1: both teams.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Again, having a chance to meet old friends talking on
Speaker 3: the sideline with Chris Ballard, the general manager of the
Speaker 3: Indianapolis Colts, and we are talking about Anthony Richardson at
Speaker 3: the Combine and he says, you know, as soon as
Speaker 3: I saw him at the Combine, I knew I was
Speaker 3: going to draft him, and I didn't was never convinced
Speaker 3: to move up in the draft because I knew if
Speaker 3: I just sat in that position, I was going to
Speaker 3: be able to get him there. And then he just
Speaker 3: talks about the quality of character this young man is
Speaker 3: and the type of quarterback he can eventually develop into,
Speaker 3: and he goes, well, he's you know, he really was
Speaker 3: something at the combine. And I said, Chris, he's the
Speaker 3: most exciting player at the Combine that I may have
Speaker 3: ever seen, you know, with all everything he did, strength, height, jump, throwing,
Speaker 3: all the kind of stuff. And so now that you
Speaker 3: named him a starter, you're he's going to have to develop.
Speaker 3: And if you cannot play him in games when you
Speaker 3: got to see him develop before the first regular season game,
Speaker 3: when you talk about only three preseason games and then
Speaker 3: a big gap in between the last preseason game and
Speaker 3: the first regular season game. And the way you protect
Speaker 3: a quarterback is giving him as much knowledge as you
Speaker 3: can possibly feed him as quickly as possible, especially their
Speaker 3: rookie year. And I do believe that he'll play this weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm just that's only my own instincts. I was not
Speaker 3: told anything about that, but and I hope he does,
Speaker 3: and I hope Justin plays.
Speaker 1: It's a gutsy pick because you've got to be he
Speaker 1: only had thirteen starts in his college career. But again,
Speaker 1: you can't. It's it's just it's unique talent, and you
Speaker 1: know that you kind of have to invest in and yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta, Hey, there have been lesser quarterbacks you've rolled
Speaker 1: the dice on as first round picks in the top
Speaker 1: five across the landscape of the National Football League.
Speaker 2: So him I would have picked him was a GM.
Speaker 2: I would have no problem.
Speaker 3: You know, when you go back and you look at
Speaker 3: my draft and you think of guys like Todd Blackledge
Speaker 3: and Ken the kid that Brian Ken O'Brien and stuff
Speaker 3: that their question mark picks in the first round and
Speaker 3: their careers and many of those eighty three Tony Easton
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. But then you look at the
Speaker 3: traits that Anthony Richardson put on display in what we've
Speaker 3: already seen out of Justin you're probably looking at two
Speaker 3: of the most dynamic athletes at the quarterback position in
Speaker 3: the last ten years.
Speaker 1: And it just occurred to me at Jervon Dexter, Florida
Speaker 1: Geter as well, peering over the line of scrimmage looking
Speaker 1: at Anthony richards and he could probably tell us a
Speaker 1: few things about him as well a couple of notes,
Speaker 1: just because when you're on the field that close and
Speaker 1: you're seeing guys with pads or without pads. I got
Speaker 1: to tell you seeing Kyler Gordon flying around and then
Speaker 1: talking to the to the media afterwards, the confidence with
Speaker 1: which he is now speaking and how he views the game,
Speaker 1: and how excited he is, and how you know, he
Speaker 1: got he got strong and he is I got to
Speaker 1: put him up there with another one of the guys
Speaker 1: that I'm really looking forward to seeing, you know. As
Speaker 1: much as he'd like to play outside and be a
Speaker 1: full time player and then kick inside on Nickel, he
Speaker 1: admits that playing in that one.
Speaker 2: Spot is really that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it's narrow casting, okay, And it's a hard job.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget it is one of the most difficult
Speaker 1: positions because of the requirements of the position are multifold.
Speaker 1: But I'm expecting big things and I was hoping Brisker
Speaker 1: would be back because he's another one again. Sat next
Speaker 1: to me and he's talking football. He was talking football
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds on the bus. They were talking defense, they
Speaker 1: were talking this. He was engaged. It wasn't just a throwaway.
Speaker 1: He was engaged running across the field with emotion when
Speaker 1: things were getting a little chippy. You know, he's not
Speaker 1: in pads. He was not practicing today, And I just
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 3: Then, the thousand bus rides I took as a football
Speaker 3: player from college to pros, I never sat and talked
Speaker 3: to the guy next to me about something that was
Speaker 3: completely frivolous. I talked about how I played good or
Speaker 3: how I played bad? How did you play?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: You know? What do we have to do to improve?
Speaker 3: That's what the conversation is. But I think Kyler Gordon
Speaker 3: is really fortunate to have a coach like John Hoak
Speaker 3: because John, he's an experienced defensive back throughout his career
Speaker 3: and he's got the demeanor that you would want to
Speaker 3: be coached by. So the upside for Kyler Gordon he
Speaker 3: is still untapped potential. But you need all those guys,
Speaker 3: you know, a defensive backfield is kind of like an
Speaker 3: offensive line. You need all those guys in place to
Speaker 3: make sure the communication is positive and that everybody knows
Speaker 3: exactly what everybody's assignment are. There's no mistakes in transition
Speaker 3: to coverage, and you know, Kyler Gordon mad a couple
Speaker 3: of big hits in the first game this week. Defensive
Speaker 3: backs tight end, are wide receivers tight ends.
Speaker 2: They're going to take note.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniyak, Tom Thayer, This is Bears et cetera, wrapping
Speaker 1: things up after our first review of the Bears and
Speaker 1: Colt's practices leading to kickoff on Saturday. We'll have that
Speaker 1: game for you starting at six o'clock Chicago time, seven
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern time. Fair amount of Bears fans, maybe Trek
Speaker 1: I heard them. They were loud, but it was a
Speaker 1: heck of an environment. I think players got a kick
Speaker 1: out of it. They realized that there were you know,
Speaker 1: there were eight thousand people in there in close proximity
Speaker 1: to the field. So it felt even though it wasn't
Speaker 1: a game, it felt a little bit like a game.
Speaker 3: It was neat for me because I got a couple
Speaker 3: of greetings from Bears fans standing along the sideline.
Speaker 2: And it's nice.
Speaker 3: That either they travel here or they have an opportunity
Speaker 3: to come to this practice, to experience the practice itself,
Speaker 3: but get a chance to look at the Bears lets.
Speaker 1: Cole Cole was saying, Cole commencing, a lot of Domer
Speaker 1: fans were there because they were of course they were
Speaker 1: yelling his name out.
Speaker 3: So right, I mean, there are you know, there are
Speaker 3: the Domer for the Notre name fans that are around
Speaker 3: because it's close to here, and you know, it was
Speaker 3: just a neat opportunity to be a part of this
Speaker 3: practice time.
Speaker 1: A couple of quick hitters here, Robert Tunyan, nice catch on,
Speaker 1: a nice design play in the end zone. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: we got a circle number eighteen that the man they
Speaker 1: call Bobby and they don't call him Robert, but they
Speaker 1: call him Bobby go Tuberflus and everybody else. But I
Speaker 1: think he's really excited. He knows the offense. He certainly
Speaker 1: knows Luke Keetzi's offense and a nice compliment to Cole
Speaker 1: Comet and vice versa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard for me not to think of Mike
Speaker 3: tom Zach when I see eighteen running out there.
Speaker 2: You know, and it's hard.
Speaker 3: You know, when he first was out there in eighteen
Speaker 3: he showed up and he had a really long hair
Speaker 3: and then he cut his hair really short.
Speaker 2: And wearing that businessman out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he is a nice addition to the tight
Speaker 3: end room because it's a legitimate wide receiver. He does
Speaker 3: have blocking ability at all positions that are asked out
Speaker 3: of the tight end. So when you look at put
Speaker 3: another receiver out there that the quarterback can become familiar with,
Speaker 3: it only helps the offense overall.
Speaker 1: All right, Chase Claypool walking around out there, still not
Speaker 1: ready to return about a week ago. But I will
Speaker 1: say this though, you even just look at his legs,
Speaker 1: the muscular structure of his legs is unlike a normal
Speaker 1: wide receiver. He is a ripped individual. And I'm just
Speaker 1: hoping Tom he gets healthy, gets back on the field.
Speaker 1: He brings the emotion even when he didn't got chippy.
Speaker 1: He's not even in pads.
Speaker 3: And they had that collision that I was talking about
Speaker 3: where the flag was thrown. He walked up to the front,
Speaker 3: was trying to John a little bit, and the guy
Speaker 3: from the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 2: Took a sception to him. Hey, I believe it.
Speaker 1: Was Tony Brown, the former Alabama You know, somebody told
Speaker 1: me he's been that way his whole life. Ase Tony
Speaker 1: Brown is always getting into it a little like like CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson out there and Detroit.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll have to.
Speaker 1: Deal with but ah, man, it's just as a football player. Man,
Speaker 1: you walking talking football player right.
Speaker 3: There about Claypool. Yes, yeah, you know I agree the
Speaker 3: same thing. But you know he's got the assets to
Speaker 3: be that football player. You know what, the blocks that
Speaker 3: I've seen him make in training camp. How big of
Speaker 3: a player he is. Linebackers and DB's better keep their
Speaker 3: head on a swivel if he's in motion, if it's
Speaker 3: a run play, and if you are on a blockable position,
Speaker 3: because he will earhole you, you will feel it and
Speaker 3: it'll show up in films.
Speaker 1: Miller, like the official beer of the Chicago Bears, tastes
Speaker 1: like Miller time Chicago.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: He keeps making place, Okay, he keeps making place. Number
Speaker 1: forty seven the Chicago Bears. Mister Baskerville from LSU interception
Speaker 1: to end a two minute drive in the end zone.
Speaker 1: He's a two hundred and eighteen pound linebacker. You probably
Speaker 1: could play a little safety. I don't know what is
Speaker 1: time to I don't have a memorized but I'll tell
Speaker 1: you he's just around the ball. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna make it, but he's around the ball constantly.
Speaker 3: It's kind of funny because you see a big say
Speaker 3: six two ten oh, this guy could probably play linebacker. No,
Speaker 3: he couldn't. Then you see a linebacker that's six three
Speaker 3: two eighteen Oh, he could probably play safety.
Speaker 2: No, he couldn't.
Speaker 3: They are playing the position at this level of the
Speaker 3: position they are blessed to play. Baskerville put a really
Speaker 3: high vertical jump on display a tipball, came down with
Speaker 3: the interception, made plays the other day in the game,
Speaker 3: and it's a competitive position, and they want the best
Speaker 3: possible athletes that they can put on the game day
Speaker 3: roster to come out there and be a part of
Speaker 3: the special teams and be a part of the defensive rotation.
Speaker 3: And every single time he goes and makes that play,
Speaker 3: he's opening the eyes in the minds of not only
Speaker 3: Ryan Poles and the scouts, but his position coach.
Speaker 1: And every team in the league. And if he makes
Speaker 1: those plays in an exhibition game, preseason game, and it's
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Speaker 1: our sponsor as well, Big Tom. Before we go, you
Speaker 1: talk about some of the faces and names of people
Speaker 1: that have crossed our paths. You of course got a
Speaker 1: lot of people, but you know Rusty Jones, who was,
Speaker 1: you know, very popular figure in the Bear's family. He
Speaker 1: expressed how much he loved his eight years in Chicago,
Speaker 1: some of the best years of his career. Certainly he
Speaker 1: was with the Buffalo Bills during their Super Bowl runs
Speaker 1: back in the day and looks great. Just celebrated his
Speaker 1: seventieth birthday and looks fantastic. But it's people like that
Speaker 1: in the league that you just love that you had
Speaker 1: the chance to develop those relationships. And I know you've
Speaker 1: got a hundred of them, as do I now. But
Speaker 1: isn't it wasn't a great to see.
Speaker 3: Us, it was, But you know, so Rusty's Jones's first cousins,
Speaker 3: who was my driver's ed teacher and my high school
Speaker 3: wrestling in football coach Dale O'Connell. So their first cousins.
Speaker 3: So I've known of Rusty back years and years and
Speaker 3: years ago when he was coaching for Buffalo, and then
Speaker 3: when he came to the Bears, we kindled a friendship
Speaker 3: that will never go away. His wife, sharing his son, Tyler,
Speaker 3: We are great friends. But he's just a guy that
Speaker 3: lives and breathes the physical element of football, the hydration,
Speaker 3: the diet, the training, the muscle control. So he's got
Speaker 3: a unique way, a unique niche that he has in
Speaker 3: the football business. You would never mistake him as a
Speaker 3: former player, because he's not. He's, you know, one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty two pounds. But his graciousness for what he
Speaker 3: was able to do with the Chicago Bears, he has
Speaker 3: such an appreciation for it that it spills out of
Speaker 3: him every single time we see him.
Speaker 1: We love talking to him, and we can't wait to
Speaker 1: see him when we get back on the practice field.
Speaker 1: All right, Gunny, final thoughts. Otherwise, we're going to wrap
Speaker 1: up and send this bad boy to bed now.
Speaker 3: Just looking forward to sleeping for the first time without
Speaker 3: two dogs in my bed.
Speaker 1: And I've been waking up at one o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning the last three nights and not able to get
Speaker 1: back to sleep until five or six. When it really
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of worthless at that point. So
Speaker 1: hopefully I can sleep, but you know, you fall asleep,
Speaker 1: just can't stay asleep. I guess those are medical problems
Speaker 1: that nobody cares about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, listen, Matt, Insomnia is a big part of
Speaker 3: my life and I just hope it doesn't happen tonight.
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