WEBVTT - Bears showcase physicality in practice against Colts | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.640 Right justin middle of a field forty fifteen bring Russ 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:05.600 in front of a leading Lions. 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:05.760 In his way. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:12.039 I am Jeff Jonihaclitz is not Donny go us. What 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.760 was it like playing for Cochi gooddom go I don't 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:16.000 want to answer any questions like that. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:25.480 Sixty one yards? What's Sunday stroll for? Justin field? Yes, 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.479 Bears et cetera brought to you by Miller Light with 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.720 the voices of the Bears, Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.159 About a half hour outside of downtown Indianapolis, in the 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.680 suburb of Carmel, Indiana, at Westfield, a nice practice field 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.479 with the Bears in Indianapolis Colts to get the week underway. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.360 I'm Jeff Joniak along with Tom Thayer wrapping up what 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.840 was a very entertaining practice on a gorgeous night here 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.760 in Indiana. Mild temperature, sunny skies, and a big crowd 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.760 I believe to be around eight thousand people. This is 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.240 Bears et cetera, and we're brought to you by Miller Light, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.600 the official beer of the Chicago Bears. Tastes like Miller 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.520 Time Chicago. I happened to ride on the bus back 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.560 time drove back because I needed to listen to some 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.479 of the news conferences. But I was on the bus 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.280 with the players and I gotta tell you, man, they 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.880 were funny on the bus. They enjoyed it. I think 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.040 it was the perfect time for them to have this 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.560 kind of practice, and I think Cole Combet said it 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.240 in the postgame interviews post practice interviews, and it was 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.040 just it felt like real football, and it was a 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.240 great night and energy was very high. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.479 Yeah, you know, but it's all in the setup. It's 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.520 a great facility. There's enough area of space for both 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.000 teams to get done what they need to get done. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.640 And then the practices were physical, they are fast, they 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.080 are exciting. They got a lot of good work done. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.600 The crowd responded in every way, shape or form they could. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.240 The weather conditions were perfect, the field conditions were perfect. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.920 So I will say of the ten or fifteen joint 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.720 practices I've ever been to in my career, this was 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.480 probably the most efficient run. But there was physical that 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:07.360 didn't didn't erupt into fights. It was a physical play 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.760 here or there, and yeah, you'd hear a little bit 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.880 of John going on, but it didn't take away from 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.520 the practice and it was not distract. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.480 You know, it's funny because obviously a game starts with 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.040 a special Teams play with the opening kickoff, and so 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.720 when they got to the special teams period, sure enough, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.720 this is when it starts. You hear the John, and 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.520 you know that group kind of sets a tone. It's 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.200 an agitated group. I don't care when they practiced, but boy, 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.320 they were loud on both sides and nobody was backing 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.280 down just a little John for the fun of it. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:39.880 But didn't you get a kick out of that though? 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:41.200 But you know, so I was caught. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.560 I was talking to coach High Tower on the field 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.960 and I was talking to him about the training camp 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.040 practices at Hallas Hall, how the Special Teams they start 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.480 the practice and he says, I feel responsible for getting 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.800 the momentum of the practice pointed in the right direction. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:56.839 And I think it was a great point by him, 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.680 because you know, special teams a lot of times they. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:00.440 Get over looked. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.600 But those are the guys that are looking to make 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.120 the team. They're looking to make an influence or an 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.000 impression on their coach. And I think that the way 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:14.240 the Special Teams went about the business today, the guys 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.520 that aren't on the special teams were able to join 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.520 in on the excitement, and I think that was a 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.640 fun part of it. And again it wasn't fisticuffs, it 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.200 was more physical. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.080 Now that could come, It could come tomorrow. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.360 That's always a part of football. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:28.200 You know. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.760 Listen, it's like you lay the groundwork or something right. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.640 If somebody gets under right. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.320 Well, I mean, these guys are gonna come back and 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.400 they're going to watch the practice team, and so all 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.720 of a sudden, if there's somebody that takes offense to 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.240 something somebody did to him in today's practice, we'll probably 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.920 see a reaction to it in tomorrow's practice. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:47.480 And if it happens, it happens. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.960 I'm okay with it because I think when coach Eberflus 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.200 came here and he talks about developing a callousness within 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.840 your own team, this is the way you go about it. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.720 And he's got familiarity here because he was a coach 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.920 here one time. But it's all about the effort that 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.240 the players are putting on the practice field so they 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.160 can become better football players. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.360 Which leads them to be a better team. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.240 Game day snacking calls for good foods, chunky guacamolele made 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.279 with has avocados, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and a squeeze align juice. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.240 It's the perfect snack to watch while. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.039 The Bears win. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.599 Score some today at your local grocery store. Game Day 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.240 is Guak Day. Jeff and Tom on the Bears, et 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.240 cetera podcast coming to you from outside of Carmel, Indiana 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.480 and a great setup. The Bears have the whole hotel, 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.839 so it feels like it's it's you know, they have 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.080 this thing Rams House out in LA they set up 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.440 for training camp, and this feels like Bears House here. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:39.279 It's just all Bears. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.360 They got a separate area for the players to have 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.120 a little time if they want to play some games, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.960 ping pong, whatever, get the food down there. And you know, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.560 Cole was talking about this and Kyler Gordon that it's 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.880 allowed everybody to kind of hang out a little bit more, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.200 you know, because they're going out to dinner. You know, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.240 they're going out to have they have some time to 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.320 do that if they so desire. Yesterday and you didn't 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:01.479 to know each other in a different way. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.599 So I've never been a part of a training camp 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.560 that is this luxuriously run but there's no distractions from 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.520 just some businessman checking in to see what room he's 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.160 going to get and walking down the hall or No, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.599 it's all business. It's all business all day. And I 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.240 didn't know what to expect on my drive down here today, 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:24.400 but I just I really enjoyed the practice, the atmosphere. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.200 We got to catch up with a lot of old 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.320 friends from the Indianapolis Colts. But at the end of 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.479 the day, they got something out of the practice, and 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.360 I think that's exactly what they wanted to do. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.640 All right, what'd you see specifics? 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.440 Well, you know, you sit there and you go and 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.520 you watch one on one, so you get the Bears 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.600 offensive line against the Indianapolis Colts defensive line and they 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.800 have a couple of good defensive linemen, and then you 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.680 want to see how your guys hold up. So the 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.239 guy that really hasn't disappointed me is Darnell. Right, here's 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.240 a guy that's a rookie finally getting some look at 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.000 some outside guys for an extended period of time because 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.480 he played longer today than he did in the preseason game, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.039 and he didn't disappoint me. Braxton Jones, you know you 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:10.360 hear about the unlikely a guy that started every single 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.960 game and I played every single play. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.040 Yeah, he is improving. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.360 He looks better, he looks more fluid, and Cody whitehair 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.960 look good. So now it's about the rest of the development. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.159 Cole komet I like his attitude after he catches the 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.880 football because. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.640 He is made right and that's what I'm saying. You're 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.320 going to avoid me. I'm not going to avoid you. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.160 I'm gonna lower my shoulder and if you want to 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:35.599 hit me, we're gonna have contact. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.000 And so I like who. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:39.160 Johns. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:40.840 Yes he does in the news conference. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.840 Now, I don't know how this is gonna go over, honestly, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.640 but this is how he thinks. He goes I use 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.560 my body as a weapon, of course, I mean right, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.960 I mean I love that quote from this young man 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.359 from Texas. I use my body as a weapon. The 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.479 guy he invites contact and he he's not like absorbing, 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.240 He's delivering. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:03.600 And there is the difference. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.040 Well, you know, as that one play that he ran 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.720 and you, I and Jason McKee were sitting off to 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.240 the side, and you know, it's nice to have Jason's 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.360 perspective because he's a running back and he sees things 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.840 a little differently, and then he has some terms that 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.720 he uses that you know, you kind of get introduced to, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.760 you kind of get used to hearing I'm saying. And 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.960 you know, I like the fact that he's impressed with 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.440 ro Sean and so am I. I've been impressed with 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.680 him since no pad practices, and I wanted to see 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.280 how it carried over to full padded practices. I was 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.920 super impressed with his run in the game the other day, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.600 how he ran through an attempt to tackle by a linebacker, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.080 and then in today's game he made contact. It really 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.200 didn't make him go in a completely different direction. He 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.240 bounced off the defender and kept his feet going lively upfield. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.560 Yeah, taking some first team snaps he did on Monday 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.760 up in Hallisaw, and he is doing it again. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.320 I don't want to dismiss Khalil Herbert either, because he 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.440 had a couple of nice runs and the nine on 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.080 seven period. Nine and seven period is the defense knows 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.000 you're going to run the ball at him, and that's 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.679 an offensive run period. In Khalil Herbert, he's got good vision, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.400 he's good has good outside instincts. He's got the ability 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.120 to get low and stay with his power. So it's 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.080 not the Row Shawn Johnson show, but he's part of 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.440 a running back room that's really talented. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.000 Dante Foreman yea, yeah, he slowed through a nice hole, 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.480 got small in the hole, ripped off a big chunk. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.320 Obviously they're touching off or thudding up as they say, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.480 but you know, I'm trusting that he's going to get 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.200 yards after contact, which he did. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.560 Thud against your own team is a thud. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.280 It's kind of a noise at the end of the 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.240 play that the defense isn't going to come up and 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:43.640 rock you. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:44.720 Thud. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.560 When you have a practice against another team, it's more 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.040 of a hit and so. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.600 But you're not going down to the no But. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.720 It's also it's impacts the way the running back shows 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.840 his balance, shows his ability to bounce off tackle. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.800 So again, I like what I saw. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:05.040 All right, let's talk about V twelve Vaylas Jones junior 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.840 number twelve. He did take some punts cleanly, received all 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.720 of those, but where he made his mark on this 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.400 day was his speed to stretch the field and he 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.360 caught two very nice passes, one for a touchdown assuming 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.040 his feet were in and we were standing right there 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.440 were saying, you put your hands up, you were excited, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.600 you were right there break, you were making the call. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:31.080 Tom also at one point boot the officials. Yes, I 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.240 want to hear about that too. I mean, we had 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.720 a great spot between two long fields, and so you 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.000 really are your head's not a swivel. You can't there's 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.320 so much going on, you can't absorb it all. Even 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.240 one of the Bear scouts was talking to me, goes man, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.360 I just there's so much going on, you know, And 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.120 but tell us about Baylis on those because if you're 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.559 going to be a field stretcher, you got that great speed, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.199 you got to finish through the catch again. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.280 And he did just a backtrack of half a second 0:09:58.320 --> 0:09:59.680 talking Ryan Poles on the field. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.600 And this is like going to a college practice to scout. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.000 You're trying to look at so many guys that your 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.760 head is constantly spinning. And I've said the same thing. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.760 I said, I don't know where to anchor myself. And 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.880 so that's kind of the example of how much you're 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.160 looking at. And when you talk about Vayalus today, I'm 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.560 glad that, first of all, he was catching punts in 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.960 an open air stadium where there's a little flight to 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.280 the football. I think it makes them concentrate a little 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.600 harder because the flyers of the opponent of the Indianapolis 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.080 Colts were coming down at your hard and fast, and 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.160 so it elevated the concentration and I'm glad he rebounded it. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.200 I know there are still some people that are disappointed 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.600 in what happened on Saturday's game, but the thing about 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.680 valis it can't happen again. And then to rebound and 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.520 make the big catches that he did. He's able to 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.920 track the football in the process of having a defensive 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.240 back right on your heels but never losing sight of 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.240 the catch point and being able to turn his body 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.920 in mid air make the catch and get to the 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.360 two feet inbounds. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:00.800 And the official even. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.040 He backed me up when I knew it was a catch, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.280 and so I was happy to see it because listen, man, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.880 I want to see Valas succeed. I don't ever wish 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.680 for a player, ever, ever, ever to fail. And so 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.559 when you look at the skills and what Vealis can 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.040 contribute to this football team in a lot of different ways, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.480 from a punt returner, from a kick returner, from a 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.679 wide receiver, from possible running back position. He's you know, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.000 he's got a plate full and I want to see 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:29.600 him do well. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.040 We're brought to you by PNC Official Bank of the Bears, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.119 Jeff Joniek and Tom Thair on the Bears, Etc. Podcast 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.480 as we break down a Wednesday practice. Join us on 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.880 Thursday night, six o'clock Chicago time. Tom and I have 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.400 a show called Bears Weekly, and we will be talking 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.760 with Khalil Herbert. He was kind of enough to spend 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.600 some time with me earlier here in this week at 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.000 Indianapolis and broke down how he's looking at his future 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.400 with the Chicago Bears. All right, let's talk about some 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.000 other things that may have popped in your mind. Why 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.679 did you get mad at the official. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.880 Because they were going through a special team period. And 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.840 one thing I really like about Coach high Tower is 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.440 he's very very serious about the physical element of special teams. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.280 And the Bears did a great job of protecting for 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.240 the punter and the one of the blockers had a 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.240 perfect angle of attack and he earholed the guy and 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.280 he went down to the ground and he took offense 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.760 to it, and then the official through a flag and 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.840 I we don't get the explanation. So I don't know 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.400 if he was thinking it was a bad block in 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.800 the back or a helmet to helmet contact, and so 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.760 I boot him because he deserved it, and it was. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:43.560 A great play it. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.880 You know what the thing about it is is, first 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.120 of all, before the conclusion of the play, you watched 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.520 the effort during the play, and that's what I was 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.160 most impressed with, was the effort for the Bears personnel 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.560 to get in the right spot to make the block. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.760 Because if you make that block in a game, the 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.719 punt returner is going to have a long gain or 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.560 possibly a touchdown. But that's the effort that you have 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.720 to have attached to these plays because that's the effort 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:08.720 you need in the game. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.600 Let's talking about QB one. I don't know how much 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.560 you saw. I broke away from you after one on 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.440 ones and kind of did my own thing for a 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.680 bit and we just kind of moved where we moved. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.880 So what did you see from QB one? Anything stick out? 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.319 You know the thing that it's hard to escape how 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.680 well justin moves. But the fact of the matter is is, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.319 you know DJ Moore is still evident he didn't have 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.520 Chase Claypool e Q Saint Brown is out there. Nice 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.440 catches by Cole kamt to me, I think if you 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.040 go to tomorrow's practice and then you see this practice 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.280 the second time around, I think Justin will have a 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:44.079 better practice. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.640 I don't think he had a bad practice. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.240 However, whether whatever you think about Justin, he's still in 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.160 the learning stages of playing the quarterback in the NFL, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.600 and I do see growth and I do see improvement. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.080 But I think because of Justin is who he is 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.240 and where he is fantasy football and what they expect 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.480 out of them, people always expect the super play, and 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:08.080 I don't deny it. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:08.520 So do I. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.400 Well, I hope they both play on Saturday Night, and 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.080 I'm assuming they will. But Anthony Richardson, the fourth overall pick, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.920 the kid out of Florida named a starter today by 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.080 Staying Shane Steichen, the head coach, the new head coach, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.320 the former Eagles assistant, obviously work with Jalen Hurtz. He's 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.920 worked with Justin Herbert and now he's working with this 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.920 unbelievable athlete two hundred and fifty pounds with very little 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.800 body fat on him and his arm. He just flicks it. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.360 The ball travels a great distance in a tight spiral. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:42.800 But you're talking about two tremendous and different, dynamic athletes 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.920 to share the field on Saturday night to start the 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.960 first quarter of this game against the Colts and Bears 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.600 at Lucas Oil Stadium. I hope I get to see it. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.680 I hope that's what happens too. We'll find out the coaches. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.600 But you just can't help take your eyes off either 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.840 of them now. I mean, every movement is just they 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.800 move like Gazelle's. It's almost effortless movements, you know, as 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.960 the mobility of these guys, and just how they throw 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.920 deep balls, I mean, pretty impressive. Obviously there were some, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.680 you know, some bad plays and some good places for 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:13.360 both teams. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:13.680 Well. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.960 Again, having a chance to meet old friends talking on 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.560 the sideline with Chris Ballard, the general manager of the 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.800 Indianapolis Colts, and we are talking about Anthony Richardson at 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.160 the Combine and he says, you know, as soon as 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.840 I saw him at the Combine, I knew I was 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.880 going to draft him, and I didn't was never convinced 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.600 to move up in the draft because I knew if 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.880 I just sat in that position, I was going to 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.040 be able to get him there. And then he just 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.880 talks about the quality of character this young man is 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.800 and the type of quarterback he can eventually develop into, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.360 and he goes, well, he's you know, he really was 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.880 something at the combine. And I said, Chris, he's the 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.080 most exciting player at the Combine that I may have 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:54.000 ever seen, you know, with all everything he did, strength, height, jump, throwing, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.640 all the kind of stuff. And so now that you 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.000 named him a starter, you're he's going to have to develop. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.480 And if you cannot play him in games when you 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.240 got to see him develop before the first regular season game, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.320 when you talk about only three preseason games and then 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.640 a big gap in between the last preseason game and 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.360 the first regular season game. And the way you protect 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.680 a quarterback is giving him as much knowledge as you 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.600 can possibly feed him as quickly as possible, especially their 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.440 rookie year. And I do believe that he'll play this weekend. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.800 I'm just that's only my own instincts. I was not 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.400 told anything about that, but and I hope he does, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:30.600 and I hope Justin plays. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.720 It's a gutsy pick because you've got to be he 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.920 only had thirteen starts in his college career. But again, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.720 you can't. It's it's just it's unique talent, and you 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.400 know that you kind of have to invest in and yeah, 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.200 you gotta, Hey, there have been lesser quarterbacks you've rolled 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.760 the dice on as first round picks in the top 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.760 five across the landscape of the National Football League. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.880 So him I would have picked him was a GM. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:55.880 I would have no problem. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.160 You know, when you go back and you look at 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.600 my draft and you think of guys like Todd Blackledge 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.880 and Ken the kid that Brian Ken O'Brien and stuff 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.000 that their question mark picks in the first round and 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.199 their careers and many of those eighty three Tony Easton 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.920 and stuff like that. But then you look at the 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.160 traits that Anthony Richardson put on display in what we've 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.240 already seen out of Justin you're probably looking at two 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.280 of the most dynamic athletes at the quarterback position in 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:23.359 the last ten years. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.320 And it just occurred to me at Jervon Dexter, Florida 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.800 Geter as well, peering over the line of scrimmage looking 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:30.800 at Anthony richards and he could probably tell us a 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.600 few things about him as well a couple of notes, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.639 just because when you're on the field that close and 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.080 you're seeing guys with pads or without pads. I got 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.520 to tell you seeing Kyler Gordon flying around and then 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.560 talking to the to the media afterwards, the confidence with 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.200 which he is now speaking and how he views the game, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.040 and how excited he is, and how you know, he 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.280 got he got strong and he is I got to 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.800 put him up there with another one of the guys 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.480 that I'm really looking forward to seeing, you know. As 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.040 much as he'd like to play outside and be a 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.639 full time player and then kick inside on Nickel, he 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.760 admits that playing in that one. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.200 Spot is really that's it. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.320 That's it's narrow casting, okay, And it's a hard job. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.560 Let's not forget it is one of the most difficult 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.320 positions because of the requirements of the position are multifold. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.040 But I'm expecting big things and I was hoping Brisker 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.320 would be back because he's another one again. Sat next 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.720 to me and he's talking football. He was talking football 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.679 Tremaine Edmunds on the bus. They were talking defense, they 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.280 were talking this. He was engaged. It wasn't just a throwaway. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.920 He was engaged running across the field with emotion when 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.240 things were getting a little chippy. You know, he's not 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.960 in pads. He was not practicing today, And I just 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:46.480