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Speaker 2: In his work.
Speaker 1: I am Jeff jonahacklitz Is on Donny Got what was.
Speaker 3: Like playing for Cochi Gooddom.
Speaker 2: I don't want to answer any questions like that. Sixty
Speaker 2: one yards? What's Sunday stroll for? Justin Field?
Speaker 4: Ye Bears et Cetera with the voices of the Chicago
Speaker 4: Bears Jeff Jonyac.
Speaker 1: Another newsy day up at Hattos Hall as the Bears
Speaker 1: began to work week on the practice field for the
Speaker 1: defending world champion Kansas City Chiefs. We'll discuss why on
Speaker 1: episode eighteen of The Bears et Cetera podcast.
Speaker 2: Good to be alongside Tom There my Super Bowl winning
Speaker 2: Bear buddy.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joningak joined a guess today we'll be the
Speaker 1: veteran voice of the Chiefs Mitch Oltis and thanks to
Speaker 1: our producers Dan for Really, Jordan tread Up and Katie Tuber.
Speaker 1: Let's get right to the chase. Statement today from the
Speaker 1: Bears that they've accepted the resignation of defensive coordinator Allen
Speaker 1: Williams as he deals with some personal issues. So Maddiberfluse
Speaker 1: will continue on as the man called the plays and
Speaker 1: be the head coach and so spreading thin to help
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. But Tom, I know,
Speaker 1: I was asked on ESPN one thousand with Wata and
Speaker 1: Sylvie on Wednesday afternoon. You know, should he go out
Speaker 1: and hire a defensive coordinator? Could he bring in a
Speaker 1: Rod Marinelli? Could he bring you know, he brought up
Speaker 1: even though Lobby Smith and I said no. There's plenty
Speaker 1: of examples. We just got done with one. In Tampa.
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles calls the plays and runs the show for
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's not unusual. It's his defense
Speaker 1: to begin with. And I think just hit the ground
Speaker 1: running now and move forward.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: My only suggestion would be that earlier Wednesday at the podium,
Speaker 5: he talked about the distribution of his time as the
Speaker 5: head coach. Now that they have this information, I think
Speaker 5: he said, distribute his time as the defensive coordinator and
Speaker 5: allow of the offensive coordinator the offensive coaches to handle
Speaker 5: the offense. And it's been done before, so you're.
Speaker 2: Not releasing any of your duties.
Speaker 5: You're just focusing your time on getting this defense pointed
Speaker 5: in the right direction.
Speaker 1: So at this point, it's only week three in the season,
Speaker 1: plenty of time obviously, but there needs to be some
Speaker 1: stability here right now, you know, justin fields at the
Speaker 1: podium was the other big story today, and then invited
Speaker 1: players reporters after the interview in the locker room to
Speaker 1: discuss how he presented that information after practice. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's putting it on his shoulders. It is on his shoulders.
Speaker 1: He's trying to find his own clarity to be a
Speaker 1: better quarterback. And as you talk about, thinking as a
Speaker 1: rule in football is not the best, but when you're
Speaker 1: playing quarterback, and I just talked to Jim Miller about this,
Speaker 1: our good buddy who always always helps us out on
Speaker 1: Bears weekly during the off season. You know, whatever word
Speaker 1: you want to use, processing is thinking, Thinking is processing.
Speaker 1: It's a thinking man's position. But when it's time to
Speaker 1: grip it and rip it, you rip it. And there's
Speaker 1: times you have to diagnose and understand and try to
Speaker 1: figure out what the defense is doing to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know one thing that frustrates me for
Speaker 5: the quarterback position is they make them go to the
Speaker 5: podium immediately following the game and then they make them
Speaker 5: go back on Wednesday. To me, one of those should
Speaker 5: be washed out. First of all, if you were as
Speaker 5: an offensive lineman, if you asked me to go to
Speaker 5: the podium immediately following the game and give you answers
Speaker 5: why things worked or didn't work, I couldn't do it
Speaker 5: because I need to go back and study the film
Speaker 5: because there's so many moving parts to the football team,
Speaker 5: and so one of the two days, and to me,
Speaker 5: I wish you was at the podium immediately following the game.
Speaker 5: Then you get out there on Wednesday, when you had
Speaker 5: a time for tape evaluation, you could probably give clearer answers.
Speaker 5: But when you're peppered from every different direction, you know,
Speaker 5: sometimes you just say something that you wish you could
Speaker 5: take back. But now in the modern day world of
Speaker 5: social media and everybody trying to capture a story, you
Speaker 5: can't do it well.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is, even you and I just watching
Speaker 1: a game, we get frustrated, we say things and maybe
Speaker 1: we don't mean. Then we watch tape and you know,
Speaker 1: either confirms our feelings right or we say, well wait
Speaker 1: a minute, because you've done this already here on the
Speaker 1: short term, this season. You know you've said, now, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, now, now this this was better than I thought,
Speaker 1: or this was worse than I thought, or whatever. And
Speaker 1: as a player, then when you did interviews, they didn't
Speaker 1: have podiums back then. They either they went to your
Speaker 1: locker and you gave whatever speel you gave. And I
Speaker 1: don't know how accommodating you were as a player. You
Speaker 1: did you feel you had to answer question? I know
Speaker 1: you you know after the game, you were on on
Speaker 1: radio shows during the course of the week. As a player,
Speaker 1: all you guys were, But how did you handle media
Speaker 1: come into your locker right after a game.
Speaker 5: I was fine because I felt that I could answer
Speaker 5: any question that was asked of me. But I had
Speaker 5: a lot of experience with that at Notre Dame because
Speaker 5: Notre Dame I went through the first losing season in
Speaker 5: eighteen years, and so there was probably more media in
Speaker 5: our locker rooms after a losing season than after a
Speaker 5: winning season. My sophomore year, we played Orgia for the
Speaker 5: National Championship, So you learn about what life behind the
Speaker 5: microphone is going to be like when you get to
Speaker 5: the NFL. But I was also very cautious what I
Speaker 5: said because of Mike Ditka, and I remembered one time
Speaker 5: disagreeing with a choice that he made not to go
Speaker 5: for it on a fourth and two situation.
Speaker 2: I said it they wrote about on the paper.
Speaker 5: He called me to his golf cart on my way
Speaker 5: out to practice. He yelled at me, yelled at me,
Speaker 5: yelled at me some more, And so then it just
Speaker 5: made me think about every single answer I said.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's.
Speaker 5: A different way of life nowadays than it was back then.
Speaker 5: But you're still going to get criticized by the head
Speaker 5: coach if he reads something you don't like.
Speaker 2: The gist of.
Speaker 1: Justin afterwards said, I'm never going to blame anything on
Speaker 1: the coaches. I'm never going to blame anything on my teammates.
Speaker 1: Never will you hear that. So I just want to
Speaker 1: clear that up. Just know that I need to play better,
Speaker 1: point blank.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: And frankly, from my perspect active, whether I'm a fan
Speaker 1: or here an observer of what transpires each and every
Speaker 1: day up here at Kallisall and on Sundays when we
Speaker 1: call the games, that's all I need to hear. And
Speaker 1: it also tells me he is a competitive guy. We
Speaker 1: always hear that I mean we were in Indianapolis. I
Speaker 1: saw him and you know, during their off time after
Speaker 1: practice and before a meal, playing in the the you know,
Speaker 1: playing ping pong, and you know competitive. He's competitive and
Speaker 1: he wants to be great. He wants to he wants
Speaker 1: to figure this out. It's not like he's just resting
Speaker 1: out his laurels. We've seen plenty of quarterbacks come through
Speaker 1: here that maybe didn't have that same mindset. So I
Speaker 1: appreciate the mindset. So let's let's hope this is the
Speaker 1: beginning of a new day. It's an early part of
Speaker 1: the season and you're going in to face the World champions.
Speaker 1: Everybody should have the mindset tim like, Okay, forget if
Speaker 1: there was nothing going on, what if it was just
Speaker 1: a clean road, everybody's healthy. You're going into a stadium
Speaker 1: to take on the World champ you'd be that's the
Speaker 1: game you circled in May. We'll get to play the
Speaker 1: World Champs in their building, and we're going to try
Speaker 1: to slay the king right. I mean, you're going to
Speaker 1: the Kingdom, they call it the Kingdom. Go go there,
Speaker 1: play just completely rambunctious and get the job done and
Speaker 1: pull an upset and see what happens.
Speaker 5: You know at the conclusion of the game, when you
Speaker 5: do go and watch the film, it's all about how
Speaker 5: do you make corrections. You don't sit there and dwell
Speaker 5: on the mistakes and just think about the mistakes and said, Okay,
Speaker 5: I made a mistake here. What do I do the
Speaker 5: next time I run the same play? And how do
Speaker 5: I get better? And I think when you look at
Speaker 5: how does Justin Fields get better?
Speaker 2: It's partly coaching and it's partly Justin.
Speaker 5: No one has all the responsibility here, but it is
Speaker 5: about making sure you watch the film in order to
Speaker 5: get better a time.
Speaker 1: Now listen, Okay, you've mentioned it more than once, but
Speaker 1: now we got a New Day podcast here, we got
Speaker 1: a preview for the Kansas City Chiefs. So as you
Speaker 1: close your eyes and dream up a game plan for
Speaker 1: Justin Fields within the context of the scheme of the
Speaker 1: team and Luke Getze and his offensive staff what their
Speaker 1: designs are against Kansas City. Now, because you're game planning
Speaker 1: the World champions with a much better defense than maybe
Speaker 1: people want to give them credit for. And Chris Jones
Speaker 1: is back and Steve's Bagnola brings pressure and all that.
Speaker 1: What would you like to see Sunday from justin fields
Speaker 1: and the offense?
Speaker 5: Do you really want me to tell you my secrets.
Speaker 5: I have an exact plan in mind what I would
Speaker 5: do for him.
Speaker 1: We can make it. We can make an editorial comment.
Speaker 1: This is an opinion of Tom Thayers, an idea of
Speaker 1: Tom Thayers, not representing the Chicago Bears coaching staff, and
Speaker 1: a game plan.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jeff, how wide is a field fifty three and
Speaker 2: a half yards?
Speaker 6: Buddy? There you go.
Speaker 5: So every single snap are not every single snap, but
Speaker 5: nine out of ten snaps, I'm taking half of that
Speaker 5: field away from him. Everything is going to move to
Speaker 5: one side of the field. Reads are going to be immediate.
Speaker 5: It's going to be one two, they're not there run
Speaker 5: and it's going to be roles. It's gonna be bootlegs.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be waggles, it's gonna be play action. It's
Speaker 5: going to be an aggressive form of passing where my
Speaker 5: decisions are made immediately. When one of the things I
Speaker 5: saw in training camp, I thought that they could really
Speaker 5: run an interesting two man game to one side of
Speaker 5: the field, and that's Claypool and DJ Moore or Darnell
Speaker 5: and d or whatever two receivers you want to put
Speaker 5: out there, including cole Comet, and so the immediacy of
Speaker 5: the decision is going to be visually right there for
Speaker 5: you because both receivers are going to be kind of
Speaker 5: leveled on each other. And then if Justin doesn't see
Speaker 5: what he likes, then you take off and then you
Speaker 5: run the ball. And so that does one thing for
Speaker 5: me is it makes blocking more aggressive simpler for the
Speaker 5: offensive line. And if you don't have a plan of
Speaker 5: attack that includes the protection by the offensive line, you're
Speaker 5: never going to be successful with Justin just sitting inside
Speaker 5: the confines of a pocket, because now it's outside rushers
Speaker 5: that create contained. Now you're kind of in a cup,
Speaker 5: and then you got the defensive tackles that are going
Speaker 5: to have some push forward and they're going to close
Speaker 5: that distance. So fifty three yards cut in half. My
Speaker 5: game is going to be one way or the other.
Speaker 5: And I'm going to use the blessed ability of Justin fields.
Speaker 5: He's got arm, talent, he's got accuracy, he's got distance.
Speaker 5: They have talented receivers, but they are not going to
Speaker 5: pressure me from the pocket. And so now Steve Spagnola,
Speaker 5: if he has all these sophisticated blitzes that are coming
Speaker 5: from the interior. He's already away from those guys. Now,
Speaker 5: my offensive line, they don't necessarily need to have a
Speaker 5: vocal count because you're not going to hear it in
Speaker 5: Kansas City. But they are going to explode off the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage. They are going to they are going
Speaker 5: to blow up, but they're going to do it in
Speaker 5: a direction, Jeff. So they necessarily don't know who is
Speaker 5: their pass protector. They don't know how to set Chris
Speaker 5: Jones on the most vulnerable.
Speaker 2: Person in there.
Speaker 5: And you know, we used to it was Hilgy Jay
Speaker 5: always used to call the bootleg the play of the nineties,
Speaker 5: right because it's the easiest play that you can possibly run.
Speaker 5: It's the most successful blocking scheme and offensive line that
Speaker 5: has some susceptibility on the road can use.
Speaker 2: And it's half ivy. That's that's my game plan.
Speaker 1: And that's a half field play. Yeah, yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a half feel.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to have Justin drop straight back and
Speaker 5: read fifty three yards. I'm going to have Justin use
Speaker 5: his blessings, get to the outside.
Speaker 2: One to go. If I want to open throw if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken too.
Speaker 1: And we discussed great defensive linemen over the years, in
Speaker 1: our twenty seven years together, and you know, you're a
Speaker 1: couple of things. One use their aggressiveness against them and
Speaker 1: get them running. Get them running horizontally, you know, so
Speaker 1: they're just not charging through a gap up field, you know,
Speaker 1: relentlessly and using all their toolbox. Get them move in
Speaker 1: a little bit. And so that's what I would want,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, get them move in.
Speaker 5: I was telling you about a game when we played
Speaker 5: the Buffalo Bills when they had the great bo Bruce
Speaker 5: Smith and Darryl Tallly and fred Smerlis and the rest
Speaker 5: of these great defensive linemen. If you kids are too young,
Speaker 5: go and look them up. But we didn't throw any
Speaker 5: drop back passes. Everything was play action and we are
Speaker 5: super aggressive and though so they were confused is this.
Speaker 2: A run or are they throwing the ball again?
Speaker 5: And the quarterback had a great day and we beat
Speaker 5: them convincingly. So I think that's something of when you
Speaker 5: have some deficiencies, you can revisit that type of game planning.
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Speaker 1: Let's pause right now and move into our interview with
Speaker 1: the great Mitch oltis the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: All right, maman's here.
Speaker 1: Mitch oltis so one of the guys I've looked up
Speaker 1: to in this business since I got involved with play
Speaker 1: by play twenty three years ago. I remember pulling you
Speaker 1: aside of the Kansas City game introdews myself. I was
Speaker 1: nervous as hell. Honestly, I said, I got to meet
Speaker 1: this guy because I just love how you call a game.
Speaker 1: Mitche oltis the veteran voice of the Kingdom as he
Speaker 1: calls it, and as they call it in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: A very unique and special time happening in Kansas City
Speaker 1: right now. But it has to have been the time
Speaker 1: of your life here since Andy Reid took over in
Speaker 1: Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Jeff, it's only my thirtieth season, and I can really
Speaker 3: categorize him into segments. The first five where with Marty
Speaker 3: Schottenheimer the last five of his time in Kansas City,
Speaker 3: and he was a phenomenal man and coach. The next
Speaker 3: fourteen were the time in the wilderness. Yeah, okay, looking
Speaker 3: for Manna to come down. But three playoff appearances. Two
Speaker 3: of those the Chiefs weren't even competitive, and honestly, it
Speaker 3: was just it was brutal. And then it got reached
Speaker 3: a head in it was two, two and fourteen seasons.
Speaker 3: And then in two thousand and nine, I'm sorry, twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: we had a player you know, that took his girlfriend's life,
Speaker 3: who just happened to meet Jabal Charles, our star running
Speaker 3: backs wife's cousin. Then he took his own life on
Speaker 3: our front steps of our facility. It doesn't get any
Speaker 3: worse than that. It was a bad, bad environment, a
Speaker 3: lot of bad and then Andy Reid came and it's
Speaker 3: like the old movie Pleasant Bill, like people just started
Speaker 3: popping up in color, one at a time. And truthfully,
Speaker 3: this has been a phenomenal eleven seasons, nine our ten
Speaker 3: straight winning years. To win two Super Bowls in a
Speaker 3: four year span, to go to three in many ways
Speaker 3: has been unparalleled. To host five straight AFC Championship games
Speaker 3: is that's history. It's never been done by any team
Speaker 3: in either conference. To win the division, which is a
Speaker 3: division that's much like yours. It's historic and it's very
Speaker 3: very tightly contested. Every division team has won to fifteen
Speaker 3: division titles in sixty plus years, and yet we've won
Speaker 3: it seven straight years. I mean, that's never been done,
Speaker 3: only second and NFL history behind the Patriots run. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we're in unprecedented times, at least in the Chiefs kingdom,
Speaker 3: but historically it gets compared now to some of the
Speaker 3: greatest in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, I was the Bulls pre and postgame co
Speaker 1: host during the Jordan era, and you knew every single
Speaker 1: night once they started winning and they started collecting championships
Speaker 1: with MJ, every night was a show. Every game is
Speaker 1: a show with the Chiefs. It's the whole hunted and
Speaker 1: being hunted thing, right, And every snap matters, just like
Speaker 1: MJ and the Boys. Every dribble mattered because everybody was
Speaker 1: out to get them and they couldn't do it. Is
Speaker 1: there that sense now for you as a broadcaster? You know,
Speaker 1: I haven't called many playoff games in my twenty three years,
Speaker 1: and I've been involved with the organization for twenty seven
Speaker 1: years and it's been it's been a roller coaster ride.
Speaker 1: So when you get to a playoff game. It's like
Speaker 1: a massive treat. Now you're used to it. You know
Speaker 1: you're going to the playoffs every year. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you feel though, that every that matters throughout the regular
Speaker 1: season now, because it's it's Andy, it's it's Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: it's it's Travis Kelcey, it's Chris Jones, it's you never
Speaker 1: know what's going to pop up next.
Speaker 3: Your assertion is spot on, and I'm glad you brought
Speaker 3: it up that way. And your analogy with the Bulls,
Speaker 3: I don't think is far off because you could put
Speaker 3: Kelsey in the Scottie Pippen roll. I mean it's you've
Speaker 3: got two of the greatest to ever do it that
Speaker 3: are doing it now year after year after year. Kelsey's
Speaker 3: redefined the tight end position. And the fact that now
Speaker 3: we talk about pass catchers. When your audience here's this,
Speaker 3: they'll go what Because if you look at playoff history,
Speaker 3: Kelsey with receptions, yards and touchdowns, only Jerry Rice has
Speaker 3: more than Kelsey in NFL history. Okay, so that goes
Speaker 3: beyond tight ends. But your assertion about every play matters
Speaker 3: is so spot on. It's even intensified where only one
Speaker 3: team now gets the buy and we've seen the AFC
Speaker 3: just go all in. Man, They're just like they spend
Speaker 3: every weeking minute. And this is going to sound arrogant.
Speaker 3: I don't want it to be arrogant, but this goes
Speaker 3: back to the Bulls. Every AFC team has spent every
Speaker 3: waking minute figuring out a way to knock us off.
Speaker 3: And even the narrative last year was these guys lee
Speaker 3: lose Tyreek Hill. They are going to be covered by
Speaker 3: in volcanic ash by Halloween and all this stuff. And
Speaker 3: then that's why when I said when the Chiefs beat
Speaker 3: Cincinnati in the AFC Championship Game to get another Lamar
Speaker 3: Hunt Trophy, I said, you can doubt the Chiefs, you
Speaker 3: can dislike the Chiefs, you can disrespect the Chiefs, but
Speaker 3: you're going to have to deal with the Chiefs. And
Speaker 3: you can say the same thing about the Bulls. It
Speaker 3: wasn't an arrogant statement. It was more of like all
Speaker 3: this was pent up inside. But yeah, Mahomes to Jordan
Speaker 3: is a very accurate analogy. When you look at the competitiveness,
Speaker 3: the unique athletic skill of the two and their creativity,
Speaker 3: I think that's really really go to.
Speaker 1: Your mitche oltis voice of the Kansas City chiefs our
Speaker 1: guest on Bears, etc. As we come to you from
Speaker 1: Hallis Hall today, we'll break down the matchups in this
Speaker 1: one with Tom Thayer bit later out of the program. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to even bring in the NBA angle,
Speaker 1: but I was asked about him the other day by
Speaker 1: a bunch of Bears fans Mahomes, and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen some great ball handlers in the NFL and history,
Speaker 1: the guys who can carry out the fakes. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think how Peyton Manning set up play action. You
Speaker 1: never knew it was a passer or a run throughout
Speaker 1: the course of his career. But Brett farre Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: they are point guards. Patrick Mahones maybe the best point
Speaker 1: guard in NFL history, because it's just you never know
Speaker 1: where it's coming from, why, how, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's just he is hard to figure out and hard
Speaker 1: to stop. Would you say that's a fair representation about
Speaker 1: the underrated aspect of his game?
Speaker 2: Is the ball handling, the ball faking.
Speaker 3: Very fair relate to a story. So it's twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: People forget he apprenticed for all of twenty seventeen did
Speaker 3: not play. So when you see these stats of like
Speaker 3: in his first six years or a quarterback, he gets compared.
Speaker 3: He basically didn't have a rookie year, but he did.
Speaker 3: It was all spent with I said he was playing
Speaker 3: Augusta but never playing the Masters.
Speaker 6: Right, but I was on with Greg Papa.
Speaker 3: Then the touchdown read he is now he's like seeing
Speaker 3: Francisco and he goes, I know I'm ripping off your
Speaker 3: deal because I'm Kansa said he called me. He goes, hey,
Speaker 3: I don't want to rip it up.
Speaker 2: It's flattery. It's flattery.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, fine, but I was on his college show, right.
Speaker 3: I was on a show like this, and I could
Speaker 3: hear his co host and producer and they go, who
Speaker 3: does mahomes for buying you of? And I go Steph
Speaker 3: Curry and I could hear them all like ha ha
Speaker 3: ha ha.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, let's see home runny year.
Speaker 3: They had me back on, going dude, you're right, so
Speaker 3: you're ball handling is he's phenomenal And you throw that
Speaker 3: in with the NASA scientists that surround him, and then
Speaker 3: Andy Reid with motions and deception. But yes, I mean
Speaker 3: he is. Maybe he's like meadow Lark Lemon back in
Speaker 3: the day, but his ballhandling is he'll drive linebackers crazy.
Speaker 3: And we're very hard to play. If you don't play
Speaker 3: us a lot, we're kind of hard to play. If
Speaker 3: you do play us a lot. We're thirty seven and
Speaker 3: five against the AFC West this last six years. And
Speaker 3: I don't mean that to be arrogant. It's just it's like,
Speaker 3: what I mean, this division's really good, but I mean
Speaker 3: thirty seven and five, Well, a lot of it is
Speaker 3: he's hard to play against and his ball handling is phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I don't think we've seen anything like it in the league.
Speaker 1: What would you think? And I'm not sure they haven't talked,
Speaker 1: but maybe they have, maybe they haven't. What do you think,
Speaker 1: knowing now Patrick Mahomes, what his advice would be for
Speaker 1: justin fields because he enters really important time right now,
Speaker 1: Week three of his third NFL season.
Speaker 6: Hang in there.
Speaker 3: This has not all been unicorns and candy canes for
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes. I remember him losing back to back games
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen. I remember having discussions with him and
Speaker 3: his that apprentice year at twenty seventeen, I remember a
Speaker 3: couple times we just got together and just chopped it up.
Speaker 3: But I was really interested because if you look at
Speaker 3: his Tyler Whitehouse high school days, he's either winning or
Speaker 3: losing games like sixty nine to sixty seven. Right, I go,
Speaker 3: that's not the NFL. If you go back and look
Speaker 3: at Texas Tech, he would lose the k State seventy one,
Speaker 3: the sixty nine for seven hundred, I go, that's not
Speaker 3: the NFL. So he had to adjust. And then in
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen he had the injury. There was a bad October,
Speaker 3: looked like the train was going to be taken off
Speaker 3: the track, and he again was surrounded by great people
Speaker 3: and hung in there. The same thing happened last year. Right,
Speaker 3: he had the injury against Jacksonville, has to come out
Speaker 3: of the game. We went on a ninety eight yard
Speaker 3: drive with Chad Henny quarterback, you know meenthusler Moses and uh.
Speaker 3: Then we go to the Super Bowl and he gets
Speaker 3: knocked out basically, and he is thank you to you
Speaker 3: know for the long halftime. But what he would I
Speaker 3: don't know if they have talked or not. I kind
Speaker 3: of hope they would, because justin right now is getting
Speaker 3: thrown all kinds of shade on him. He's dealing with
Speaker 3: tension of external and internal. And I don't mean internal,
Speaker 3: I mean inside his own psyche.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: I watched him in Ohio State. This kid's a confident kid.
Speaker 3: I watched him last year, and so the question I
Speaker 3: think is, is he Lamar Jackson and Michael Vick. I
Speaker 3: mean that one and twenty five. You're going, oh my god,
Speaker 3: that's something else.
Speaker 2: Right in the history of the league, right special.
Speaker 3: So, and I know you got to be a pocket passer.
Speaker 3: You got to hit the seven route, you got hit
Speaker 3: the nine route. The biggest thing is you have got
Speaker 3: to go down four less than three minutes and I
Speaker 3: got to go seventy five eighty yards. Mahomes had to
Speaker 3: learn that there was a growth curve and where fans
Speaker 3: I think can hit the quick triggers like he's six
Speaker 3: and twenty three and blah, Well he's dealt with a
Speaker 3: lot just I think Mahomes would say, you're a talented dude.
Speaker 3: You've got upside and sailing here. Just hang in there.
Speaker 3: But we also know what you can do and don't
Speaker 3: lose that either, and that is the ability to run
Speaker 3: the ball aka Lamar Jackson or Michael Beck.
Speaker 1: All Right, we got a couple of guys that you
Speaker 1: faced last year in important, key, high leverage moments the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Hills, of course, in the Super Bowl. TJ Edwards,
Speaker 1: my man from Lake's community here in the Chicago area,
Speaker 1: first got to signing free agency. Mitch first guy because
Speaker 1: he wanted to be a bear. He grew up a
Speaker 1: bear bled Navy blue and orange house parties at his
Speaker 1: home out here in the Northern suburbs every week.
Speaker 2: It was in him. He had to be a bear.
Speaker 2: So he's a bear.
Speaker 1: And Tremaine Edmonds in that great Buffalo Classic with you guys,
Speaker 1: Can these guys be a channel for change? Those two
Speaker 1: linebackers together now as guys who are only in my estimation,
Speaker 1: like a half dozen guys on this roster who in
Speaker 1: their NFL careers in games that they played, have winning records.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: This team is not a team full of guys that
Speaker 1: have learned how to win or have winning records.
Speaker 2: Does that matter that those two guys.
Speaker 3: Are here, no question, and they've seen it happen. They
Speaker 3: didn't walk into winning necessarily. Maybe tremain a little bit
Speaker 3: with the Bills, but they were still at the start
Speaker 3: of their.
Speaker 6: What they are now and what they've been.
Speaker 3: The last several years, and so it's like they have
Speaker 3: seen the secrets of the sauce, Right, they've seen what
Speaker 3: goes into the mix and a week to week thing
Speaker 3: of the you know, overreaction or thinking, gosh, we will
Speaker 3: never get there can be a tumor that grows inside
Speaker 3: the the body. Right, those two guys, those are great
Speaker 3: examples because they've been around a recent winning at a
Speaker 3: high level. Right, these guys have played in championship games
Speaker 3: or a super Bowl, and so they become a doe
Speaker 3: they do I like your word catalyst. They become a
Speaker 3: impetus for the rest of the guys.
Speaker 6: How do we handle this? What do we do?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: Guys, even on the offensive side, Jeff, What people do
Speaker 3: not realize there's a lot of untold stories about the
Speaker 3: Chiefs in this eleven years now. And one of them,
Speaker 3: and here's where Mahomes fits right in is that football
Speaker 3: teams and I don't care and we've seen it. I'm
Speaker 3: a Northwestern fan, Gash just term stay in there. But
Speaker 3: it can be the U of I, it can be Northwestern,
Speaker 3: it can be Glen Bard. I don't know, but football
Speaker 3: teams can be fractured one hundred ways because you have subcultures.
Speaker 3: It's not the bulls, right, you have a defense and offense,
Speaker 3: special teams, you've got personnel, you've got coaching. It can
Speaker 3: just I've seen it fracture one hundred ways. But when
Speaker 3: you get a here's where I think the next step
Speaker 3: is for the Bears, when you get this flow of
Speaker 3: what we've had now for ten years of vertical and
Speaker 3: horizontal understanding. I did exchanging influence. Mahomes works with Spagnolo,
Speaker 3: our defensive coordinator and some of our defensive players, not
Speaker 3: as much as he does with the offense, but it
Speaker 3: would shock you. He'll walk into the defensive meeting or
Speaker 3: during can and go, hey, you guys were showing me.
Speaker 3: This is what were you doing here? And what should
Speaker 3: I do? Or how do I? And Spags and the
Speaker 3: guys will go okay, right, we're showing you something that
Speaker 3: the Jags will show you in week two because the
Speaker 3: Jags are pretty tricky. I'll give you another example. Last
Speaker 3: year we played the Titans and we were man, we
Speaker 3: were stuck in mud and we're just kind of mudding
Speaker 3: through it hard game we win Monday Night Football. But
Speaker 3: the defense it was like it was like our week
Speaker 3: two went over. The Jags give it to the defense, right,
Speaker 3: And so the award it was Sunday Night Football, I think.
Speaker 3: And so Holmes got the Fickle Finger of Fade award
Speaker 3: or whatever they hand out, you know. Here you go
Speaker 3: and he's like, why am I got this?
Speaker 6: He walked.
Speaker 3: The next day he goes into the defensive team meeting.
Speaker 3: He goes, this is your guys, this isn't mine. You
Speaker 3: guys won that game, Spags told me. And you gotta understand,
Speaker 3: Spags has coached for fifty years or whatever.
Speaker 2: His resume yesterday. I can't believe it, how how deep
Speaker 2: it goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said, it's only happened one other time, and
Speaker 3: it was with the Giants back in the days of
Speaker 3: you know, those great defenses he had in seven. But
Speaker 3: he goes, here comes this dude who comes into our
Speaker 3: team meeting and goes, the sain't me, it's you guys.
Speaker 3: And that's when Spags goes, that's why we get teams
Speaker 3: off the field so we can give the ball back
Speaker 3: to this guy. There is zero jealousy. In fact, there's
Speaker 3: this flow of information. So why am I telling you this?
Speaker 3: It's because of those defensive guys who have won, who
Speaker 3: can have influence on the offense. And that's when you
Speaker 3: get that role in an organization. It's it goes a
Speaker 3: long way.
Speaker 2: Not asking you for company secrets.
Speaker 1: As he wrapped things up here on Bears, et cetera
Speaker 1: with the great Mitch Holtis, the voice of the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. So we just got through Todd Bowles and
Speaker 1: his pressure packages. They're different than what Spags puts together.
Speaker 1: What is his secret sauce in terms of a young
Speaker 1: quarterback going in there, I'm the road in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: no less that place. The last time I was there,
Speaker 1: the building was shaking as I stood there in the booth.
Speaker 2: I feel it.
Speaker 3: You beat it eighteen to seventeen. I can still see
Speaker 3: colors still to court that. I still see it in
Speaker 3: my sleep. Color would't even wear in a facements. He
Speaker 3: had like a cocktail and a cigarette. It was like
Speaker 3: Bobby Lane. He's like, I got a better throw it
Speaker 3: over there. Yeah, we just lost eighteen to seventeen. So hey,
Speaker 3: you got our attention. But to answer your question, Spags,
Speaker 3: Mike Dana, I had Mike dan on a similar show
Speaker 3: yesterday and Dana goes, he's a wizard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the guy's a wizard.
Speaker 3: Here's this is the best defense the Chiefs have had potentially.
Speaker 6: The Andy Reid era.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: And here's what let me give you. Let me give
Speaker 6: you a couple of things.
Speaker 4: Chris Jones is back number one. That helps us, That
Speaker 4: helps a lot. But we won a super Bowl last year, Jeff,
Speaker 4: and we had eight rookies on our defense and won
Speaker 4: a super Bowl. That's an ull time NFL record.
Speaker 3: Right, And you guys were the only guys playing more
Speaker 3: rookies than us on defense last year and during the season.
Speaker 3: All right, now we've added to that. But why is
Speaker 3: that important? Because Spags is the He's as creative on
Speaker 3: defense as a lot of offensive coaches are. Because don't
Speaker 3: put an ass on a guy saying that's a safety.
Speaker 3: He might be a slock corner or a week sidebacker.
Speaker 3: Don't put a oh, he's the mic and he's the
Speaker 3: will Nope. They're all moving around. Uh, and they will
Speaker 3: move personnel around as much as his strategic packages. That's
Speaker 3: what makes it difficult. You don't know where it's coming.
Speaker 3: Chris Jones, where's he lining up? But oh, look out
Speaker 3: for the other guys, because they this is a pretty
Speaker 3: good defense. Now they've gone two games and given up
Speaker 3: two touchdowns. We lose to your friends the Lions on
Speaker 3: a pick six. Let's be honest and drop passes that
Speaker 3: equaled well, I call them hidden the yardage. It's a
Speaker 3: big factor for both our teams right now. Sure is
Speaker 3: a fend of the yardage, not just the feddal the yardage,
Speaker 3: but the yard you lose tip passes and the drops.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, we're thirty first and drops you're twenty seventh.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: That being said, the defense won that game. It's fourteen points, guys,
Speaker 3: and we did but two touchdowns in two weeks.
Speaker 6: But you're coming after you got runners.
Speaker 3: I can't believe out Texas ever lost the game with
Speaker 3: Roshawn Joneses in the same backfield.
Speaker 6: What are you guys doing anyway?
Speaker 3: The point is Spags will throw you fastballs, curves, sliders, cutters,
Speaker 3: but you'll throw them right handed and left handed. It's
Speaker 3: really unique. It's it's very different than anything you see
Speaker 3: in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Big jab ahead for Justin Fields and the Bears. We'll
Speaker 1: see you on Sunday. Man a little bit of a
Speaker 1: welcome Matt for us.
Speaker 2: Right, we love going there.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most unique venues to go as
Speaker 1: a fan or as a broadcast looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: You know what, this has been one of the more
Speaker 3: demanded tickets over the past five years, and a lot
Speaker 3: of it is Bears fans are making this pilgrimage.
Speaker 2: They're spending money. They're spending money.
Speaker 3: They want to got some money, but they got your money.
Speaker 3: They want to but they want to see it, man,
Speaker 3: they want to feel it and taste it. So it'll
Speaker 3: be a fun Sunday.
Speaker 2: My brother, thanks for your time.
Speaker 3: Trouble well, all right.
Speaker 1: One thing I love about Mitchel does he calls a
Speaker 1: great game. He knows the game. He knows the game
Speaker 1: very well. You can hear it in his calls and
Speaker 1: I always, I always respect that. And he's feeding the beasts,
Speaker 1: so to speak. That fan base knows football. They love
Speaker 1: their Kansas City Chiefs even before they were winning all
Speaker 1: these last ten years under Andy Reid. But he also
Speaker 1: he knows to hit all the touch points for the
Speaker 1: passion of that team, and his historical referencing is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So I enjoy talking to him a great deal. And
Speaker 1: I appreciate him taking the time time.
Speaker 5: Yes, So I was reading something by him and he
Speaker 5: says he's always nervous before the first preseason game, even
Speaker 5: though he's been doing this for thirty years.
Speaker 2: Do you get nervous before the first Okay.
Speaker 1: Yes, here's why. Well, and I know he he doesn't
Speaker 1: do much other play by play. He used to do
Speaker 1: some college basketball and he may still. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I don't at this point in my career. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's like talking a different language on game day.
Speaker 1: So I know, you know, my daughter's Kelly and Caitlin
Speaker 1: very well, your uncle Tom to them. Uh, And they
Speaker 1: asked me that same question this year. You still get nervous,
Speaker 1: and yeah, because it's just you're reacting to something that
Speaker 1: you don't normally react to, and you're just you gotta just,
Speaker 1: you gotta go. It's like, it's here's how, here's how
Speaker 1: I exactly. You know, the very first game I ever did,
Speaker 1: as you recall with hub Archisian in the booth, you
Speaker 1: had a three man booth. We're at Soldier Field, it
Speaker 1: was an old Soldier Field before the renovation, and we're
Speaker 1: it was a preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals, and
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, you're you're you're jump. You're going
Speaker 1: at the end of a high, high dive board and
Speaker 1: you you have no choice. You can't turn around and
Speaker 1: go back. You just got to jump. And that's what
Speaker 1: preseason football is. And to some extent, when the games
Speaker 1: get bigger, you do you get more butterflies?
Speaker 6: Like you know.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Devin Hester last weekend in Orlando
Speaker 1: and he asked me, He goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you prepare? And do you do you rehearse?
Speaker 2: And I go, there's no rehearsing in football. You can't.
Speaker 2: You can't. There's no practice.
Speaker 1: You're not going Wednesday Thursday and go walk through on
Speaker 1: Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: No, you can't.
Speaker 1: You just have to react. And so it's the bigger
Speaker 1: the game, the more at stake, in my opinion, for
Speaker 1: every single snap you got a call because you'd never
Speaker 1: know in that next great play that will be in
Speaker 1: NFL films for perpetuity and you hope you nailed it.
Speaker 2: Do you do you get nervous?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: So that ESPN commercial I saw by you that.
Speaker 5: You sleep with the Super Bowl trophy and the microphone,
Speaker 5: that's really what you do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly that one. See, it wasn't me that
Speaker 1: made it's you. And Caitlin called me up, facetimed me
Speaker 1: and was I really had tears of laughter. She said,
Speaker 1: Tom delivered the line of lines nature nature it was
Speaker 1: it was so wi no nature, it's amazing or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: But but the it's the it's how.
Speaker 1: You delivered it. It's how you delivered it. So now
Speaker 1: those are fun.
Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: all right. Braxton Jones, we we complimented his durability, his
Speaker 1: ability to make every snap throughout the course of his
Speaker 1: early career here with the Bears. Now he's gonna be
Speaker 1: down at least four games. I did see him in
Speaker 1: the locker room on Wednesday. Briefly he says, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be okay. You know, I just we're gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. We're gonna be good. Aside from the injury
Speaker 1: to a neck, which you have to take seriously, how
Speaker 1: can he improve? This was a bit of a shock
Speaker 1: maybe to his system these first two games of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three.
Speaker 5: You got to stay in the meetings, man, You've got
Speaker 5: to stay in the meetings and prepare as an active player.
Speaker 5: You can't lose mentally like you can lose yourself mentally
Speaker 5: in four weeks or however long this is going to
Speaker 5: take to recover. So Chris Morgan has to school him,
Speaker 5: has to drill him, has to ask him questions as
Speaker 5: if he's the starting left tackle and make sure that
Speaker 5: he stays mentally involved.
Speaker 2: And that's what he needs to do.
Speaker 5: Whatever type of training he can do on his lower body,
Speaker 5: he's got to still be able to do that. He's
Speaker 5: got to be on the stationary bike. He's got to
Speaker 5: do his conditioning to keep going so when he is
Speaker 5: ready to come back, he can do without skipping a beat.
Speaker 2: In four weeks.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the weather's going to be cooler, so it's not
Speaker 5: going to be as strenuous as it was in Tampa
Speaker 5: or eighty degrees in Cloudy with thirty percent chance arrayin
Speaker 5: this week in Kansas City, So you know it'll it'll
Speaker 5: come back to better conditions.
Speaker 2: But it's all about him staying into it mentally.
Speaker 1: Here again then in the big picture, and Lucas Patrick
Speaker 1: was unable to practice on Wednesday with an illness, So
Speaker 1: this continuity we seek is not going to be there
Speaker 1: for many many more weeks without the five intended parts
Speaker 1: to the puzzle. So are you concerned about this moving forward?
Speaker 1: About the offensive line now? Right now, Avion Collins will
Speaker 1: be the swing tackle I assume, and Larry borm will
Speaker 1: get the crack at the left tackle unless they decide
Speaker 1: to move Darnell Right from right to left. Would you
Speaker 1: be in okay with that if that happened?
Speaker 5: I would be You know, I think Larry Borum's fortunate
Speaker 5: to have the versatility and the athleticism to be to
Speaker 5: play both sides.
Speaker 2: But maybe if you can get a guy like Darnell Right.
Speaker 5: Improved the coaches that he is a solid left tackle,
Speaker 5: maybe that is his future for this offensive line.
Speaker 2: So it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 5: Nowadays in the NFL that teams have very little continuity
Speaker 5: on the offensive line because guys missed so many games nowadays.
Speaker 5: But just think of this experiment worked out and said,
Speaker 5: oh my god, Darnell Right is making this left side
Speaker 5: of the line more powerful. He works well with Cody Whitehair,
Speaker 5: works well with the tight end position. Now we can
Speaker 5: Larry Borim, Braxton, Braxton Jones, Avantae Collins. We can figure
Speaker 5: out who is the best suited at the right tackle position.
Speaker 5: So if I but you know, one thing I would
Speaker 5: have to do is I would have to have a
Speaker 5: period of two of one.
Speaker 2: Hundred percent effort.
Speaker 5: I can't examine his left tackle ability by going out
Speaker 5: there in no pads and practicing at fifty percent.
Speaker 2: That's unrealistic. So if you really want to see.
Speaker 5: If you have a diamond in the rough in Darnell Right,
Speaker 5: I think you really have to have a couple periods
Speaker 5: that supreme effort.
Speaker 1: Now, the other side of the thinking is, don't disturb
Speaker 1: you young player and coach e Briflus Didy indicate that
Speaker 1: keep met right tackle where he's been trained from day
Speaker 1: one here And would you be open to going out
Speaker 1: and seeing what else is available out there's somebody that's
Speaker 1: you know, a veteran. If some sorry you don't want
Speaker 1: to bring anybody else in.
Speaker 5: Okay, you know that's going to That's gonna take me
Speaker 5: a solid fourteen days, which is two games minimum, maybe
Speaker 5: twenty one days to have this quarterback come in and
Speaker 5: learn every assignment to its exact and how do you
Speaker 5: want that quarterback?
Speaker 2: I'm talking about offensive line, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Okay, It's going to take you a period of time
Speaker 5: before you have a player that can come in here
Speaker 5: and learn every single one of his assignments first, second
Speaker 5: and third down, on pass, on run, on moving, pocket, play, action, RPOs,
Speaker 5: all the different responsibilities you have. So no, you know,
Speaker 5: Ryan Poles does a nice job of judging offensive line.
Speaker 5: And I think whoever is going to be that next
Speaker 5: guy is in the room ready.
Speaker 2: Good news.
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Speaker 1: let's dig into the Chiefs a little bit. What are
Speaker 1: you seeing on tape let's start with defense and what
Speaker 1: Justin's is gonna have to deal with. Obviously, the blitz packages.
Speaker 1: You know, it's different than what Bowles does in Tampa.
Speaker 1: They do play a lot of zone coverage on the
Speaker 1: back end. They don't want to give up big plays.
Speaker 1: They will run some risky stuff up front, try to
Speaker 1: get home and create some indecision and force turnovers. But overall,
Speaker 1: can the Bears, for example, run against this team. Can
Speaker 1: they diffuse the bomb that is Chris Jones?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they can.
Speaker 5: You know, Steve Spagnola, the defensive coordinator, is a talented guy,
Speaker 5: and he knows how to use his talent. He'll move
Speaker 5: Chris Jones all around the up line of scrimmage. They
Speaker 5: have good pressure for outside. So to me, I'm going
Speaker 5: to set up a plan where if Chris I'm gonna
Speaker 5: I'm gonna set them up.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have maybe strength.
Speaker 5: To the left and i'm gonna have Chris Jones go
Speaker 5: to that three technique tackle or that defensive end position and.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna run right.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna call it in the huddle every every
Speaker 5: play example, blah blah blah. You know three two or three.
Speaker 5: That's just you know, the two hole to the right,
Speaker 5: the three hole to the left, however you number your holes.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go up there and it's going to
Speaker 5: be a complete check with me type of a game.
Speaker 5: And that way, I'm always gonna not always run away
Speaker 5: from Chris Jones, but when I feel confidently that I
Speaker 5: designed a play that I can run towards their vulnerability,
Speaker 5: and that's that's the way I would try to do it.
Speaker 1: So, as I researched this, ten different Kansas City chiefs
Speaker 1: piled up twenty four pressures against Trevor Lawrence last week.
Speaker 2: Last week. What does that indicate to you?
Speaker 5: Ten, Well, they know Trevor Lawrence is a drop back quarterback.
Speaker 5: They know that he's going to be on that spot.
Speaker 5: You know how we always hear during training camp we
Speaker 5: got to get the quarterback off of spot. Well, they
Speaker 5: know what Trevor Lawrence is. He is the type of
Speaker 5: guy that he's got athleticism, but he's a tall, straight
Speaker 5: dropback quarterback.
Speaker 2: So we need to get to that spot.
Speaker 5: And that's what Kansas City does, and that's what they
Speaker 5: do to whomever's playing quarterback. So that's why the suggestion
Speaker 5: of what they could do for Justin is, don't set
Speaker 5: him on that spot or you're just asking for trouble.
Speaker 5: And it doesn't surprise me because Spagnola, like I said,
Speaker 5: he's been a defensive coordinator for a long time in
Speaker 5: the NFL, and then he has an offense through up
Speaker 5: into this year here that scores a lot of points
Speaker 5: that he can take more chances because he knows that
Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes could get him out of it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's flip to the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: So many keys here. How do you deal with a
Speaker 1: playmaking guard so to speak? And Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 1: unique relationship with Travis Kelseys still working himself into shape.
Speaker 1: He had nine targets just for catches last week. But
Speaker 1: he can do some damage because he just they just
Speaker 1: know each other. They are the two man game.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, if Patrick Mahomes, you have to
Speaker 5: interrupt this creativity. He's the most creative quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Ourm angle thinking process, diverse type of throws, headfakes, I
Speaker 5: fakes when he lost the Super Bowl against Todd Poles,
Speaker 5: Todd Poles put him in a retreat position, and so
Speaker 5: the Bears are zero and two. If you want to
Speaker 5: take a chance against Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: If you lose the game, you lose the game, but
Speaker 2: don't lose it not being aggressive.
Speaker 5: Try to take advantage of some of the skill that
Speaker 5: you have on defense and put Patrick Mahomes in a
Speaker 5: retreat position and try to get him off the spot,
Speaker 5: have him throwing off the wrong type of foundation, try
Speaker 5: to make him look for open targets while he's trying
Speaker 5: to escape pressure. And they have guys that are capable
Speaker 5: of doing that. And listen, man, you're going to have
Speaker 5: to take some chances because you're just not going to
Speaker 5: sit there in a vanilla type defense and let him
Speaker 5: pick you apart.
Speaker 1: Play with reckless abandon, coach with reckless abandon. This is
Speaker 1: the World Champs you're going in. Not that they care,
Speaker 1: but the outside in Vegas is you're a thirteen point under.
Speaker 1: You're a two touchdown underdog, which is rare in the
Speaker 1: NFL these days. On the road at Kansas City, it's
Speaker 1: going to be raucous. I do know, Bears fans are
Speaker 1: trying to buy up some tickets and we'll be there
Speaker 1: making some noise. But they're going to have had to
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money to get into that place
Speaker 1: and get through the big red wave that is the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs fan base. So you know, an old
Speaker 1: football coach at Iowa State by the name of Jim
Speaker 1: Cranery I alway used to say, just I want my
Speaker 1: guys to play with reckless abandon, So play with reckless abandon.
Speaker 2: You know that's the only way to do it. Well.
Speaker 5: One thing too, it's not just offense and defense.
Speaker 6: In this game.
Speaker 5: Because former special teams coordinator Dave told works over there,
Speaker 5: if I have any fourth and one or fourth and
Speaker 5: two the Kansas City Chiefs, I'd be super specicious suspicious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, alert for sure.
Speaker 5: Yes, any type of creative type plays that.
Speaker 2: He is willing to do.
Speaker 5: You know he's he's you know, almost to face of
Speaker 5: special team's coaches right now in the NFL.
Speaker 2: He's had a lot of success.
Speaker 5: He had a fake punt run against him in week one,
Speaker 5: and you know that he's still steaming from having that happen.
Speaker 1: I do know also is very serious about boss security.
Speaker 1: Richie James Junior had a muff punt last week, so
Speaker 1: he is the return specialist for now, but they have
Speaker 1: others on there that could be a change there for
Speaker 1: all we know headed towards kickoff, all right, Well, it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting, that's for sure. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it always am. When you go to a take
Speaker 1: on a great team, you don't see the greatest of
Speaker 1: the great players very often in this league. There are
Speaker 1: and he's only so many, and two of them are
Speaker 1: right there in Mahomes and Kelsey, and you can throw
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman in there as well, in Chris Jones.
Speaker 2: Fake Town.
Speaker 5: You know one thing about Kansas City, though, Jeff, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of distractions. So they got this new contra
Speaker 5: that they gave Patrick Mahomes the most amount of money
Speaker 5: over the period of time than they've ever given anybody.
Speaker 2: They have the announcement that Travis.
Speaker 5: Kelsey is now dating Taylor Swift and that's going to
Speaker 5: change the media and the questions that are going to
Speaker 5: be asked to him and the rest of the team,
Speaker 5: and that could create a little bit of a distraction.
Speaker 5: Then you got the Chris Jones returning after his absence there,
Speaker 5: so you know, some of those things do interfere with preparation.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying it's going to but it is
Speaker 5: always a concern in the back.
Speaker 2: Of my mind. Yeah, I think they're used to it.
Speaker 1: Though they've been on the big stage now three Super
Speaker 1: Bowls in the last four years. They're getting grilled on
Speaker 1: all those media coming from all over the world for
Speaker 1: three Super Bowls. I think they're kind of used to
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 5: Hey, listen, there's not a player on that team or
Speaker 5: has ever been with that organization that's as popular as Swifty.
Speaker 5: So if you don't think, if you don't think that
Speaker 5: there's going to be some where questions asked to Kelsey,
Speaker 5: You're you know, you're you're not You're not understanding you.
Speaker 1: Know, No, I'm definitely not. I I did see her
Speaker 1: with the kids. Wait I did not. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: conversation for a Hyde Park, Hide Park, Hyde Park in London.
Speaker 2: Hyde Park.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, absolutely no. My my buddy Pat Olsen and
Speaker 1: I we had some Adel beverages and we let we
Speaker 1: let the.
Speaker 2: Ladies handle that.
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Speaker 1: Tom final word, A lot of distractions certainly going around.
Speaker 1: But as a football team, you have only one choice.
Speaker 1: You you get real insular.
Speaker 2: Insular. You go to your meetings, you go.
Speaker 1: To practice, you prepare, you go play, and let the
Speaker 1: rest of everything else settle on the outside looking in.
Speaker 2: Is that easier said than done? Could you do that? Oh?
Speaker 5: You know, when you have an athlete like Justin, if
Speaker 5: you put him in the right position and make the
Speaker 5: defense vulnerable, you could talk about a game at the
Speaker 5: end of this afternoon that starts at three twenty five
Speaker 5: Kansas City time. He has one hundred and eighty yards rushing,
Speaker 5: He got time of possession on offense. They give a
Speaker 5: chance to get some points, to allow your defense to
Speaker 5: take those chances that we talked about. It's not out
Speaker 5: of the realm with possibility because they have to have
Speaker 5: defensive concerns when a guy like Justin is coming into
Speaker 5: the building. And after all the turmoil that was created
Speaker 5: today at the podium, now you got these guys on
Speaker 5: high alert.
Speaker 1: Tom are We're going to do the fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: Raffle in Kansas City. Every stadium's got it. You've been
Speaker 1: a big proponent that the booth, Doug Colletti, Paul Zerang,
Speaker 1: Little Z, myself, you, Jason Silvia in the booth this
Speaker 1: week doing he's not going.
Speaker 2: I mean, can we do it just once?
Speaker 1: Can we just finally stop talking about it and actually
Speaker 1: do it?
Speaker 2: Yes, let's get Kolletti on the case.
Speaker 5: Listen, it's a three twenty five start. We do game
Speaker 5: Day live at the regular time ten thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: We may have a chance to.
Speaker 5: Walk into the stadium, buy some fifty to fifty chances
Speaker 5: and give us the best of luck.
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