WEBVTT - Bears vs. Chiefs Game Preview Week 3 | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.240 Right justin middle of the field forty five fifteen bring 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.600 Russ in front of a leading Lions. 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:05.760 In his work. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:12.360 I am Jeff jonahacklitz Is on Donny Got what was. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:13.800 Like playing for Cochi Gooddom. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.560 I don't want to answer any questions like that. Sixty 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.079 one yards? What's Sunday stroll for? Justin Field? 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.400 Ye Bears et Cetera with the voices of the Chicago 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.120 Bears Jeff Jonyac. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.600 Another newsy day up at Hattos Hall as the Bears 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.360 began to work week on the practice field for the 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.479 defending world champion Kansas City Chiefs. We'll discuss why on 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.519 episode eighteen of The Bears et Cetera podcast. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.200 Good to be alongside Tom There my Super Bowl winning 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:44.800 Bear buddy. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.159 I'm Jeff Joningak joined a guess today we'll be the 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.040 veteran voice of the Chiefs Mitch Oltis and thanks to 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.600 our producers Dan for Really, Jordan tread Up and Katie Tuber. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.920 Let's get right to the chase. Statement today from the 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.720 Bears that they've accepted the resignation of defensive coordinator Allen 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.520 Williams as he deals with some personal issues. So Maddiberfluse 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.080 will continue on as the man called the plays and 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.880 be the head coach and so spreading thin to help 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.200 on both sides of the ball. But Tom, I know, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.160 I was asked on ESPN one thousand with Wata and 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.240 Sylvie on Wednesday afternoon. You know, should he go out 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.320 and hire a defensive coordinator? Could he bring in a 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.840 Rod Marinelli? Could he bring you know, he brought up 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.880 even though Lobby Smith and I said no. There's plenty 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.959 of examples. We just got done with one. In Tampa. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.440 Todd Bowles calls the plays and runs the show for 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.440 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's not unusual. It's his defense 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.720 to begin with. And I think just hit the ground 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.000 running now and move forward. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:36.800 You know. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.399 My only suggestion would be that earlier Wednesday at the podium, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.640 he talked about the distribution of his time as the 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.000 head coach. Now that they have this information, I think 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.360 he said, distribute his time as the defensive coordinator and 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.560 allow of the offensive coordinator the offensive coaches to handle 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:59.880 the offense. And it's been done before, so you're. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.800 Not releasing any of your duties. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.400 You're just focusing your time on getting this defense pointed 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:05.240 in the right direction. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.800 So at this point, it's only week three in the season, 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.600 plenty of time obviously, but there needs to be some 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.840 stability here right now, you know, justin fields at the 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.840 podium was the other big story today, and then invited 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:23.160 players reporters after the interview in the locker room to 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:28.120 discuss how he presented that information after practice. And you know, 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.840 he's putting it on his shoulders. It is on his shoulders. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.240 He's trying to find his own clarity to be a 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:38.079 better quarterback. And as you talk about, thinking as a 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.680 rule in football is not the best, but when you're 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.000 playing quarterback, and I just talked to Jim Miller about this, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.360 our good buddy who always always helps us out on 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.600 Bears weekly during the off season. You know, whatever word 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.200 you want to use, processing is thinking, Thinking is processing. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.440 It's a thinking man's position. But when it's time to 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.480 grip it and rip it, you rip it. And there's 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.200 times you have to diagnose and understand and try to 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:02.920 figure out what the defense is doing to you. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.760 Yeah, but you know one thing that frustrates me for 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.680 the quarterback position is they make them go to the 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.840 podium immediately following the game and then they make them 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.120 go back on Wednesday. To me, one of those should 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.160 be washed out. First of all, if you were as 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.480 an offensive lineman, if you asked me to go to 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.320 the podium immediately following the game and give you answers 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.160 why things worked or didn't work, I couldn't do it 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.320 because I need to go back and study the film 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.000 because there's so many moving parts to the football team, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.920 and so one of the two days, and to me, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.080 I wish you was at the podium immediately following the game. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:38.960 Then you get out there on Wednesday, when you had 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.320 a time for tape evaluation, you could probably give clearer answers. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.160 But when you're peppered from every different direction, you know, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.800 sometimes you just say something that you wish you could 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.160 take back. But now in the modern day world of 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.000 social media and everybody trying to capture a story, you 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:56.720 can't do it well. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.120 The funny thing is, even you and I just watching 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.080 a game, we get frustrated, we say things and maybe 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.240 we don't mean. Then we watch tape and you know, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.960 either confirms our feelings right or we say, well wait 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.040 a minute, because you've done this already here on the 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.760 short term, this season. You know you've said, now, wait 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.240 a minute, now, now this this was better than I thought, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.520 or this was worse than I thought, or whatever. And 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.440 as a player, then when you did interviews, they didn't 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.840 have podiums back then. They either they went to your 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.920 locker and you gave whatever speel you gave. And I 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.480 don't know how accommodating you were as a player. You 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.200 did you feel you had to answer question? I know 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.000 you you know after the game, you were on on 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.320 radio shows during the course of the week. As a player, 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.599 all you guys were, But how did you handle media 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.679 come into your locker right after a game. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.040 I was fine because I felt that I could answer 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.280 any question that was asked of me. But I had 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.599 a lot of experience with that at Notre Dame because 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.200 Notre Dame I went through the first losing season in 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.839 eighteen years, and so there was probably more media in 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.520 our locker rooms after a losing season than after a 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.560 winning season. My sophomore year, we played Orgia for the 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.720 National Championship, So you learn about what life behind the 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.920 microphone is going to be like when you get to 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.839 the NFL. But I was also very cautious what I 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.320 said because of Mike Ditka, and I remembered one time 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.960 disagreeing with a choice that he made not to go 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.440 for it on a fourth and two situation. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.159 I said it they wrote about on the paper. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.080 He called me to his golf cart on my way 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.680 out to practice. He yelled at me, yelled at me, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.919 yelled at me some more, And so then it just 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.760 made me think about every single answer I said. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:36.880 And you know, it's. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.240 A different way of life nowadays than it was back then. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.640 But you're still going to get criticized by the head 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.720 coach if he reads something you don't like. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:46.080 The gist of. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.240 Justin afterwards said, I'm never going to blame anything on 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.560 the coaches. I'm never going to blame anything on my teammates. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.760 Never will you hear that. So I just want to 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.160 clear that up. Just know that I need to play better, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:56.960 point blank. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:58.159 That's it. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.160 And frankly, from my perspect active, whether I'm a fan 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.200 or here an observer of what transpires each and every 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.200 day up here at Kallisall and on Sundays when we 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.960 call the games, that's all I need to hear. And 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.000 it also tells me he is a competitive guy. We 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.159 always hear that I mean we were in Indianapolis. I 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.760 saw him and you know, during their off time after 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.880 practice and before a meal, playing in the the you know, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.440 playing ping pong, and you know competitive. He's competitive and 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.559 he wants to be great. He wants to he wants 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.040 to figure this out. It's not like he's just resting 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.040 out his laurels. We've seen plenty of quarterbacks come through 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.960 here that maybe didn't have that same mindset. So I 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.080 appreciate the mindset. So let's let's hope this is the 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.160 beginning of a new day. It's an early part of 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:48.040 the season and you're going in to face the World champions. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.680 Everybody should have the mindset tim like, Okay, forget if 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.479 there was nothing going on, what if it was just 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.919 a clean road, everybody's healthy. You're going into a stadium 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.279 to take on the World champ you'd be that's the 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.520 game you circled in May. We'll get to play the 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.080 World Champs in their building, and we're going to try 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.279 to slay the king right. I mean, you're going to 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.680 the Kingdom, they call it the Kingdom. Go go there, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:17.280 play just completely rambunctious and get the job done and 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.000 pull an upset and see what happens. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.800 You know at the conclusion of the game, when you 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.400 do go and watch the film, it's all about how 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.280 do you make corrections. You don't sit there and dwell 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.880 on the mistakes and just think about the mistakes and said, Okay, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.640 I made a mistake here. What do I do the 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.040 next time I run the same play? And how do 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.400 I get better? And I think when you look at 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:37.920 how does Justin Fields get better? 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.880 It's partly coaching and it's partly Justin. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.320 No one has all the responsibility here, but it is 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.280 about making sure you watch the film in order to 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:49.320 get better a time. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.080 Now listen, Okay, you've mentioned it more than once, but 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.200 now we got a New Day podcast here, we got 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.280 a preview for the Kansas City Chiefs. So as you 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.160 close your eyes and dream up a game plan for 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.400 Justin Fields within the context of the scheme of the 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.800 team and Luke Getze and his offensive staff what their 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.480 designs are against Kansas City. Now, because you're game planning 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.679 the World champions with a much better defense than maybe 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.520 people want to give them credit for. And Chris Jones 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.960 is back and Steve's Bagnola brings pressure and all that. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.760 What would you like to see Sunday from justin fields 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:24.640 and the offense? 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.240 Do you really want me to tell you my secrets. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.720 I have an exact plan in mind what I would 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:32.440 do for him. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.880 We can make it. We can make an editorial comment. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.080 This is an opinion of Tom Thayers, an idea of 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.679 Tom Thayers, not representing the Chicago Bears coaching staff, and 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:43.240 a game plan. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.719 Okay, Jeff, how wide is a field fifty three and 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:47.360 a half yards? 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.439 Buddy? There you go. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.280 So every single snap are not every single snap, but 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.760 nine out of ten snaps, I'm taking half of that 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.960 field away from him. Everything is going to move to 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.440 one side of the field. Reads are going to be immediate. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.959 It's going to be one two, they're not there run 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.800 and it's going to be roles. It's gonna be bootlegs. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.760 It's gonna be waggles, it's gonna be play action. It's 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.400 going to be an aggressive form of passing where my 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.200 decisions are made immediately. When one of the things I 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.320 saw in training camp, I thought that they could really 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.000 run an interesting two man game to one side of 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.920 the field, and that's Claypool and DJ Moore or Darnell 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.319 and d or whatever two receivers you want to put 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.360 out there, including cole Comet, and so the immediacy of 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.040 the decision is going to be visually right there for 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.200 you because both receivers are going to be kind of 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.520 leveled on each other. And then if Justin doesn't see 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.080 what he likes, then you take off and then you 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.880 run the ball. And so that does one thing for 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.920 me is it makes blocking more aggressive simpler for the 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.200 offensive line. And if you don't have a plan of 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.680 attack that includes the protection by the offensive line, you're 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.480 never going to be successful with Justin just sitting inside 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.480 the confines of a pocket, because now it's outside rushers 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.320 that create contained. Now you're kind of in a cup, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.960 and then you got the defensive tackles that are going 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.000 to have some push forward and they're going to close 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:17.120 that distance. So fifty three yards cut in half. My 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.080 game is going to be one way or the other. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.600 And I'm going to use the blessed ability of Justin fields. 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.400 He's got arm, talent, he's got accuracy, he's got distance. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.439 They have talented receivers, but they are not going to 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.520 pressure me from the pocket. And so now Steve Spagnola, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.360 if he has all these sophisticated blitzes that are coming 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.880 from the interior. He's already away from those guys. Now, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.800 my offensive line, they don't necessarily need to have a 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.640 vocal count because you're not going to hear it in 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.040 Kansas City. But they are going to explode off the 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.160 line of scrimmage. They are going to they are going 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.120 to blow up, but they're going to do it in 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.800 a direction, Jeff. So they necessarily don't know who is 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.640 their pass protector. They don't know how to set Chris 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.960 Jones on the most vulnerable. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:02.240 Person in there. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.440 And you know, we used to it was Hilgy Jay 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.120 always used to call the bootleg the play of the nineties, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.880 right because it's the easiest play that you can possibly run. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.400 It's the most successful blocking scheme and offensive line that 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.720 has some susceptibility on the road can use. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.440 And it's half ivy. That's that's my game plan. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.280 And that's a half field play. Yeah, yeah, that's a 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:28.240 that's a half feel. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.840 I'm not going to have Justin drop straight back and 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.400 read fifty three yards. I'm going to have Justin use 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.720 his blessings, get to the outside. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.640 One to go. If I want to open throw if 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:42.600 I'm not mistaken too. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.720 And we discussed great defensive linemen over the years, in 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.560 our twenty seven years together, and you know, you're a 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.560 couple of things. One use their aggressiveness against them and 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.120 get them running. Get them running horizontally, you know, so 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.200 they're just not charging through a gap up field, you know, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.880 relentlessly and using all their toolbox. Get them move in 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.679 a little bit. And so that's what I would want, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:06.920 Chris Jones, get them move in. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.600 I was telling you about a game when we played 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.600 the Buffalo Bills when they had the great bo Bruce 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.080 Smith and Darryl Tallly and fred Smerlis and the rest 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.080 of these great defensive linemen. If you kids are too young, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.760 go and look them up. But we didn't throw any 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.160 drop back passes. Everything was play action and we are 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.079 super aggressive and though so they were confused is this. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:30.839 A run or are they throwing the ball again? 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.320 And the quarterback had a great day and we beat 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:38.240 them convincingly. So I think that's something of when you 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.760 have some deficiencies, you can revisit that type of game planning. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.760 So we're brought to you by Miller Length, the official 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.640 beer of the Chicago Bears tastes like Miller Time Chicago 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.480 and take a chance download the Bette Rivers app today. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.520 Let's pause right now and move into our interview with 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.640 the great Mitch oltis the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:12:59.199 All right, maman's here. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.320 Mitch oltis so one of the guys I've looked up 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.800 to in this business since I got involved with play 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.600 by play twenty three years ago. I remember pulling you 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.200 aside of the Kansas City game introdews myself. I was 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.120 nervous as hell. Honestly, I said, I got to meet 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.200 this guy because I just love how you call a game. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.160 Mitche oltis the veteran voice of the Kingdom as he 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.200 calls it, and as they call it in Kansas City. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.800 A very unique and special time happening in Kansas City 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.720 right now. But it has to have been the time 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.280 of your life here since Andy Reid took over in 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:27.960 Kansas City. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.240 Jeff, it's only my thirtieth season, and I can really 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.600 categorize him into segments. The first five where with Marty 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.320 Schottenheimer the last five of his time in Kansas City, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.280 and he was a phenomenal man and coach. The next 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.800 fourteen were the time in the wilderness. Yeah, okay, looking 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:48.160 for Manna to come down. But three playoff appearances. Two 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:53.000 of those the Chiefs weren't even competitive, and honestly, it 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.480 was just it was brutal. And then it got reached 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.800 a head in it was two, two and fourteen seasons. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.720 And then in two thousand and nine, I'm sorry, twenty twelve, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.640 we had a player you know, that took his girlfriend's life, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.079 who just happened to meet Jabal Charles, our star running 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.800 backs wife's cousin. Then he took his own life on 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.960 our front steps of our facility. It doesn't get any 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.240 worse than that. It was a bad, bad environment, a 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.320 lot of bad and then Andy Reid came and it's 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.520 like the old movie Pleasant Bill, like people just started 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.480 popping up in color, one at a time. And truthfully, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.440 this has been a phenomenal eleven seasons, nine our ten 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.400 straight winning years. To win two Super Bowls in a 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.480 four year span, to go to three in many ways 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.520 has been unparalleled. To host five straight AFC Championship games 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.680 is that's history. It's never been done by any team 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.600 in either conference. To win the division, which is a 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.200 division that's much like yours. It's historic and it's very 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.480 very tightly contested. Every division team has won to fifteen 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:56.280 division titles in sixty plus years, and yet we've won 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.720 it seven straight years. I mean, that's never been done, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.600 only second and NFL history behind the Patriots run. So yeah, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.000 we're in unprecedented times, at least in the Chiefs kingdom, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.000 but historically it gets compared now to some of the 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.880 greatest in the league. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:11.680 Yeah. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.640 You know, I was the Bulls pre and postgame co 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.960 host during the Jordan era, and you knew every single 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.000 night once they started winning and they started collecting championships 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.360 with MJ, every night was a show. Every game is 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.480 a show with the Chiefs. It's the whole hunted and 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.760 being hunted thing, right, And every snap matters, just like 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.120 MJ and the Boys. Every dribble mattered because everybody was 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.560 out to get them and they couldn't do it. Is 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.840 there that sense now for you as a broadcaster? You know, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.240 I haven't called many playoff games in my twenty three years, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.240 and I've been involved with the organization for twenty seven 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.320 years and it's been it's been a roller coaster ride. 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.640 So when you get to a playoff game. It's like 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.440 a massive treat. Now you're used to it. You know 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.480 you're going to the playoffs every year. I mean, do 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.600 you feel though, that every that matters throughout the regular 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.440 season now, because it's it's Andy, it's it's Patrick Mahomes, 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.760 it's it's Travis Kelcey, it's Chris Jones, it's you never 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:09.920 know what's going to pop up next. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.840 Your assertion is spot on, and I'm glad you brought 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.000 it up that way. And your analogy with the Bulls, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.440 I don't think is far off because you could put 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.760 Kelsey in the Scottie Pippen roll. I mean it's you've 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.960 got two of the greatest to ever do it that 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.760 are doing it now year after year after year. Kelsey's 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.720 redefined the tight end position. And the fact that now 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.640 we talk about pass catchers. When your audience here's this, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.200 they'll go what Because if you look at playoff history, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:44.560 Kelsey with receptions, yards and touchdowns, only Jerry Rice has 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.440 more than Kelsey in NFL history. Okay, so that goes 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:54.640 beyond tight ends. But your assertion about every play matters 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.360 is so spot on. It's even intensified where only one 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.280 team now gets the buy and we've seen the AFC 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.760 just go all in. Man, They're just like they spend 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.440 every weeking minute. And this is going to sound arrogant. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.720 I don't want it to be arrogant, but this goes 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.080 back to the Bulls. Every AFC team has spent every 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.560 waking minute figuring out a way to knock us off. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.080 And even the narrative last year was these guys lee 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.160 lose Tyreek Hill. They are going to be covered by 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.639 in volcanic ash by Halloween and all this stuff. And 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.760 then that's why when I said when the Chiefs beat 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.760 Cincinnati in the AFC Championship Game to get another Lamar 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.760 Hunt Trophy, I said, you can doubt the Chiefs, you 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.399 can dislike the Chiefs, you can disrespect the Chiefs, but 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.480 you're going to have to deal with the Chiefs. And 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.800 you can say the same thing about the Bulls. It 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.960 wasn't an arrogant statement. It was more of like all 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.280 this was pent up inside. But yeah, Mahomes to Jordan 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:51.760 is a very accurate analogy. When you look at the competitiveness, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:58.400 the unique athletic skill of the two and their creativity, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.399 I think that's really really go to. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.520 Your mitche oltis voice of the Kansas City chiefs our 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.240 guest on Bears, etc. As we come to you from 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.880 Hallis Hall today, we'll break down the matchups in this 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.760 one with Tom Thayer bit later out of the program. Yeah, 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.560 I didn't mean to even bring in the NBA angle, 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.840 but I was asked about him the other day by 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.760 a bunch of Bears fans Mahomes, and I said, you know, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.560 we've seen some great ball handlers in the NFL and history, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.919 the guys who can carry out the fakes. I mean, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.080 I think how Peyton Manning set up play action. You 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.840 never knew it was a passer or a run throughout 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.320 the course of his career. But Brett farre Aaron Rodgers, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:38.320 they are point guards. Patrick Mahones maybe the best point 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.880 guard in NFL history, because it's just you never know 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:47.080 where it's coming from, why, how, and it doesn't matter. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.840 It's just he is hard to figure out and hard 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.720 to stop. Would you say that's a fair representation about 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:55.960 the underrated aspect of his game? 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.280 Is the ball handling, the ball faking. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.840 Very fair relate to a story. So it's twenty eighteen. 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.360 People forget he apprenticed for all of twenty seventeen did 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.320 not play. So when you see these stats of like 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.360 in his first six years or a quarterback, he gets compared. 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.040 He basically didn't have a rookie year, but he did. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.359 It was all spent with I said he was playing 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.200 Augusta but never playing the Masters. 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.040 Right, but I was on with Greg Papa. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.760 Then the touchdown read he is now he's like seeing 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.840 Francisco and he goes, I know I'm ripping off your 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.520 deal because I'm Kansa said he called me. He goes, hey, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:32.720 I don't want to rip it up. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.200 It's flattery. It's flattery. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.960 Well, okay, fine, but I was on his college show, right. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.400 I was on a show like this, and I could 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.680 hear his co host and producer and they go, who 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:44.879 does mahomes for buying you of? And I go Steph 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.240 Curry and I could hear them all like ha ha 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:47.600 ha ha. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.840 Well yeah, let's see home runny year. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.919 They had me back on, going dude, you're right, so 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:59.480 you're ball handling is he's phenomenal And you throw that 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.520 in with the NASA scientists that surround him, and then 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:08.760 Andy Reid with motions and deception. But yes, I mean 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.199 he is. Maybe he's like meadow Lark Lemon back in 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.320 the day, but his ballhandling is he'll drive linebackers crazy. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.040 And we're very hard to play. If you don't play 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:20.639 us a lot, we're kind of hard to play. If 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.359 you do play us a lot. We're thirty seven and 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:26.000 five against the AFC West this last six years. And 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.320 I don't mean that to be arrogant. It's just it's like, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.200 what I mean, this division's really good, but I mean 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.919 thirty seven and five, Well, a lot of it is 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.080 he's hard to play against and his ball handling is phenomenal. 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.040 I don't think we've seen anything like it in the league. 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.119 What would you think? And I'm not sure they haven't talked, 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.640 but maybe they have, maybe they haven't. What do you think, 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.879 knowing now Patrick Mahomes, what his advice would be for 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.960 justin fields because he enters really important time right now, 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.320 Week three of his third NFL season. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:57.480 Hang in there. 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.399 This has not all been unicorns and candy canes for 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.160 Patrick Mahomes. I remember him losing back to back games 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.960 in twenty eighteen. I remember having discussions with him and 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.639 his that apprentice year at twenty seventeen, I remember a 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.800 couple times we just got together and just chopped it up. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.560 But I was really interested because if you look at 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.320 his Tyler Whitehouse high school days, he's either winning or 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.600 losing games like sixty nine to sixty seven. Right, I go, 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:25.720 that's not the NFL. If you go back and look 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.880 at Texas Tech, he would lose the k State seventy one, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.840 the sixty nine for seven hundred, I go, that's not 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:38.560 the NFL. So he had to adjust. And then in 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.400 twenty nineteen he had the injury. There was a bad October, 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:45.680 looked like the train was going to be taken off 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.800 the track, and he again was surrounded by great people 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.520 and hung in there. The same thing happened last year. Right, 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.959 he had the injury against Jacksonville, has to come out 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:57.360 of the game. We went on a ninety eight yard 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:03.040 drive with Chad Henny quarterback, you know meenthusler Moses and uh. 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:04.840 Then we go to the Super Bowl and he gets 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.919 knocked out basically, and he is thank you to you 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.879 know for the long halftime. But what he would I 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:12.440 don't know if they have talked or not. I kind 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.560 of hope they would, because justin right now is getting 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.399 thrown all kinds of shade on him. He's dealing with 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:24.320 tension of external and internal. And I don't mean internal, 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:26.680 I mean inside his own psyche. 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:27.560 Right. 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.600 I watched him in Ohio State. This kid's a confident kid. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.919 I watched him last year, and so the question I 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.159 think is, is he Lamar Jackson and Michael Vick. I 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.680 mean that one and twenty five. You're going, oh my god, 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:44.159 that's something else. 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.879 Right in the history of the league, right special. 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.399 So, and I know you got to be a pocket passer. 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:51.919 You got to hit the seven route, you got hit 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.520 the nine route. The biggest thing is you have got 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:59.080 to go down four less than three minutes and I 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:02.399 got to go seventy five eighty yards. Mahomes had to 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:07.080 learn that there was a growth curve and where fans 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:09.640 I think can hit the quick triggers like he's six 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:12.199 and twenty three and blah, Well he's dealt with a 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.680 lot just I think Mahomes would say, you're a talented dude. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.720 You've got upside and sailing here. Just hang in there. 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.560 But we also know what you can do and don't 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.760 lose that either, and that is the ability to run 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:29.080 the ball aka Lamar Jackson or Michael Beck. 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:30.960 All Right, we got a couple of guys that you 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.800 faced last year in important, key, high leverage moments the 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:37.400 Philadelphia Hills, of course, in the Super Bowl. TJ Edwards, 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.600 my man from Lake's community here in the Chicago area, 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:43.919 first got to signing free agency. Mitch first guy because 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:45.399 he wanted to be a bear. He grew up a 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:49.119 bear bled Navy blue and orange house parties at his 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:51.680 home out here in the Northern suburbs every week. 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:53.840 It was in him. He had to be a bear. 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:54.520 So he's a bear. 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:58.399 And Tremaine Edmonds in that great Buffalo Classic with you guys, 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.960 Can these guys be a channel for change? Those two 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:10.240 linebackers together now as guys who are only in my estimation, 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.639 like a half dozen guys on this roster who in 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.560 their NFL careers in games that they played, have winning records. 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:18.240 That's it. 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:20.919 This team is not a team full of guys that 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:23.880 have learned how to win or have winning records. 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:25.720 Does that matter that those two guys. 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:30.119 Are here, no question, and they've seen it happen. They 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:35.520 didn't walk into winning necessarily. Maybe tremain a little bit 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:37.719 with the Bills, but they were still at the start 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:38.360 of their. 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:40.800 What they are now and what they've been. 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:44.399 The last several years, and so it's like they have 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:47.720 seen the secrets of the sauce, Right, they've seen what 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:51.320 goes into the mix and a week to week thing 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:56.000 of the you know, overreaction or thinking, gosh, we will 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:59.840 never get there can be a tumor that grows inside 0:24:59.880 --> 0:25:02.560 the the body. Right, those two guys, those are great 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.080 examples because they've been around a recent winning at a 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:08.040 high level. Right, these guys have played in championship games 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:11.480 or a super Bowl, and so they become a doe 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:14.919 they do I like your word catalyst. They become a 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:17.080 impetus for the rest of the guys. 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:18.320 How do we handle this? What do we do? 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:18.479 All? 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:18.720 Right? 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.720 Guys, even on the offensive side, Jeff, What people do 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:24.520 not realize there's a lot of untold stories about the 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:28.399 Chiefs in this eleven years now. And one of them, 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:33.320 and here's where Mahomes fits right in is that football 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:35.560 teams and I don't care and we've seen it. I'm 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:39.159 a Northwestern fan, Gash just term stay in there. But 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:41.200 it can be the U of I, it can be Northwestern, 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:44.520 it can be Glen Bard. I don't know, but football 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:49.440 teams can be fractured one hundred ways because you have subcultures. 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:52.720 It's not the bulls, right, you have a defense and offense, 0:25:52.760 --> 0:25:56.320 special teams, you've got personnel, you've got coaching. It can 0:25:56.400 --> 0:25:59.360 just I've seen it fracture one hundred ways. But when 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:01.560 you get a here's where I think the next step 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.159 is for the Bears, when you get this flow of 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:07.359 what we've had now for ten years of vertical and 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:15.400 horizontal understanding. I did exchanging influence. Mahomes works with Spagnolo, 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:18.959 our defensive coordinator and some of our defensive players, not 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:20.760 as much as he does with the offense, but it 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:24.320 would shock you. He'll walk into the defensive meeting or 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:26.720 during can and go, hey, you guys were showing me. 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:30.919 This is what were you doing here? And what should 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:34.240 I do? Or how do I? And Spags and the 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:37.159 guys will go okay, right, we're showing you something that 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:39.520 the Jags will show you in week two because the 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:43.200 Jags are pretty tricky. I'll give you another example. Last 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:45.439 year we played the Titans and we were man, we 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.560 were stuck in mud and we're just kind of mudding 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:50.199 through it hard game we win Monday Night Football. But 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:52.359 the defense it was like it was like our week 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:55.280 two went over. The Jags give it to the defense, right, 0:26:56.440 --> 0:26:59.320 And so the award it was Sunday Night Football, I think. 0:26:59.359 --> 0:27:01.920 And so Holmes got the Fickle Finger of Fade award 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:03.679 or whatever they hand out, you know. Here you go 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:05.679 and he's like, why am I got this? 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:07.040 He walked. 0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:09.920 The next day he goes into the defensive team meeting. 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:13.159 He goes, this is your guys, this isn't mine. You 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:16.200 guys won that game, Spags told me. And you gotta understand, 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:19.520 Spags has coached for fifty years or whatever. 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:22.359 His resume yesterday. I can't believe it, how how deep 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:22.760 it goes. 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:25.960 Yeah, he said, it's only happened one other time, and 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:28.320 it was with the Giants back in the days of 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:30.560 you know, those great defenses he had in seven. But 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:33.160 he goes, here comes this dude who comes into our 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:35.680 team meeting and goes, the sain't me, it's you guys. 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:38.680 And that's when Spags goes, that's why we get teams 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:40.320 off the field so we can give the ball back 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:44.960 to this guy. There is zero jealousy. In fact, there's 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:49.120 this flow of information. So why am I telling you this? 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:53.240 It's because of those defensive guys who have won, who 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.320 can have influence on the offense. And that's when you 0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:58.679 get that role in an organization. It's it goes a 0:27:58.680 --> 0:27:59.320 long way. 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:00.800 Not asking you for company secrets. 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:02.520 As he wrapped things up here on Bears, et cetera 0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:05.040 with the great Mitch Holtis, the voice of the Kansas 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:08.040 City Chiefs. So we just got through Todd Bowles and 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:11.560 his pressure packages. They're different than what Spags puts together. 0:28:11.920 --> 0:28:15.320 What is his secret sauce in terms of a young 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:17.760 quarterback going in there, I'm the road in Kansas City, 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:19.840 no less that place. The last time I was there, 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:22.520 the building was shaking as I stood there in the booth. 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:23.399 I feel it. 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:26.120 You beat it eighteen to seventeen. I can still see 0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:28.560 colors still to court that. I still see it in 0:28:28.600 --> 0:28:31.520 my sleep. Color would't even wear in a facements. He 0:28:31.880 --> 0:28:34.919 had like a cocktail and a cigarette. It was like 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:37.240 Bobby Lane. He's like, I got a better throw it 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:41.760 over there. Yeah, we just lost eighteen to seventeen. So hey, 0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:45.040 you got our attention. But to answer your question, Spags, 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:47.560 Mike Dana, I had Mike dan on a similar show 0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:50.000 yesterday and Dana goes, he's a wizard. 0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:51.880 Yeah, the guy's a wizard. 0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:57.800 Here's this is the best defense the Chiefs have had potentially. 0:28:57.360 --> 0:28:58.200 The Andy Reid era. 0:28:58.560 --> 0:28:58.920 Wow. 0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:00.720 And here's what let me give you. Let me give 0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:01.240 you a couple of things. 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:04.120 Chris Jones is back number one. That helps us, That 0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:09.960 helps a lot. But we won a super Bowl last year, Jeff, 0:29:10.000 --> 0:29:13.120 and we had eight rookies on our defense and won 0:29:13.160 --> 0:29:15.200 a super Bowl. That's an ull time NFL record. 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:18.040 Right, And you guys were the only guys playing more 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:20.800 rookies than us on defense last year and during the season. 0:29:20.840 --> 0:29:24.840 All right, now we've added to that. But why is 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:30.680 that important? Because Spags is the He's as creative on 0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:34.280 defense as a lot of offensive coaches are. Because don't 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:36.480 put an ass on a guy saying that's a safety. 0:29:36.920 --> 0:29:40.280 He might be a slock corner or a week sidebacker. 0:29:40.840 --> 0:29:43.360 Don't put a oh, he's the mic and he's the 0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:47.320 will Nope. They're all moving around. Uh, and they will 0:29:47.360 --> 0:29:52.080 move personnel around as much as his strategic packages. That's 0:29:52.120 --> 0:29:54.560 what makes it difficult. You don't know where it's coming. 0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:57.560 Chris Jones, where's he lining up? But oh, look out 0:29:57.600 --> 0:29:59.840 for the other guys, because they this is a pretty 0:29:59.840 --> 0:30:02.440 good defense. Now they've gone two games and given up 0:30:02.440 --> 0:30:05.160 two touchdowns. We lose to your friends the Lions on 0:30:05.200 --> 0:30:08.520 a pick six. Let's be honest and drop passes that 0:30:08.600 --> 0:30:11.280 equaled well, I call them hidden the yardage. It's a 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:13.760 big factor for both our teams right now. Sure is 0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:16.160 a fend of the yardage, not just the feddal the yardage, 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:18.800 but the yard you lose tip passes and the drops. 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:21.600 Yeah right, we're thirty first and drops you're twenty seventh. 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:22.080 All right. 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:26.720 That being said, the defense won that game. It's fourteen points, guys, 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:29.920 and we did but two touchdowns in two weeks. 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:32.840 But you're coming after you got runners. 0:30:32.880 --> 0:30:34.640 I can't believe out Texas ever lost the game with 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:37.800 Roshawn Joneses in the same backfield. 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:39.960 What are you guys doing anyway? 0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:44.640 The point is Spags will throw you fastballs, curves, sliders, cutters, 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:47.760 but you'll throw them right handed and left handed. It's 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:49.960 really unique. It's it's very different than anything you see 0:30:50.000 --> 0:30:50.560 in the NFL. 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:53.240 Big jab ahead for Justin Fields and the Bears. We'll 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:55.680 see you on Sunday. Man a little bit of a 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:56.600 welcome Matt for us. 0:30:56.680 --> 0:30:57.640 Right, we love going there. 0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:01.000 It's one of the most unique venues to go as 0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:03.520 a fan or as a broadcast looking forward to it. 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:05.160 You know what, this has been one of the more 0:31:05.160 --> 0:31:08.720 demanded tickets over the past five years, and a lot 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:11.080 of it is Bears fans are making this pilgrimage. 0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:13.480 They're spending money. They're spending money. 0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:16.280 They want to got some money, but they got your money. 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:17.680 They want to but they want to see it, man, 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:20.080 they want to feel it and taste it. So it'll 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:21.160 be a fun Sunday. 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:22.000 My brother, thanks for your time. 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:23.560 Trouble well, all right. 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:25.520 One thing I love about Mitchel does he calls a 0:31:25.520 --> 0:31:27.400 great game. He knows the game. He knows the game 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:29.400 very well. You can hear it in his calls and 0:31:29.440 --> 0:31:33.080 I always, I always respect that. And he's feeding the beasts, 0:31:33.120 --> 0:31:37.520 so to speak. That fan base knows football. They love 0:31:37.840 --> 0:31:40.760 their Kansas City Chiefs even before they were winning all 0:31:40.800 --> 0:31:45.360 these last ten years under Andy Reid. But he also 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:48.000 he knows to hit all the touch points for the 0:31:48.040 --> 0:31:52.640 passion of that team, and his historical referencing is unbelievable. 0:31:52.640 --> 0:31:55.040 So I enjoy talking to him a great deal. And 0:31:55.120 --> 0:31:56.600 I appreciate him taking the time time. 0:31:58.000 --> 0:32:00.520 Yes, So I was reading something by him and he 0:32:00.520 --> 0:32:04.360 says he's always nervous before the first preseason game, even 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:06.080 though he's been doing this for thirty years. 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:08.560 Do you get nervous before the first Okay. 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:11.280 Yes, here's why. Well, and I know he he doesn't 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:13.280 do much other play by play. He used to do 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:15.880 some college basketball and he may still. I don't know, 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:18.600 but I don't at this point in my career. So 0:32:19.160 --> 0:32:22.520 you know, it's like talking a different language on game day. 0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:25.240 So I know, you know, my daughter's Kelly and Caitlin 0:32:25.360 --> 0:32:27.880 very well, your uncle Tom to them. Uh, And they 0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:30.520 asked me that same question this year. You still get nervous, 0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:34.120 and yeah, because it's just you're reacting to something that 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:37.240 you don't normally react to, and you're just you gotta just, 0:32:37.360 --> 0:32:39.360 you gotta go. It's like, it's here's how, here's how 0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:41.960 I exactly. You know, the very first game I ever did, 0:32:42.680 --> 0:32:44.960 as you recall with hub Archisian in the booth, you 0:32:45.000 --> 0:32:47.160 had a three man booth. We're at Soldier Field, it 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:50.200 was an old Soldier Field before the renovation, and we're 0:32:50.240 --> 0:32:53.040 it was a preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals, and 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:56.400 I remember, you know, you're you're you're jump. You're going 0:32:56.520 --> 0:32:59.320 at the end of a high, high dive board and 0:32:59.360 --> 0:33:01.800 you you have no choice. You can't turn around and 0:33:01.840 --> 0:33:04.120 go back. You just got to jump. And that's what 0:33:04.200 --> 0:33:07.680 preseason football is. And to some extent, when the games 0:33:07.720 --> 0:33:09.840 get bigger, you do you get more butterflies? 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:10.240 Like you know. 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:12.440 I was talking to Devin Hester last weekend in Orlando 0:33:12.520 --> 0:33:14.000 and he asked me, He goes. 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.560 Yeah, how do you prepare? And do you do you rehearse? 0:33:16.600 --> 0:33:19.200 And I go, there's no rehearsing in football. You can't. 0:33:19.280 --> 0:33:20.720 You can't. There's no practice. 0:33:20.840 --> 0:33:24.200 You're not going Wednesday Thursday and go walk through on 0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:24.960 Saturday morning. 0:33:25.040 --> 0:33:25.680 No, you can't. 0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:30.400 You just have to react. And so it's the bigger 0:33:30.480 --> 0:33:33.680 the game, the more at stake, in my opinion, for 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.360 every single snap you got a call because you'd never 0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:38.160 know in that next great play that will be in 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:41.120 NFL films for perpetuity and you hope you nailed it. 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:42.719 Do you do you get nervous? 0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:43.560 No? 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:46.120 So that ESPN commercial I saw by you that. 0:33:46.120 --> 0:33:48.520 You sleep with the Super Bowl trophy and the microphone, 0:33:48.520 --> 0:33:49.440 that's really what you do. 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:54.320 Yeah, exactly exactly that one. See, it wasn't me that 0:33:54.440 --> 0:33:59.120 made it's you. And Caitlin called me up, facetimed me 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:03.000 and was I really had tears of laughter. She said, 0:34:03.160 --> 0:34:09.520 Tom delivered the line of lines nature nature it was 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:14.160 it was so wi no nature, it's amazing or something 0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:14.480 like that. 0:34:14.520 --> 0:34:16.480 But but the it's the it's how. 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:18.960 You delivered it. It's how you delivered it. So now 0:34:19.040 --> 0:34:19.920 those are fun. 0:34:20.120 --> 0:34:20.239 Uh. 0:34:20.320 --> 0:34:24.480 This is ESPN takeoff from the local uh uh local 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:27.279 think tank of good karma brands. Yeah, if you check 0:34:27.320 --> 0:34:29.600 them out online. Now for all your journeys ahead, go 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:31.560 with a partner who's been on your team from the beginning, 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:34.040 the one members and communities have trusted for over eighty 0:34:34.040 --> 0:34:36.440 five years. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Villinois. I 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:39.520 always standing by you, with you for you threw it off, 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.839 all right. Braxton Jones, we we complimented his durability, his 0:34:42.880 --> 0:34:45.880 ability to make every snap throughout the course of his 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.239 early career here with the Bears. Now he's gonna be 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:49.759 down at least four games. I did see him in 0:34:49.760 --> 0:34:52.399 the locker room on Wednesday. Briefly he says, I'm gonna 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:55.680 I'm gonna be okay. You know, I just we're gonna 0:34:55.680 --> 0:34:57.920 be fine. We're gonna be good. Aside from the injury 0:34:57.920 --> 0:35:01.200 to a neck, which you have to take seriously, how 0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:04.640 can he improve? This was a bit of a shock 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:07.000 maybe to his system these first two games of twenty 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:07.520 twenty three. 0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:10.200 You got to stay in the meetings, man, You've got 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:12.560 to stay in the meetings and prepare as an active player. 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:16.840 You can't lose mentally like you can lose yourself mentally 0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:19.080 in four weeks or however long this is going to 0:35:19.080 --> 0:35:23.919 take to recover. So Chris Morgan has to school him, 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:27.239 has to drill him, has to ask him questions as 0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:30.359 if he's the starting left tackle and make sure that 0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:32.160 he stays mentally involved. 0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:34.600 And that's what he needs to do. 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:38.040 Whatever type of training he can do on his lower body, 0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:39.879 he's got to still be able to do that. He's 0:35:39.880 --> 0:35:42.279 got to be on the stationary bike. He's got to 0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:45.160 do his conditioning to keep going so when he is 0:35:45.200 --> 0:35:47.800 ready to come back, he can do without skipping a beat. 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:48.840 In four weeks. 0:35:48.880 --> 0:35:52.319 Obviously, the weather's going to be cooler, so it's not 0:35:52.440 --> 0:35:54.840 going to be as strenuous as it was in Tampa 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:58.439 or eighty degrees in Cloudy with thirty percent chance arrayin 0:35:58.560 --> 0:36:02.120 this week in Kansas City, So you know it'll it'll 0:36:02.120 --> 0:36:03.520 come back to better conditions. 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:05.960 But it's all about him staying into it mentally. 0:36:06.400 --> 0:36:08.920 Here again then in the big picture, and Lucas Patrick 0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:11.359 was unable to practice on Wednesday with an illness, So 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:14.680 this continuity we seek is not going to be there 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:18.200 for many many more weeks without the five intended parts 0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:22.240 to the puzzle. So are you concerned about this moving forward? 0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:25.200 About the offensive line now? Right now, Avion Collins will 0:36:25.239 --> 0:36:27.640 be the swing tackle I assume, and Larry borm will 0:36:27.640 --> 0:36:30.920 get the crack at the left tackle unless they decide 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:33.680 to move Darnell Right from right to left. Would you 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:36.480 be in okay with that if that happened? 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:43.240 I would be You know, I think Larry Borum's fortunate 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:46.000 to have the versatility and the athleticism to be to 0:36:46.040 --> 0:36:47.000 play both sides. 0:36:47.480 --> 0:36:50.680 But maybe if you can get a guy like Darnell Right. 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:54.520 Improved the coaches that he is a solid left tackle, 0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:57.560 maybe that is his future for this offensive line. 0:36:57.760 --> 0:36:59.160 So it doesn't surprise me. 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:02.880 Nowadays in the NFL that teams have very little continuity 0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:06.200 on the offensive line because guys missed so many games nowadays. 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:09.160 But just think of this experiment worked out and said, 0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:11.560 oh my god, Darnell Right is making this left side 0:37:11.600 --> 0:37:14.880 of the line more powerful. He works well with Cody Whitehair, 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:18.520 works well with the tight end position. Now we can 0:37:18.600 --> 0:37:24.400 Larry Borim, Braxton, Braxton Jones, Avantae Collins. We can figure 0:37:24.400 --> 0:37:26.920 out who is the best suited at the right tackle position. 0:37:27.040 --> 0:37:30.120 So if I but you know, one thing I would 0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:33.200 have to do is I would have to have a 0:37:33.320 --> 0:37:35.080 period of two of one. 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:38.040 Hundred percent effort. 0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:41.640 I can't examine his left tackle ability by going out 0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:45.040 there in no pads and practicing at fifty percent. 0:37:45.320 --> 0:37:48.800 That's unrealistic. So if you really want to see. 0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:51.160 If you have a diamond in the rough in Darnell Right, 0:37:52.239 --> 0:37:54.520 I think you really have to have a couple periods 0:37:54.560 --> 0:37:56.720 that supreme effort. 0:37:57.200 --> 0:37:59.760 Now, the other side of the thinking is, don't disturb 0:37:59.880 --> 0:38:02.480 you young player and coach e Briflus Didy indicate that 0:38:02.640 --> 0:38:05.080 keep met right tackle where he's been trained from day 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:09.040 one here And would you be open to going out 0:38:09.040 --> 0:38:11.640 and seeing what else is available out there's somebody that's 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:13.719 you know, a veteran. If some sorry you don't want 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:14.719 to bring anybody else in. 0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:17.640 Okay, you know that's going to That's gonna take me 0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:22.120 a solid fourteen days, which is two games minimum, maybe 0:38:22.200 --> 0:38:25.359 twenty one days to have this quarterback come in and 0:38:25.440 --> 0:38:30.239 learn every assignment to its exact and how do you 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:31.360 want that quarterback? 0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:34.000 I'm talking about offensive line, That's what I'm talking about. 0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:36.000 Okay, It's going to take you a period of time 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:37.920 before you have a player that can come in here 0:38:37.960 --> 0:38:40.760 and learn every single one of his assignments first, second 0:38:40.800 --> 0:38:46.440 and third down, on pass, on run, on moving, pocket, play, action, RPOs, 0:38:47.480 --> 0:38:51.719 all the different responsibilities you have. So no, you know, 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.800 Ryan Poles does a nice job of judging offensive line. 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:57.240 And I think whoever is going to be that next 0:38:57.239 --> 0:38:58.560 guy is in the room ready. 0:38:58.960 --> 0:38:59.359 Good news. 0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:01.600 Chicago out of the Airlines is getting brand new planes 0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:04.480 with all the bells and whistles, like Bluetooth connectivity screens 0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:07.160 at every seat in the room for everyone's rollerbag United, 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:10.640 Proud to fly the Chicago Bears and you too, Jeff 0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:13.440 joni Ak and Tom Thayer on Bears, et cetera. All right, 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:15.680 let's dig into the Chiefs a little bit. What are 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:17.719 you seeing on tape let's start with defense and what 0:39:17.920 --> 0:39:21.160 Justin's is gonna have to deal with. Obviously, the blitz packages. 0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:25.440 You know, it's different than what Bowles does in Tampa. 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:27.480 They do play a lot of zone coverage on the 0:39:27.520 --> 0:39:29.640 back end. They don't want to give up big plays. 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:32.440 They will run some risky stuff up front, try to 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:37.520 get home and create some indecision and force turnovers. But overall, 0:39:38.400 --> 0:39:41.000 can the Bears, for example, run against this team. Can 0:39:41.040 --> 0:39:44.000 they diffuse the bomb that is Chris Jones? 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:45.399 Yeah, they can. 0:39:45.480 --> 0:39:48.960 You know, Steve Spagnola, the defensive coordinator, is a talented guy, 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:51.040 and he knows how to use his talent. He'll move 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.480 Chris Jones all around the up line of scrimmage. They 0:39:54.480 --> 0:39:57.520 have good pressure for outside. So to me, I'm going 0:39:57.560 --> 0:40:00.919 to set up a plan where if Chris I'm gonna 0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:01.960 I'm gonna set them up. 0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:04.640 I'm gonna have maybe strength. 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:06.120 To the left and i'm gonna have Chris Jones go 0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:09.480 to that three technique tackle or that defensive end position and. 0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:10.279 I'm gonna run right. 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:12.760 But I'm gonna call it in the huddle every every 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:17.560 play example, blah blah blah. You know three two or three. 0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:20.560 That's just you know, the two hole to the right, 0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:23.360 the three hole to the left, however you number your holes. 0:40:23.640 --> 0:40:25.120 So I'm gonna go up there and it's going to 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:27.520 be a complete check with me type of a game. 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:31.080 And that way, I'm always gonna not always run away 0:40:31.080 --> 0:40:34.640 from Chris Jones, but when I feel confidently that I 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:38.520 designed a play that I can run towards their vulnerability, 0:40:38.800 --> 0:40:41.680 and that's that's the way I would try to do it. 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:46.720 So, as I researched this, ten different Kansas City chiefs 0:40:46.880 --> 0:40:49.799 piled up twenty four pressures against Trevor Lawrence last week. 0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:52.080 Last week. What does that indicate to you? 0:40:52.840 --> 0:40:56.520 Ten, Well, they know Trevor Lawrence is a drop back quarterback. 0:40:56.920 --> 0:40:59.640 They know that he's going to be on that spot. 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:01.759 You know how we always hear during training camp we 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:04.160 got to get the quarterback off of spot. Well, they 0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:07.040 know what Trevor Lawrence is. He is the type of 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:10.120 guy that he's got athleticism, but he's a tall, straight 0:41:10.200 --> 0:41:11.320 dropback quarterback. 0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:13.400 So we need to get to that spot. 0:41:13.560 --> 0:41:16.399 And that's what Kansas City does, and that's what they 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:20.480 do to whomever's playing quarterback. So that's why the suggestion 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.439 of what they could do for Justin is, don't set 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:26.280 him on that spot or you're just asking for trouble. 0:41:26.600 --> 0:41:29.880 And it doesn't surprise me because Spagnola, like I said, 0:41:29.880 --> 0:41:32.319 he's been a defensive coordinator for a long time in 0:41:32.360 --> 0:41:35.640 the NFL, and then he has an offense through up 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:39.040 into this year here that scores a lot of points 0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:41.799 that he can take more chances because he knows that 0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:44.279 Patrick Mahomes could get him out of it. 0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:46.680 All right, let's flip to the offensive side of the ball. 0:41:46.840 --> 0:41:49.000 So many keys here. How do you deal with a 0:41:49.080 --> 0:41:52.400 playmaking guard so to speak? And Patrick Mahomes and the 0:41:52.480 --> 0:41:55.879 unique relationship with Travis Kelseys still working himself into shape. 0:41:55.880 --> 0:41:58.520 He had nine targets just for catches last week. But 0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:01.080 he can do some damage because he just they just 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:03.359 know each other. They are the two man game. 0:42:04.400 --> 0:42:06.600 Well, first of all, if Patrick Mahomes, you have to 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:10.400 interrupt this creativity. He's the most creative quarterback in the NFL. 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:15.440 Ourm angle thinking process, diverse type of throws, headfakes, I 0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:19.880 fakes when he lost the Super Bowl against Todd Poles, 0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:23.520 Todd Poles put him in a retreat position, and so 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:26.200 the Bears are zero and two. If you want to 0:42:26.239 --> 0:42:28.400 take a chance against Patrick Mahomes. 0:42:28.440 --> 0:42:30.759 If you lose the game, you lose the game, but 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:32.520 don't lose it not being aggressive. 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:35.279 Try to take advantage of some of the skill that 0:42:35.360 --> 0:42:38.239 you have on defense and put Patrick Mahomes in a 0:42:38.320 --> 0:42:41.600 retreat position and try to get him off the spot, 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:45.840 have him throwing off the wrong type of foundation, try 0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:48.720 to make him look for open targets while he's trying 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:52.800 to escape pressure. And they have guys that are capable 0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:56.680 of doing that. And listen, man, you're going to have 0:42:56.680 --> 0:42:58.560 to take some chances because you're just not going to 0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:01.319 sit there in a vanilla type defense and let him 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:02.080 pick you apart. 0:43:02.680 --> 0:43:06.520 Play with reckless abandon, coach with reckless abandon. This is 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:10.160 the World Champs you're going in. Not that they care, 0:43:10.280 --> 0:43:12.919 but the outside in Vegas is you're a thirteen point under. 0:43:13.040 --> 0:43:15.360 You're a two touchdown underdog, which is rare in the 0:43:15.520 --> 0:43:18.160 NFL these days. On the road at Kansas City, it's 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.359 going to be raucous. I do know, Bears fans are 0:43:20.360 --> 0:43:22.279 trying to buy up some tickets and we'll be there 0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:24.080 making some noise. But they're going to have had to 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:26.400 spend a lot of money to get into that place 0:43:26.440 --> 0:43:28.600 and get through the big red wave that is the 0:43:28.680 --> 0:43:32.799 Kansas City Chiefs fan base. So you know, an old 0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:34.839 football coach at Iowa State by the name of Jim 0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:36.719 Cranery I alway used to say, just I want my 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:39.920 guys to play with reckless abandon, So play with reckless abandon. 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:42.879 You know that's the only way to do it. Well. 0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:45.480 One thing too, it's not just offense and defense. 0:43:45.080 --> 0:43:45.600 In this game. 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:49.040 Because former special teams coordinator Dave told works over there, 0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:51.840 if I have any fourth and one or fourth and 0:43:51.920 --> 0:43:57.879 two the Kansas City Chiefs, I'd be super specicious suspicious. 0:43:58.560 --> 0:44:00.880 Yeah, there you go, alert for sure. 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:04.640 Yes, any type of creative type plays that. 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:05.640 He is willing to do. 0:44:07.000 --> 0:44:09.800 You know he's he's you know, almost to face of 0:44:09.840 --> 0:44:12.080 special team's coaches right now in the NFL. 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:13.600 He's had a lot of success. 0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:16.359 He had a fake punt run against him in week one, 0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:21.160 and you know that he's still steaming from having that happen. 0:44:21.440 --> 0:44:25.000 I do know also is very serious about boss security. 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.920 Richie James Junior had a muff punt last week, so 0:44:28.200 --> 0:44:30.319 he is the return specialist for now, but they have 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:32.319 others on there that could be a change there for 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:35.399 all we know headed towards kickoff, all right, Well, it's 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:37.720 going to be interesting, that's for sure. I'm looking forward 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:40.160 to it always am. When you go to a take 0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:43.040 on a great team, you don't see the greatest of 0:44:43.080 --> 0:44:46.160 the great players very often in this league. There are 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:48.680 and he's only so many, and two of them are 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:50.879 right there in Mahomes and Kelsey, and you can throw 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:53.240 the defensive lineman in there as well, in Chris Jones. 0:44:53.239 --> 0:44:53.680 Fake Town. 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:57.160 You know one thing about Kansas City, though, Jeff, there's 0:44:57.200 --> 0:44:59.960 a lot of distractions. So they got this new contra 0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:02.680 that they gave Patrick Mahomes the most amount of money 0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:05.080 over the period of time than they've ever given anybody. 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:07.359 They have the announcement that Travis. 0:45:07.160 --> 0:45:10.120 Kelsey is now dating Taylor Swift and that's going to 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:13.400 change the media and the questions that are going to 0:45:13.440 --> 0:45:15.680 be asked to him and the rest of the team, 0:45:15.760 --> 0:45:18.319 and that could create a little bit of a distraction. 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:22.600 Then you got the Chris Jones returning after his absence there, 0:45:23.760 --> 0:45:29.000 so you know, some of those things do interfere with preparation. 0:45:29.560 --> 0:45:32.040 And I'm not saying it's going to but it is 0:45:32.280 --> 0:45:33.760 always a concern in the back. 0:45:33.560 --> 0:45:35.440 Of my mind. Yeah, I think they're used to it. 0:45:35.480 --> 0:45:38.360 Though they've been on the big stage now three Super 0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:41.440 Bowls in the last four years. They're getting grilled on 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:44.400 all those media coming from all over the world for 0:45:44.440 --> 0:45:46.640 three Super Bowls. I think they're kind of used to 0:45:46.719 --> 0:45:47.040 it now. 0:45:47.160 --> 0:45:51.279 Hey, listen, there's not a player on that team or 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:54.800 has ever been with that organization that's as popular as Swifty. 0:45:55.440 --> 0:45:58.600 So if you don't think, if you don't think that 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:02.800 there's going to be some where questions asked to Kelsey, 0:46:03.400 --> 0:46:07.040 You're you know, you're you're not You're not understanding you. 0:46:07.040 --> 0:46:13.440 Know, No, I'm definitely not. I I did see her 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:17.920 with the kids. Wait I did not. Yeah, that's the 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:21.000 conversation for a Hyde Park, Hide Park, Hyde Park in London. 0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:22.080 Hyde Park. 0:46:23.080 --> 0:46:26.880 Absolutely not, absolutely no. My my buddy Pat Olsen and 0:46:26.920 --> 0:46:29.319 I we had some Adel beverages and we let we 0:46:29.440 --> 0:46:29.680 let the. 0:46:29.719 --> 0:46:30.480 Ladies handle that. 0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:33.239 Right now, when you spent over two thousand, nine ninety 0:46:33.280 --> 0:46:36.319 nine dollars it's Steinhoffel's, you'll score a one hundred dollars 0:46:36.320 --> 0:46:38.319 Bears Pro Shop gift card. Visit any one of their 0:46:38.320 --> 0:46:41.680 four Chicago Land locations. In Vernon Hill's Crystal Lake, Downers 0:46:41.680 --> 0:46:45.800 Grove and Hardwood Heights, or shop online at Steinhoffels dot com. 0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:49.880 Tom final word, A lot of distractions certainly going around. 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:53.360 But as a football team, you have only one choice. 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:56.160 You you get real insular. 0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:58.600 Insular. You go to your meetings, you go. 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:01.560 To practice, you prepare, you go play, and let the 0:47:01.680 --> 0:47:05.480 rest of everything else settle on the outside looking in. 0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:08.879 Is that easier said than done? Could you do that? Oh? 0:47:09.040 --> 0:47:11.279 You know, when you have an athlete like Justin, if 0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:13.279 you put him in the right position and make the 0:47:13.320 --> 0:47:16.520 defense vulnerable, you could talk about a game at the 0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:19.359 end of this afternoon that starts at three twenty five 0:47:19.440 --> 0:47:22.920 Kansas City time. He has one hundred and eighty yards rushing, 0:47:23.520 --> 0:47:25.960 He got time of possession on offense. They give a 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:28.640 chance to get some points, to allow your defense to 0:47:28.680 --> 0:47:31.359 take those chances that we talked about. It's not out 0:47:31.400 --> 0:47:34.040 of the realm with possibility because they have to have 0:47:34.120 --> 0:47:37.399 defensive concerns when a guy like Justin is coming into 0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:40.760 the building. And after all the turmoil that was created 0:47:40.800 --> 0:47:44.239 today at the podium, now you got these guys on 0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:45.200 high alert. 0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:47.120 Tom are We're going to do the fifty to fifty 0:47:47.239 --> 0:47:50.200 Raffle in Kansas City. Every stadium's got it. You've been 0:47:50.239 --> 0:47:54.719 a big proponent that the booth, Doug Colletti, Paul Zerang, 0:47:54.800 --> 0:48:00.759 Little Z, myself, you, Jason Silvia in the booth this 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:03.400 week doing he's not going. 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:07.960 I mean, can we do it just once? 0:48:08.160 --> 0:48:11.240 Can we just finally stop talking about it and actually 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:11.640 do it? 0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:14.200 Yes, let's get Kolletti on the case. 0:48:14.360 --> 0:48:17.040 Listen, it's a three twenty five start. We do game 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:19.960 Day live at the regular time ten thirty in the morning. 0:48:20.200 --> 0:48:21.520 We may have a chance to. 0:48:21.560 --> 0:48:25.080 Walk into the stadium, buy some fifty to fifty chances 0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:26.920 and give us the best of luck. 0:48:27.040 --> 0:48:29.239 Yes, we'll talk about it on the on the podcast, 0:48:29.320 --> 0:48:32.000 and we're brought to you by PNC Official Bank of 0:48:32.040 --> 0:48:32.400 the Bears. 0:48:32.480 --> 0:48:32.680 Time. 0:48:32.680 --> 0:48:34.720 We'll talk to you soon. Thank you so much everybody 0:48:34.719 --> 0:48:38.200 for listening. 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