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Speaker 3: Fair and Jim Middle from Serious XMNFL Radio. I'm Jeff Jonahak.
Speaker 3: We'll here tonight from Grady Jarrett. Tom and I visited
Speaker 3: with him recently, so we'll explore the Bears defense in
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Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 3: I was listening to Jim on Serious XML working in
Speaker 3: the yard this afternoon, and I was rolling because you know,
Speaker 3: these fans are They're great.
Speaker 4: Fans are great. We're first couple weeks of June.
Speaker 3: Here, we're still a bit of a way from the
Speaker 3: start of training camp, and everybody is. They're lit up,
Speaker 3: they're just ready to go. They're ready to talk, discuss, argue.
Speaker 3: And you're not too shy a boy jumping in the
Speaker 3: pool with him.
Speaker 5: Jim, No, not at all, not at all, because this
Speaker 5: is what we do every single day. And you know,
Speaker 5: I remember a lot of things, you know, I remember
Speaker 5: certain callers that call in and are adamant about their beliefs.
Speaker 5: But hey, fans can get it wrong, just like gms
Speaker 5: get it wrong, say on the selection of a quarterback.
Speaker 5: There's been numerous teams that have got it wrong. Bears
Speaker 5: are one of them. There's other teams that have got
Speaker 5: a wrong. There's no harm, no hot foul. You got
Speaker 5: to keep on taking swings at the plate until you
Speaker 5: get your guy. And hopefully Caleb Williams is that guy
Speaker 5: for the Chicago Bears. But yeah, there was a call
Speaker 5: that called in was adamant about their quarterback, and boy,
Speaker 5: they quickly jumped ship and they were pointing towards this
Speaker 5: year rather than last year when they were banging the
Speaker 5: druma about their guy that they believed was the guy.
Speaker 5: And now they quickly moved away from that guy. But
Speaker 5: if gms do that, they're fired. Coaches are fired, players
Speaker 5: are fired, gms are fired. All new regimes are brought in.
Speaker 5: And so that's great for fans to say that I
Speaker 5: had home on their lawnmower, but they're not getting fired, right.
Speaker 5: So jobs get lost and families get moved in. It's
Speaker 5: a big business.
Speaker 2: What you know whatmmy one thing about the NFL.
Speaker 6: So there are stories they start Jaira Alexander, the linebacker
Speaker 6: from Cincinnati. So those are things that the fans pay
Speaker 6: attention to, whether it's in your city or if they're
Speaker 6: just fans of the NFL. But I also think it's
Speaker 6: probably one of the more important times of the year
Speaker 6: that's gonna dictate the success and failure of a player's
Speaker 6: career because everything that happens from the draft until the
Speaker 6: last ota, you have an itinerary, you have a schedule,
Speaker 6: you're inside the building, you're learning about your football team
Speaker 6: and all the elements that are involved, from the weight
Speaker 6: room to the cafeteria, to the on field requirements, to
Speaker 6: the new offense and defense that's being installed. But now
Speaker 6: you have a six week opportunity and what are you
Speaker 6: gonna do with it? And the great Clyde Emrick used
Speaker 6: to say, it takes you two days to get out
Speaker 6: of shape and two weeks to get in shape. So
Speaker 6: don't come back to camp thinking that you're going to
Speaker 6: have time to be you know, get yourself in shape
Speaker 6: before you become competitive. Then it's gonna you're you're gonna
Speaker 6: see the season in your rear view mirror. And then
Speaker 6: the same thing with your tablet. If you can take
Speaker 6: your tablet home and you can invest a lot of
Speaker 6: time in studying this information, so you hit the ground
Speaker 6: running when training camp starts again.
Speaker 2: I do think it's one of the most.
Speaker 6: Important times of a player's career that they control themselves
Speaker 6: and they don't have somebody looking over their shoulder. So
Speaker 6: when you say we got one more week of OTAs
Speaker 6: when they get ready to go home, it's not about
Speaker 6: a six weeks vacation. You can have some ZID vacation time,
Speaker 6: but make sure you're staying prepared for what's required of
Speaker 6: you from the very first morning you get back to
Speaker 6: training camp.
Speaker 3: Basic Basically, you're saying you got to be a self starter.
Speaker 3: You got to be a self starter when you when
Speaker 3: you leave the building. You got to rely on your
Speaker 3: execution and your discipline. Now I got to ask both
Speaker 3: of you guys, because you guys didn't have tablets back
Speaker 3: in the day. So whatever off season, did you spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time watching film? The actual film? Did
Speaker 3: you guys do this or what did you guys do well?
Speaker 6: For me, I was fortunate to be in the system
Speaker 6: for so long that you kind of went right back
Speaker 6: to muscle memory. So we spent more time in the
Speaker 6: facility lifting weights with our teammates in inside old Hallis Hall,
Speaker 6: which was the size of a wedding reception hall.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like where they have now.
Speaker 6: So we were still around each other and we had
Speaker 6: a lot of football conversation, and we were encouraging each
Speaker 6: other in the weight room, and.
Speaker 2: We were under the guidance of Clyde Emrick.
Speaker 6: So we had that part of it offered to us
Speaker 6: that made us a closer team and better players. Nowadays,
Speaker 6: it seems like everybody scatters and they go in a
Speaker 6: thousand different directions. So yeah, the requirements of what the
Speaker 6: coaching staff is going to expect of you is going
Speaker 6: to be proven within the first three days you get
Speaker 6: back to camp.
Speaker 3: Jim, if you had a tablet back in the day,
Speaker 3: would you have been even more prepared or it was
Speaker 3: the tape in the building enough.
Speaker 5: No, I think I'd be more prepared because it's with
Speaker 5: you all the time now, so you could actually take
Speaker 5: the tablet out to say a football field where you're
Speaker 5: working and maybe go through a script. That's what I
Speaker 5: used to do. We watched all the tape like during
Speaker 5: the OTAs and the mini camps, because again back in
Speaker 5: the day, we just had a rookie mini camp and
Speaker 5: a veteran mini camp, and then you were gone, but
Speaker 5: you watched all that tape before you left the building.
Speaker 5: But what I would do is i'd take the scripts.
Speaker 5: So I'd take the scripts home with me, and what
Speaker 5: I would do is then i would go out to
Speaker 5: a football field and I'd say, all right, we're going
Speaker 5: to run you know, eighty two dig and it says
Speaker 5: on the script what coverage it's going to be, and
Speaker 5: so i'd just simulate the play. I would go through
Speaker 5: my reads what coverage it is, and then i'd throw
Speaker 5: out scenarios. All right, let's say it's we'll do cover two.
Speaker 5: Now we'll do cover six, you know, so I just
Speaker 5: throw out different coverages. Where would I go in this scenario?
Speaker 5: So I'd go through the script. So then I would
Speaker 5: simulate drives. So you have your first and second down,
Speaker 5: like when you're doing your inside run, that you go
Speaker 5: through all the footwork in that period. Then you'd go through,
Speaker 5: you know, your your team period for run, play action
Speaker 5: pay plays. I would go through all my footwork and
Speaker 5: that would I'd be thinking what I audible any plays
Speaker 5: against the defense we were against. Then I'd go through
Speaker 5: all of seven on seven because that's all passing stuff.
Speaker 5: I'd want to know all the coverages, what are my drops,
Speaker 5: what would I check to all those types? And then
Speaker 5: you got your team period. So you just roll through
Speaker 5: the scripts and it's going to give you a lot
Speaker 5: of different looks.
Speaker 4: Who are you throwing to?
Speaker 5: High school kids?
Speaker 4: You could start plucking guys off the street.
Speaker 5: With Yeah, I'd go up to old high schools and
Speaker 5: guys would be out there working out for their high
Speaker 5: school saying, man, you mind catching some footballs?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: They were up for it, and that's what you do.
Speaker 3: That's great, that's awesome. That's that's good old fashioned football
Speaker 3: right there. Uh, Tommy, did you ever run the hill
Speaker 3: with Walter Payton?
Speaker 2: I never did.
Speaker 6: I never wanted to because I heard so many horror
Speaker 6: stories of guys showing up and kind of challenging him
Speaker 6: inside the locker room and he was saying, Okay, just
Speaker 6: show up and we'll run it. And there's a lot
Speaker 6: of guys that he left in.
Speaker 2: In the dust.
Speaker 6: And but you know the thing about Walter, when he
Speaker 6: went to run the hill, he was taped up, he
Speaker 6: was spatted, he had his uh kind of.
Speaker 2: His running uniform onm that he put on and.
Speaker 6: He took it really serious and had those spikes in
Speaker 6: his shoes that were grabbing into that hill. And listen, Jeff,
Speaker 6: if you weren't really honestly ready and prepared and understood
Speaker 6: how to run that hill, there wasn't a lot of
Speaker 6: guys that were able to do it. So one off
Speaker 6: season I went down to Houston and when my buddy
Speaker 6: from college, Larry Morty was Larry Moriarty was playing for
Speaker 6: the Houston Oilers. They had a forty yard ramp that
Speaker 6: was covered an astro turf, And so I went through
Speaker 6: a series of a couple weeks of running this incline
Speaker 6: with these guys, and they did a bunch of different
Speaker 6: drills to lengthen your stride, to shorten your stride, to
Speaker 6: power and all that. And so I knew it wasn't
Speaker 6: the same as Walter's hill because his was a lot harder,
Speaker 6: a lot longer, and you know, Walter was Walter Payton.
Speaker 6: But when I went down and I was kind of
Speaker 6: encouraged and excited to be around some other guys from
Speaker 6: another football team, it was kind of neat to do.
Speaker 6: But Walter, no, and I've, like I said, I heard
Speaker 6: a lot of Horset. He's about guys leaving before the end,
Speaker 6: before Walter was done, and I think it kind of
Speaker 6: encouraged Walter a little bit more to leave these guys
Speaker 6: in the dust.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, Jim, what's the craziest training that you
Speaker 3: ever did? Like, maybe it would be out of the
Speaker 3: norm that others would say, ah, you come on, you
Speaker 3: didn't do that. I know it's different for a quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know, you're throwing passes, you're staying in shape. But
Speaker 3: anything crazy you did in an off season, as you remember,
Speaker 3: or somebody recommended something, I mean it nowadays it could
Speaker 3: be you know, it could be anything. Could be pilates,
Speaker 3: could be boxing, could be I mean, whatever, did you
Speaker 3: do anything crazy?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: Greg Lloyd got me into tea or taekwondo. He was
Speaker 5: a black belt in taekwondo. I mean it did help
Speaker 5: me in flexibility, but I was like learning patterns and
Speaker 5: stuff to get another belt, and I was like, man,
Speaker 5: what am I doing here? You know, let's just go
Speaker 5: throw the ball. You know, I'm doing like back kicks
Speaker 5: and stuff. I'm like, who am I going to be
Speaker 5: back kicking? Dropping back on a seven step trump?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: Sons like enough, But what am I doing?
Speaker 2: All Right? Greg?
Speaker 5: This was this may work for Greg Lloyd, who's going
Speaker 5: after people, but it wasn't. It wasn't the best thing
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 4: So it was a bust.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a buzz. All right.
Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll talk some serious Baul. We'll
Speaker 3: talk with Grady Jarrett. He's coming up next, the Bear's
Speaker 3: new defensive tackle. Here on ESPN Chicago and the Bears
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Speaker 3: Igs Energy, Jeff johonny X, Tom Bear, and Jim Otter
Speaker 3: from Serious x MNFL radio tenure Atlanta Falcon. Now a
Speaker 3: first year Chicago Bear defensive tackle, Grady Jarrett kind enough
Speaker 3: to sit down with Tom and I recently, and I
Speaker 3: brought it up to him that when Tom scouting reports
Speaker 3: when the Bears played the foul Fulkins were always about Jared,
Speaker 3: like whenever he fa the Bears meant he was going
Speaker 3: to be the most difficult assignment. And in three games,
Speaker 3: couple of sacks, six tackles, the stuff, three quarterback hits,
Speaker 3: three tackles for lost and a pass break up against
Speaker 3: the Bears in those three games in which Grady Jarrett
Speaker 3: won two. So that was my entree into the conversation
Speaker 3: with a veteran defensive tackle along with Tommy. It's going
Speaker 3: to be a problem, Jeff, and you have been a
Speaker 3: problem for opposing offenses. Now you can be a problem
Speaker 3: for us in a good way. How good does that
Speaker 3: sound to you that somebody you know looks at you
Speaker 3: that way?
Speaker 7: Man, This sounds amazing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: It's just respect, you know, and always one of the
Speaker 7: way the way that I played the game to stand out,
Speaker 7: and I think it has and I just want to
Speaker 7: continue to get better every year, you know. So I'm
Speaker 7: excited to be playing for the Bears now, you know,
Speaker 7: bring that energy, that that that that passion to to
Speaker 7: Chicago and try to go get some wins, to go dominate.
Speaker 6: As line of scrimmish, did you always know your template
Speaker 6: was going to be successful in the NFL? And what
Speaker 6: I'm saying is you talk about the changes, You're not
Speaker 6: going to become taller, but so your size has been
Speaker 6: an asset to you.
Speaker 8: Do you feel that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely, Being a shorter defensive tackle. Knowing the things
Speaker 7: that I needed to be better at where my some
Speaker 7: knowing your limitations or is a strength as well, because
Speaker 7: you know, I'm gona have to be a little quicker,
Speaker 7: I'm to be a little faster, a little stronger, and
Speaker 7: that has contributed to to my game and so uh so, yeah,
Speaker 7: there's no secret about you know, the things that you know,
Speaker 7: whether it's scouting or people try to hold against me.
Speaker 7: But you know, I only can control what I can control,
Speaker 7: and I can make the most.
Speaker 2: Out of the things that I can.
Speaker 7: And I feel like I've done a really good job
Speaker 7: for myself up to this point, and I would just
Speaker 7: want to continue to get better, you know here now
Speaker 7: going in this is to year eleven in a new
Speaker 7: place with new teammates, and I'm ready to just you know,
Speaker 7: go go dominate.
Speaker 8: Did you ever compare notes with Aaron Donald?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 8: Did you ever compare notes?
Speaker 6: You guys have a similar explosiveness, size and everything.
Speaker 7: But I mean people always love to throw our name
Speaker 7: in there every time I every time I do something good,
Speaker 7: somebody has bring him up every time. So so I
Speaker 7: mean it's you kind of set the tone. Yeah, for
Speaker 7: so for sow for show. But no, I definitely know
Speaker 7: respect to respect everything about him. But I think just
Speaker 7: that that that the shorter, quicker defensive tackle that's explosive,
Speaker 7: like a play sideline, the sideline. It's kind of the
Speaker 7: thing with people talking about when they speak about it.
Speaker 3: I got a question for you, as a former NFL
Speaker 3: starting guard, how would you deal with Grady?
Speaker 4: Because I always ask him, I hate ooh.
Speaker 3: The guy that kept jepping that he was always Reggie White.
Speaker 3: Reggie White kept YEPI nit right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, but Reggie White's size and power and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 6: in terms of I don't know how I would ever
Speaker 6: win leverage against you, because I mean, I'm not that
Speaker 6: much taller than you. But again your explosive, this how
Speaker 6: low to the ground you're inate ability to understand the
Speaker 6: rhythm of a snap count. So I would be thinking
Speaker 6: about all these types of things of.
Speaker 3: Worry about getting him getting on your edges.
Speaker 6: But I would beg the guard, the tackle and the
Speaker 6: center that I'm playing next to.
Speaker 8: If Grady is in that gap, at least give me
Speaker 8: leave early.
Speaker 2: Don't leave to early.
Speaker 7: And they like to get on me clearly like they
Speaker 7: like to try to give me before I get going.
Speaker 7: So I got to give myself a space off the
Speaker 7: ball a good bit of time, and uh, if I
Speaker 7: do crowd the ball sometimes for a good reason. So
Speaker 7: I kind of at this point know where the guys
Speaker 7: try to try to try to stop me pretty good,
Speaker 7: like they like versus like chest punches. They try to
Speaker 7: punch me like in the face, nick area type, because
Speaker 7: it's like the it's it's it's stuff that they be trying.
Speaker 8: But the work, you know, you.
Speaker 7: Can't that the helmet to the bottom, the tin strapped
Speaker 7: now they get them right.
Speaker 6: So, because you have so much experience in the league,
Speaker 6: do you pay attention to any of the conversation of
Speaker 6: the offensive lineman or the way they're kind of acting
Speaker 6: in the huddle in preparation for mens something necessarily they're
Speaker 6: gonna do to you, but what they're gonna do, uh
Speaker 6: in the next player down.
Speaker 7: You definitely pick up a little bit of dialects sometime,
Speaker 7: like calls and they'll give you a fake call sometime.
Speaker 7: I they act like they're about to do W and
Speaker 7: they'll be like double double and they'll try to run
Speaker 7: a track play of something to get me going up field,
Speaker 7: and uh, but I think more than anything, you just
Speaker 7: got to really study your tape and really just trust
Speaker 7: your instincts, because if you get too caught up and
Speaker 7: trying to listen to for trying to cheat code every time.
Speaker 2: You could, you can mess yourself up, sleep s up down.
Speaker 7: So and then just like us on defense, I'm sure
Speaker 7: they changed calls sometimes the week to week. So if
Speaker 7: you get a beat on something, it'll help you, maybe
Speaker 7: a couple of players a game. But it ain't nothing
Speaker 7: that you want to hang a hat on all games
Speaker 7: just because it's it never stays the same.
Speaker 3: I know this is almost cliche nowadays in the scouting world,
Speaker 3: and I follow that considerably, the phrases and the and
Speaker 3: the terminology.
Speaker 4: But you guys are both heavy heavyweight wrestlers.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, ye, it's significant. It's important. I
Speaker 4: look at offensive line.
Speaker 3: If they get a wrestler, I know, we got we
Speaker 3: got some good hand fighting, we got some strength. They
Speaker 3: care about the weight room, the leverage. It is that beneficial.
Speaker 3: Was that beneficial?
Speaker 7: I absolutely think it was definite. It was beneficial. Being
Speaker 7: a wrestling high school. I think just the principles of it,
Speaker 7: whether it's just from the mindset just disciplined mindset of competing.
Speaker 7: Like you said, the training is different, you know, the
Speaker 7: competition is different. You only got, you know too, three
Speaker 7: rounds of like two minutes, so it's like you're pushing
Speaker 7: yourself to the max, you know what I'm saying, to
Speaker 7: try to be another man one on one, you know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying. And then just the principles that you
Speaker 7: learn from movement, leverage, stuff like that just kind of
Speaker 7: naturally trans over to the football field, especially for linemen.
Speaker 7: And and so I think that's something that I was
Speaker 7: like redirected in through coming up through school. I never
Speaker 7: was like I want to be in a wrestling team.
Speaker 7: The truth of the matter was I was trying to
Speaker 7: be on the basketball team in middle school and got.
Speaker 8: Cut, unlike Michael Jordan got.
Speaker 7: So I pivoted went to wrestling, and it's really helped
Speaker 7: me in my football career.
Speaker 2: Everything happen for a reason.
Speaker 7: And I'm a big advocate of you know, wrestling, even
Speaker 7: I mean even just as you know, child development. I
Speaker 7: think it helps them with the confidence and gets competing
Speaker 7: doing some doing some stuff and you know, just learning
Speaker 7: how to protect yourself a little bit. Sometime you get grappling.
Speaker 2: So I mean, it's just awesome.
Speaker 6: So your dad played in the NFL great linebacker from
Speaker 6: the Atlanta Falcons. First, what did he teach you about
Speaker 6: how to play the position? And does he tell you
Speaker 6: that the defensive tackle position is the most important to
Speaker 6: middle linebackers success?
Speaker 2: Not necessarily?
Speaker 7: You know, our relationship growing up was good. I didn't
Speaker 7: grow up in the same householders and so we really
Speaker 7: didn't talk ball much at all, if ever, but he
Speaker 7: had to have a great, great career with the Falcons,
Speaker 7: and I was super super cool to be able to,
Speaker 7: I guess, play for the same team he did. How
Speaker 7: it happened was really crazy, like a like a note
Speaker 7: like because a lot of people never knew that. I
Speaker 7: was like, yeah, no, son, and so so just this
Speaker 7: is cool. How you know, how fun a god works
Speaker 7: and put things together. So it was pretty cool. And uh,
Speaker 7: but I mean just watching him just play the game
Speaker 7: was really good. My biggest kind of influence from a
Speaker 7: former player standpoint probably was like ray Lewis with somebody
Speaker 7: who was close in my life that I watched to
Speaker 7: just you know, be the best at what they doing
Speaker 7: play in the middle linebacker position, and just one of
Speaker 7: the best players ever played the game, and the way
Speaker 7: he went about his business and just.
Speaker 4: You call him uncle.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, we're real tight and so
Speaker 7: so I was able to work out with him a
Speaker 7: lot growing up and with his sons and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: So that was that was cool and it definitely contributed
Speaker 7: to my career. Why number fifty, Uh, number fifty was
Speaker 7: my first number that I had playing football and then
Speaker 7: for the Rockdale Patriots, so so I literally kind of
Speaker 7: went through the numbers like they changed up a little bit.
Speaker 7: I had fifty a couple of times, and then when
Speaker 7: I started playing playing in high school, it was like
Speaker 7: one of the and I was a I was a
Speaker 7: guard slash defensive lineman. So I didn't want like a
Speaker 7: nineties number because I had to play guard too, so
Speaker 7: I didn't want to wear like no. Sixty numbers. But
Speaker 7: the fifties was open. The fifty was right there, so
Speaker 7: I let him get fifty. So I really wore fifty
Speaker 7: all the way through high school through college, and then
Speaker 7: when I first got in the league, it really wasn't
Speaker 7: letting the linemen wear fifties until like a couple of
Speaker 7: years after that. So but ninety seven was open, like
Speaker 7: only ninety numbers. So that's how I got ninety seven
Speaker 7: in Atlanta, you know, fell fell in love with that
Speaker 7: made of my own.
Speaker 2: And then well, Patrick Kearney were before me. He was
Speaker 2: balling up in the A.
Speaker 7: So but and then I had the opportunity to do
Speaker 7: to come here, and and Andrew Bidams already was ninety
Speaker 7: seven and all the other ninety numbers were kind of
Speaker 7: taken and fifty was open. So I was like, maybybe
Speaker 7: you know, a full circle moment, go back to fifty.
Speaker 7: But then I wanted to check and make sure because
Speaker 7: I know Mike Singletary were fifty here, so I'm like,
Speaker 7: let me make sure it's not like a thing or
Speaker 7: like see like you know, if it's like a retired
Speaker 7: to what's the what's the parameters? So I acts and
Speaker 7: I I looked at him, but I've seen guy's wearing
Speaker 7: been wearing fifty for the past couple of years, so
Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, cool, So I ain't really you know
Speaker 7: nothing much about it. So I was like, shoot out,
Speaker 7: I would like to wear fifty, and so cool, let
Speaker 7: me get fifty. And then from there then I started
Speaker 7: getting like people like why isn't fifty retired.
Speaker 8: I'm like, look.
Speaker 2: Nobody said nothing else.
Speaker 8: Is nobody about fifty?
Speaker 2: Then I could get fifty.
Speaker 7: But I can understand, you know, being like a top
Speaker 7: defensive player come to get it. So I mean, I
Speaker 7: know what, I know what the weight hold and I
Speaker 7: definitely will definitely understand the significance of it. And just
Speaker 7: give me motivation try to be my best. You know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, And I know that means a lot
Speaker 7: to Bears fans, So that you know that I gotta
Speaker 7: go do what I gotta do to represent.
Speaker 8: Well it looks good on you and Singletary.
Speaker 4: Would be proud.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah without that time Walder Payton and Mana he
Speaker 3: Black for Walder Peyton. So coming like you said, meant
Speaker 3: to be without without it, I believe in here without it.
Speaker 7: I mean I couldn't. I couldn't think about think about
Speaker 7: being in a better place right now.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: I mean just I mean, it's it's just so much
Speaker 7: transition to happen and I don't even know for my
Speaker 7: football career, but in life too. And it's been it's
Speaker 7: been good. And like I said before, it's been refreshing
Speaker 7: and I'm not gonna let this opportunity slip.
Speaker 8: Got refreshing for us as well.
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, I tell you, Tommy, And I think I
Speaker 3: said this early in that interview that I edited some
Speaker 3: of it out but for time constraints. But he's probably
Speaker 3: I'm most intrigued of the veteran additions by this player,
Speaker 3: just because of what he means in the locker room,
Speaker 3: what he's going to mean for that defensive line, and
Speaker 3: the energy he'll bring the training camp and.
Speaker 4: Practice and every day.
Speaker 3: He's a fun guy and he's a full go every
Speaker 3: single day.
Speaker 6: Well, you know there's a couple guys like Javon Dexter, Senior,
Speaker 6: Zach Pickens and even sher Are the new guy we drafted.
Speaker 6: All these guys can learn a little bit from him,
Speaker 6: not only how to prepare yourself during practices, how to
Speaker 6: prepare yourself for the game, how to become a better
Speaker 6: football player, and he leads by example.
Speaker 2: And two things I would have liked to ask.
Speaker 6: Him is the influence of Ray Lewis the wrestler on him,
Speaker 6: and if he could ever take a guy like Gable Steveson,
Speaker 6: who was a great wrestler from University of Minnesota who
Speaker 6: tried out for Buffalo last year and didn't make it.
Speaker 6: Could he take a great wrestler and turn him into
Speaker 6: a great football player? So remember those questions for the
Speaker 6: next time we get to talk to him.
Speaker 3: All right, maybe Jim can answer that as well. Wrestlers
Speaker 3: turned to football players. There's a lot of them. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: it's the leverage. It's got to be the strinth. But
Speaker 3: you got to have the medical capacity to handle this
Speaker 3: sport as well and the feat.
Speaker 8: Right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I always bring up Carlton Hasselrigg. He was a you know,
Speaker 5: a guy was a world record holder and he was
Speaker 5: basically on a practice squad essentially back in the day.
Speaker 5: He basically just developed year one and then his second
Speaker 5: year he became a starter and was all pro. I mean,
Speaker 5: this guy could snatch and just throw people to the ground.
Speaker 5: But the numerous wrestlers is time to point it out.
Speaker 5: I mean, look at Tristan Wurfs. There's just a ton
Speaker 5: of offensive linemen that they just really no leverage if
Speaker 5: they have a really a wrestling background where they really
Speaker 5: excel at the at the game of leverage.
Speaker 6: You know, you look at guys like Matt Suey, Jay Hilgenberg,
Speaker 6: John Wojahowski, Jimbo Covert. They were all great wrestlers throughout
Speaker 6: their time in Heights Hole and Olan. Yeah, and it
Speaker 6: all translated to being a great football player. And a
Speaker 6: lot of it has to do with you is your
Speaker 6: hard work ability, because it's a hard working sport.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Winning in the trenches that helps that man oman o
Speaker 3: type of activity that you have to beat the guy.
Speaker 4: Across from the and the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll dig deeper into the defensive line and
Speaker 3: the defense in general, go through each player and see
Speaker 3: how they outfit for the Bears this training camp approaches.
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Speaker 3: that started feeling better tomorrow? I just heard from the
Speaker 3: Bears new defensive tackle Grady Jared' So let's look at
Speaker 3: the rest of the defensive line.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: Let's let's see how it stacks up head of the
Speaker 3: training cap. There's there's a lot of guys on the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, the guys we're most familiar with and
Speaker 3: could see being in the rotation as starters and uh
Speaker 3: getting some relief from some of these backups. But you
Speaker 3: got Montest Sweat and again no depth charts. So this
Speaker 3: is just just me talking Montest Sweat and Dio adang
Speaker 3: Bo on the edges, Javon Dexter Senior, and Grady Jarrett
Speaker 3: on the inside. They'll be competition, they'll be you know,
Speaker 3: let's see who starts where. Andrew Billing, certainly in early
Speaker 3: downs is a is a weapon, was outstanding against the
Speaker 3: run last year.
Speaker 4: The run game suffered with his absence last year.
Speaker 3: And then in the rotation Shamar Stewart, Zach Pickens and
Speaker 3: then two gentlemen that.
Speaker 4: I A'm gonna keep an eye on now. The old
Speaker 4: staff really liked what they had to do.
Speaker 3: Let's find out what Dennis Allen thinks about the play
Speaker 3: at Chris Williams and Jonathan Ford. Jonathan Ford was a
Speaker 3: late season addition, had some really good efforts in there,
Speaker 3: good games, and Chris Williams surprised us.
Speaker 4: All season long.
Speaker 3: So let's just start with that group for starters and
Speaker 3: how it all stacks up and what Dennis Allen Tommy
Speaker 3: will start with you could could do with this kind
Speaker 3: of rotation of talent here.
Speaker 4: They're all different types of players.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, and I think down a distance is
Speaker 6: going to be very specific about what they can contribute
Speaker 6: on the defensive line and how many plays they can play.
Speaker 6: Because if you look at a guy like Andrew Billings,
Speaker 6: he's a legitimate zero technique run stuffing noseguard that can
Speaker 6: take on multiple blockers. But I think Dennis Allen wants
Speaker 6: guys that can get upfield. So is he able to
Speaker 6: trans to transfer his game to the style of what
Speaker 6: Dennis Allen wants. You know that Gravon Dexter Senior and
Speaker 6: Grady Jarrett and Turner, these guys got the explosiveness to
Speaker 6: get upfield and we'll see how that plays a part
Speaker 6: and their role on this team. And then you got
Speaker 6: Zach Pickens. Here's a guy that shows he's had some explosiveness.
Speaker 6: Now he's got a develop that type of trade into
Speaker 6: an effective interior style of play. And then when you
Speaker 6: talk about the outside guys, Montes and Dio. Yeah, you
Speaker 6: have those guys, but you can't live life in the
Speaker 6: NFL with two outside rushers.
Speaker 2: If you don't have.
Speaker 6: A minimum of four, it's gonna be tough for you
Speaker 6: to really translate into a good exterior pass rushing football
Speaker 6: team if you're expecting two guys to take a bulk
Speaker 6: of the work. And so when you talk about every guy,
Speaker 6: they're going to develop what their traits are, what their
Speaker 6: assets are, and how they can get better in the
Speaker 6: style and the demands of Dennis Allen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know it's gonna be down in distance.
Speaker 5: Guys are going to have to earn it. I think
Speaker 5: Dennis Allen has a good idea about what he thinks
Speaker 5: guys can do. But once the pads are on, I
Speaker 5: think that's gonna dictate it and guys will be competing
Speaker 5: for jobs. And I do think it'll be a rotational
Speaker 5: type of thing where guys are gonna earn snap counts.
Speaker 5: And again, you don't want to wear guys out either.
Speaker 5: You know, you know they're gonna have to have a
Speaker 5: good rotation because that's just where kind of the NFL
Speaker 5: is now, with especially four man fronts, you see a
Speaker 5: lot of teams rolling, they're gonna roll eight guys in there. Essentially.
Speaker 5: Look at Buffalo, look at a lot of the four
Speaker 5: man teams out there, they're rolling guys through. And I
Speaker 5: would think the Bears, because really, really, Montese sweat. Does
Speaker 5: anybody else have the credentials that say that they dissowe
Speaker 5: they're guaranteed to start opposite him? No, I don't think
Speaker 5: anybody's credential. You know, that's kind of gonna have to
Speaker 5: be earned. And I would think upfront, other than what
Speaker 5: Tom said about Andrew Billings say on first and second
Speaker 5: down stopping the run, yeah, I think Grady Jarrett has
Speaker 5: earned it. No names after that, though, you know, those
Speaker 5: guys got to earn it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the others on the edges.
Speaker 3: Dominie Robinson certainly got some good pray from head coach
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson is somebody that surprised him during the OTA
Speaker 3: session of the offseason program. Austin Booker, second year, still
Speaker 3: very young, flashed, has the length, likely needs to add
Speaker 3: some more weight.
Speaker 4: Not sure where that's at.
Speaker 3: And Daniel Hardy, who, as I proclaimed many times, really
Speaker 3: turned my head throughout the preseason here or not the preseason,
Speaker 3: the offseason just by how he looks and the fact
Speaker 3: that they're taking a look at him as well to
Speaker 3: compliment him at a strong side linebacker as well as
Speaker 3: rush the passers, certainly special teams. Then you get some
Speaker 3: guys to check out. These are in the checkout department
Speaker 3: guys at training camp. Rookie Xavier Carlton. He's six six
Speaker 3: seventy three, so he he fits the bill in terms
Speaker 3: of measurements. Jammery Croma, who was on the practice squad
Speaker 3: last year as an undrafted rookie and then undrafted rookie
Speaker 3: six three sixty four. Jeremy Robinson, he's out of Kansas.
Speaker 3: Played with Austin Booker last year, so there's a there's
Speaker 3: a lot to dig through.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: One thing about the defensive line in Dennis Allen, because
Speaker 6: we're all going to get to know him once training
Speaker 6: camp starts, is the versatility that all these guys offer
Speaker 6: to me. I've been a big believer that ya Von
Speaker 6: Dexter Senior could play outside, he could play edge on
Speaker 6: first and second down, and it seems like that's one
Speaker 6: of the things that Dennis Allen often says, is that
Speaker 6: you got to be able to stop the run. If
Speaker 6: you want to rush the passer. So I think if
Speaker 6: you're talking about Austin Booker, if he is in there
Speaker 6: on first down, he's got to show that he has
Speaker 6: the power to leverage and the getoff ability to be
Speaker 6: able to stop the run if they want to intentionally
Speaker 6: run the ball at him.
Speaker 2: And so all these.
Speaker 6: Guys, even Dio, he can play inside, but he can
Speaker 6: play outside as well, and he's got the similar template
Speaker 6: to what you just mentioned, the six six two seventy
Speaker 6: pound frame.
Speaker 4: The length.
Speaker 3: Dennis Allen love speed, but he loves length, big long
Speaker 3: linear players as well, and they are going to off
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. You get upfield no No, No
Speaker 3: two gap and looking Jimmy, they're going they're coming after you.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take a break. Well, hold that thought.
Speaker 3: We gotta take a break. We come back. We got
Speaker 3: Tom Stotts and we'll get some gym starts as well.
Speaker 3: That segment coming up next here on Bears Weekly on
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Speaker 3: Bears Radio Network. Jeff Joniyac, Tom There and Jim Miller,
Speaker 3: as we continue to look at the Bears.
Speaker 4: In time for Tom Stoughts. Jim, we know we love
Speaker 4: Tom Stotts.
Speaker 3: He pens some today, We're gonna fire through them preseason
Speaker 3: playing time. He's not even waiting for the start of
Speaker 3: training camp. He's not waiting to the interview. He wants
Speaker 3: to know what can we do to answer the questions
Speaker 3: with preseason playing time? Tom take it from there. What
Speaker 3: are your expectations? Listen, it's gonna be really important. And
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody out there. Maybe Jim's talking about
Speaker 3: a guy like Montes Sweat or Grady Jarrett, but they're
Speaker 3: trying to learn a new system. The coaches are trying
Speaker 3: to learn a little bit something about them. They're trying
Speaker 3: to instill install a system and how that's gonna fit
Speaker 3: into the regular season.
Speaker 2: So do the.
Speaker 6: Practices or the combined practices they go tell them enough
Speaker 6: so they don't have to play them in preseason games,
Speaker 6: Or do you have to take a guy like Caleb
Speaker 6: and DJ and Rome and Colston and these guys and
Speaker 6: play them a little bit more because they're not familiar
Speaker 6: with each other, and Ben's trying to get to know
Speaker 6: them a little better. I think it's gonna be really
Speaker 6: interested when you're talking about a new coaching staff installing
Speaker 6: the new system with three preseason games.
Speaker 2: And how do you how do you satisfy what you
Speaker 2: think these players.
Speaker 6: Need before they go out on a Monday night football
Speaker 6: field against the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially bid the battles, you know, the battle left
Speaker 3: tackle for one strong side linebacker.
Speaker 4: How are you gonna divvy up that stuff?
Speaker 3: You know it'll be it'll be interesting because, like you said,
Speaker 3: it's a first time head coach.
Speaker 6: What do you do with a guy like Jakwan Brisker?
Speaker 6: Do you play him in the pre season? Do you
Speaker 6: not play him in the preseason? Here's a guy that
Speaker 6: hasn't been on a meaningful football field in almost the year.
Speaker 6: So you know, there's just a little decisions that you
Speaker 6: have to make that are going to factor out in
Speaker 6: the big picture of this football team. Because you have
Speaker 6: a bye week in five weeks after the start of
Speaker 6: the regular season, so you got to get these guys
Speaker 6: ready to roll from week one.
Speaker 5: They'll be logging a lot of snap totals, I mean,
Speaker 5: whatever isn't covered or how much they've played in practice,
Speaker 5: and maybe how they're evaluated that they're going to know, Hey,
Speaker 5: we need to get this guy more work with this
Speaker 5: guy is not maybe a player X isn't caught up
Speaker 5: on some of the calls that we need defensively, we
Speaker 5: need to see him in more live action, or they
Speaker 5: need we need to increase their practice time. That's all
Speaker 5: going to be evaluated where you know, Dennis Allen and
Speaker 5: the defensive line coach, I'm going to say, all right,
Speaker 5: Montes Sweat is right where he needs to be is conditioning,
Speaker 5: where it is he's on point with the playbook and
Speaker 5: the calls. And then of course there's individually and then
Speaker 5: there's collectively as a unit that hey, we need to
Speaker 5: be more together as a unit. Now, can that be
Speaker 5: done in practice time or maybe, like Tom said, maybe
Speaker 5: it's live action. It's got to be pre season action
Speaker 5: where the pads are on, it's full tackling, and we
Speaker 5: need to see these guys perform as a unit together
Speaker 5: making the calls that they need so they get used
Speaker 5: to one another and they get used to this new system.
Speaker 5: So you know, it may be logging more more. You know,
Speaker 5: the kid gloves kind of got to come off. It's
Speaker 5: the old story. Or do we worry about injury, Well,
Speaker 5: you better worry about whether they can function as a
Speaker 5: unit because those early games are going to mean a lot.
Speaker 6: You know, one thing about it is your early opponents too,
Speaker 6: they're going to be doing some research and development about
Speaker 6: how they're going to gain plan against you. And if
Speaker 6: they feel that you have susceptibility to a new system
Speaker 6: that's being installed and you're doing things good or you're
Speaker 6: doing things not so good, those are.
Speaker 2: Gonna be the guys looking at you early also.
Speaker 3: All right, then my next one kind of I reduced it, Tommy,
Speaker 3: for purposes of time. What are your expectations, respectively, Jim
Speaker 3: and Tom of the top.
Speaker 4: Three picks, Let's do the top four picks.
Speaker 3: Tight end Colston Lovelin, Luther Burden the third receiver, Ozzie
Speaker 3: Tapilo on the offensive line, and Reuben Hippolyte the second
Speaker 3: the fourth round Pike at linebacker.
Speaker 6: Tom go ahead, Uh, you know, I think every one
Speaker 6: of these guys, first of all, they have to impress
Speaker 6: the coaches enough to be able.
Speaker 2: To make the team.
Speaker 6: But once they make the team, how are their reps
Speaker 6: gonna be decided? Is Luther Burden a type of a
Speaker 6: guy that can come in here and be an asset
Speaker 6: at the receiver position to give the quarterback more options
Speaker 6: or give Ben Johnson a little bit more versatility within
Speaker 6: the offense. Is Colson Loveland gonna be up the speed
Speaker 6: after recovering from an injury to go out there and
Speaker 6: do the multiple components that a.
Speaker 2: Tight end can do for a football team.
Speaker 6: In asie Trapillo is, you're going to take a guy
Speaker 6: that is a right offensive tackle and can he Is
Speaker 6: he a good enough athlete to go out and play
Speaker 6: left tackle? You have to have certain traits and you'll
Speaker 6: be able to see those things within the first couple
Speaker 6: of weeks of training camp, I believe. And then you know, linebacker,
Speaker 6: running back, defensive tackle. Those are guys that are gonna
Speaker 6: be involved in reps. They're not gonna hold down a
Speaker 6: singular position. They're gonna be a part of a rotation.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean the leaf turnaround. We talked about him early.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, gimmy, yeah.
Speaker 5: But you know those guys won. Their health is going
Speaker 5: to determine it too. Obviously Loveland hasn't been in there,
Speaker 5: he hasn't been practicing, and so he's behind. You know,
Speaker 5: there's really no other way to say it. You know,
Speaker 5: we'll see how quickly he can get caught up at camp.
Speaker 5: I do like Luther Burden. I think he's a guy
Speaker 5: that could be a burner, take the top off the
Speaker 5: defense type of thing, and he will have a critical
Speaker 5: role in certain situations minimum that he can help out
Speaker 5: the offense. And I think we know how competitive left
Speaker 5: tackle is, so Trepillo is a guy to keep your
Speaker 5: eye on. I just think the as we know that
Speaker 5: the door is open there at left tackle. If I
Speaker 5: were Trapillo, I would be salivating coming to Bears camp
Speaker 5: right now. I mean I would be in my playbook
Speaker 5: doing everything I can, whatever weight room stuff I gotta do.
Speaker 5: I would be just a mad man. As soon as
Speaker 5: you know the Bears leave their you know, when they're
Speaker 5: able to leave the facility and go back home. Because
Speaker 5: if I'm Trpillo, for me or any of these or keys,
Speaker 5: it's time to get the work. Because first impressions mean everything,
Speaker 5: and I would want to make a good first impression,
Speaker 5: especially at a position that potentially is up for grabs.
Speaker 3: Somebody send me a message. As a Bears fan, he
Speaker 3: loves the pick of Hippolyte compared him in some sense,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, this is a name from the past,
Speaker 3: but Nick Bonakhani, who was a thirteenth round draft pick
Speaker 3: by the Boston Patriots in the Old American Football League
Speaker 3: and made it to the Miami Dolphins and one of
Speaker 3: the best linebackers, went to.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and wore my number.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 3: Always a tie in, Jim. He's got a tie into everything,
Speaker 3: no question about it. One more segment to go after
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Speaker 3: The NFL dot COM's digital content editor, Jeremy Berman, penn
Speaker 3: to piece this morning on just how long it took
Speaker 3: franchises to turn things around just win a playoff game,
Speaker 3: and it's always an education when you dive in like this,
Speaker 3: and is just again underscoring how hard it is to
Speaker 3: win in the National Football Buffalo in twenty seventeen made
Speaker 3: the playoffs for the first time in eighteen years. Cleveland
Speaker 3: won a playoff game with the first time in twenty
Speaker 3: three years in twenty twenty twenty twenty one, Cincinnati won
Speaker 3: its first playoff game in thirty one years, and of course,
Speaker 3: the Detroit story twenty twenty three won their first playoff
Speaker 3: game in thirty two years. So there are six teams,
Speaker 3: including the Bears, that have not made the playoffs in
Speaker 3: the last four years. That's a minimal amount of time.
Speaker 3: Though the Bears have not won a playoff game since
Speaker 3: twenty ten. Atlanta, Carolina, Indy, New Orleans Jets and the
Speaker 3: Bears like to break that streak and get in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And with a new coach and some surprise sucker punches,
Speaker 3: you could throw to some opponents and get some early wins,
Speaker 3: pocket some wins and if everything comes together.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of ifs.
Speaker 3: There, But do you feel do you feel better about
Speaker 3: it than you did before you knew Ben Johnson and
Speaker 3: what he was going to be like as a head
Speaker 3: coach already because we're seeing a lot of positives.
Speaker 6: I feel that Ben Johnson has the talent to mold
Speaker 6: into a playoff competitive football team, although the division is
Speaker 6: really a difficult division. We're not talking like some of
Speaker 6: those other teams that are starting from the basement and
Speaker 6: trying to amass enough talent to put him on the
Speaker 6: competitive level. I think the Bears have the talent to
Speaker 6: be competitive.
Speaker 5: This should be one of the probably one of the
Speaker 5: more talented offenses the Bears have ever had, in my opinion,
Speaker 5: they have a lot of things that they should be
Speaker 5: able to do very well. It's going to be how
Speaker 5: quickly the young quarterback picks it up, how quickly he
Speaker 5: grows the volume he's able to handle. Because I do
Speaker 5: think that the Bears offense is going to have to
Speaker 5: really cover for the Bears defense for a little bit.
Speaker 5: That's you know, I know Bears fans, Monsters of the
Speaker 5: Midway and all the things, but hey, this team finished
Speaker 5: twenty seventh in the league at stopping the run and
Speaker 5: they've been held the task over and over again just
Speaker 5: due to poor offenses throwing them to the Wolves with
Speaker 5: three and outs left and right. For once. I think
Speaker 5: this Bears offense has to protect the Bears defense for
Speaker 5: a while, and it's really going to be dependent on
Speaker 5: Caleb Williams to be up and running early for that
Speaker 5: to happen, for the Bears to have success early in
Speaker 5: their season.
Speaker 3: Interesting points on both ends. All right, Tommy, you you
Speaker 3: in a break said you had something. We're talking about
Speaker 3: off season and all that, and what you guys did.
Speaker 4: You said you would receive off season gifts.
Speaker 5: From Golden domers got paid like that. What's that talking about, tom.
Speaker 6: We're talking about half point. We're talking about the importance
Speaker 6: of the offseason. These players really what they have to do.
Speaker 6: So we used to spend all of our time working
Speaker 6: out up at Hallis Hall, and so at the end
Speaker 6: of the off season, Clyde Emrick used to make a
Speaker 6: determination that if he felt it and you put enough
Speaker 6: time and made enough improvement, that you would get a gift.
Speaker 2: And so you hear about these guys that spend.
Speaker 6: A million dollars or seven hundred thousand dollars on their
Speaker 6: body and all this stuff that get My gift I
Speaker 6: got was a twelve inch TV that had it built
Speaker 6: in VCR, and I thought it was the greatest gift
Speaker 6: I ever got, so much so that I brought to
Speaker 6: training camp every year, and then two of my nieces
Speaker 6: brought it to college and use it as college. So
Speaker 6: you know, for what these players get out for these
Speaker 6: off season incentives. For us, it was a twelve inch
Speaker 6: TV with a built in VCR.
Speaker 3: Jim, did you get anything like that in the off
Speaker 3: season as a reward for your efforts?
Speaker 5: No, I didn't get anything, especially something that could be
Speaker 5: a hand meet down. Not once but twice to Nisas,
Speaker 5: I just got a Hey, good job, pat on the back.
Speaker 5: You're one hundred percent at all the OTAs and good attendants.
Speaker 2: Keep it up, yep, keep it up all right.
Speaker 3: That's gonna wrap us up for this week. Good show, fellas,
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Thanks Dan Brilliant, Jordan tread Up
Speaker 3: and Jake Santos in studio for Tom there and Jimmela.
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