Speaker 1: Right justin middle of the field forty five fifteen, bring Russ
Speaker 1: in front of a leaving Lions in this way.
Speaker 2: I am Jeff jonia.
Speaker 3: Witch Us on don O, what was like playing for
Speaker 3: coach Bigdom? I don't want to answer any questions like that.
Speaker 3: Sixty one yards? What's Sunday Stroll for? Justin Field?
Speaker 4: Bears, et cetera.
Speaker 3: With the voices of the Chicago Bears Jeff.
Speaker 2: Joniac Welcome in everybody.
Speaker 1: The episode twenty we hit a milestone Big Tom and
Speaker 1: the Bears et cetera podcast. Hope you've enjoyed them that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning Bear Tim There, I'm Jeff Joniak, the
Speaker 1: voice of the Bears. We preview the Week four matchup
Speaker 1: with the visiting Denver Broncos. It's a lot of conversation
Speaker 1: about oh and three teams.
Speaker 2: Tom. I took the time on.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday to spend almost the entire day listening to
Speaker 1: Denver Sports Talk radio online, and we heard from Mark Schleret,
Speaker 1: we heard from Terrell Davis, We've heard from a lot
Speaker 1: of ex Broncos. Brandon Stokely, I mean the fervor and
Speaker 1: the anger about a seventy to twenty loss, fifty point
Speaker 1: loss is crazy. I mean, they want to wipe out
Speaker 1: everything over there. It's a raw reaction to a monumental score.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, then, Jeff, in the history of the
Speaker 4: Chicago Bears since nineteen twenty, it's probably the biggest slap
Speaker 4: in the face that we've ever faced as an organization.
Speaker 4: Because when you talk about a team that just lost
Speaker 4: by fifty and got seventy points scored on them, and
Speaker 4: they're three and a half point underdogs at home, what
Speaker 4: kind of lack of respect is that? So I'm sure
Speaker 4: if you turned down the radio waves and all the
Speaker 4: podcasts and all the listenable alumni that you could hear
Speaker 4: from the Chicago Bears, they would be equally as disappointed.
Speaker 4: Me'm I just I can't believe that they're underdogs at home.
Speaker 4: And if there was any message that any coach ever
Speaker 4: had hanging in a facility that only the players could see,
Speaker 4: I would have three point five underdogs at home.
Speaker 3: That's all I would have. And that's that you would
Speaker 3: not have to say anything else.
Speaker 1: Do you recall ever in that situation in your playing
Speaker 1: career when you guys were underdogs at home and you
Speaker 1: just felt, ah, that doesn't that doesn't feel right.
Speaker 3: No, I don't remember, but Jeff, these are such.
Speaker 4: Exclusive type of circumstances that I can't ever recall, you know,
Speaker 4: going through something like this. You know, just back in
Speaker 4: my college days, I was part of the first losing
Speaker 4: season in eighteen years, and that was something that you
Speaker 4: never thought you'd go through at No Dame. You know,
Speaker 4: you went to No Name thing, But wow, one out
Speaker 4: of four years, I could possibly be fighting for a
Speaker 4: national championship. But then you go and you know, Jerry
Speaker 4: Fausk gets hired, We win our first game against LSU,
Speaker 4: they put us at number one, and we go.
Speaker 3: Downhill from there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, in a football career, something like this is
Speaker 4: going to present us. But under these circumstances, when you
Speaker 4: have the analytics, you have the numbers, you have the
Speaker 4: modern day of social media never seen anything like him.
Speaker 1: Injury news from Hallis on Wednesday, Josh Blackwell and Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson both dealing with some issues, so no practice for them.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Stevenson he did practice despite being under the weather,
Speaker 1: so he's okay. Saw I'm him in the locker room.
Speaker 1: And they signed a veteran defensive back, Joe Wan Williams
Speaker 1: former second round pick Tom of New England, big guy
Speaker 1: six four to two twelve at Vanderbilt, he played a
Speaker 1: bunch of games. The Patriots thought so much of him
Speaker 1: back in nineteen they moved up eleven spots to get
Speaker 1: him in round two. But he was a rotational player.
Speaker 1: But talk about a size athleticism combo with his size,
Speaker 1: forty four career tackles, eight pass breakups, his shoulder injury
Speaker 1: last year. He was in position to kind of make
Speaker 1: that Vikings team this year, but they went with younger players.
Speaker 2: So he's here with the Bears.
Speaker 3: Now. Yeah, you know, uniquely enough.
Speaker 4: I think when you put together the flow charts of
Speaker 4: the teams we faced, it seems like these six two
Speaker 4: to six three defensive backs are popping up more than
Speaker 4: we've seen in the past. I remember guys in my
Speaker 4: ear of that being bigger at the safety position. But
Speaker 4: now you see corner safeties that you know they're popping
Speaker 4: up with that size.
Speaker 3: And that's the unique quality.
Speaker 4: To have that athleticism ad athleticism at that size.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, well you're going up a guy at like
Speaker 1: six ' four. Claypool and other big receivers, Mike Evans
Speaker 1: and the league can go down the list, But now
Speaker 1: there's I just saw this tweet earlier today. I was
Speaker 1: going to write it down if I didn't really pertain
Speaker 1: to the Bears game. But all these diminutive one sixty
Speaker 1: five one seventy pounds receivers that are tearing it up
Speaker 1: as well, all across the league, either be rookies or veterans,
Speaker 1: and they're popping up and go throw back to the
Speaker 1: old Miami Dolphins receivers for Danno.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, you know you look at the two little what,
Speaker 4: Mark Duper, Mark Clayton, You know that those types of receivers.
Speaker 4: But if you have a talented quarterback, I don't think
Speaker 4: it really matters what size you are, because you go
Speaker 4: back and look at a couple of guys that Tom
Speaker 4: Brady cultivated throughout his career at in the New England.
Speaker 4: They're not big guys, they're not fast guys, but they
Speaker 4: catch the ball well and they're anticipated receivers by the quarterback,
Speaker 4: and you know he can develop those types of guys.
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Speaker 1: touch on it because we're going to be previewing this
Speaker 1: matchup against Denver, and one of the key weapons right
Speaker 1: now is Marvin Mims. He's six ' four, he can
Speaker 1: run routes, he is a game breaker, he is four
Speaker 1: to three speed, and he is your punt returner and
Speaker 1: kick roff returner. And he's had a forty four yard
Speaker 1: punt return and a ninety nine yard touchdown as well,
Speaker 1: so he has done a lot of things well. And
Speaker 1: now even though he's a rookie, Marvin Mims is asking
Speaker 1: for more targets. He's a playmaker, and we're all looking
Speaker 1: for playmakers in this league. Somebody to watch for the
Speaker 1: Bears this week, Well, I.
Speaker 4: Think he's average in like seventeen to nine a catch,
Speaker 4: but he only has he has less than ten catches.
Speaker 3: But you go and you look at Cortland Sutton.
Speaker 4: I think he's got seventeen catches and he's averaging about
Speaker 4: eleven yards per catch.
Speaker 3: So they have two receivers that they can go to.
Speaker 4: But who do you cover. Do you cover a tall,
Speaker 4: lanky guy like Sutton or do you call catch or
Speaker 4: cover a rookie like Mim. So I think the Bears
Speaker 4: are going to have their hands full. But you know, Jeff,
Speaker 4: after watching a lot of tape of both Denver and
Speaker 4: the Bears, I could do this home game preview and
Speaker 4: never talk about a playmaker. I could talk about the
Speaker 4: offensive defensive lines from both teams exclusively, Because as much
Speaker 4: as we want to talk about those guys and the
Speaker 4: new guys on the spot and the tall guys like Sutton,
Speaker 4: or the playmakers they have with the Bears, this is
Speaker 4: about the offense and defensive lines. That's what this game
Speaker 4: is going to come down to. Know, That's I don't
Speaker 4: think we can ignore that.
Speaker 1: So let's take it one each year. Let's put the
Speaker 1: offensive line of the Bears, likely to have Larry Bourn
Speaker 1: back at the left tackle, the likely return of a
Speaker 1: right guard Nate Davis on the field against a defensive
Speaker 1: line in Denver that was part of a defense that
Speaker 1: gave up seventy points.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, Jeff is You know we've heard, we've.
Speaker 4: Heard the word fundamentals in techniques, details to job and
Speaker 4: that comes out of the matter of the mouth of
Speaker 4: Matt Eberflus. When I go look at the defensive line
Speaker 4: of the Denver Broncos, they don't disengage from blocks very well.
Speaker 3: If they get angle blocked, they go along with it.
Speaker 4: They kind of get fooled a little bit by super
Speaker 4: aggressive play action passing. So I think when you look
Speaker 4: at a defensive line and you think about, oh my god,
Speaker 4: we got to find out where Chris Jones is, you
Speaker 4: got to identify everything that you know goes against great.
Speaker 4: Oh we need what Vida Vey is going to do.
Speaker 4: We got to find out where he's going to be
Speaker 4: and what's going to happen. Oh need Frank Clark one,
Speaker 4: where's it.
Speaker 3: Going to be? That guy doesn't stand out to me?
Speaker 3: And for Denver?
Speaker 2: And what about Randy Gregory?
Speaker 4: You know what, I don't think he is the marquee
Speaker 4: name of the guys that I just mentioned.
Speaker 3: I think that if you go and you.
Speaker 4: Have a solid, aggressive point of attack, double team in
Speaker 4: your face running game, he's the type of guy that
Speaker 4: you can wear down if you get those thirty five
Speaker 4: to forty carries in a game.
Speaker 3: So the other guys.
Speaker 4: That I mentioned at this stage of my life, I
Speaker 4: have an uber mounter respect for and I would have
Speaker 4: to identify them where they are. So I was just
Speaker 4: not impressed with the Denver defensive line. And I hope
Speaker 4: I'm not biting my tongue. Come next week when we're
Speaker 4: talking about, you know, the game.
Speaker 1: You look at every defensive category for both teams, many
Speaker 1: thirty two and thirty one rankings. Denver's the bottom of
Speaker 1: the barrel in yards allowed, bottom of the barrel in
Speaker 1: rushing yards, thirty first in rushing yard average. This would
Speaker 1: be an invitation Tom to run the ball against the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos in my opinion.
Speaker 4: You know, Jeff is a two edged sword here. You know,
Speaker 4: it's an invitation for the Bears offense to get back
Speaker 4: on track, take a little bit of pressure off of
Speaker 4: Justin fields, possibly open up some opportunities for the running game.
Speaker 3: But you got to impress the crowd early, Jeff.
Speaker 4: And if you can go and have impressive drives the
Speaker 4: first couple offensive drives of the game and you get
Speaker 4: that crowd noise on your side, they will stick with you.
Speaker 4: But if you have a tendency to try to be
Speaker 4: flashy because of what Miami did early in their game,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden you go with three and
Speaker 4: out or you don't have a lot of offensive success,
Speaker 4: this crowd is not going to be kind. And so
Speaker 4: I think when you're going to ask this team. You're
Speaker 4: going to go back in that locker room as a
Speaker 4: head coach and you're going to look at the eyes
Speaker 4: of the five guys that are offensive lineman and you're
Speaker 4: going to say, guys, if we win this game, it's
Speaker 4: going to be because of you.
Speaker 3: If we lose this game, it's going to be because
Speaker 3: of you.
Speaker 4: And you have to put that type of pressure on
Speaker 4: this group of guys that are thick skinned and they
Speaker 4: can take that in front of their other teammates.
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Speaker 1: the Bears, Etc. Podcast Tom there, Jeff Jonia. All right,
Speaker 1: let's flip it now. The Bears defensive line against the
Speaker 1: Broncos offensive line. They got a quarterback that's still rated
Speaker 1: in the top ten top eight in the NFL right now,
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson a savvy veteran. He can get out
Speaker 1: of trouble. He could also stand in the pocket there
Speaker 1: and get walloped as well. So if they don't run
Speaker 1: the ball as well, and this team can tee off
Speaker 1: and start making them one dimensional. What kind of advantage
Speaker 1: do you give the Bears defensive line, all of being said,
Speaker 1: just one sack so far this year.
Speaker 4: To me, it's the defensive line plus the linebackers, because
Speaker 4: I think the Bears linebackers can flow well to the
Speaker 4: point of attack if they get protected by the defensive linemen.
Speaker 4: So what they're going to have to do is they're
Speaker 4: going to have to be able to react on the
Speaker 4: football because hopefully they get an active crowd there that's
Speaker 4: making enough noise that Russell Wilson is going to have
Speaker 4: to go to a silent count. And if they can
Speaker 4: just pay attention through their periphial vision, they have explosion
Speaker 4: off of the snap of the ball and take up
Speaker 4: multiple offensive linemen and let TJ. And Jack Sanborn in
Speaker 4: Tremaine Edmonds, if they let them flow to the point
Speaker 4: of attack, they can slower stop this running game and
Speaker 4: then put more pressure on Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's not
Speaker 4: the same guy that came here with the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 4: ten or twelve years ago.
Speaker 3: In playing the playoffs.
Speaker 4: This is a guy that still has talent, still has armstrength.
Speaker 4: He's accurate, he's an intelligent guy, but he just doesn't
Speaker 4: have the escapability that he did at one time. And
Speaker 4: if you can keep him in the pocket, make him
Speaker 4: be small with the defensive lineman penetration, hands up, maybe
Speaker 4: they can block four or fives in the game.
Speaker 1: All Right, he's without his top tight end, Greg dosiic
Speaker 1: He is on the injured reserve list, So Adam Troutman
Speaker 1: a tight end. They got a blocking tight end, and
Speaker 1: Chris Manhertz the offensive line. They did bring in Ben
Speaker 1: Powers from Baltimore to play guard. You're looking at Quinn Miners.
Speaker 1: You gotta love Quinn from Wisconsin Whitewater. He was the
Speaker 1: hit of the Combine a couple of years ago. That
Speaker 1: guy plays nasties.
Speaker 3: He plays nasties, he does.
Speaker 4: I liked him at the combine. You pointed him out
Speaker 4: to me, started paying attention to him. He became a
Speaker 4: starter out there, and you know he is kind of
Speaker 4: their blue collar, tough guy on the inside. You know,
Speaker 4: Garrett Bowles may want to act like it, but Quinn
Speaker 4: Minor is a guys. From the moment he stepped into
Speaker 4: an NFL full padded training camp, he took charge of
Speaker 4: his position, he earned it and he's been able to
Speaker 4: hold it down since then.
Speaker 1: And the new right tackle this year, Mike mclinchey started
Speaker 1: his career obviously from Notre Dame to the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers and now to the Denver Broncos. Good run blocking
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Speaker 1: All right, as you put that tape on, did you
Speaker 1: watch the tape as if you were Sean Payton or
Speaker 1: did you watch the tape as Tom there of the
Speaker 1: of the game? Did you did you watch the defense
Speaker 1: of his entirety against Miami? Because I had a hard
Speaker 1: time watching it and not cringing like it was something
Speaker 1: that speed in Miami is insane. However, the tackling and
Speaker 1: the angles, the speed do that to you that badly
Speaker 1: that you don't take the right angle.
Speaker 4: So what a guy like Tarik Hill, there's not a
Speaker 4: lot of guys in the NFL that are going to
Speaker 4: go step for step with him. If you put the
Speaker 4: ball to him in space, he's gonna make you look
Speaker 4: as bad as he did the other day. However, to me,
Speaker 4: I was more caught off guard by what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Lack of angles, lack of proper fundament, fundamental fundamental desire
Speaker 4: to tackle in the running game and as much as
Speaker 4: Miami can threaten you by throwing the ball, what were
Speaker 4: they averaging seven point one yard per carrier something like that.
Speaker 2: And I mean, and they basically averaged ten yards of play?
Speaker 3: Right again, is that's unheard of? But it is.
Speaker 4: It's the fundamental front seven of the defense that I
Speaker 4: don't know if they were flat, if it was super hot,
Speaker 4: if they just weren't into it, or if they never
Speaker 4: felt like they could they were in control of the game,
Speaker 4: but you know, and that's the thing about it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was not an impressive performance to me. However, I
Speaker 4: don't again, I don't want to go back and as
Speaker 4: we're doing the podcast early next week saying, oh my gosh, Jeff,
Speaker 4: I was totally wrong. And they did a nice job
Speaker 4: of getting these guys fired up to rebound after that
Speaker 4: seventy point performance.
Speaker 2: I am expecting that.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting Sean Payton and his coaching staff to get
Speaker 1: the most out of his guys, whether they're up to
Speaker 1: the task and taking on a Bear's team on the road,
Speaker 1: and the same with the Bears. So I expect to tight.
Speaker 1: I expect a game here. I don't expect some walk
Speaker 1: in the park for either team.
Speaker 4: Oh man, listen, I'm gonna get to the stadium early.
Speaker 3: Because it's going to be a beautiful day.
Speaker 4: And since the game in Kansas City got over and
Speaker 4: then we became aware of the score of the Dolphins game,
Speaker 4: it's almost something that you know you look forward to
Speaker 4: just because you're crazy. And I'm thinking, oh my god,
Speaker 4: if I was if I was the Denver coaching staff,
Speaker 4: how would I handle it? If I was the Bears
Speaker 4: coaching staff, what would I do? And then when I
Speaker 4: found out the Bears were underdogs by two points, and
Speaker 4: then I looked at it the next day and then
Speaker 4: it went to three and a half, I was going, Okay,
Speaker 4: you don't have to say another word to me. All
Speaker 4: I'm going to do is I'm going to put that
Speaker 4: up on the boards and I'm going to have every
Speaker 4: single player say and see it every single time that
Speaker 4: they're on their feet inside the facility.
Speaker 3: And if you don't become offended.
Speaker 4: By that as the Chicago Bear, then you'll never be
Speaker 4: offended as a professional athlete.
Speaker 1: Right now, when you spend over twenty nine ninety nine
Speaker 1: at Steinhoffels. That's two nine ninety nine dollars. You'll score
Speaker 1: a one hundred dollars Bears Pro Shop gift card. Is
Speaker 1: it any one of their for Chicago Land locations in
Speaker 1: Vernon Hills, Crystal Lake, Downers Grove in Harwood Heights or
Speaker 1: shop online at Steinhoffel's dot com.
Speaker 2: Did they ever? Don't get offended? Did they ever? Did
Speaker 2: they ever?
Speaker 1: Did you ever go to a store and I know
Speaker 1: you don't go shop and ever maybe you did when
Speaker 1: you were younger, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Did you ever see shop?
Speaker 3: I don't shop by b Did you.
Speaker 1: Ever see a fifty seventh there jersey hanging on a
Speaker 1: store shelf? Of course not No, not even in the
Speaker 1: eighty five era. It was too many stars, no five
Speaker 1: to seven. So you have to you have to make
Speaker 1: it special. You got to get the the the actual
Speaker 1: got to go through the process of stitching Thayer on
Speaker 1: the back.
Speaker 2: They didn't, they didn't sell them that way.
Speaker 3: Huh. No, you want me to get you one?
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think before before either one
Speaker 1: of us retires, I think you need a Joniac jersey
Speaker 1: and I need.
Speaker 2: A their jersey.
Speaker 3: What number are you going to be one. No, you
Speaker 3: got ever, You're gonna be number zero, my.
Speaker 1: Favorite number, my number throughout my baseball playing days with
Speaker 1: number two, So maybe we'll have to go number two.
Speaker 1: You're always number one, Tom. Let's just face it. You're
Speaker 1: You're the You're the you are the offensive lineman of
Speaker 1: our booth. You keep a steady, you clip path for success,
Speaker 1: and you've always been that way looking out at me.
Speaker 4: We'll get DJ Moore jersey, and we'll get Tony Madeline
Speaker 4: to make it Joniac name plate. We'll get it so
Speaker 4: on on there and I'll wear it to the game
Speaker 4: because it's probably the same size of the jersey I
Speaker 4: wore when I was a player.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, a remind us all when you first
Speaker 1: met me as a broadcaster.
Speaker 2: I interviewed you before.
Speaker 1: But we're at the old w a Q, which is
Speaker 1: now the home of the score, uh and it was
Speaker 1: an NBC tower.
Speaker 2: They're not there anymore.
Speaker 1: And we had our first Bears meeting with Lorna Gladstone
Speaker 1: as our program director, and we had the whole crew
Speaker 1: in a big board woman boardroom, and for some unknown reason,
Speaker 1: I show up in a dress link Blackhawks jersey right down.
Speaker 2: To the knees.
Speaker 3: We call those sweaters and sweaters.
Speaker 2: That's correct about it is there's.
Speaker 4: Supposed to be three quarter arm length, and your sleeves
Speaker 4: are well, now.
Speaker 2: Don't egst. I still had that jersey. I still you were.
Speaker 4: I felt like I was walking into an actual George Costanza,
Speaker 4: because there's a couple episodes.
Speaker 3: Where he's at a big meeting room like.
Speaker 4: That doing different silly stuff.
Speaker 3: And there you are.
Speaker 2: Isn't it great? We can self deprecate after all these years?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you think what was that twenty seven, twenty
Speaker 4: eight years ago?
Speaker 2: Twenty Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you were like four, I mean, unbelievable,
Speaker 1: and you were sick?
Speaker 3: Whose number? Whose number was on that hockey sweater?
Speaker 2: There is no number?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't think.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think there's I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a number. Anyway, the matter at hand,
Speaker 1: as we are brought to you by PNC Official Bank
Speaker 1: of the Bears, now an area we have not discussed
Speaker 1: because it is probably one of the strengths of that
Speaker 1: right now thirty second ranked defense. But Patrick Certen the
Speaker 1: second is an outstanding all pro corner. He's legit justin
Speaker 1: Simmons is dealing with a hip injury, so he didn't play.
Speaker 1: But when he's on the field with this guy that's
Speaker 1: half the field is pretty much you're in They're in charge.
Speaker 1: Simmons is an outstanding, hard hitting big safety. Both are
Speaker 1: very good players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, And that's the thing about it is,
Speaker 4: ever since DJ Moore came aboard, you always kind of
Speaker 4: knew that he was going to draw the attention of
Speaker 4: the number one cornerback on whomever you're playing, So now
Speaker 4: you have to open up opportunities for the other cast
Speaker 4: to characters. And as disappointing as I was to see
Speaker 4: DJ Moore drop that first long attempt by Justin Fields,
Speaker 4: I think he's capable of making that catch, and I
Speaker 4: would give him three or four of those a game,
Speaker 4: because if you hit two out of three or something
Speaker 4: like that, you're talking about eating up a tremendous amount
Speaker 4: of field and getting yourself in scoring position immediately. I
Speaker 4: would never shy away from Dj more and no matter
Speaker 4: who's covering, because that's one of the things I think
Speaker 4: Justin does so well is extreme long ball accuracy. And
Speaker 4: so if you want to use the six ' ford
Speaker 4: claypool or Darnel Mooney, who's got hands unlike a lot
Speaker 4: of others, and like Mattyberfleus said today at the podium,
Speaker 4: even Cole Comet. But DJ Moore is the guy that's
Speaker 4: going to draw the attention of Sirtan and you're going
Speaker 4: to have to make some catches against him.
Speaker 1: How would you put in context Justin Fields at the
Speaker 1: podium on this day, not a crack of a smile,
Speaker 1: very serious, short answer.
Speaker 4: He's in a no win scenario because you know, if
Speaker 4: he says something to a question that the question asker
Speaker 4: or the rest of the media finds something wrong with it,
Speaker 4: that's what they're going to attack. So I kind I
Speaker 4: feel bad for Justin because he's a little bit more
Speaker 4: reserved up there than what his personality is really like.
Speaker 4: So I think that's the way it's going to be
Speaker 4: until the Bears win a game. And I don't fault
Speaker 4: them for that, but that's just the cautiousness you have
Speaker 4: to have nowadays at the podium. And I think, and
Speaker 4: again I was telling you this last week, I think
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks go to the podium too much. I wish
Speaker 4: they didn't have to address the media immediately following the game.
Speaker 4: Because there's too many things that you just experienced that
Speaker 4: you really haven't seen yet, and you need to see
Speaker 4: him to talk about them.
Speaker 2: What's the intangible? As you wrap things up, what's the intangible?
Speaker 2: In this game?
Speaker 1: Broncos Bears Noon Sunday, Soldier Field. You'll hear it on
Speaker 1: ESPN one thousand on the Bears Radio Network. We kick
Speaker 1: off at twelve oh two.
Speaker 4: Well, there hasn't been a kickoff return in the last
Speaker 4: two weeks because both kickers are.
Speaker 3: Banging them on the out of the end zone.
Speaker 4: I would like to see some type of significant play
Speaker 4: one way or the other out of the special teams.
Speaker 3: Maybe you get a turnover on a punt, a punt
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 4: But again, it's going to come down to, you know,
Speaker 4: challenging your offensive line unlike any other time in Matti
Speaker 4: Berberfluss's career, whether he tells the general public that he's
Speaker 4: challenged him or at the podium at the end of
Speaker 4: the game, he says, I went up and told my
Speaker 4: offensive line it's you, guys or else, and then have
Speaker 4: Luke Getzi call the thirty five to forty runs per game. Well,
Speaker 4: but you know, last week, as hot as it is
Speaker 4: in Miami, you're going to bang the football. When you're
Speaker 4: in Denver, you're always going to bang them out of
Speaker 4: the end zone.
Speaker 3: So this is Chicago.
Speaker 4: It's still supposed to be a high of eighty one
Speaker 4: degrees in a sunny day, and so we may see
Speaker 4: the same that we've seen the last couple of days. However,
Speaker 4: if Dayles Jones Junior is the returner and you have
Speaker 4: ones that go one to two yards back in the
Speaker 4: end zone, take it out.
Speaker 3: Give yourself a shot.
Speaker 4: See if you can create field position legally without any penalties,
Speaker 4: and give yourself a chance to have an exciting, explosive
Speaker 4: play so your offense can take the field with some
Speaker 4: great field position.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Will Lutz thirteen kickoffs, thirteen touchbacks. Marvin Mims Juniors a
Speaker 1: legit return man. Now, how are the Bears going to
Speaker 1: approach that player? Because he said he's already had a
Speaker 1: kickoff return for a touchdown, he's had a huge punt return.
Speaker 2: What's that going to what's that going to mean?
Speaker 4: You know, listen, man, you know last week when you
Speaker 4: saw the first pump by the Kansas City Chiefs, and
Speaker 4: I've been yelling and complaining about how come we don't
Speaker 4: see any coffin corner punts anymore. And that was that
Speaker 4: showcase that that put the Bears in very bad field
Speaker 4: position to start their first drive, and.
Speaker 3: It's tough to recover from that.
Speaker 4: So you may have to challenge Trent to have a
Speaker 4: more directional kick, more near the sideline, so you condense
Speaker 4: the return area to allow your personality to either get
Speaker 4: down or maybe get a lucky bounce out of the.
Speaker 3: End out of the off the sideline.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's a up of week four, the preview
Speaker 1: edition on our podcast number twenty. Hope you'll join us
Speaker 1: next week and it'll be it'll be a swift moving week,
Speaker 1: Tom because you have to have you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: they've planned already for this week and you have to
Speaker 1: kind of do some pre planning for Washington weeks ago
Speaker 1: because it's a short week. You kind of focus these
Speaker 1: short weeks. But that'll be a short week. But we'll
Speaker 1: be with you on Tuesday morning to wrap that up,
Speaker 1: and then back with you on Thursday, the night of
Speaker 1: the kickoff to talk about the Bears and the Commanders
Speaker 1: and Ron Rivera's crew. So hope you'll join us then.
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts before we let you go.
Speaker 4: You know, I just want to I just want to
Speaker 4: leave that stadium at four o'clock on Sunday with the
Speaker 4: big smile on my face, knowing that the Bears were
Speaker 4: able to accomplish something after the difficult circumstances they've faced
Speaker 4: last week and coming into this week.
Speaker 3: And just make you know for a bright Sunday.
Speaker 1: You know, the Bears have now won a home game,
Speaker 1: eight straight losses at home visiting Broncos have lost six
Speaker 1: straight road games.
Speaker 2: So something's going to give.
Speaker 3: All those negatives analytics and stats.
Speaker 1: Those aren't analytics, Those are stats. Those those are facts.
Speaker 4: I mean, I believe think of analytics in my head
Speaker 4: and I don't even want to bring them up.
Speaker 3: I just want to leave. I just want to leave.
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe we haven't felt that the excitement
Speaker 1: of a win in that many games at Soldier Fields.
Speaker 1: So that's uh, that's got to turn around. In a
Speaker 1: big hurry. All right, back with you next week. For
Speaker 1: Tom Thayer, I'm Jeff Joniyak. Thanks for listening. Enjoy your day.
Speaker 1: This has been bears, et cetera, and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you soon.
Speaker 2: Bear down,