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Tom Fair Bears analyst No 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.879 Jim Miller tonight tending to a personal matter as he 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.960 gets ready for, you know, the important part of the 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.680 season here the super Bowl and then the scouting combine, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.760 so he'll be down there as well. Mobi A BEMA, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.240 good to have you. Well, I gotta tell you, I 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.720 think what Jeff Jim is getting ready for. I think 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.920 the Senior Ball is more port and then the super 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.560 Bowl because you know, I yeah, it's it's gonna be 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.759 great watching. I think it's gonna be a great game. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.520 I still live an envy of the guys, the players 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.679 that are having this experience either for more than the 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.640 first time in their life or the first time in 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.560 their life. It's such a special time in the in 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.479 their lives, for their families, lives, for all their surrounding 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.720 support systems that they've grown up with or you know, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.480 struggle through to get to this point. You're talking about 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.480 Senior Bowl or those who many I've talked about the 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.000 super Bowl guys. See I'm talking about this super Bowl guys, 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.560 because you know the Senior Bowl, you still have so 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.679 much ahead of you. You have the Senior Bowl, you 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.440 have the Combine, you have all the individual visits that 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.360 you're gonna make to the teams. You kind of jockey 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.920 for that position where you're kind of eye and everybody 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.640 else when you see him at the Senior Bowl or 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.760 the Combines and seeing how you fit in, and you 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.800 know that's that's a big time in their lives. But 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.560 there's so much uncertainty. Man. The super Bowl. It's it, man, 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.480 it is It's it's the big Well you lived it, yeah, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.800 you know about anybody you lived it, and you have 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.080 the great appreciation for living it. But you also, again 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.800 I talk about the envy you have ever everybody of 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.680 what they're doing. What if you had never experienced it 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.640 and you played it as long as you did, how 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.720 do you think how would it have changed you mentally 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.560 about your career, about the game, anything like that about 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.200 the game of football. Well, you know, I have a friend, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.200 Jeff Van Note, who played center for the Atlanta Falcons 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.480 only for eighteen years and I think only made it 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.160 to the playoffs one time in his career. And then 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.240 when we are going through this success we are having, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.000 he came to Chicago for the playoffs game and he 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.720 was around the Super Bowl, and then you kind of 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.040 got a reflection of seeing an elder statesman in the 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.240 league that's committed his life to play in the NFL 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.600 football that's never been able to achieve the success ultimately 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.000 what every guy plays for. And there I was in 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.840 my first year in the NFL and we're at the 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.680 Super Bowl. So you kind of you gained the appreciation 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.600 for the experience you're going through because of some of 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.959 the guys that have never had the opportunity. Mike Kennon 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.280 was another guy, and Evanston guy from Michigan. Played seventeen 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.160 years left tackle for the Atlanta Falcons. Never made it 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.520 to this. I remember, I remember a pregame show down 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.000 there in Atlanta. We had you, we had Mike Ken, 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.320 we had Bill Freylick, we had some other guys offensive lineman. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.799 In one interview at one time in a pregame show, 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.440 and I think this topic came up. I mean it's 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.840 you know, look at Dan Marino. Yeah, this is a 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.640 great comparison for Patrick Mahomes right now in Kansas City. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.280 He gets in there at such a tender age. Second year, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.480 never went back. You know, It's the same thing with me. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.600 I mean, I was twenty three or twenty four. We 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.040 had the youngest team in the NFL. So he kind 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.960 of walked out there as a four gone conclusion. Oh, 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.200 we'll see you next year. All we'll see in two years. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.720 And we are luckily, luckily enough, we did get to 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.720 the NFC Championship Game. He got beat by San Francisco 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.320 forty nine ers at home, probably the worst and the 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.280 hardest loss to take of any loss ever in the 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.600 history of my career, and the worst losses of getting 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.240 beat by USC four times in my college career, that's 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.920 the worst. But losing the NFC Championship game is why why? 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.960 Why that one stings more? The NFC Championship game, Oh man, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.240 because we are ripe, We're ready, We're gonna We're gonna 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.680 go and beat the Cincinnati Bengals. We you know, we 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.200 had a good football team. Um, you know we had 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.000 we had a good performance after coming off a bad 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.240 year the year before. And you know, there you are, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.119 You're one win away at home in the worst weather 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.799 you could possibly have and it's all this bear weather 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.880 thing that's being and then San Francisco comes in and 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.760 they beat you at home. It's it's the most devastating loss. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.760 And you know, you can see how it still sits 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.800 with all cover that game on never forgetting myself. Hey, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.280 coming up next on Bears All Access, we'll be joined 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.840 by brand new tight Ends coach Clancy Barroni from the 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.920 Bears coaching staff that Manhangy has put together for twenty twenty. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.440 It's on just a hit here on Bears All Access 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:57.920 on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Hey, welcome 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.520 back everybody to Bears All Access. Brought you buy Igs Energy, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.440 proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.679 and home warranty products to over one million customers across 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.360 the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.520 Broadcast crew here from the Bears on WBBM. Jeff Joni 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.960 back in time. There No Jim Miller tonights. We'll get 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.960 back to him next weeking very pleased to be welcome 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.640 now by the new tight Ends coach of the Chicago Bears, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.160 Clancy Baruni. Clancy, thanks for taking some time out. How 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.800 are you doing tonight? I'm doing great, guys. Things out there? 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:36.080 Oh pretty cold? Pretty cold? Well? You are you in Nevada? 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.440 I am, yeah, I'm right outside of Vegas. This is 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.880 where my home is year round. So okay, well you 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.800 got a little warmer there. You'll get you'll you'll get 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.760 back here and get you You'll know what it's all like. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.000 You've been, You've been around the Midwest. Um, you know, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.400 going through you know, your your career is really another 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.240 indication of what assistant coaches, over the course of their 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.760 or their life in football have to endure in many 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.840 cases and thrive in as well. Seventh, this is your 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.719 seventeenth job with your thirteenth different team, going back to college, 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.560 not just NFL, but going back to college. I heck 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.040 you do that? How do you do it? What's kind 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.360 of why I have a permanent home? You know, my 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.960 my wife and I have purchase and sold homes I 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.480 want to say, like eleven different states something like that, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.000 and so after a while, it just makes tess to 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:25.880 have home base. And that's why we chose our little 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.279 place out here by by Vegas. It's the great weather 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.839 and so forth. But you know, I guess to your point, uh, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.479 it is that is kind of the gig that you're 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.560 that you're signing up for and and hopefully you can 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.960 get someplace and stick for a while. You know, my 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.360 my longest stand was in Denver. I was there for 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.440 eight years, which is that's like that's like two lifetimes 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.960 as a football coach. Hey, classy, this top there, former 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.040 offensive lineman and going. So I was involved in Super 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.440 Bowl twenty. You were involved in So you've been involved 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.880 in two super Bowl Super Bowl fifty to win? Do 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.880 you so? During this time are you a football fan 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.000 of the Super Bowl? Because I like the game, but 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.919 the aftermath I'm so envious of because I know the 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.719 commitment and the fun they're having because of their commitment. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.480 How do you feel about this time of year in football? 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.640 You know, Tom, probably probably the same as you. You know, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.040 and I get it. I I you know, the grind 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.080 that that you go through and that you're that your 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.080 families go through, and the players and the coaches, and 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.680 I know, how about about this time you kind of 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.280 get that second or by now that that third win 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.760 because of what's at stake. Um, you know, unlike yourself, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.800 I've also lost a Super Bowl. And so when you 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.760 would think about all the all the stuff that you 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.640 put into it, and then you get there and things 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.600 don't go your way, that's that that might be one 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.800 of the worst feelings I've ever I've ever had as 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.160 a professional. But obviously, uh, you know, you're right that 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.080 that when you do win that and all all the 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.160 stuff's coming down, all the confetti and here comes a 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.880 trophy and things like that, there's really nothing else quite 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.680 quite like that. It's a great conversation about this over 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.880 the years with people in my business. I'm i sad 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.560 offense and just fans in general. You know, the whole 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.560 idea of losing a Super Bowl hurts so badly that 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.800 some have told me many times they'd rather not go, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.240 you know they're going to lose, or if they go, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.160 because it's the pain is just too great to overcome. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.440 And you know, as a team that overcomes that obstacle, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.000 it is very difficult then to follow that up with 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.080 a really good season in many, many cases, certainly in 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.240 recent vintage. So that the mental and the spiritual impact 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.360 on a team, a person, a quarterback, or a unit 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.160 or whatever how it all unfolds is really something that 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.520 doesn't get enough attention. I think. I think there's more 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.240 to it than that clancy. No, you're right, and the 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.840 thing that really no one talks about is you really 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.320 have no off season. I mean, you're you're playing up 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.160 until February and then all of a sudden, everything kind 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.840 of hits you right in the face. As a coaching staff, 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.560 whether you win or lose, you're right back in there 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.000 the next weekend. You have to look at pre agents 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:56.640 and so forth. You have to try to get caught 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.320 up on the draft and that type of thing. As 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.040 a player, you know, if there is any where if 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.760 you have to go in and get get something kind 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.080 of tuned up during the off season, get a scope 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.480 here there or whatever else. Now your time has just 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.960 gotten shorter to get that you know, fully healed and 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.199 so forth. So you know, I'm just amazed at people 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.640 like the Patriots who seem to do it year in 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.760 and year out where they have a very short offseason, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.320 but it does seem to work for them. I think 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.120 there's a certain mindset you have to have going into it. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.720 I think we've all witnessed the teams who've had that 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.800 that hangover, so to speak, when they get there, whether 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.439 they lose or not, they get there and they're not 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.840 really sure how to handle that to shortened offseason, either 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.120 as a player or as a coach. You know you're 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.160 going to have a short offseason because you got so 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.800 much on your plate in terms of learning the terminology 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.559 in the offense. But you know, I was watching a 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.360 micd Up segment with you during an OTAs of one 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.760 of your last stops. You bring a lot of energy 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.679 to OTAs. So when you get, you know, in front 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.760 of the players the first time in OTAs, what do 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.000 you like to accomplish Because you're not going to be 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.880 in pads, you're not going to be able to do 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.520 a lot of the drills that you're going to have 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.280 access to in training camp, So what will be your 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:09.080 approach in OTAs well. The thing is is that I've 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.040 always kind of prided myself and being a teacher first, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.080 and so part of it is you have to have 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.280 to learn it first. I can teach it. And right 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.199 now I'm trying to learn a foreign language. As anyone 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.559 who's ever switched teams, either as a player or as 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.560 a coach, they be able to get that. So once 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.880 I get that foreign language down and I can, I 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.240 can teach it. That's always the part of the job 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.920 that I really loved the most is when you when 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.280 you get the guys in there and you can you 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.480 can teach them maybe new ways to look at at 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.640 certain techniques or at certain schemes jone and this occase 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.080 you no coach in the tight ends, ways to run 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.319 certain routes versus certain coverages, ways to block certain plays 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.040 versus certain fronts, and so on, and too me, I 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.240 think I think that's that's that's always fun. Now it 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.120 isn't like back in the day, you know, back when, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.160 back when Tom was playing, and obviously spring time was 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.439 a little bit more involved and so forth. Now it's 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.480 it's a little bit different, so there is more time 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.160 on task trying to teach and not have the players 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.840 go through the whole physical part of it, you know, classy. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.200 The tight end position itself is pretty amazing because throughout 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.640 your time in the NFL there's probably been more change 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.400 of the tight end position because of the U tight end, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.560 the the on the line of scrimmage tight end, the 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.240 h back tight end, the full back tight end. So 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.280 when you're talking about learning an offense, you're taught you 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.880 got to learn every single aspect of all the moving 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.920 parts of the offense because the tight end is so 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.520 versatile these days. You know, you're right, And I think 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.480 with my background, you know, and you touched on earlier 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.439 about you know, going back into college ball where I 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.800 was a coordinator where you have to kind of understand 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.880 everything obviously, but also in the National Football League, haven't 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.280 spent time as a as a line coach as well, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.600 where you're you're totally engrossing everything from what the your 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.440 running back does and what the quarterback looks at and 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.000 so forth. That has really helped me as a a 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.319 tight ends coach. But I think that we have seen 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.600 it and going back to when I was with the Falcons, 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.240 you know, seventeen see whatever is years ago, and I 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.160 had a guy named Algie Crumpler who has maybe one 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.080 of the best point point of attack tight ends as 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.520 far as blocking, but who's also a great third down 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.520 tight end, a great red zone tight end, led our 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.480 team in receptions and touchdowns two years in a row. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.200 But that position has evolved so much since then. Now 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:19.720 you're getting a lot of guys who are who are 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.800 former basketball players, who are former quarterbacks, who couldn't quite 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.720 make the grade in college playing quarterback, so they so 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.959 they became tight ends and so forth. So part of 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.400 it is also trying to restructure how they see the 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.040 game and how they view their role. Clancy brouni Our 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.520 guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.560 This is Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.760 the new tight ends coach of the Bears. You mentioned, oh, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.559 there's two points I want to wake one. Clancy, did 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.000 you get a good chuckle out of top there and 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.680 used some cell former offensive lineman. Don't you love that? 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.720 That is typical offensive lineman. Yeah, there's something about, you know, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.120 the whole moxy of that of that position. He's part 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.520 of the eighty five Bears. He's got a ramming Mike Gosh. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.280 I mean, you know, right off to him. Yeah, he's 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.120 got billboard, he's got photos, he's got posters, and he's 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.079 got a red clancy. If you can see him right now. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.360 He is beat red right now because he hates that attention, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.160 like all good offensive lineman. But I want to mention 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.120 I think I think I was in eighth grade when 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.480 when I was watching him place, I was a huge fan. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.120 There you go, and to that end, you know, uh, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.400 you mentioned the tight end position in Atlanta, and if 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.480 I'm not mistaken, that is the first legitimate time or 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.199 at least by by name and title, that you were 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.400 a tight ends coach. And that was under Jim Morrige. Yes, 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.959 exactly right, Yes, yes, So what we're talking all about 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.960 these different positions, we're talking about, you know, pass catching 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.280 tight positions. In most cases Tom mentioned h back, you 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.000 the tight end that likes to put his hand in 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.080 the ground and drive somebody off the ball. I I 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.160 forgot to write the kid's name down today from the 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.840 senior ball. He's doing interviews and he says, my biggest 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.680 thrill is not catching the pass. It's putting another guy 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.959 on his back. And don't you love that mindset too 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.959 from a tight end? Yeah, that's that is that is 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.440 very new. I mean, it's it's it's kind of strange 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.800 these days. And usually those guys come from Iowa, you know. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.160 And I think coach Parence is a great job down 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.839 there with those guys, you know. But yeah, and they 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.600 have a guy who doesn't care who gets the credit 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.880 as long as as as as removing the chains and 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.800 scoring points. That's that is that is kind of cool. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.640 You know, when you think about algae down in Atlanta. Initially, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.040 is the eye test for the tight ends still the 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.880 same because you think of what his size and his 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.680 stature was, But then when you got to move them 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.600 to a full back or h back or move them 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.200 a little bit. Has has the the eye test changed 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.560 a little bit over the years or is it still consistent? 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.360 You're looking for the biggest and best athlete you can find, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.240 you know, I guess, uh, man, I guess you have 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.760 to try to answer your question that being to two wishywashy. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.120 You know, I think a lot of it depends on 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.720 your own offensive scheme and if you're going to have 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.200 a guy who's going to be a guy that that 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.200 there runs the seam. You got this, you know, six 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.080 foot six, two hundred forty five two hundred fifty on 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.440 tight end who's just athletic and a former basketball player 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.720 and just like a real freak athlete. You're probably not 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.560 going to ask that guy to get back in behind 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.920 the quarterback in a three point stance and try to 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.760 go isoblock a six two linebacker. You know he'll he'll 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.520 lose that the leverage battle almost every time. So I 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:17.920 think you have to look at, you know, what does 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.920 your offense want from that position. And that's also why 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.800 you would tend to have about three tight ends up 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.720 on the game day and one guy can kind of 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.760 answers this, one guy answers that you and kind of 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.400 scritch war scratch where it is just so to speak 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.840 with all with all three different guys. Clancy Broni, our 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.520 guest here on Bears All Access. Uh, You, like a player, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.720 you have to deal with what's coming at you. And 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.920 in your last stop of the Minnesota Vikings, Uh, you 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.480 endured what had to be an unthinkable scenario with the 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:50.120 death of Vikings offensive line coach Tony Sperrano and then 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.120 that moved you into that role on offensive line. What 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.840 was that like in retrospect now that you've had time 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.360 to deal with that, think about that and what that 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.880 did for that team. Well, you know, I guess to 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.440 be fair, when I came in and Pat Shermer was 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.120 was the coordinator when I come in. You know, Tony 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.800 it had some episodes with his health. After in the 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.560 A twenty sixteen season, I was still back in Denver, 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.920 and so uh, part of what of what brought me 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.640 here was Pat said, you know, I'd like to have 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.480 a guy that has some some old line background to 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.800 come coach to tight ends because if Tony has to 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:23.720 has to take a knee for a week or two, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.560 then you can slide over and take that that job 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.480 over until he's well and can come back. Obviously, it 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.200 was it ended up way way worse than that when 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.120 when Tony passed in the summer of twenty eighteen, UM, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.560 and so yeah, I was. I was thrilled to get 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.280 back with the offensive line, but obviously under you know 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.720 what that type of thing happened, and that was that 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.000 was horrible for Tony first, you know, for his family 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.360 and for all of us who worked with Tony and 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.920 loved him so much. A lot of coaches out there 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.040 do get some breaks at times, and how did you 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.000 deal with yours in twenty nineteen to get yourself mentally 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.000 ready for the next challenge. I'll tell you what, and 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.480 it's a blessing. And probably very few people know the story. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.000 My mom is eighty three, she's eighty four now, and 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.479 she'd had some some very serious medical conditions and it 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.320 was it was the night before we played the Bears 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.080 in week seventeen of twenty eighteen, and my mom had 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.000 a six hour brain surgery and thinking about that at 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.679 that age and to be under for six hours and 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.800 to have, you know, pretty involved brain surgery, and so 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.160 at the time, you know, we're kind of rebanned from 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.720 the staff and there there's a lot of changes and 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.880 so forth. So I had had an opportunity to kind 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.320 of step away from football for a while, go back 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.560 out to California and really be there with mom and 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.120 help her have the best, you know, the best fourth 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.600 quarter of her life, so to speak. And I was 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.439 there with her when when she was going through speech 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.000 therapy and physical therapy and she's up and walking and 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.960 talking again. And uh, and I was just talking to 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.520 her today. She is living the best life she's had 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.800 in many, many years. She's back living on her own 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.399 in the old in the old homestead and everything and 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.439 just doing great. So I feel very blessed I had 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.240 a chance to actually go home and do that. I 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.800 know that. Um, when when my dad got sick, you know, 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.520 twenty seven years ago, I saw dad, I want to say, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.800 two days out of the last six months of his life, 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.480 and that was that was hard to handle. That was 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.520 that was really tough. And so I when I had 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.680 this chance to go back in and be with mom, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.520 and you know, God willing things turned out the way 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.040 they did. You know, I just felt very fortunate. And 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.600 they're very blessed to have that chance to do that. Oh, 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.600 it's an unbelievable story. Well got well, and she's gonna 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.359 watch him become a Bears fan. Make sure you get 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.480 her at jar. Absolutely yes, yes, absolutely, well Clancy, will 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.080 let you go. Thanks so much for taking some time 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.480 to look forward to meeting you. Thank you, Clancy. All right, guys, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.760 Clancy Brown, Bears new tight ends coach. We'll take a break. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.640 This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:48.920