WEBVTT - Mooney: "I have an edge" | All Access 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:08.600 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.600 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.239 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.000 Access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.000 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:30.520 Physical Therapy and CDW. Good Thursday Evening, everybody. Hope everybody's 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.920 doing well out there in Chicagoland and heart's unknown. As 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.600 we get you set for another edition of Bears All Access. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.680 I'm Jeff jony Aac along with the broadcast partner from 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.800 News Radio seven eighty at one oh five point nine FMWBBM. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.520 Mister Tom Bear, they are Chicago Bear. How you doing, Tom, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.440 I'm doing well, Jeff, looking forward to a Good Thursday Show. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.960 It seems like there's a little momentum of conversation picking 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.840 up all around the sports world, and I think it's interesting. 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.720 Whether it's a star date or a rule change, there's 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.280 always something to talk about, always something, certainly in National 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.440 Football aggwhere Jim Miller holds it down at Serious XM 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.720 NFL Radio along with Pat Kerwin, Jim, how are you 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.000 and that this top topic obviously today was the NFL 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.959 looking at some potential rules changes, and of most importance 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.080 was the on side kick alternative, which they did not 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.600 officially vote on today. Yeah, I'm certainly a lot going on, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.679 like he said, of starting to hear some some good 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.640 news with everything concerning COVID nineteen states opening up. Obviously, 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.959 governors are around this country country opening up sports and 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.560 training camps that probably will happen here this fall. And 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.840 then the good news today even Roger Goodell announced that 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.640 coaches and staff will be able to return to a 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.440 lot of their facilities next week. So they're hoping that 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.080 is the plan. Hopefully everybody will be able to do 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.800 that around the National Football League. But yeah, the rules 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.200 changes were the big news today, Jeff. And again the 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.520 proposals that were out there concerning the sky Judge two proposals, 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.520 basically we're scrapped and now they'd come up with a 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.160 new proposal that they don't know it yet or not. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.360 Whether they'll utilize it here this fall. It sounds like 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.640 it'll be tested during the preseason, then it'll be kicked 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.000 to the Competition committee. Whether they'll allow in terms of 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.080 the sky official or booth official. However you want to 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.560 give the moniker of the name that that still has 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.000 open possibilities that that could be utilized here this fall, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.760 and coming up at the bottom of the hour around 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.560 six thirty, we'll be joined by rules analyst Dean Blandino 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.640 to break that thing down as well. And coming up 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.320 period about six ten Darnel Money, fifth round draft pick 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.960 one are the three the Bears chose here in twenty twenty. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.960 The rookie receiver will join us out of Tulane, and 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.320 he will have a lot of confidence. I know that 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.080 he's a very confident young man and has a bit 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.560 of a chip on his shoulder, as a lot of 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.520 these draft picks in the twenty twenty class time at 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.440 JIM have had. So we'll be looking forward to talk 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.280 to him about wide receiver play. An next Bears assistant, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.080 Perry Fuel named today to Senior Vice President of Officiating Administration. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.560 He's going to oversee day to day operations of the 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.440 department and be a liaison a guy with a couple 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.120 of interim head coaching jobs. He's been a defensive coordinator 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.919 to this league. He's worked his way up and he 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.840 knows what goes on inside the heads of coaches, head 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.400 coaches and general managers time. Yeah, I think anybody that's 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.440 going to try to make a football decision should have 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.120 some type of football in their background, whether it's coaching, playing, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.120 you know, just the development side of it. So I 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.440 think it's a good decision. Perry is a good guy 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:34.280 and again, responsible decisions that are being made in the 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.040 terms and the rules and the guidelines on football. It's 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.280 good to have that experience. Yeah, especially you know, especially 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.040 for that fourth and fifteen play. How if you're an 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.520 NFL coach, how would you look at that play? Especially 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.080 it was scheduled to be at the twenty five yard line, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.120 so that was tabled and I think rightfully so I 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.400 think a lot of coaches wouldn't want that because if 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.320 you don't get that fourth and fifteen, essentially your opponent 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.400 is already in field goal range. I don't know why 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.840 it wasn't. Was that maybe the thirty five yard learner 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.640 even the potential forty yard line. And I think all 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:10.160 the stats on you know, basically on side kicks, it's 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.080 a little bit false pad because or a little bit 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.040 false you guys, because there was a story out there 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.039 today that any team trailing h you know, that had 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.200 tried to use an onside kick had lost games. The 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.760 record was no wins, one hundred and four losses. There 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.279 were numerous teams that actually had an opportunity. And it 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.480 goes back last year Atlanta Falcons versus the Saints. Atlanta 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.680 basically recovered two on sidekicks and had a chance to 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.960 win the game, but three sacks is really what derailed them. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.719 So I think some of the misnomers about the on 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.040 side kick, I don't think coaches and I think even 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.760 owners still want to take the foot out of football 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.200 just yet. They liked the third phase, and maybe they 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.400 can revisit how to make on side kicks more meaningful again, right, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.640 And I think we all in agreement on this show 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.680 that we talked about many times. I don't want to 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.240 see that a third phase get anymore derailed because it 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.200 offers a lot of excitement, and I know there's the 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.599 health issues involved, but Tom and Jim, that's such a 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.320 major part of the history of the game. I hate 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.400 all these little changes, but hopefully it won't get too crazy. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.080 I mean, you heard mister Rooney over there in Pittsburgh 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.159 say it was too much of a gimmick. Well, you 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.000 know the thing about it is they kind of change 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.720 the on site kick a couple of years ago when 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.119 they made them even out the players from one side 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.160 of the ball to the other, so there is no 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.760 player at the front line of defense that's going to 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.200 get overwhelmed by, you know, having multiple bodies come at them. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.600 So I think they did make the play safer. I 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.400 think when you open up a team to get a 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.359 fourth and fifteen, you're just opening up the possibility of 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.400 the biggest receiver inviting a pass interference one on one route, 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.599 and you know, that kind of adds to the you 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.880 know to the fundamental flaws that could happen in a 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.480 play like that. And so I'm glad that they're going 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.600 to keep it, try to work and keep the onside 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.200 kick into the game. Yeah, I hope. You know, a 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.720 couple of years ago, when the new kickoff rule was established, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.840 supposedly the Competition Committee was going to reach out to 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.320 all the special teams coaches to see because after that 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.200 first year they came back and saw how much on 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.479 sidekick recoveries had dropped. It had plummeted from twenty three 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.200 percent to essentially less than ten percent. It actually came 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.920 in it eight percent last year. Believe it or not, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.000 it doubled. We saw one in the Bears game, obviously 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.359 the Lions Bears game prater, and they recovered an on sidekick. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.080 I believe maybe is the one who recovered it, but 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.080 they basically doubled on sidekick recoveries went from eight percent 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.480 up to thirteen percent. My point is, if you go 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.680 out and maybe you talk to some of these special 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.880 teams coaches, maybe they can come up with some creative 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.640 ideas to get that number even a little bit closer 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.839 to the twenty percent margin. Because even that, to me, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.440 I'll take my chances with an onside kick than a 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.960 fourth and fifteen. The percentages just aren't in your favorite 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.279 And as Tom mentioned, could be a gimmick. We're just 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.240 a pass interference by the defense could get a team 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:06.719 back in the game. I don't want to see that, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.000 and I don't think anybody else does. That's Jim Miller 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.120 top there. I'm Jeff joning ACQ. Will be joined by 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.600 Darnell Mooney, the rookie receiver for the Bears coming out 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.400 of the break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.720 to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access brought to 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.440 you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.640 providing electricity, natural guests, and home warranty products to over 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.560 one million customers trusted the country. Learn more about IGS 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.360 Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Joning acc along with 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.200 Tom Thayer and Jim Miller joining you for our typical 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.320 Thursday and I run down and this is the final 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.000 show of May. Did you guys feel the month went 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.200 slow or did it go fast? You know, it did 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.880 go slow just because of the scenario we're in. There's 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.360 not a lot to look forward to the next day, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.720 so you're kind of going through this the same old thing. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.760 But then Joliet got hit with a series of storms 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.960 of this past weekend and a kind of through everything 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.240 into a tailspin. So it gave you a different concern 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.800 outside the concern of pandemic. So it's kind of an 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.960 just a spring in the Midwest. Yeah, it's kind of 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.520 groundhog day because the kids are home from school and 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.200 you got schooling. Now they're they're done, thankfully, but it 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.520 was this kind of groundhog day every every day Jeff, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:24.640 I mean doing virtual zoom ins with my son's teachers 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.680 and professors and other students and that of course come 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.280 up and talk football. So yeah, I went pretty slow, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.199 so I went back to schools what I did, Jeff, Right, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.160 So you'll be you'll be happy. The calendar will flip 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.920 to June. Oh yeah, and it will get us closer. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.400 I mean, it is moving in that direction. There's tons 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.480 of amenum we're talking about it. You mentioned the coaches. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.280 According to the commissioner, good doubt could return all thirty 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:49.760 two got to be able to do it though at once, 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.520 and he's going to continue to maintain that competitive balance. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.400 And then in the memo that they gave with the 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.600 players Association, they're they're trying to see if they could 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.199 get the players, at least some to return to facilities 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.640 before the offseason program ends. I'm certain that some players 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.199 would really like that to happen. Guys, Oh, of course, Jeff. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.440 You know that's you know the thing about offseason training 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:18.040 for football players, It's it's different than just training as 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.800 a as a normal citizen, like with you, because you know, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:25.120 you need that extra bodies around you when you're going 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.680 through for these attempts of these weights that they got 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.839 to get you ready to prepare football. You need the 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.960 surrounding support, you need the security of spotters, and it's 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.160 something that you can't go in your garage and do 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.200 by yourself because it's too dangerous. And so I was 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.520 thinking about this and it'd be interesting for Jeff and 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:47.880 Jim so to me, I think, you know, speed is 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.000 a hard recovery if you're not doing it every day, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.760 just like strength is. But it kind of like which 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.719 of the two when the players get active again, is 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.200 going to be the hardest to recover the strength not 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.199 getting on an everyday basis in their own weight rooms, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.480 or speed because they're not challenging themselves in the open 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.400 field and doing the running drills that they would be 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.880 in a football sense. Yeah, I had yesterday. I had 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.600 the opportunity to talk to Joe Flacco on Sirius and 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.480 he basically said it, Jeff, I think there are players 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.199 out there, I think, young and old. They want to 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.559 go to work. Man. It's time to go to work, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.840 is what it is. And I talked to Bill Callahan today, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.720 the offensive line coach of the Cleveland Browns. He said 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.520 he's going out of his mind. This guy has coached 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.640 over forty years. Forty years, he said to me, for 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.280 me to hold a virtual meeting with players, He goes, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.439 I can cover the wide zone all day long. I 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.600 can cover the techniques and all that, but Tom, you 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.600 and I both know you got to get out on 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.760 that field. You gotta do the shoots, you got to 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.280 hit the sleds, You got all these other things that 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.560 you have to do, and there's only so much that 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.320 can be accomplished in terms of the install in a 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.520 virtual world. You gotta get out. And that's specifically when 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.640 it comes to building chemistry on a football team. Even 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.320 veteran players like Dwayne Brown, the starting left tackle out 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.679 there for the Seattle Seahawks. He said it best. He goes, 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.280 We're gonna have a small window coming out of training 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.440 camp to get this chemistry down. And Tom, that's one 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.760 of the hardest things to settle. Who are your top 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.920 five offensive lineman? How is that going to settle itself out? 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.920 Because you're going to be distributing all those reps. So 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.840 I think everybody overall is looking to get back to 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.160 work in Chemistry is one of the biggest things that 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.839 you build here in an offseason and it's all been missed. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.880 You can only do so much in a virtual world. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.280 And you know what I think, Jeff as I was 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.480 reading a report today and when you talk about the 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.720 virtual world and how you have to get into the 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.839 minds of the other players, Philip Rivers in a zoom 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.079 meeting was going over his cadence in the way he 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.000 uses his cadence at the line of scrimmage, so the 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:53.320 offensive members can become familiar with the tone because he's 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.880 gonna have a different tone to his cadence than probably 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.640 the last quarterbacks he's been through. He probably has more 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.360 similar larities to Peyton Manning than anybody who's been there since. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.520 So I mean, those are the like the little details 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.000 that they have the ability to do. But it's not reality. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.840 But you're you're giving everybody a sense of how Philip 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.800 Rivers talks and reacts at the line of scrimmage. Waiting 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.320 Darnell Mooney, a Bears rookie receiver, and that coming up 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:20.839 at the bottom of the hour will be joined by 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.079 Dean Blandino, the rules specialist who works for a Fox 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.960 Sports and the NFL and the NCAA. This is Bears 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.920 all access brought to you by a GS energy all right, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.520 So as we bring it closer to home, it talk 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:36.199 Bears in terms of this situation right now. What units 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.800 are most affected on the Bears by this lack of 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.680 being face to face on the field, working out, getting 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.360 strong and those types of things, learning from the new 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.640 offensive quoches and whatnot. You know, you know, to me, 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.520 it's what is about the offensive line because you're talking 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.000 about five guys sometimes you add seven to eight that 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.960 have to work as one unit. They have to be 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:05.280 completely together in design, footwork and understanding of the terminology 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.480 that you're listening in the huddle. And so you're bringing 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.440 in a new offensive line coach, you're bringing in multiple 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.200 new offensive lineman. They're going to be fighting for jobs 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.640 and it's really hard to work on the specifics of 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.840 the choreograph technique that you have in an offensive line 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.000 when you don't have a hands on approach. Because if 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:29.120 one Castillo is making a correction to Rashad Coward at 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.800 right guard, he has to make sure Bobby Massey and 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.120 Cody Whitehair the center and guard next to him, are 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.520 on the same page and they're listening to the information 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.520 that the right guard's getting because it affects the center 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.840 and the right tackle. And for me, it's just going 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.679 to be the young players overall. What do we always 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.000 say the players who make the biggest jump is comes 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.600 from year one to year two. So think of players 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.240 like David Montgomery, all right, his opportunity is the in 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.080 this offseason to make that jump from year one to 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.000 year two where you probably have your biggest jump as 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.280 a player. He's missed all that. He's missed it all 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.720 through the OTAs, through the mini camps. And we'll see 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.920 if they're able to get something done here in the 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.959 next month or so, if players are able to report back. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.199 So I worry about first year players going into their 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.319 second year. And I would say any of these young 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.880 draft picks because as Tom will back me up on this, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.760 it's one thing much like Bill Callahan or say any 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.520 of the Bears coaches to say, hey, guys, on a 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.640 virtual meeting, he explains everything. All right, guys, you got that? 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.480 You understand it? Yeah, coach, I got it. Oh do 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.360 you got it? Because if you don't got it, you're 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.320 gonna get us all fired, is what you're gonna do. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.720 Because they say I got it and Tom will back 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.560 me up on this as well. That is the most 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.160 abuse saying by players in THEFL I got a coach, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.560 Well I got it, I'll get it. Yeah, you don't 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.600 got it because you went out there for your first 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.640 rep and you screwed it all up. That's not what 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.240 we coached it to do. So I think the young 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.640 players will certainly be affected by it the most. Tom 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.840 in that scenario so well, these young players or even 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.680 the new players that come to the Bears, because if 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.280 this doesn't go according to exact plan and you're still 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.520 maintaining you're going to start a training camp, is it 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.840 going to feel like the world's spinning one hundred miles 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.600 an hour for these guys because they didn't have the 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:14.120 benefit of this day to day in face's be if 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.800 they do, if it's spinning out of control, then it's 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.320 their own fault because you know, Jeff again, when we 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.680 were carrying around three hundred page playbooks, it's different than 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.880 carrying around your tablet. You have access to it at 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.240 any time. You know, the worst thing you can do 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:34.200 is transfer I got it to the practice field an 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.480 hour later and you're completely lost because the coach is 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.400 looking at you and said, hey, one hour ago, you 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.800 told me you completely got it, and obviously you don't. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.080 There's no proof in the pudding when you're going through 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.920 these virtual meetings. If you're saying I got it, they 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.560 have to assume you got it because there's no proof 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.600 an hour later on the practice field. So if you are, 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.920 you know, when this thing starts to get in motion, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.560 if you go out field and you're completely lost, it's 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.720 gonna be evidence of it wasn't that it didn't mean 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.120 that much to you in the first place, and you know, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.680 and then it gives them reason to, you know, put 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.080 that check mark next to your name in terms of, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.600 you know, a guy that really went above and beyond 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.120 and made sure you understood the information by the time 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.040 they got here. That's town fair. Jim Miller, Jeff Joniac 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.600 here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.520 seventy the score now joined by till Any wide receiver 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.520 Darnel Money, one of the bears three fifth round draft choices, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.520 the five ten plus wide receiver and pick number one 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.720 seventy three out of Gas and Alabama, kind enough to 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.600 spend some time with us tonight. How you doing, Darnell things? 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:45.400 Going well, Yeah, I'm doing pretty good about yourself, doing great, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.200 doing great. Now. I know this, You've talked about it, 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.720 and almost every member of this draft class, for whatever reason, 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.800 whether it started from their college recruitment or being snubbed 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.800 in high school, or their draft standing in the NFL, 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.680 this particular group, and we've interviewed many of you already 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.879 in this draft class, all seemed to be motivated in 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:13.480 a sense by being overlooked at some point in their careers. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.040 You're certainly one of those guys. We've heard you say it. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.359 But how good does it feel to know that your 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.119 guys here in Chicago, your Bears front office people, your coaches, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.280 you were coveted. Was that the first time in your 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.200 life playing football that you feel like you've been coveted 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:34.480 by somebody to play this game? Very true? Very true. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.720 I do feel that way. But at the end of 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.600 the day, I take I take the ones that are 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:45.400 critiquing the bad way and are looking for me to 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.080 to for them to be right. So I mean, kind 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.600 that's something to prove all the time. But um, like 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.000 you said, I mean with with now you know the 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.280 quarantine going on, I mean I feel like I have 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:03.000 an edge of just uh team against guys that are 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.840 in the NFL and they always had a trainer and 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.400 never had to push for their selves. And I feel 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.000 like I have an edge that way. So hey, Darne Ell, 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.240 I's reading an article about you, and I really love 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.400 the short answer you gave. And the question was why 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.080 draft you? And you said, I'm not a risk I'm 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.000 a good investment. Why aren't you a risking? What's the investment? 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.520 The Bears are getting U outside the speed element that 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:34.560 you've you know, everybody's talking about after the combine. I'm 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.040 a great route runner. UM a guy that uh, he's 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.760 gonna do more than give you speed. He's gonna do 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.800 He's gonna give you something explosive with the ball. It's 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.160 just gonna be. I mean, everything that you can ask 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.680 were that you feel like you haven't seen, You're You're 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.120 definitely going to get that out of me. The contested 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.920 catches the all around receiver as you h you would 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.840 um dream of of everybody just having the all around package. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.640 I feel like I have that, Darnell Jim Miller, Jim 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.240 Miller here, good to talk to you, my friend, and 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.200 welcome to the Chicago. If you were to do. Assess 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.560 your game. What areas do you want to work on 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.200 where you feel you need to improve personally or maybe 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.680 just the feedback coaches there is they'd like you to 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:22.119 improve and that you've been working on. Um just uh, 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:27.240 I mean in college, I kinda like rounded off on 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.680 my releases instead of like being a little bit aggressive 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.280 with the DV. But um, I tend to like, you know, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.840 tend to go a little wider. But m I learned 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.880 from past practices of going to get a longer DV 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.160 of just being a little bit more aggressively has worked 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.840 in my favorite So doing that and then um, um, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.840 you know, not going so well, I mean, not spreading 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.640 out on my releases. But because just something we did 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.000 add to Wane that I had to get out of it. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.720 I have it. I mean I didn't like it at first, 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.480 and then I had got into it, and then I 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.240 got to get back out of it. So I mean 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:03.840 it wanta be a it will be a hard thing 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:08.639 change with us. Is Darnel Mooney out of Tulane Bear's 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.119 newest wide receiver. Yeah, they talk about your Speedboy and 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.480 it's Elite four three eight at the fourth fastest at 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.879 the combine. But I'm more interested in what you've had 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.520 to say about your route running because not every kid, 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.000 and you included, you didn't get to run the entire 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.560 route tree at Tulane. We've heard that, and most college 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.160 kids don't. So when it gets to the NFL, it's 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.600 a little challenging and there are a lot of numbers 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.920 to support that. But you feel that you are so 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.000 driven to understand the route tree that you think you're 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.560 going to make an easier transition that way, because that's 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.000