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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff jony Aac along with the broadcast partner from
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Speaker 1: Mister Tom Bear, they are Chicago Bear. How you doing, Tom,
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, Jeff, looking forward to a Good Thursday Show.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's a little momentum of conversation picking
Speaker 1: up all around the sports world, and I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a star date or a rule change, there's
Speaker 1: always something to talk about, always something, certainly in National
Speaker 1: Football aggwhere Jim Miller holds it down at Serious XM
Speaker 1: NFL Radio along with Pat Kerwin, Jim, how are you
Speaker 1: and that this top topic obviously today was the NFL
Speaker 1: looking at some potential rules changes, and of most importance
Speaker 1: was the on side kick alternative, which they did not
Speaker 1: officially vote on today. Yeah, I'm certainly a lot going on,
Speaker 1: like he said, of starting to hear some some good
Speaker 1: news with everything concerning COVID nineteen states opening up. Obviously,
Speaker 1: governors are around this country country opening up sports and
Speaker 1: training camps that probably will happen here this fall. And
Speaker 1: then the good news today even Roger Goodell announced that
Speaker 1: coaches and staff will be able to return to a
Speaker 1: lot of their facilities next week. So they're hoping that
Speaker 1: is the plan. Hopefully everybody will be able to do
Speaker 1: that around the National Football League. But yeah, the rules
Speaker 1: changes were the big news today, Jeff. And again the
Speaker 1: proposals that were out there concerning the sky Judge two proposals,
Speaker 1: basically we're scrapped and now they'd come up with a
Speaker 1: new proposal that they don't know it yet or not.
Speaker 1: Whether they'll utilize it here this fall. It sounds like
Speaker 1: it'll be tested during the preseason, then it'll be kicked
Speaker 1: to the Competition committee. Whether they'll allow in terms of
Speaker 1: the sky official or booth official. However you want to
Speaker 1: give the moniker of the name that that still has
Speaker 1: open possibilities that that could be utilized here this fall,
Speaker 1: and coming up at the bottom of the hour around
Speaker 1: six thirty, we'll be joined by rules analyst Dean Blandino
Speaker 1: to break that thing down as well. And coming up
Speaker 1: period about six ten Darnel Money, fifth round draft pick
Speaker 1: one are the three the Bears chose here in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: The rookie receiver will join us out of Tulane, and
Speaker 1: he will have a lot of confidence. I know that
Speaker 1: he's a very confident young man and has a bit
Speaker 1: of a chip on his shoulder, as a lot of
Speaker 1: these draft picks in the twenty twenty class time at
Speaker 1: JIM have had. So we'll be looking forward to talk
Speaker 1: to him about wide receiver play. An next Bears assistant,
Speaker 1: Perry Fuel named today to Senior Vice President of Officiating Administration.
Speaker 1: He's going to oversee day to day operations of the
Speaker 1: department and be a liaison a guy with a couple
Speaker 1: of interim head coaching jobs. He's been a defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: to this league. He's worked his way up and he
Speaker 1: knows what goes on inside the heads of coaches, head
Speaker 1: coaches and general managers time. Yeah, I think anybody that's
Speaker 1: going to try to make a football decision should have
Speaker 1: some type of football in their background, whether it's coaching, playing,
Speaker 1: you know, just the development side of it. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a good decision. Perry is a good guy
Speaker 1: and again, responsible decisions that are being made in the
Speaker 1: terms and the rules and the guidelines on football. It's
Speaker 1: good to have that experience. Yeah, especially you know, especially
Speaker 1: for that fourth and fifteen play. How if you're an
Speaker 1: NFL coach, how would you look at that play? Especially
Speaker 1: it was scheduled to be at the twenty five yard line,
Speaker 1: so that was tabled and I think rightfully so I
Speaker 1: think a lot of coaches wouldn't want that because if
Speaker 1: you don't get that fourth and fifteen, essentially your opponent
Speaker 1: is already in field goal range. I don't know why
Speaker 1: it wasn't. Was that maybe the thirty five yard learner
Speaker 1: even the potential forty yard line. And I think all
Speaker 1: the stats on you know, basically on side kicks, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit false pad because or a little bit
Speaker 1: false you guys, because there was a story out there
Speaker 1: today that any team trailing h you know, that had
Speaker 1: tried to use an onside kick had lost games. The
Speaker 1: record was no wins, one hundred and four losses. There
Speaker 1: were numerous teams that actually had an opportunity. And it
Speaker 1: goes back last year Atlanta Falcons versus the Saints. Atlanta
Speaker 1: basically recovered two on sidekicks and had a chance to
Speaker 1: win the game, but three sacks is really what derailed them.
Speaker 1: So I think some of the misnomers about the on
Speaker 1: side kick, I don't think coaches and I think even
Speaker 1: owners still want to take the foot out of football
Speaker 1: just yet. They liked the third phase, and maybe they
Speaker 1: can revisit how to make on side kicks more meaningful again, right,
Speaker 1: And I think we all in agreement on this show
Speaker 1: that we talked about many times. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see that a third phase get anymore derailed because it
Speaker 1: offers a lot of excitement, and I know there's the
Speaker 1: health issues involved, but Tom and Jim, that's such a
Speaker 1: major part of the history of the game. I hate
Speaker 1: all these little changes, but hopefully it won't get too crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you heard mister Rooney over there in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: say it was too much of a gimmick. Well, you
Speaker 1: know the thing about it is they kind of change
Speaker 1: the on site kick a couple of years ago when
Speaker 1: they made them even out the players from one side
Speaker 1: of the ball to the other, so there is no
Speaker 1: player at the front line of defense that's going to
Speaker 1: get overwhelmed by, you know, having multiple bodies come at them.
Speaker 1: So I think they did make the play safer. I
Speaker 1: think when you open up a team to get a
Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen, you're just opening up the possibility of
Speaker 1: the biggest receiver inviting a pass interference one on one route,
Speaker 1: and you know, that kind of adds to the you
Speaker 1: know to the fundamental flaws that could happen in a
Speaker 1: play like that. And so I'm glad that they're going
Speaker 1: to keep it, try to work and keep the onside
Speaker 1: kick into the game. Yeah, I hope. You know, a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, when the new kickoff rule was established,
Speaker 1: supposedly the Competition Committee was going to reach out to
Speaker 1: all the special teams coaches to see because after that
Speaker 1: first year they came back and saw how much on
Speaker 1: sidekick recoveries had dropped. It had plummeted from twenty three
Speaker 1: percent to essentially less than ten percent. It actually came
Speaker 1: in it eight percent last year. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: it doubled. We saw one in the Bears game, obviously
Speaker 1: the Lions Bears game prater, and they recovered an on sidekick.
Speaker 1: I believe maybe is the one who recovered it, but
Speaker 1: they basically doubled on sidekick recoveries went from eight percent
Speaker 1: up to thirteen percent. My point is, if you go
Speaker 1: out and maybe you talk to some of these special
Speaker 1: teams coaches, maybe they can come up with some creative
Speaker 1: ideas to get that number even a little bit closer
Speaker 1: to the twenty percent margin. Because even that, to me,
Speaker 1: I'll take my chances with an onside kick than a
Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen. The percentages just aren't in your favorite
Speaker 1: And as Tom mentioned, could be a gimmick. We're just
Speaker 1: a pass interference by the defense could get a team
Speaker 1: back in the game. I don't want to see that,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody else does. That's Jim Miller
Speaker 1: top there. I'm Jeff joning ACQ. Will be joined by
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney, the rookie receiver for the Bears coming out
Speaker 1: of the break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Tom Thayer and Jim Miller joining you for our typical
Speaker 1: Thursday and I run down and this is the final
Speaker 1: show of May. Did you guys feel the month went
Speaker 1: slow or did it go fast? You know, it did
Speaker 1: go slow just because of the scenario we're in. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot to look forward to the next day,
Speaker 1: so you're kind of going through this the same old thing.
Speaker 1: But then Joliet got hit with a series of storms
Speaker 1: of this past weekend and a kind of through everything
Speaker 1: into a tailspin. So it gave you a different concern
Speaker 1: outside the concern of pandemic. So it's kind of an
Speaker 1: just a spring in the Midwest. Yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 1: groundhog day because the kids are home from school and
Speaker 1: you got schooling. Now they're they're done, thankfully, but it
Speaker 1: was this kind of groundhog day every every day Jeff,
Speaker 1: I mean doing virtual zoom ins with my son's teachers
Speaker 1: and professors and other students and that of course come
Speaker 1: up and talk football. So yeah, I went pretty slow,
Speaker 1: so I went back to schools what I did, Jeff, Right,
Speaker 1: So you'll be you'll be happy. The calendar will flip
Speaker 1: to June. Oh yeah, and it will get us closer.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is moving in that direction. There's tons
Speaker 1: of amenum we're talking about it. You mentioned the coaches.
Speaker 1: According to the commissioner, good doubt could return all thirty
Speaker 1: two got to be able to do it though at once,
Speaker 1: and he's going to continue to maintain that competitive balance.
Speaker 1: And then in the memo that they gave with the
Speaker 1: players Association, they're they're trying to see if they could
Speaker 1: get the players, at least some to return to facilities
Speaker 1: before the offseason program ends. I'm certain that some players
Speaker 1: would really like that to happen. Guys, Oh, of course, Jeff.
Speaker 1: You know that's you know the thing about offseason training
Speaker 1: for football players, It's it's different than just training as
Speaker 1: a as a normal citizen, like with you, because you know,
Speaker 1: you need that extra bodies around you when you're going
Speaker 1: through for these attempts of these weights that they got
Speaker 1: to get you ready to prepare football. You need the
Speaker 1: surrounding support, you need the security of spotters, and it's
Speaker 1: something that you can't go in your garage and do
Speaker 1: by yourself because it's too dangerous. And so I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this and it'd be interesting for Jeff and
Speaker 1: Jim so to me, I think, you know, speed is
Speaker 1: a hard recovery if you're not doing it every day,
Speaker 1: just like strength is. But it kind of like which
Speaker 1: of the two when the players get active again, is
Speaker 1: going to be the hardest to recover the strength not
Speaker 1: getting on an everyday basis in their own weight rooms,
Speaker 1: or speed because they're not challenging themselves in the open
Speaker 1: field and doing the running drills that they would be
Speaker 1: in a football sense. Yeah, I had yesterday. I had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to talk to Joe Flacco on Sirius and
Speaker 1: he basically said it, Jeff, I think there are players
Speaker 1: out there, I think, young and old. They want to
Speaker 1: go to work. Man. It's time to go to work,
Speaker 1: is what it is. And I talked to Bill Callahan today,
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach of the Cleveland Browns. He said
Speaker 1: he's going out of his mind. This guy has coached
Speaker 1: over forty years. Forty years, he said to me, for
Speaker 1: me to hold a virtual meeting with players, He goes,
Speaker 1: I can cover the wide zone all day long. I
Speaker 1: can cover the techniques and all that, but Tom, you
Speaker 1: and I both know you got to get out on
Speaker 1: that field. You gotta do the shoots, you got to
Speaker 1: hit the sleds, You got all these other things that
Speaker 1: you have to do, and there's only so much that
Speaker 1: can be accomplished in terms of the install in a
Speaker 1: virtual world. You gotta get out. And that's specifically when
Speaker 1: it comes to building chemistry on a football team. Even
Speaker 1: veteran players like Dwayne Brown, the starting left tackle out
Speaker 1: there for the Seattle Seahawks. He said it best. He goes,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a small window coming out of training
Speaker 1: camp to get this chemistry down. And Tom, that's one
Speaker 1: of the hardest things to settle. Who are your top
Speaker 1: five offensive lineman? How is that going to settle itself out?
Speaker 1: Because you're going to be distributing all those reps. So
Speaker 1: I think everybody overall is looking to get back to
Speaker 1: work in Chemistry is one of the biggest things that
Speaker 1: you build here in an offseason and it's all been missed.
Speaker 1: You can only do so much in a virtual world.
Speaker 1: And you know what I think, Jeff as I was
Speaker 1: reading a report today and when you talk about the
Speaker 1: virtual world and how you have to get into the
Speaker 1: minds of the other players, Philip Rivers in a zoom
Speaker 1: meeting was going over his cadence in the way he
Speaker 1: uses his cadence at the line of scrimmage, so the
Speaker 1: offensive members can become familiar with the tone because he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a different tone to his cadence than probably
Speaker 1: the last quarterbacks he's been through. He probably has more
Speaker 1: similar larities to Peyton Manning than anybody who's been there since.
Speaker 1: So I mean, those are the like the little details
Speaker 1: that they have the ability to do. But it's not reality.
Speaker 1: But you're you're giving everybody a sense of how Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers talks and reacts at the line of scrimmage. Waiting
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney, a Bears rookie receiver, and that coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour will be joined by
Speaker 1: Dean Blandino, the rules specialist who works for a Fox
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Speaker 1: So as we bring it closer to home, it talk
Speaker 1: Bears in terms of this situation right now. What units
Speaker 1: are most affected on the Bears by this lack of
Speaker 1: being face to face on the field, working out, getting
Speaker 1: strong and those types of things, learning from the new
Speaker 1: offensive quoches and whatnot. You know, you know, to me,
Speaker 1: it's what is about the offensive line because you're talking
Speaker 1: about five guys sometimes you add seven to eight that
Speaker 1: have to work as one unit. They have to be
Speaker 1: completely together in design, footwork and understanding of the terminology
Speaker 1: that you're listening in the huddle. And so you're bringing
Speaker 1: in a new offensive line coach, you're bringing in multiple
Speaker 1: new offensive lineman. They're going to be fighting for jobs
Speaker 1: and it's really hard to work on the specifics of
Speaker 1: the choreograph technique that you have in an offensive line
Speaker 1: when you don't have a hands on approach. Because if
Speaker 1: one Castillo is making a correction to Rashad Coward at
Speaker 1: right guard, he has to make sure Bobby Massey and
Speaker 1: Cody Whitehair the center and guard next to him, are
Speaker 1: on the same page and they're listening to the information
Speaker 1: that the right guard's getting because it affects the center
Speaker 1: and the right tackle. And for me, it's just going
Speaker 1: to be the young players overall. What do we always
Speaker 1: say the players who make the biggest jump is comes
Speaker 1: from year one to year two. So think of players
Speaker 1: like David Montgomery, all right, his opportunity is the in
Speaker 1: this offseason to make that jump from year one to
Speaker 1: year two where you probably have your biggest jump as
Speaker 1: a player. He's missed all that. He's missed it all
Speaker 1: through the OTAs, through the mini camps. And we'll see
Speaker 1: if they're able to get something done here in the
Speaker 1: next month or so, if players are able to report back.
Speaker 1: So I worry about first year players going into their
Speaker 1: second year. And I would say any of these young
Speaker 1: draft picks because as Tom will back me up on this,
Speaker 1: it's one thing much like Bill Callahan or say any
Speaker 1: of the Bears coaches to say, hey, guys, on a
Speaker 1: virtual meeting, he explains everything. All right, guys, you got that?
Speaker 1: You understand it? Yeah, coach, I got it. Oh do
Speaker 1: you got it? Because if you don't got it, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get us all fired, is what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Because they say I got it and Tom will back
Speaker 1: me up on this as well. That is the most
Speaker 1: abuse saying by players in THEFL I got a coach,
Speaker 1: Well I got it, I'll get it. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: got it because you went out there for your first
Speaker 1: rep and you screwed it all up. That's not what
Speaker 1: we coached it to do. So I think the young
Speaker 1: players will certainly be affected by it the most. Tom
Speaker 1: in that scenario so well, these young players or even
Speaker 1: the new players that come to the Bears, because if
Speaker 1: this doesn't go according to exact plan and you're still
Speaker 1: maintaining you're going to start a training camp, is it
Speaker 1: going to feel like the world's spinning one hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour for these guys because they didn't have the
Speaker 1: benefit of this day to day in face's be if
Speaker 1: they do, if it's spinning out of control, then it's
Speaker 1: their own fault because you know, Jeff again, when we
Speaker 1: were carrying around three hundred page playbooks, it's different than
Speaker 1: carrying around your tablet. You have access to it at
Speaker 1: any time. You know, the worst thing you can do
Speaker 1: is transfer I got it to the practice field an
Speaker 1: hour later and you're completely lost because the coach is
Speaker 1: looking at you and said, hey, one hour ago, you
Speaker 1: told me you completely got it, and obviously you don't.
Speaker 1: There's no proof in the pudding when you're going through
Speaker 1: these virtual meetings. If you're saying I got it, they
Speaker 1: have to assume you got it because there's no proof
Speaker 1: an hour later on the practice field. So if you are,
Speaker 1: you know, when this thing starts to get in motion,
Speaker 1: if you go out field and you're completely lost, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be evidence of it wasn't that it didn't mean
Speaker 1: that much to you in the first place, and you know,
Speaker 1: and then it gives them reason to, you know, put
Speaker 1: that check mark next to your name in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, a guy that really went above and beyond
Speaker 1: and made sure you understood the information by the time
Speaker 1: they got here. That's town fair. Jim Miller, Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the score now joined by till Any wide receiver
Speaker 1: Darnel Money, one of the bears three fifth round draft choices,
Speaker 1: the five ten plus wide receiver and pick number one
Speaker 1: seventy three out of Gas and Alabama, kind enough to
Speaker 1: spend some time with us tonight. How you doing, Darnell things?
Speaker 1: Going well, Yeah, I'm doing pretty good about yourself, doing great,
Speaker 1: doing great. Now. I know this, You've talked about it,
Speaker 1: and almost every member of this draft class, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: whether it started from their college recruitment or being snubbed
Speaker 1: in high school, or their draft standing in the NFL,
Speaker 1: this particular group, and we've interviewed many of you already
Speaker 1: in this draft class, all seemed to be motivated in
Speaker 1: a sense by being overlooked at some point in their careers.
Speaker 1: You're certainly one of those guys. We've heard you say it.
Speaker 1: But how good does it feel to know that your
Speaker 1: guys here in Chicago, your Bears front office people, your coaches,
Speaker 1: you were coveted. Was that the first time in your
Speaker 1: life playing football that you feel like you've been coveted
Speaker 1: by somebody to play this game? Very true? Very true.
Speaker 1: I do feel that way. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I take I take the ones that are
Speaker 1: critiquing the bad way and are looking for me to
Speaker 1: to for them to be right. So I mean, kind
Speaker 1: that's something to prove all the time. But um, like
Speaker 1: you said, I mean with with now you know the
Speaker 1: quarantine going on, I mean I feel like I have
Speaker 1: an edge of just uh team against guys that are
Speaker 1: in the NFL and they always had a trainer and
Speaker 1: never had to push for their selves. And I feel
Speaker 1: like I have an edge that way. So hey, Darne Ell,
Speaker 1: I's reading an article about you, and I really love
Speaker 1: the short answer you gave. And the question was why
Speaker 1: draft you? And you said, I'm not a risk I'm
Speaker 1: a good investment. Why aren't you a risking? What's the investment?
Speaker 1: The Bears are getting U outside the speed element that
Speaker 1: you've you know, everybody's talking about after the combine. I'm
Speaker 1: a great route runner. UM a guy that uh, he's
Speaker 1: gonna do more than give you speed. He's gonna do
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you something explosive with the ball. It's
Speaker 1: just gonna be. I mean, everything that you can ask
Speaker 1: were that you feel like you haven't seen, You're You're
Speaker 1: definitely going to get that out of me. The contested
Speaker 1: catches the all around receiver as you h you would
Speaker 1: um dream of of everybody just having the all around package.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have that, Darnell Jim Miller, Jim
Speaker 1: Miller here, good to talk to you, my friend, and
Speaker 1: welcome to the Chicago. If you were to do. Assess
Speaker 1: your game. What areas do you want to work on
Speaker 1: where you feel you need to improve personally or maybe
Speaker 1: just the feedback coaches there is they'd like you to
Speaker 1: improve and that you've been working on. Um just uh,
Speaker 1: I mean in college, I kinda like rounded off on
Speaker 1: my releases instead of like being a little bit aggressive
Speaker 1: with the DV. But um, I tend to like, you know,
Speaker 1: tend to go a little wider. But m I learned
Speaker 1: from past practices of going to get a longer DV
Speaker 1: of just being a little bit more aggressively has worked
Speaker 1: in my favorite So doing that and then um, um,
Speaker 1: you know, not going so well, I mean, not spreading
Speaker 1: out on my releases. But because just something we did
Speaker 1: add to Wane that I had to get out of it.
Speaker 1: I have it. I mean I didn't like it at first,
Speaker 1: and then I had got into it, and then I
Speaker 1: got to get back out of it. So I mean
Speaker 1: it wanta be a it will be a hard thing
Speaker 1: change with us. Is Darnel Mooney out of Tulane Bear's
Speaker 1: newest wide receiver. Yeah, they talk about your Speedboy and
Speaker 1: it's Elite four three eight at the fourth fastest at
Speaker 1: the combine. But I'm more interested in what you've had
Speaker 1: to say about your route running because not every kid,
Speaker 1: and you included, you didn't get to run the entire
Speaker 1: route tree at Tulane. We've heard that, and most college
Speaker 1: kids don't. So when it gets to the NFL, it's
Speaker 1: a little challenging and there are a lot of numbers
Speaker 1: to support that. But you feel that you are so
Speaker 1: driven to understand the route tree that you think you're
Speaker 1: going to make an easier transition that way, because that's
Speaker 1: a big part of the battle, the biggest part of
Speaker 1: the battle getting off the line of scrimmage in the
Speaker 1: National Football League for young receivers. But when did you
Speaker 1: start trying to, as you put it, master that route tree? Um,
Speaker 1: I will have to say about my sophomore year of college,
Speaker 1: I just started being more fatigueing of like my routes.
Speaker 1: I never thought of myself as like a fast guy.
Speaker 1: I always thought of myself as a guy as good
Speaker 1: at getting off the release and then and then running
Speaker 1: my routes of win. I never thought of myself as
Speaker 1: a fast guy. The fast thing just came U. It's
Speaker 1: just a you know, an increase of what us I have. Hey, Darnell.
Speaker 1: In the last ten years, the Bears have had some
Speaker 1: pretty exciting playmakers like Devin Hester and even Teriq calling nowadays.
Speaker 1: And there's a quote that says, you're a playmaker with
Speaker 1: a ball in your hands in space. Do you have
Speaker 1: any special teams visions in terms of a returner when
Speaker 1: you come up to the NFL. Oh, yes, definitely. I
Speaker 1: mean I did probably return high school. I did probably
Speaker 1: return my freshman year of college. And then I just
Speaker 1: caught him during during practice. It was just like it
Speaker 1: was just a thing that the coaches were having me do.
Speaker 1: I mean, if anything went bad, I was able to
Speaker 1: go back there. But Parma turn good concerns. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with doing it. If I'm if I had
Speaker 1: the chance to do it, I will. But I mean
Speaker 1: that's another thing. If you say, like if I if
Speaker 1: I had the ball in like space, things can happen
Speaker 1: on the good side. But um, I mean, promaturn is
Speaker 1: very It's a very easy thing to do when um,
Speaker 1: I can just do my own thing. I don't have
Speaker 1: a certain way to go. How has the install gone
Speaker 1: virtually in terms of digesting the offense, I know, what
Speaker 1: can be voluminous maybe compared to what it was that
Speaker 1: too lane and maybe the attention to detail the Bears
Speaker 1: are going to be asking of you during when you
Speaker 1: guys do get on the field to execute these play calls.
Speaker 1: I know they probably have installed quite a bit. But
Speaker 1: how's that gone for you? Oh, it goes, it goes.
Speaker 1: I mean it has won't very smooth for me. I
Speaker 1: mean I don't have a problem with it at all.
Speaker 1: I'm collecting all the information very very easy. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have a problem at all. Darnell
Speaker 1: Mooney our guest final question from us here tonight, and
Speaker 1: it's more of a statement than a question. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this or not, but your
Speaker 1: receivers coach, Mike Fury, you're getting to know him obviously
Speaker 1: three zoom. In the last twenty years in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, Darnell, he is one of the three hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety seven wide receivers that have hit a thousand
Speaker 1: yards in a season. There's only been eleven by rookies.
Speaker 1: M But that's saying something because that's a former defensive back.
Speaker 1: So you can tell him you know a little bit
Speaker 1: about about his NFL playing days. Mike Furrey looks like
Speaker 1: he's ready to play right now. He's seen the muscled
Speaker 1: up receivers coach and you're thinking that guy, that guy
Speaker 1: would be pretty tough as a dB two. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: man comes very I can't wait to get on the
Speaker 1: field with them and work when he's a He's an
Speaker 1: up temple coach and uh up temple person as well
Speaker 1: as I just love his mindset and the mentality he
Speaker 1: brings every day. Very good. Well they're now, we'll be
Speaker 1: looking forward and when we get off together back in
Speaker 1: normalcy here and get to see you up at Hallisau
Speaker 1: and best of luck on getting things rolling for your
Speaker 1: rookie season one. You'll probably never forget in the National
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Speaker 1: break down the Bears from twenty twenty here on Bears
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Speaker 1: you set for Bears Football twenty twenty. Rules it's always
Speaker 1: a topic this time of year, and after the NFL
Speaker 1: owners got it virtually done today, joined by Dean Blandino,
Speaker 1: football rules analyst for the NFL, Fox Sports at NCUBA
Speaker 1: and as a Good Cause podcast. Dean, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: the former vice president of officiating in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: We'll go right to it. What did you think today
Speaker 1: about the fourth and fifteen conversion alternative to the outside
Speaker 1: kick being table for discussion? Yeah? Usually, and I know
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people at the league office
Speaker 1: that that want this to happen. And usually when when
Speaker 1: something gets tabled like that, they they didn't have the votes,
Speaker 1: you know, So however they did it if they can
Speaker 1: VISs the you know, the virtual room, and um, ultimately
Speaker 1: it didn't have enough votes. To pass, so they tabled it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to They're gonna try to have more discussion,
Speaker 1: work through some of these issues. Um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna get to twenty four
Speaker 1: yes votes. They're gonna they got some work to do.
Speaker 1: But whenever something like that gets tabled, the you know,
Speaker 1: the league office wants this to happen, and they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't want to. Uh, they don't want to go
Speaker 1: down without a fight. Right now, Dean, is an open debate,
Speaker 1: you know, Is it like the Lincoln Douglas debates when
Speaker 1: they're up there trying to, you know, fight for each
Speaker 1: side of this argument. And you know it was there
Speaker 1: ever a time that maybe it was gonna be swayed
Speaker 1: in that fourth and fifteen direction. Yeah, you know, it
Speaker 1: is an open debate. I don't know. This is obviously
Speaker 1: right new ground. Virtually usually when you have these discussions,
Speaker 1: there's there's two people from every club. Everybody's in the
Speaker 1: same room. The entire competition committee is there, and you
Speaker 1: can you can go up and speak your mind and
Speaker 1: have and have that conversation. This was done virtually one
Speaker 1: person from every club, So I'm sure there was some dialogue,
Speaker 1: but probably not as much as when you have coaches
Speaker 1: in the room and things like that. Um, I think
Speaker 1: this has gained momentum. Probably two weeks ago you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have thought this was even going to be this close,
Speaker 1: and it certainly gained some momentum because again I think
Speaker 1: there are people in the league office that are pushing
Speaker 1: this to want this to happen, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think there, like I said, they about some work
Speaker 1: to do. I think there's still some issues. I don't
Speaker 1: hate the idea, but I, like, you know, whenever you're
Speaker 1: going to make a fundamental change to the game, I
Speaker 1: just think you need to make sure you've been out
Speaker 1: of all the unintended consequences. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 1: that's where I want to go with it, because much
Speaker 1: like the past interference call, no call that just got
Speaker 1: to went away, like the Dodo bird, I want to
Speaker 1: cover this rule because of the past. Today it says
Speaker 1: to make permanent the expansion of automatic replay reviews to
Speaker 1: include scoring plays and turnovers negated by a foul and
Speaker 1: any successful or unsuccessful try attempt. I believe last year
Speaker 1: it only happened like ten to twelve times, but yet
Speaker 1: they felt it was enough to where they wanted to
Speaker 1: move forward and pass this rule. Yeah, that was something
Speaker 1: you know. Like you said, it doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1: It does take the pressure off the coach that during
Speaker 1: a tribe, regardless of what happens, regardless if it's ruled
Speaker 1: good or no good, it takes the pressure off the
Speaker 1: coach that he doesn't have to challenge. It puts it
Speaker 1: on replay. Scoring play that's negated by penalty, turnover that's
Speaker 1: negated by penalty. Doesn't happen very often. But again, it
Speaker 1: takes it out of the coach's hands. They don't have
Speaker 1: to use that and potentially lose the time out. And
Speaker 1: it makes it an automatic review, which I think is
Speaker 1: a good thing. But again, it doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1: Dean Bland, you know our guest, a football rules analyst
Speaker 1: on the NFL, Fox Sports at NCUBA J wanting to
Speaker 1: us here in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score.
Speaker 1: I'm old school. I'm an old fashioned I like things
Speaker 1: to say the same. I resist change, big Dean. So
Speaker 1: this fourth and fifteen idea really me personally as a
Speaker 1: play by play guy and a lover of the game.
Speaker 1: I just I know safety comes first, I do, but
Speaker 1: the whole idea of moving things away from the kicking
Speaker 1: game aside from that, just in the kick return game
Speaker 1: and whatnot. I just worry down the road that the
Speaker 1: elimination of some really exciting plays, no matter how lack
Speaker 1: of success percentage, just say there is what it would
Speaker 1: be something that we're going to miss. At the same time. Um,
Speaker 1: but I do like the idea of expanning the defenseless
Speaker 1: player protection for kick and part return. Yeah you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like you. Where again I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: this needs to be changed in terms of the fourth
Speaker 1: and fifteen. This is not a player's safety change anyone
Speaker 1: that tells you that the data. There's no significant data
Speaker 1: that says, you know, the fourth and fifteen play is
Speaker 1: any more or less safe than an onside kick. It
Speaker 1: just they don't have that at this point. UM. I
Speaker 1: like the the execution of the onside kick. If you
Speaker 1: have if you're a team like Atlanta that has a
Speaker 1: kicker that can that can do it, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: more power to you. M I do like the protection. Look,
Speaker 1: the defenseless player protections have been a significant in a
Speaker 1: much needed change over the last however many years, twenty
Speaker 1: five thirty years, and in allowing the kick returner that
Speaker 1: extra protection that not just when they catch it, but
Speaker 1: until they have the time to protect themselves, just like
Speaker 1: a receiver. It's more or less been officiated that way,
Speaker 1: but to put it in the wool book, I think
Speaker 1: is a necessary step. Being like the pass interference and
Speaker 1: like the fourth and fifteen on site, is there another
Speaker 1: powder keg topic out there that we're going to be
Speaker 1: paying attention to twenty twenty and beyond or are we
Speaker 1: waiting for the first on site kick to come up
Speaker 1: and then the whole argument will restart depending upon who
Speaker 1: gets it or doesn't get it. Yeah, I mean, this
Speaker 1: onsine alternative isn't going to go away, you know, if
Speaker 1: they if they do eventually get the votes, and maybe
Speaker 1: they call for another vote. I think I think the
Speaker 1: big thing now is going to be right a sky
Speaker 1: judge that concept. They agreed to have a preseason experiment
Speaker 1: and I think that's going to be the next the
Speaker 1: next big thing. Somebody up in the booth. We already
Speaker 1: have a replay official, but can that replay official? Can
Speaker 1: we expand their per view and let them help the
Speaker 1: crew in other areas other than catch no catch and
Speaker 1: scoring plays and things like that. So I think it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how much of an experiment we get,
Speaker 1: you know, how much of a preseason are we going
Speaker 1: to get, and are we going to get you know,
Speaker 1: a good indication of what that could look like during
Speaker 1: the regular season. So I think that's probably the next
Speaker 1: big thing. Yeah, Dan, I want to piggyback off of
Speaker 1: what you just stated there, because it would be an
Speaker 1: eighth official added to the crew. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be a negative nelly or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: you know, you look at it, and this is what
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent talked about, the VP of football opposite at
Speaker 1: the league office, about the recruitment of officials. If you
Speaker 1: have to add more officials, and that would be an
Speaker 1: eighth official added or god forbid, say during the fall
Speaker 1: some of the officials get COVID nineteen, will there be
Speaker 1: extra officials available for games? How is the recruitment of
Speaker 1: officials going to expand it and get it up to date? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question to come down to people.
Speaker 1: That comes down to personnel and having qualified people that
Speaker 1: can step in. There are seventeen officiating crews, there's seventeen
Speaker 1: replay officials. M I can't sit here and say all
Speaker 1: seventeen are are on the same level in terms of competencies.
Speaker 1: Just like anything else, they are going to be some
Speaker 1: people that are better than others, And I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: that all seventeen of those could step right in today
Speaker 1: and be an eighth official up in the booth and
Speaker 1: handle additional duties. So that's the challenge, and I think
Speaker 1: the NFL has to continue to find the right people,
Speaker 1: coach him up, teach him, train them, and get them
Speaker 1: ready because yeah, we're going into a season with you know,
Speaker 1: something that hasn't happened in our lifetime, and who knows
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, with people potentially getting sick, and
Speaker 1: you're going to have to have people ready to go
Speaker 1: to step in. So I think personnel is going to
Speaker 1: be is going to be a big challenge. Remaining Monimus
Speaker 1: with Dean Blandido, the outstanding rules analysts for the National
Speaker 1: Football League a Fox Sports NC Doubla, as well the
Speaker 1: former VP officiating the National Football League, Dan What's your
Speaker 1: how will now? After the interference experiment. How will that
Speaker 1: now translate? Do you think on the field, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. I have never I've never seen a rule
Speaker 1: change go in for one year in my time that
Speaker 1: was just not even proposed the following year. It was
Speaker 1: just a complete and like and these aren't my words,
Speaker 1: I mean Troy Vincent Stead, it was a complete failure
Speaker 1: and to have you know, just the way it was implemented.
Speaker 1: It just they struggled with finding the right standard, and
Speaker 1: I think it started to affect the officials on the
Speaker 1: field and wondering, you know, what is and what is
Speaker 1: and if that's not past an inference, if you don't
Speaker 1: overturn that, I'm not going to call that the next
Speaker 1: time out. So so I think again getting back to
Speaker 1: if past the aference is a problem, let's get back
Speaker 1: to the route where where where does it start? It
Speaker 1: starts with the officials on the field. Teach, coach them up,
Speaker 1: make sure they understand what it is. I think we
Speaker 1: saw all the unintended consequences of reviewing those subjective foulsum
Speaker 1: play out last year. Not and as you think about
Speaker 1: a sky judge and adding things to to what's reviewable,
Speaker 1: those are got to be some of the you know,
Speaker 1: some of the considerations. You know, how far is far enough?
Speaker 1: Do we need to fix every little thing? Or can
Speaker 1: we let the officials officiate and let replay help when
Speaker 1: when it's necessary, Dane real quickly. For me, my entire career,
Speaker 1: I was on kickoff return and then when I looked
Speaker 1: at the new formation of the kickoff return in the XFL,
Speaker 1: it was really appealing and I think it added a
Speaker 1: safety element. Plus it gave them an opportunity to return
Speaker 1: and have an exciting play continue in football. Has there
Speaker 1: been any conversation No, I mean implementing, but at least
Speaker 1: talking about it. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I'm a part
Speaker 1: of the NTA rules meetings, the competition community meetings. We
Speaker 1: definitely discussed it. M I know, the NFL has discussed it,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I was a part of the XFL,
Speaker 1: so I got to see it, you know, play out,
Speaker 1: and it did exactly what what we thought it would.
Speaker 1: It kept the return in the game ninety four percent
Speaker 1: of kicks will return. It eliminated reduce some of those
Speaker 1: high impact collisions, and it kept an exciting play in
Speaker 1: the game. And it actually, you know, it made it safer.
Speaker 1: Small sample size, certainly, but I think I think it's
Speaker 1: there's something to be said for that, for that formation.
Speaker 1: And there's no question the NFL has has talked about it.
Speaker 1: In terms of implementation, who knows, but they definitely it's
Speaker 1: on their radar. Let me ask you this team, because
Speaker 1: the past interferniture rule going away, so it leaves the
Speaker 1: possibility of another Saints Rams game. How is the mechanics
Speaker 1: of the sky judge or this idea they're going to
Speaker 1: cultivate here and then the competition at a committee It
Speaker 1: sounds like they will decide it through the preseason games.
Speaker 1: How will those mechanics work out? If you if you
Speaker 1: have any information on how that will work here this preseason? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you have you have wireless communication amongst the seven
Speaker 1: officials on the field and and upstairs to the replay
Speaker 1: booth two way communication. So the way mechanically it would work,
Speaker 1: from my understanding, is that the on field officials could
Speaker 1: solicit information from the replay official upstairs. They would have
Speaker 1: to do that before twenty five seconds are on the
Speaker 1: play clock. So the play ends, there's a ruling, they
Speaker 1: can get help from upstairs, ask for help on certain
Speaker 1: situations and the replay official using the video could provide
Speaker 1: that help. The way it's set up now, once we
Speaker 1: get to twenty five seconds on the playclock, now we're
Speaker 1: getting ready for the next play. There's nothing that the
Speaker 1: replay official can do, so to be interesting to see
Speaker 1: if that communication can be seamless, if it's not interrupting
Speaker 1: the flow of the game. The last thing we want
Speaker 1: is the officials waiting and standing around after every other
Speaker 1: play waiting for somebody upstairs to kind of give them
Speaker 1: a green light. That's going to just destroy the pace
Speaker 1: of the game and I think that would be counterproductive.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes in the preseason and then,
Speaker 1: like you said, I think the competition could be they'll
Speaker 1: have the ability to discuss it and potentially, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the commissioner could put something in for the regular
Speaker 1: season if they feel like it's it makes sense and
Speaker 1: the experiment worked. All right, Dean, we'll let you go.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate you taking the time tonight. Good informative stuff, Dean, Blando,
Speaker 1: Stay safe out there. Football rules analysts doing a great job.
Speaker 1: As always. When we come back, we'll continue to look
Speaker 1: at the Bears at twenty twenty. Break things down from
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Speaker 1: near you. Jim Miller, tomp there with you, Jeff jony
Speaker 1: Ak wrapping things up. Good to talk to Dean Bland. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, Jim, you talked to him all the time.
Speaker 1: They're on Serious XM. But it really makes an understandable
Speaker 1: for the average person, just average football fan, clears up
Speaker 1: some of the diminutia of the of the rules. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he does a great job. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he and Mike Perrera have been you know, the last two,
Speaker 1: you know, being a former NFL head of officiating, do
Speaker 1: a great job and their explanations and I just think
Speaker 1: just a straightforward, common sense approach. I think Al Riveron
Speaker 1: has somewhat struggled a little bit and and hopefully he'll
Speaker 1: continue to get better moving forward. But a lot of
Speaker 1: these officials, and I even talked to ESPN's John Perry today,
Speaker 1: who was really very excellent in explaining the points. Like
Speaker 1: you said in Layman's terms, that all the fans out
Speaker 1: there get a good idea and perspective of what they're
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish. It's not an easy job. I think
Speaker 1: we all understand that the human element is a part
Speaker 1: of it. They're gonna make mistakes. It's a fast moving sports.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, golf fans and
Speaker 1: all football fans in general, you just let the right call.
Speaker 1: I think everybody wants the right call and how it's
Speaker 1: executed down on the field. Hey, Tom, you you threw
Speaker 1: a trivia question at me before the show started about
Speaker 1: pass interference. Let's let's see if Jim Miller's on it
Speaker 1: as a former NFL quarterback, Big Tom, what do you got?
Speaker 1: What play? Is? What play as the most pass interference
Speaker 1: called on this past season? Anyways in the NFL? What play?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Like? What first, second, third, or
Speaker 1: fourth down? Because Jim, the reason I was asking you
Speaker 1: This is because fourth and fifteen just invited the element
Speaker 1: of pass interfere creatively designed pass interference plays. But when
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at it, the most penelty,
Speaker 1: the most pass interference penalties were called on what down
Speaker 1: and distance. Oh, I would probably say third and short,
Speaker 1: third and short to medium is what I'd say. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's first and ten. It's first and ten and um,
Speaker 1: that's what surprised me the most most, Jim, when I
Speaker 1: looked it up, because I was thinking too, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, third and ten and above I thought would
Speaker 1: be the most. And I think maybe it's defensive backs
Speaker 1: or defensive players getting caught off guard when there's an
Speaker 1: equal run pass threat at that point you get a
Speaker 1: double move, you reach out grab them, and that probably
Speaker 1: more because you know you're going for the juggler right away,
Speaker 1: catch a defense you know, maybe napping a little bit
Speaker 1: to start a game, and you know it gets a
Speaker 1: little handsy down there. Well, that would I mean the
Speaker 1: same theory because third the reason why I bring up
Speaker 1: third and short to medium, because that is still a
Speaker 1: rundown when it's when it's third, and that's where to me,
Speaker 1: defensive backs get a little bit grabby. So let makes
Speaker 1: sense on first and second down because or first down
Speaker 1: in terms of doing it, because the balance is there
Speaker 1: where it could be run or pass. Is really the
Speaker 1: line of thinking you know I was going with, but
Speaker 1: add it is surprising on first down would be that
Speaker 1: that down that's has the most from the right. Another question,
Speaker 1: another question for both of you you. You in regards of
Speaker 1: the on side kick. So yeah, you have at the
Speaker 1: end of the game and everybody understands it's going to
Speaker 1: be an onside kick, and then you have the lineup.
Speaker 1: But you look at these coaches like a John Gruden
Speaker 1: or Sean Payton, where they'll pull that onside kick because
Speaker 1: they recognize there's a frontline, a blocker on kickoff return
Speaker 1: that leaves this spot too early. So that's an element
Speaker 1: that you can't take out of the game because all
Speaker 1: of that is a good investigative work by the special
Speaker 1: team's coach. And so you know, it'd be weird if
Speaker 1: they took the end of the game on side out
Speaker 1: of it, but they didn't take the end game on
Speaker 1: side kick out of it. Yeah, Well, it actually happened
Speaker 1: in the Miami Buffalo game last year. They they're in
Speaker 1: a surprise on side kick and it worked. You know,
Speaker 1: I think they just need to go back because two
Speaker 1: years ago when they implemented this rule, and we know
Speaker 1: what was about players safety, about the return game and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and you can't overload. As you mentioned, Tom,
Speaker 1: leave it up to the special teams coach. After the year,
Speaker 1: we know that it plummeted. They were supposed to reach
Speaker 1: out to all the special teams coaches and try to
Speaker 1: come up with an idea what would make the on
Speaker 1: site kick have more bite. Again it we used to
Speaker 1: be twenty four percent, you could recover them. Now it
Speaker 1: plummeted to less than eight the first year eight percent,
Speaker 1: and now it's already back up to thirteen. So put
Speaker 1: it in in the special teams coaches hands. I think they'll
Speaker 1: be able to get it back up to that twenty
Speaker 1: percent margin where it has more influence and can be
Speaker 1: utilized in a game in the home stretch. That's Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: Tom Fair, Jeff Johnny Act. This is Bears All Access
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score wrap the
Speaker 1: things up before we hand it off to the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. Jeff Johny Act along with Tom Thare
Speaker 1: and Jim Miller. Thanks to our guests earlier tonights we
Speaker 1: had darn Al Mooney and the fifth round pick wide
Speaker 1: receiver for the Bears, and guys, I am excited about
Speaker 1: a guy with that kind of speed because yes, it's
Speaker 1: going to take a while, and I think I'm right
Speaker 1: Jim on this young receivers. I don't care how town.
Speaker 1: Getting off the line of scrimmage in press at this
Speaker 1: level is the biggest challenge that he will face. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt one because of his size and his weight, right.
Speaker 1: I believe he was listed, you know, in one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five and no whole gain a little bit,
Speaker 1: but they can be thrown off by some of these
Speaker 1: big corners. And let's be honest, I mean, you got
Speaker 1: all these monster receivers coming out. Teams have been drafting
Speaker 1: going back to the legion of Boom by the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: bigger and bigger corners, and that can throw off a
Speaker 1: young receiver who won. He's probably going to get stronger
Speaker 1: in the weight room so his path can't be thrown off.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm glad you brought up the special
Speaker 1: team's aspect of it, Jeff, because I think from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's where players can have an impact early. You know,
Speaker 1: when you look at players like whether it's Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: when he broke in the league, or Dez Bryant of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys where do they make or even Tyree
Speaker 1: Hill right he's known as a receiver, but he is
Speaker 1: the biggest impact was as a returner early in his career,
Speaker 1: and I think fully Mooney could have an impact from
Speaker 1: that standpoint if he's utilized punt returns and maybe incorporated
Speaker 1: in the kick return side of it as well, you know,
Speaker 1: Jim and Jeff. One of the most interesting articles I
Speaker 1: read read by Darnell is that in the latter part
Speaker 1: of his college career he started to take note of
Speaker 1: the size of the cornerbacks he was playing against and
Speaker 1: he would alter his route running style accordingly. And he
Speaker 1: had a difference of route style against a taller, lankier
Speaker 1: corner than he did a shorter one. So I'm really
Speaker 1: interested to see if that's information that he can take
Speaker 1: and utilize in the NFL. And I know that the
Speaker 1: cornerback talent's a lot different, but there is an obvious
Speaker 1: observation you make of your opponent, whether you're an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman looking at the defensive lineman or receiver looking at
Speaker 1: a cornerback. And I think the presidence of a veteran
Speaker 1: speech to like Ted Jin Jr. Will help the young
Speaker 1: man out a little bit. Knows a little thing about
Speaker 1: speed and how to use that to your advantage. And
Speaker 1: the rounds not just go routes. All right, we're at
Speaker 1: the time, feltas, Thanks very much. Thanks to Dean Blandino
Speaker 1: who just texted and said thanks for having me. He
Speaker 1: was very It was very good. That's down there, Jim.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. Pick fella sounds good man,
Speaker 1: And thanks to brand G. Darlovski, Jordan tread up, Dan
Speaker 1: Billy and thank you for listening. We'll talk to you
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