Speaker 1: It's a good old fashioned Bears Giants matchup Sunday at
Speaker 1: Soldier Field. Unfortunately, two teams with a combined nine wins,
Speaker 1: but the flavor of the history not gone unnoticed. This week,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonahac timp there with you here on Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: It is brought to you by Ags Energy here on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score time, good evening.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught it, but it's the anniversary. Yesterday.
Speaker 1: I saw some great photos on Twitter ticket stubs. The
Speaker 1: Bears went at Wrigley Field with the Giants. They destroyed
Speaker 1: y a titled who are Giants fans complaining? How the
Speaker 1: Bears defenders just went at y a tittle And you've
Speaker 1: seen some of those pictures. They abused him in the pocket.
Speaker 1: Before forty five plus fourteen ten the final, Larry Morris,
Speaker 1: the MVP, Billy waited a couple of short touchdown runs.
Speaker 1: The defense allowed just a Frank Gifford touchdown catch and
Speaker 1: a field go on a day they had a four
Speaker 1: degree temperature, eleven degree below zero windshill. Sounds like Sunday
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field. That's what I was gonna say. Hey
Speaker 1: can possibly match up to be at night another great
Speaker 1: Giants Chicago Bears battle and they are historic. We heard
Speaker 1: about him as ex players and if you are a
Speaker 1: Bear kind of a remembrance type of guy, you'll learn
Speaker 1: a lot about the type of battles they had. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be with you here until seven o'clock tonight. Well,
Speaker 1: we got coming up Daz Newsom our guests for a
Speaker 1: couple of segments and will break down the Bears and Giants.
Speaker 1: Also look at what's transpired over the course of the
Speaker 1: season for several Bears and what might transpire on Sunday.
Speaker 1: First thing that comes to mind for me, Tom not
Speaker 1: only the performance of young players. We don't know who
Speaker 1: the quarterback is as of this show. Right now. Today
Speaker 1: at practice, another limited day for Justin Fields, Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: the full go. You know, Nick Foles is ready to
Speaker 1: go if needed. What do you do here? You have
Speaker 1: to play the healthiest of the quarterbacks. The last thing
Speaker 1: you want to do is to put one of these
Speaker 1: guys in the conditions that it's gonna be Sunday and possibly,
Speaker 1: you know, slow the process of their ability to play
Speaker 1: quarterback and then end up with an injury and that's
Speaker 1: all three of these guys included, but you have to
Speaker 1: start with Justin. If Justin is the healthiest, he's the
Speaker 1: guy that I want to play the most. This was
Speaker 1: earlier this week from Matt Neggie regarding the desire of
Speaker 1: four fields to get on the field. You know, just
Speaker 1: from listening to him talk and where he's at. You know.
Speaker 1: The thing with Justin is he's super tough, So we
Speaker 1: have to balance that. We got to make sure that
Speaker 1: he doesn't hurt himself because he's trying to tough through something.
Speaker 1: But he's also smart too, and he gets it that
Speaker 1: we have his best interest. So when he has that ability,
Speaker 1: it helps. He wants to be out there. He wants
Speaker 1: to be out there for his teammates, He wants to
Speaker 1: be out there to be able to help every way
Speaker 1: he can to help us continue to finish the season strong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's certainly got to be the case. We'd love
Speaker 1: to see him though, right, we'd love to see him. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that you have to think about. How
Speaker 1: severe is the injury. Can they go up there and
Speaker 1: tape it where he really doesn't feel it and he's
Speaker 1: able to have the mobility and the throwing balance that
Speaker 1: he needs. And then you also think that, hey, there's
Speaker 1: two more games left in the season than you're gonna
Speaker 1: have plenty of time to heal. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: real slippery slope when you're talking about how healthy do
Speaker 1: you have to be to play? And if I'm healthy
Speaker 1: enough to play, I gotta play because I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a long offseason. Slippery slope's the keyword. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: forty eight inches. It's not on Saturday, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be below zero on Sunday, right, But you know, those
Speaker 1: are the types of conditions you expect this late in
Speaker 1: the season, especially on the Lake Front. It's unpredictable, and
Speaker 1: for what these players were prepared to go with in Seattle, Listen, man,
Speaker 1: I respect their desire and their ability to go out
Speaker 1: and play as well as they did under the balance
Speaker 1: of the game. In Seattle, Jason Peters remained limited at
Speaker 1: that ankle. So what do you think they'll do at
Speaker 1: the tackles. You know, I think that if Larry Boram
Speaker 1: is healthy, they'll probably play him a right tackle, and
Speaker 1: if Tevin is healthy, they'll probably play him at left tackle.
Speaker 1: I've always let it be known that I wish they
Speaker 1: would flip flop and give Larry Borum an opportunity to
Speaker 1: play left tackle at home, in Tevin Jenkins to play
Speaker 1: right tackle at home, because I think you'd see a
Speaker 1: more well balanced, powerful offensive lineman because they can hear
Speaker 1: the commands of the quarterback. What did you think of
Speaker 1: Larry's performance at left tackle in Seattle. I think he
Speaker 1: did a great job. Little notification, he was mentally prepared
Speaker 1: to understand the assignments and his protections. Accordingly, he went
Speaker 1: out there and he played the position again. And it's
Speaker 1: always about balance when you talk about offensive tackles, because
Speaker 1: the first thing they do if you get off a
Speaker 1: balance and your beat. Larry Boram, like I said, he
Speaker 1: was mentally prepared, physically prepared. The second series they said,
Speaker 1: look and Tevin's not gonna play anymore, and thinking you're
Speaker 1: gonna play right tackle, boom you're in at left. I
Speaker 1: just shows you you know some of what Larry Boram's
Speaker 1: all about. Wide receiver Marquis good Win under the weather,
Speaker 1: JP Holtel for personal reasons today Duke Shelley didn't practice yesterday,
Speaker 1: back as a full participant today up at Hallis Hall.
Speaker 1: Also hearing from commit the Bears. Tight End asked a
Speaker 1: lot about what's next here in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 1: why does it matter if the team's out of the
Speaker 1: playoff mix? Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously from the outside,
Speaker 1: you know we're not making the playoffs, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, what's the point. But these these
Speaker 1: games mean a lot, you know for me, you know specifically,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a young player in the league, and
Speaker 1: you know this is two more two more games, eight
Speaker 1: more quarters that I get to play and see more
Speaker 1: stuff and you know, kind of build on some things
Speaker 1: and try some things. You know, these last couple of
Speaker 1: games and you know, everyone's playing for a job here.
Speaker 1: You know this is not um. You know, we're just
Speaker 1: not gonna let, you know, settle down. Guys are not
Speaker 1: just gonna settle down here at the end. Like you know,
Speaker 1: guys are playing for jobs, future jobs. You know, what
Speaker 1: you put on tape matters. So that's something that's that's big,
Speaker 1: and you know that's why you're always gonna see players
Speaker 1: fight hard to the end because you know this means
Speaker 1: a lot to us, and guys want to keep playing,
Speaker 1: and you know the way they do that is put
Speaker 1: a good film out there. I expect that from a
Speaker 1: young player. I'm certain there's some veteran players feel the
Speaker 1: same way because of the uncertainty of their future years.
Speaker 1: And we'll hear from David Montgomery here in a moment. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're at on how things how
Speaker 1: they play out here the rest of twenty one, if
Speaker 1: they bridge in the twenty twenty two, I'm less and
Speaker 1: less thinking that way because you just got to finish
Speaker 1: your season strong, because you don't know you're you're a
Speaker 1: different player the next year. You're either an older player
Speaker 1: or a younger player getting better or trying to make
Speaker 1: it to that next step in your development. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: when you're talking about some of the guys, you're mentioning
Speaker 1: what the Cole commits and the David Montgomery and a
Speaker 1: lot of these other young guys of Khalil Herbert's and
Speaker 1: stuff and the roster, I mean, the they have to
Speaker 1: have a they want to be a dominant position at
Speaker 1: their player, especially if you're Cole or Dave Montgomery and
Speaker 1: you have such high expectations place on you and you
Speaker 1: can never take a game lightheartedly. You're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1: You can never not go out and prepare to play
Speaker 1: against the team you're not very familiar with the giants,
Speaker 1: else you'll look bad doing so. I'm glad Cole has
Speaker 1: the attitude he has, and I hope a lot of
Speaker 1: the young guys share that same attitude. One of them
Speaker 1: is running back David Montgomery. It carries you feel a
Speaker 1: whole lot better knowing that you've got a possibility to
Speaker 1: win the next two games and actually doing that. It
Speaker 1: means a lot going to the next season, just to
Speaker 1: show like our capabilities and what we capable of being
Speaker 1: able to do that. So it means a lot to
Speaker 1: me from my stupoint. So for him, he he does
Speaker 1: feel little bridge to next year. Listen, David Montgomery does
Speaker 1: never have to go up to a podium and tell
Speaker 1: us how important it is to it. It's reflected in
Speaker 1: every one of his games, and I know whether it's
Speaker 1: the first game of the year or down to the
Speaker 1: wire like it is at this portion of the season.
Speaker 1: Dave Montgomery's gonna play hard, you know. It's it's really
Speaker 1: it's something to watch him play. He catches the ball well,
Speaker 1: he runs, he blocks everything that you need. It's required
Speaker 1: out of a Champion Division winning style running get back
Speaker 1: Daved Montgomery has that. I don't know if you notice this,
Speaker 1: uh last five weeks, the top receiving running back in
Speaker 1: the National Football League is David Montgomery one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty six yards. He's been targeted thirty one times more
Speaker 1: than any other back and twenty six receptions. That was
Speaker 1: not the case before these last five weeks. Than right,
Speaker 1: I think it's just earned the coaches understanding that. Look,
Speaker 1: if we played you know, in the last couple of games,
Speaker 1: he's had a couple of catches out of wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He's had a lot of them out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: He runs screens really well, So you know, David David
Speaker 1: Montgomery is the type of guy that if you do
Speaker 1: split him out of a wide receiver, he can be
Speaker 1: part of your target rotation of the play. Last heard
Speaker 1: Matt Nagee on Wednesday of this week talking about how
Speaker 1: this team is looking at these final two games as well.
Speaker 1: After the win in Seattle. When you when you're losing
Speaker 1: games like we like we were, you just we always
Speaker 1: talk about just get that win, just get that one win,
Speaker 1: and sometimes if you just focus on that one win,
Speaker 1: it never comes you gotta just focus on execution and
Speaker 1: playing well. And I think that for us, like just
Speaker 1: coming into the building the next day or flying home
Speaker 1: that night like that, that's why we do what we
Speaker 1: do to be able to win the game together, because
Speaker 1: we did all three phases. So that helps. Now now
Speaker 1: we understand, Okay, they're going to give us two games.
Speaker 1: You have to play. We know we can't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Now let's finish strong. Let's let's let's show everybody who
Speaker 1: we are. And even when things aren't easy or things
Speaker 1: aren't great, we still finish and no one can take
Speaker 1: that away from us. And I think that that speaks
Speaker 1: to the character of players and futures and so that
Speaker 1: that's why we're doing what we're doing. And I think
Speaker 1: the players have done an amazing job of accepting that
Speaker 1: and wanting to do it and then they show it.
Speaker 1: They don't just talk about it and then not do
Speaker 1: it on game day. They're doing that, and the coaches
Speaker 1: are coaching hard. And when that's the case, I'd rather
Speaker 1: much have it that way than a team that just
Speaker 1: decides the fold up shop and not play the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. Have you been at teams who did
Speaker 1: it the other way. Did you feel, guys ever did that? Unfortunately? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You did? Unfortunately. Yeah. You know, that's the worst thing
Speaker 1: when it starts to to trade the locker room, no
Speaker 1: matter what part of it is during the losing season,
Speaker 1: it's almost unrecoverable. But you know, one thing you can
Speaker 1: think about these guys right now, and you think about
Speaker 1: the length of time that we spend up there during
Speaker 1: trading cap those guys probably spend you know, sixty hours
Speaker 1: a week between the multiple practices, the weightlifting, the meetings
Speaker 1: and everything. Jeff, right now, we're looking for three hours
Speaker 1: a week, two times three hours a week. Can you
Speaker 1: guys in that locker room commit that three hours a
Speaker 1: week after everything else. You gotta be able to do that.
Speaker 1: Coming up next DA's Newsom joins US Bears wide receiver
Speaker 1: and punt returner with Tom Fair Jeff Joniac. This is
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Speaker 1: wide receiver and punt returner and all around funny man.
Speaker 1: As we're learning Daz Newsome UNC, that blue shure didn't
Speaker 1: look good on you in college, Dads time there, Jeff
Speaker 1: Joni act, But navy blue and orange looks better. What
Speaker 1: do you think, hey, man? I can't I can't disagree
Speaker 1: with you. There heck of a punt return last week? Buddy?
Speaker 1: Did that just give you some juice? Or honestly, honestly
Speaker 1: it was. It was just like I've been waiting on
Speaker 1: my opportunity. I had to make some shake and I
Speaker 1: was just trying my best to do some of my opportunity.
Speaker 1: What does that do for you? I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like it gives you more confidence. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean I always have confidence. I feel like you can't
Speaker 1: play this sport or this position without confidence. So I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like I just feel like it
Speaker 1: just gave me more confidence than that I can really
Speaker 1: do this thing. Hey, Dads, to the cribon three to
Speaker 1: the cribon? Made is that something that? I mean? Did
Speaker 1: you make that up? Did you learn it or I
Speaker 1: from I got that from a coach at UNC. It
Speaker 1: was a tight end coach Coach Chaid. Coach Chail. I
Speaker 1: got that from Coach Chaid when I was in you
Speaker 1: want to see my freshman and sophomore year, and every
Speaker 1: time he would get the return of you would I
Speaker 1: never heard nobody said. He always say to the crib
Speaker 1: on me to the crib one three before we bring
Speaker 1: and then then he left out of my sophomore year
Speaker 1: or what we got a new staff then, and so
Speaker 1: so I just I just kept the thing going by myself.
Speaker 1: I like it. Hey, Dad, So you know, I was
Speaker 1: kind of I was reading about Yeah, so you went
Speaker 1: to college as a dB, you went to a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: You're obviously a super talented guy. You got receiving skills,
Speaker 1: and it kind of reminds me of Devin Hester because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of similarities in your background and what
Speaker 1: he became in the NFL and your multi level of talents.
Speaker 1: So if you would have stuck with dB, could you
Speaker 1: play dB? First of all? Honestly? I think so. I
Speaker 1: think I think I was a better d be honestly,
Speaker 1: but I ain't playing this so long. I'm probably a
Speaker 1: little I mean, I can't say I ain't playing this
Speaker 1: so long, but I'm probably a little rusty now and
Speaker 1: as as then I would have been if I would
Speaker 1: have just stayed I focused straightly on dB. But I
Speaker 1: feel like I was a better be But I got
Speaker 1: switched before I before I even got to school. You
Speaker 1: know the other night the other day at Seattle, it
Speaker 1: was snow and so hard during the pregame. How does
Speaker 1: that affect your site? Is it easy to follow the
Speaker 1: football because it's brown against the white background? Or are
Speaker 1: you having snow flakes hit you in the eyes while
Speaker 1: you're kind of focusing I'm the downward flight of the football,
Speaker 1: um so. And in the beginning of the game, I
Speaker 1: was having this conversation with my teammates and I was saying,
Speaker 1: like when I came into the locker my littles, that
Speaker 1: they took my vays off and me, I played with
Speaker 1: my vays and do anything unless I can't see, And
Speaker 1: like you're like usually rain like rain, like usually I
Speaker 1: can't see very well, so I take it off. But snow,
Speaker 1: I know, and snow, I can still see my vas on.
Speaker 1: So I'm telling you put my vas back on. And
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see how it was. And then
Speaker 1: when I went out there for one most without my helmet,
Speaker 1: it's snow getting all in my ass. I can be
Speaker 1: able to see. So I put my vags on. It
Speaker 1: was so much clear and so just like all the
Speaker 1: snow flakes hit my VADs social name, it ain't bother
Speaker 1: me as much. And then you know, some of the deflacancy.
Speaker 1: It just turned into like so I got to like
Speaker 1: a water drop, right. I feel like the shield helped
Speaker 1: me out a lot. Yea as newsom our guest here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventies,
Speaker 1: score the most logical question, then the follow up PiZZ it.
Speaker 1: Have you ever played in snow before? Nah? So that
Speaker 1: was the first time. Yeah, that was the first time.
Speaker 1: Did you like it? It was fun? It was definitely
Speaker 1: fun because I felt like I felt like it made
Speaker 1: everybody's slow down. It made the game or slower interesting.
Speaker 1: Khalil Herbert also, I'd never played in snow. Got to
Speaker 1: kick out of it. But now a whole different thing.
Speaker 1: Expected to be blow zero wind chills on Sunday. You
Speaker 1: down with that? I gotta down anything. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: a You gotta adjust, right, you have to. You have
Speaker 1: to mentally embrace it. Now times the old offensive Lineman.
Speaker 1: So he went out there with uh, you know, no, no,
Speaker 1: no undershirts or anything like that, just froze it out up.
Speaker 1: But you do have to mentally get it there, and
Speaker 1: then when you answer that question, I have time tell
Speaker 1: you how to do that. But so the thing about
Speaker 1: the cold, I feel like, at first I used to
Speaker 1: never play with sleeves, but in the last game, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm man had to put some sleeves on
Speaker 1: the day. I'm like, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: tug it in the snow without know sleeves. It made,
Speaker 1: you know, it made me cold when I saw David
Speaker 1: Montgomery go down for the snow angel after his score,
Speaker 1: because I, you know, cold or warm, I sweat equally
Speaker 1: as much. And so I was thinking, man, having that
Speaker 1: back up against that cold. Ye, no thanks David. Yeah
Speaker 1: I won't. I won't doing the snow flake with him.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about that one. Hey, hey, dads.
Speaker 1: So when we go back to OTAs, you were kind
Speaker 1: of the most noticeable wide, the most noticeable rookie of
Speaker 1: the bunch. It seemed like you were developing a really
Speaker 1: good relationship early on with Justin and then unfortunately you
Speaker 1: had the episode where you broke your collar bone. With
Speaker 1: the broken collar bone, did it give you a chance
Speaker 1: to catch up mentally or um? You know what? How
Speaker 1: did you go about your business and improving even though
Speaker 1: you weren't on the field all. Honestly, my biggest thing
Speaker 1: was I was just trying to make sure I'm where
Speaker 1: everybody else is within the playbook while I'm out. Some
Speaker 1: of my biggest thing was just trying to get get
Speaker 1: the mental reps. And I would say it was definitely
Speaker 1: tougher because I'm more of a I'm more of a
Speaker 1: learned as I do type of person. Then then then
Speaker 1: somebody telling me and then I have to go do it.
Speaker 1: But it was definitely more of a mental thing. But
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like once I, once I
Speaker 1: got back out there and just got a little quick
Speaker 1: fluid things, I feel like I was getting I was
Speaker 1: definitely coming along real good. So now let's move. Let's
Speaker 1: advance like five months and you've been around just in
Speaker 1: a bunch. Why did you guys initially have an immediate
Speaker 1: relationship with each other and what do you think the
Speaker 1: potential is? You know, there this relationship between the two
Speaker 1: of you young guys you know that could be doing
Speaker 1: it here for a decade long time to come. Um,
Speaker 1: I think I think from one we just both came in.
Speaker 1: We came in. We both came in hungry. Honestly like him,
Speaker 1: he came in when he dropped the four team. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he wasn't expecting that. I went in sixth round.
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that. So we really just both just
Speaker 1: came in here with the hunger. When we're trying to fool,
Speaker 1: you go wrong. And I feel like that's what's just
Speaker 1: gonna hold us to be great within these next couple
Speaker 1: of years. Just so I'm still trying to poof go all.
Speaker 1: There's always a bunch of those guys in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there were in college two guys that
Speaker 1: thought they'd be recruited by bigger schools or whatnot. But
Speaker 1: there's a growing bunch on this team. Man, I think
Speaker 1: you know who they are. I mean, Cula Herbert's definitely
Speaker 1: one of them, Montgomery's definitely one of them. Justin Johnson's
Speaker 1: definitely one of them. I'm sure Cole Comett feels that
Speaker 1: way as well. Justin I'm sure feels that way as well.
Speaker 1: Do you do you hear that from them? Blown Nichols,
Speaker 1: is do they talk about you guys talk about it?
Speaker 1: Do you guys you know, break it down that way?
Speaker 1: Or is this just each individual's personal journey? Um, what
Speaker 1: do you mean as in as in chip on the shoulder,
Speaker 1: chip on the chip on? I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like it's personal and it's a team thing.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like I feel like for you to
Speaker 1: for you to feel that way, you gotta feel it
Speaker 1: personally before you feel it as a team because because
Speaker 1: you know, it's always gonna be a chip on on
Speaker 1: your team's shoulder, like people are always gonna say you're
Speaker 1: not this, You're not that. So so I feel like
Speaker 1: a team is always gonna chip. But but you have
Speaker 1: to have a chip individually for you to get the
Speaker 1: job done. Because coach was saying the other day, you
Speaker 1: were saying, if you get better individually, it's gonna make
Speaker 1: the whole team better. What coach told you that, I
Speaker 1: cannot remember. I cannot remember. I think it. We don't
Speaker 1: know if it was furry or if I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was coach tags or I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was nagged. It was probably all three. It was
Speaker 1: one of the three, one of the things. And you're
Speaker 1: the son of a coach. So your dad played in
Speaker 1: the college at Virginia Tech, played in the Canadian Football League,
Speaker 1: he played in NFL Europe, and he was an assistant
Speaker 1: coach on your high school team at a very prominent
Speaker 1: athletically gifted area of the country in Virginia. What your
Speaker 1: dad's name, Myron correct? Yeah. What were your dad's best
Speaker 1: teaching points to you throughout you growing up and what
Speaker 1: did he instill in you as a football player and
Speaker 1: as a man. I feel like he is still he
Speaker 1: is still like like the dog and stuff like they
Speaker 1: never backed down to never get out work. My dad
Speaker 1: he very very hard and never getting our work. So
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like that that's something that
Speaker 1: he installed me as a young age and really just
Speaker 1: just me going to get it. My dad, my dad,
Speaker 1: he's a He's a very hard worker. He always had
Speaker 1: like three jobs and told two jobs at leagues, so
Speaker 1: so he just always been a hard worker to go
Speaker 1: get out Just feel like I feel like he is
Speaker 1: still he installed that part very good. And hey, dads,
Speaker 1: when you look at the length of this season after
Speaker 1: coming off of college season. You know, there's it's a
Speaker 1: big challenge to young guys that don't realize that you're
Speaker 1: going to go through a preseason then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the season starts and you're gonna God, after eleven
Speaker 1: regular season games, I'm usually done by now, but I
Speaker 1: got almost a whole season left. How how has that
Speaker 1: been on you? Is that something your dad kind of
Speaker 1: told you? How this the length of the season was
Speaker 1: gonna go along with you because it's only the first
Speaker 1: year that you know, you kind of learned that lesson.
Speaker 1: But how is how has that been on you? The
Speaker 1: toll of the length of the season. Um, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been pretty fun to me, honestly. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a football fonetic. I love a bit around the game.
Speaker 1: But um, it definitely has been a long, very longer
Speaker 1: than than us with it. But my dad, I mean
Speaker 1: not only my dad told me about it, but I
Speaker 1: have an uncle. I have an uncle that works for
Speaker 1: the NFLPA eight. So he also told me about how
Speaker 1: long the season is and just just making sure I
Speaker 1: take care of my body. And he was just telling
Speaker 1: me just just how to be a prol He just said,
Speaker 1: going there, he said watch, guys, that a is a pro.
Speaker 1: He said, watch guys, that's that's not so what and
Speaker 1: he just said take the good things and and basically
Speaker 1: put him to use. What about so when you watch
Speaker 1: that ninety seven yard punt returned by Jachim were you're
Speaker 1: blown away that he caught it. And now they've had
Speaker 1: a couple of opportunities to have some really impressive punt returns.
Speaker 1: To yourself, you know, if you think about that line,
Speaker 1: that five yard line, you know, don't don't catch it
Speaker 1: if it's gonna go beyond five, or you gotta see
Speaker 1: what you gotta see, like your vision on the punt
Speaker 1: return on your twenty eight yard or I think it
Speaker 1: was immediate vision by you that you saw where your
Speaker 1: opening was gonna go and you took advantage of it.
Speaker 1: So about Jachim on the ninety seven yard or and
Speaker 1: then your twenty eight yard or is it all vision? Jachim? Jachim,
Speaker 1: he just that's this what he does. Return that prometary
Speaker 1: is what Jakim does, and he's really good at it.
Speaker 1: So he just he finds a way I don't know
Speaker 1: how he does it, but he finds a way to
Speaker 1: get open or to get himself open day to get
Speaker 1: out of here. But me, I definitely have some more
Speaker 1: work to do within punt return. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: all in having a feel for He's been doing them
Speaker 1: about probably like fast years now, so he got he
Speaker 1: got a pretty good feel for. So I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like the more the more graphs I do,
Speaker 1: I get to go feel for and know what I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be, know where I was supposed to be
Speaker 1: hitting at at Dad's Newsome, our guests here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access. Time to step away, another segment to go
Speaker 1: with the Bears rookie wide Receiver and punt returner. This
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Speaker 1: Bears rookie and a rookie class that is really looking
Speaker 1: bright in the future. I know you spent a ton
Speaker 1: of time with Thomas Graham. Obviously, you guys, the patients
Speaker 1: must have been difficult to wait on that practice squad
Speaker 1: to get your opportunity. And do you feel that you know,
Speaker 1: you can't feel pressure or you can't want to do
Speaker 1: too much when you get the opportunity because something might backfire.
Speaker 1: But what was it like because you guys were college
Speaker 1: stars and now waiting for your opportunity and now you're
Speaker 1: getting it. Oh honestly, um coming in when it first happened, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I was in love with love
Speaker 1: hurt when it first happened. But but I talked, I
Speaker 1: talked to my agents on They just told me going
Speaker 1: there and work hard, work hard, and practice and this
Speaker 1: saw them basically just saw him this song that it
Speaker 1: was a mistake. And I'm that That's what I did.
Speaker 1: I just put my head down, practice grind every day
Speaker 1: and I made you trying to make sure I get
Speaker 1: myself better every day. So when it's tied me to
Speaker 1: go out there, that I was prepared. And when I
Speaker 1: when I went out there, I felt I so you
Speaker 1: know that you like crack collar bones, certainly set your back.
Speaker 1: It probably that that's what did it? Would you say, uh, I,
Speaker 1: I would say I would definitely say that's part of it.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't blame it all on that, but
Speaker 1: I would definitely say I had a big part. What
Speaker 1: would you say is your biggest strength as a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I think I think to make people miss. When I
Speaker 1: got the ball in my hands, man, you did that,
Speaker 1: Aladdin Cottage? Man? That was that some special stuff out
Speaker 1: of the slot. Tommy. You know, guys, I was drafted
Speaker 1: in the fourth round and I've been bitter ever since
Speaker 1: that time. And I know what you So, what what
Speaker 1: was your goal like when you got drafted? Hey, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter where you Once you get drafted, you get drafted.
Speaker 1: You got You have equal opportunity as anybody else that
Speaker 1: got drafted above you. And you see some of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers that are already out of the league that
Speaker 1: were drafted in front of you. But what was what
Speaker 1: type of motivated the factor was that for you to
Speaker 1: make sure that you were prepared as we saw you
Speaker 1: were prepared the first day you showed up at OTAs
Speaker 1: Um Light Like I said that, I went, I've seen
Speaker 1: a kicker go before me, so that my mindset was
Speaker 1: on one thing, was approved everybody wrong and really just
Speaker 1: grind And I feel like for you to do that
Speaker 1: you have to believe me yourself. I had to work
Speaker 1: ahead to make sure that I believed in myself that
Speaker 1: I was going when I go out it, I was
Speaker 1: gonna be confident to go do what I gotta do,
Speaker 1: And a lot of a lot of my games is
Speaker 1: about confidence. You know, are there any other other wide
Speaker 1: receivers that you pay attention to, Because I gotta say,
Speaker 1: being in the same division with Davante Adams, I tell
Speaker 1: you I'm so impressed with the guy and his focus
Speaker 1: and his attention to detail, his ability to survive when
Speaker 1: he's such a high targeted guy as everybody else is lower.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody that you paid attention to throughout your
Speaker 1: time knowing that you're gonna come to the NFL to
Speaker 1: try to take something away from what you see on video. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna big Stefan dis guy. I like. I like
Speaker 1: his to attit too. What I like how how you
Speaker 1: come to the work and I feel I feel like
Speaker 1: he gets the job done, no matter no matter what.
Speaker 1: He's not the fastest guy. He's not the quickest guy,
Speaker 1: but you get it done. Also, looking at guys in
Speaker 1: the slot, I know you did work on guys like
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, you work on Amari Cooper? Have you picked
Speaker 1: up anything that serves you well here? Yeah? Like like like,
Speaker 1: I definitely I definitely took a took a little out
Speaker 1: of bad from Cooper Cup. I definitely watched Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: cut up that definitely had to get some of his
Speaker 1: moves out of the bag. Can you that guy? He
Speaker 1: could he could be a triple crown guy. Touchdowns, receiving yards, catches.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's nice. He's definitely nice player. I see
Speaker 1: a lot of players that we've talked over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks kind of have a little bit of their
Speaker 1: own product lines. Are you in line for that? Number one? Because,
Speaker 1: like I said, you got the best name in the NFL?
Speaker 1: And number two is are any of these guys giving
Speaker 1: you any swagged uh kind of you know, either promote
Speaker 1: their product or just kind of kind of get a
Speaker 1: look at what they're dealing. Um sure, I mean, what's
Speaker 1: his name on Markey's Markey's good when good? When he
Speaker 1: gave me he gave me some socks on his brand,
Speaker 1: Sir Herbert Herbert. I gotta called him Sherbert. I called
Speaker 1: him Sherby, but but Sherbert, he he stands, he stands
Speaker 1: you with his stuff. You know, he ain't trying to
Speaker 1: spread the love. He ain't trying to spread the love
Speaker 1: right now. But I'm gonna get one. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: one from soon. How about money. Mooney's got a line, Yeah,
Speaker 1: morning outline. Moone ain't give me nice. He didn't give
Speaker 1: me nine eighty that. I wanted to take some of
Speaker 1: its big too. But we need to start. We need
Speaker 1: to start a double Z something. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I would want to do though, Like like am
Speaker 1: I am I gonna do a clothes like what type
Speaker 1: of blue? Well? You know, I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like when I telled out, I got to be different,
Speaker 1: soil I found something different. Hey, it might be food.
Speaker 1: We know you brought that up to the media back
Speaker 1: back when they first met your training camp. You wanted
Speaker 1: food ideas. Uh, how are you rolling with that? By
Speaker 1: the way, because I understand you don't really stock your
Speaker 1: refrigerator much. Yeah, I ain't really a cooking guy, but
Speaker 1: I hadn't been to a couple of good good players
Speaker 1: Bennie Hondas. But that's one one place I go to
Speaker 1: about at least twice a week. I go to Bennie
Speaker 1: hand about twice and we gonna beat your pot le
Speaker 1: guy las everywhere? Though, Um what did I have that was?
Speaker 1: How good? It was? The maple and ash. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all that Jeff's place that's good or other place I've
Speaker 1: been through. That was a girl they got. They got
Speaker 1: this one place out here called grid Le twenty four.
Speaker 1: It's twenty four. It's like waff whelps. You're still working
Speaker 1: that waffle house angle here? Yeah, it's like but they
Speaker 1: got wings. In the interesting Das tell us again, Tom
Speaker 1: asked you in the break, uh, the original aspect of
Speaker 1: your name Dads with two Zi's where to start? Who
Speaker 1: came up with it? And why? Um? My dad, My
Speaker 1: dad came up with it. And it came from a
Speaker 1: ripper named Dads. He was in He was in Snoop
Speaker 1: Doggs back in the day. I don't know what it
Speaker 1: was called, whatever it was called, but his name is
Speaker 1: Dads with onesie and my dad I guess he liked
Speaker 1: the name, but he won. Dad. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it's a it's a it's a good name. And
Speaker 1: you know, people, that's the thing about it. People only
Speaker 1: need to hear it once. Yeah, and and they remember
Speaker 1: from other I like I said, it could be like
Speaker 1: a Devin. We might have the next Devon and the
Speaker 1: dads and Jeff was the one that gave Devin uh
Speaker 1: Devin Hester that you are ridiculous where it followed him
Speaker 1: for the rest of his career and hopefully into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. What you know, you just gotta do
Speaker 1: something crazy, gotta do something great out of the field,
Speaker 1: right and you never know what pops out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: A couple of quick hitters and they will let you go.
Speaker 1: Favorite food, what is it? Gotta give me one, Just
Speaker 1: give me one. I'm not to go. Macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 1: Can't go wrong there. As you told us or your
Speaker 1: mom said, you slept in your uniform before games when
Speaker 1: you're a little tight, you're supporting. Are you wearing the
Speaker 1: jersey to bed? Nah? I don't get a number. I
Speaker 1: thought again, too hot. I thought it got too hot.
Speaker 1: I woke up sweat and so I stopped doing it.
Speaker 1: It was really the socks. I had to realize I
Speaker 1: had to stop putting the long socks on, but to
Speaker 1: go to bed in but I had to sleep in
Speaker 1: my pants. That that was just the thing. Love of
Speaker 1: the game right there lastly, and then we'll let you go.
Speaker 1: We're down the Giants. What are you expected on the
Speaker 1: second team to come in and play hard? And I'm
Speaker 1: expecting us to come in and do our thing. All
Speaker 1: right with that, Let's have a big old to the
Speaker 1: crib on three ready to us now to send us
Speaker 1: out to break all right, to the cribon meat to
Speaker 1: the crebon three, one two three, There we go, Das Newsom,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, brother, Good luck on Sunday. Good
Speaker 1: luck there, Tom and Ivey back. We'll talk Giants after
Speaker 1: this break. On Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears All
Speaker 1: Access and brought to you by Igs Energy. Tom, who
Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna quarterback the Giants? They're not
Speaker 1: saying just yet. You're picking from Mike Glennon and Jake
Speaker 1: from right now, Daniel Jones. If fans don't know it
Speaker 1: out for the year after a neck injury, So that
Speaker 1: happened a few weeks ago. From started last week he
Speaker 1: got yank during the game. Yeah, you know that's unfortunate
Speaker 1: because I was kind of hoping he did well and
Speaker 1: I would like to see him again. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I know what Mike Glennon offers the Giants and their
Speaker 1: supporting cast. We played against them, The Bears played against
Speaker 1: them last year in Jacksonville, so I think they really
Speaker 1: have a chance to get at him. But I'd like
Speaker 1: to see from get the opportunity to play again, just
Speaker 1: because you like to see how a player or rebound mentally.
Speaker 1: You know, physically, they have the qualifications, but nothing like
Speaker 1: getting yanked from a game and then when you go
Speaker 1: back in, am I up to the grade of what
Speaker 1: they expect? All right, Well, whoever's in there, Robert Quinn's
Speaker 1: going quarterback hunting one more and they'll pass Richard Dent
Speaker 1: for the Bear single season record. That would be eighteen sacks.
Speaker 1: He's got seventeen right now. He's had sacks and seven
Speaker 1: straight games, eleven and a half sacks over that period
Speaker 1: of time. And you weren't a Bear in eighty four,
Speaker 1: you are baron eighty five. But Richard did the same thing.
Speaker 1: He had three sacks in his rookie year, played sixteen games,
Speaker 1: but he only started a few, and he had a
Speaker 1: big surge at the end, and then eighty five he
Speaker 1: tore it up again with seventeen more and six in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But he also had three in the playoff
Speaker 1: game against Washington in that eighty four playoffs season as well.
Speaker 1: And just reeked Havoc on quarterbacks, Robert Quinn's doing this,
Speaker 1: but he's doing it in ways that are impressive, sean
Speaker 1: to say, because he's doing everything well right now. You know,
Speaker 1: his approach in the offseason, like I've said repeatedly, has
Speaker 1: been awesome. His practice habits, uh, every day are awesome.
Speaker 1: His meeting demeanor, he's uh, you know, he's bought into
Speaker 1: the way we want to play defense. Uh, and he's
Speaker 1: done a tremendous job of doing that, you know, And
Speaker 1: for a guy that's a ten plus year VET to
Speaker 1: be able to do that is a credit to him
Speaker 1: that he's still looking to grow and still looking to improve.
Speaker 1: And I think I agree with you. I think on
Speaker 1: all facets, uh, he's had a tremendous year. And then
Speaker 1: on the sack record, means something to Quinn. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how it wouldn't be uh, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: And I know he's he's a humble guy, and we
Speaker 1: all want the wins first, right, you're in this you're
Speaker 1: in this sport to win as a team. Uh. And
Speaker 1: so that's still our primary focus as we go into
Speaker 1: the Giants game. And and if he gets it, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it'll be meaningful. Will he be meaningful in
Speaker 1: that moment? I don't know, you know, I think that
Speaker 1: like like like you know, anytime these guys set records
Speaker 1: and things like that, there's a time and place for
Speaker 1: them to be able to reflect on it. And he'll
Speaker 1: have that for the rest of his life to be
Speaker 1: able to reflect on that. How you feel about it
Speaker 1: all big time? You know, you think about Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: has done since the beginning of the year to the
Speaker 1: end of the year. You know, his first sack came
Speaker 1: with a nice combination stunt between he and Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: In these recent games, he's had multiple sacks with stunts
Speaker 1: involving Blial Nichols. So Robert Quinn, he's not only getting
Speaker 1: himself better, but he's bringing teammates along with them, and
Speaker 1: his skill is so impressive on his ability to adjust
Speaker 1: his body weight, move his momentum, explode off the ball,
Speaker 1: get an understanding of the staff count, and then have
Speaker 1: a result in sacking some of the more creative quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the league. I thought it was interesting when I
Speaker 1: did that feature on him. He said, because he's pigeon,
Speaker 1: Tony thinks he's got tremendous ankle flection. Right. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: if you believe it and it works for you, you
Speaker 1: go with it. Right. I agree, one hundred percent. Whatever
Speaker 1: your assets are, use them to the fullest of your ability.
Speaker 1: Safety Eddie Jackson, you know, he's a high energy guy.
Speaker 1: He keeps having one up. You know, everyone's only sold
Speaker 1: and just to see him having a success he's having
Speaker 1: you know, you know it was you know, it was
Speaker 1: well worth the long overduehot. And say he's a guy
Speaker 1: who comes in you know, he works, he's focused, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And just see him go out
Speaker 1: there making those and sang players, it's it's incredible And
Speaker 1: for us we just want to feed off that and
Speaker 1: get to that, you know, that level, and that's you know,
Speaker 1: bringing us back up to the devil playing like that
Speaker 1: as a whole defense. All right, Eddie Jackson, a Bear
Speaker 1: safety who is basically putting his hand up in the
Speaker 1: air and saying, you know what, I don't mind playing
Speaker 1: nickel nicol slot, kind of likes it. He's mentioned more
Speaker 1: often than not that playing deep in the post or
Speaker 1: playing in the back end of the defense, you don't
Speaker 1: get a lot of activity. They haven't thrown his way
Speaker 1: very much. Hey, he's in the mix every play if
Speaker 1: you play nickel slot. And he says that because of
Speaker 1: his cornerback background in college, it's something he's really really
Speaker 1: adjusting to rather quickly, and what I think is a
Speaker 1: very difficult position. Oh so, I think it's a difficult
Speaker 1: position today also today because you have multiple route variations
Speaker 1: at that's slot receiver can run. But what I think
Speaker 1: I like about Eddie Jackson and the matching the safety
Speaker 1: background with corner experience in the slot is you play
Speaker 1: a lot closer to the line of scrimmage. You can
Speaker 1: be more involved in stopping the running game and maybe
Speaker 1: even a couple creative blitzes here and there. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if he expands this role, you never know the variety
Speaker 1: of things the defense can use with them, and Temmy
Speaker 1: word out at Devin Hester is a finalist, one of
Speaker 1: the fifteen for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. One
Speaker 1: step closer to Canton for Devin Hester. You know, it's
Speaker 1: amazing and I think about Devin Hester and I think
Speaker 1: about Charles Tillman, because Devin Hester is often referred to
Speaker 1: in this NFL. When you see great kickoff and punt returners,
Speaker 1: and then when you go out and you see the
Speaker 1: number of times throughout the course of a Pro football
Speaker 1: weekend that the peanut punch is used. It's amazing the
Speaker 1: impact of Devin Hester and Charles Tillman have had on
Speaker 1: the league in just how they're constantly talked about and
Speaker 1: when you see other people reflect what they were able
Speaker 1: to do. Tom This was a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: we did an interview with Devin Ester about his chances
Speaker 1: to go to the Hall of Fame. What I did
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. It's not whether or not
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it to the Hall of Fame. Is
Speaker 1: it would be embarrassing if I don't get first ballot.
Speaker 1: And that's how I feel about it right now. You know,
Speaker 1: when I sit back and I think about it, everything
Speaker 1: I accomplished you know, for us return game, it's not
Speaker 1: so much will I make it? I know, deep down
Speaker 1: the side of the thanks that I didn't feel it's
Speaker 1: no question for me. It's will I be a first ballot?
Speaker 1: And that's my question, and Honsty, I do feel like
Speaker 1: I should be a first We'll see if he gets there.
Speaker 1: He's a top fifteen Modern era finalists for the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame today, even that's an accomplishment, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. It's a great recognition of how great he
Speaker 1: was and how talented at this level he is. But
Speaker 1: I think you have to take in consideration the other
Speaker 1: guys that are in that top fifteen class. What were
Speaker 1: they able to accomplish and what type of careers do
Speaker 1: they have? So if Devin did not make it on
Speaker 1: the first opportunity to make it, it would be no
Speaker 1: insult to him when he does get into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Some of the other ones Andre Jensen, the
Speaker 1: former Houston Texans wide receiver, to Marcus Ware the great
Speaker 1: pass rusher, Patrick Willis, the great inside linebacker, and your
Speaker 1: buddy Sam Millstown the late Sam Mills. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think Devin Hester's name belongs right alongside
Speaker 1: any one of those guys, So I guess he does
Speaker 1: deserve it. And when you there's not probably not a
Speaker 1: lot of people that are familiar with Sam Mills, but
Speaker 1: coming from a small college through the USFL into an
Speaker 1: All Pro linebacker at you know, five to seven and
Speaker 1: a half, you know, he wasn't a huge guy, but
Speaker 1: he was a dominant and dominant player. And Zach Thomas,
Speaker 1: the former Miami Dolphin inside linebacker as well, another small
Speaker 1: inside linebacker. Though Zach Thomas was as intelligent as you
Speaker 1: got in the league, but he was an underside, got
Speaker 1: undersized guy that just had great mental success. All right, Tom,
Speaker 1: let's take a break. We have one more segment to go.
Speaker 1: We'll take a deeper look at the Bears and Giants
Speaker 1: coming up Sunday at Soldier Field. We'll having nine am
Speaker 1: pregame noon kickoff on news radio one oh five nine
Speaker 1: WBBM with Tom There, Jeff Joniac. This is Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: it with Tom There, Jeff Joniac getting a set for
Speaker 1: Bears Giants on Sunday. You know, Darnell Mooney over one
Speaker 1: hundred targets this season. Okay, that's number one. He leads
Speaker 1: the team in twenty plus yard catches. Nobody's close on
Speaker 1: the team. Cole came at his second in single digits.
Speaker 1: He's got fourteen. He's now tied with Alan Robinson for
Speaker 1: third down catches with fourteen. He's had a really good year.
Speaker 1: So he's bearing down on a thousand yards and he's
Speaker 1: also looking at ways in which he's developed. I would
Speaker 1: have to say more of a leader just in my
Speaker 1: room wise, being more vocal and then just trying to
Speaker 1: be as best as a playmaker as I can for
Speaker 1: the team and give us work whenever there's needed, and
Speaker 1: being there on third downs when there's needed as well.
Speaker 1: Think that run he made against the Seahawks after the
Speaker 1: catch and what he did. I mean, it was brought
Speaker 1: up by Bill Laser to daytime. Immediately going to the
Speaker 1: hashmark hand of the bottle of referee, keeping it going,
Speaker 1: not celebrating the big catch, not going through a bunch
Speaker 1: of historionics, celebrating himself. He just knew what to do
Speaker 1: in that moment, and Laser said that was as impressive
Speaker 1: as anything. Oh yeah, I think when you understand the moment,
Speaker 1: Do you understand how quickly you have to go about
Speaker 1: the process of getting everybody set understand exactly where the
Speaker 1: football is, what hash you're gonna be on, the type
Speaker 1: of personnel you want to include. The process of football
Speaker 1: never stops just because somebody made a great catch in
Speaker 1: a run after you know, when you think about Darnell
Speaker 1: Moody eight hundred and sixty yards receiving out in the year,
Speaker 1: what is the landmark for a wide receiver these days?
Speaker 1: If you're going to be considered in that upper absolote
Speaker 1: when you talk about seventeen games nowadays, So I mean,
Speaker 1: is it eleven hundred yards at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Is that what everybody should be reaching for? Because I'm
Speaker 1: really interested to see what Darnell does with that eight
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards in the final two games, right exactly.
Speaker 1: And you know, being a touchdown makers the ultimate goal.
Speaker 1: Obviously touchdowns have been tough to come by for the
Speaker 1: Bears and tough to come by for everybody. But that'll
Speaker 1: be the other gauge of it. How you set up
Speaker 1: scoring drives with your big place Because he's had plenty,
Speaker 1: he's had a lot and you know, you compute, if
Speaker 1: you compute how many big catches some guys make and
Speaker 1: what that leads to on a drive, you're always looking
Speaker 1: at a play or two that are the hook for
Speaker 1: the reason the Bears get in the end zone or
Speaker 1: a team gets in the end zone. So that's something
Speaker 1: you look at as well. But I like the fact
Speaker 1: that as he begins the end of his second year,
Speaker 1: he's thinking himself as a leader, and that's important. It is,
Speaker 1: you know, one thing I like. I like Darnell, and
Speaker 1: since the time he's gotten here, think he's the most
Speaker 1: creative player the Bears have with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: I think he's great in the open field, great around traffic.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to see him carry and sweeps anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't like the type of contact because when Darnell
Speaker 1: Mooney goes in motion, Jeff, because he is such a
Speaker 1: great receiver, that's a high alert of everybody in the
Speaker 1: defensive backfield and near the line of scrimmage that eleven
Speaker 1: is in motion. So then you flip him the ball,
Speaker 1: it's a more physical impact, the more physical conclusion to
Speaker 1: that play. So so I like Darnell within what receiver
Speaker 1: because so many receivers are doing that now. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot. You know, you know Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant who has a role as a returner and is
Speaker 1: explosive in the open field. I think that's the perfect
Speaker 1: type of carry for Jachem Grant. Separate him from defenders
Speaker 1: and let him be that superior speed, creative with Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: when you're talking about it's about touchdowns and then it's
Speaker 1: about getting your offense movie down field. All right. We
Speaker 1: touched down the tackle situation. This is Bill Laser earlier today, Tom.
Speaker 1: What's best for where the rookie tackles where they play.
Speaker 1: For most guys, it helps them to be in one
Speaker 1: spot with consistency. The NFL doesn't always allow that to
Speaker 1: be the case. I've been somewhere before with the rookie
Speaker 1: tackle who we felt really good was improving on the
Speaker 1: right side. Midway through the season, we lost a veteran
Speaker 1: left tackle. We made the decision to move the right,
Speaker 1: the rookie from the right to the left. You know,
Speaker 1: probably if we had gone back, we said, we would
Speaker 1: have said, hey, for this guy this year, the better
Speaker 1: thing would have been to keep him where he was
Speaker 1: because he was playing better on the right than he
Speaker 1: played on the left. But you don't know that when
Speaker 1: you make you know, when you decide to make the move,
Speaker 1: you thought you had a better right tackle to come in,
Speaker 1: you know, and becoming your the old third tackle to
Speaker 1: become the new guy. So you have to weigh all
Speaker 1: those things. So every one like to have one hundred
Speaker 1: percent consistency in their footwork and just playing one spot.
Speaker 1: I would think most guys would say yes, But you know,
Speaker 1: we've got to do what we have to do to
Speaker 1: win this next game. And sometimes that means moving guys around,
Speaker 1: you know. And sometimes it's because we think you can
Speaker 1: move and we think the next best guy to come
Speaker 1: in should go to that side. You know, it isn't
Speaker 1: always just that one person. You're trying kind of dealing
Speaker 1: with the dynamic of the whole line. So that's that's,
Speaker 1: I guess, a very generic but honest way to answer
Speaker 1: the question about moving those guys around. To me, I've
Speaker 1: seen Larry borm At in front of me and put
Speaker 1: it in display during the course of a regular season
Speaker 1: game that the most difficult position to find on an
Speaker 1: offensive line is left tackle. If you have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to cultivate the skills of a player who's already in
Speaker 1: a short amount of time show that he can play
Speaker 1: that position. Then I try to make the future of
Speaker 1: my offensive line with that tackle going to his right.
Speaker 1: And I think still, if you put Tevin in the
Speaker 1: most confident right handed stas that he could be in,
Speaker 1: you know you have the beginnings and the makings of
Speaker 1: an offensive line for the future. And to me, again
Speaker 1: I've been saying it, I start with Larry on the
Speaker 1: left side. All right, let's look at the Giants. What
Speaker 1: sticks out to you. They've won just four games and
Speaker 1: Joe Judge's second season, a lot of injuries. They got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys you don't even know who's playing
Speaker 1: off the COVID list. Sa Quon Barkley hasn't been run
Speaker 1: of the ball as well. Offensive line kind of influx
Speaker 1: left tackles looking pretty good. The defense has some guys
Speaker 1: up front that are tough. You know, initially there is
Speaker 1: a clash of personality between a really serious head coach
Speaker 1: in some of the drills that they put him through
Speaker 1: in training camp, and so you gotta be good to
Speaker 1: capitalize on that type of discipline. In expectations of professional
Speaker 1: athletes at this time, and then they have complete failure
Speaker 1: in the quarterback position that didn't allow sat Quon Barkley
Speaker 1: after he came back from injury, to have a wide
Speaker 1: open offense that people were responsible for space and not
Speaker 1: just attacking the backfield where he was injury. To Kenny Galladay,
Speaker 1: who they brought over there to be a big play
Speaker 1: spark for their their offense. In Evan Ingram the tight end,
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of a guy that has skill
Speaker 1: and ability that's just never really put it together that
Speaker 1: you need for a seventeen game season nowadays, and so
Speaker 1: I think it's a team that's struggling, especially when you
Speaker 1: fire your offensive coordinator about the midway point. It just
Speaker 1: shows you there's kind of dysfunction from the locker room
Speaker 1: that carries to the quarterback position that ultimately hinders the
Speaker 1: process of your football team. Kenny Galladay is still there,
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram, Kyle Rudolph's plenty of weapons for the defense
Speaker 1: to worry about. In on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Ziz Asulary the rookie had of Georgia with eight sacks.
Speaker 1: James Bradbury outstanding getting his hands on the ball, and
Speaker 1: Zavian McKinney, the safety. Second year safety has five interceptions.
Speaker 1: A couple of other notes. Jared Allen, also a semi
Speaker 1: finalist now for the Hall of Fame. A couple of
Speaker 1: coffee with Goods. Yeah, you know, Jared's had a great
Speaker 1: career in Kansas City, in Minnesota. The wounded up with
Speaker 1: the Bears, but he was always a dominant pass rusher
Speaker 1: in the perfect down and distance, and he capitalized on it.
Speaker 1: And you know, he's got a great personality, but half
Speaker 1: a tim And I condolences to the family of Jeff Dickerson,
Speaker 1: who died this week at the age of forty four,
Speaker 1: on the Bears beat for two decades, A good friend
Speaker 1: of ours, a good friend of mine, a year long
Speaker 1: battle with colon cancer, and tom to turn out by
Speaker 1: the Chicago sports community and the National Football League is
Speaker 1: it's really jaw dropping. Nearly eight hundred thousand dollars raised
Speaker 1: for his eleven year old son, who has lost both
Speaker 1: his parents here in the last couple of years. You know,
Speaker 1: I just I think it's such a sign of respect
Speaker 1: for Jeff and everybody feels so bad for their son.
Speaker 1: And however, when you have this outpouring of emotion and
Speaker 1: evidence of it. It's just the way Jeff carried himself.
Speaker 1: He's always been a great reporter. He's always been a
Speaker 1: great guy. He's always got been a guy that's not
Speaker 1: looking for publicity and not being part of the story,
Speaker 1: but just talk about the story. And I couldn't feel
Speaker 1: worse about it. It just it didn't come as a shock,
Speaker 1: but it came as just a sour of surprise because
Speaker 1: of what he has been through recently with his wife.
Speaker 1: Really unbelievable story in many, many regards. But his name
Speaker 1: is certainly going to live on, and Parker will certainly
Speaker 1: know that his parents and Jeff were extremely valued by
Speaker 1: friends in their community and this world of football that
Speaker 1: we live in. Tom and a coaching legend, also passed
Speaker 1: away this week. And John Madden also a broadcasting icon
Speaker 1: and a name familiar to all the gamers out there,
Speaker 1: and Madden football so generationally impacting so many different aspects
Speaker 1: of it, beloved by fans everywhere. How did he affect
Speaker 1: you in anyway as a football But I got to
Speaker 1: tell you, throughout the entire course of my professional career,
Speaker 1: there's been two really giddy things that I've been excited
Speaker 1: for the little kid in me. Is when I first
Speaker 1: time I ever got a football card, I said, oh man,
Speaker 1: I made it because my whole life I remember collecting
Speaker 1: football cards and getting the bubble gum in the football cards,
Speaker 1: and finally I had a football the time I went
Speaker 1: the first time I went on the Madden Cruiser. Because
Speaker 1: you're watching Monday and Night football from the outside looking
Speaker 1: in and thinking, oh my god, if I ever play
Speaker 1: in the NFL, is ever a chance that I would
Speaker 1: play on Monday and Night football and stuff? And so
Speaker 1: when you get the opportunity to be invited inside the
Speaker 1: Madden Cruiser, it's like you're walking into a mini palace
Speaker 1: football royalty because it's only the length of a bus.
Speaker 1: But you're thinking, here's a living room, here's a couple,
Speaker 1: here's a couple of video screens that he watch his
Speaker 1: video on. He's got his driver and his cook and
Speaker 1: his master bedroom and stuff. You know, it's you know,
Speaker 1: that's the little thing about sports, no matter, you know,
Speaker 1: the little things that you remember. And getting a football
Speaker 1: card and going out to the Madden Cruiser, well, I'm
Speaker 1: sure he loved to talk ball, especially with the guys
Speaker 1: up front. So I'm sure you had plenty of conversations
Speaker 1: with him. That's gonna wrap us up piece to him
Speaker 1: and his family as well. For Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us tonight. Thanks to our
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