WEBVTT - Newsome adapting to NFL | All Access 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.120 It's a good old fashioned Bears Giants matchup Sunday at 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.920 Soldier Field. Unfortunately, two teams with a combined nine wins, 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.959 but the flavor of the history not gone unnoticed. This week, 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.639 Jeff Jonahac timp there with you here on Bears All Access. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:14.440 It is brought to you by Ags Energy here on 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.000 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score time, good evening. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:21.720 I don't know if you caught it, but it's the anniversary. Yesterday. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.159 I saw some great photos on Twitter ticket stubs. The 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.360 Bears went at Wrigley Field with the Giants. They destroyed 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.000 y a titled who are Giants fans complaining? How the 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.479 Bears defenders just went at y a tittle And you've 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.680 seen some of those pictures. They abused him in the pocket. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.559 Before forty five plus fourteen ten the final, Larry Morris, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.520 the MVP, Billy waited a couple of short touchdown runs. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.400 The defense allowed just a Frank Gifford touchdown catch and 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.080 a field go on a day they had a four 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.400 degree temperature, eleven degree below zero windshill. Sounds like Sunday 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.440 at Soldier Field. That's what I was gonna say. Hey 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.480 can possibly match up to be at night another great 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.920 Giants Chicago Bears battle and they are historic. We heard 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.440 about him as ex players and if you are a 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.600 Bear kind of a remembrance type of guy, you'll learn 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.960 a lot about the type of battles they had. All Right, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.039 we're gonna be with you here until seven o'clock tonight. Well, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.800 we got coming up Daz Newsom our guests for a 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.080 couple of segments and will break down the Bears and Giants. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.400 Also look at what's transpired over the course of the 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.880 season for several Bears and what might transpire on Sunday. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.280 First thing that comes to mind for me, Tom not 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.000 only the performance of young players. We don't know who 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.240 the quarterback is as of this show. Right now. Today 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.280 at practice, another limited day for Justin Fields, Andy Dalton, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.760 the full go. You know, Nick Foles is ready to 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.000 go if needed. What do you do here? You have 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.039 to play the healthiest of the quarterbacks. The last thing 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:48.560 you want to do is to put one of these 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.080 guys in the conditions that it's gonna be Sunday and possibly, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.840 you know, slow the process of their ability to play 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.559 quarterback and then end up with an injury and that's 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.320 all three of these guys included, but you have to 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.520 start with Justin. If Justin is the healthiest, he's the 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.960 guy that I want to play the most. This was 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.560 earlier this week from Matt Neggie regarding the desire of 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.640 four fields to get on the field. You know, just 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.720 from listening to him talk and where he's at. You know. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.320 The thing with Justin is he's super tough, So we 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.160 have to balance that. We got to make sure that 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.720 he doesn't hurt himself because he's trying to tough through something. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.560 But he's also smart too, and he gets it that 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.000 we have his best interest. So when he has that ability, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.400 it helps. He wants to be out there. He wants 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.520 to be out there for his teammates, He wants to 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.639 be out there to be able to help every way 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.560 he can to help us continue to finish the season strong. Yeah, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.040 and that's certainly got to be the case. We'd love 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.560 to see him though, right, we'd love to see him. Well, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.839 there's a lot that you have to think about. How 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.520 severe is the injury. Can they go up there and 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.680 tape it where he really doesn't feel it and he's 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.720 able to have the mobility and the throwing balance that 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.440 he needs. And then you also think that, hey, there's 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.600 two more games left in the season than you're gonna 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.560 have plenty of time to heal. You know, it's a 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.840 real slippery slope when you're talking about how healthy do 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.040 you have to be to play? And if I'm healthy 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.200 enough to play, I gotta play because I'm gonna have 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.200 a long offseason. Slippery slope's the keyword. I mean, maybe 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.920 forty eight inches. It's not on Saturday, and it's gonna 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.240 be below zero on Sunday, right, But you know, those 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.720 are the types of conditions you expect this late in 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.080 the season, especially on the Lake Front. It's unpredictable, and 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:32.760 for what these players were prepared to go with in Seattle, Listen, man, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.560 I respect their desire and their ability to go out 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.120 and play as well as they did under the balance 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.600 of the game. In Seattle, Jason Peters remained limited at 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.680 that ankle. So what do you think they'll do at 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:48.360 the tackles. You know, I think that if Larry Boram 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.560 is healthy, they'll probably play him a right tackle, and 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.920 if Tevin is healthy, they'll probably play him at left tackle. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.400 I've always let it be known that I wish they 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.640 would flip flop and give Larry Borum an opportunity to 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.400 play left tackle at home, in Tevin Jenkins to play 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.040 right tackle at home, because I think you'd see a 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.000 more well balanced, powerful offensive lineman because they can hear 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.960 the commands of the quarterback. What did you think of 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.920 Larry's performance at left tackle in Seattle. I think he 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.200 did a great job. Little notification, he was mentally prepared 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.479 to understand the assignments and his protections. Accordingly, he went 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.360 out there and he played the position again. And it's 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.760 always about balance when you talk about offensive tackles, because 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.920 the first thing they do if you get off a 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.520 balance and your beat. Larry Boram, like I said, he 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.640 was mentally prepared, physically prepared. The second series they said, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.800 look and Tevin's not gonna play anymore, and thinking you're 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.440 gonna play right tackle, boom you're in at left. I 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.000 just shows you you know some of what Larry Boram's 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.480 all about. Wide receiver Marquis good Win under the weather, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.560 JP Holtel for personal reasons today Duke Shelley didn't practice yesterday, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.560 back as a full participant today up at Hallis Hall. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.320 Also hearing from commit the Bears. Tight End asked a 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.200 lot about what's next here in twenty twenty one and 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.359 why does it matter if the team's out of the 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.760 playoff mix? Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously from the outside, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.120 you know we're not making the playoffs, so it's kind 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.760 of like, you know, what's the point. But these these 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.359 games mean a lot, you know for me, you know specifically, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.880 you know, I'm a young player in the league, and 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.479 you know this is two more two more games, eight 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.480 more quarters that I get to play and see more 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.839 stuff and you know, kind of build on some things 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.080 and try some things. You know, these last couple of 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.000 games and you know, everyone's playing for a job here. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.440 You know this is not um. You know, we're just 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.240 not gonna let, you know, settle down. Guys are not 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.440 just gonna settle down here at the end. Like you know, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.800 guys are playing for jobs, future jobs. You know, what 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.479 you put on tape matters. So that's something that's that's big, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.280 and you know that's why you're always gonna see players 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.400 fight hard to the end because you know this means 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:50.920 a lot to us, and guys want to keep playing, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.200 and you know the way they do that is put 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.360 a good film out there. I expect that from a 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.599 young player. I'm certain there's some veteran players feel the 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.359 same way because of the uncertainty of their future years. 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.479 And we'll hear from David Montgomery here in a moment. Also, 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.560 I don't know where you're at on how things how 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.280 they play out here the rest of twenty one, if 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.320 they bridge in the twenty twenty two, I'm less and 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.599 less thinking that way because you just got to finish 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.080 your season strong, because you don't know you're you're a 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.360 different player the next year. You're either an older player 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.880 or a younger player getting better or trying to make 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.120 it to that next step in your development. Yeah, but 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.680 when you're talking about some of the guys, you're mentioning 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.760 what the Cole commits and the David Montgomery and a 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.360 lot of these other young guys of Khalil Herbert's and 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.320 stuff and the roster, I mean, the they have to 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.160 have a they want to be a dominant position at 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.159 their player, especially if you're Cole or Dave Montgomery and 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.800 you have such high expectations place on you and you 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.920 can never take a game lightheartedly. You're gonna get hurt. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.640 You can never not go out and prepare to play 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.279 against the team you're not very familiar with the giants, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.760 else you'll look bad doing so. I'm glad Cole has 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.120 the attitude he has, and I hope a lot of 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.440 the young guys share that same attitude. One of them 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.720 is running back David Montgomery. It carries you feel a 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.320 whole lot better knowing that you've got a possibility to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.520 win the next two games and actually doing that. It 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.160 means a lot going to the next season, just to 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.040 show like our capabilities and what we capable of being 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.920 able to do that. So it means a lot to 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.400 me from my stupoint. So for him, he he does 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.160 feel little bridge to next year. Listen, David Montgomery does 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:30.840 never have to go up to a podium and tell 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.360 us how important it is to it. It's reflected in 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.840 every one of his games, and I know whether it's 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.800 the first game of the year or down to the 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.720 wire like it is at this portion of the season. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.880 Dave Montgomery's gonna play hard, you know. It's it's really 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.280 it's something to watch him play. He catches the ball well, 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.040 he runs, he blocks everything that you need. It's required 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.360 out of a Champion Division winning style running get back 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.560 Daved Montgomery has that. I don't know if you notice this, 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.840 uh last five weeks, the top receiving running back in 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.160 the National Football League is David Montgomery one hundred and 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.920 sixty six yards. He's been targeted thirty one times more 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.000 than any other back and twenty six receptions. That was 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.680 not the case before these last five weeks. Than right, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:19.280 I think it's just earned the coaches understanding that. Look, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.559 if we played you know, in the last couple of games, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.679 he's had a couple of catches out of wide receiver. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.000 He's had a lot of them out of the backfield. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.920 He runs screens really well, So you know, David David 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.000 Montgomery is the type of guy that if you do 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.600 split him out of a wide receiver, he can be 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.240 part of your target rotation of the play. Last heard 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.640 Matt Nagee on Wednesday of this week talking about how 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.040 this team is looking at these final two games as well. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.440 After the win in Seattle. When you when you're losing 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.679 games like we like we were, you just we always 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.760 talk about just get that win, just get that one win, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.160 and sometimes if you just focus on that one win, 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.240 it never comes you gotta just focus on execution and 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.080 playing well. And I think that for us, like just 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.400 coming into the building the next day or flying home 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.440 that night like that, that's why we do what we 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.400 do to be able to win the game together, because 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.520 we did all three phases. So that helps. Now now 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.040 we understand, Okay, they're going to give us two games. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.360 You have to play. We know we can't make the playoffs. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.640 Now let's finish strong. Let's let's let's show everybody who 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.080 we are. And even when things aren't easy or things 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.120 aren't great, we still finish and no one can take 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.760 that away from us. And I think that that speaks 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.480 to the character of players and futures and so that 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.120 that's why we're doing what we're doing. And I think 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.440 the players have done an amazing job of accepting that 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.640 and wanting to do it and then they show it. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.320 They don't just talk about it and then not do 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.800 it on game day. They're doing that, and the coaches 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.079 are coaching hard. And when that's the case, I'd rather 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.080 much have it that way than a team that just 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.080 decides the fold up shop and not play the rest 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.760 of the year. Have you been at teams who did 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.320 it the other way. Did you feel, guys ever did that? Unfortunately? Yeah? 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.040 You did? Unfortunately. Yeah. You know, that's the worst thing 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.520 when it starts to to trade the locker room, no 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.160 matter what part of it is during the losing season, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.920 it's almost unrecoverable. But you know, one thing you can 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.720 think about these guys right now, and you think about 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.800 the length of time that we spend up there during 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.640 trading cap those guys probably spend you know, sixty hours 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.280 a week between the multiple practices, the weightlifting, the meetings 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.160 and everything. Jeff, right now, we're looking for three hours 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.120 a week, two times three hours a week. Can you 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.000 guys in that locker room commit that three hours a 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.440 week after everything else. You gotta be able to do that. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.320 Coming up next DA's Newsom joins US Bears wide receiver 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.000 and punt returner with Tom Fair Jeff Joniac. This is 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.360 Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.840 Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.480 IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for your home at igs 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.560 dot com. Because every good choice ends up to a 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.480 better world. Please to be joined here on Bears All 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.600 Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score with 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.600 wide receiver and punt returner and all around funny man. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:02.880 As we're learning Daz Newsome UNC, that blue shure didn't 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.160 look good on you in college, Dads time there, Jeff 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.440 Joni act, But navy blue and orange looks better. What 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.640 do you think, hey, man? I can't I can't disagree 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.680 with you. There heck of a punt return last week? Buddy? 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:18.120 Did that just give you some juice? Or honestly, honestly 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.040 it was. It was just like I've been waiting on 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.920 my opportunity. I had to make some shake and I 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.040 was just trying my best to do some of my opportunity. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.760 What does that do for you? I feel like I 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.640 feel like it gives you more confidence. I mean, I 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.000 mean I always have confidence. I feel like you can't 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.160 play this sport or this position without confidence. So I 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:37.959 feel like I feel like I just feel like it 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.959 just gave me more confidence than that I can really 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.200 do this thing. Hey, Dads, to the cribon three to 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.000 the cribon? Made is that something that? I mean? Did 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.360 you make that up? Did you learn it or I 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.160 from I got that from a coach at UNC. It 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.959 was a tight end coach Coach Chaid. Coach Chail. I 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.200 got that from Coach Chaid when I was in you 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.520 want to see my freshman and sophomore year, and every 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.679 time he would get the return of you would I 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.560 never heard nobody said. He always say to the crib 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.520 on me to the crib one three before we bring 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.240 and then then he left out of my sophomore year 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.559 or what we got a new staff then, and so 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.800 so I just I just kept the thing going by myself. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.240 I like it. Hey, Dad, So you know, I was 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.920 kind of I was reading about Yeah, so you went 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.600 to college as a dB, you went to a wide receiver. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.640 You're obviously a super talented guy. You got receiving skills, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.520 and it kind of reminds me of Devin Hester because 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.120 there's a lot of similarities in your background and what 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:36.160 he became in the NFL and your multi level of talents. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.000 So if you would have stuck with dB, could you 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:44.720 play dB? First of all? Honestly? I think so. I 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.719 think I think I was a better d be honestly, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.800 but I ain't playing this so long. I'm probably a 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.600 little I mean, I can't say I ain't playing this 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.640 so long, but I'm probably a little rusty now and 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.880 as as then I would have been if I would 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.120 have just stayed I focused straightly on dB. But I 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.640 feel like I was a better be But I got 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.920 switched before I before I even got to school. You 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.080 know the other night the other day at Seattle, it 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.920 was snow and so hard during the pregame. How does 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.280 that affect your site? Is it easy to follow the 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.920 football because it's brown against the white background? Or are 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.440 you having snow flakes hit you in the eyes while 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.079 you're kind of focusing I'm the downward flight of the football, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.040 um so. And in the beginning of the game, I 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.480 was having this conversation with my teammates and I was saying, 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.719 like when I came into the locker my littles, that 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.080 they took my vays off and me, I played with 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.880 my vays and do anything unless I can't see, And 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.360 like you're like usually rain like rain, like usually I 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.440 can't see very well, so I take it off. But snow, 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.880 I know, and snow, I can still see my vas on. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.240 So I'm telling you put my vas back on. And 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.840 I just wanted to see how it was. And then 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.760 when I went out there for one most without my helmet, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.080 it's snow getting all in my ass. I can be 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.520 able to see. So I put my vags on. It 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.840 was so much clear and so just like all the 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.080 snow flakes hit my VADs social name, it ain't bother 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.559 me as much. And then you know, some of the deflacancy. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.720 It just turned into like so I got to like 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.600 a water drop, right. I feel like the shield helped 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.679 me out a lot. Yea as newsom our guest here 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.480 on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventies, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.640 score the most logical question, then the follow up PiZZ it. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.400 Have you ever played in snow before? Nah? So that 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.560 was the first time. Yeah, that was the first time. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.320 Did you like it? It was fun? It was definitely 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.200 fun because I felt like I felt like it made 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.600 everybody's slow down. It made the game or slower interesting. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.760 Khalil Herbert also, I'd never played in snow. Got to 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.600 kick out of it. But now a whole different thing. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.880 Expected to be blow zero wind chills on Sunday. You 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:44.480 down with that? I gotta down anything. Yeah, it is 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.400 a You gotta adjust, right, you have to. You have 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.320 to mentally embrace it. Now times the old offensive Lineman. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.840 So he went out there with uh, you know, no, no, 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.440 no undershirts or anything like that, just froze it out up. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.080 But you do have to mentally get it there, and 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.600 then when you answer that question, I have time tell 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:08.760 you how to do that. But so the thing about 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.440 the cold, I feel like, at first I used to 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.080 never play with sleeves, but in the last game, I'm like, 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.200 I'm like, I'm man had to put some sleeves on 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.040 the day. I'm like, I don't know if I can 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.720 tug it in the snow without know sleeves. It made, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.840 you know, it made me cold when I saw David 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.720 Montgomery go down for the snow angel after his score, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.520 because I, you know, cold or warm, I sweat equally 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.280 as much. And so I was thinking, man, having that 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.400 back up against that cold. Ye, no thanks David. Yeah 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.760 I won't. I won't doing the snow flake with him. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.520 And I don't know about that one. Hey, hey, dads. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.640 So when we go back to OTAs, you were kind 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.600 of the most noticeable wide, the most noticeable rookie of 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.800 the bunch. It seemed like you were developing a really 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:58.440 good relationship early on with Justin and then unfortunately you 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.720 had the episode where you broke your collar bone. With 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.880 the broken collar bone, did it give you a chance 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.160 to catch up mentally or um? You know what? How 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.960 did you go about your business and improving even though 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.080 you weren't on the field all. Honestly, my biggest thing 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.320 was I was just trying to make sure I'm where 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.720 everybody else is within the playbook while I'm out. Some 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.480 of my biggest thing was just trying to get get 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.640 the mental reps. And I would say it was definitely 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.840 tougher because I'm more of a I'm more of a 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.160 learned as I do type of person. Then then then 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.640 somebody telling me and then I have to go do it. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.360 But it was definitely more of a mental thing. But 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.320 I feel like I feel like once I, once I 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.320 got back out there and just got a little quick 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.680 fluid things, I feel like I was getting I was 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.320 definitely coming along real good. So now let's move. Let's 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.040 advance like five months and you've been around just in 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.200 a bunch. Why did you guys initially have an immediate 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.240 relationship with each other and what do you think the 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.840 potential is? You know, there this relationship between the two 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.200 of you young guys you know that could be doing 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.720 it here for a decade long time to come. Um, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.760 I think I think from one we just both came in. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.800 We came in. We both came in hungry. Honestly like him, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.440 he came in when he dropped the four team. I'm 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.960 sure he wasn't expecting that. I went in sixth round. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.560 I wasn't expecting that. So we really just both just 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.720 came in here with the hunger. When we're trying to fool, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.159 you go wrong. And I feel like that's what's just 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.760 gonna hold us to be great within these next couple 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.520 of years. Just so I'm still trying to poof go all. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.160 There's always a bunch of those guys in the locker room, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.600 and I'm sure there were in college two guys that 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:38.120 thought they'd be recruited by bigger schools or whatnot. But 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.800 there's a growing bunch on this team. Man, I think 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.200 you know who they are. I mean, Cula Herbert's definitely 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.080 one of them, Montgomery's definitely one of them. Justin Johnson's 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.720 definitely one of them. I'm sure Cole Comett feels that 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.040 way as well. Justin I'm sure feels that way as well. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.679 Do you do you hear that from them? Blown Nichols, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.520 is do they talk about you guys talk about it? 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.760 Do you guys you know, break it down that way? 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:07.040 Or is this just each individual's personal journey? Um, what 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.280 do you mean as in as in chip on the shoulder, 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.560 chip on the chip on? I feel like I feel 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.800 like I feel like it's personal and it's a team thing. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.560 Like I feel like I feel like for you to 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.480 for you to feel that way, you gotta feel it 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.840 personally before you feel it as a team because because 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.560 you know, it's always gonna be a chip on on 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.840 your team's shoulder, like people are always gonna say you're 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.680 not this, You're not that. So so I feel like 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.760 a team is always gonna chip. But but you have 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.680 to have a chip individually for you to get the 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.240 job done. Because coach was saying the other day, you 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.479 were saying, if you get better individually, it's gonna make 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.760 the whole team better. What coach told you that, I 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.280 cannot remember. I cannot remember. I think it. We don't 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:48.879 know if it was furry or if I don't know 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:50.840 if it was coach tags or I don't know if 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.560 it was nagged. It was probably all three. It was 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.440 one of the three, one of the things. And you're 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.879 the son of a coach. So your dad played in 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:03.120 the college at Virginia Tech, played in the Canadian Football League, 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.480 he played in NFL Europe, and he was an assistant 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.680 coach on your high school team at a very prominent 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:12.399 athletically gifted area of the country in Virginia. What your 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:17.280 dad's name, Myron correct? Yeah. What were your dad's best 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.879