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Speaker 3: in my partners Tom and Jim Thayer. How are you feeling, Buddy.
Speaker 4: Big Jeff, I'm a weather worrier.
Speaker 5: I always have been my whole life. I always have concerns.
Speaker 5: My dad worked for Kamweal Medison for forty three years,
Speaker 5: and the worst the weather got, the more he got
Speaker 5: called out the work. So still kind of pay attention
Speaker 5: to it, just like I pay attention to everything that's
Speaker 5: going around in the NFL, and you take everything into consideration,
Speaker 5: what's happened in the last couple days, who's coming, and
Speaker 5: who's going. The Bears will still be the most talked
Speaker 5: about franchise throughout the offseason because of their draft position
Speaker 5: and players.
Speaker 3: Right and the assets to do it financially as well.
Speaker 2: Jim, good to talk to you once again. Thanks for
Speaker 2: being here. You'll be here the.
Speaker 3: Rest of the offseason with us, So a lot to
Speaker 3: dive into and you're the man to do it. You
Speaker 3: talk about it on the radio on Serious XMNFL Radio's
Speaker 3: Move the Chains every single day. Your perspective on what
Speaker 3: you heard at Havishaw yesterday from the big three at
Speaker 3: the podium, that would be Kevin Warren, Ryan Poles, and
Speaker 3: Matty Reerflues.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you know strides were made in twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three. Their record reflects it. Maybe could have had
Speaker 6: one or two more that maybe lets slip away. But
Speaker 6: I do think you see improvement and why coachib Reflues
Speaker 6: will be back. You never saw any finger pointing whatsoever
Speaker 6: from the players on the field. I think the players
Speaker 6: played with a lot of effort, played with a lot
Speaker 6: of toughness, certainly did improve, especially defensively in the second
Speaker 6: half of the season, and really like that secondary and
Speaker 6: how those young players are really coming along and they've
Speaker 6: done a nice job developed be these players. And so
Speaker 6: I think Ryan Poles laid it out perfect. You know,
Speaker 6: they have everything in front of them. You know, the
Speaker 6: improvement that he's looking to see is out there. As
Speaker 6: Tom mentioned, they'll be at the epicenter of the NFL
Speaker 6: draft and have decisions to make and they'll go continue
Speaker 6: their evaluations on this team that will decide what direction
Speaker 6: they're going to go in at many different positions.
Speaker 3: And a big thing is support. You got to have
Speaker 3: it in order to move forward. And Ryan Poles, as
Speaker 3: he reiterated yesterday, has it from Kevin Warren and Chairman
Speaker 3: George Hallis McCaskey.
Speaker 7: One of the things that I'll never forget is reflecting
Speaker 7: in the middle of the year on a trade that
Speaker 7: didn't go well for me. I was bummed about it,
Speaker 7: took ownership of it. I always have a decision log
Speaker 7: that I go through and talk about, you know what
Speaker 7: I can do better, and we met on that and
Speaker 7: they both supported me in terms of saying, keep shooting
Speaker 7: your shot.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 7: If you if you put your your log together, you're
Speaker 7: hitting those boxes that it feels right and it's gonna
Speaker 7: help our team.
Speaker 9: Keep shooting your shot.
Speaker 7: And for a decision maker to have that type of
Speaker 7: support is incredible.
Speaker 2: Well, you have to Tom and Jim.
Speaker 3: You have to Tommy, And that shot then became Montest sweat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm glad he's got the support of
Speaker 5: the higher ups behind him, because you got to have that.
Speaker 5: You have to have the confidence that the work you're
Speaker 5: doing behind the scenes it can pay off. And if
Speaker 5: you have the support of the front office and all
Speaker 5: the guys in charge, it makes all your work worth it.
Speaker 5: And then it also takes all the scouts that you
Speaker 5: take into account that are doing the investigated work on
Speaker 5: their behalf, that those guys are complimented by some of
Speaker 5: the effort that they put into it and the results
Speaker 5: they see.
Speaker 3: Jim, the worst thing you can do is tie the
Speaker 3: hands of a GM. He's got to he's got to
Speaker 3: trust his instincts and you.
Speaker 2: Got to give him that. You got to give him
Speaker 2: that wiggle room man a little rope to do it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And obviously pulling off that trade for Montes Swat
Speaker 6: is a huge get. That is a blue chip player,
Speaker 6: and I think nobody can deny the impact he had
Speaker 6: for the Chicago Bears. And I just think yesterday's press coverence,
Speaker 6: you know, speaking highly of Jalen Johnson, and you know,
Speaker 6: I happened to be a voter for the All Pro.
Speaker 6: I voted Jalen Johnson in All Pro. You know, I
Speaker 6: thought he played that well. And he certainly doesn't want
Speaker 6: blue chip players out of the building. So whether that's
Speaker 6: a franchise tag. Whether they can come to an agreement
Speaker 6: on a long term contract, it sounds like that's going
Speaker 6: to be something that's in the work. So I think overall,
Speaker 6: like we said, they are improved football team that are
Speaker 6: going to continue looking to improve moving forward.
Speaker 3: Johnson Pro Football focus is best coverage defender this year
Speaker 3: at the cornerback position thirty three point three quarterback rating
Speaker 3: one hundred ninety five yards. It got better as the
Speaker 3: season went on. Tommy and that ball production, which is critical.
Speaker 3: And yes, Ryan was pretty affirmative, and yes, we will
Speaker 3: work something out. The price definitely went up, but we'll
Speaker 3: work something out.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I think when you look at all the defensive players,
Speaker 5: it's kind of a tail of two seasons. Before Montes
Speaker 5: Sweat got here, they weren't putting a lot of pressure
Speaker 5: on the opponent's quarterback.
Speaker 4: They were getting development out of TJ.
Speaker 5: Edwards and Tremaine Edmonds that really helped the overall performance
Speaker 5: of the back end of the defense. But when you
Speaker 5: got the evolution and the continuous development of Javon Dexter
Speaker 5: Senior and Zach Pickens to mix with the veteran group
Speaker 5: they had, and then you got Montest Sweat.
Speaker 4: Everything came together.
Speaker 5: And so when you talk about a cornerback and their
Speaker 5: performance and they're great and everything. When you go from
Speaker 5: little pressure on the opponent's quarterback and you're still playing
Speaker 5: a good brand of football to pressure on the quarterback
Speaker 5: and now you start converting that into interceptions, turnovers all
Speaker 5: around the back end of the defense, I think it's
Speaker 5: complementary to their performance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, plus twelve at late in the season, turnerover differential,
Speaker 3: here's polls on sweat yesterday.
Speaker 9: A multiplayer like a multiplayer on the field.
Speaker 7: But you know, again, we were doing extit interviews and
Speaker 7: talking to our guys throughout the year.
Speaker 9: He helped that entire defense.
Speaker 7: I think when you add players like that, all of
Speaker 7: a sudden, I think you could kind of see everyone
Speaker 7: had a little bit more.
Speaker 9: Swagger to him, and I think it affected the back end.
Speaker 9: You saw the interceptions go up. He saw us one
Speaker 9: more games.
Speaker 7: So really good of the test effect there, So really
Speaker 7: proud of that one. And great human being too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, getting to know him a little bit,
Speaker 3: he is excited to be here. He felt comfortable, and
Speaker 3: I do think that this team in part because of
Speaker 3: that trade Jim, this team stayed together and got really
Speaker 3: motivated together to.
Speaker 2: Get this thing going in the right direction.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: That made a huge difference.
Speaker 3: Still near the bottom of the league overall in sack
Speaker 3: for pass play, that kind of production, but guys such
Speaker 3: as Justin Jones had a best year tackles for loss.
Speaker 3: It started a zoom, DeMarcus Walker had a very nice
Speaker 3: solid season. His numbers zoomed, and Gervon Dexter Senior also
Speaker 3: benefited from Monte Sweats presence in the locker room and
Speaker 3: presence on the field.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like the fact that, you know, most teams
Speaker 6: they won't negotiate with players during the year, like the Steelers,
Speaker 6: they just won't do it. But you look at you know,
Speaker 6: re signing Andrew Billings, who was a key component, you know,
Speaker 6: in their ability to stop the run. So getting an
Speaker 6: extension done there. I just think that the development of
Speaker 6: young players is huge. Tyrek Stevenson, I know you probably
Speaker 6: got the numbers, Cheff. I guarantee you he was up
Speaker 6: there in his PFF numbers and how he performed.
Speaker 3: Oh, it came on strong, and you know he finished
Speaker 3: sixteen pass breakups, tied for fifth in the NFL and
Speaker 3: that granted he would listen, let's not get ourselves.
Speaker 2: They targeted him and we knew they would, and every
Speaker 2: team tried it.
Speaker 3: But as the season war on, he started making plays
Speaker 3: on the ball, taking the ball away. Ferocious tackler Tom
Speaker 3: We talked about them from the time training camp started. Jim,
Speaker 3: you were at training camp. You saw flashes of it
Speaker 3: very early in the start of training camp. I never
Speaker 3: thought that the guy is confident, I mean super confident.
Speaker 3: Put up some really good numbers fellas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think he's the most physical defensive
Speaker 5: back that the Bears have if you look at his
Speaker 5: tackling ability, his fundamental approach, how physical he is and
Speaker 5: when he has the contact. I like everything that I've
Speaker 5: seen about Tyreek Stevenson. He's got a great attitude. And again,
Speaker 5: I think when you look at the cornerback position, it's
Speaker 5: one of the most difficult positions to find talented guys.
Speaker 5: And for Ryan Poles to go out and find two
Speaker 5: of them in the same draft, it's you know, high compliments.
Speaker 3: To Ryan, right, that would be Terrell Smith as well
Speaker 3: Cader Gordon the year before. And Jim, you heard coach
Speaker 3: yesterday say you can't have enough corners, you can't have
Speaker 3: enough defensive lineman, you can't have enough corners, And he
Speaker 3: is exactly right on it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think it's money in the bank.
Speaker 6: They've invested solidly in the in the defensive side of
Speaker 6: the ball, and they want to keep that group together.
Speaker 6: I mean, look at how they jumped this year and
Speaker 6: where it can go. I just saw a confident team
Speaker 6: out there. It just seemed like after a while second,
Speaker 6: you know, once you start making big plays, they come
Speaker 6: in bunches because it's like, you know, it's infectious. Everybody
Speaker 6: wants to get in on the party, right, and that
Speaker 6: seemed to be the case for the Bears defensively, where
Speaker 6: they really you know, form themselves an identity. I think
Speaker 6: it improved every single week. Probably not the best tackling
Speaker 6: game the final week of the season against Green Bay,
Speaker 6: but you know, they still only gave up seventeen points
Speaker 6: and gave him a puncher's chance defensively, But that is
Speaker 6: really the face of this team that they probably want
Speaker 6: to bring back and now focus on the offensive side
Speaker 6: of the ball and get that up to snuff and
Speaker 6: on par with where they want to be offensively.
Speaker 3: Heck, we made it through the first segment of the show.
Speaker 3: We haven't even touched the quarterback position. You would think
Speaker 3: that is always going to be first and foremost. We
Speaker 3: have plenty of time to dive into that big gym
Speaker 3: and Tom, thanks.
Speaker 2: For being with us, everybody here on Bears Weekly.
Speaker 3: Coming up next, we will dip into Matt Eberflus's thoughts
Speaker 3: along with Ryan Poles later in the program, Kevin Warren
Speaker 3: on key topics from stadium to the first round, pick
Speaker 3: the number one overall pick, the future of Justin Fields,
Speaker 3: and who might be the Bears offensive coordinator moving forward?
Speaker 2: So all coming up.
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Speaker 3: Bears starting quarterback in that two thousand and one season.
Speaker 3: I know you played everywhere, but I got to give
Speaker 3: you your props. Buddy, you get in the car, you
Speaker 3: drive to Chicago every week of the season, and you.
Speaker 2: Go on Marquee, you do the three and post game
Speaker 2: and you help us out and we appreciate you. Buddy.
Speaker 6: Well, hey, I enjoy it. I love covering the Bears
Speaker 6: near and dear to my heart and then desperately want
Speaker 6: them to do well. So you know, keep an everfluce
Speaker 6: on board. Again. I just I like how the team
Speaker 6: doesn't quit. I like the effort the team shows. So
Speaker 6: when we'll see where it goes. And they've got this
Speaker 6: plan laid out, and I think they're gonna see this
Speaker 6: plan through.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Let's talk offensive coordinator, and people are throwing names out
Speaker 3: there at whom they could be interested in. That doesn't
Speaker 3: mean they are. You're gonna read a lot, you're gonna
Speaker 3: hear a lot. One of those individuals. Shane Waldron, Seattle's
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator, is somebody they may be ready to interview,
Speaker 3: according to report. So, Jim, you're the man who played
Speaker 3: the position. You're the man who took the signals and
Speaker 3: the play coffs from coordinators your entire career. What might
Speaker 3: fit best with the Bears, regardless of who plays quarterback?
Speaker 2: You have to consider the fact that Justin is.
Speaker 3: Here, could stay here, they could look and get a
Speaker 3: quarterback in the draft, or they could have both here.
Speaker 3: Everything's on the table, is indicated yesterday by Ryan Poles.
Speaker 6: Yeah and yeah, I do like that. The style of offense. Obviously,
Speaker 6: Shane Waldron comes from the background of Sean So obviously
Speaker 6: when you look at Kyle Shanahan and that style of offense,
Speaker 6: it's a run, play action offense. Obviously, Pete Carroll want
Speaker 6: to focus on running the football, so why they drafted
Speaker 6: the Zach Charbonney and of course Kenneth Walker a year prior.
Speaker 6: So Shane comes highly regarded. I think you'll hear a
Speaker 6: lot about Slowick from the Houston Texans. Obviously, the job
Speaker 6: he did with the young quarterback down there in CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 6: Frank Smith, A lot of people have thrown his name
Speaker 6: out there. He's under Mike McDaniel down there for the
Speaker 6: Miami Dolphins tonight. I know people have talked about Greg Roman, obviously,
Speaker 6: the style of offense with to incorporate Justin's ability to
Speaker 6: run the football. He's had a ton of success in Baltimore.
Speaker 6: Think about they fired Greg Roman and in his offense,
Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson was forty six and seventeen, Okay, a lot
Speaker 6: of wins. So yeah, there's names out there, and you know,
Speaker 6: I know Ryan Poles and they're going to continue to
Speaker 6: go through and a value everything on Justin. And I
Speaker 6: do agree with with Ryan. I think everything was much
Speaker 6: better from Justin fields, but I think it's got to
Speaker 6: be more consistent.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: Is that that consistency is it adding more players around him,
Speaker 6: whether it's offensive lineman, you got talents, receivers coming out
Speaker 6: of Ohio State. We'll get into all that and see
Speaker 6: where it goes. But I just don't get from the
Speaker 6: fan aspect of it, you can have both worlds. You
Speaker 6: can keep Justin and still draft another quarterback. I just
Speaker 6: it just seems like it's got to be either or
Speaker 6: you know, like Justin's got to be gone and trade
Speaker 6: him and draft a guy or you know, but just
Speaker 6: doesn't seem you know, that seems to be the case.
Speaker 6: And how it has to be that way go back
Speaker 6: to if you look at the LA Charters, they had
Speaker 6: Drew Brees, They drafted Philip Rivers and Drew Brees played
Speaker 6: two years. They actually franchised him, franchise tag Drew Brees
Speaker 6: why they had Philip Rivers. So it's not out of
Speaker 6: the stretch of the imagination that both can happen. And
Speaker 6: we'll see where the evotuation's go and where it takes them.
Speaker 3: Tom My perspective for my two cents forth. But you
Speaker 3: guys played the game, you know it a heck of
Speaker 3: a lot better than I like. I would like something
Speaker 3: that can continues to be no matter who plays quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: something that builds off the run game and still has
Speaker 3: that value of the run game. And so yes, Waldron
Speaker 3: is that type of guy for sure, like to run
Speaker 3: after the catch guys in his offense.
Speaker 2: A really smart guy.
Speaker 3: He's worked with even Bill Belichick, so he's had a
Speaker 3: lot to work with.
Speaker 2: But I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 3: I want somebody with experience calm plays because some of
Speaker 3: the new bloods that come in or have a tie
Speaker 3: to some of these really successful they don't call plays.
Speaker 3: You know, they may be a past game coordinator or
Speaker 3: run game coordinator or and who maybe I just I
Speaker 3: just hope it's somebody would experience.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, there's so many things that I'm thinking about.
Speaker 5: It's the difficulty of learning an entire new language for
Speaker 5: Justin for maybe the fifth or sixth time in his career.
Speaker 5: Just the whole idea of how long that takes when
Speaker 5: you're talking about teaching it to thirty something guys, when
Speaker 5: you have all the guys from the offensive side of
Speaker 5: the ball, including the new coaches that are going to
Speaker 5: come aboard, and then more consistency from.
Speaker 4: The passing game out of Justine Listen.
Speaker 5: I think the running game is always going to be
Speaker 5: a staple in Chicago no matter who's comes in who
Speaker 5: brings in the system, because they're not hiring Mouse Davis
Speaker 5: to come in and bring in the run and shoot.
Speaker 5: They're going to bring into something how to compliment the
Speaker 5: conditions that they play in in the division and in
Speaker 5: soldier fields specifically.
Speaker 4: So I think.
Speaker 5: There's a lot on the table, and you know you
Speaker 5: have to when you think about the quarterback position, I
Speaker 5: think you have to take into account the development of
Speaker 5: the quarterback position in Green Bay over the last thirty years.
Speaker 5: Are they showing the template of quarter back success when
Speaker 5: they have a quarterback of board who they really like,
Speaker 5: is a Hall of Famer All Pro and they still
Speaker 5: draft a quarterback that they know they're not going to
Speaker 5: put in the put him in immediately and allow him
Speaker 5: to grow and develop and sprout his wings in the.
Speaker 4: NFL and have that type of development.
Speaker 5: So, like Jim says, it's not a foregone conclusion that
Speaker 5: everybody's got to go. I mean, they could bring in
Speaker 5: new bodies and create a competitive atmosphere. And don't forget
Speaker 5: about Tyson Bagen because I think he's also a guy
Speaker 5: that is a good compliment to the quarterback position and
Speaker 5: I think he'll work well. But you know, you got
Speaker 5: to try to develop a quarterback that's playoff ready from
Speaker 5: the first time they step on the field, and with
Speaker 5: a new offensive coordinator and justin stepping on the field,
Speaker 5: it would be a first time opportunity for him.
Speaker 3: Again here here's how Poles looked at it when he
Speaker 3: was asked yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was looking at fields and that first overall pick.
Speaker 9: Obviously, you want to have somebody that's a great teacher.
Speaker 2: This is Matt oh.
Speaker 10: I think that's important because you know he has to
Speaker 10: coach the coaches to coach the position.
Speaker 9: I think that's the number one trait of any great coach.
Speaker 10: You know, you have to be able to have the
Speaker 10: innovation to really look at the players that you have
Speaker 10: and be able to help enhance and put those guys
Speaker 10: in position to succeed and to get explosives and to
Speaker 10: move the ball down the field.
Speaker 9: So that right there, I think is the most important thing.
Speaker 10: The teacher part of it, and then the innovation part
Speaker 10: of it, and the creativity I think is.
Speaker 9: Going to be the biggest part.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So, Jim, that's talking about about the OC and what
Speaker 3: he was looking for, and that can apply also to
Speaker 3: a defensive coach. That's going to help him if he
Speaker 3: chooses to continue calling plays and and everybody wants a teacher, Jim,
Speaker 3: everybody does, right.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I think as a player, that's that's how
Speaker 6: you judge a coach. Are they making me better? You know,
Speaker 6: I don't think a player he doesn't care about whether
Speaker 6: he's been a former player or never played the game.
Speaker 6: Are they making me a better player? It's interesting. I
Speaker 6: was talking about that to Dante Scarnekia today as it
Speaker 6: relates to to Bill Belichick, and you do feel that,
Speaker 6: you know, that's all player cares about, you know, no
Speaker 6: matter who they decide. Yeah, you got to feature the players.
Speaker 6: And that's why Shane has been probably brought up and
Speaker 6: why they're bringing him in. Look how he featured Walker
Speaker 6: his rookie year there for out of Michigan State, and
Speaker 6: how he performed as a Seattle Seahawk. Look at the
Speaker 6: numbers of Tyler Lockett and look how well he did
Speaker 6: with Gino Smith and so you know, all those things
Speaker 6: factor and I will say, if it is a guy
Speaker 6: like Shane Waldron, because again he's coming from McVeigh who
Speaker 6: we know Lafleur comes from that McVeigh system as well,
Speaker 6: there's gonna be a lot of carryover. There's gonna be
Speaker 6: a lot of carryover in the offense for Justin and
Speaker 6: so and so you wouldn't be, you know, taking a
Speaker 6: step back where you can stunt the growth growth of
Speaker 6: young quarterbacks, whether it's Bagen or a guy like Justin
Speaker 6: Fields who has had the learn you know, basically three
Speaker 6: offenses in four years.
Speaker 4: So it won't be.
Speaker 6: As bad as a hit as what I'd say to
Speaker 6: that ankle on.
Speaker 5: It, Jim, I got a question for you, and I
Speaker 5: don't know this, and forgive me for not knowing this.
Speaker 5: Throughout the course of your career, did you ever play
Speaker 5: with the listening device in your helmet?
Speaker 4: Answering me that question, yes.
Speaker 6: Or no, Yes, I did.
Speaker 5: Okay, So did you think that expedites the ability for
Speaker 5: a quarterback to play because of that listening device in
Speaker 5: your helmet and you're not spending countless hours in memor
Speaker 5: memorization periods when they're installing the run to the past
Speaker 5: the short yardage and goal line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it expedites everything because before you'd have
Speaker 6: to turn to the turn to the sideline, and you
Speaker 6: have to decipher signals, you know, so I wright you know,
Speaker 6: they'd hold up the right arm. Then they got to
Speaker 6: text you in the running play or the past protection
Speaker 6: and then the past play. So it became more lengthy
Speaker 6: when you did it, when you got signals from the sideline.
Speaker 6: So yeah, And if you're already you know in the
Speaker 6: moment of your game plan and how much you study
Speaker 6: your game plan, I'm gonna know by the down and
Speaker 6: distance what the play's gonna be. So say it's third
Speaker 6: and five in our first third and five in the game,
Speaker 6: I already know going into the game, all right, our
Speaker 6: first third and five, we know that we're doing this,
Speaker 6: So I don't even need to hear the play. I
Speaker 6: know what it is because I know what we've discussed
Speaker 6: all week and you just kind of go and it
Speaker 6: speeds everything up that way.
Speaker 5: Well, that's something I always thought because I just remember
Speaker 5: cornerbacks before the listening device, how much time they spent.
Speaker 8: In memorization periods, whether they were just learning the terminology
Speaker 8: of the play that's gonna be called, and then you
Speaker 8: have to learn the series of signals that you're gonna get.
Speaker 5: And so when you think about a new offensive coordinator
Speaker 5: coming in, you think about them going through OTAs and
Speaker 5: then the training camp periods and then before the start
Speaker 5: of the regular season, how many times that that new
Speaker 5: offenseve coordinator can call that play into the helmet of
Speaker 5: the quarterback. It becomes more familiar with the language at
Speaker 5: a faster rate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely definitely helps. And normally, again, but when they
Speaker 6: send in a personnel grouping and buy down in distance,
Speaker 6: I know it's probably gonna be one of five plays
Speaker 6: that I that I can you know that I've I've
Speaker 6: already studied, and I know when you're so in tune
Speaker 6: with the game plan that you're already thinking, like your
Speaker 6: coach has talked you through the game plan of what
Speaker 6: you're trying to execute. So you should be ahead of
Speaker 6: the game from that standpoint.
Speaker 3: That's Jim Miller, Top Bear, Jeff, Jonny Ack. We're gonna
Speaker 3: take another the break here on Bears Weekly. More of
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Speaker 3: sound from yesterday's hour and a half news conference about
Speaker 3: forty five to fifty minutes for Ryan Poles and the
Speaker 3: rest from Kevin Warren Poles. And I was looking at
Speaker 3: fields and the first overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 7: I'll actually go back to last year, you know, and
Speaker 7: I got to stay open minded about it, but I
Speaker 7: really not to use the same pool but I want
Speaker 7: to say it needs to be blown away. It's it's
Speaker 7: the same stetup because you know, seeing the things that
Speaker 7: Justin did this year, his ability to make plays. Coach
Speaker 7: talked about some of those improvements, keeping his eyes down
Speaker 7: the field, taking less acts, see a lot of growth
Speaker 7: there where he can continue to get better.
Speaker 9: So I'll have the same mindset.
Speaker 7: Someone needs to really show that they, you know, can
Speaker 7: and it's not just a film like I need the
Speaker 7: person like.
Speaker 9: There's a whole process here that we have to figure out.
Speaker 9: But what we're gonna do is do what's best for
Speaker 9: the organization.
Speaker 7: I'm sure there's going to be similar situations in terms
Speaker 7: of the trade back, and I got to weigh all
Speaker 7: of those things to see what's going to help our
Speaker 7: team take the next step.
Speaker 3: And Tom they talked about how long this might take
Speaker 3: if he wants to make some kind of decision, because
Speaker 3: I might take it all the way up to April.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you might.
Speaker 5: But I think if you get an offensive coordinator, you'd
Speaker 5: like to get them in place as quickly as possible
Speaker 5: because one thing an offensive coordinator that if he knows
Speaker 5: football that well, he's going to have a chance to
Speaker 5: look at every single offensive snap throughout the season and
Speaker 5: maybe even going back to watching some practices in preparation
Speaker 5: to do an evaluation of the talent pool that they
Speaker 5: have here. And so you would like to get that
Speaker 5: person on board to maybe help convince talk to Ryan
Speaker 5: and Kevin and Matt about what they're thinking about quarterback development,
Speaker 5: where they need to go at the position.
Speaker 4: And how it can be a factor and how it
Speaker 4: can affect his offensive thinking.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jim, In general, I've always felt offensive coordinators they
Speaker 3: have their mind pretty much set on one direction and
Speaker 3: they're hard to sway in many others. That's a good
Speaker 3: thing and a bad thing at times. I believe good
Speaker 3: thing because you got to believe in what you believe
Speaker 3: and you got to stand on that and you roll
Speaker 3: with it because it's where you got yourself to. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, I'd like a guy to have
Speaker 3: a bit of an open mind and listen to assistants
Speaker 3: and listen to some new ways to do the same thing.
Speaker 3: Where are you at on an offensive coordinator's mindset, not
Speaker 3: just about players, but just philosophies and how to use personnel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's one thing to talk about scheme, but that's
Speaker 6: why I always bring up ron Erhart. You know, his
Speaker 6: offense has been in numerous Super Bowls, probably more than
Speaker 6: any offense in the NFL.
Speaker 4: It's the one that.
Speaker 6: The Patriots currently use today, all right. So it's very
Speaker 6: flexible at gearing the offense to the players that are
Speaker 6: the key players. Like I mentioned, the one year was
Speaker 6: very Foster was our key player and we've fed the
Speaker 6: run game. One year Eric Green, it was an incredible
Speaker 6: tight end. You know, he led our team in receptions
Speaker 6: with sixty five. And then Eric Green had some issues
Speaker 6: and then Yancey Thigpen was brought into the mix and
Speaker 6: they incorporated the Yancy Thigpen where he was featured. And
Speaker 6: obviously when drafting slash, Cordell Stewart had the slash role
Speaker 6: in vented. So it was very flexible in order to feature,
Speaker 6: you know, key players that are big time players, because
Speaker 6: that's where you want to focus on, and every offense
Speaker 6: should be flexible that way for that very reason to
Speaker 6: feature weapons, whether that's DJ Moore or Cole Comet or
Speaker 6: the running backs that the Bears currently have, and obviously
Speaker 6: Justin's talents as well. So I think you always got
Speaker 6: to have an open mind if you're an offensive coordinator,
Speaker 6: because you've got you know, if you've got weapons to feature.
Speaker 6: How do I incorporate all these weapons? How do I
Speaker 6: get them all out there so that the you know,
Speaker 6: this offense can be tough to defend.
Speaker 2: What branch of the famous offensive minds was airhout from
Speaker 2: He was unique.
Speaker 6: Every offensive numbering system is based on Ron Earhart. But
Speaker 6: guys who were behind him are like the great Tom Moore, him,
Speaker 6: Tom Moore, Bruce Arians. Those guys were like thicke as thieves.
Speaker 6: They were in Pittsburgh at one time together.
Speaker 2: Tom, go ahead, how about you what branch? When you played?
Speaker 4: Listen, it was more of a run game emphasis.
Speaker 5: When I played, I didn't think they got super creative
Speaker 5: with the passing game until you know, I guess Eric
Speaker 5: Coriel and uh, you know those.
Speaker 4: Types of guys.
Speaker 5: But I think when you go back and you look
Speaker 5: at it, from Franco Harris to Walter Payton to Earl Campbell,
Speaker 5: you know, Pete Johnson to all the great running Tony
Speaker 5: dor said, it was a run ephesis type of influence.
Speaker 4: To every offense.
Speaker 5: When I first got involved and I watched the transition
Speaker 5: when they tried to incorporate guys like I mentioned earlier
Speaker 5: Mouse Davis and then they had the k gun up
Speaker 5: in Buffalo, and you know the different types of offenses.
Speaker 4: In college that they had at BYU. So there's a
Speaker 4: lot of them.
Speaker 5: But it always seems like the running game was always
Speaker 5: the staple of any successful offense and you needed to
Speaker 5: do that well to incorporate everything else.
Speaker 3: Here's Ryan Poules on how field presence impacts who may
Speaker 3: be hired for offensive coordinator.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I got a lot of faith in the process that
Speaker 7: we're going to get kicked off in terms of funding
Speaker 7: the right fit, and we talked about it a little bit.
Speaker 7: But the ability to be adaptable to the talent that
Speaker 7: you have is critical. I think Matt hit it and
Speaker 7: we saw it across the league. There's some teams that
Speaker 7: actually got better with some a lot of changes. If
Speaker 7: you don't have the ability to adapt that adjust to
Speaker 7: the talent that you have at that position, it makes
Speaker 7: it really hard.
Speaker 9: So that's going to be a part of our process.
Speaker 9: And as you look at the quarterback decision you have
Speaker 9: to make. Is there a world where you can draft.
Speaker 11: A quarterback with the number one pick justin or you
Speaker 11: of the belief that that's a non temple situation that
Speaker 11: would have to be one.
Speaker 4: Of the other.
Speaker 7: So my brain has gone crazy all year just thinking
Speaker 7: about the just a million different scenarios.
Speaker 9: But I'm sure that's that's one of them.
Speaker 7: I'll just stay very wide open with the different paths
Speaker 7: that we can go and as we collect information, if
Speaker 7: that closed, you know, closes some of those those pathways down,
Speaker 7: and then we'll.
Speaker 9: Do that to the other ones. But I'm gonna be
Speaker 9: wide open about this.
Speaker 3: And here's Matt eberflush on what he wants the offense
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you have to have identity for sure,
Speaker 10: but you also have to be able to adjust.
Speaker 9: You know, you have to be.
Speaker 10: Able to stand on something. You know, run of the
Speaker 10: football is one of them. And I also think that
Speaker 10: being adjustable and adaptable is another one. You know, getting
Speaker 10: the explosives, which I think you know was referred to
Speaker 10: there is obviously how you score points.
Speaker 9: That's how you score points.
Speaker 10: And again we're gonna have to continue to grow that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, Jim, Tom Fellas, we're all speaking the same
Speaker 3: language here. I'm hearing the same things independently of what
Speaker 3: they had to say at the podium yesterday and it's
Speaker 3: how you guys are thinking about the game.
Speaker 6: Jim, Yeah, well, I think you know that identity of
Speaker 6: running the ball is important. You know, look at the
Speaker 6: you know, look at Cleveland even without Nick Chubb and
Speaker 6: how well they've ran the football this year, right, key
Speaker 6: player that they lose, and they lost four out of
Speaker 6: five offensive linemen. But pretty creative guy. When you look
Speaker 6: at Kevin Stefanski and Bill Callahan, who's a good offensive
Speaker 6: line coach, and how they were able to run the ball.
Speaker 6: You know, now they're featuring Joe Flacco a little bit more.
Speaker 6: Last four games Cleveland, they've thrown for over three hundred
Speaker 6: the last three games. So that's kind of adjusting to
Speaker 6: the talent is when i'd say for the for the
Speaker 6: Cleveland Browns. So numerous examples out there, and you know,
Speaker 6: they need more balance. I think we're aware of that.
Speaker 6: They do need more explosives because there are you know,
Speaker 6: quick scoring plays and change of direction and all those
Speaker 6: type of things that can happen that they want to
Speaker 6: incorporate to be a feared offense in the NFL. And
Speaker 6: we'll see if they can get to that point.
Speaker 5: You know, Jeff, when I look around the NFL, and
Speaker 5: I'll look talking specifically about Green Bay and when they've
Speaker 5: gone through the Hall of Fame quarterbacks they've had. You
Speaker 5: take Aaron Rodgers out of the mix, or you have
Speaker 5: him on the team. The second most important player on
Speaker 5: that team is Aaron Jones because everything that he can
Speaker 5: offer you, from the running game to the running back
Speaker 5: passing game, is a major influence on their offense. So
Speaker 5: you can have Hall of Fame talent at quarterback, but
Speaker 5: unless you have that influential running back, I think it's
Speaker 5: hard to have the overall development of the different schematic
Speaker 5: portions of an offense that you need for its effectiveness.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna take another break here.
Speaker 3: Segment four coming up, we'll hear a little bit more
Speaker 3: from Poles and eber Flus, and then in our final
Speaker 3: segment tonight all Kevin Warren in his thoughts about the
Speaker 3: direction of the franchise, the stadium, talking all that. It's
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Speaker 3: Looking at the press conference yesterday up at Hallis saw Is.
Speaker 3: The off season is officially underway and the planning is
Speaker 3: going on. Here's Matt eberflu somebody's looking for in new
Speaker 3: coordinators and that may include a defensive coordinator addition, certainly
Speaker 3: somebody to help him out even if he chooses to
Speaker 3: continue to call play.
Speaker 12: I'm really looking just to enhance the staff, you know,
Speaker 12: and it's got to be a good fit. But you're
Speaker 12: looking for an all star staff on both sides, and
Speaker 12: you know, dynamic guys that can take from the classrooms
Speaker 12: to the drill work and then really put that on
Speaker 12: the on the field. That position is going to be
Speaker 12: tying that together, you know, of course, you know, and
Speaker 12: working with me to do that as well. But it's
Speaker 12: important that we find the right person that has you know,
Speaker 12: great character.
Speaker 9: You know, that's a that's a great.
Speaker 10: Motivator and it can be in front of the room
Speaker 10: when I'm not in there, when I'm with the offense
Speaker 10: or preparing for, you know, something else and working inother
Speaker 10: other areas of the building.
Speaker 9: But that's an important piece to.
Speaker 3: It, and certainly Matt being in the NFL a long
Speaker 3: time as many different connections. As we take a look
Speaker 3: at what he thought were positives this season, here's aber
Speaker 3: some things that.
Speaker 10: I'm proud of this year in terms of just statistically,
Speaker 10: you know, the rush offense continue to really shine. It
Speaker 10: was fourth in the league, you know, the last eight games,
Speaker 10: you know, so the last back half of the season,
Speaker 10: you know, and then the interceptions, the interceptions were down
Speaker 10: to the.
Speaker 9: Last half of the season. You know. That was really
Speaker 9: good to see that.
Speaker 10: Something we emphasized with Justin you know, that in the
Speaker 10: sack total, and he did a really good job of
Speaker 10: doing that. Defensively the last eight games, first in the
Speaker 10: league and scoring defense.
Speaker 9: That was really good to see the guys come together
Speaker 9: that way.
Speaker 10: We were fifth in the league and rush defense the
Speaker 10: last eight the quarterback rating the QBR, we were first
Speaker 10: in the laitue.
Speaker 9: So that's really proud of that.
Speaker 10: And also the interceptions and the interception and the ball
Speaker 10: Hawking that our defense displayed was really good.
Speaker 9: And then what's the most important that as a turnover march?
Speaker 10: How do we go five and three in the last
Speaker 10: eight that was really the turnover marchin right, it's plus twelve, Right,
Speaker 10: that's second in the NFL during that time.
Speaker 9: So those are all winning ways.
Speaker 10: I talked to the players about that, and that's what
Speaker 10: they are, and that's that's proof and progress.
Speaker 9: That we've done a good job there. And then there's
Speaker 9: some individual performances.
Speaker 10: Of course, Cairo had a great year, DJ Cole, TJ Edwards, main,
Speaker 10: all those guys had great years, Jalen you know. So
Speaker 10: there's a lot of guys that had really good performances
Speaker 10: there to really help us going into the future.
Speaker 3: And those are things he's always going to emphasize. Tom
Speaker 3: He is going to emphasize the positives even in the
Speaker 3: in the face of losses. That's well, that will be
Speaker 3: matty reflush and that's what he talks about with his
Speaker 3: team in addition to going through things that need to.
Speaker 2: Be worked on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's disappointed I didn't hear Darnell right, Braxton Jones ten, Oh,
Speaker 5: that's coming, and that's coming because listen if you're not talking,
Speaker 5: if you're talking about team development in the back half
Speaker 5: of the season, and you're not including some of the
Speaker 5: younger offensive linemans that you have aboard, then I think.
Speaker 4: That you have a bigger hole to fill.
Speaker 5: And I do think there's a new a couple new
Speaker 5: offensive linemen that need to be brought aboard and going
Speaker 5: forward for seventeen game stretch of success, it's going to
Speaker 5: take every component.
Speaker 4: That you have on a team.
Speaker 2: You know, Jim, you know it's coming.
Speaker 3: Ryan Pole's going to talk about Darnell Right and Braxton
Speaker 3: Jones here in a minute.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll get We'll get Toms offensive lineman.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, yeah, you got to be excited for
Speaker 6: Darnell Wright and you know the young lineman that got
Speaker 6: in there and participated in Some guys had to be
Speaker 6: thrown in there.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 6: It was unsettled for you know, long stretch of the
Speaker 6: season towards the middle, when they kind of hit their stride,
Speaker 6: I think for the for the Bears offensive line. But yeah,
Speaker 6: a lot to like, they have a lot of improvement
Speaker 6: to do on that side of the ball. I think
Speaker 6: everybody's aware of that. But you know, when you look
Speaker 6: at Roshan Johnson started to mix him in later in
Speaker 6: the years. He had some positive things that happened from
Speaker 6: his standpoint, and you know, I think there are some
Speaker 6: silver linings of what they can do and where they
Speaker 6: can go with this offense. And we'll see where it
Speaker 6: settles with the offense quarter, because that's got to be
Speaker 6: the first domino to fall.
Speaker 2: Here's Paul's on right, Darneld that I'll send him job.
Speaker 9: You know, he continues to work on this technique.
Speaker 7: I think once he closed that gap, you know, the
Speaker 7: technique gap and the consistency of using the right techniques
Speaker 7: versus the right players. There's a rollerdecks that you got
Speaker 7: to build out in terms of the pass rushers that
Speaker 7: you go against because they all have different stuff. So
Speaker 7: once he starts putting that together, you're gonna see a
Speaker 7: really good player. He's out there right now, you know,
Speaker 7: as a rookie, he's out there just using his natural
Speaker 7: ability and in a lot of games that was good enough.
Speaker 7: But there were some games and some reps where it
Speaker 7: wasn't good enough. And he's got to continue to get better.
Speaker 7: And I know he's gonna put the time in, but
Speaker 7: he's made it the right stuff. He's tough, he's strong,
Speaker 7: like all of those core pieces are gonna allow him
Speaker 7: to build off of that, and I think we are
Speaker 7: really good.
Speaker 2: And here's Braxton Jones.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought Brexton did a good job. Obviously, he
Speaker 7: got a little dinged up. That was the first time
Speaker 7: he's missed a game. He did a nice job. He
Speaker 7: continues to get better. I was proud of the progress.
Speaker 7: He spent a lot of time with ol in this
Speaker 7: offseason just working on his anchor, and I thought you
Speaker 7: saw improvements there.
Speaker 9: I do believe it is starting left tackle.
Speaker 7: But if it comes down to a situation where we
Speaker 7: increase competition then and that's what's best for us, then
Speaker 7: we'll do that.
Speaker 11: But I'm proud of Brexit last year. The number one
Speaker 11: at this time. Let you not go number one because
Speaker 11: some small field stuff.
Speaker 2: I was a run on. Sorry about that. Go ahead, Tommy, Well,
Speaker 2: you know, I think.
Speaker 5: Both of those guys they have to invest a lot
Speaker 5: of time in the weight room, and I think that's
Speaker 5: got to be the thing that offensive lineman take most
Speaker 5: in the consideration in the offseason, because we're not going
Speaker 5: to ask you to run a five four, five forty,
Speaker 5: but we are going to ask you to try to
Speaker 5: bench five hundred pounds with those types of body weights,
Speaker 5: and how much strength is confidence on the field.
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Speaker 9: And look at the progress that we've made.
Speaker 13: And so once you feel like, yes, you're not where
Speaker 13: you want to be, We're not where we're going to be,
Speaker 13: but we're pointed in the right direction. And the key
Speaker 13: is having the right places, I mean the right people
Speaker 13: in the right places, doing the right things at the
Speaker 13: right time for the right reasons. And that's what I'm
Speaker 13: focused on. So this is reminiscent of the process that
Speaker 13: we went through in Saint Louis. It's reminiscent of the
Speaker 13: process we went through in Minnesota, you know, six and ten,
Speaker 13: eight and eight, ten and six, twelve and four, And
Speaker 13: there were many times that we were meetings and that
Speaker 13: we would say, we're not making enough progress too quickly,
Speaker 13: and we would have to take a step back and say,
Speaker 13: but are we on the right track?
Speaker 9: Do we have the right people, and are we focused
Speaker 9: on the right things?
Speaker 13: And as I sit here today, unequivocally I believe that
Speaker 13: we have the right set of individuals. And my expectations
Speaker 13: going into this season are extremely high. They're always the
Speaker 13: same that we need to win the NFC North. That's
Speaker 13: where we should be, and so we're going to do
Speaker 13: everything we possibly can to make sure that that's not
Speaker 13: a word of hope, but it also is reality and
Speaker 13: we and it starts with making sure you have the
Speaker 13: right culture, but it also starts with making sure you
Speaker 13: get really good players in here. And I think everyone
Speaker 13: would attest to the fact that the acquisitions that we
Speaker 13: made last year in the draft and in free agency
Speaker 13: is really positive. And I'll tell you this, having rookies playing,
Speaker 13: that's one of the things that impressed me about Matt.
Speaker 13: Many coaches will not play rookies or they shy away
Speaker 13: from it. But having those rookies played, you saw toward
Speaker 13: the end of the year that is going to play
Speaker 13: major dividends not only next year but also into the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, playing rookies is important.
Speaker 5: And I think bringing in alpha males like DJ Moore
Speaker 5: and like Montes sweat and I think Darnell Wright has
Speaker 5: that ability to morph into that one of those veteran
Speaker 5: type A personalities. And I think it's important when your
Speaker 5: pursuit is to make sure that you win the division
Speaker 5: to get yourself into the playoffs. And I'm glad Kevin
Speaker 5: brought that up as a point of ephesis, because if
Speaker 5: you shy away from anything other than that being your goal,
Speaker 5: it's just, you know, it's not really what you're in
Speaker 5: the sport for.
Speaker 4: Jim, Yeah, it's money in the bank.
Speaker 6: Playing all those rookies, it really is. You need about
Speaker 6: nine blue chip players on your team, you know, So
Speaker 6: I'd say Sweat, Jalen Johnson, TJ. Edwards I think is
Speaker 6: a blue chip player. Obviously DJ Moore is a blue
Speaker 6: chip player. And we'll see where it goes with those
Speaker 6: young players like a Tyreek Stevenson and brisker where he
Speaker 6: continues to grow. And so the getting those blue chip
Speaker 6: players and developing these players in the blue chip players.
Speaker 6: So that's money in the bank when you're logging that
Speaker 6: many snaps from a rookie class. They did it last year,
Speaker 6: and they did it this year, and they've got better
Speaker 6: as a team.
Speaker 3: I love his enthusiasm for this position, his outlook and
Speaker 3: where it's going. And then, of course the timeline for
Speaker 3: a new stadium. Options remain Arlington Heights and the city
Speaker 3: of Chicago.
Speaker 13: Ideally, you know, just from the way the market is,
Speaker 13: you know, the longer you wait, the more expensive it
Speaker 13: is of building any project. So I'm make sure I'm
Speaker 13: focused on not rushing, but making sure that we're deliberate
Speaker 13: in that stadium process because you know, truly in that world,
Speaker 13: time is money. And I've said it all along, is
Speaker 13: at the moment that a shovel goes in the ground,
Speaker 13: I'm confident that we will be able to have a
Speaker 13: building to play in thirty six months after that happens.
Speaker 2: It'd be exciting, can't wait.
Speaker 5: It's ambitious, it's ambitiously you know, when you consider a
Speaker 5: snowstorm like what we're on the cusp of coming in
Speaker 5: and that being part of the thirty six months. I'm
Speaker 5: excited to hear it though. And that's kind of the
Speaker 5: time frame that I would like to I would like
Speaker 5: to be a part of.
Speaker 2: And he wants it to be a model franchise gym,
Speaker 2: not just down the field but in business.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it needs to be. But Tom, I got
Speaker 6: to correct it. The frost laws don't come off and
Speaker 6: until normally April, so that's when the shovel goes in
Speaker 6: the ground just for building backgrounds laws.
Speaker 4: Never heard of it.
Speaker 6: They're called frost laws.
Speaker 10: Yes.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Boy, you learned something every time you turn Jim Miller
Speaker 3: or it's not there. Hey, we're out of time, fellows,
Speaker 3: we got to run. Thanks as always for you guys.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next week, Big Jim. For Tom,
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