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I'mjeff, Joni Akadong and the 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.199 broadcast partner from News Radio seven eighty and one oh 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.960 five point OUTFMWBBM, Tom Fair and in his Michigan home, 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.080 all tucked away by a fireplace, no doubt, maybe with 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.120 a cool drink in his hand, the one and only 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.800 former Bears quarterback Jim Miller from sirius XM NFL Radio. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.600 Good evening, Fellas, How are we doing good? Jeff? You 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.320 know it's you know that offseason momentum starts. You know, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.840 you kind of leave the Super Bowl in the rearview mirror, 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.320 you start thinking about all the things that they got 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.000 coming up. They went through the senior ball. You start 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.000 hearing about players that are being disinvited to the Combine 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.440 and wondering how that's going to work out. You think 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.480 about everything else that's going on in the world and 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.880 football to us, it seems like a long time that, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.440 you know, a long way away. But man, once this 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.839 thing starts rolling, like we experienced last year, it goes, 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.400 it goes by fast. Yeah, Combine already here and probably 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.200 the Bears will send a huge contingent down to Indianapolis, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.039 and you know, the business season has already started here. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.679 You know, the Bears resigned the right tackle Bobby Massey. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.480 You know he's going to join us here on the 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.520 show tonight, so we're looking forward to that. But that's 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.520 kind of what is right now. You see teams around 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.280 the league starting to clear some clear some cap space, 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.040 and normally that's what happens. A lot of it is 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.240 to resign their own. You know, a team like Atlanta, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.440 they released a couple of players in Brooks Read and 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.080 All for the cornerback we've already got signed by Arizona, 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.520 and I think they're looking to resign Greedy Jared. He 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.680 was one of the players in the pecking order that 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.320 was on the outside looking in. As for free agency, 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.280 I don't think we expect the Bears to be big players, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.400 not that Ryan Pace wouldn't be interested in signing a 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.520 good player or so. But we know all that kind 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.959 of happened last year. But it'll be interesting to see 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.320 what the Bears do a players they want to resign 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.799 one Bobby Massey, what happens with Adrian Amos Amos excuse 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.680 me and other players. As this offseason, the business season 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.280 really officially kicks off, you know, Jim and Jeff two 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.840 as we can't ignore the Flacco trade of this week 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.720 because we haven't. You know, there's a lot to talk 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.360 about what Vic Fangio is thinking about the future, the 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.560 quarterback position, in the style of offense he's going to run. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.480 It really surprised me. I thought the RPO offense would 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.440 influence him enough for when his opportunity that came to 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.079 be a head coach, he would have to make that decision. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.400 And the decision has been made. It's going to be 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.640 interesting how that affects his success or his future as 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.080 a head coach. Because we've been a part of the 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.760 change from from straight drop back to RPO. Think about it, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.160 though you know John Lay. I mean, is it John 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.720 Elway's decision or was it Vic Fangios the decision. That's 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.960 the big thing. The RPO offense would have been in 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.840 existence when John Elway came out of college. John Elway 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.480 would have run the RPO offense. He was creative with 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.919 his feed, he was a great athlete, and he had 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.360 an arm that was a cannon. So I'm just surprised 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:24.119 through the transition of time that that deal. Jim, Jim, 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:25.839 what are you hearing on that one? Well, I think 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.360 Gary Kubiak remember him now with the Minnesota Vikings and 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.079 former head coach of the Broncos. He coached Jill Flacco. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.000 Remember he was the OC of the Baltimore Ravens before 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.080 he arrived out there in Denver again reuniting with John Elway. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.480 I think he comes with a really a good scouting 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.960 report from that standpoint, And regardless of what you think 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.840 of Jill Flacco, I know he got paid, but he's 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.360 still one. He won a Super Bowl. He's ten and 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.400 six postseason all time, plus he was Super Bowl MVP. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.600 I think he's a solid quarterback who's an upgrade. VIC 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.720 Fanjioe coached him or was on that staff the first 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.720 couple of years. I think he, you know, not that 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.080 he remember them as just being a solid guy. I 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.240 think that's who he really really wants to represent his organization. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.800 He'll make plays. I think he really hasn't had a 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.360 lot of talent around him in Baltimore over the past 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.600 few seasons. Why Joe Flacco's numbers have really suffered, But 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.600 they needed better quarterback play, more solid quarterback play, and 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.000 I think that's what vic Vango was counting on with 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.359 up bringing out Joe Flacco via that trade, an opponent 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.640 the Bears will have on their schedule in Denver in 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.560 the twenty nineteen season. Bears All Access brought to you 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.640 by Igs Energy. You touched on Adrian Amos and I 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.080 do want to talk about him in a couple of 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.600 segments on this because you know, you got all your 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.760 experts kind of ranking free agents at this point, many 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.120 of them as the second or third safety on their list, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.680 along with Landon Collins and Earl Thomas for covering from 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.160 his injury. You got LaMarcus Joiner on that list, Taryn Matthew, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.840 Trey Boston, Aha, Clinton Knicks, all kind of free agents 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.200 at safety and what if it's not going to be 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.880 something that they will be able to get done or 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.320 that Adrian would accept, you know, other areas they could 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.360 possibly go. But I'd love if Adrian would come back, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.520 just to keep that back for on intact. You know, Jeff, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.040 what do you think do you think at the end 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.520 of the season last year that Kyle Fuller had a 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.280 higher profile than Adrian Amos does at the end of 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.880 the season. Just a quick reaction to that question specifically, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.400 and then I want to talk a little more. I'm 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.479 not I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. You 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.200 mean in terms of the projection for Kyle having a 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.120 Pro Bowl season, right. Well, you know, so last last year, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.599 when Kyle was a free agent, he immediately got the 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.600 offer from Green Bay, right and then you know, then 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.440 it kind of started the recognition of yeah, there's gonna 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.640 be teams out there that are looking as Kyle Fuller 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.040 as an asset as the cornerback position, and the Bears 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.600 had to think the same way about him. Now, Adrian Amos, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.440 does he conclude this season with the profile that Kyle 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.799 did last year or does he have a higher profile 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.280 because you know, he's been doing some really nice things 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.440 on the field the last couple of years. Jim, what's 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.599 the league look at how they look at Adrian? I think, well, one, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.280 I think that position, no position has been hotter than 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.120 the safety position. Look how quickly all the safeties got 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.000 scooped up a year ago. You know, free agents were 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.320 going everywhere left and right around the National Football League, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:16.960 and they probably got paid a little bit higher just 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.440 due to what they're being asked to do more in 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.880 terms of coverage. I mean, even look at the Chargers 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.520 they went with a seven dB look here in the 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.440 postseason and how they played, say against Baltimore, and how 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.360 they shut down Lamar Jackson because they wanted an athlete 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.640 on athlete. Really Tom's point about the RPO offenses and 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.760 mobile quarterbacks that are now around the NFL, I think 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.880 there'll be a market for amos out there. I think 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.440 safeties have been hot, and then it's really the choice 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.799 of the Bears. If it gets too pricey, the Bears 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.280 will probably take themselves out of the mix. Because if 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.839 you're looking for a position that's really deep in the draft, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.640 I think the safety position is it. There's good defensive 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.080 backs in this draft from safeties corners that are here. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.920 I saw a couple of them down at the Reesa's 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.800 Senior Bowl. Really like Nasir Adderley, the kid out of 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.040 down Hello, where he's six foot two hundred pounds, Darnel Sabatt, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.440 one defensive player of the week down there at the 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.120 Reesa's Senior Bowl. He's out of Maryland, five to eleven, 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.040 two hundred pounds. That's kind of in the same frame 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.480 and mold of Adrian Amos. So there's a lot of 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.600 talented guys where if the Bears field that it gets 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.360 too pricey, that they won't match that offer in free 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.920 agency for Adrian Amos, then I think there's gonna be 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.000 plenty of players available available for them via the draft. 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.800 All right, we gotta take our first break here on 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.480 Bears All Access. Jeff Jony Act, Tom Fair, and Jim 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.440 Miller with you. Coming up, we'll hear from Bobby Massey, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.800 the Bears veteran right tackle uncaus he lays down some 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.720 roots here with the Chicago Bears in his new contract extensions. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.040 All coming up next here on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:45.440 seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.960 to you by IGS Energy, a proud and partner of 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.960 the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.800 products to over one million customers across the country. Learn 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.080 more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Jony Act, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.200 Tom There and Jim Miller with you here on Chicago 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.000 Sports Radio seventy to score and pleased to be joined 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.120 by starting right tackle Bobby Massy of the Chicago Bears. Bobby, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.200 good evening and congratulations on your new contract extension. And 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.960 I know I talked to you, Oh, I don't know when. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.720 It was, maybe late November, and just you know, theorizing 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.360 about you know, your impact here and what it would 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.239 mean to stay here, and you were all all about 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.560 wanting to stay with the Chicago Bears. It seems to 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.920 be a great fit for you in that locker room 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.320 with that group of guys in this system, and the 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.360 Bears see it that way too. Congratulations. Oh, thank you, 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:33.800 Thank you a lot. And I'd like to say thank 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.720 you for having me on myself. Yeah, what do you what? How? 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.120 How exciting was it for you to get it done 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.200 so quickly and let the world for me to get 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.760 it done because I didn't want to leave Chicago Chicago 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.200 is where I wanted to be. You know, I got 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.920 here three years ago and and the team wasn't what 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.640 it was from the last game we played, and I 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.480 just didn't want to I didn't want to miss that, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.400 you know, because this team's gonna be good. The super 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.160 Bowl is coming to the team, and I didn't I 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.000 just didn't want to leave Chicago. On that note, Hey, Bobby, congratulations. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.400 I want to just backtrack a little bit because when 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.319 I was reading about you, I was a fourth round 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.520 draft choice. You are a fourth round draft choice, but 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.920 you came out after your junior year. So when you 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.880 look back at some of these young guys coming out 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.680 of college, would that one more year given you more 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.840 experience to become maybe a first rounder or or was 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.720 it just that you felt like you had matured enough 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.280 in college you and you were ready for the NFL opportunity. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.800 At this point in my career, I could say, I 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:37.320 could say maybe saying an extra year would have help 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.800 help my game a little more for the NFL level. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.199 But you know, at this point getting I got the 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.800 chance of starry as a rookie coming to the NFL, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.840 and I played sixteen games, So I mean it wouldn't. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.719 It wasn't a great sixteen games, but I got to 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.720 play of the rookies. But you've always played, you know, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.800 everywhere you've been, you know, coming here to the Bears, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.600 look at your track record here. So I mean that's 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.000 the thing about it is, even going back to college, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:05.440 you are a regular player. Yeah. Well, Bobby, Jim Miller here, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.959 congratulations and welcome back to Chicago. Didn't want to see 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.640 it go, but man, just how you've developed as a player. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.160 You know, everybody's is shedding labels, and I remember everybody's saying, hey, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.280 Bobby Mass he struggles against the speed rushers. I didn't 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.760 see that this past year. What how is? How is 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.720 Harry he stand really helped your game and how you've 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.719 gotten better with everything you've worked out? Uh, coach here, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.600 he's a great coach. He's one of the best coaches 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.960 I've had and going on my eight year career, and 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.520 he just makes you work. Man, he brings the best 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.680 out of you. It's he kind of reminds me of 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.960 a college coach because he has that mentality and he 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.360 doesn't he didn't care what year you are, how much 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.320 money you make, and he's gonna He's gonna bring the 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:49.640 best out of you. Hey, Bobby, I'm big on following 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.640 the careers of offensive linemen most of because Tom Thare 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.800 always talks about it in great detail, but you know, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.880 just the types of penalties that are called on players 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.600 and things like false starts and holding penalties and just 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.720 the mental part of the game. And man, the last 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.200 two years, it has really been impressive how you have 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:14.600 really not been bothered at all with the flags. Yeah, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.600 no holding penalties in twenty eighteen and that's the first 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.920 time in your career, not that you've had many, but 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.800 no holding penalties in twenty eighteen for a team that 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.240 didn't have a lot of holding penalties this season? What 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.360 do you attribute that to? And it does it have 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.960 any impact on the fact that you guys were all 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.360 together for the entire season for the most part. Kyle 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.040 Long reinserted there at the end of the season. But 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.520 what's the impact of the fewest number of holding penalties 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.560 I think in the National Football League as a unit 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.720 and you yourself not getting one. I think number one 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.520 that has to do with the guys being there, the 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.560 same unit being there all season and basically, besides Kyle 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.520 be half part of it, and the coachy stand you know, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.760 his blocking method the way he came He came in 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.280 and you know he had this philosophy knuckles up block, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.920 and he didn't one of us grabbing guys and just 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.000 have us driving our feet every every single day. You know, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.160 we do the same drills one hundred miles an hour 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.520 every single day. And so that coach, he staying that 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.600 all that credit goes to him. Hey, Bobo, when you 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.600 talk about the drills that you do every day, because 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.800 it's kind of a monotonous living to be an offensive lineman, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.920 you do the same things. But what about you throughout 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.880 your career because you kind of come in the NFL 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.680 and you have a stationary stand up quarterback, seven step drops, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.720 a lot of responsibility of single blocks for the offensive tackles. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.600 But now you're an athlete man, you're RPO, you're all 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.760 over the field, you're pulling and everything. What's changed about 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.560 your game specifically from the two offenses that you've lived 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.280 through so far. I'd just say I had to become 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.640 I've had to come more versatile because you know, I've 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.360 been coming from Bruce arians you know, when I was 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.120 with him, it was all straight drop backs. You know, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.559 if the run went there early, you know who was 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.800 going to throw the ball sixty sixty times a game. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.600 And so this is something in being first in Chicago. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.480 My first couple of years here, all we did was 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.560 basically run the ball. So I mean, I've just look 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.560 conversed though, being in different offenses and being in different 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.880 schemes well, durability too. When you look at it from 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.520 from your standpoint, forty six out of forty eight games 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.400 you started as a Chicago bearer, what has been your 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.520 off season regiment? Because man, you're you're The durability that 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.400 you display has been phenomenal from the bearer's standpoint, Yeah, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.040 not gonna would for that, but you know, I just 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:31.719 I just trained a lot in the off season. You know, 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.640 as soon as the season was over, I take two 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.760 two three weeks off and I started back training, do 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.160 a lot of yoga and stretching. Um, it's been pretty 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.480 much luck. You know, I can't really say it's everything 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.600 I'm doing the off season, all right. Bobby Massy, our 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.400 guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.880 six seventy to score kind enough to join us here 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.959 this evening and you know. Yet you got me very 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.679 excited when you said this, This thing is a super 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.840 Bowl bound and obviously it could have happened this year. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.960 A lot of people felt maybe I had a schedule, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.520 but the season was so much fun. I could see 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.720 it on your face from the time you got here, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.480 from the time I see you then to now. Just 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.960 your disposition and your your approach and your presence in 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.520 that locker room is so different when than you got 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.320 here and you came off a winning team at Arizona, 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.120 one of the few guys on this roster that had 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.120 won in any kind of a playoff scenario until this year. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.040 You must know what it feels like then, you know, 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.960 you see it. You know what it felt like in 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.480 Arizona and how it all came together? Do you do? 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.680 You definitely see that here now and where you guys 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.840 are going and using this past season as a platform 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.720 to the future. Oh, I definitely see that, you know. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.360 Unfortunately I haven't made it to the show, but you 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.040 know I've I've been one game away and this team, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.040 man is, we can do some incredible things with the 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.240 guys that we have, and I'm sore the additions that 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.360 we're gonna make a off season and we're going to 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.640 be in stoppable. If you look at all the games 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.400 that we were just in this past season, we were 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:10.560 in every single game, and unfortunately we came up short 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.360 on a few. But you know the team that in 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.280 the future is going to be forced to be recommenced. Hey, Bobby, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.200 when you look at the future and you think about 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.400 this past year, you got a new system, you got 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.120 a new head coach, a new position coach, and then 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.200 you play with Kyle Long, Eric Cush and Brian Witzman. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.960 When so you're you're trying to learn the system yourself, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.640 You're trying to understand the terminology perfectly, and then you're 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.560 trying to communicate with a guy every other week. How 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.040 difficult was that experience for you until you were able 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.400 to master or understand the system as well as you 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.920 did at the end of the year. I mean, it 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.880 wasn't it wasn't super hard. You know, me and all 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:52.000 those guys, we stayed stayed after extra and after practice 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.640 doing drills, and we came in early before meeting study plays, 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.640 and you know, all of us have a real great relationship. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.680 So wouldn't wouldn't as hard as as you would think, Well, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.680 from your standpoint, Bobby, you've been around veteran quarterbacks and 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.920 now you're seeing Mitchell Trubisky growing in what areas did 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.840 you see him grow and challenge himself? Because it just 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.120 seems like it was it was night and day from 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.920 where he started to where he finished as the Bear 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.400 starting quarterback. Yeah. I think his decision making, you know, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.720 that was one of the things I noticed the most 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.560 from missus rookie years to the last year and the 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.440 command he took over over the offense um. There was 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.920 a lot of pressure coming in from him, from him 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.240 being a high draft pick and being a basically the 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.520 starting quarterback of the NFL team and coming into the 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.160 huddle with a bunch of growing man and expecting to 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:48.480 leave us. So that I knew. I noticed once Ota 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.960 is a mini camp that you know, Mitch, Mitch stepped up. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.760 You know, he grew appairing over the off season. He 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.760 basically became a man, and it was great to see 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.800 because miss is gonna be a great quarterback. They are. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.840 There a lot of guys on that roster that became 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:08.639 men in twenty eighteen. Oh, definitely, definitely, definitely, Well, James 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.960 Daniels was one. Yeah, James Daniels, let's talk about that guy. Oh, 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.520 James is a great guy. Don't judge book cover when 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.560 it cover to James. He might be a laid back, cool, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.840 laid back guy, but he'll say your head off on 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.000 the field. All right, Bobby, we're gonna let you go, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.919 but before we do, you're an old miss. You're an 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.920 old miss. Guy you played in Mississippi. They've got a 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.960 bunch of guys coming out among the you know, all 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.480 the Power of five conferences, a lot of representation of 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.640 the scouting gun by coming up here in a couple 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.480 of weeks. But I saw a photo of DK Metcalf. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.800 They're their outstanding receiver. He looks like um, a combination 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.600 of Calvin Johnson, uh Khalil Mack in terms of his body. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.960 Did you see that Twitter photo of DK Metcalf, young 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.600 receiver coming out of Mississippi. Are you aware of him? Yeah? 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.920 You look unbelievable. 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Just finished 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.119 our conversation with Bobby Massey, and you know, I really 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.600 I want to emphasize again just how his personality has 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.080 changed since the time he arrived in Chicago as a 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.520 free agent signee and to where he's at right now, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.520 and a lot has gone in the right direction. From 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.080 Bobby Masson and Jim you mentioned it to the durability 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.280 has been outstanding. Tommy's cleaned up his game and he's 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.960 become a very important part of this offensive line. Thought 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.159 on what he had to say tonight, well, you know, 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.400 I'd love the fact that Harry Heastead was able to 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.119 take him and mold him into the player that that 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.240 he was going to benefit the use of his size 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.879 with his offense, and that is a big change because 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.280 when you go to those Bruce Arians where you have 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.640 a lot of responsibility, you don't have a lot of help, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.080 and you don't have a lot of versatility within your offense. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.200 If you fail with the run men, you go exclusive passing. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.600 That even puts it even more pressure on Bobby Massey. 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.960 You know, I like where Bobby Massey has earned all 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.679 of our respect because when he came here and you 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.040 have a lacking supporting cast that you know, sometimes it 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:40.879 you don't look like the player you really are. But 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.240 when he comes in here and he learns that new system, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.600 dedicates himself, plays with three different left guards, four different 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.840 tight ends, and h backs and stuff, I'm really I'm 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.000 happy the Bears went out and signed him, and I'm 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.400 glad he's here because that continuity amongst the offensive line 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.480 is as important as any position out there. And he's 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.360