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Speaker 2: All right, a lot of great stuff happened over the
Speaker 2: course of the last three or four days about your Bears, man.
Speaker 2: They took care of business against the Bengals in the
Speaker 2: preseason home opener, and now I'll wrap up a rapid
Speaker 2: preseason as they take on the two time defending champion
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs coming up on Thursday. You'll hear that game,
Speaker 2: I believe the kick off at seven to twenty five
Speaker 2: from Kansas City right here on AM one thousand and
Speaker 2: the Bears Radio Network. Jeff Joniak along with Tom Fair.
Speaker 2: I'll have a special guest today. It'll be Gerald Everett,
Speaker 2: the veteran tight end. I want to thank you our
Speaker 2: crew of producers that always help us out. Justin Pottinger
Speaker 2: handle them to work here today as well as we
Speaker 2: got Dan Brilly and Jordan tread Up, and our executive
Speaker 2: producer of the Bears Radio Network is Eric Oestrusk. You'd
Speaker 2: be welcome in the Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom Thayer.
Speaker 2: I know you enjoyed that performance and a Bears team
Speaker 2: that really is shutting the door defensively. Yeah, Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: and the offense getting a lot of attention and rightly so.
Speaker 2: But that defense, Tommy, has been real good. I think
Speaker 2: outscoring opponents sixty to three or sixty to ten in
Speaker 2: the last couple games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, they haven't allowed the opponent's running game
Speaker 3: to be very productive. They've really challenged their pass protection.
Speaker 3: They've kind of shown to the other teams around the
Speaker 3: league what they're capable of doing, not only on the
Speaker 3: front end, but from the back end to help the
Speaker 3: front end. And I think that's going to open the
Speaker 3: eyes of a lot of early season offensive coordinators because
Speaker 3: the Bears have a lot of peace is yet to
Speaker 3: be in place.
Speaker 4: When you look at.
Speaker 3: Kevin Bayern and Jakwan Brisker and Kyler Gordon just coming
Speaker 3: back in the fold, uh Tyreek Stevenson getting healthier, and
Speaker 3: you know Montes Whatt hasn't played very much.
Speaker 4: So there's a.
Speaker 3: Lot more building that this team can do defensively, and
Speaker 3: then they got exposed a little bit what this offense
Speaker 3: is capable of and where it's going and what's happening.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of exciting things that I think
Speaker 3: to look at to watch and pay it and anticipate.
Speaker 2: Today practice just get the week underwage. Coone Brisker is back.
Speaker 2: So that's the first time in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: and I think we both agree that is a major
Speaker 2: development because just to get as many reps as possible
Speaker 2: for that opener together. Buyer not able to go just yet,
Speaker 2: but if he comes back here in the short term,
Speaker 2: using those couple of weeks after this preseason wraps up
Speaker 2: to get ready for the opener will be critical.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, we set up in the booth Saturday
Speaker 3: and watch Jakwan Brisker go through a pretty extensive pregame
Speaker 3: workout and making sure that everything.
Speaker 4: From running around is stretching out.
Speaker 3: They're having a little hand eye coordination drills with a
Speaker 3: coach John Hope.
Speaker 4: So I think that's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3: So it's not like you're just going to the stadium
Speaker 3: watching them play the game.
Speaker 4: You're making shoe sure that you're doing your due.
Speaker 3: Diligence and getting to work and putting some stress in
Speaker 3: and on your body to get an evaluation of where you're.
Speaker 2: At all right, that defense, by the way, nine consecutive
Speaker 2: quarters since the defense is allowed a touchdown here in
Speaker 2: the preseason, and the interceptions and the takeaways starting to
Speaker 2: pile up as well. At a series of people here
Speaker 2: at Hallis today go to the podium. We like to
Speaker 2: play that for you each and every week of our show. Today,
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator Shane Waldron took the mic to talk about
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams, the offense and how things worked against the
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals and what he's learning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the daily improved, the daily recognition of all the
Speaker 5: different fronts, coverages, defensive structures that we'll see. Obviously, it
Speaker 5: was great to go against Cincinnati for a couple of
Speaker 5: days there where you get a little bit more of
Speaker 5: that three four structure and their base defensive looks. So
Speaker 5: you know every one of these reps. I think he's
Speaker 5: used as a learning op and he keeps banking them
Speaker 5: and understanding some of the space, the spatial differences maybe
Speaker 5: from you know, the hash marks in college to the pros.
Speaker 5: So he's constantly learning and understanding. And it's our job
Speaker 5: to keep doing a great job with with Carrie and
Speaker 5: myself of you know, putting him in the where can
Speaker 5: his eyes go fast so he can read it and
Speaker 5: play fast every single snap from him.
Speaker 6: In terms of adapting to the speed, in terms of
Speaker 6: specifically throwing windows that they just close so much faster.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, part of that, you know
Speaker 5: is just seeing concepts for the first time sometimes in
Speaker 5: those live game actions. But you know, he had a
Speaker 5: great you know, the ball out to call the ball
Speaker 5: out to Simba. You know some of those where he's
Speaker 5: showing that he plays in rhythm. He can play in rhythm,
Speaker 5: find those throws and then you know what, what's what's
Speaker 5: uh pretty cool to watch is when the play breaks down,
Speaker 5: you know, it almost seems like it's in slow motion
Speaker 5: for him, and he can find the different rush lanes,
Speaker 5: being smart with the ball, you know, break and contain
Speaker 5: and creating some explosives down the field. So you know,
Speaker 5: for us with him, you know, it's about finding the
Speaker 5: balance of those two things. And I think he's doing
Speaker 5: a good job of progressing with that, and like you mentioned,
Speaker 5: you know, feeling out what are those windows, what are
Speaker 5: the windows that are too tight to to fit it in,
Speaker 5: or what are the windows that are uh that are
Speaker 5: legit completions before getting into potential scrambling, how do.
Speaker 6: You sort of describe his ability to not only understand
Speaker 6: what he sees, but to explain it in a way
Speaker 6: that's productive for you and then the guys around him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a great trait that he has.
Speaker 5: Like we get over the sideline and you look at
Speaker 5: the surface, but before you even look at the surface,
Speaker 5: you know, he can already tell you know why the
Speaker 5: why behind each read And I think that's to me
Speaker 5: that's the most important part. You know, if he if
Speaker 5: he's not seeing it clearly or something like that, that's
Speaker 5: where you really need to, you know, go back and
Speaker 5: go through it. But you know he sees it clearly,
Speaker 5: can can really talk about uh, you know, different windows.
Speaker 5: And also from the quarterback's lens is totally different than
Speaker 5: what you see from the you know, the stands lens
Speaker 5: or the coach on the sideline lens.
Speaker 7: You know that ground level, where.
Speaker 5: Was the defender exactly at when you hit the top
Speaker 5: of your drop and he's so you know, he easily
Speaker 5: can clearly articulate every one of those points in regards
Speaker 5: to the space or what happened on a play.
Speaker 8: Caleb talked about the scramble rules on the forty five
Speaker 8: yard or to Rome, but we need to know just
Speaker 8: where to stay in range for Rome to know where
Speaker 8: he needed to be and that. I know the play
Speaker 8: looks effortless and all the thing, but how difficult was
Speaker 8: the execution of that and just showing how they did
Speaker 8: the two of them as rookies had been able.
Speaker 4: To master that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think for those guys, the effort, you know,
Speaker 5: was starting with Rome with his instant reaction when he
Speaker 5: feels the play going off schedule. Chris Bady, he's done
Speaker 5: a great job with the receivers, coaching them up on
Speaker 5: what are some of the scrambled response rules and where
Speaker 5: to get to, But starts with that hustle and that effort,
Speaker 5: you know, anytime a play breaks down, and then for
Speaker 5: the line up front as well, understanding you know, those
Speaker 5: would be the tempting times to maybe grab the defensive
Speaker 5: lineman or you know, hold right there. But they did
Speaker 5: a great job saying clean hands, clean feet, and then
Speaker 5: you know the rest of it like that that they're
Speaker 5: always making roll into his left. You know, I'd love
Speaker 5: to say that we drilled that forever and magically we
Speaker 5: made that happen. But man, he's he's got that ability,
Speaker 5: and to me, that's where he finds that balance of
Speaker 5: you know, when's the right time, and that was obviously
Speaker 5: a great time to create something off schedule right there
Speaker 5: when he didn't feel his initial reads were they're in rhythm,
Speaker 5: and then he's also clean with the ball to get
Speaker 5: through the line of scrimmage and fine roam down the
Speaker 5: field and activated.
Speaker 3: What are you looking forward to seeing from him in
Speaker 3: practice and how what kind of timeline could.
Speaker 9: Be to try to get him up to speed.
Speaker 5: Sure, I think you know, Chris Morgan and Haas, they've
Speaker 5: done a really good job where he's been on the side,
Speaker 5: hasn't been able to participate in the live work right there,
Speaker 5: but from a meeting standpoint, from a being locked in
Speaker 5: and any chance he's on the field and he's in earshot.
Speaker 5: You know, I've talked to Coron a lot and he
Speaker 5: does a great job of taking a mental rep every
Speaker 5: time he hears the play, So looking forward to him
Speaker 5: and a smart guy, smart, tough and reliable that can
Speaker 5: start off, you know, with a good bass already, but
Speaker 5: there's no substitute for getting out there and doing it. So,
Speaker 5: you know, that's the biggest thing. I think, like a
Speaker 5: lot of these stuff, I know, I talked about it
Speaker 5: a lot, but the you know, each one of these
Speaker 5: situations are all just individually based, you know, and and
Speaker 5: there might be different things that you can recall from
Speaker 5: the past that might lead you to the hope one
Speaker 5: way or another, but that's just hoping because you don't
Speaker 5: know until that individual does it.
Speaker 7: But he's put himself in.
Speaker 5: All the you know, in the best position possible, knowing
Speaker 5: he's dealing with injuries, knowing he's you know, worked his
Speaker 5: way and done a great job with the the training
Speaker 5: staff and the strength conditioning staff to put himself in
Speaker 5: position to get out on the field. And then you know,
Speaker 5: from a mental standpoint, he stayed so locked in every
Speaker 5: opportunity's had. So now it's just about going out there
Speaker 5: and doing it.
Speaker 6: With your interpretation of Tyson's performance on Saturdays, it relates
Speaker 6: to his continued development as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love Tyson's poise.
Speaker 5: You know, he played with that calm, cool and collected,
Speaker 5: you know, demeanor at the line of scrimmage, was able
Speaker 5: to get right through, whether it was right through a
Speaker 5: progression to a second or third read or number ones there,
Speaker 5: and he played in great rhythm right there. So he
Speaker 5: just showed that poise poison the running game, you know,
Speaker 5: the ownership of the offense. So it was great to
Speaker 5: see and talk about a guy that hard work pays
Speaker 5: off man. No one's going to outwork him, and so
Speaker 5: it's great to see that out on the field.
Speaker 2: That's our offensive coordinator, Shane Waldron. A bunch of topics
Speaker 2: that probably sparks some thought, Tom, I'd like to start
Speaker 2: with just the football intelligence and the acuity of Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: It's showing he's digesting this playbook. He knows a lot
Speaker 2: about what's going on on the football field based on coverages, progressions, correction, whatever.
Speaker 2: And again this is just the infancy of his career,
Speaker 2: but it seems like he's way ahead of the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a lot of encouraging work in the games itself.
Speaker 3: We've seen a lot of encouraging work in practice and
Speaker 3: his development through the time that he's been in Lake
Speaker 3: Forest at Hallis Hall since the rookie mini camp into
Speaker 3: where he's at right now. The one thing that I
Speaker 3: like that Shane kind of addressed a little bit is
Speaker 3: the understanding of protection conditioning. And what I mean by
Speaker 3: that is when you're run blocking, that's not as exhausting
Speaker 3: as protection is. So if you're in a two minute drill,
Speaker 3: if you're throwing the ball a lot more, you have
Speaker 3: to understand that you're going to be fighting on your feet.
Speaker 4: For a lot longer than a run play.
Speaker 3: And so Shane to make a point that when he
Speaker 3: did scramble outside the pocket for that long connection to
Speaker 3: Roma Dunees, the offensive line didn't get sloppy. And the
Speaker 3: conditioning of protection is a mindset that an offensive line
Speaker 3: has to develop because in the past, in the past
Speaker 3: with the quarterbacks, they've done more scrambling beyond the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage, where Caleb doesn't do that. Caleb stays behind
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage and looks for open targets. So
Speaker 3: now you've got to do that. You know, that conditioning
Speaker 3: work that keeps you in shape, that keeps you on
Speaker 3: your feet, that keeps your feet moving, that you don't
Speaker 3: become susceptible to any type of a penalty or any
Speaker 3: types of calls that could hurt you.
Speaker 2: The thing about that too, you didn't have to do
Speaker 2: that much. You guys ran the ball, so you were
Speaker 2: doing the mashing racking your day.
Speaker 3: But when you did get into a two minute drill
Speaker 3: or you got into a ketchup scenario, or even that
Speaker 3: game that we lost against the Miami Dolphins in eighty
Speaker 3: five when it was so hot down there and we
Speaker 3: had to play a brand of ketchup football at the end,
Speaker 3: and we are throwing the.
Speaker 4: Ball a lot more.
Speaker 3: It is more exhausting the pass block repeatedly than it
Speaker 3: is the run block.
Speaker 10: All right, won more on the old line.
Speaker 2: So I think we're all excited to see A'magaji get
Speaker 2: out there. A lot of prospect, hope there a third
Speaker 2: round pick invested. Yale Hinsdale Central and so torn quad
Speaker 2: in October start of the season on the NFI list.
Speaker 10: But now he's back. What's your optimism on him?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: I like he's got really good balance. I've seen him
Speaker 3: work out of a right handed stance. In the left
Speaker 3: handed stance, he makes the adjustment in his feet. He's
Speaker 3: got an understanding of how you retreat off the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage if you have a pass blocking responsibility. He
Speaker 3: knows how to get off the ball with good leverage
Speaker 3: if he's got a run blocking responsibility. But now it's
Speaker 3: about putting shoulder pads on in helmet, getting in your pants,
Speaker 3: getting back in a stance that a meaningful stance since
Speaker 3: last October. And then listen, I have all the faith
Speaker 3: in the world and Chris Morgan, because he does a
Speaker 3: great job of does the hard investigative work of what
Speaker 3: position best fits the talent that he's looking at. And
Speaker 3: so I think it's a perfect matchup between Chris Morgan
Speaker 3: and Amagaji. And then we'll see in a matter of days,
Speaker 3: weeks and months of how Karn fits in this offense best.
Speaker 2: All right, time for our first break and on the
Speaker 2: other side will be joined by tight end Gerald Everett,
Speaker 2: the newest Chicago Bear on that Bears offense that's coming
Speaker 2: up next here on Bears Weekly on a ESPN one
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Speaker 1: Bears Weekly Voice of the Bears for twenty four years,
Speaker 1: Jeff Chef, the Bears Radio.
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Speaker 10: This segment of Bears Weekly is.
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Speaker 2: welcoming in veteran tight end Gerald Ever to the program.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us tonight and appreciate your time. I'm
Speaker 2: going back because Caleb's twenty two and you just got
Speaker 2: off the podium here at Hallis Hall earlier today. Everybody's
Speaker 2: asking a ton of questions about Caleb, so that's always
Speaker 2: the topic nowadays.
Speaker 10: But he's all twenty two. You entered the league at
Speaker 10: twenty two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so give us your experience at twenty two and
Speaker 2: then kind of overlay it to what he's going through
Speaker 2: at twenty two. Granted different positions tight end, quarterback, but
Speaker 2: just the maturity level that you see from him or
Speaker 2: where you were at a twenty two Can you look
Speaker 2: back now at thirty.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was definitely a young kid coming into the
Speaker 11: city of Los Angeles at twenty two, obviously going to
Speaker 11: the Rams and just trying to find my feet in
Speaker 11: the organization, my role on the team and what will
Speaker 11: be acts to me.
Speaker 12: And obviously you have.
Speaker 11: Your own expectations and yourself and then you have what
Speaker 11: the team wants you to do or who they want
Speaker 11: you to be on the field. So I can only
Speaker 11: imagine what Caleb's going through. But for myself, just wanting
Speaker 11: to compete and perform to my best capabilities, make my
Speaker 11: family proud, make the guys back at college proud, and
Speaker 11: just be as best I could be, really complete player,
Speaker 11: and obviously just staying healthy throughout the whole season.
Speaker 2: Kind of mission accomplished, You're still going You're still going strong,
Speaker 2: So you feel that way, do you feel mission accomplished?
Speaker 10: But still some goals to be for sure?
Speaker 11: A team, I think just being in this business as
Speaker 11: long as I have been, going into year eight, I
Speaker 11: think the work speaks for yourself. But obviously still wanting
Speaker 11: to eclipse myself each year and my productivity and everything
Speaker 11: that I've put up for the team. But with Caleb
Speaker 11: in mind, I think that he'll have a different set
Speaker 11: of tools, and he'll have a lot more pressure on
Speaker 11: his back just being quarterback and you know, number one
Speaker 11: pig in the Heisman winner. Obviously he's going to have
Speaker 11: his own set of goals and aspirations to.
Speaker 2: Achieve and a lot of money, right right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: can't forget that yeah, you Gerald.
Speaker 3: I always asked this question because I was a fourth
Speaker 3: rounder and I thought I should have been picked higher.
Speaker 3: And when I look at your journey of being a
Speaker 3: high school basketball player, going to a couple of different colleges,
Speaker 3: and then you have a relationship with Waldron and then
Speaker 3: you're a second rounder, were you surprised that you were
Speaker 3: a second rounder or did you expect that?
Speaker 12: I was expecting it.
Speaker 11: Honestly, I had a first second round grade, so I
Speaker 11: could have really left my junior year, but I wanted
Speaker 11: to make sure I got my degree first and then
Speaker 11: pursued football after that. But the Rams actually didn't have
Speaker 11: a first round pick my year because they traded up
Speaker 11: to get golf, so I probably would have went first
Speaker 11: round if they had that pick available. However, going second
Speaker 11: round is still a blessing into the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 11: So yeah, I think that I had a great journey
Speaker 11: through college and now the NFL.
Speaker 3: So when you played basket ball, did football become natural
Speaker 3: to you with because you look at all the job
Speaker 3: requirements of a tight end nowadays, an online blocker, a
Speaker 3: backside blocker, an h back, a movement tight end, even
Speaker 3: split out some wide receiver was there anything that was
Speaker 3: attachable from your basketball life to introduce you into the
Speaker 3: football life.
Speaker 11: Well, I started off playing football at a young age,
Speaker 11: just kind of took a hiatus away from it and
Speaker 11: picked up basketball and ran track and baseball and all
Speaker 11: that good stuff. But I would say, for one, the
Speaker 11: lateral quickness and the agility drills probably translated the most
Speaker 11: for me. And at the end of the day, I
Speaker 11: was all around sport athlete. So I think that all
Speaker 11: of that helped me in my translation to football field again.
Speaker 2: Gerald everdar guest here on ESPN one thousand of the
Speaker 2: Bears Radio Network getting ready to wrap the preseason.
Speaker 10: Tom and I were just talking about it.
Speaker 2: You know, you wait, you wait, you wait for that
Speaker 2: first snap in the preseason and boom, it's gone.
Speaker 10: It went fast, it did you know?
Speaker 2: And there's still work to be done obviously before the opener,
Speaker 2: But did you feel things have gone fast? And is
Speaker 2: it partly because it's new for you you're a new
Speaker 2: young quarterback, or is it just a different heartbeat of
Speaker 2: the preseason nowadays. I don't quite get it myself.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of rules that's changing right now, but preseason,
Speaker 11: I mean, I think it's used for young guys to
Speaker 11: come out and showcase their talents and get some good
Speaker 11: tape out, whether it be for this team or the next.
Speaker 11: But for me, it definitely came around fast, just wanting
Speaker 11: to see the speed of the game at the professional
Speaker 11: level and get used to my teammates. Obviously, you grow
Speaker 11: up watching a lot of these guys and then you're
Speaker 11: booming in the locker room playing with them. Like you said,
Speaker 11: so it definitely rose around fast. But Week one can't
Speaker 11: get here any sooner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you, not only is it the cliche,
Speaker 2: which is also a fact you get tired of facing
Speaker 2: the same guys every day. That being said, the way
Speaker 2: the defense is buzzing around, especially that secondary, I mean
Speaker 2: there's a bad men at every I mean on the
Speaker 2: depth chart, Tom and I have a hard time figuring out,
Speaker 2: like how you gonna make these decisions for the fifty three?
Speaker 2: But what are you learning about this defense that you
Speaker 2: didn't know before? You guys played the Chargers last year,
Speaker 2: but you weren't available for that game, so you missed
Speaker 2: the Bears defense. But what are you learning about this
Speaker 2: defense and how fast it plays and what they're up to?
Speaker 12: They're fast. They're very fast and physical.
Speaker 11: I would say one thing that I've learned about them
Speaker 11: is just their ability to attack to the ball.
Speaker 12: A lot of guys on a D line don't really
Speaker 12: get out much.
Speaker 11: When you an NFL, I guess when you're talented, but
Speaker 11: that's something they preach here and harp on every day.
Speaker 11: So seeing them punch the ball at every rep and
Speaker 11: D lineman get out of the stack every rep is
Speaker 11: something to see for sure.
Speaker 4: Gerald.
Speaker 3: So in twenty twenty two, you're with the team again
Speaker 3: for the first time. You got fifty eight catches five
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty five yards. You start twelve out of
Speaker 3: sixteen games. How are you so productive so quickly? Is
Speaker 3: it transferable to every team? Is it the Shane Waldron factor?
Speaker 3: Or is it just that you assimilate to the system
Speaker 3: that you take you join.
Speaker 11: Well, I had a long collegiate career just bouncing around
Speaker 11: from school to school and different quarterbacks, different teammates, different locations,
Speaker 11: different classes. So I think I've just kind of calloused
Speaker 11: myself to that naturally, probably not say, and coming to
Speaker 11: the NFL, having Jake Golf, Russell Wilson and a couple
Speaker 11: backups here and there, Gino Smith. I've played with some
Speaker 11: great guys and now I got Kayleb Williams, so I
Speaker 11: can't forget Justin Herbert.
Speaker 12: I mean, I've been blessing.
Speaker 10: You've been blessed.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've got a good group of guys to be
Speaker 11: able to catch passes from. But I would say just
Speaker 11: each year in the NFL, each game, each day is
Speaker 11: a blessing and just taking it in stride, no matter
Speaker 11: who's behind center or who's throwing it.
Speaker 12: Just trying to be where you're supposed to be well.
Speaker 3: Being a veteran, are you going to bring bully ball
Speaker 3: to the tight end room?
Speaker 4: I have to.
Speaker 12: I have to. I mean there's no other way.
Speaker 4: That's just the ability.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's your physical style of play with the
Speaker 3: ball on your hand.
Speaker 12: Right right right.
Speaker 11: I mean that's just the way I grew up honestly,
Speaker 11: playing in the Little League in a recreational level, which
Speaker 11: just kind of seemed to translate to college and now
Speaker 11: the pros, which is kind of surprising. I thought it'd
Speaker 11: be a little more strenuous than that, but it just
Speaker 11: kind of seems like his natural at dispoint. So I'm
Speaker 11: just hoping I can just bring that into year eight.
Speaker 2: Our final moments here with Gerald Everett if we could
Speaker 2: before you leave, is there any way you could take
Speaker 2: us into the mind of Shane Waldron. You've had so
Speaker 2: many offensive coordinators come through this building and the time
Speaker 2: that we've been doing this for almost three decades, Tom
Speaker 2: and I what can you tell us without giving away
Speaker 2: the whole playbook. I'm just saying, have you learned all
Speaker 2: these years working with him? What's in the mind of
Speaker 2: an offensive play caller by the name of Shane Waldron.
Speaker 11: Well, in the mind of Shane Waldron, I would just
Speaker 11: say being most unpredictable, the most unpredictable guy that you
Speaker 11: can probably expect. So having a different set of tools
Speaker 11: and variety of weapons, I would say, you never really
Speaker 11: know what you're gonna get, especially of guys who play
Speaker 11: multiple spots, running backs, even in quarterback room, you know,
Speaker 11: you never really know what you're gonna get. So I'm
Speaker 11: interested to see myself, even in your eight, what he's
Speaker 11: gonna do.
Speaker 10: I like to hear it.
Speaker 2: I know you got to me to get to We
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. Good luck this season, have funks, one ball,
Speaker 2: many weapons, It's gonna be fun. Gerald Everett, our guest
Speaker 2: will continue after this break out of ESPN one thousand
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Speaker 2: wrap things up for the preseason against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 10: Tommy, two time defending champs.
Speaker 2: There are all conversations about three peating, which has not
Speaker 2: been done in NFL history, but they've already bank rolled
Speaker 2: three championships with Patrick Mahomes. Not that we're gonna dwell
Speaker 2: on this because their starters are not.
Speaker 10: Going to play.
Speaker 2: We'll get the word from Matt Eberflus tomorrow. I believe
Speaker 2: what they're gonna do. But you know, they were at
Speaker 2: a minus eleven in turnover margin last year, gave up
Speaker 2: eighty eight points off turnovers and still managed to grind
Speaker 2: it out and secure another championship. That's hard to do,
Speaker 2: right there, with that kind of turnover ratio. That's one
Speaker 2: part of it, though.
Speaker 3: Well do you think of the beginning of the season
Speaker 3: when Chris Jones was sitting in the stands waiting for
Speaker 3: a contract when he's the best defensive tackle in the
Speaker 3: National Football League, And so they had a lot of
Speaker 3: writing to do.
Speaker 4: You got to right the ship, and they.
Speaker 3: Had a lot of writing to do before they really
Speaker 3: got into that super Bowl type of swing. They had
Speaker 3: to figure out what their receiver position and how it
Speaker 3: was going to contribute to the offense. Their run was
Speaker 3: suffering a little bit, they had penalties by the offensive
Speaker 3: tackle position. And then Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey and
Speaker 3: Andy Reid and these guys were able to overcome all
Speaker 3: the Taylor Swift distractions and sale right into a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: And I think when you have.
Speaker 3: A quarterback that has the reputation of Patrick Mahomes, you
Speaker 3: always have a chance. I think, yeah, And I think
Speaker 3: that's what the Bears are all hoping for in the
Speaker 3: career of Caleb Williams. So I want to say something
Speaker 3: about that behind the back pass this weekend by Caleb
Speaker 3: or by Patrick Mahomes. You saw it obviously, so I
Speaker 3: believe the hook shot spiral to DeAndre Swift was equally
Speaker 3: as impressive to me by by Caleb Williams in the
Speaker 3: Buffalo game. So I think that, yeah, you know, everybody
Speaker 3: is crazy about the behind the back pass, but listen,
Speaker 3: you got pressure in your face. You're a rookie and
Speaker 3: you hook shot a spiral to DeAndre Swift and it
Speaker 3: goes for forty two yards. That's equally as impressive reaction
Speaker 3: as anybody.
Speaker 2: I saw collajeh those basically, I come point guard plays,
Speaker 2: point guard passes by Mahomes over the course of his career,
Speaker 2: and that Caleb's put on tape at Oklahoma and USC
Speaker 2: and he's put on tape and practice almost every day,
Speaker 2: so we're going to see a lot of that.
Speaker 10: What what what?
Speaker 2: What drives me, though a little bit crazy, is that
Speaker 2: I don't want every every time he makes a great play, Caleb,
Speaker 2: that they put a you know, a two by two
Speaker 2: with Mahomes and him, and the comparisons that are inevitable,
Speaker 2: or because of his fondness for Aaron Rodgers growing up
Speaker 2: and how he respects him in terms of his performance, Let.
Speaker 10: Caleb be Caleb.
Speaker 2: Let's let's forge his own, his own style, on his
Speaker 2: own brand out there as opposed to the easy comparisons
Speaker 2: to who's the best quarterback or who has been the
Speaker 2: best quarterback in the National Football League, Because you know,
Speaker 2: that's a lot to live up to, number one. Not
Speaker 2: that he's shying away from it by any means, but
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, can't we just have a guy
Speaker 2: just carve out his own path.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're always gonna get side by side awkward
Speaker 3: arm angle comparisons from Aaron Rodgers, from Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 3: onto Caleb because even that throw that he made to
Speaker 3: Roma Duneesa, that's not something that you go into huddle
Speaker 3: and go, all right, guys, three hundred protection, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: scramble too late to the left and that I'm gonna
Speaker 3: throw it to Roam forty five yards downfield.
Speaker 4: Ready break. No, it's not you don't do that.
Speaker 3: And so when you do have those unique types of throws,
Speaker 3: and in somebody's mind they remember something from one of
Speaker 3: those other guys, Jeff, that's something that you know you're
Speaker 3: never gonna get away from, especially if Caleb continues the
Speaker 3: growing process that he's shown her in his early stages.
Speaker 2: Brandon Aaron Rodgers has done a lot of that exact
Speaker 2: same kind of play. So he's done it to the
Speaker 2: Bears and he's done it to everybody in the National
Speaker 2: Football League. I don't want to switch gears over to
Speaker 2: Kyler Gordon. We know what impact Nickel is in the
Speaker 2: National Football League. It's a starting position. Let's that's let's
Speaker 2: be clear about that. You gotta have one. You gotta
Speaker 2: have a good one. And the responsibilities and what's on
Speaker 2: the shoulders of Kyler Gordon or who anybody plays in
Speaker 2: that position in the NFL is significant. And so he's
Speaker 2: always been a ballhawk. He has always been around the
Speaker 2: football and he certainly was today at practice and the
Speaker 2: idea of letting that guy rip on the blitz is
Speaker 2: great to see Gordon at the podium today to talk
Speaker 2: about his performance and what this defense is feeling right now.
Speaker 10: He says, it's something different than they fell a year ago.
Speaker 13: The way I characterize is it, I mean, I feel
Speaker 13: like it's just a surge of energy. And that's kind
Speaker 13: of like the way I felt since the day we
Speaker 13: came in, from the first day, like everyone just.
Speaker 7: Like started like everyone's eat some type of ways.
Speaker 13: However it is and we really just build off each
Speaker 13: other as far as making plays and doing our job assignment,
Speaker 13: and just the kind of culture we all created within
Speaker 13: the locker room. You know, it's kind of uncommon culture,
Speaker 13: you know, not be the same as everybody else, and
Speaker 13: we know we want to strive to do and.
Speaker 7: Stuff like that. So I just said, really positive surge
Speaker 7: of energy.
Speaker 13: The chemistry I mean, especially like from the way I've
Speaker 13: seen my rookie year coming all the way to where
Speaker 13: we are now, even still being young.
Speaker 7: But like the way that we do talk.
Speaker 13: Critique, like positively critique and get on each other in
Speaker 13: the way the ability, the way we hold each other.
Speaker 7: To the standard and stuff like that. It's just we're
Speaker 7: on top of it. Twenty four seven.
Speaker 6: Really, if you talked a lot last year about kidding
Speaker 6: the game to slow down for you after your season,
Speaker 6: Now that you're in year three in this defense, in
Speaker 6: this role, how do you describe the kind of mental
Speaker 6: comfort you have on the football field.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I say, as far as far as comfortability wise,
Speaker 13: it's just like how I'm gonna make this next play.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna make this make this next.
Speaker 13: Play, or really that's how I say, and just elevating
Speaker 13: that and trying to just make more turnovers, more more
Speaker 13: big plays, more exciting plays. And yeah, I mean the
Speaker 13: slower it gets, just the definitel like the more opportunities
Speaker 13: I see.
Speaker 8: I know it's a pre season game, but flew styles up,
Speaker 8: especially when you were in that first year a lot
Speaker 8: of bletces. What does that say just about how aggressive
Speaker 8: he is, like kind of developed into as a play
Speaker 8: caller and what you've got the type of edue you
Speaker 8: guys are gonna bring this year.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I feel like it's like less sitting back and
Speaker 13: put more pressure and I feel like we all like
Speaker 13: that and just playing the pressure on wherever our pun
Speaker 13: it is. And I like the blitz. Everyone likes to blitz.
Speaker 13: Everyone likes to be the aggressor, not the receiver. So
Speaker 13: I feel like that's kind of the proch we taking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the hammer not the nail, right. You just want
Speaker 2: to see that continue now, and you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, are they going to really blitz that
Speaker 2: much during the season. I don't know, but maybe maybe
Speaker 2: it's the wrinkle this year and maybe that will be
Speaker 2: the case for these guys because they all can do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of guys on that unit
Speaker 2: and blitz.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you have to have faith in the other
Speaker 3: portions of your defense. If you want to right the blitz.
Speaker 3: That means you have to have incredible faith in Jalen
Speaker 3: Johnson and Trique Stevenson the rest of the defensive backfield
Speaker 3: because you believe those guys can accept difficult man to
Speaker 3: man covers responsibilities. Because you're bringing a defensive back up
Speaker 3: to the line of scrimmage and then you're unleashing him.
Speaker 3: He's a super productive guy at or near the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage, whether it's a run blitz or a passing blitz,
Speaker 3: and he understands perfect angles of attack and rarely lets
Speaker 3: the quarterback escape if he gets a chance to get
Speaker 3: a shot on him.
Speaker 10: Do you feel was a evaluation or was this a message?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: I think a little bit of both. Because Kyler has
Speaker 3: missed a little bit of time. It is an evaluation
Speaker 3: of where he's at. But it is a message.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I mean to the league, No, I
Speaker 14: agree with you, but you gotta you gotta get some
Speaker 14: feelers out with Kyler since he's been he's been off
Speaker 14: the field a little bit.
Speaker 3: But it definitely is a message because now when you
Speaker 3: start talking about the offense or the offensive coordinators and
Speaker 3: the first four opponents they play. Now they're gonna not
Speaker 3: only look at the blitzes that they showed against Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: They're gonna start thinking about all the different blitzes that
Speaker 3: they've seen throughout time that the Bears could conceivably can use. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a message, and you better get it loud and
Speaker 3: clear or else.
Speaker 2: I like the or ls part. You know, it's my favorite.
Speaker 2: You know, listen, you you live for the for the
Speaker 2: just a real clear.
Speaker 3: So a couple of weeks ago, I had did with
Speaker 3: Todd Light and he's a former defensive back from Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: played in the NFL, and he's known Kyler Gordon for
Speaker 3: quite a while and he was recruiting him for Notre
Speaker 3: Dame when he took it, and he said he was
Speaker 3: one of the most dynamic defensive backs they ever tried
Speaker 3: to recruit to Notre Dame, and he almost had him
Speaker 3: convinced to go there, but then he stayed near home. So,
Speaker 3: you know, this is kind of a reputation that Kyler
Speaker 3: has been carrying around for quite a while. And then
Speaker 3: you see everything work out. The reputation with the production.
Speaker 3: That's what coaches want out of.
Speaker 2: Them, right in a big year year three, year three,
Speaker 2: and iber Fluss loves playing those young young dbs. Look
Speaker 2: what he did with Kenny Moore in Indianapolis made him
Speaker 2: one of the premier corners in the NFL. All right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna take another break. That's Tom there. I'm Jeff Joniak.
Speaker 2: Tom's thoughts coming up next. I have no idea what's
Speaker 2: on his mind, but I know he's got some that's
Speaker 2: coming up there on ESPN, another Bears radio network.
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Speaker 10: Thanks for joining us tonight, Tom.
Speaker 2: Before we get to your thoughts, I got something you
Speaker 2: keep talking about. One thousand reps for an offensive line
Speaker 2: and an offense to get going. So doing my prep
Speaker 2: for the Chiefs, even though I know Starter is not
Speaker 2: going to play, I do every player just to have
Speaker 2: it in the book and it's there in case we
Speaker 2: meet them in the Super Bowl. Okay, you know, just
Speaker 2: whatever you do, your work, you're doing it.
Speaker 12: You do it.
Speaker 2: So last year Kansas City, four of their five starting
Speaker 2: offensive lineman played over one thousand snaps, and the only
Speaker 2: one was a left tackle Donovan Smith. He was injured
Speaker 2: after twelve starts, but he started the first twelve games
Speaker 2: of the year and the other guys all started seventeen,
Speaker 2: so they had their offensive line to weather the storms
Speaker 2: of a slow evolving offense. Even with the league's best
Speaker 2: quarterback in Patrick Mahomes. Braxton Jones had eleven hundred snaps.
Speaker 2: He was the only Bear to get over one thousand snaps.
Speaker 2: So I just thought that was interesting because you keep
Speaker 2: talking about that four digit figure as being important, and
Speaker 2: I have to trust what you're saying there.
Speaker 3: Listen again, having the luxury of playing with the same
Speaker 3: group of guys for so many years, when you break
Speaker 3: the huddle, the time for communication is over and back
Speaker 3: in our day, just like the Bears do now, the
Speaker 3: defense is shifted during the course of the quarterback's cadence,
Speaker 3: and you couldn't reconfirm your assignments with anybody to the
Speaker 3: right or the left of you, or if you are
Speaker 3: an offensive guard pull and sometimes you worked with the fullback.
Speaker 3: So that time of communication is something that has to
Speaker 3: be so ingrained in every single guy's head that no
Speaker 3: matter what they do at the line of scrimmage, once
Speaker 3: you break the huddle, everybody knows exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 3: And one thing about Kansas City, because they brought a
Speaker 3: new a couple of free agents aboard, you got to
Speaker 3: have that luxury of time and training camp. That's when
Speaker 3: you need those thousand reps together of listening to the
Speaker 3: quarterback go through as cadence to allow the quarterback to
Speaker 3: feel as comfortable as the offensive line does together, so
Speaker 3: he doesn't think he's fooling them at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 10: All right, So what kind of thoughts you got tonight, Tommy?
Speaker 3: All Right, I'm gonna give you a deep thought because
Speaker 3: this is one of the reasons I've always been a
Speaker 3: little skeptical of Hard Knocks because one of the episodes
Speaker 3: I always hated on Hard Knocks is when they made
Speaker 3: the cuts.
Speaker 4: In every single position Jeff, that the Bears have.
Speaker 3: You can if you're a Bears fan, if you're a
Speaker 3: radio guy, if you're you and I, we could take
Speaker 3: every single position in along that position, there is gonna
Speaker 3: be a veteran or a young guy that has.
Speaker 4: Ability that's gonna get cut. And it's the least.
Speaker 3: It's the time I like the least in the NFL
Speaker 3: because it always challenged you. So now these guys have
Speaker 3: been together since the Rookie Mini Camp and then OTAs
Speaker 3: and they forged some friendships that after Thursday Night's game, Jeff,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna see that guy anymore. You're not gonna
Speaker 3: walk into a locker room and he's gonna be there
Speaker 3: waiting for you to eat breakfast, or you're not gonna
Speaker 3: be talking to him on a regular basis about the
Speaker 3: new plays they installed. So this week, for me, it
Speaker 3: always brings up some difficult memories. Because we've been around
Speaker 3: the Bears, We've been there watching practice every day. We
Speaker 3: know that there's gonna be a veteran or a young
Speaker 3: guy that may have ability down the road that's gonna
Speaker 3: have to walk into Flus's or Ryan Pole's office with
Speaker 3: their tablet turning their information and is their dream dead
Speaker 3: or is their dream gonna continue somewhere else? And when
Speaker 3: I look at the roster this year and I look
Speaker 3: at the practice habits that a lot of these guys
Speaker 3: have put on display, it's gonna be some of the
Speaker 3: more difficult cuts that there's been around this organization in quite.
Speaker 4: A few years. In every single position there.
Speaker 10: Is one, yeah, no question about that.
Speaker 2: Just trying to figure it out, especially positions that are heavy,
Speaker 2: I mean the defensive backs.
Speaker 10: That's that's for me.
Speaker 2: It's a really I mean, maybe maybe it's more clear
Speaker 2: than you want it because you do fall and I
Speaker 2: do it all the time. I'd be a bad scout.
Speaker 2: I think I fall in love with certain players. I
Speaker 2: love the way they play their traits, But you know
Speaker 2: when you go deeper, uh, like scouts do or coaches do.
Speaker 2: There's certain things certain players can't do. You you you
Speaker 2: know what they can do. You put them in a
Speaker 2: position to prove what they can do. And if they
Speaker 2: can't do exactly everything at a high level that you
Speaker 2: need them to do over the course of a season
Speaker 2: and you can't live with that, then you know you
Speaker 2: got a part company that. That's how it works. None
Speaker 2: of these guys it's too big for him, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: All these guys here have shown me something. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean it like there I can make I can
Speaker 2: make a case for a lot of these guys on
Speaker 2: both sides of the ball.
Speaker 10: There's nobody say hey, listen.
Speaker 2: And we've been here though we've been here when we said, hey,
Speaker 2: there's no way this guy's gonna make it. This guy,
Speaker 2: this guy, he's not bringing the effort. He's there's just
Speaker 2: something's not right. And I don't you know, I used
Speaker 2: to think it was a cool thing to hear, you know,
Speaker 2: the compassion of a coach or a general manager to say,
Speaker 2: hey listen, man, because now it's just a cliche. You
Speaker 2: know your tapes, you're going out there. We're a team
Speaker 2: at the moment. But on Thursday night, those guys playing
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, you're putting something on tape for
Speaker 2: another team, and I get it, it propagates, and but
Speaker 2: that's almost a kick in the teeth too, because you
Speaker 2: know it's like an admission you.
Speaker 4: Don't want me.
Speaker 3: I didn't play preseason football till the second half of
Speaker 3: the fourth preseason game, and I honestly didn't feel I
Speaker 3: made the team until I felt I went out there
Speaker 3: and played confidently. But as you know, now, having almost
Speaker 3: forty years in this industry and going out there and
Speaker 3: watching these guys every day, you know I would never
Speaker 3: sit out here and say it.
Speaker 4: But again, it's something that this.
Speaker 3: Week to me is never easy because I feel for
Speaker 3: some of these guys that have invested a lifetime in it.
Speaker 3: And as we are talking to Gerald ever today, Okay,
Speaker 3: you come in the league at twenty two and here
Speaker 3: you are at thirty. And he talked at the podium
Speaker 3: before he came and talked to us about a coach says,
Speaker 3: put your head down, work hard, and in ten years
Speaker 3: you'll be happy about your journey.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna hear stories on Thursday night about the
Speaker 2: journeys of some of these guys. You know, the quarterback
Speaker 2: who's going to be playing for Kansas City, he's got
Speaker 2: two Super Bowl rings, but he hasn't taken a snap,
Speaker 2: Chris olda Dopin and his story is crazy, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's got he couldn't even find a place to hang
Speaker 2: his head in college. You had to go to three
Speaker 2: different colleges, you know, and then finally somebody believes. It's
Speaker 2: like it's the This sport never ceases to amaze me.
Speaker 2: Where players come from, why how long they hang around?
Speaker 2: I mean we were joking because I called Ian Elan
Speaker 2: Wheeler Elan Booker, and here Ian book is on this
Speaker 2: roster for the Chiefs, and he'll likely he'll likely take
Speaker 2: some snaps, you know, And it's just it's just a
Speaker 2: great sport. And all these guys deserve a lot of
Speaker 2: credit for going through the process of putting on the
Speaker 2: body armor. The weight room is not is not easy,
Speaker 2: practice is not easy. Not Getting reps is not easy.
Speaker 2: When you're seeing everybody else get reps. Tell me, you
Speaker 2: know you're standing there wondering, well, what you know, It's like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, what about me?
Speaker 10: I got something to show? And you're not getting the reps.
Speaker 4: If you don't think this is real.
Speaker 3: Man, I walked out of the preseason locker room after
Speaker 3: not playing, not getting my uniform dirty, no reason to
Speaker 3: shower with tears in my eyes and beer, embarrassed to
Speaker 3: go out there and face my family.
Speaker 4: Because you know. And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean to blobber on about this, but
Speaker 3: it is always an emotional week for me when I
Speaker 3: think about where the journey is going for some of
Speaker 3: these guys, that's the end.
Speaker 4: Of the road. Somebody will go, someone mic go somewhere else.
Speaker 3: Nowadays, unlike our days that we didn't have a practice squad,
Speaker 3: now they got a fifteen man practice squad that pays well.
Speaker 10: It certainly helps.
Speaker 3: This really helps. It helps everybody. So I'm just saying
Speaker 3: that was my thoughts.
Speaker 4: Of the day.
Speaker 10: It's a good one.
Speaker 4: Tom.
Speaker 2: You're you're being melancholy. I like it're you're softening up
Speaker 2: on me. You're softening worried about we're thinking about the guys.
Speaker 10: All right, we're gonna take a break. One more segment
Speaker 10: to go.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from Tremaine Edmunds from the podium today as
Speaker 2: Well that's Tom Fair. I'm Jeff Joniak and this is
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Speaker 2: about the defense right now.
Speaker 15: I mean last year was a lot of our first
Speaker 15: times being together. If my first time was a lot
Speaker 15: of those players, second time, second year together, anytime that
Speaker 15: you can take that. It's like any type of relationship
Speaker 15: you have, but it's a friendship, you know what I mean,
Speaker 15: Like each.
Speaker 9: Year is gonna get a little bit better.
Speaker 15: You learn about the person, you learn about you know,
Speaker 15: things that may have worked, you learned about things that
Speaker 15: didn't work, and I mean you find a way to
Speaker 15: make it better. And I think that's what it is now.
Speaker 15: I think it's about really just gods being themselves. Like
Speaker 15: I tell everybody every day, like you don't have to
Speaker 15: show up, be in nobody that you're not Like for me,
Speaker 15: I trust the individual more, I respect the individual more.
Speaker 15: If you show up as your authentic self, and that's
Speaker 15: who I try to show up to be every day.
Speaker 15: And at the end of the day, I think we
Speaker 15: have a lot of guys that you know, what you
Speaker 15: see is what you get. It's not like a you know,
Speaker 15: I'm gonna show up with this person. I'm gonna try
Speaker 15: to be this person. But behind you know, closed doors,
Speaker 15: you know I'm this person. It's like nah, like it's
Speaker 15: a genuine person. And I think when you have a
Speaker 15: group of genuine people, I think that bond and like
Speaker 15: that energy that you feel like it's just naturally gonna
Speaker 15: feel different. And you know that's nothing to say. Like
Speaker 15: last year was a lot figuring it out. Even this
Speaker 15: year still feel it out. We got a lot of
Speaker 15: new pieces still. But you know, like I said, there's
Speaker 15: a lot of a lot of us have played together,
Speaker 15: a lot of us know, you know, I kind of
Speaker 15: know how this guy is, Like I know his personality.
Speaker 15: I know, you know, as funny as it sounds, things
Speaker 15: that might you know, make them smile, or things that
Speaker 15: get on his nerve, whatever it may be. Like that
Speaker 15: type of relationship and that type of energy. Man, it's
Speaker 15: with y'alls, you know, winning football teams, and uh, like
Speaker 15: we're developing that. Man, We're still developing it now, and
Speaker 15: it's like an ongoing process, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 15: you don't just develop that in the off season or
Speaker 15: training camp and then that's it.
Speaker 9: Now. You developed that through adversity you face throughout the year.
Speaker 9: You know what I mean. It's gonna be us, it's
Speaker 9: gonna be downs.
Speaker 15: But you know, the stuff that we building now is
Speaker 15: what's what's gonna get us over that hump.
Speaker 2: Okay, I absolutely love that whole thing right there, Tommy.
Speaker 3: To wrap us, listen, there's a lot of veteran intelligence
Speaker 3: right there. And if you're a high school kid or
Speaker 3: a young college kid, listen to that again. Because Trumaine
Speaker 3: Johnson is talking. Or Trumaine Johnson. I played football with
Speaker 3: Trumaine Johnson in the USFL, Tremaine Edwards and Edmunds, Tremaine Edmonds.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, God, I'm such an idiot.
Speaker 3: He's got a lot of great experience, and I think
Speaker 3: what he says is so true about the teammates and
Speaker 3: the team relationship you build.
Speaker 4: Tomy.
Speaker 10: You'll see it Thursday night, Kansas City.
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