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Speaker 1: Jeff jonyac Well, it's game week c W. Tommy c W,
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Speaker 1: ninety of the Bears et Cetera podcast, and we are
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Speaker 1: a great twenty twenty four season. That's Tom Thayre, the
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Speaker 1: one thousand of the Bears Radio Network, and I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: Joniac lay By, a play voice of the Bears. This
Speaker 1: episode number ninety reveals team captains Tommy eight of them. Now,
Speaker 1: as Maddie Rufluch said, and we'll hear some from coach Fluse,
Speaker 1: there are more leaders on this football team and therefore
Speaker 1: more captains. Something that kind of first started back at
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. I guess the biggest surprise to
Speaker 1: some people is that Caleb Williams as a rookie is
Speaker 1: a captain. But by virtue of being a quarterback, it's
Speaker 1: almost universal that those guys become captains right away and
Speaker 1: this was grown organically. How do you feel about everything?
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: The thing about it is first rounders carry clout, and
Speaker 6: as we live up to where they were picked, then
Speaker 6: I think a lot of times they have a larger
Speaker 6: voice in the locker room. Jimbo Kovert was a captain
Speaker 6: his rookie year and he brought change at the left
Speaker 6: tackle on the offensive line position that led to the
Speaker 6: eighty five Bears in the Super Bowl. So it's not,
Speaker 6: you know, something that hasn't been done before. But yeah,
Speaker 6: you know you have to carry that voice within the
Speaker 6: locker room, on the practice field, the high expectations for
Speaker 6: your teammates and then go to bat and lead to
Speaker 6: some wins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not forced leadership. Ryan Pulls made that clear
Speaker 1: the other day. We've seen it, Tommy, We're at every practice.
Speaker 1: You've seen how he carries himself. You see how the
Speaker 1: players gravitate to him. And I think it's just as
Speaker 1: Ryan said, it's fairly natural here, and that's the way
Speaker 1: it's got to be. Player, and I had this conversation
Speaker 1: with DJ Moore today. We'll talk about it late later
Speaker 1: in the week when he joins us as well on
Speaker 1: the podcast and on Bears Weekly. But as you know
Speaker 1: better than anybody, players know first in the locker room.
Speaker 2: They know first.
Speaker 1: Who the dudes are, who the leaders are on the
Speaker 1: football team, and that is by a natural process.
Speaker 6: Listen, off the top of my head, I can give
Speaker 6: you a list of failed first rounders that had no
Speaker 6: business being in a leadership role on their football team,
Speaker 6: and they didn't stay around that football team very long.
Speaker 6: And it's every position from quarterback to alignment to defensive
Speaker 6: player or whatever you want to look at it. And
Speaker 6: you do give the reflection to your team that you're
Speaker 6: all in and you're invested in turning this thing around.
Speaker 6: And the reason that you were picked number one in
Speaker 6: the draft is because you had those type of credentials
Speaker 6: that even got the consideration. So, like Matt said, there's
Speaker 6: a lot more leaders on this football team and in
Speaker 6: that locker room, and I think that's a good thing
Speaker 6: because you and I have talked about the search for
Speaker 6: alpha males in this roster, within this roster, and I
Speaker 6: think we're seeing the development of some of those guys.
Speaker 2: And it's not always the loudest ones.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's the guys that show the most of the
Speaker 6: importance of the game to them and their teammates. So listen,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of quality things we can say about
Speaker 6: these team captains, and you know, Caleb is right there
Speaker 6: as much as any of them.
Speaker 1: All right, let's listen in to Maddy Reflush on that
Speaker 1: very topic.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I haven't had that before, but again I put
Speaker 7: it to a vote with the offense and defense and
Speaker 7: had the guys rank those guys, and he came up high.
Speaker 7: So mean, all those guys did, that's what's great about it.
Speaker 7: And we had other guys that had great, great votes too,
Speaker 7: just that enough to get into that captain's vote. But
Speaker 7: that's a really good sign that he's got leadership throughout
Speaker 7: the entire team.
Speaker 8: Can you can you give some insight on your off
Speaker 8: season planning for opponents as.
Speaker 9: Far as how you divide that up.
Speaker 8: When do you guys get into the twelve teams or whatever,
Speaker 8: fourteen teams that you're going to face, and when you
Speaker 8: get the players, when did you get the players started
Speaker 8: on the titles.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's always a great question, you know, in
Speaker 10: terms of the balance of that.
Speaker 7: We do it without even knowing the players knowing it
Speaker 7: at times, because we have a bunch of walkthroughs and
Speaker 7: we'll feature an opponent during that walkthrough. We'll set up
Speaker 7: our schemes against those guys, their fronts and their coverages,
Speaker 7: their particular favorite runs at the next run, their play
Speaker 7: actions and screens and all the things that they do.
Speaker 7: So you always want to work on the first opponents. Typically,
Speaker 7: you know, we're playing in the AFC, you know, early
Speaker 7: this year, and we don't typically play those every single year,
Speaker 7: so and that being our first three games, we certainly
Speaker 7: put some work on those guys, you know, and then
Speaker 7: you work on an opponent that might have a unique
Speaker 7: type of scheme during the course of training camp. I
Speaker 7: think it's always great looking ahead like that, And again,
Speaker 7: a lot of times the players don't know we're doing it.
Speaker 7: You know, we just got to work our structures and
Speaker 7: our schemes against those guys. But and then if you're
Speaker 7: then you of course work in your division too, You're
Speaker 7: working in your division the same thing, and we get
Speaker 7: that during training camp, we work on that exclusively against
Speaker 7: our division two.
Speaker 8: Dedicate specific days where we's going back we need to
Speaker 8: the spring. So okay, this week we're working on San Francisco.
Speaker 8: This week we're working on Green Bay.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we do.
Speaker 7: We spend a few days on each opponent, making sure
Speaker 7: we're getting it down, you know, the guys. It will
Speaker 7: take the guys more time than that to be able
Speaker 7: to break those guys down in terms of their specific area.
Speaker 7: You know, like seam obviously does our run our run game,
Speaker 7: and you know, Dave Burganzi and Travis you know, look
Speaker 7: at our defensive run you know, run defense. Uh So, yeah,
Speaker 7: we go way back into the spring and we we
Speaker 7: set that up.
Speaker 10: Do a third year.
Speaker 11: Does it feel like a bit of a fresh start
Speaker 11: or reset that you guys have got the roster turned over,
Speaker 11: you got quarterbacks, feel like.
Speaker 5: A bit of a fresh start, almost a reset.
Speaker 7: I would say that every year is different, you know,
Speaker 7: and next year at this time was going to be
Speaker 7: different than this year. You know, we'll have players that
Speaker 7: have more experience, We'll have more different guys come in
Speaker 7: free agency.
Speaker 10: So I think every every team is different. I think
Speaker 10: you got to really reset that.
Speaker 7: Once you get into February March, you know, and then
Speaker 7: really get a feel for the guys, you know, into April,
Speaker 7: and then we really start that April fifteen and then
Speaker 7: start working that, you know, bringing the team together at
Speaker 7: that point. And that's a process. We're very authentic about that.
Speaker 7: We're very intentional about that. And like I said, I
Speaker 7: can feel this team coming together faster, you know, just
Speaker 7: because of the maturity of it. And some of it's
Speaker 7: because of what you said, Herbie, I've been around each
Speaker 7: other for three years, and you know that certainly helps
Speaker 7: that part of it.
Speaker 6: With It's obviously been a long and eventful road realm
Speaker 6: March to now.
Speaker 9: What is your own personal outlook.
Speaker 12: And optimism and energy now going into a regular season
Speaker 12: test here, I'd say it feels like a build up
Speaker 12: for this.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're all excited. You know. I could tell the
Speaker 10: guys are excited.
Speaker 7: We had a team meeting this morning, you know, when
Speaker 7: I broke them down afterward, you can tell the guys
Speaker 7: are excited just about the competition. You know, we're excited
Speaker 7: to compete together in a football game. And we're excited,
Speaker 7: you know, full strength and be able to do that,
Speaker 7: and we're just excited about that opportunity.
Speaker 10: We get this Sunday, Larry, Larry, what do you got
Speaker 10: cut off?
Speaker 12: You obviously haven't been in the AFC South since twenty
Speaker 12: twenty one, and I think all four teams have changed
Speaker 12: coaches since then. But does your experience their help at
Speaker 12: all preparing to play those teams this year, especially early
Speaker 12: in the season.
Speaker 10: It does.
Speaker 7: I got some you know, I've obviously played some of
Speaker 7: those players that are on on the other sideline, but
Speaker 7: that certainly helps. So I'm familiar with that. But again,
Speaker 7: they've changed and that's why we did some extra work
Speaker 7: on those guys. You know, there's all new coaches and
Speaker 7: so it's it's adjusted and changed.
Speaker 3: From that standpoint, you still do the honorary captains each week?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't, I
Speaker 10: don't I may, I haven't really.
Speaker 7: I mean, I've thought about it already, but I don't
Speaker 7: know if I'm gonna do it or not. So right now,
Speaker 7: we've got eight captains and I think they're a solid group.
Speaker 3: For Caleb, what's the balance that you hope he strikes
Speaker 3: in being you know, we're in the seat being a leader,
Speaker 3: but also knowing that there's going to be growing pains,
Speaker 3: probably for a rookie trying to figure out how to
Speaker 3: strike that balance himself. What do you hope Tom part
Speaker 3: on him about that process?
Speaker 7: Yeah, just be yourself, you know, just be yourself, be authentic,
Speaker 7: and you know, let it come to you what she's done.
Speaker 7: You know, he's worked his tail off, he's preparing. You know,
Speaker 7: he's got great passionate you know, in the practicing and
Speaker 7: the games, and that'll all come to him naturally.
Speaker 1: What else stuck out about Flues today?
Speaker 6: The whole process of getting ready to start the preparation week,
Speaker 6: and that will begin Wednesday. Let Matt have the players
Speaker 6: come out in the field, get loosened up, throw some balls,
Speaker 6: just get back on the practice field and get your
Speaker 6: body mechanically going again. He doesn't put too much into
Speaker 6: it because the process really starts on Wednesday, and that'll
Speaker 6: add a whole nother seriousness to the workday of a
Speaker 6: Wednesday preparation for a game. And listen, I like the
Speaker 6: way that Matt really has been handling this team since
Speaker 6: he became the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: And defensive play caller.
Speaker 6: I'm glad the way that he led this entire offseason
Speaker 6: because you knew where you were picking in the draft
Speaker 6: in what it was going to mean to the football team.
Speaker 6: I liked the see a little bit behind the scenes
Speaker 6: on hard Knocks, the development of the relationship between he
Speaker 6: and Caleb.
Speaker 2: But here it is now even for Matt.
Speaker 6: For a player, for a guy that never puts on pads,
Speaker 6: or for a guy that puts on pads every game.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of seriousness that's added come Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Sure does. And I also was very intrigued by some
Speaker 1: of the line of questioning about how they prepare for teams.
Speaker 1: So a little bit about almost everybody, including teams in
Speaker 1: your division, which you I don't see until Week eleven.
Speaker 1: Things will change, but some of the highlights I guess
Speaker 1: from each of those games and preparing for the opener,
Speaker 1: certainly because everybody's preparing in a unique way because they
Speaker 1: don't know what they're going to see from Brian Callahan
Speaker 1: led football team first time head coach or a second
Speaker 1: year quarterback and Will Levis, You're going to have to
Speaker 1: feel your way through the first quarter and then execute
Speaker 1: your game plan.
Speaker 6: You know, I talk a lot about our old playbooks,
Speaker 6: and that was a binder that had four or five
Speaker 6: hundred different pages in it. So if we're preparing for
Speaker 6: a team that played a four man defensive front, when
Speaker 6: we went to the new play that we are putting in,
Speaker 6: we would go to that play and on that page
Speaker 6: you would have every design defense that you could possibly face.
Speaker 6: Three man line, four man line, bear front. So you
Speaker 6: had a chance to look at everything while you are
Speaker 6: absorbing the information that was being installed. Nowadays, with the
Speaker 6: modern day tablets that they carry around and they bring
Speaker 6: the meetings with them, it's different than the way we
Speaker 6: looked at football then the way they look at it now.
Speaker 6: But I was intrigued by what Matt said about their
Speaker 6: preparation of different teams, different fronts and without notice where
Speaker 6: they just kind of challenge these guys and where they're
Speaker 6: at mentally, without saying, Okay, you guys, in two days,
Speaker 6: be ready for the Green Bay Packers fronts.
Speaker 2: Now you show up that day.
Speaker 6: They started putting the fronts in that they wanted to
Speaker 6: work against, and then it was up it was up
Speaker 6: to you to be prepared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they didn't, and he says in some cases
Speaker 1: the players didn't know who they were preparing for.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: That was the point I'm making, is I like that
Speaker 6: type of challenge to them.
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Speaker 1: a revered member of the Bears family, passed away on Monday.
Speaker 1: Katie Nagel has been battling some illness and put on
Speaker 1: quite the fight, multiple month fight to stay alive and
Speaker 1: it did not happen, but widely regarded around here as
Speaker 1: one of the nicest human beings you'll ever want to meet,
Speaker 1: always had a smile and a kind word. An administrative
Speaker 1: assistant for former President Ted Phillips and also working with
Speaker 1: the McCaskey family and so George McCaskey at the stadium
Speaker 1: unveiling plan at Soldier Field many months ago said she is,
Speaker 1: you know, the heartbeat of the Chicago Bears, or something
Speaker 1: to that effect, and he could not be more accurate
Speaker 1: because everybody loved her, so condolences to her family, for sure,
Speaker 1: the Bears.
Speaker 6: So I went through the list and looked at all
Speaker 6: the emails that they sent throughout her battle, and you know,
Speaker 6: there was you know, the initial news was grave, and
Speaker 6: then they had some signs of recovery and she was
Speaker 6: breathing on her own. And then when you inform me
Speaker 6: that she had passed away, it was just like such
Speaker 6: a crushing blow because that entire building was pulling for
Speaker 6: Katie Nagel, and they were pulling for her family, and
Speaker 6: they were pressed.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: A couple months ago, I was writing her a birthday card,
Speaker 6: and I was thinking to myself, when is the last
Speaker 6: time that I wrote a birthday card? But it kind
Speaker 6: of is a reflection of how much she means to
Speaker 6: all of us, and nothing could be sadder. And I
Speaker 6: just hope that the people that got to know her,
Speaker 6: that knew her, that worked with her over the years,
Speaker 6: you know, has a good memory or a thought about her.
Speaker 1: Certainly they do having awaits, that's for sure. Darnell right,
Speaker 1: the starting right tackle entering his second year, was asked
Speaker 1: a bunch of questions today, including how high his expectations
Speaker 1: are for himself and through the end of this he'll
Speaker 1: touch on the Tennessee Titans very high.
Speaker 13: So it's too high at sometimes sometimes it feels like,
Speaker 13: you know, you're reaching for something that's not possible.
Speaker 5: But that's how I think, that's how you get better.
Speaker 9: What do you know now that you wish you knew
Speaker 9: as a rookie.
Speaker 10: There's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Which something I wish I knew as a rookie. The
Speaker 5: main thing being is just treat treat every player every
Speaker 5: game the same, not make one player too big or
Speaker 5: make like a lesser known player too small, kind of
Speaker 5: just treat every game and every player the same.
Speaker 14: I know it was a couple of weeks ago, but
Speaker 14: having had a chance to see what what Cincinnati does
Speaker 14: with some of their odd fronts, do you think that
Speaker 14: there's benefit to that and what you're going to face
Speaker 14: against Tennessee this week.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, it was huge benefiting that because you know,
Speaker 13: they run kind of the same defense a little bit
Speaker 13: some differences here and there, but yeah, getting a little
Speaker 13: taste for that and just it's not it's not a
Speaker 13: defense you see a lot, but it is, I mean
Speaker 13: not as much as like a normal four down defense,
Speaker 13: but getting your mind back into that mode of through
Speaker 13: down defense, it's good.
Speaker 5: It was definitely good work for us. Don't out.
Speaker 15: What stands out about the Titans defensive line is you're
Speaker 15: kind of getting game planning and setting.
Speaker 13: Them for so far, I say, the main thing that
Speaker 13: stands out is they play hard, you know, and they're
Speaker 13: I think they're well coached, and uh, it's gonna be
Speaker 13: a good challenge for us. I'm happy that we have
Speaker 13: the first game just by how hard they play because
Speaker 13: I know how hard we play. So it's gonna be
Speaker 13: it's gonna be fun matching their intensity. And then you
Speaker 13: know they're matching us as well. It's going to be
Speaker 13: like a good competitive you know, it's always fun when
Speaker 13: it's competitive, all right.
Speaker 1: So Tommy, you know, we're looking for big things from Darnell.
Speaker 1: So you know, as he says, his standard of excellence
Speaker 1: is almost at times seemingly too hard to reach, and
Speaker 1: he has to keep reaching for that regardless of that fact.
Speaker 1: And then about the Tennessee Titans, he's glad that they
Speaker 1: face Cincinnati. And you did the same thing and your
Speaker 1: breakdown of things, because they're going to be a three front,
Speaker 1: you know, a three four front, and that's what Cincinnati
Speaker 1: moved into many times on their defense when they practiced
Speaker 1: against him and played against him. I thought that was
Speaker 1: some really good He perked up about that. He liked
Speaker 1: the fact that they've had a little bit against the
Speaker 1: three man front.
Speaker 6: First of all, Darnell, your expectations for yourself are no
Speaker 6: different than my expectations for you. I see extreme greatness
Speaker 6: for you at your position. It is about is the
Speaker 6: initial indication. The dedication of the game is super important
Speaker 6: to him, and that's what we saw throughout his rookie year.
Speaker 6: And he also realizes that he has to continuously get
Speaker 6: better throughout his whole career and it's never a finished product.
Speaker 6: And so Darnell, right, he's going to have a lot
Speaker 6: of responsibilities, you know, to be one of those leaders
Speaker 6: of this football team, of the offensive line, kind of
Speaker 6: a sounding board for some of these other guys that
Speaker 6: are playing for Chris Morgan on the offensive line. And
Speaker 6: you know, I don't ever think that you're gonna put
Speaker 6: any type of defensive front out there with limited notice
Speaker 6: to a guy like Darnell Wright, and he's going to
Speaker 6: be surprised. You're gonna say, okay, four man front. I
Speaker 6: know that the guard is covered as well. I'm not
Speaker 6: going to be looking for as much help. Okay, A
Speaker 6: three man front. A lot of time there's a bubble,
Speaker 6: there's a linebacker up over the guard, so I know
Speaker 6: I'm probably gonna have a little bit of help to
Speaker 6: my immediate inside. So it's just the process that is
Speaker 6: being preached to these guys every single meeting they go
Speaker 6: through and go to because there's no guarantee that Tennessee
Speaker 6: is gonna line up like you expect them to.
Speaker 2: They got some big bodies up there.
Speaker 6: They can easily convert from a three man front to
Speaker 6: a four man front and play at the whole game.
Speaker 6: They have a body now big enough on the interior
Speaker 6: of their defensive line that they could play a bear
Speaker 6: defense because the six four, three hundred and sixty six
Speaker 6: to Andre Sweat is a big man, and so he
Speaker 6: gives that defensive front a little bit of versatility.
Speaker 1: The veteran defense looks like they play hard, they're aggressive,
Speaker 1: They've always been that way under prior administration to Mike Vrabel,
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to pick up that baton
Speaker 1: and move in the same direction. We'll preview that matchup
Speaker 1: in detail coming up on our podcast number ninety one,
Speaker 1: which drops on Thursday. All right, let's continue on. We're
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Speaker 1: One thing back to Darnell before I do move on,
Speaker 1: is that somebody asked him as you heard and if
Speaker 1: you're just joining us and you're picking the podcast up
Speaker 1: in mid stream, here is that one thing he wishes
Speaker 1: he would have known before his rookie season is just
Speaker 1: how he looked at players, whether it's the superstar player
Speaker 1: versus Maybe not in his words, but my words. I
Speaker 1: think he was trying to insinuate a guy that doesn't
Speaker 1: have that kind of star parer. Treat them all the same.
Speaker 1: You can't just elevate your game to meet one guy.
Speaker 1: Elevate your game at a high level for everybody you face,
Speaker 1: regardless of who it is.
Speaker 2: Did you do that? Did you do that?
Speaker 6: You know? It's kind of funny just to aologize with
Speaker 6: another story is so you have an outside look at
Speaker 6: football players because you see him in their uniform, in
Speaker 6: shoulder pads, in a helmet, in the type of mentality
Speaker 6: they put on display on a game day, whether it's
Speaker 6: offensive lineman you looked up to or defensive lineman you're
Speaker 6: playing against. I remember going to the Pro Bowl the
Speaker 6: first time after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I went with.
Speaker 6: Jay and after the Super Bowl, and then I finally
Speaker 6: got to see other Pro bowlers from around the league
Speaker 6: in just shorts and a T shirt. And then you
Speaker 6: start realizing, Okay, this guy is as human as I am,
Speaker 6: and for all the respect in the world I have
Speaker 6: for them, then I can start understanding a little bit
Speaker 6: more when you see them out of equipment. And I
Speaker 6: remember one of the guys that I saw first was
Speaker 6: Howie Long, because I, you know, I kind of immortalized him.
Speaker 6: I kind of had so much respect for him his
Speaker 6: face mask with the you shape protector over his nose
Speaker 6: and everything. And then I got to see him in
Speaker 6: a pair of board shorts and.
Speaker 2: A T shirt. I'm going, well, this guy is similar
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 6: And so it is those changes, and I know exactly
Speaker 6: what Darnell is saying, but sometimes it does take seeing
Speaker 6: them out of uniform to realize that you guys are
Speaker 6: one and the same.
Speaker 1: How he had much better hair and still does.
Speaker 6: Oh I mean, listen, there are so many guys seeing
Speaker 6: John Hannah for the first time, and seeing Jackie Slater,
Speaker 6: or seeing just some of the Randy White, seeing some
Speaker 6: of the stars of the stars, you know, it kind
Speaker 6: of put you more of an understanding about them.
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Speaker 1: captains outside of the starting quarterback Catob Williams DJ Moore,
Speaker 1: He commented on his.
Speaker 11: Captaincy I'm popular or like, I'm a real leader. Uh,
Speaker 11: I leave by example. I think it's because they're both.
Speaker 11: I think it's because I'm like the class clown at
Speaker 11: the same time, but I'd be serious at the same time.
Speaker 11: So as soon as we step on the field, I
Speaker 11: think that's what everybody looks at. And then I don't
Speaker 11: know if everybody finds me funny, but I think that's
Speaker 11: pretty funny.
Speaker 9: You don't get a ton of rookies who get team captain.
Speaker 9: What does it say about Cale to get their reconnation.
Speaker 11: I mean he he went out there and improved himself to
Speaker 11: command of the offense and he started opening up, and
Speaker 11: I get people saw that and you're rocking with him?
Speaker 12: Did you surprise you this this training camp which just
Speaker 12: kind of how he took the reins and how he
Speaker 12: improved and played like that.
Speaker 11: Nah, he ain't surprised me. I mean, when you're number
Speaker 11: one overall pick, you better go out there and make
Speaker 11: some make something shape. It might have curse, but you
Speaker 11: bet make something shape. And he went out there and
Speaker 11: next seeded. Uh everything that we had set on Jays.
Speaker 12: You competed more and more against Jenileen Johnson, which stands
Speaker 12: out to you about.
Speaker 9: Him the corner.
Speaker 11: Especially this year it was hard to catch against me. Uh,
Speaker 11: I don't know what it was. He's living right and
Speaker 11: Uh I know him and Keenan had that back and forth,
Speaker 11: but uh, yeah, he was. He was out there like
Speaker 11: a lockdown corner. Didn't matter who or what play it was.
Speaker 11: He was out there competing.
Speaker 9: How do you describe that competitive side of him? It
Speaker 9: seems like that and just pretty pretty sharp and pronouncement.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he got something to proved this year.
Speaker 11: Uh. I think you just want to go out there
Speaker 11: and prove that he can be the top dB top
Speaker 11: corner out there.
Speaker 5: Uh, that's what you're proving.
Speaker 2: What do you want?
Speaker 9: What are you most curious about to see from Caleb
Speaker 9: in this first game?
Speaker 11: I just wanted to go out there and play football
Speaker 11: for heal for dude, he's been doing. He a winner,
Speaker 11: So lead us to a win. And uh, like everybody's
Speaker 11: been saying, he got a bunch of weapons out there,
Speaker 11: Like just go out there, just point guard the ball
Speaker 11: like like it's basketball, and he'll be all right.
Speaker 5: I ain't too worried about him here.
Speaker 8: It seemed like very early on people looked to you
Speaker 8: to lead. I don't know what you're.
Speaker 10: That's what that's that's what I was.
Speaker 11: I was confused too, because in Carolina I wasn't the captain,
Speaker 11: but I get here, I'm automatically a captain. The first
Speaker 11: year I was, I was surprised. So your guess is
Speaker 11: as good as mine on that one. But to answer
Speaker 11: your question, I mean I show showed up every day working.
Speaker 11: I really didn't have no feels or bad energy towards
Speaker 11: being here last year. This year, I think everybody got
Speaker 11: to know me because of last year, and then this
Speaker 11: year I kind of like opened up more to the
Speaker 11: locker room so they see who I really was and
Speaker 11: how I really am as a.
Speaker 3: Person for Caleb to have to get to as far
Speaker 3: as the leader, because I mean, Justin left this place
Speaker 3: he universally loved, and Caleb comes in and doesn't seem
Speaker 3: like it took it very long to get you, guys, veterans,
Speaker 3: especially to respect them.
Speaker 11: I mean when you come to work every day like
Speaker 11: he did and go through the things that he had
Speaker 11: to grow through, especially against the defense, and you see
Speaker 11: the work that he's put was putting in day in
Speaker 11: and day out. I mean, you can't do anything but
Speaker 11: respect that and wanting to be a captain for you.
Speaker 3: We keep hearing about the authenticity and Ryan Pole said
Speaker 3: last week that his personality is not forced, like sometimes
Speaker 3: you feel like guys can be awkward when it could
Speaker 3: they come in and try to get guys to follow them.
Speaker 3: How has he bet shown you the authentic side that
Speaker 3: has galvanized so many of you to get behind him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I don't think he was looking for anybody to get
Speaker 11: behind him and follow follow his lead. I think he
Speaker 11: let it just come naturally and uh, once he got comfortable,
Speaker 11: I mean it took him a while to get comfortable
Speaker 11: and start start opening up and uh being who he
Speaker 11: truly was because he had he did have to go
Speaker 11: through learning the offense, learning everybody learning learning different things.
Speaker 11: And once he did that, everybody just started gravitating and
Speaker 11: do him.
Speaker 5: And he's a captain.
Speaker 1: So as he said, Tommy, you know, it took five
Speaker 1: years in Caroline, never got a captain ship. Now he's
Speaker 1: a two year captain here. Was somewhat surprised he got
Speaker 1: it last year because he's just the same guy. He's
Speaker 1: a fun guy behind closed doors. And when I first
Speaker 1: interviewed him for the very first time when he was
Speaker 1: traded here, he said, hey, what I am at the
Speaker 1: podium and what I am with my teammates are too different.
Speaker 1: And he goes, I don't show everybody my sense of humor,
Speaker 1: but I'm funny. I'm a funny guy, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to show it on the practice field. You may see
Speaker 1: it joking around with Keenan Allen or whatever, and he
Speaker 1: just it's he's the by action guy. It's not a
Speaker 1: row right, but he does everything professionally.
Speaker 6: You know one thing about DJ Moore and I what
Speaker 6: I hope for DJ Moore because he did sign an extension,
Speaker 6: He's going to be around here for a while. DJ
Speaker 6: Moore is caught footballs from eleven different quarterbacks in his career,
Speaker 6: and I hope that he has consistency to be here
Speaker 6: for however many years with Caleb because to me, if
Speaker 6: you think DJ Moore being able to develop a relationship
Speaker 6: with consistency at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: His numbers are limitless.
Speaker 6: You know, you can't set it, you can't put a
Speaker 6: projection on him because how important the game is to him.
Speaker 6: So when I think about DJ and the number of
Speaker 6: guys that he's played with at just at the quarterback position,
Speaker 6: I hope for consistency for his future.
Speaker 1: Well, his career catch rate last year high of seventy
Speaker 1: point five percent, and that was of course with justin
Speaker 1: fields and highest yakyards. But you know the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's like Keenan Allen on third down to get first downs,
Speaker 1: He's like eighty percent of the time that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: DJ sixty nine percent of his catches in his career
Speaker 1: first downs. And what do we keep talking about?
Speaker 2: What have you.
Speaker 1: Pounded into my head?
Speaker 6: Down?
Speaker 2: Tell the first downs?
Speaker 1: Game of first downs?
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 1: First downs lead the touchdowns. And to that point, given
Speaker 1: the weaponry, I see that being a very big part
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears for twenty twenty four and beyond
Speaker 1: right now because that's you know, everybody talks about, Okay,
Speaker 1: what kind of team is this going to be? What
Speaker 1: kind of what's you know, what's the term that everybody
Speaker 1: uses all the time. You know, they want to put
Speaker 1: it in a nutshell what this team is, and this
Speaker 1: is going to be a team that's led by a
Speaker 1: point guard quarterback offensively at least and get the ball
Speaker 1: of the playmakers.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get yards after the catch in bunches. But interestingly,
Speaker 1: he's averaged one hundred and thirty four targets a season.
Speaker 10: DJ.
Speaker 1: Do you see him getting one hundred plus targets this
Speaker 1: year with Kean Allen and Romadoonze and Swift.
Speaker 2: It's a valuability, Jeff.
Speaker 6: This is a guy that the game's important to him,
Speaker 6: and he's there for seventeen weeks, and I don't know
Speaker 6: what's seventeen divided by one thirty four is, But when
Speaker 6: you're there week in and week out and you have
Speaker 6: the catchability when you start playing in the environment and
Speaker 6: the conditions that you play at in Chicago later.
Speaker 2: In the later part of the season.
Speaker 6: He's a guy that's always in uniform, so it doesn't
Speaker 6: surprise me and I would expect him to continue to
Speaker 6: get the targets that you know he's been getting.
Speaker 1: Throughout his career seven point nine time.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nothing, that's that's less than two fistfall.
Speaker 10: Yes.
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Speaker 1: it all, all right, another captain with the number one
Speaker 1: on his jersey, Jalen Johnson, I'm getting his first captaincy.
Speaker 15: I mean, honestly, it's big. I was surprised I got
Speaker 15: a tech. I didn't even believe it, honestly, But I
Speaker 15: mean kind of just one of those teemsis just continue
Speaker 15: to be myself. Nothing changes. I feel like for me,
Speaker 15: you're just all you. I'm his captain on so I
Speaker 15: gotta go out here and do something different. Just continue
Speaker 15: to work, continue to lead by example. I fight, that's
Speaker 15: the biggest thing. But really just for the most part,
Speaker 15: continue to leave the guys big, those around me, continue
Speaker 15: to be more vocals and the things I wanted to
Speaker 15: do don't change because of that. But definitely honored to
Speaker 15: have to see on my chest coach Hope that.
Speaker 3: He's felt like the team has come together faster because
Speaker 3: of the leadership. And just like you guys have been
Speaker 3: together for so long now have you noticed that?
Speaker 9: And take place.
Speaker 15: I think we just all have a common goal. I
Speaker 15: feel like we've had guys that have come from different
Speaker 15: places that have won, but not one at all TJ.
Speaker 15: I mean, he went to Super Bowl, didn't quite win
Speaker 15: the Tremaine. It's been in I don't know how many
Speaker 15: AFC championships, and I mean Keenan a won and he
Speaker 15: played with Philip Rivers at a high level. I feel
Speaker 15: like it's a lot of guys that have been in
Speaker 15: different positions that know what it takes, no what it
Speaker 15: looks like to win. And I feel like we all
Speaker 15: know that we have that, and I think just want
Speaker 15: to continue to push each other to be better, continue
Speaker 15: to jail together. And I feel like we just all
Speaker 15: have a like minded mentality when it comes to winning,
Speaker 15: when it comes to hard work. So I just want
Speaker 15: to continue to build on that. I think it's easy
Speaker 15: to be motivated with guys that you're like minded with,
Speaker 15: and I think we all have the same similar mentality
Speaker 15: when it comes to win it.
Speaker 3: What does it say to you that Caleb was voted
Speaker 3: voted on by his team mates as a rookie to
Speaker 3: get that award or distinction?
Speaker 5: What does it say?
Speaker 15: I mean, you just continue to come in here, and
Speaker 15: I feel like be who we want him to be.
Speaker 15: I mean, I feel like we know why we brought
Speaker 15: him in here, and I feel like he's just continued
Speaker 15: to do that, continue to walk on those shoes, and
Speaker 15: just continue to reset the bar for himself. I feel
Speaker 15: it's just a step in the right direction for him.
Speaker 15: But I don't think it's a bit of surprise coming
Speaker 15: in here being QB one in the.
Speaker 9: Last three seasons.
Speaker 12: How have you seen coach you Refluce involved in his
Speaker 12: roles head coaches team.
Speaker 5: I've seen his role evolved. I've seen his role you fall.
Speaker 15: I think I wouldn't even say that his role has evolved.
Speaker 15: I feel like the the leadership has evolved underneath him.
Speaker 15: I feel like coming in of course, I feel like
Speaker 15: for us being transparent of the who were the leaders,
Speaker 15: they were all push pushed out or let go. So
Speaker 15: I think we kind of had to reidentify who those
Speaker 15: leaders want to be. So just him coming in, I
Speaker 15: think he was just establishing what the culture and identity
Speaker 15: is and then finding the leaders to implement that. And
Speaker 15: I think for guys like myself, Cole, I mean, Pad,
Speaker 15: we've been here through the different regimes and things like that.
Speaker 15: So just continuing to be leaders, continue to buy into
Speaker 15: what he's bringing into the building. I think for us
Speaker 15: just bringing in new guys, We've brought in more leaders
Speaker 15: and guys to be able to go and talk to
Speaker 15: him and figure, Okay, what is it that we want
Speaker 15: to accomplish and get on the same page. So I
Speaker 15: think just overall, the relationships with the players I feel
Speaker 15: like has been a big thing. His relationship with the
Speaker 15: leaders and the captains and things like that I feel
Speaker 15: like has played a major role into I would say
Speaker 15: his involvement as well.
Speaker 1: And it's all right there for him. You know, you
Speaker 1: knew this was going to be a captain. He has
Speaker 1: become a big voice on this football team across the board.
Speaker 1: He is as confident as anybody you're going to see
Speaker 1: right now at the podium that shy about telling you
Speaker 1: where he wants to be viewed, how he is, how
Speaker 1: he plays the game. And so this one definitely did
Speaker 1: not shock me.
Speaker 6: Right, you know, another guy that's been a valuable and
Speaker 6: you know, the one thing about Jalen Johnson is to me,
Speaker 6: he plays the second most difficult position in the NFL,
Speaker 6: and that's cornerback, and he does it physically. He does
Speaker 6: it cleverly. He's able to cover downfield. He's able to
Speaker 6: take a receiver and shut him down to the point
Speaker 6: that the quarterback won't even target him. And listen, we
Speaker 6: talked a little bit earlier about alpha males inside this
Speaker 6: locker room, and he is on that trajectory of becoming.
Speaker 2: An alpha male in that locker room.
Speaker 6: He shows confidence at the podium and he shows confidence
Speaker 6: on the playing field. So if you can match two
Speaker 6: of those things up and be successful, Jalen, you're getting
Speaker 6: everything you deserve along with a new contract, a new number,
Speaker 6: and everything that goes along with.
Speaker 2: Him, you know.
Speaker 6: And I always wanted to ask you this. Do you
Speaker 6: see a different Jalen from thirty three to number one?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: I do, don't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I just you know, along with everything that's gone along
Speaker 6: with it, there's a lot of people that look at
Speaker 6: that number and they go They always who's number one
Speaker 6: on your team?
Speaker 2: Who do you got wear number one? Who are you
Speaker 2: going to offer number one to?
Speaker 6: If you're a college coach and you're trying to bring
Speaker 6: in a recruit, so there's always interest in that number.
Speaker 1: And then how about Kevin Byered the third becoming a
Speaker 1: captain on a new team. He's only been here, when
Speaker 1: you think about it, for so many months, but this
Speaker 1: is a testament to his voice on his team, what
Speaker 1: he's already impacted and his career achievements as a great
Speaker 1: leader for the Tennessee Titans and a captain there. Of course,
Speaker 1: those twenty eight interceptions follow him around in his career.
Speaker 1: He's been a pro bowler, he's been an All Pro
Speaker 1: Kevin Byered a team captain on that secondary which we
Speaker 1: always talk about being so loaded, you.
Speaker 2: Know, a foundation.
Speaker 6: You know, you look what he comes to the Bears
Speaker 6: with and what he's already built in the and how
Speaker 6: deep you know, his pylons go into the dirt in
Speaker 6: order to have him be the type of player with
Speaker 6: the type of respect that he carries around the league
Speaker 6: and into new locker rooms. And he's not shy of
Speaker 6: teaching young guys or or sharing some of his experiences.
Speaker 6: So it doesn't surprise me. And I'm sure that Flose
Speaker 6: and the rest of the defensive coaches have had an
Speaker 6: opportunity not only to talk to him in private, but
Speaker 6: to see how he interacts with the teammates.
Speaker 1: All right, and you got Cole Comet, TJ. Edwards End,
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds, and then the forty year old Marcedes Lewis.
Speaker 1: So you got the twenty two year old quarterback and
Speaker 1: the forty year old tight end.
Speaker 6: A lot of years, a lot of years difference and
Speaker 6: experiences between them. And I'm glad you know Cole is
Speaker 6: a captain only because I want to see him become
Speaker 6: more vocal. I want him to see kind of develop
Speaker 6: the reputation of some of the other tight ends around
Speaker 6: the league that people talk about, you know, whether it's
Speaker 6: a Kittle in San Francisco or whomever, the other guys
Speaker 6: even within our division that you're talking about. I want
Speaker 6: Cold to start developing that reputation of being a tough,
Speaker 6: hard nosed, physical fighting tight end.
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Speaker 1: look at this because I thought it was interesting. No
Speaker 1: offense or defensive lineman named a team captain and We
Speaker 1: always talk about the trenches being the most important in football,
Speaker 1: right you gotta have you gotta have some alphas on
Speaker 1: that line of scrimma. Not to say there aren't, but
Speaker 1: I think still developing that. I look at Montes as
Speaker 1: definitely an alpha and a voice on that team, and
Speaker 1: I hope Dr Von Dexter makes a huge stride in
Speaker 1: that in that you know, regard here in year two
Speaker 1: and that's where the biggest improvement comes from year one
Speaker 1: to year two, and then again your year two to
Speaker 1: year three and then you settle in as a veteran
Speaker 1: and keep becoming a professional. So how do you look
Speaker 1: at that matter?
Speaker 6: It really doesn't to me because I look at Taylor, Booker, Pickens, Billings, Dexter, Montes,
Speaker 6: Dominique Robinson.
Speaker 2: I'm all these guys.
Speaker 6: I kind of put them all in all together, and
Speaker 6: you know how they you know, offensive, defensive line, they're kind,
Speaker 6: they're different. You know, they're not searching for captainship. They're
Speaker 6: they're searching for success, position domination, and then just all
Speaker 6: around wins that are attributed to the lines of scrimmage,
Speaker 6: because like Dick Stanfeld used to say, if you win,
Speaker 6: you're not going to get any credit.
Speaker 2: If you lose, you're gonna get all the blame.
Speaker 6: And that's the way that offense and defensive linemen they
Speaker 6: live through the season that way. So it's not necessarily
Speaker 6: about being about captains. It's about having position success.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: What what caught your eye on college football over the
Speaker 1: weekend as we opened up, Very exciting to see it
Speaker 1: all back. Notre Dame with a nice win on the
Speaker 1: road to Texas, A and m caught our attention. That's
Speaker 1: one of the ones.
Speaker 6: It did, you know earlier in the day, Miami crushing
Speaker 6: Florida because to me, I always thought there's always athletes
Speaker 6: all over Florida, including the University of Florida, and Miami
Speaker 6: took it to him. And you know, they're searching for answers,
Speaker 6: too much conversation about has the game passed Dabo Sweeney
Speaker 6: by in Clemson, which kind of irritates me because he's
Speaker 6: one of coaches that's still in the NCAA with multiple
Speaker 6: national championships. And for guys wherever they're voicing their opinion,
Speaker 6: they come up and that make that statement, it's foolish
Speaker 6: and it's silly. It's trying to fit into the transfer
Speaker 6: portal and the nil and trying to keep a roster
Speaker 6: on the field. So they go and they get beat
Speaker 6: by Georgia. All of a sudden they want to pile
Speaker 6: on Dabbo. If you ever wanted to move them, there's
Speaker 6: one hundred college programs that would, you know, pay anything
Speaker 6: to have them. And I was excited to about the
Speaker 6: Notre Dame game because immediately before the game I called
Speaker 6: Jerry Fontina, former teammate at the Bears, and he went
Speaker 6: to Texas A and M. And he picked up the
Speaker 6: phone and I said, Jerry, I said, we haven't haven't
Speaker 6: had this chance to make this bet. But if Notre
Speaker 6: Dame wins, you drive to me and buy me dinner.
Speaker 6: If A and M wins, I drive to you and
Speaker 6: I buy you. He lives up in the Northern Suburbs,
Speaker 6: so he's here in the area.
Speaker 2: And then the USC LSU game last night.
Speaker 1: I think the USC quarterback looked good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but a lot of people weren't picking USC. They
Speaker 6: thought they were going to get trounced by LSU. But
Speaker 6: LSU lost a lot of talent along the way. And uh,
Speaker 6: you know you have you have double digit penalties and
Speaker 6: you make a lot of mistakes and you allowed the
Speaker 6: other team to stay in it until the very, very
Speaker 6: very end and then they make a big play. Now
Speaker 6: we're talking about USC going up the ranks and Brian
Speaker 6: Kelly pounding on the desk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three and first weeks at LSU. So I know
Speaker 1: how important week one is to you here. So I
Speaker 1: caught my attention and you mentioned Miami that cam Ward
Speaker 1: he's been around now, you know, transfer portal guy at quarterback.
Speaker 1: He was something else.
Speaker 2: He's good looking. For what it was, I listen.
Speaker 6: I didn't know what to expect out of that game
Speaker 6: because he listened to a little of the pregame conversation.
Speaker 6: I think a little bit of talk from both sides,
Speaker 6: but they were starting to give Miami a little bit
Speaker 6: of the upper hand before kickoff. And then as I
Speaker 6: started to watch football throughout the weekend, I was surprised
Speaker 6: that it was that overwhelming of of.
Speaker 2: A you know, score difference.
Speaker 1: How about the kid from Texas A and M kicking
Speaker 1: the field goal in the pregame College football game Day
Speaker 1: live over there in Texas A and M Country, Pat McAfee,
Speaker 1: you know, he missed on the twenty five k offer
Speaker 1: and the crowd wanted them, hey one more time. So
Speaker 1: McAfee said, you're not gonna make it, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw fifty thousand, and kid put it right down the middle.
Speaker 1: He he, He was the toast. Did you see that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was the toast of the town that night.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 6: I mean you're here walking around with the years tuition
Speaker 6: if you're a if you're a paying student. But you know,
Speaker 6: also during the uh Georgia Clemson game, they showed a
Speaker 6: highlight of our own Kevin Butler kicking a sixty yarder
Speaker 6: in the game, and they showed Kevin and his family
Speaker 6: up up in the stands, and uh, just to go
Speaker 6: back and see some of those old memories. Uh, pretty
Speaker 6: cool to see one of our very own Chicago Bears
Speaker 6: hitting big kicks like that in his college career.
Speaker 1: Not only it was the opener on Sunday coming up
Speaker 1: against Tennessee, but it's alumni weekend week one, Uh, and
Speaker 1: so a lot of year old teammates and a lot
Speaker 1: of Bears from the past, UH convene. They'll get tickets
Speaker 1: to the game and some sideline passes. So I always
Speaker 1: enjoy that, and I know they're going to honor Steve McMichael,
Speaker 1: and he'll get his Hall of Fame ring on Sunday.
Speaker 1: You'll be going down at halftime to kind of introduce
Speaker 1: that to your old teammate, and that'll be a moment
Speaker 1: that you'll remember, right.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: I you know what, Listen, man, I I cheer for
Speaker 6: Ming as loud as anybody can cheer for him. I'm
Speaker 6: proud that he's going to be represented in front of
Speaker 6: the sixty one thousand, five hundred that will sell out
Speaker 6: that stadium, and anybody that deserves Hall of Fame recognition,
Speaker 6: whether it's now or twenty years ago, it's Steve McMichael.
Speaker 1: All right, Tommy, good news. Chicago United Airlines is getting
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Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 1: I hope you're ready, and I don't know if you
Speaker 1: don't peak too soon. We got another podcast to break
Speaker 1: it all down. We'll be talking to Dave McGinnis, our
Speaker 1: our old pal as well, the radio analyst for the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans radio network this week, so he'll have some
Speaker 1: fun stories as well. Always love talking to Mac. I
Speaker 1: will have DJ Moore this week and other surprises. So
Speaker 1: getting ready for week one, and you're gonna be busy
Speaker 1: out and about this week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got pressing the flesh. I should do a
Speaker 6: lot of stuff to do. But I'm interested to see Callahan.
Speaker 6: Here's a young guy that has a significant history and
Speaker 6: background in the NFL from his dad and you know,
Speaker 6: bringing up and I really like Mike Vrabel, the last
Speaker 6: head coach of the Tennessee Titans, so you know they're
Speaker 6: gonna have a physical mentality there. But I'm interested to
Speaker 6: see what type of leader young Callahan is bringing his
Speaker 6: team into Chicago.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 1: And the head coach and first time offensive play caller,
Speaker 1: so he had the title, but he didn't call the
Speaker 1: play Zach Taylor did at Cincinnati, and he even admits,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's something I have to conquer. I
Speaker 1: have to be able to hit my rhythm and figure
Speaker 1: out a game on my own for the first time
Speaker 1: and still coach the whole football team. And that's always
Speaker 1: a big transition for first time coaches.
Speaker 2: YEP. And you know, hopefully he doesn't.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm not cheering for him no Sunday now,
Speaker 6: but you know, I have a lot of respect for
Speaker 6: his dad, who's been a great offensive line coach in
Speaker 6: the NFL for however many years he's been around here,
Speaker 6: and you know that was one of his first hires.
Speaker 1: So and the kid is Chicago born, Chicago born, yep.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting, nice and a little homecoming all
Speaker 1: right time. We'll talk to you later in the week.
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