WEBVTT - Jimbo Covert & Darnell Mooney Interviews | All Access 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.519 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:08.560 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.560 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.239 day and now Welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.959 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.960 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:30.920 Physical Therapy and CDW. Week to a training camp kicking 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.120 into gear with the pads coming on, the evaluations starting 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.920 to really make an impact. Welcome back, everybody to another 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.640 edition of Bears All Access. Here on Chicago Sports Radio 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.000 six seventy. The score were brought to you by IGS 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.880 Energy with Tom Thayer, the Super Bowl Bear. I'm Jeff 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:46.919 Joniak from News Radio seven eighty and one or five 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.120 point NWBBM. We're really digging in now, buddy. Week two. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.200 Today's practice nonpad, but the next three days padded practices. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.560 Tom and Matt Nagge promising earlier this morning that there 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.160 will be some live Porsche. It there won't be a ton, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.040 but that's something we always get excited about. And that's 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.480 about the running game. Yeah, you know it is. You know, 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.440 that's one thing David Montgomery and the rest of the 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.520 running backs want to see. They want to see how 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.559 things unfold according to their offensive line in front of them, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.720 and then how they read the defense reacting to the 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.880 plays they're running. Again, Matt started this early by saying 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.240 that he wants to get twenty carries a game, and 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.480 so I think you have to emphasize the running game 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.160 a little bit more. And it's also the physical element 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.640 that's added to that part of practice. I think it's 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.040 really beneficial for both sides. Some of the COVID nineteen 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.920 conversation you may have heard involving the reserve list with 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.960 Edie Goldman, Christian Jones, Patrick Scales, and Elijah Wilkins here 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.520 and there in the last couple of days, had a 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.840 lot of discussion about it really from day to day, 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.800 according to Matteggie, and not like last year when they 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.360 would have to shut the building down and scramble at 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.840 three o'clock in the morning. It's not something you overreact to. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.200 And we don't know all the details. We're not going 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.680 to know all the details. There are NFL rules regarding that, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.960 as he indicated this morning. But here is where head 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.400 coach Matt Naggie is at this year. Zero panic. I mean, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.920 when stuff like this happens, we learn from that, and 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.519 I think it's our job as leaders to make sure 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.680 that the players feel that and know that it is 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.680 what it is. I mean, we're going to educate and 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.280 encourage all these players to do everything the right way 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.760 and what we feel can help us and help them 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.360 as people. But at the same time, you're not going 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.080 to get any panic from me, and you're not going 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.119 to get away from it all at all either time. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.680 It's going to be a constant conversation throughout the league. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.120 An FLPA Wade and yesterday sent memos to players about it. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.120 They're a little bit concerned. There have been some flare 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.679 ups in the league in Atlanta, in Miami, Washington, Minnesota, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.440 but by and large, it's not just the players though 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.880 like last year, He's got to educate the families as well, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.320 and so they're taking calls, they're doing whatever they can do, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.040 and every player is trying to adjust to it all. Well. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:49.600 You know, that's kind of one of the elements that 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.959 present itself on a team sport like football, because it's 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.560 not only the pandemic issues that you're going to face 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.040 now from last year to this year. But it's also 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.440 the immediacy of an injury on a foot fall team 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.120 that all of sudden you're looking for someone to fill 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.079 that void. So I think when you listen to Matt 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.000 and Aggie answer that question, you're listening to a voice 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.119 of experience. Now he's got a couple of years at 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.800 the helm of the quarter at the head coaching position, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.639 and he realizes you can't panic in any of the 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.480 scenarios like tackle. Right now, Tevin Jenkins has not practiced 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.160 just yet, still working through back tightness. The list is long. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.160 There were a lot of players out today, obviously Teriko 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.680 and Eddie Jackson, Jamada Fetti still not able to get 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.800 on the practice field, but a whole bunch of other guys, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.840 including Elijah Wilkinson, including Badara Tior who's also one of 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.560 the tackles. So it's giving a great opportunity. Tim to 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.920 Larry Borham, Yeah, well, he's been doing good things this 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:47.560 whole camp, and he has a really positive attitude. He's 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.920 extremely focused, he fits in well with the guys, and 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:57.880 he's coachable. So I was not surprised with him knowing that. Okay, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.520 hey listen, we just found out you gotta go in 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.480 there now, you're gonna play this this practice here at 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.040 left tackle with the ones and do your thing. Wasn't 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.680 it wasn't big to him, He was not overwhelmed. The 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:13.160 film proves it. He did a great job. But can 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:14.800 you do a great job today? You know? The one 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.919 thing about Larry Boram, the early indicator of Larry Boram 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.839 is how he showed up at camp. He was in shape. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.920 He completely reconstructed his body from the three hundred and 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.560 sixty pounds he played at in college and now he's 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.039 more of a fluid three hundred and thirty five pounder, 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.600 very strong, good feet, good recognition of his assignment. So 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.960 to me, I couldn't be more excited about any other 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.359 player on this team than Larry Boram. And right now 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.320 he looks the part. He really does. And we saw 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.760 that early in the rookie mini camps with no pad, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.520 just walking around and running around out there and seeing 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.520 him do drills. How he works against Khalil mack Tom. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.480 That's a great test right there. You're right. You want 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.920 to talk about something not being too big for him, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.520 it's the one on one in full pad opportunities to 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.720 go against a guy like Khalil, and he held his ground, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.240 he was strong at the point of attack. He gave 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.280 a nice punch back to clill Max. So again, all 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.640 indicators are that this job is not too big for 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.360 Larry Boram and it's gonna make Tevin when he does 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.440 come back, getting that competitive frame of mind and try 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.159 to earn his spot somewhere on the offensive line. Three 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.839 inside linebackers out this morning, Joel Ea, booney Way, also 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.760 Josh Woods. They came down with some flare ups from 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.000 the practice at Soldier Field, and then Kristin Jones out 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.200 today as well. So newbi alic Ogletree wearing number forty four, 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.440 twelve career interceptions, four for touchdowns, and a swipe of 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.599 Nick Foles who practice this morning. He took it to 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.120 the house. Hey, this guy's a legitimate starting NFL linebacker. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.920 He's not going to be a guy that you're going 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.080 to have to introduce the nuances of the opponent's offense. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.839 He's seen it all. He's got a lot of playing 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.160 time under his belt, and he's a guy that could 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.240 come in here and immediately contribute to the depth but 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:01.040 also become a starter. Coming up on today's show, We've 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.640 got Darnell Mooney for a couple of segments, the second 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.200 year Bears wide receiver out of Tulane, and then we'll 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.800 be joined by Jimbo Covert going into the Hall of 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.920 Fame on Saturday and that centennial class of twenty twenty. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.480 Nice long conversation coming up with Jimbo. A lot to discuss. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.200 This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:25.640 seventy the Score. The Chicago Bears, one of the teams 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.719 in the Chicago Sports Alliance, are supporting Ready Chicago's gun 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.280 violence reduction efforts. To learn more at Heartland Alliance dot org, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.000 slash Ready, Jeff, Joni Act, Tom there back with you 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.359 on Bears all Access. Please to be joining Please to 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.160 finally meet him in person. Second year wide receiver, Darnell Mooney, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.600 Thanks for taking some time and joining us. How you're 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.279 feeling everything going well? Good? How about yourself? Yeah? You 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.800 know great? And we watched you this morning at practice 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.839 make a great play catching the end zone and the 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.200 man went gymnastics on us. I mean the summer that 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.160 the back flip was just perfection. I'd give it at 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.360 ten point ZERU. You know that just is this something 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.039 that you do in practice. I mean, it just it 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.880 just came upon you. We're just trying to show a 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.280 little personality and uh so some different things that I 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.120 can do. You know, I'm a man with a lot 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.160 of different tricks. So well, the one thing that's the 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.400 gift of having great athleticism and harving harvesting all that 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.760 because you've shown it. You've made some acrobatic catches. We've 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.160 seen your college tape as well back there. But you're 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.600 making a name for yourself in a real short time. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.280 I always I always like to say some guys they 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.520 go from zero to sixty or they make they just 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.960 make a big impact in a very short time and 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.920 it's never a straight line. And I think you've already 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.760 done that and a lot more room to grow. And 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.560 we know I no longer want to call you a 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.000 fifth round pick because it doesn't matter, right, for sure, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.640 it doesn't matter at all. And you kind of intimated 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.720 that when you met the media this year for the 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.560 first time, that you want to you want to make 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.280 some noise. Sure, going deeper into that tell us about 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.840 all that. So the main thing is when I was 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.360 saying that, uh I want to I want my name 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.840 to be known is more so of like getting respect 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.600 from around the lead, and then not even just a 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.720 respect around the lead, but in the locker room as well. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.920 So like with the quarterbacks, just knowing that they can 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.720 come to me and knowing that I'll be able to 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.720 make that play regardless of whenever it is, whenever you 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.240 need a bell out, I can be that guy. But 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.200 you know, Darnelle, last year you come in, we have 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.120 no expectations for you. Now this year, we have a 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.120 lot of expectations for you, not only the Bears fan 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.800 but around the NFL landscape. Was there anything different about 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.960 your preparation or you know now that you got that 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.000 attention that there are expectations thrusted on you. I mean 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.200 this year, I mean, I feel like it's more comfortable 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.240 for the coach's wise of just being able to not 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.280 put me, We'll put me in a play that they 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.760 are comfortable with, and just being able to like, Okay, 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.280 Mooney can make this play, not so of a it's 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.440 not so if if like they we got to see 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.880 what he can do on this play, or hopefully money 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.400 can make this play. You know. Jimmy Graham was meeting 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.479 the media and he said that he studied Tony Gonzalez 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.880 and Antonio Gay. It's a couple of famous tight ends 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.679 in the NFL. Does your do you transfer? Thinking? Okay, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.160 I feel like I play like this guy or I 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.800 have skills of this person. Are there any guys that 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.440 maybe you'd watch a little extra tape on and kind 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.000 of look at your traits similar to them. I'll watch 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.079 a lot of guys, man, I watch I watch a 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:28.920 Robins Will I mean obviously and Tyreek Hill, Desn Jackson, Jarvis, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.760 Landry Adam. Feeling like I watch a lot of guys 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.079 because they do a lot of things different and I 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.480 want to put it all into one So if I 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.240 can grab all those guys, you know, different things and 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.440 put it in one one person, I mean, I feel 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.559 like I'd be a great player, for example, out of 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.679 those guys. Give me some traits that you want to 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.400 pull from some of these guys, and I'm gonna throw 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.760 one more on there, and ironically a fifth round pick 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.240 as well. You know where I'm going, right, Stefan Diggs, 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.280 you guys are not that dissimilar in size and wait, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.800 and I don't know exactly what his speed is off 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.080 the top of my head, but I think you're probably faster, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.600 but you know he's he's your rookie years statistically not 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.040 that far off either. And then he took a big jump. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.040 But if you would pull all those guys and think 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.679 in your mind's eye, what what's the trait that you 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.920 want to inherit from some of these great players. Um, well, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.719 we'll speaking on the Stefan Diggs. Um just him being explosive, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.960 like with his routes and uh, just being able to 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.120 catch the ball and be able to go as soon 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.480 as he catched the ball, he's getting hit the gas, yes, 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.280 and then uh for example of Tyreek Hill, I mean 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.880 deep threat for sure, the cheetah. Yes, if he's the cheetah, 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.480 what are you man, he's yet to be determined and 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.400 Adam feeling Adam feeling. Uh, his shiftiness and his routes 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.679 is very very nasty, very very savvy, and uh it's 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.640 very explosive as well. And I think him and um, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.520 well watching some old family with him and Stefan Diggs together. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.640 I can watch Diggs one at the same time. I 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.880 can watch Diggs one route and then rounded back and 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.440 then go to Alan. When is the route one? When 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.600 is it one? Yeah, I mean more so it depends 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.640 on the route. Depends on a lot route, the line 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.000 of strimmage for sure, and then at the top of 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.440 the route, so you can have you can be losing 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.040 mid route, but as long as you give him, give 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.079 him something, give him some swag to it, you'll be 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.959 able to win it. And I do feel and yeah, 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:22.600 I think you'd agree. And we go back to the 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.040 Rams game against Jalen Rams and know that's always a 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.160 big Internet sensation, but you smoked them. But it's the 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.920 top of the route. Yeah, it's the top of route. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.559 You feel that is your ash in the hole right now? 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.520 For sure? For sure. I mean I've been working on 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.560 it with Alan a lot, just making them sure I'm 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.560 pacing myself, not rushing myself regardless if I'm if I 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.880 lose at the beginning, I can always win at the end. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.520 So you know, last year we kind of came became 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.280 obsessed with you talking about the route tree. And so 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.720 when you talk about the route tree at this part 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.040 of your career, early in your career, is it something 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.480 that you have to discuss that with the quarterbacks. Andy 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.839 Dalton's a new guy on the scene, Justin's a different 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.080 quarterback than Andy, and you have experience with Nick. So 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.840 is it something when you talk about route tree? It's 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.280 something you have to have a conversation with the quarterback 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.640 for sure, just because some routes I may get out 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.680 of my break faster than other guys. So, um, and 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.040 I might give a little more at the top of 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.400 the routes than other guys like guy I want to 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.200 be is because people people understand that I'm fast and 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.080 they want to back bell out of there. But sometimes 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.680 they know that I'm going to break by just understanding 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.760 the play and like the alignment of where I am. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.040 So I have to tell them, like yo, sit back 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:35.880 on your back foot a little bit for me, because 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.480 I might I might have to give them a little 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.560 something at the top. So when you talk about the 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.880 top of the route and you have a quarterback that 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.520 has the skills of Andy Dalton, then you have a 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.640 quarterback that has the skills of Justin Fields. Is the 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.080 top of the route different for a quarterback that runs 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.640 as well as Justin as opposed to a quarterback that's 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.720 experienced as Andy Dalton. Um, I'm not. I'm not sure 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.600 with the with the understanding a quarterback throwing wise, I 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.640 just understand, well Justin could extend the play a little 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.600 bit longer because he does have the traits in the 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.959 four four speed and everything that's talked about. Yeah, I mean, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.440 well getting out the pocket wise, yes, I mean I 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.120 feel like watching watching practice wise in the two minute 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.520 drill the other day, Justin went absolutely crazy. It was 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.800 amazing to watch and just watching them move around and 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.920 get out the pocket, extending the plays, it was amazing 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.960 to watch. And then Andy as well, Um, just the 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.440 way he was controlling everybody, getting people in the right 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.600 spots and putting the ball on you and uh, letting 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.720 us all know what's going on. Yeah, because as we 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.079 talk with Darnell Mooney here on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.440 seventy to score. This is Bears All Access brought to 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.560 you by IGS Energy with Tom there Jeff Joniac. Because 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.120 the ball is gonna be there on your cut. But 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.080 we were talking today, Tom and I just watch with 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.520 from our perspective because we don't always get to be 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.280 in the right place to see practice. Just you could 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.640 feel Matt Matt Naggie always you can feel it, right, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.160 you can feel the heat coming off his missile. I 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.760 mean that arm strength is pretty sharp. So do you 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.640 have to be ready for it in both cases? One 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.800 because it's gonna be there on time with Andy, but 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.959 this other guy, it's always gonna be there because he's 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.920 got some mustard on here. For sure. You have to 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.160 you definitely have to know who's back there for sure. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.480 And you have to definitely get on the jug machines 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.160 if you're catching the ball from justin because nobody's on 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.480 the ball that hard unless it's a jug machine. And 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.960 no one knows better than this man right here, Darnell Mooney, 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.560 because one of his first purchases last year was that 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.320 very thing, a juge machine. Is it in the house? 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.160 Where's it at? Is it in your backyard? Are you 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.760 using it off off practice days? I mean, is this 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.040 a constant, constant thing for you? And give us the 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.800 backstory on the jugs machine. I get it every I 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.880 get it in every day, after practice, after meetings, after 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.480 I leave here seven thirty, get it in. I'm shooting 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.920 it over my house to get some over shoulders and 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.080 I'm shooting my backyard. Who's working with you on this, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:06.800 my chef, chef? Then hey, it's more. The more you 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.400 can do in this league, right, even the chef. So 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.160 the chef is this pre dinner or post dinner post dinner, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.880 so he fries you up, not fry. He makes you 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.640 some nice food, which is right up Tom's jay because 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.840 he's a chef from way back. He enjoys the culinary arts. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.240 And then, uh, we've got some work to do on 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.000 the bankers. That's hilarious. Are you willing to say who 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.600 it is? Because we give the guy a shout out? 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.520 Because that's who chef Kirk Swabby Kirk Swabie. How'd you 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.640 find him? And what's the relationship like it has been 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.920 the two years now? Yes, relationship is good. He's like 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.360 he's not even my chef. Honestly, he's like another brother 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.280 to me. So I actually found him in my apartment 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.760 complex WHENOW just walking around. I was looking for chefs 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.880 and he happened to live in the same place as me, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.840 and we you know, that's unbelievable. Well, what's his best 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.200 dish and what do you like him putting on putting 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.000 on the table for you? Thank smoke salmon, it's the 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.760 best dish man and exparagus. Have you physically have you 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.480 changed anything about yourself since you've had. You know, you 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.360 come here from college, you have the food that's offered 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.200 to you upstairs, and now you have a guy that 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.720 supplies food for you. Have you changed anything about your 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.880 body since you got into the NFL. Uh? Well, when 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.800 I got in, I was eating way better I was 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.880 in college. It was nothing but chicken wings, you know, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.920 fried food, and then uh, training for the combine, I was, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.640 I was eating very healthy. And then now if I 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.080 eat anything fried and miss, my stomach go bad. So 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.880 I just eat everything clean and uh just take care 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.680 of the body as much as I can. Lean mass. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.880 Did you put some on from last season? Did you 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.720 put more armor on? Because man, you you absorbed some 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.480 some pretty big hits and you will. I mean, that's 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.120 that's the by virtue of the position. And Matt wants 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.240 everybody to play all the spots, so you're gonna be 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.720 taken on various sized cornerbacks and safeties and whatnot. So 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.760 do you feel you put on some armor and how 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.600 has it made you feeling? Is there a limit on 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.120 how much you could put on to maintain your your 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.920 sparkling speed? Definitely, I definitely put on a few pounds. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.720 I NOCA is the first day I was like one 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.119 eighty five and I stepped on the scout and I 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.960 was like, WHOA, It's a little too fast for me 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.200 to gain, but I felt great at it. So um, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.200 I'm looking forward to getting back to one eighty five 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.600 and right now I'm like one eighty around that range. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.080 But I'm feeling good though, Feeling great more with Darnell 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.000 Mooney after this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:29.000 to score this segment of Bears All Access is brought 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.080 to you by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit Athletico dot com 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.760 to request an appointment in clinic or virtually and start 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:39.280 feeling better tomorrow with Jeff Joniac, Tim Thare, Darnell Mooney. Time, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.879 You've got the floor right. So your junior and senior 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.080 year in college, you had forty eight catches each year, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.800 and last year you had sixty one catches. Did that 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.800 seem like a big jump to you or do you 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.359 see that's just scratching the surface and you have bigger 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.600 numbers capable each year you play. Yeah, for sure. Honestly, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.919 last year I didn't realize that I had sixty one catches. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.880 I thought of more than that, honestly. So I'm expecting more. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.560 I'm I'm able to take on more. Any role that's more, 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:10.720 I'm willing to take on. So hopefully, you know, Coachnagkin 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.360 pans and creative plays out for MENI to get open 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.119 and we can see those gor Have you developed a 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.640 relationship with either receivers, coach or coach Naggy that maybe 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.360 you have a suggested route or a play from your 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.000 past that you know that the success raiders high for you. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.760 I mean, some of the offense that we have ran 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.119 in college was from the Bear, so I've been running 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.200 some of the same plays anyway, So I don't really 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.760 have to say too much. I'm comfortable with everything that 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.960 we call just That's probably why I got a good 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.640 pick up on the playbook lash Year. Are you Are 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.840 you a fan of the game or me. I'm kind 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.719 of obsessed with it after playing, and even while I 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.280 was playing, I would watch tape. I would watch the 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.800 games when they're on TV, and you kind of pick 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.160 up little things. Are you that type of a fan 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.560 for sure? For sure? Like I'll be watching with the 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.560 family and they'll be like, who you're rooting for it? 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.359 I'm like, um, I'm really just washing and I like 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.000 to play outs strategies throughout the game, like what do 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.280 they have to do here? Do they have to score early? Here? 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.160 Do they have to hold the ball a little bit more? 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.520 I just like to pan out strategies of the game. 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.400 Are you playing mad? For sure? Yeah? See it we're old. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.840 So have you ever played a video game in your life? 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.840 I mean bad Back of the Day? Yeah, I mean 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.919 I know, but you know all the kids, my daughters 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:31.359 certainly do. But um so it's interesting because I've never 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.560