WEBVTT - Schedule Release, Kramer on being drafted by Bears | All Access 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.760 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.800 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.800 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.479 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:21.200 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.200 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.640 Physical Therapy and CDW. Oh but it's a great day 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.880 for you everybody. I know it's red hot in Chicago 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.680 and boy, unseasonably warm right now, so a nice heat wave. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.080 This will be a pre training camp preview of what 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.319 it's to come here for the Bears and the rest 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.880 of the national football This is Bears All Access. Whether 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.199 you on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score, I'm 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.680 Jeff Johnny Ac. We're brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.519 my broadcast partner Tom Thayer tucked away and Maw, I 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.520 bet you didn't think it'd be in the nineties here 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.800 in Chicago. What do you got over there? Is it 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.920 seventy five and in the light breeze? Yeah, seventy eight 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.280 with a light breeze. If you that's the type of 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.640 weather you life, but like, but I know in the 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.200 Chicago land area, the heat wave has begun. Yes, it has. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.920 Our producer to Adam Dazinski. He's in our Score Studios. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.560 Our producers as well Jordan Trutup and Dan Barelli. And 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.679 coming up in our next segment Jim Miller from Sirius 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.600 x MNFL Radios moving the chains and he is a 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.600 former Chicago Bears quarterback. And then at the bottom of 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.920 the hour time we'll visit with Duck Kramer, the Hinsdale 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.880 Central Products. Just like you grew up a big bed 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.640 huge Bears fan and then was able to play his 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.360 entire high school in a collegiate career here in the 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.600 state of Illinois and then drafted by the Bears. You 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.160 guys have a lot in common, even more so than 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.720 Cole Commet because this is a fellow offensive lineman. Yeah, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.640 you know, it's gonna be interesting to talk to Doug 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.960 because you know, when I grew up in the sixties, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.280 the only thing offered you in the NFL was the 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.680 Chicago Bears. So in good times and in bad times, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.440 you always had to stick with your home hometown team, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.920 and you wanted to when you go to that next 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.120 generation or a couple of generations after me. You have 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.639 the exposure of the entirety of the NFL, and it's 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.280 kind of interesting where your path is going to take you. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.800 And I'd like to hear that Doug Kramer has been 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.200 a barrass fan his whole life and his whole career. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.880 He's a locally born guy, and I just think about 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.919 my family and how excited we were as a whole, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.600 and I got to imagine it's the same for him 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.040 and his family. Just the opportunity to go out there 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.160 and compete for your hometown team after playing at the 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.440 University of Illinois. What a what a fun career it 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.400 would have, Like the Dick Fucuses and guys like that. Well, 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.800 earlier this week, Luke Keetzie and how competitive this offensive 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.880 line is going to be. As they wrapped up rookie 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.600 minicamp over the weekend at have Us holl I mean 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.280 it should be extremely competitive. I mean that's at every position. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.239 I mean, that's what we're we're in here doing every 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.400 single day is giving guys an opportunity to compete. There's 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.560 no jobs that are locked up right now, and so 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.040 when you get the pads on, that's when rule ball starts. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.880 So everything will be evaluated an he says, it will 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.440 be a process. Like everything. I mean, the way that 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.760 they get off the football, the way they execute their 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.760 mentality they're finish. All that stuff's gonna get evaluated. So 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.280 I'm excited to see that we still got a ways 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.480 to go. We've got another phase that we have to 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.720 take in order to be able to be prepared for 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.440 that opportunity. So another month or so to give these 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.040 guests some more working, some more information. Now, so you 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.240 had a bunch of guys are competing at those spots, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.280 It's gonna be fun to watch. The competitiveness is going 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:31.959 to be at an all time high. When you bring 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.040 in a new coaching staff and new position coaches everywhere, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.320 you bring in a lot of young talent, a lot 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.560 of free agents with some opportunities to have some success 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.920 in the NFL. When you kind of think now that 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.400 we've had a chance to talk to Ian Cunningham and 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.400 hopefully eventually get a chance to talk to Ryan Poles, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.120 and we talked to Matti Eberflus. Every time you get 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.880 to listen to a coach behind the podium or a microphone, 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.119 you kind of get a better understanding of what they're 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.720 looking for. And then you have a little of football 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.400 exposure and you see what the expectations of effort on 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.440 the field is. And I think that is really gonna 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:12.240 be a telltaling sign of the competitiveness of every single 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:17.400 position throughout OTAs and training camp and the schedule release 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.719 coming up there at seven o'clock. Officially, I know here 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:25.080 on the score Danny Parkins seemingly has the entire roster 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.279 of games, but can't confirm or didn't hike as its 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.919 NFL rules, So here we go. We do know. The 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.279 home opener with a visit from the San Francisco forty 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.839 nine Ers at noon on September eleventh, tom So that'll 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.680 be the kickoff visit from a team that came into 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.479 Soldier Field last October May have. So I've seen the 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.919 best play with his feet in the Justin Fields era 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.880 in that game, that wonderful play that he made something 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.040 out of nothing, and that was a hint of what 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.760 he can bring to the table. But the forty nine 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.719 ers in town for the opener, Yeah, well, you know, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.680 when you look at the teams that they're gonna face 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.919 this year, and you look at the San Francis forty 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.800 nine ers their sidebar stories to every team. You look 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.640 at the Bears going through the coaching transition, and then 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.120 you look at San Francisco where there's uncertainty at the 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.000 quarterback position. Then there's been you know, talk about Deebo 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.760 Samuel and where he wants to play and does he 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.880 want to be traded, would he be willing to hold out? 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.520 Does he want to make his mark out there as 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.240 a wide receiver as opposed to a running back. So 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.880 you know, it's just no A against b in this 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.840 you know, early schedule, there's a lot of things that 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.280 are gonna cause a lot you know, I don't know 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.120 if it's going to cause controversy or it's gonna create 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.080 some new connections. Now, the Bears have lost seven of 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.359 the last eight season openers, so it'd be nice to 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.400 get off on the right foot when we come back. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.520 We'll be joined by Jim Miller, Bears quarterback and member 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.159 of the team on Sirius XM NFL Radio. He is 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.160 our weekly guest, and also Doug Kramer, the University Illinois product. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:56.920 Join against at the bottom of the hour, sit back 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.919 and enjoy on this steamy, steamy Thursday in Chicago in 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:09.080 May on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Squad. Welcome 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.840 back everybody to Bears All Access. It's brought to you 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.600 by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for your home at 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.120 igs dot com because every good choice adds up to 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.560 a better world. With Tom there, Jeff, Jonny Act, please 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.080 be joined by Jim Miller, our weekly guests from Serious XM, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.919 NFL Radio's Move with the Chains. I sometimes just limit 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.840 your broad resume, big Jim, because I say Bears quarterback, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.800 But heck, you didn't just quarterback to Chicago Bears. You 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.200 got a league wide view of things as a former 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.320 Pittsburgh Steeler, a former New England Patriot, Jacksonville Jaguar. Who 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:45.720 else am I missing? NFL Europe, Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay, Frankfurt, Galaxion, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.160 So you know you might have a welcoming party. I'm 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.120 sure they're gonna send you to the first regular season 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.479 game in Germany this year. I'd like to go to that. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.480 I'll be an envoy. Yeah, that'd be cool, and they will. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.080 I think next year they are playing in Frankfort, so 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.560 they're gonna go be back and forth between Munich and Frankfort. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.800 So yeah, looking forward to that. I mean, it'll be 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.560 pretty cool. Schedule release tonight, Yeah, schedule release seven o'clock. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.520 We know the Bear's gonna open against the forty nine ers. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.559 Green Bay announced their home opener is week two again Jim, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.680 another primetime game against the Packers. And this every every 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.240 year since so five, and that's deserving. You know, it's 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.480 the oldest rivalry in football. But I think now fourteen 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.600 of them have come Jim in Green Bay. So they 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.600 always love to warm up the welcome head for the 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.720 Bears at Lambeau in primetime. Yeah, and you know, it'll 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.440 be interesting to see how many primetime games the Bears 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.320 do land for Matt Eberflus and you know players, I mean, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.560 the bottom line is when you get the schedule release one, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.640 you're looking at your Week one opponent. That's what you're 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.600 thinking about. You're thinking, are their consecutive say you got 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.240 three weeks in a role of away games. Certainly the 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.720 players factor in the bye weekend, but they're all tough. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.600 I mean, they're all tough. But for me, I always 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.560 focused on Week one, the awaye schedule. How many you 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.080 know Miles will be traveling? Then of course where the 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.800 bye week is, but you know, we got to play 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.320 him one at a time. It is what it is. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.480 They're not changing it, you know, So once that schedule 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.480 was released, it'd staying the same. So get your mind right, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.880 get it locked and loaded with as a player of Tim. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.600 Obviously they didn't, they didn't do all this. They didn't 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.480 make a big deal out of it back then. It 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.240 just was released. You know, you know where you go, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.800 this is what it is, and you go do it. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.600 But did you other than looking with the hot weather 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.040 games at heart because you're a sweater and you're worried 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.760 about it. You don't love playing in the heat. Uh? 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:36.800 You know, I heard a story about you last night, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.679 as a matter of fact, it was from Brian McCaskey 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:45.640 who said that you demanded in the huddle to get 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.600 the water first when he was an athletic trainer and 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.640 he was a little nervous to give it to Jay Hilgenberg. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:57.400 Is this a true story? Unfortunately? Yes, I was. I 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.880 you know, some of the miseries that made you kind 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.920 of that, you know, and that those circumstances that I 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.760 would always almost demand a towel in the water bottle 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.960 first so I could cool myself down and then you know, uh, 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.480 then give it to everybody else but Brian. He was 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.280 a great trainer for the Bears throughout my whole time there. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.560 But you know, when you're looking back on the schedule, 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.440 when I when I became a part of the Bears again, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.480 I was talking last week. I came apart of the 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.280 NFC championship and then the Super Bowl success after that, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.320 and we had the best record the NFL for three 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.720 or four years after that. So it wasn't always worried 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.000 about who our opponents were. When the schedule release came out, 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.199 I did talk always think about what hot weather games 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.880 we were going to play. Cold weather didn't bother me, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.960 but it kind of seved up some of the loud 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.680 stadiums that are are you going into the Kingdom in Seattle? 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.679 When do you play the Minnesota Vikings. When we used 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.240 to play Tapa twice year and we'd played at Troy, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.679 we would have a bigger Bears fan crowd there than 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.440 they would the actual opponent. So with everything that we 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.160 faced in the schedule release, you know, Jim, it was 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.000 that you know, we kind of looked at it and 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.720 what games are good for you and what games are 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.480 going to be the biggest challenge. Yeah. Absolutely. Also the 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.559 Jim the thing I care about most when I look 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.920 at the schedule is what quarterbacks you're facing, yep, and 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.240 what pass rushers you have to stop to avoid having 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.080 them wreck your game plan. Yeah. So you know, when 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.240 I look at this schedule this year, however, it's gonna 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.680 ultimately land. You know, you're looking at Aaron Rodgers, Dak 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.280 Prescott as the big the big ones, and then you 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.360 know Josh Allen from Buffalo. The rest have some you know, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.120 some growing to do yet or some developing. What the 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.520 team they've moved to on this schedule, well, yeah, Washington 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.960 with Carson Wentz. You know, how is he going to perform? 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.040 You know he's already been this is his third team, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.440 Let's be honest. Bears have Miami Dolphins this year. Don't 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.520 know the what week it'll be or the time, but 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.960 to a tongue of viola, there's a lot on the 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.719 line there. You know it'll be interesting Week one. Do 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.800 the Bears face Jimmy Garoppolo or is Trey Lance the 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.960 guaranteed starter there for San Francisco, Because that's that's a 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.000 big discremacy. You know Trey Lance only got in two 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.840 games last year, essentially he got hurt, and think about it, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.400 they elected to roll with a banged up Jimmy Garoppolo 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.640 who's dealing with the shoulder and he had the hand 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.079 issue late in the year and they still felt Jimmy 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.400 gave him a better chance to win. So I think 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.160 it'll be interesting who's lining up under center week one. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.440 Daniel Jones under the gun for the Giants. They'll face 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.160 a young Zach Wilson Atlanta. How will they be performing 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.000 under Marcus Mariota. I think we know what New England's 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.000 going to be under under mac Jones. I think they 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.320 gave us a good indicare last year. But yeah, the 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.480 quarterbacks you're facing are going to be a big part 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.600 of it and how they can manage the game. That's 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.240 a lot of experience when you're facing somebody like Aaron Rodgers. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.800 Fellas we alluded to it last week time that the 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:03.040 roster is going to be a continuing piece that is 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.480 constantly changing with this new administration to see where the 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.760 best pieces are and how they all fit together. So 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.120 again today, a couple of veterans added in the receivers. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.160 Taj sharp former Atlanta Falcon had a really terrific rookie 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.160 year in his time with the Falcons. And Dante Pettis, 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.400 who came in the league with a lot of great 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.959 credentials because of that speed four three two speed that 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.800 hasn't quite translated into a lot of production just yet, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.640 but maybe here with the Bears that changes. A couple 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.520 of undrafted rookie free agents the Bears had signed were 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.000 let go, and then yesterday the waving of tight end 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.920 yes Chesper Horstead due to a failed physical. They've added 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.600 Rice and Johnny six foot seven, two hundred sixty pound 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.920 tight end from the Giants who runs well off waivers. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.840 You know what I like about every single one of 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.640 these guys on this football team, offense and defenses that 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.560 are all starting even because there's nobody with a year 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.080 a couple of seasons of advantage within the system, so 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.160 they know how to get in the right place a 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.680 little bit quicker. And when you talk about all the 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.840 free agent wide receivers, how much change over there is 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.760 at the tight end position, all the offensive lineman they 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.360 brought in, both free agents and draft choices. It's gonna 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.760 be interesting because you know, some guys, um, they're able 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:22.360 to accomplish more mentally quicker, and so you know you 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.480 can't have any you know, mental aires. That's that's gonna 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.760 be a decision, a decision making factor in what you know, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.360 what has assumed that how you can help the team. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.320 So yeah, I'm I'm gonna well, it's gonna be fun 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.000 to watch the competitiveness. And I think it's gonna be 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.800 as competitive in otash, not as it will be in 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.440 training camp because it's gonna be in full pads. But 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.480 some of these guys are gonna rise above the rest. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.240 That's top there. Jim Miller from Serious sex m NFL 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.520 Radios moving the chains, I'm Jeff, Joni K. We're gonna 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.000 step away for a break. This is Bears All Access, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.560 brought to you by IGS Energy and Chicago Sports Radio 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:03.960 six seventy to score. This segment of Bears All Access 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:07.080 has brought to you by Athletico Physical Therapy. Visit Athletico 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.400 dot com to a question, appointment and clinic or virtually 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.360 and start feeling better tomorrow with Tom Baer and Jim 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.120 Beller from Serious XM NFL Radios. Moving to James, I'm Jeff, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.960 Joniac Jim our weekly guest, Jim Bears, also added a 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.840 quarterback this week, Nathan Peterman. He's been with the Buffalo Bills, 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.960 that's where he broke into the league, and with the 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.360 Raiders last couple of years Ryan Willis released. What you thought, Yeah, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.720 I think he provides more experience, And again, I think 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.880 you're trying to surround a young quarterback in justin fields 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.960 with some veteran guys who have played a little bit. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.040 You know, Trevor Simmons has been around. I think when 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.320 you look at Nate Peterman, he's been around two. And 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.320 Nate Peterman was well coached under John Gruden out there. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.600 He played well in the preseason games. Everybody goes back 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.880 to the Buffalo Bills. Remember he got this first start 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.760 against the Chargers and through like five picks, and that's 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.920 how people remember Peterman. But that's not the case four 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.080 years later. This guy has been well coached. He's been 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.120 in and out of game plans and preparing week in 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.280 week out. As I mentioned out there for the Vegas Raiders. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:06.920 At one point he had he had to get an 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.960 elbow surgery, got his arm corrected so he can play, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.680 and he's got some experience to him that can probably 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:17.800 be beneficial to the young Justin Fields tom Ay thoughts, Yeah, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.600 I mean, I just think about the quarterbacks. When you're 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:25.560 trying to teach a system to a quarterback these quarterbacks, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.840 are their traits significantly different from each other or do 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.960 they have similar traits to each other? Because if you're 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.960 teaching a moving pocket type pass to Justin Fields, does 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.760 Trevor Simeon and Nathan Peterman do they have the same 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.040 athleticism to be able to carry it out and possibly 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.280 turn it into the run or to throw on the 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.320 move or do you focus a little bit of different 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.200 portion of the offense that suits the traits of Trevor 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.560 Simeon and Nathan Peterman That may be a little different 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.560 than Justin Fields. You know, when you're teaching an entire 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.840 offensive line, they kind of all fit into each other 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.440 like pieces do a puzzle. But it seems like when 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.160 you have quarterbacks that have different trade values, do you 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.640 have to teach differently and doesn't put more pressure on 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.160 the position coach to get those points across or develop 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.160 the offense between the three of them. Well, if you 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.080 listen to Luke gets you this week, the running game 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.400 is going to be significant, that's for sure. He keeps 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.080 emphasizing that, and that's the best way to help out 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.000 your quarterback and get him ease into the system and 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.680 open up the deep ball. But more of what he's 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.000 looking for for the key principles for this offense to 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.360 develop hopefully. You know, when you watch us, it's eleven 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.280 is one and it's we're firing off the football better 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.120 than anybody else in this league, and we're finishing better 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.080 than anybody else in this league. Those are the things 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.600 that we're talking about every single day. We're taking care 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.600 of the football, getting off the rock, and we're finishing 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.360 better than anybody else in this league. And so that's 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.240 our mentality, that's our purpose. We can do that. We 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.240 got a chance. Jim, how do you feel about that statement? Yeah, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.600 I think he You know, if you can always protect 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.920 the football, you got a chance in a game. I'd 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.680 say that all the time. It's easier to lose games 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.680 and it is to win it. And if you start 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.200 to turn over the football, you don't have a chance. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.440 So you have to protect the football. It's going to 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.720 be paramount. Justin cannot carry the team right now. It's 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.040 it's you know, he's in an early stage of his career. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.560 He's got all kinds of talents, but to expect him 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.760 to carry the team, that's just not where he is 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.320 at this stage of his career. So the running game 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.119 is going to be the best avenue for him. I 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.919 know everybody's been screaming for it. They made that transition 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.760 last year, and it sounds like they're going to start 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.639 with that mentality this year, so it'll be excited. A 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.359 lot of things need to come into focus, from the 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.080 offensive line, how did they come together, the running back situation, 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.440 like the situation there with David Montgomery and Khalil Herbert. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.920 I think Khalil really showed some things when he got 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.439 the opportunity last year. So they have to have the 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.400 mentality that it's going to be early and often for 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.600 them to help out their young quarterback. And I think 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.120 the play action will really suit justin Field beautifully if 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.520 they're able to do those things. But when we are 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.760 talking about the quarterback pack, I like to hear Luke 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.040 Asky talk about every time they're going to fire off 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.000 the ball and how aggressive they're going to be at 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.080 the line of scrimmage at the running game is going 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.320 to be an emphasis and it's eleven as one. I 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.399 agree with all that, But my concern when we're just 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.840 backtracking about the quarterback position, when you put the script 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.640 together for the first twenty five plays of a game 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.160 or however many day script, does it suit all quarterbacks 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.920 or is it the same threat if you had the 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.560 number two or number three quarterback in there as if 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.320 you put the system together for justin That was my 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.480 only thinking process. The preach points that the coaches have 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.360 brought up about how aggressive they're going to be, how 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.320 the emphasis on the running game, and how quick and 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.320 off the ball they want the offensive line to be. Look, man, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:54.080 I'm one hundred percent on board with all that, and 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.400 we are just I just speaking a little bit about 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.800 the quarterbacks. Coming up here in moments. We'll be joined 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.040 by Doug Kramer, the Bear's new offensive lineman from the 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:07.200 University of Illinois and Hinsdale Central. Defensively, last week, Jim 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.520 listening to Alan Williams, a new defensive coordinator. He was 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.959 very good talking about the defense, and boy, that defense 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.320 was flying around playing at at you know, obviously no pads, 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.359 but everybody running around like the athletes they are. And 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.080 there was a lot of energy and juice to that practice. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.679 Over the three day minicamp, Dominique Robbinson name come up 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.080 because boy, he looks the part of a pass rusher. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.480 He really does. He's got the frame, he just doesn't 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.480 have the experience. Yeah, we gotta see. We hadn't put 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.560 pads on yet right now where it's football and pajamas, 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.880 where you know, might as well be playing basketball, So 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.520 we have to see what. You know, We're not going 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.680 to give him a whole bunch and really we're saying him, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.960 but all our guys, we're gonna say, hey, line up here, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.639 if you get this stimulus, this is the response that 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.720 you're going to give us and so, and we're gonna 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.400 teach it over and over and over again and then 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.760 see kind of what he does. You know, it sounds 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.320 like Rod Marinelli very much. I could hear echoing. You know, 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.560 you strip him down to bear wire and you teach 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.359 them the fundementals all over again, and every couple of 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.359 weeks or even I mean I think Rod told me 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.560 every forty eight hours, muscle memory loses a little bit, 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.080