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Speaker 5: Bowl winning Bears guard Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniak And
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Speaker 5: Network is Eric Ostratski. It's Week nine, Tom Bears jetting
Speaker 5: the Phoenix to play the Cardinals three zero five Sunday.
Speaker 5: Changing the clock Saturday, so an extra hour sleep, but
Speaker 5: I don't need it. I'm ready to play right now.
Speaker 5: How about you?
Speaker 6: I am too.
Speaker 1: You know, seventy degrees for a high and it's really unusual,
Speaker 1: so I look for a fresher style. A fresher brand
Speaker 1: of football when you go out there, even though you're traveling.
Speaker 6: I don't know if they'll have the roof opened or closed.
Speaker 5: It's supposed to rain.
Speaker 1: Oh it is in the morning, most likely closed then,
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you updated me.
Speaker 6: But it's an exciting game.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are an exciting team, but so are the Bears.
Speaker 1: So I expect a really fun brand of football on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks to Fox thirty two Chicago cameraman Jeff
Speaker 5: Wieris for the update on the rain. So yeah, we
Speaker 5: gotta do Bears game Day live, bright and early there.
Speaker 5: And so I think we're gonna get a little wet
Speaker 5: in that game.
Speaker 6: Well not if they have the roof closed. We're not
Speaker 6: gonna get They're not gonna get wet.
Speaker 5: We got all sorts of stuff happening here tonight. We
Speaker 5: got TJ. Edwards joining the program. You heard from Bears
Speaker 5: running back coach Chad Morton, Richard hight, Tower, Cole Comets,
Speaker 5: Eric Washington, and the offensive coordinator Shane Waldron all jam
Speaker 5: packed in our show tonight. Tom, Let's check the injury
Speaker 5: report first. First, on the offensive line, you've got Karanamagaji
Speaker 5: CAF did not practice today. Braxton Jones knee did not
Speaker 5: practice today. Tevin Jenkins knee was limited yesterday, did not
Speaker 5: practice today. So Ryan Bates limited as he comes into
Speaker 5: that twenty one day window after being on I with
Speaker 5: a shore shoulder. Larry Borum though full, he had that
Speaker 5: twenty one day window open up here last week. So
Speaker 5: you know, I was asked on Wadaw and Sylvie by
Speaker 5: Peggy Kazinski and Mark Silverman, what's the offensive line gonna
Speaker 5: look like? And I can't call it right now, can you? Well, well,
Speaker 5: this is it.
Speaker 1: So I was a part of that twenty one day
Speaker 1: opportunity that pupp list that they have to make a
Speaker 1: decision within the twenty one days. It's not that you
Speaker 1: have to be out there for twenty one days and
Speaker 1: then they make the decision. So to me, if they
Speaker 1: felt strongly about the way Larry Boram practiced last week,
Speaker 1: and they feel that he did a nice job of
Speaker 1: going through the conditioning requirements that the staff put him
Speaker 1: through while he is rehabilitating his ankle injury, and the
Speaker 1: same thing with Ryan Bates, and they give you the
Speaker 1: best option of veteran talent, then I would play them
Speaker 1: I wouldn't shy away from him. But also Doug Kramer
Speaker 1: came in and did a nice job at offensive guard,
Speaker 1: and so you still have options there. And it's not
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be void of the proper number of
Speaker 1: offensive linemen to go to Arizona with.
Speaker 6: But if you have a game day.
Speaker 1: Jersey, you just gotta be ready to play if you
Speaker 1: feel and you tell the coaches that you are ready.
Speaker 5: Also, did Jakwan Brisker and Kyler Gordon still sidelined?
Speaker 6: You know, the Kyler Gordon one.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make me nervous because there's a linger and
Speaker 1: to a muscle, a soft you injury, a pull of
Speaker 1: whatever whatever it is. But I am concerned that I'm
Speaker 1: worried about Jakwan Brisker. I'm not gonna, you know, hide
Speaker 1: that because Jaquan is a great football player.
Speaker 6: He's a really neat guy.
Speaker 1: And I want you Kwon Brisker to have a long, successful,
Speaker 1: healthy career. But now going into Way, this is week
Speaker 1: three of that concussion of what he's dealing with. So
Speaker 1: I just want the best for I just want the
Speaker 1: best for Jakwan.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 5: Shane Waldron at the podium as he is each and
Speaker 5: every Thursday. Uh, We're gonna focus on this chunk of
Speaker 5: it is just dealing with the pressure packages that teams
Speaker 5: come up with, whether it be blitzes, twist stunts, or whatever,
Speaker 5: and how the Bears have handled it a week to
Speaker 5: week from the beginning of the season where they are
Speaker 5: right now. And also look at this defense of Nick
Speaker 5: Ratis and Arizona. Jonathan Gannon coming from the Colts organization,
Speaker 5: Philly organization, so they do like the.
Speaker 8: Pressure operated at a good level earlier on in the
Speaker 8: I think that's going to be a week to week thing.
Speaker 8: And I think just as much as the teams that
Speaker 8: have blitzed us, it's the teams that have shown disguises.
Speaker 8: Because we're going into another week this week with nicko
Speaker 8: Alis and Arizona where they do an excellent job of
Speaker 8: bringing exotic pressures into those third down situations or known
Speaker 8: passing situations, but they also do an excellent job of
Speaker 8: showing that look and then pulling out and playing coverage
Speaker 8: on different situations there. So I think for us all
Speaker 8: about the communication, I think Coleman Shelton's done a really
Speaker 8: good job of handling that communication at the center position,
Speaker 8: working with Caleb, and to me, all the pressure looks
Speaker 8: that we get all the different ones that we've gotten
Speaker 8: throughout training camp, and we keep stacking those reps and
Speaker 8: keep getting better at those every single week so we
Speaker 8: can always play clean against the Blitz, which is a
Speaker 8: goal every single week.
Speaker 9: Caleb Williams tell us he's missing throws that he wouldn't
Speaker 9: normally miss. When you go back and you look at
Speaker 9: those miss throws, what are you kind of seeing or
Speaker 9: diagnosing from those situations?
Speaker 8: Ye, I think Caleb's just doing a good job of
Speaker 8: just building an inventory of seeing these throws, different ones
Speaker 8: that he knows that that he can make us, especially
Speaker 8: you know, early on in the games, and and does
Speaker 8: a good job of looking to self correct, looking to
Speaker 8: see making sure feet, eyes, rhythm is all in a
Speaker 8: in a good spot right there. And then it's when
Speaker 8: it's a chance to work off schedule, you know, and
Speaker 8: and you know, hits that that first throw and then
Speaker 8: clicks right in. And I think the best part about
Speaker 8: Caleb though, is if he misses a throw, he does
Speaker 8: he has that forward thinking mindset so he's ready for
Speaker 8: that next play, that ready for that next challenge. So
Speaker 8: he never lets that uh, play before and incompletion, before
Speaker 8: Uh I look back to the Jacksonville game and interception,
Speaker 8: he doesn't let that affect his next play. He'll come
Speaker 8: right back out there, ready to fire and and ready
Speaker 8: to go through the process.
Speaker 10: From your time in the NFC West, you obviously have
Speaker 10: familiarity with Baker.
Speaker 3: You describe his value to that the what kind of
Speaker 3: strength he puts on Yeah, I think.
Speaker 8: You know, around the league each week there's there's great
Speaker 8: a lot of great players on every team, and you know,
Speaker 8: and then there's these unique players like Buddha Baker, uh
Speaker 8: that really set the tone, set the attitude, set the
Speaker 8: culture for a team and for a defense. And I
Speaker 8: think the way that that he his ability to run
Speaker 8: and hit and cover impact the game. Run the alleys
Speaker 8: going against him multiple times, they talk about a fearless player,
Speaker 8: that's that's always in attack mode. So he's one of
Speaker 8: those guys that we always have to respect, we need
Speaker 8: to account for. They obviously use a unique structure with
Speaker 8: how they're able to move him around, So it's a
Speaker 8: it's a big part of our game plan and a
Speaker 8: big part of our week for a guy that we
Speaker 8: have a ton of respect for.
Speaker 4: About their defense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, starting with Buddha Baker and then the ability
Speaker 8: to move around Collins or there are different pieces with Wilson,
Speaker 8: you know in non normal alignments. You know, they might
Speaker 8: be a defensive line alignments, they might be at linebacker alignments. Uh,
Speaker 8: so they can mix and match. I think Coach Rollis
Speaker 8: is a very unique scheme. So it's something we honed
Speaker 8: in on starting to work on on Monday, and then
Speaker 8: it worked all the way through and it'll be a
Speaker 8: good challenge to attack.
Speaker 7: Collectively as a staff figure out Larry Borum's readiness after
Speaker 7: an extended absence of just trying to gauge where he's at.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think Larry's done an unbelievable job. First of all,
Speaker 8: when he was injured, you know, going back to the preseason,
Speaker 8: gets injured, and that happens of staying connected, staying involved,
Speaker 8: staying in with this up to date with the scheme,
Speaker 8: and he's worked his butt off to get back healthy
Speaker 8: through that rehab and then gets a chance to get
Speaker 8: out on the practice field. And this is the guy
Speaker 8: who's played in games and played you know, played at
Speaker 8: a high level. So his readiness from a mental standpoint
Speaker 8: is right there. Physical standpoint right there and then you know,
Speaker 8: so we have all the trust in the world of
Speaker 8: him playing and playing at a high level in the game.
Speaker 7: I think he called this Cardinal scheme unique.
Speaker 8: I think it's unique with the way they can utilize
Speaker 8: their linebacker spots both on the ball and off the ball.
Speaker 8: And then Buddha Baker, you know where he's able to
Speaker 8: you know, with him Thompson with the safety is the DBS.
Speaker 8: They're able to play a lot of blurry structures pre
Speaker 8: snap with a three safety starting point right there, and
Speaker 8: then rock and roll into different looks. So it's just
Speaker 8: like I said, it's a little different than other schemes.
Speaker 8: They might get into some of the final coverages or
Speaker 8: front structures that are normal, but the way that they
Speaker 8: get to those is traditional.
Speaker 5: All right. So that's Shane walldron a portion of his
Speaker 5: news conference today at Halsall, Tom, you watch the tape,
Speaker 5: what are you seeing defensively that that that front is
Speaker 5: really messed up with injuries right now?
Speaker 1: It is Jeff and you know, both our safeties are
Speaker 1: good football players.
Speaker 6: It's not only Buddha Baker.
Speaker 1: But you know, I kind of don't like the fact
Speaker 1: that the press gets right into third down, because yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna listen. The first question when they're asking about
Speaker 1: was third down and passing.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no. I I edited that.
Speaker 6: I know, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So because I think they're really blockable on first and
Speaker 1: second down. I look at this defense and it looks
Speaker 1: like a three to one two defense.
Speaker 5: They got three interesting huh.
Speaker 1: Three defensive linemen and stances, one linebacker that faces up
Speaker 1: wherever the running back is positioned into the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: then the two outside linebackers.
Speaker 6: But when you look at the.
Speaker 1: Positioning of the guy right over the head of the
Speaker 1: set in the two defensive tackles, they're kind of in
Speaker 1: the gap between the guard and the center. It makes
Speaker 1: them really double teamable, if that's even a word, because
Speaker 1: you're almost putting yourself in position where you can go
Speaker 1: half body to half body, and then you have that
Speaker 1: one linebacker that's gonna flow according to the direction of
Speaker 1: the play. To me, when they talk to Shane about
Speaker 1: third down, I wish they would talk first about first
Speaker 1: and second down, because that's the one thing about the
Speaker 1: Bears offense. You're gonna have to be successful on first
Speaker 1: and second down. Whether you're running a screen or just
Speaker 1: running the ball at the point of attack, and then
Speaker 1: you're gonna be then you're gonna have a little bit
Speaker 1: more understanding of what they're gonna have to do on
Speaker 1: third down. So to me, the beginning of the question
Speaker 1: should always start with first down, and that's gonna tell
Speaker 1: you a little bit about the progression of the defense.
Speaker 5: He used last names of mac Wilson's starting line. But
Speaker 5: they do move him to an edge. They lost their
Speaker 5: best edge rusher and Dennis Gardick to an ACL against
Speaker 5: the Chargers. And of course the former Bears all in there,
Speaker 5: Blal Nichols and Justin Jones, they're out there on IR
Speaker 5: right now. So and you mentioned in our podcast, Kiris
Speaker 5: Tonga is still there another act Chicago Bear playing on
Speaker 5: the defensive line. All right, we're gonna step away. When
Speaker 5: we come back, we'll hear from TJ. Edwards, the hit
Speaker 5: man second in the NFC and tackles since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5: That's coming up next here on Bears Weekly on the
Speaker 5: SPN one thousand of the Bears Radio Network. So this
Speaker 5: segment of Bears Weekly brought to you by Igs Energy,
Speaker 5: Jeff Joni, k Tom Player, with you as we're getting
Speaker 5: you set for Bears and Cardinals, had the opportunity to
Speaker 5: talk to one of our favorite players. I think Tom
Speaker 5: would would agree on TJ. Edwards made it took the
Speaker 5: long way to get here, right, undrafted free agent, and
Speaker 5: he's always got that in the back of his mind,
Speaker 5: as we'll learn here in this conversation. But Tom, the Bears,
Speaker 5: according to Pro Football Reference, have had the fewest misstackles
Speaker 5: in the NFL through the first eight weeks of the season,
Speaker 5: just twenty five. Some teams have one hundred already, which
Speaker 5: is hard to imagine.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's crazy. You know, look at a majority
Speaker 1: of these players. They accelerate into the tackle and the
Speaker 1: reason they miss so few tackles they're in perfect tackling position.
Speaker 1: They practice fundamentals. Matt Eberflus talks about the way and
Speaker 1: the technique he likes these guys to use, and we
Speaker 1: always brag about.
Speaker 6: The way TJ.
Speaker 1: Edwards and the rest of these guys accelerate right before
Speaker 1: the collision and it becomes a collision because their willingness
Speaker 1: to hit guys on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 5: And that's a good place to start in our conversation
Speaker 5: with the Bears linebacker. Everybody goes sideways or backwards. I
Speaker 5: mean you delivered this pop. I mean the way your
Speaker 5: coach to tackle under Matt Eberflus and coach Washington is significant.
Speaker 5: It's the hamstring tackle. But sometimes you just can't get
Speaker 5: to the hamstring. You just got to take care of business.
Speaker 5: Do you think the men that you hit field TJ.
Speaker 4: Edwards, I'd like to think so.
Speaker 10: You know, it's not like I'm always walking away clean too.
Speaker 10: Sometimes that's self inflicted wounds there too. But man, that's
Speaker 10: kind of just how I know how to play the game.
Speaker 10: And I feel like it's something that's really helped me
Speaker 10: get to where I am today and still so much
Speaker 10: room for improvement.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 10: So I'm just I'm excited every day to get in
Speaker 10: here and get to work and get to do what
Speaker 10: I love for a living.
Speaker 4: It's incredible.
Speaker 5: Captain TJ. Edwards has a nice ring to it as well.
Speaker 5: Everyone I've asked about it who's become a captain, especially
Speaker 5: when it's the first time or early, they really appreciate it,
Speaker 5: like there's just something different about it. You know, you
Speaker 5: carry yourself always. This is my interpretation also as as
Speaker 5: a leader no matter what. But to have that title
Speaker 5: when you got it and how you embrace it would
Speaker 5: what's the feeling like for you? What's how does that
Speaker 5: manifest itself for you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And I think you kind of allude to it.
Speaker 10: But I think there's so many leaders in this building, right,
Speaker 10: And but I think for me being able to, you know,
Speaker 10: get voted captain by my peers, you know, it's it
Speaker 10: means something so much more, and it's something you know,
Speaker 10: I don't I don't take lightly at all, and you know,
Speaker 10: I try to just be the be the same guy
Speaker 10: every day though, right. I think you know the best
Speaker 10: part about kind of our captains in general is it's
Speaker 10: a bunch of different personalities and they lead in you know,
Speaker 10: their own way. Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. That's what
Speaker 10: I'm saying, Like we've kind of.
Speaker 4: Got it all.
Speaker 10: But it's it's a blessing, man, And to do it
Speaker 10: for you know, my hometown team, my first ever time
Speaker 10: being voted captain, it's it's something special.
Speaker 5: What did they miss? What did they miss about TJ Amen?
Speaker 5: I think I couldn't pear into the soul the man.
Speaker 10: I think, you know, I think everyone's enamored with the
Speaker 10: T shirt and shorts, right, I think everyone loves that.
Speaker 10: But good thing for me is, you know, that's not
Speaker 10: what you play football, and that's not the entirety where
Speaker 10: so I think, you know, I think people thought I
Speaker 10: was slow and and things like that I wouldn't be
Speaker 10: able to fit into these the system and in this league.
Speaker 10: And that's something that drives me every single day and
Speaker 10: to this day. You know, I think I still carry
Speaker 10: that with me that you know, you don't think I'm
Speaker 10: good enough and I'm gonna show you why. So I
Speaker 10: carry that that chip on my shoulder will never go away.
Speaker 10: But it's something that I love to prove, you know,
Speaker 10: to other people.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 5: We can talk about tough losses all day long. Every
Speaker 5: player and every sport, anybody at any level have had
Speaker 5: that one tough one. But I keep being told if
Speaker 5: you lose a Super Bowl, that's the one. Did you do?
Speaker 5: You still carry that with you and and just being
Speaker 5: on the brink and not able to finish that and
Speaker 5: as a lesson then it's the rest of the room. Yes,
Speaker 5: that you can tell.
Speaker 10: Guys absolutely, And like you said, there's so many guys
Speaker 10: who have tough losses, you know, Tremaine, and I was
Speaker 10: kind of reminiscing on that, you know, on our careers
Speaker 10: and things like that and the losses that we've took,
Speaker 10: and doesn't mean that this one that we had didn't
Speaker 10: hurt any more or less. But it's also, you know what,
Speaker 10: that was our seventh game, right, we got someone, We
Speaker 10: got ten weeks left at minimum, and we get to
Speaker 10: go show why we you know, deserve be in that
Speaker 10: dance and we're gonna go.
Speaker 4: Get those things corrected.
Speaker 10: But at the end of the day, like I think
Speaker 10: that the super Bowl one hurts, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 10: because that's your last game of the year.
Speaker 4: You're going home after.
Speaker 10: That, so we've got we've got time to do, we
Speaker 10: need to do to get it corrected.
Speaker 5: What's the TJ stand.
Speaker 4: For Terrence Joseph.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're in trouble, you get the Terrence Joseph.
Speaker 4: Or man, I love the TJ.
Speaker 5: Would you rather prefer the Terrence?
Speaker 4: It's crazy, I've never really gone by Terrence.
Speaker 10: I think it's when I'm in trouble growing up, That's
Speaker 10: kind of how it was. It was a Terrence or
Speaker 10: it's like you know, when I when I shank a
Speaker 10: t shot off the whatever you're yelling at myself Terrence like.
Speaker 4: But other than that, it's TJ.
Speaker 5: They got any other nicknames for you in that room?
Speaker 4: Uh, my parents are around here, both. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't really have too many.
Speaker 10: I think, you know, obviously flu scam me the Hitman
Speaker 10: one here, you know, I think that's that's really it, TJ.
Speaker 4: My friends make fun of me call me Terry Joe.
Speaker 10: Back in the day, my wife's name is Kelly Joe,
Speaker 10: so they always, you know, kind of make fun of
Speaker 10: me for that.
Speaker 4: But other than that, it's really it.
Speaker 5: Do you remember your first Halloween costume or what was
Speaker 5: your go to back in the day.
Speaker 10: I mean I had the I had the Classic Bears one, right,
Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. I had the Irlacker one.
Speaker 10: I was I was Blade one year. I remember that
Speaker 10: that was a good picture. This past just you know,
Speaker 10: a couple of days ago. I was a joker So
Speaker 10: oh really what was that for? Just a little team
Speaker 10: to get together.
Speaker 5: But the guys dressed up?
Speaker 10: Yeah, come on, absolutely, man, absolutely, Hey you got you.
Speaker 5: Know what, man who won the costume of the year,
Speaker 5: who walked in and you went, oh, my this guy
Speaker 5: went all out.
Speaker 4: There were some good ones. Who was Tremaine was h
Speaker 4: what's a Scooby doo?
Speaker 10: Uh? Fred and uh and uh Daphne and his and
Speaker 10: his girl. So that was that was a couple of
Speaker 10: good ones. I think Keenan was the mask which was
Speaker 10: a good one.
Speaker 4: Jim Carrey one. So now I forgot. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't remember. It was a lot though. It was a
Speaker 4: good time.
Speaker 5: That's pretty funny. Yeah, all right, Arizona, you've challenged Kyler
Speaker 5: Murray three times in your career.
Speaker 4: I looked it up.
Speaker 5: He hits you by ground, he hits you by air,
Speaker 5: and he's a hard little guy to hit. He's an interesting,
Speaker 5: interesting guy here in a Heisman battle. What's the key
Speaker 5: to stop and him from hurting you too badly?
Speaker 4: And I think you nailed it.
Speaker 10: I think he's a guy who can do a lot
Speaker 10: of his feet obviously, and he can do like a
Speaker 10: great job extending plays, making them right reads, and you
Speaker 10: kind of I feel like I've seen his progression. Everyone's
Speaker 10: seen his progression from a from a thrower, you know, standpoint,
Speaker 10: he can make every single throw. But I feel like
Speaker 10: just watching the tape, he's doing a great job of
Speaker 10: just kind of making the right decisions and making the
Speaker 10: right plays and then also being a playmaker when he
Speaker 10: has to. So it's gonna take everybody, all right, it's
Speaker 10: gonna And obviously we got a little taste of that
Speaker 10: last week with a runner playing a running style quarterback.
Speaker 10: But you know these guys are these guys are different
Speaker 10: in what they do too, so it'll be it'll be fun.
Speaker 4: Man. We're excited, all right.
Speaker 5: TJ. Edwards a portion of our interview. We'll hear more
Speaker 5: from him later in a couple of weeks. But the
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray aspect of Thanks Tom, have you noticed anything different?
Speaker 5: Because he was here last year recovered from his ACL
Speaker 5: tear in twenty twenty two, so he played eight games
Speaker 5: last year. He's already played eight games this year. Do
Speaker 5: you notice anything different about him?
Speaker 1: I think he's the most unblitzable cornerback in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: If you think that you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Play a one directional rusher against a blitzer, I think
Speaker 1: you have to blitz from both sides because he has
Speaker 1: the ability to headfake. He's got quick to twitch muscles,
Speaker 1: he's got a short arm throwing motion, and he's impossible
Speaker 1: to tackle in a big space, and so the difficulty
Speaker 1: of trying to trap Kyler Murray by a one man
Speaker 1: blitz from the films that I've been able to watch, it.
Speaker 6: Seems almost impossible.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you have a quarterback that's recovering
Speaker 1: from a knee injury, you always test him in some way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. When you play against a quarterback like
Speaker 1: that that's recovered from a knee injury, then you better
Speaker 1: that challenge. It better be processed a little bit more
Speaker 1: intelligently by the scheme that.
Speaker 6: You're gonna put at him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he doesn't take many hits either. He gives himself
Speaker 5: up sometimes slide feed first slide. But you know, a
Speaker 5: quarterback like that, hit him and then let's see what happens,
Speaker 5: he said, see how he respond. So hopefully the Bears
Speaker 5: can put the pressure on him and do so in Glendale,
Speaker 5: Arizona coming up on Sunday at three oh five, when
Speaker 5: we come back, we'll take a listen to the running
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Speaker 5: Here on Bears Weekly Time, Let's talk the running game,
Speaker 5: because things that are percolating right now for the Bears
Speaker 5: rent ground game and DeAndre Swift before we get into
Speaker 5: Chad Morton and his look at it. What's been most
Speaker 5: intriguing for you over these last five weeks with Swift
Speaker 5: and the offense, working with the offensive line and how
Speaker 5: he's created some big plays, you.
Speaker 6: Know, and the interior of the running game.
Speaker 1: I like that he's running lower and powerful, He's respecting
Speaker 1: the point of attack, He's getting what's offered to him
Speaker 1: by the offensive line, and we're not necessarily talking about
Speaker 1: touchdown runs, but we're talking about averaging four yards plus
Speaker 1: per carry. And then his vision on the outside zone
Speaker 1: runs is excellent. He understands how the blocks are gonna
Speaker 1: unfold in front of him, He understands the patients that
Speaker 1: he needs a blocker to get in the right position,
Speaker 1: and then he capitalizes on it. And then if you
Speaker 1: look at things, I know it's not a run, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call a screen a run play because it
Speaker 1: starts at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 6: He's got the.
Speaker 1: Patients to allow his blockers to get out in front
Speaker 1: of them, and a lot like an outside zone play.
Speaker 1: He gives those guys a chance to get in position,
Speaker 1: and then he capitalized on what's offered him. The tight
Speaker 1: ends are doing a good job and the receivers are
Speaker 1: doing a good job in the running running game blocking responsibilities.
Speaker 5: Here's running back coach Jed Morton today here at Hollis.
Speaker 7: He's just getting more comfortable out there. He's just really
Speaker 7: understanding the design of the run. We're trying to get
Speaker 7: done on it. Who we're trying to influence and it's
Speaker 7: just a profit of him, his attention to detail studying.
Speaker 7: He's always trying to improve. If you ask him right now,
Speaker 7: I'm sure he's not even close to being satisfied of
Speaker 7: where he wants to be and I'm not either, So
Speaker 7: we're gonna still push the envelope on that, and we
Speaker 7: still have a lot of room to get to get
Speaker 7: better and improved.
Speaker 5: What types of things do you feel that you're you're
Speaker 5: not entirely comfortable yet with or he's not Just is
Speaker 5: it from the simple to the complex or somewhere in between?
Speaker 7: Just setting up your blocks, I mean normal running back stuff,
Speaker 7: pressing the track mix. Sure you're on the right angle.
Speaker 7: I think that's really important. You're on your right track.
Speaker 7: How we influence these backers to get them to where
Speaker 7: we want to go? Uh so we can manipulate that.
Speaker 7: Just things of that nature. And he's just you know,
Speaker 7: he's just continuing continuing to grow in that aspect and
Speaker 7: I'm proud of them, but we got more to do.
Speaker 5: Sureld you love that crack toss plate. I mean you
Speaker 5: know what, I want to see it every like ten
Speaker 5: times a game. Right, that's just old fashioned football, Right,
Speaker 5: there is that one of your clearly one of your Favoriteyah.
Speaker 7: It's great just because of what he's able to do
Speaker 7: with it, too, because a lot of times you see
Speaker 7: runners cut back maybe a little bit too early, but
Speaker 7: it's really the emphasis of stretching that thing all the
Speaker 7: way to the sideline and really setting those blocks just
Speaker 7: not for the lineman but for the receivers too. And
Speaker 7: there's a time to cut back, but the biggest thing
Speaker 7: is really stretching that play and getting those guys to
Speaker 7: run laterally and help set up your blocks and then
Speaker 7: then we could decide from there. But if you cut
Speaker 7: up too soon, you know, you see that a lot
Speaker 7: just through out the league too, right, Guys they don't
Speaker 7: want to get stretched away out there. They want to
Speaker 7: hit it every time they seem a little seam. But
Speaker 7: that's not the design of the play. Those things like
Speaker 7: that of just not running the space but understanding the
Speaker 7: scheme and what we're trying to do.
Speaker 4: And that's a big difference.
Speaker 5: And so the end result Tommy five hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: three yards from scrimmage, if you throw in the passing
Speaker 5: game as well, trailing only Derrick Henry first bear with
Speaker 5: four consecutive one hundred yard from scrimmage games and a
Speaker 5: touchdown best in the NFL that streak top five and
Speaker 5: receiving among running backs since Week four and fourth overall
Speaker 5: receiving since twenty twenty. So a lot of good things
Speaker 5: going on. Then you hit upon all of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's the one thing about DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 1: You cannot talk about him being a running back unless
Speaker 1: you talk about him being a running back receiver, because
Speaker 1: that sets up a lot of his game. When you're
Speaker 1: an influential running back and inside the shoulders of the
Speaker 1: tackles and all of a sudden you bounce something to
Speaker 1: the outside and you're setting up for a screen. You
Speaker 1: have all those defenders bunched up in the middle, and
Speaker 1: then you have you've created some space for yourself. So
Speaker 1: Chad Morton did a really good job of describing the
Speaker 1: development of DeAndre Swift, understanding that he's not happy yet.
Speaker 6: But you and I talk all the time.
Speaker 1: We're not looking unrealistically at the performance of the production.
Speaker 1: We're looking at that a little over the four point
Speaker 1: per carry is what's gonna do most to help your offense.
Speaker 5: This just popped in my head right now because we
Speaker 5: keep talking about how you know, the Bears are not
Speaker 5: hitting out of the gas putting points on the board
Speaker 5: in the first quarter, just three points on opening drives.
Speaker 5: Ten points in the first quarter. I mentioned earlier today
Speaker 5: on ESPN, Philadelphia hasn't scored a single point in the
Speaker 5: first quarter. A steady diet of runs on the first series.
Speaker 5: Maybe just move the chains and get things going to
Speaker 5: set up the passing game a little bit more. Would
Speaker 5: that maybe get the engine started a little quicker, possibly, yeah, or.
Speaker 1: Even something that if you get into an obvious run
Speaker 1: type of formation where they know the defense where they're
Speaker 1: going to run the ball, I guarantee, let's bring everybody
Speaker 1: up and then you give Caleb the opportunity for play
Speaker 1: action if it's if you get the opening drive going
Speaker 1: by deception or you'd always like to do it, like
Speaker 1: you said, by performance and be successful on first and
Speaker 1: second down running the ball. And I do think that
Speaker 1: this defense is gonna give the Bears offense an opportunity
Speaker 1: to be successful in the early downs of a series
Speaker 1: and running the ball.
Speaker 5: Got to talk about Khalil Herbert real quick too, because
Speaker 5: we did talk with coach about this, Chad Morton, and
Speaker 5: he said he's just been blown away about not complaining
Speaker 5: about his situation that it's uh, he's staying motivated because
Speaker 5: he's got to be ready. You don't know when your
Speaker 5: number is gonna get called. He was healthy and active
Speaker 5: last week. A lot of that has to do with
Speaker 5: special teams, and you know there's good special teams players.
Speaker 5: I'm wondering at the new kickoff rule because guys like
Speaker 5: Daniel Hardy are doing so well on special teams and
Speaker 5: and and bigger guys are out there that it takes
Speaker 5: away that opportunity to try and compete for time. And
Speaker 5: we know that Homer's a very good special teams player.
Speaker 5: They value him very much for you know, a corese
Speaker 5: special teams player, but working hard, taking all the scout
Speaker 5: team reps. You feel for a guy because it was
Speaker 5: in this game a year ago he really ran well
Speaker 5: against the Cardinals that sold your field on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: Herbert, you know, I don't have any concern for the
Speaker 1: professionalism of Khalil Herbert.
Speaker 6: He's a number one to me.
Speaker 1: And last year when he twisted his ankle on the
Speaker 1: Washington game and then he was out of the lineup
Speaker 1: for a little bit, and then when he got back
Speaker 1: in the lineup. He showed his dedication to get back
Speaker 1: on the field and he showed his explosiveness.
Speaker 6: So Khalil Herbert, He's he's a true pro.
Speaker 1: But the position is really difficult when you do have
Speaker 1: a DeAndre Swift, you have a Roshawan Johnson and so,
Speaker 1: and then you talk about the special teams component makes
Speaker 1: those game day activations difficult to decide on.
Speaker 5: All right, we're gonna step away for another break. When
Speaker 5: we come back, we'll hear from special teams coordinator Richard H.
Speaker 5: Tower on the punting of Tory Taylor. We're gonna go
Speaker 5: into the weeds on this one. It's a lot of
Speaker 5: good detail about how he's punting the football for the Bears,
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Speaker 5: All Right, as the Bears get ready for this Arizona
Speaker 5: outfit in Glendale, a lot of praise heaped upon Tory, Taylor,
Speaker 5: tom and the covered units for that matter. Eight punts
Speaker 5: inside the ten yard line. See, we used to talk
Speaker 5: about inside the twenty all the time, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Now we got to start talking about inside the ten
Speaker 5: because we're watching this and he had several in that
Speaker 5: game on Sunday, He's got the second most in the
Speaker 5: NFL and the most in the NFC. Let's listen in
Speaker 5: to Richard hight Tower and what he's been feeling about.
Speaker 11: This protection unit did a phenomenal job in that football game,
Speaker 11: whether it was backed up or it was in the
Speaker 11: plus fifty area to pin those guys to give our
Speaker 11: defense a long field. I felt like the gunners did
Speaker 11: a great job outside getting in the face of the returners,
Speaker 11: and we challenged them as well as the unit to
Speaker 11: make more impactful plays, and the gunners did a phenomenal
Speaker 11: job with that, something we wanted to do coming out
Speaker 11: of the buy. I thought Tory punted better in this
Speaker 11: game then he punted when he won Special.
Speaker 4: Teams Player of the Week for the Rams.
Speaker 11: He had an amazing football game to punt the ball.
Speaker 11: The way he punted it and the situations that he
Speaker 11: was presented with and how he punted the football was
Speaker 11: tremendous growth and we just need to.
Speaker 4: Get more of that.
Speaker 11: And the first live play at the ball game, Noah
Speaker 11: Sewer knocks the football out and the ball just went
Speaker 11: their way. So in two back to back weeks. Daniel
Speaker 11: Hardy knocked the ball out in London and we just
Speaker 11: missed recovering the fumble. We knocked the ball out last
Speaker 11: week and we just missed it. So what I'm challenging
Speaker 11: them to do this week is knock it out again,
Speaker 11: but recover it this time. And that's what I want
Speaker 11: to get done. And we got a great group we're
Speaker 11: going against. You guys know I worked for Jeff Rogers,
Speaker 11: phenomenal football coach, phenomenal person, does an outstanding job with
Speaker 11: his units. So we know they're gonna be schemed up.
Speaker 11: We know they're gonna be well designed plays that he's
Speaker 11: gonna have, and there's gonna be some things that we
Speaker 11: haven't seen that we need to be prepared for. And
Speaker 11: I learned a lot from Jeff Rogers. He gonna turn
Speaker 11: every stone that he can turn. I learned a lot
Speaker 11: from him, and I'm fortunate to have the opportunity to
Speaker 11: work under him. So our coverage units, everybody's gonna have
Speaker 11: an extremely challenging task again this week because again DJ Dallas,
Speaker 11: all right, he scored the first touchdown in this dynamic
Speaker 11: kickoff model, and we gotta.
Speaker 4: Cover against him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he went ninety six against Buffalo Week one, So
Speaker 5: a lot of praise for Tory. I know, we both
Speaker 5: enjoy him.
Speaker 6: Correct, you know one thing about Tory Taylor.
Speaker 1: So I we're gonna do an experiment for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. If we meet a football fan under
Speaker 1: the age of twenty years old, we're gonna ask him
Speaker 1: if they know or they've ever heard, the term coff
Speaker 1: and corner because Tory Taylor has brought that back into
Speaker 1: the vogue again where it used to be a mainstay
Speaker 1: of punting or in the early part of the NFL, and.
Speaker 6: Then they got away from it for a while.
Speaker 1: But Tory, if you think of a couple of the
Speaker 1: biggest impactful punts that he's had this season, they ben
Speaker 1: coff and corner style kicks. And that means no matter
Speaker 1: where you're kicking, from your kicking towards the sideline to
Speaker 1: get it to hit out of bounds to give them
Speaker 1: that inside the ten field position. So we're going to
Speaker 1: do a little experiment here to see if young people
Speaker 1: know what the term coffin corner meets.
Speaker 5: It Perfect for Halloween Night, Tommy, the confidence, I know.
Speaker 1: But that's why I wanted to explain what I was saying,
Speaker 1: rather than, you know, having people think that I was
Speaker 1: making something up right.
Speaker 5: Taylor forty eight point five average gross average. That's the
Speaker 5: highest single season punting average in Bears history. If it holds.
Speaker 5: George Gulianix, I think that's how you say his name.
Speaker 5: I could be wrong. Nineteen forty nine, that's how long
Speaker 5: it's been that record. All right, Let's flip it over
Speaker 5: to defensive coordinator Eric Washington. Tom he gets to the
Speaker 5: podium and he's quite serious every week about the opponent.
Speaker 5: He's quite serious about the Arizona Cardinals this week.
Speaker 12: Starting with the quarterback of this offense, Kyler Murray, you
Speaker 12: could describe him as a nightmare for opposing offenses, defensive coordinators.
Speaker 12: This young man has tremendous speed, arm talent. He can
Speaker 12: change the arm angle against the rush. They've done an
Speaker 12: excellent job of protecting him. He's done a great job
Speaker 12: of protecting the football. Not a lot of opportunities for
Speaker 12: interceptions and so everything that we aspire to do, and
Speaker 12: that's get hits on the quarterback to put him in
Speaker 12: third down situations that would take advantage of what we've
Speaker 12: been able to do on third down. We want to
Speaker 12: definitely work to get that done, and it also starts
Speaker 12: with defending the run. Their number one or they're in
Speaker 12: the top five in terms of explosive runs with James Connor,
Speaker 12: big physical back, downhill runner runs behind his pads. The
Speaker 12: offensive line does a nice job not only of protecting
Speaker 12: the quarterback but executing the various run schemes and run
Speaker 12: concepts that they will feature for him. So we're excited
Speaker 12: about the challenge going out here against an NFC opponent
Speaker 12: on the road and getting ourselves back on track.
Speaker 6: Jacob Bart first chance to see him this season.
Speaker 3: He got out there and look like he was after
Speaker 3: the quarterback a little bit.
Speaker 12: The energy was obvious, his energy, the speed, the quickness,
Speaker 12: the toughness. I thought he did some really nice things,
Speaker 12: you know, as an edge rusher. I thought he was
Speaker 12: in position a couple of times to not only affect
Speaker 12: the quarterback, but to hit him. And I'm looking forward
Speaker 12: to him taking a pretty significant leap.
Speaker 4: This week of the ren zone. Defense is cent a
Speaker 4: theme all year.
Speaker 1: What did you notice in particular on Sunday you mentioned
Speaker 1: holding them to four field goals and how.
Speaker 7: You guys stepped up and made plays when you were
Speaker 7: down in their clothes.
Speaker 12: Well, it's been consistent that that game didn't really reveal anything.
Speaker 12: I mean, we've been in the position that guys have
Speaker 12: done a tremendous job and that part of the field
Speaker 12: of understanding the urgency that you need and understanding that
Speaker 12: you know, our goals or our field goals and takeaways,
Speaker 12: we want to take the football away or forced field goals,
Speaker 12: and so their urgency went up. We had to do
Speaker 12: things to defend the run, We had to do things
Speaker 12: in terms of affecting the quarterback, and everything was exactly
Speaker 12: what you wanted.
Speaker 9: Kyler Murray has been at his best, but Marvin Harrison
Speaker 9: Junior has been a factor. I know the Bears generally
Speaker 9: don't shadow anyone or target a receiver just in general,
Speaker 9: but how much of a priority has he become for
Speaker 9: a defense and how all the cliff is this defense
Speaker 9: to kind of keep him off that eight games.
Speaker 12: He's growing as a player, and you see why he
Speaker 12: was picked and where he was and his confidence is growing.
Speaker 12: He's becoming a person that that you have to that
Speaker 12: you have to address, that you have to plan for,
Speaker 12: and his catch radius to speed, the ability to get
Speaker 12: himself open and be in the right spot so that
Speaker 12: Kyler can get the ball out.
Speaker 4: Of his hands.
Speaker 12: We have to we have to make sure that we
Speaker 12: do a good job with him in terms of shadowing him.
Speaker 12: We like, we like our matchups with our corners against him,
Speaker 12: all of our corners, you know, Tyree, obviously, Jalen and
Speaker 12: any any other person that we try to assign to
Speaker 12: his position. So we just have to go out and execute,
Speaker 12: do a great job of making sure that we put
Speaker 12: the quarterback in a position where he's not real sure
Speaker 12: what we're in so that we can let the rush
Speaker 12: be effected.
Speaker 5: Now, you got to tackle James connor Man. He is
Speaker 5: one of the top three in the NFL and yards
Speaker 5: after contact. And of course Marvin Harrison Junior starting to
Speaker 5: have himself a game. I had hisself a game last week,
Speaker 5: but really starting to emerge. Play a lot of slot
Speaker 5: last week, so they line him off all over the place,
Speaker 5: all right. When we come back our final segment, Tom
Speaker 5: and I will talk about the Arizona Cardinals and also
Speaker 5: a little preview of our interview with Cole Comet that
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Speaker 5: But Tom, we're going to talk about Cole Comet. He
Speaker 5: is our feature on Bears Game Day Live on Fox
Speaker 5: thirty and two Chicago, coming up on Sunday morning from Glendale.
Speaker 5: I asked him about where he's at in his career
Speaker 5: right now. How would you then describe your style from.
Speaker 3: Your yeah course, Yeah, Well, I think we're My physicality
Speaker 3: is my main thing, and I thinkicality in the run
Speaker 3: game in my routes is a big deal.
Speaker 4: And obviously after the catch is.
Speaker 3: Being physical as well too, and I think that provides
Speaker 3: a tone setting for the offense and for the team.
Speaker 5: And you know, I know the.
Speaker 3: Offensive lineman appreciate the physicality, especially when I get the
Speaker 3: ball in my hands and obviously when I'm in the
Speaker 3: run game with them as well. So I think it
Speaker 3: all starts there as being a physical football player leaning
Speaker 3: into that, and then and then the other things kind
Speaker 3: of that I've grown with, whether it's just been my
Speaker 3: my strength, my my speed, and those type of things
Speaker 3: that have kind of come along, you know, over the
Speaker 3: past few years or so.
Speaker 5: In the words of Brian Erlacker, the great Hall of Famer,
Speaker 5: every time they took the ball away.
Speaker 6: We got one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we got one.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 5: He's great one.
Speaker 3: I think so he's he's amazing. First of all, He's
Speaker 3: just an amazing person, and he's everything you can ask
Speaker 3: for from a leadership standpoint in that position. And he's
Speaker 3: obviously grown into it as a rookie, but he understands
Speaker 3: everything that the quarterback position entails, especially here in Chicago,
Speaker 3: and I think he he he understands the big mar
Speaker 3: knows how to handle it. So he's done a really
Speaker 3: superb job at that so far, and that's been really
Speaker 3: cool to see. And then obviously the talent and the
Speaker 3: plays that we've seen so far have been really special,
Speaker 3: and I know that he feels like he has a lot.
Speaker 4: More room to grow, which is really cool, really cool.
Speaker 6: Tom.
Speaker 5: I talked to Jim Dre, the tight end coach for
Speaker 5: Cole today and you know, basically summed it up by
Speaker 5: saying he's never satisfied, and that's always important when you're
Speaker 5: an NFL player, doesn't matter what age, and certainly five
Speaker 5: years in now, being never satisfied is a great starting point.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent right. I mean, I walk into
Speaker 2: Hallas Hall every day a fear of losing my job,
Speaker 2: and I think that's the way that a lot of
Speaker 2: us are motivated. And I think when you look at
Speaker 2: the complexity of the tight end position and the guy
Speaker 2: like Cole Comet, he's capable of doing every single thing
Speaker 2: that's asked out of that position, and he can do
Speaker 2: it at a high level. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 2: how he grows along in this offense with Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: and every other moving piece. But we're just now talking
Speaker 2: about Cole.
Speaker 5: All right, thing before we go, Tommy, I want to
Speaker 5: talk about the defense again for Arizona. Forget about what's
Speaker 5: happening upfront, because I've circled Buddha Baker. I mean, obviously
Speaker 5: he's the biggest name. He's a five time Pro Bowl,
Speaker 5: three time All Pro. He throws his body around significantly,
Speaker 5: and you would think that's one of the matchups here
Speaker 5: with Cole Kmett one of those two safeties, but Buddha
Speaker 5: Baker always round the ball. Is is that a matchup
Speaker 5: to watch?
Speaker 2: It is a matchup to watch, And it's equally as
Speaker 2: important a matchup Buddha Baker against DeAndre Swift because if
Speaker 2: he runs through the interior and gets into the second
Speaker 2: and third level, you talk about the way he throws
Speaker 2: his body around, and I think that that's what DeAndre
Speaker 2: Swift is good at, either lowering your shoulder or hurdling
Speaker 2: a guy who gets his head down. But when you
Speaker 2: think of Cole Comet, I don't know if Buddha Baker
Speaker 2: can cover Cole Comet, Manda Man or have single responsibility
Speaker 2: against him. So if they do try to match him
Speaker 2: up against Cole, I think he's going to be an
Speaker 2: exploitable receiver and I would be exciting to see that.
Speaker 2: And I think Cole has done a nice job of
Speaker 2: blocking whoever's responsibility is. And we talk about those outside
Speaker 2: zone runs a lot of time. It's the block of
Speaker 2: the tight end that's successfully done. Gerald Everett did it
Speaker 2: last week and Cole's done it in the past.
Speaker 5: All right, Tommy Good Show, we'll talk to you coming
Speaker 5: up on Sunday three oh five from Glendale, Arizona. That's
Speaker 5: going to do it tonight for Bears Weekly. Thanks to TJ.
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