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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Jonnyak and welcome into Bears All Access, brought
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Speaker 1: football here for an hour PAC show. Alan Robinson will
Speaker 1: join the program to talk about is within Reach Foundation.
Speaker 1: Later out of the program, Patrick O'Donnell, the veteran putter,
Speaker 1: will talk about what he's doing with Cameo to raise
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Speaker 1: working with. And then later in the final segment of
Speaker 1: the show, former Bears deep of Tackle and UH former
Speaker 1: first round pick a pro bowler back with the Bears,
Speaker 1: Tommy Harris on an incredible song he has written, help
Speaker 1: write and sing that we'll explain in great detail later
Speaker 1: out of the program. But before we get to all
Speaker 1: of that, we talk Bears football with broadcast partner from WYBBM,
Speaker 1: Tom Fair Good Evening, Tom Big Jeff, anybody gets you
Speaker 1: with an April Fools joke yesterday just to kind of
Speaker 1: lighten the mood in such a serious world. No, I
Speaker 1: think it's not the right day for all that, Not
Speaker 1: right now anyway. No, No, did not get suckered, although
Speaker 1: I think you may have Jim Miller joining us from
Speaker 1: Serious Sex M NFL Radio, former Bears starting quarterback with
Speaker 1: that two thousand and one playoff team and working it
Speaker 1: for a serious Sexim on moving the chains with Pat Kirwin. Jim,
Speaker 1: how about you? Anything gets you in April Fools? No, No,
Speaker 1: nobody got me on the April Fools and uh, like
Speaker 1: you said, hope everybody's doing well. It's good to talk
Speaker 1: some football, like I said, just trying to get bring
Speaker 1: some normalcy. We know when the lots going on out there,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll take everybody minds off some things for
Speaker 1: the next hour. Absolutely got a lot in the program.
Speaker 1: Business of Football rolls on, guys, and the Bears announcing
Speaker 1: more and more of their acquisitions after getting contracts signed
Speaker 1: and players getting their physicals. Tom and Jim, We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear tomorrow from gentlemanager Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Naggie,
Speaker 1: and Nick Foles and Robert Quinn. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a full pack day with reporters talking to them by teleconference,
Speaker 1: so we'll learn a little bit more. What do you
Speaker 1: guys want to hear? Well, you know what, Jeff, in
Speaker 1: the football world, everything has done so far in advanced
Speaker 1: kind of regardless of what's going on, because those are
Speaker 1: the types of decisions you have to make. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm just interested to hear where their
Speaker 1: mind is at this point. Ryan in regards to maybe
Speaker 1: the investigative road that he's taken for the draft, the
Speaker 1: draftable guys, Matt Naggie trying to get his new staff
Speaker 1: acclimated to each other, but also to a new quarterback
Speaker 1: in the room and try to introduce themselves even to Mitchell,
Speaker 1: Trubisky and Tyler. So I think there's a lot of information,
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, that's any thing about Matt Nagie.
Speaker 1: He's so informative at the podium. I think when he
Speaker 1: gets out there from the both of them will learn
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, I've been able to navigate through Freed
Speaker 1: andcy Hey teams there conducting business differently, you know, And
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a different type of
Speaker 1: draft with the constraints and the restrictions that the teams
Speaker 1: will have to do in order to make informed decisions.
Speaker 1: And then, you know, I just want to hear from
Speaker 1: coach Nagie. I think this is really paramount because it's
Speaker 1: going to be a different type of offseason. I think
Speaker 1: is what everybody thinks about is how the coaches are
Speaker 1: going to be able to present the information via players
Speaker 1: via teleconference things like that. It really is going to
Speaker 1: separate some coaching staffs and who is a good teacher
Speaker 1: and how they're able to communicate with their players to
Speaker 1: get their points across on installs and things of that nature. Well,
Speaker 1: thank goodness for Zoom. I guess right now, right or
Speaker 1: whoever they're planning to do it, it's happening in college football.
Speaker 1: On a conference call last week, Lovey Smith outlining what
Speaker 1: they've been doing for a couple of hours, three days
Speaker 1: a week down in Champagne, having normal team meetings, but
Speaker 1: anything but normal, certainly in national football in the draft
Speaker 1: in three weeks will be anything about normal as well.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, Alan Robinson doing some great work as
Speaker 1: always here in Chicago, will tell you all about it.
Speaker 1: Coming up next with the Bears receiver. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score.
Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody to Bears All Access, brought to you
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Speaker 1: at igs dot com. Jeff Joning aclog with Tom Bear
Speaker 1: and Jim Miller, joint of the program. We're here once
Speaker 1: a week throughout the off season getting ready for what
Speaker 1: is going to be an interesting and diverse plan of
Speaker 1: attack for all teams with the NFL Draft coming up
Speaker 1: on April twenty third to the twenty fifth. We'll start
Speaker 1: with Jim. Jim, what are you hearing? I saw some
Speaker 1: writing today about a couple of options they're having contingency
Speaker 1: plans about in facilities or out of facilities, and trying
Speaker 1: to level the playing field, making sure everybody is working
Speaker 1: off the same slate, so to speak. Obviously everyone would
Speaker 1: love to be on site, but even if that happens,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be limited number of personnel allowed in each
Speaker 1: in situations, yeah, I mean again, the numbers will be down.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think you know, the essential guys
Speaker 1: that need to be in say the draft room or
Speaker 1: what everybody calls the war room for you know, for
Speaker 1: a draft, and the essential guys are going to be
Speaker 1: your pro player personnel guys. Certainly your scollege scouting director,
Speaker 1: your head coach is going to be there, probably your
Speaker 1: offensive corner, defensive corner as the draft goes along. Probably
Speaker 1: your special team's coach is going to need to be
Speaker 1: in there as it goes gone because special teams coach,
Speaker 1: as everybody knows, they got to know everybody. They gotta
Speaker 1: know everybody that's gonna be brought on the team and
Speaker 1: what type of input that they are impact they can have.
Speaker 1: Your cap guy is probably gonna have to be in
Speaker 1: that room. So the NFL is kind of not far
Speaker 1: off in terms of how many numbers need to be
Speaker 1: in there. Ten But you gotta remember too, can that
Speaker 1: be shuffling because let's say a defense quinners is talking.
Speaker 1: You know, they're talking about drafting a defensive lineman. You're
Speaker 1: gonna want to shuffle in the defensive line coach, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're looking at these two guys. You know which guy
Speaker 1: did you like? What was your take when you watch
Speaker 1: the tape? And then the defensive line coach say he's
Speaker 1: going to have his input that could sway the decision
Speaker 1: of what player is selected over another. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: certainly you're going to have other guys on call, doctors,
Speaker 1: the trainers, things of that nature for any guy that
Speaker 1: you're tom out in terms of the medical if you
Speaker 1: need to, you know, even get any more information. But
Speaker 1: normally those guys are on call. But I just know
Speaker 1: my partner it serious. He talked to like three or
Speaker 1: four gms yesterday about the essential guys that need to
Speaker 1: be in the room, and there does have to be
Speaker 1: somewhat of a shuffling to get some other guys in there,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna need the input owners. Some owners are
Speaker 1: in there, some owners are not. Obviously Jerry Jones as
Speaker 1: the owner and still really thought of as the general
Speaker 1: manager of the Cowboys, but over the years, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of owners will be in
Speaker 1: the in the NFL draft rooms this year. I really don't.
Speaker 1: But I think Tom don't have to have a coordinated plan,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Tom. From a player perspective, you're you're
Speaker 1: not able to conduct businesses as you might. You just
Speaker 1: got to stay in shape. No pro days, the visits
Speaker 1: are down. If you're doing a pro day, guys are
Speaker 1: trying to put stuff on tape any manner they can.
Speaker 1: So as a player, how do you improve your value?
Speaker 1: How do you convince a team other than some of
Speaker 1: these meetings by way of virtual reality that they are
Speaker 1: doing it, you know, with zoom and other different formats.
Speaker 1: But how do they convince teams that I'm the right
Speaker 1: guy for your football program? You know, Jeff, I really
Speaker 1: do believe that most of these players already have their
Speaker 1: draftable grade on them. So, now is there a matter
Speaker 1: of some of these guys, A couple of these guys,
Speaker 1: a guy that's interested you that that guy that has
Speaker 1: first round talent, but they're probably going to take them
Speaker 1: in their third round because there's some issue, you know, personally,
Speaker 1: mentally or physically. So I do think that they already
Speaker 1: have the grades on these guys. Now, if there's a
Speaker 1: guy out there, it's really piquing the curiosity because he's
Speaker 1: that special talent that you can't overlook. Maybe you need
Speaker 1: a little bit more investigative work on him. It would
Speaker 1: be really interesting to see if you put Brian Urlacker
Speaker 1: in this draft and you don't really have a chance
Speaker 1: to investigate this guy where he is, and you really
Speaker 1: don't know where his talent fits best. He's just a
Speaker 1: super talented guy. So you know who is going to
Speaker 1: be that Brian Urlacher of this draft where you're talented,
Speaker 1: but you just don't know how talented you are or
Speaker 1: where you're going to fit best. Well, today, Jim, we
Speaker 1: heard that Ta Tanga Lalla had his recheck voluntarily and
Speaker 1: everything appears to be good to go. He would call
Speaker 1: himself one hundred percent if it was game time. Our
Speaker 1: team's still going to be hesitant, despite the fact all
Speaker 1: thirty two teams had the opportunity to weigh in and
Speaker 1: ask for specific medical information. Yeah, luckily for him, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's had a couple of good reviews, like
Speaker 1: when we were down at the combine, Jeff came back
Speaker 1: in terms it was very positive about his MRIs. So
Speaker 1: teams already know about that. This second medical recheck where
Speaker 1: he's cleared to do whatever. I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're a team, you're gonna want your
Speaker 1: personal doctors to take a look at him. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't just trust the word. And plus teams are
Speaker 1: gonna want to put him through a workout, or teams
Speaker 1: would say, hey, he's still on our board, we'll draft him.
Speaker 1: We don't plan on playing him right away. We're going
Speaker 1: to give him more time to heal, you know, because
Speaker 1: even today when he comes out and said, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: one hundred percent clear and I'm doing everything, it's just
Speaker 1: general soreness, general soreness. What what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So I think you know
Speaker 1: they're everybody's doing their due diligence and what they can.
Speaker 1: They're trying to get all the information they can. But
Speaker 1: I think for players that are dealing with medical and
Speaker 1: medical rechecks, you're just not going to get all the
Speaker 1: information you need. So it truly is a risk reward pick,
Speaker 1: and you're going to rely and count that your doctors
Speaker 1: believe that, hey, all the tests have been positive that
Speaker 1: we know of have and positive so far, and when
Speaker 1: we get him here, we don't plan on playing right away.
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring him along slow, which I think was
Speaker 1: the plan to begin with other guys out there, like
Speaker 1: Ashton Davis, the kid from California is a safety safety. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to do anything. I mean, you can't.
Speaker 1: You haven't been able to watch this guy run, haven't
Speaker 1: been able to watch him play. He's had surgery. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of guys out there that
Speaker 1: truly are hey, you're you're taking it. It's a crapshoot,
Speaker 1: and how you're drafting because you don't have anything on
Speaker 1: that particular player. So I think those are difficult, and
Speaker 1: I think those are the hardest ones. The medical rechecks,
Speaker 1: guys that are dealing with medical issues, and probably character
Speaker 1: guys where maybe you're trying to follow up and get
Speaker 1: more information on a young man. This is Bears Out
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score on
Speaker 1: producer Tonight Adam Stazinski winning some guests on the program
Speaker 1: tonight as we break down the Bears preparations for the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft were brought to you by IGS Energy. Tom
Speaker 1: are you where are you at? On how you approached
Speaker 1: this draft? From a Bears perspective, and frankly this would
Speaker 1: apply to most teams. Do you reduce your curve of
Speaker 1: potential risk in this draft? And when I say play
Speaker 1: it's safe, do you go with what you know with
Speaker 1: your and trust your eyes and trust your resources that
Speaker 1: have investigated all these guys up to this point and
Speaker 1: roll with it. Yeah? You know what players have you
Speaker 1: gone and had success on? You know? To me, Jeff,
Speaker 1: this draft has kind of taken a turn for me
Speaker 1: right now. After what I've seen the Bears go after
Speaker 1: in free agents, I become positions specific and for me,
Speaker 1: I want a starting safety out of this draft. And
Speaker 1: Ryan has done a nice job of evaluating the talent
Speaker 1: of Adrian Amos, picked him in the fifth round and
Speaker 1: came in as an immediate starter. Look at what he
Speaker 1: was able to look through in the evaluation of Eddie Jackson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some injury issues, but you really had to
Speaker 1: look at what the player was offering to you before
Speaker 1: that injury, and he was able to go out and
Speaker 1: make the proper decision there. So you know, Jeff, Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson out of Alabama, He's a Safety's seen best competition
Speaker 1: every day in practice and throughout his conference and is
Speaker 1: able to come in and play number one. So you
Speaker 1: know this is the given because of the Corona issue,
Speaker 1: because of where the Bears are in the draft order,
Speaker 1: it's so hard to target somebody specifically. But now for me,
Speaker 1: this this draft has just taken the position the position
Speaker 1: interest for me. Yeah, well, I just think for the Bears, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it'd be nice. You know, Bears have done
Speaker 1: it before where they've had fourth round picks like Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson come in and become a starter. And I think
Speaker 1: when you look at if you can hit on players
Speaker 1: like that that are later in the draft, that can
Speaker 1: come in and contribute for their team. And you got
Speaker 1: to believe that undrafted free agents are going to be
Speaker 1: a big part of it. Nobody's talking about that, but
Speaker 1: typically undrafted free agents start in the latter part of
Speaker 1: the rounds, believe or not. Like even in ninety four
Speaker 1: when I got selected by the Steelers, I was already
Speaker 1: getting calls in the fifth round by say the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots, A Jim, would you consider being undrafted free
Speaker 1: agent of the New England Patriots? And I think that
Speaker 1: is where a lot of teams can make a lot
Speaker 1: of Hey, I'll give you an example. How about the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raider or now are the Las Vegas Raiders. Look
Speaker 1: who they selected as an undrafted free agent, alec Ingold.
Speaker 1: Alec Ingold was a fullback at Wisconsin. He was a
Speaker 1: starter for the Oakland Raiders a year ago as a rookie.
Speaker 1: So I think that is going to be critical because
Speaker 1: when you don't have a lot of draft picks, specifically
Speaker 1: high draft picks, if you can get the diamonds in
Speaker 1: the rough some undrafted free agents to come in and
Speaker 1: contribute for your team. One obviously try to hit on
Speaker 1: your draft picks, but I think undrafted free agents are
Speaker 1: going to be big as well also. And Tom and
Speaker 1: I have talked about this, and I have a pretty
Speaker 1: strong opinion about this and especially this draft. There are
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of players from smaller schools
Speaker 1: that teams fall in love with and they think they
Speaker 1: could grow them and teach them within the system. And
Speaker 1: there are plenty of examples of it working in some
Speaker 1: examples of it not. So you think of the Power
Speaker 1: five Conference, as you think of the competition, you think
Speaker 1: of the big games that all these guys have played
Speaker 1: in those conferences, and that is the bulk of your
Speaker 1: draft classes every year? Is this sec all the big schools.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that being a priority this
Speaker 1: year versus say, taking a flyer on somebody from from
Speaker 1: a smaller school that has uber talented in terms of
Speaker 1: athletic gifts, but may have not played against the same
Speaker 1: type of competition that some of these other guys are
Speaker 1: playing against. Yeah, you know, I'm with you. I you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to draft potential this year. I
Speaker 1: think you have to go out there and throughout your
Speaker 1: scouting process that didn't start two months ago. This started
Speaker 1: two years ago with some of these guys that were
Speaker 1: in the scouting radar. So you could be in the
Speaker 1: offices of these bigger conferences another player, but you always
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that guy that you know is
Speaker 1: coming down the line. So I'm with you, Jeff, I
Speaker 1: would like to have interest in the bigger, more powerful
Speaker 1: schools and the way these guys were raised in their
Speaker 1: two three or four years through their college program, because
Speaker 1: I do think you get a lot better understanding of
Speaker 1: what they are at this point rather than what they
Speaker 1: could be in two years. Yeah, the smaller school guys
Speaker 1: that probably played in some Bowl games, whether it's the
Speaker 1: East West Shrine or say the Senior Bowl. Say the
Speaker 1: safety from Lenore Ryan Kyle Dugger, that guy's already removed
Speaker 1: all doubt. He went down to Mobile and showed he
Speaker 1: can play against big time players. Or say the receiver
Speaker 1: from Liberty Vandy Golden who that is and he's a
Speaker 1: good player. I think teams like Tom is saying they
Speaker 1: got to see it to believe it. Those two players
Speaker 1: did it, Okay, I think it'd be very risky when
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of tape on a guy
Speaker 1: is smaller school players, and I don't think they'll get drafted,
Speaker 1: you know, because that there's a lot of unknowns about them.
Speaker 1: Those other guys have removed it. And I'd also say this,
Speaker 1: think about last year there were thirty three guys drafted
Speaker 1: who did not participate in the Combine. Okay, they didn't
Speaker 1: get an invite, but yet thirty three guys were drafted. Okay,
Speaker 1: watch that number plummet this year. Teams aren't going to
Speaker 1: take interesting all right, Jim, We're going to step away
Speaker 1: from the draft conversation, switched gears and welcome in our
Speaker 1: good friend Alan Robinson, the veteran Bears wide receiver, off
Speaker 1: fantastic season and now doing some fantastic work in the city.
Speaker 1: He now calls home, Alan, good evening, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: How you feeling, man, I'll really good. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna talk about what you're doing within reach.
Speaker 1: That is your foundation. We've talked about it in this
Speaker 1: show many times and really out there on all the
Speaker 1: social media platforms listening to it and reading about it again,
Speaker 1: doing some great work answering the call to try and
Speaker 1: relieve hunger through the Chicago Public school system, the Greatest
Speaker 1: Chicago Food Depository, which is a u a place that
Speaker 1: is very dear to our folks at WBBM here in
Speaker 1: the intercom family every year. Um, how did this get
Speaker 1: started or how did you get the ball rolling and
Speaker 1: switch gears a little bit and deal with what is
Speaker 1: a massive need for the meals for for the kids
Speaker 1: who can't go to school right now to get an
Speaker 1: education but still can be helped out to be fed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know the biggest thing for us was just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, the best way for us
Speaker 1: to be able to make an impact, you know, with
Speaker 1: but everything that's that's that's going on right now. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people like forget that. You know,
Speaker 1: there are kids and stuff like that that that rely
Speaker 1: on going to school not only for their education, but
Speaker 1: because meals are provided to them as well, you know,
Speaker 1: so for them being able to to not get meals
Speaker 1: and things like that with everything that's going on, you know,
Speaker 1: we figured that, you know, next to education, that was
Speaker 1: a that was the next best thing that we could
Speaker 1: try to you know, help out with Alan. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting for me because you see on
Speaker 1: the social platform of these players of professional athletes and
Speaker 1: every sport, every way, shape or life, they kind of
Speaker 1: support UM, you know, different areas. But now you've decided
Speaker 1: to come and help. And for every kid in Chicago
Speaker 1: that you're helping smile today, we thank you. But why
Speaker 1: Chicago a rob Because I wherever your roots are from,
Speaker 1: people in Chicago have gained such a respect for you
Speaker 1: for what you've overcome on the field. So why are
Speaker 1: you supporting Chicago now? Yeah, you know, I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing for us is UM. You know, when we
Speaker 1: first we took the foundation from Jacksonville, you know, and
Speaker 1: for us, we've we've found that you know, again with
Speaker 1: just the city that I'm playing as well. You know,
Speaker 1: we have a great deal of support. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty ironic that Jacksonville and now Chicago is
Speaker 1: very similar to Detroit, you know, and with me being
Speaker 1: there majority of the time and majority of the year,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the biggest way that I can't
Speaker 1: help out and end up making impact to any city,
Speaker 1: you know. So so for us, the biggest thing was
Speaker 1: looking at we're looking at Chicago. You know, again it's
Speaker 1: very similar to Detroit, you know, same kind of same
Speaker 1: kind of eat and things like that. You know, so
Speaker 1: just being able to have the community rally behind me,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's been the biggest success for what
Speaker 1: we're doing, is just having the support of the community.
Speaker 1: You know, um um. To have a great foundation and
Speaker 1: to be able to do a lot of things, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to have support, you know. So so the
Speaker 1: city of Chicago has has always given that from day one. Well,
Speaker 1: it's easy to be cynical prior to what this country
Speaker 1: is dealing with right now, Alan, but to receive the
Speaker 1: support that you've had, you know, look at all the
Speaker 1: humanitarian efforts going on around you know, I'd say, not
Speaker 1: only in the NFL, but outside of the NFL. Here
Speaker 1: the Patriots, they get a million masks today to donate
Speaker 1: for a lot of needs that are there for Massachusetts
Speaker 1: or all the things you're doing in Chicago. Just how
Speaker 1: does that feel to you when you see the outpouring
Speaker 1: and how it's received in what you're doing, Because it
Speaker 1: just seems like everybody is rallying to help their fellow
Speaker 1: citizens all across the country. Yeah, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: really awesome to see. You know. I think that for
Speaker 1: us just as people and as a country, you know,
Speaker 1: we also we always get so caught up in competing
Speaker 1: against one another, you know, and now with this being
Speaker 1: you know, our country in and not only our country,
Speaker 1: but our our world, you know, having to go through
Speaker 1: something that nobody has been familiar with. You know, that
Speaker 1: everybody needing, needing one another to lean upon, you know,
Speaker 1: whether you know, supplies to going to the hospital, reletives,
Speaker 1: food supplies, childcare, you know, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: You know, we've had to lean on one another for that,
Speaker 1: you know, in this time. You know, So I just
Speaker 1: think that it's pretty awesome and cool, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it is a tragic, you know, thing that's going on
Speaker 1: right now, but just seeing everybody try to come together
Speaker 1: as much as possible to be able to help each
Speaker 1: and every person that they can out. You know, I
Speaker 1: think it's very special to see you got a big
Speaker 1: cart Allen. We know it. You've talked about it at
Speaker 1: great length, and initially when you started this. You're about
Speaker 1: to match up to twelve k and donations one day.
Speaker 1: That's that's how quickly that went. Wow, And I had
Speaker 1: big childs I think maybe be the first one in
Speaker 1: line matching his number with seventy two hundred bucks and
Speaker 1: then Coach Nagi with twelve thousand. And are you blown
Speaker 1: away by the generosity going on right now? And and
Speaker 1: and what do you need right now? What do you
Speaker 1: need for your foundation? Most definitely right now? You know,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is just continuing to just you know, uh,
Speaker 1: to give people the information you know, to to help
Speaker 1: out with the cause that we're doing. You know, So
Speaker 1: I would say, fortunately for us, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: really in a in a need position at all. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna gonna probably increase the number that I'll
Speaker 1: be matching. You know, We're gonna talk about that, you know,
Speaker 1: probably over the over the course of this next week
Speaker 1: or so, you know, to try to figure that out,
Speaker 1: you know. But fortunately, you know, we're not in a
Speaker 1: in a knee situation at all. You know, we just
Speaker 1: want to continue to to to give people the information
Speaker 1: you know that they may need to go out there
Speaker 1: and support us and support everyone else, you know, as
Speaker 1: much as possible, you know, so they go to Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson twelve dot org, you know, to find out as
Speaker 1: much information and things that that they want to, you know,
Speaker 1: just to see where the money is going towards and
Speaker 1: just to see some of the causes you know that
Speaker 1: we're helping out with rob get a pop on there.
Speaker 1: I pop down there today. So if you can, everybody
Speaker 1: out there make a donation, help out things. Uh. I
Speaker 1: know you got a home gym and you got a
Speaker 1: young daughter. So how you balancing all that with a
Speaker 1: stay at home call from uh from where you're at
Speaker 1: right now getting ready with the season. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: just just um, just trying to do it as best
Speaker 1: as possible, you know. As far as as far as
Speaker 1: workout watching, I'm still able to get in some pretty
Speaker 1: good workouts, you know. The biggest thing is just you know,
Speaker 1: some of the running that I'm not able to do,
Speaker 1: you know, but other than that, you know, from a
Speaker 1: from a workout standpoint, you know. Um, um, it's been good.
Speaker 1: You know again, just trying to just trying to balance
Speaker 1: out as much as possible, you know. Um at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know, just just just chilling out, you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to just trying to wait for things to
Speaker 1: die down, you know. Just Um, I'm watching different movies,
Speaker 1: watching TV shows and everything like that. All right, Alan,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Stay healthy you and
Speaker 1: your family and everybody else out there. All right, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I appreciate you guys as well. All Right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Alan Robson. Coming up next, Patrick O'Donnell. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the program. This is Bears Out Access on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to score. Back on six seventy the Score,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonny Act top there, Jim Miller, and this is
Speaker 1: Bears All Access. And this segment has brought to you
Speaker 1: by CDW. People who get it learn more at CDW
Speaker 1: dot com. Just from Alan Robinson and is within Reach
Speaker 1: Foundation doing some great work. And we're also going to
Speaker 1: be joined here momentarily by Patrick O'Donnell also doing some
Speaker 1: good work touching on different things again just joining to
Speaker 1: the program. We'll hear from the Bears Um, Ryan Pason,
Speaker 1: Matt Nagge tomorrow by teleconference, so we'll hear some of
Speaker 1: the reactions to the free agent period and the acquisition
Speaker 1: period of the NFL offseason and Nick Foles and Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn to impactful acquisitions are all locked up and ready
Speaker 1: to go for the Bears. We'll hear that tomorrow. Do
Speaker 1: we have pat ready to go? I can't we do? Okay?
Speaker 1: So Patio ready to go? From cameo to raising money
Speaker 1: for I Grow. There's a lot of rhyman going on there,
Speaker 1: but the Bears veteran punter help not doing some volunteer
Speaker 1: work as the Bear staff and players have over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years for I Grow a numerous on
Speaker 1: a numerous locations. But what got you involve Patton? How
Speaker 1: you doing? What's up? Guys? Thanks for having me on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So Johnny, I real quick, just everything that has been
Speaker 1: transpired so far as me and Roquan Smith kind of
Speaker 1: came together with this, this idea to reach out to
Speaker 1: you know, fans, the community, during this time. We can
Speaker 1: get any type of uplifting message that Cameo provides for
Speaker 1: us on that platform. So it's really cool and it's
Speaker 1: a really unique experience for us. And explain real quick
Speaker 1: for people to know what cameo is real quick, just
Speaker 1: what that is. Yeah, So basically it's it's a platform
Speaker 1: where there's celebrities, actors, actresses, musicians, athletes, you name it.
Speaker 1: So they even have some of the cast of the
Speaker 1: Tiger Tiger King, Yeah, the Tiger King, like Jeff Low,
Speaker 1: the Doc and all those kind of guys. So you
Speaker 1: basically pick whoever you want to talk to, or if
Speaker 1: you want to have him do a special shout out
Speaker 1: to your son if it's their birthday during this crazy time,
Speaker 1: or doctors and nurses that are at the front lines
Speaker 1: of this whole thing. So it's pretty cool. Patrick. Is
Speaker 1: this just a message that you add live out of
Speaker 1: the out of the creativity of your mind or is
Speaker 1: there kind of an avenue that you try to take
Speaker 1: when you're delivering the message our house specific it has
Speaker 1: to be, so you add them a little bit, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, they'll put in whatever it is.
Speaker 1: If it's a birthday or you know their son or
Speaker 1: daughters going through you know, the virtual school right now
Speaker 1: that they can't really be there to interact with their
Speaker 1: their students. So I've had a little bit of interest
Speaker 1: in that kind of a thing, but it's it's more
Speaker 1: of like a positive, uplifting message that me and real
Speaker 1: Quann are trying to just portray to everybody on the platform. Well, Pat,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller here, good to talk to you. Hope everybody's safe.
Speaker 1: But just how has the response been, you know, just
Speaker 1: talk about since when you got involved and then how
Speaker 1: quickly the response has grown from what you're trying to
Speaker 1: do with support. Yeah, so we're trying to spread the
Speaker 1: words the best we can. I know the Bears has
Speaker 1: done a great job pushing it so far. Me and
Speaker 1: Roquan are trying to push it on our social media platforms.
Speaker 1: I've had just about like seventeen eighteen requests. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Roquan's had a little bit more. I mean, the middle
Speaker 1: linebacker for the Bears, come on first, come on now.
Speaker 1: So never never, no, but it's really cool. Things are
Speaker 1: really heating up. So we got a lot of interest
Speaker 1: from the Bears. Actually, they're going to match whatever we
Speaker 1: get donated basically through this platform, and then we have
Speaker 1: an anonymous donor that's going to match also. So if
Speaker 1: we raise twenty five hundred dollars, the Bears Scare will
Speaker 1: match that at twenty five hundred, and then the anonymous
Speaker 1: donor will match that also. So we have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to raids over Patrick o'donald, veteran Bears punter, joining Bears
Speaker 1: all access here in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy score.
Speaker 1: I Grow, by the way, really focusing on Englewood in
Speaker 1: that community, serving about three thousand people. There are so
Speaker 1: many things that they've done, delivering hot meals to neighbors,
Speaker 1: children's meals from CPS for school families that can't drive,
Speaker 1: a bunch of staple items of course, eggs, milk, bread, whatever,
Speaker 1: virtual tutoring, homework, daily prayer circle flyers about the virus,
Speaker 1: all sorts of things. It's a heck of an organization
Speaker 1: to be a part of, an out of the Bears
Speaker 1: and Bears Care have done a lot through the NFL Foundation,
Speaker 1: providing grants to I Grow for their Family Resource House.
Speaker 1: From a from a perspective of just giving back Patrick
Speaker 1: and not just the specifics of who you're helping out here?
Speaker 1: Howza make that harder? Years feel? Right now? Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is such a unique time I think for all of us,
Speaker 1: like at the country in the world actually, So just
Speaker 1: to be a part of this in any way that
Speaker 1: we can, I know, being Roquan and some of the
Speaker 1: other guys that are trying to get on the platform
Speaker 1: to help out the best we can, I think is
Speaker 1: just my best interest of human beings right now, just
Speaker 1: to do our part. Hey, Pat, do you ever get
Speaker 1: a chance to see the other side of Roquan? Because
Speaker 1: I really love his personality. He's got a really bright smile.
Speaker 1: He you know, he has a great attitude, he has
Speaker 1: a really good understanding a grasp of what he's gonna
Speaker 1: say and how he talks. But you know, we only
Speaker 1: get to see Roquan and the seriousness of week to
Speaker 1: week you know, exposure during the football season. This is
Speaker 1: a kind of a little bit of other side of Roquan.
Speaker 1: I think people would really appreciate if they did get
Speaker 1: a chance to go to I Grow and get a
Speaker 1: chance to see a little bit more of Roquan that
Speaker 1: you're not exposed to during the season. Yes, a Roquan
Speaker 1: is he's such a lighthearted guy. He just he loved
Speaker 1: being around his teammates. He's a type of guy that
Speaker 1: will do anything for anybody. He's a country bumping kind
Speaker 1: of kid. He's very low key. He wears his country
Speaker 1: boots and he goes to country concerts. So all the
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room will give him give him
Speaker 1: a lot of flak for that. But now he's a
Speaker 1: great kid and I'm really happy that he's a parting
Speaker 1: this with me. Well, Pat, I mean, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: you've been dealt a lot with Ropelan here this offseason,
Speaker 1: but just how has it been, you know, just talking
Speaker 1: to your other teammates. Is it by phone? Are you
Speaker 1: guys video teleconferencing each other just to catch up and
Speaker 1: see how everybody's doing. Because it's a team, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. But how much contact and really communication
Speaker 1: have you had with your teammates during this time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of like route messaging and things
Speaker 1: like that, but FaceTime just more on like a one
Speaker 1: to one if somebody reaches out, obviously talk to my
Speaker 1: special team guys, but we haven't actually done like the
Speaker 1: zoom thing yet. I'm sure that will crash sometime soon
Speaker 1: everybody in the world on that platform, but we might
Speaker 1: have to get something going on the zoom and reach
Speaker 1: out to everybody on the team. That would be pretty
Speaker 1: cool now in that perspective, because the college is already
Speaker 1: doing it. They've you know, you have I had started
Speaker 1: last week doing that with their team meetings for the
Speaker 1: offseason program that they have. How beneficial would that be
Speaker 1: given this circumstance if you are not able to get
Speaker 1: to the building when you guys want to this still
Speaker 1: meet as a team or as a unit and be
Speaker 1: taught and have your instruction by way of that, Will
Speaker 1: the learning be the same? I think it'll be the
Speaker 1: same for the most part. I mean, obviously you don't
Speaker 1: you have that human interaction where somebody's like right in
Speaker 1: front of you. But I think the best thing we
Speaker 1: can do is probably try to keep the schedule as
Speaker 1: close to normalcy as we can. You know, you think
Speaker 1: about the players getting ready during the off season and
Speaker 1: guys having an opportunity to go and do a weight room.
Speaker 1: So when we see Patrick not going to the weight
Speaker 1: room but going out to the field, do you carry
Speaker 1: a bag of footballs with you to practice punting? And
Speaker 1: when is the last time in your career that you've
Speaker 1: shagged your own punts? Yeah, so we have a ball guy.
Speaker 1: We're very fortunate, but we had Eddie actually carry the
Speaker 1: ball bag last season. Me and Patrick Scales kind of
Speaker 1: pulled that that veteran card, if you will on that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're in charge of the football and then
Speaker 1: sometimes you can make Eddie go either catch punts or
Speaker 1: or Pat Scales a long snap. So how is our
Speaker 1: guy Eddie doing. No, he's doing really well. He's done
Speaker 1: in Miami right now. So we talked quite a bit about,
Speaker 1: you know, really the situation down there. They just locked up.
Speaker 1: Florida's pretty good. You have a mandated curfew and things
Speaker 1: like that starting tonight actually, so all the beaches, golf courses,
Speaker 1: and parks are closed. So we're pretty locked up down here. Well,
Speaker 1: have you have you changed anything about your regiment, Patton? Just?
Speaker 1: I mean, what's your itinerary every day and in terms
Speaker 1: of how you've a us did with everything that's that's
Speaker 1: happening currently. Yeah, So I've been trying to you know,
Speaker 1: actually wake up at a normal time, like the eight o'clock,
Speaker 1: seven thirty whatever it is, get the workout in go
Speaker 1: through the day, kind of similar to what we would
Speaker 1: have at OTA's. Um, you can't really do much interaction,
Speaker 1: I guess with your teammates for film and things like that.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I've actually built a little garage
Speaker 1: gym in the house, so I've been trying to get
Speaker 1: a little workout in each and every day. And you know,
Speaker 1: I have a couple of footballs laying around, so I
Speaker 1: do my type of drills. So so Phil, listen, paint
Speaker 1: us a picture of what your garage gym looks like.
Speaker 1: You know what I was, I was a bit ahead
Speaker 1: of the curve here. I was on like Craig's List
Speaker 1: if you will, or a Facebook marketplace, and I found
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff people were giving up and wanted
Speaker 1: to get rid of. So I got a dumbbell set.
Speaker 1: I got to actually a rack a nice little rig
Speaker 1: in there, and you know, like a bosue ball and
Speaker 1: for like core and things like that. So I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of the TRX. You know, I get a
Speaker 1: TRX draft to do a lot with that. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I've been working with. Well, Patrick, it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, an interesting offseason for the for the NFL
Speaker 1: and you know you got you know, the draft coming up.
Speaker 1: So throughout your career, do you even pay attention to
Speaker 1: the draft anymore? Or is it more about just getting
Speaker 1: yourself ready and you know if the draft is going
Speaker 1: to happen and whatever fashion it does. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we pay attention, meaning the veterans when I say we,
Speaker 1: I think it's important just to see like who we're getting,
Speaker 1: you know, who's coming onto our team, our family. So
Speaker 1: in that aspect, we kind of see, um, you know
Speaker 1: what the team is thinking, what we need. But from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, yeah, it'll be really interesting to see what
Speaker 1: happens this year. I'm assuming everything's gonna be either virtual
Speaker 1: or it's gonna just be flashed across the screen, something
Speaker 1: very unique that you know, the fell is going to
Speaker 1: have to adjust to like everybody else. Well, I'm curious
Speaker 1: about this, Jim. What number of dumbbells, weight pounded did
Speaker 1: you buy up to? Is this are you putting on
Speaker 1: the gun show? Did you put up a mirror in
Speaker 1: your garage or anything like that. I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: worried about you. Patrick. I think if you have any
Speaker 1: type of garage, Jim, I think you have to have
Speaker 1: a mirror up. Yeah, so I put a mirror, you know,
Speaker 1: honestly you can look at yourself, you know, flexing, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew it. He was putting on the gun show.
Speaker 1: How big the dumbells go up to it? You get
Speaker 1: the hundreds? Can you get tutu? I got yeah, I
Speaker 1: have five to seventy. You know, I don't have the
Speaker 1: big dogs yet. I'm looking for somebody. If anyone knows anybody,
Speaker 1: send them my way. I mean, Jim equipment right now
Speaker 1: is a hot commodity with everything closed, so everyone's scooping
Speaker 1: that up. Sure is well, Uh, let's just hope everything
Speaker 1: stays well for everybody out there listening, and certainly you
Speaker 1: and your family stay healthy. And I'm sure the the
Speaker 1: just the unormity of this situation with everybody struggling, but
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind you still have a
Speaker 1: job to do and hoping there's football in twenty twenty's.
Speaker 1: It's something I'm sure you guys are all discussing, right, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean this is the closest thing I've had to football,
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate you guys having me on. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Thanks for your work you're doing
Speaker 1: as well. Patrick o'donald Bears veteran punter working with Cameo
Speaker 1: to raise money for Eye Grow, organization close to the
Speaker 1: Bear's Heart and Bears Care. We'll continue on. We'll be
Speaker 1: joined by Tommy Harris, the former Bears pro bowler. Coming
Speaker 1: up next on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Bears Held Access with Adam Sazinski, our producer,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jony Act, town Fair and Jim Miller. Count you
Speaker 1: down to the NFL Draft free agency, hitting a bit
Speaker 1: of a ball and now team's got everything lined up
Speaker 1: in terms of filling some holes and now look to
Speaker 1: get those young players to potentially start or begin the
Speaker 1: process of adding into the building prospects of the season. Jeff,
Speaker 1: as we get you sat here or waiting for Tommy
Speaker 1: Harris to join the program, the former Bears defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: So much to talk about with how people are dealing
Speaker 1: with the virus and all the limitations that we are
Speaker 1: now working through. But I love reading every day or
Speaker 1: hearing from all sports. What the giveback is Tom and
Speaker 1: Jim from the sports community. We always talk about this
Speaker 1: I do any way about sports being life's toy department
Speaker 1: a little bit, but it is much more than that.
Speaker 1: I say it in Jess a little bit, because you
Speaker 1: can easily shut down the toy department, but you can't
Speaker 1: shut down the passion of the heart of many athletes
Speaker 1: and organizations that are givers and they do give back.
Speaker 1: They know the impact of giving back. You know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: If you could just take a picture of every kid's
Speaker 1: face that they hand a meal to that Alan Robinson
Speaker 1: and his supporters have provided for these young kids, that
Speaker 1: tells the story alone, because the stories all across the
Speaker 1: landscape of sports and all the other ways of life
Speaker 1: that successful business people have been able to support, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, just the snapshot of a smile when they
Speaker 1: hand you food. In these times, it's got to be
Speaker 1: super satisfying for a guy like Alan Robinson, because you know,
Speaker 1: this is not a guy that's had everything handed to him.
Speaker 1: Although he's had success, he's overcome the obstacles of injuries
Speaker 1: and went on and almost some respects been more successful.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate his effort in all the other
Speaker 1: efforts that everybody's coming, you know, from around the world.
Speaker 1: How about the Patriots for using their planes to bringing
Speaker 1: over a million face masks for the medical people that
Speaker 1: are in need of them. It's really it's just unbelievable, Jeff.
Speaker 1: And it's not you know, it's not just the NFL
Speaker 1: community yet that you mentioned. And you know, sometimes and
Speaker 1: again I think people are cynical thinking a lot of
Speaker 1: these owners are just some evil barons that it's just
Speaker 1: not the case. They've been giving four years years out
Speaker 1: of their pocket and they've really seen not only organization
Speaker 1: pretty much everyone in the National Football League, but you've
Speaker 1: seen the players too, individuals like Alan Robinson or donations
Speaker 1: like Drew Brees of the New Orleans States and it's
Speaker 1: all across this country in all thirty through cities. These
Speaker 1: players are making a difference and the organizations they've every
Speaker 1: one of them have stepped up. They're great in terms
Speaker 1: of their humanitarianism. Their philanthropic work has always been there
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's when I was a player,
Speaker 1: and it was long before I even was with the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. They've always done it, so they are truly
Speaker 1: to be commended. It is really astounding, really how everybody
Speaker 1: has really stepped it up to another level. As you
Speaker 1: guys hear about Tony Bisselli this week, and you know,
Speaker 1: we knew he had the coronavirus, but at a story
Speaker 1: just just came out in one of the papers nationally.
Speaker 1: He's forty seven, you know, Tony Bisselli a sturdy piece
Speaker 1: to the puzzle at left hand in his NFL career
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville and Houston. But he was in the Mayo
Speaker 1: Clinic hospitalized five days. He said he needed oxygen and
Speaker 1: he said the virus buried him. It didn't literally because
Speaker 1: he's now back and feeling good. But Tommy found himself
Speaker 1: deteriorating fast. And if it can cut it can cut
Speaker 1: down anybody. As the point, right, you know, nobody, no
Speaker 1: matter what your sizes, you know that you know one's
Speaker 1: exempt for what this disease can do to you. And
Speaker 1: it seems like every day you're introduced to another story
Speaker 1: about someone who's overcome it, or how it's affecting the
Speaker 1: lives of many. You know, when you think about you know,
Speaker 1: I'm the youngest in my family. I'm fifty eight years old.
Speaker 1: All my brothers and sisters are older than me. I
Speaker 1: live in the fear that this is somebody that could
Speaker 1: this is a disease that could take out my whole
Speaker 1: family because of this is the age we live in.
Speaker 1: And so when you hear a story like Tony Biselli's,
Speaker 1: you just think the vulnerability of if everybody else, and
Speaker 1: especially the people that are closest to us in our lives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really amazing. Just as fast as it comes on
Speaker 1: to Tony Biselli, you hear a story after story about
Speaker 1: that that it can dissipate pretty quickly as well, because
Speaker 1: he was out in five days. But how it creeps
Speaker 1: up on you and how it can affect your lungs
Speaker 1: and the ability to even breathe, to take a breath.
Speaker 1: And that's the issue, you know, the ventilators, the masks,
Speaker 1: all the things that everybody is desperately in need. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like again all across America and all lines
Speaker 1: of work, they're stepping up to try and get these
Speaker 1: things done. Whether it's flying a private plane over to
Speaker 1: pick up a million masks, whether it's the motor companies
Speaker 1: trying to build ventilators. I mean, think about the manufacturers
Speaker 1: that are now converting what is an auto plant to
Speaker 1: build a car, is now building ventilators. I mean, pretty
Speaker 1: amazing how everybody across the board is stepped up. All right,
Speaker 1: let's switch gears, get on the phone lines one more
Speaker 1: time before we wrap up tonight's show. Reconnecting with an
Speaker 1: old friend and former Chicago Bear, Tommy Harris, the former
Speaker 1: fourteenth pick in the twenty four draft, first year a
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith's program, and had seven good years with the Bears,
Speaker 1: three times a pro bowler and a very interesting guy,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Tommy, good evening, thanks for joining
Speaker 1: the program. And you made me cry this week. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, Oh man, I'm sorry cry. This is
Speaker 1: what Tommy Harris. We knew he was a very talented
Speaker 1: singer because I used to give up your time at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, I believe, during the gospel celebrations in
Speaker 1: the mornings before the super Bowl so you could sing.
Speaker 1: And I've heard you sing, and then I I was
Speaker 1: on Twitter the other day and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I see your sight and I punched it up. And
Speaker 1: you are now not only a Chicago Bear and an
Speaker 1: NFL football player and a dad and a son and
Speaker 1: a sibling, You're a singer songwriter and just released this
Speaker 1: week online. Let's sample a little bit of your new song,
Speaker 1: Deflated unbelievable song. I invite everybody to check it out
Speaker 1: on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube audio, Tommy Harris Night at
Speaker 1: Twitter dot com. It's a good five minutes and I
Speaker 1: listened to it again today and obviously I'll let you
Speaker 1: tell the story on how you wrote it and why
Speaker 1: you wrote it, but it dates back to the passing
Speaker 1: of your wife, just U some forty one days after
Speaker 1: your marriage and the birth of your second child, So
Speaker 1: it's it's a resonative song about your wife, Ashley. Tommy, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I thank you. Hum you know I came I would deflated.
Speaker 1: It was you thinking about that awkward pause or that
Speaker 1: moment when I had to take the ventilator off and
Speaker 1: everything went from not seeing her breathing or having even
Speaker 1: a machine to move her to it's all out, like
Speaker 1: it was deflated. It all left, and it was like
Speaker 1: from then on, I just always made it my duty
Speaker 1: or the way I can serve and to give back
Speaker 1: is to make people remember that they don't have to
Speaker 1: play dead in the land of the living. So deflation
Speaker 1: just talks about that time of when things aren't going
Speaker 1: your way, or that moment where it feels like you
Speaker 1: don't know where you just losing breath or at the
Speaker 1: moment where you don't know when the next comes back.
Speaker 1: But it's in that moment of just giving hope that
Speaker 1: you'll be back and you'll come back and things to
Speaker 1: get back to bouncing. But it's just being in this moment,
Speaker 1: like we're in here, the deflated market, that's what we
Speaker 1: feel like now that once we get things get back
Speaker 1: moving and going. But let's be here, let's slow down,
Speaker 1: let's be with our kids, let's I had to learn
Speaker 1: a lot in my deflated moment of how how big
Speaker 1: I thought I was or how rich I thought I was.
Speaker 1: And so after going through that moment, I realized what
Speaker 1: life really means and it and it just it, I
Speaker 1: don't know, the whole thing just really came to me
Speaker 1: because the stand down on his knees part, it only
Speaker 1: came from being deflated. So if I never was deflated,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know how to pray so much, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: depend so much on it, I wouldn't have the relationship
Speaker 1: I have. So just finding the beauty even in troubled times,
Speaker 1: that's what it's about, you know, Tommy, This tom there
Speaker 1: along with Jeff and Jim and how are you know
Speaker 1: I kind of lived through that same scenario with my
Speaker 1: mom and dad within the last six months. And what
Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad that I knew Tommy Harris before
Speaker 1: I saw this video. Your video, dude, is awesome, is
Speaker 1: so beautiful, so well done. But I'm glad I got
Speaker 1: to know you before I saw this video. Is the
Speaker 1: Tommy Harris that we all met after the draft? Is
Speaker 1: he still inside you? Or is that Tommy Harris completely gone? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He's gone. You know I have I have some residue
Speaker 1: of you know, like I just been due. So life
Speaker 1: is gay. My games didn't stop after the NFL, you know,
Speaker 1: it continued and I kept on taking on double teams
Speaker 1: and I kept on going through different stuff. So it
Speaker 1: developed a whole another different game inside of me, a
Speaker 1: whole other different person inside of me. Even I look
Speaker 1: at that video myself and all this stuff I've done,
Speaker 1: I don't even look the same. Like if you look
Speaker 1: at stuff on on YouTube or the old videos, I
Speaker 1: can't even believe that wasn't So Yeah, this has made
Speaker 1: a whole nother My whole life has transitioning into a
Speaker 1: different metamorphosis. Hey, Tommy, we want to talk more about
Speaker 1: this with you, but we're out of time tonight. Can
Speaker 1: we get you on another time as well to talk
Speaker 1: more about a lot of people with draw inspiration real quick?
Speaker 1: How long did it take you to write it? I
Speaker 1: love Deflated in like thirty five minutes. Unbelievable song. Go
Speaker 1: check it out, everybody, Tommy Harris, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: One final thought coming up after this on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to score Okay full show wrapping up
Speaker 1: boy Alan Robinson, Patrick O'Donnell, and Tommy Harris. Jim. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get you in there at the end, running
Speaker 1: out of time. But check out that song and video
Speaker 1: diving tribute I did. It's amazing when you look at
Speaker 1: the video and I'll tell you what, you know, just
Speaker 1: to go somewhere that a lot of people you just
Speaker 1: don't want to go, And I'll tell you what every
Speaker 1: word you just cling that every word of that song
Speaker 1: Deflated what so beautifully done and well done by Tommy Harris.
Speaker 1: It is a great song. Yeah, no question, tom Next
Speaker 1: week we'll start getting real deep in the draft. You ready,
Speaker 1: Oh of course, I am, Jeff, I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: look forward to it again. It's kind of like the
Speaker 1: old school draft. We sat there anticipation of being pick.
Speaker 1: We knew nothing about it all right, coming up next
Speaker 1: Game two of the twenty sixteen Cubs n l Ds.
Speaker 1: Check it out. Thanks to everybody involved Tonight Adams to
Speaker 1: Zinski for Tom and Jim, I'm Jeff. Good night, everybody,
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