WEBVTT - All Access: Bye week re-set 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.600 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.640 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.640 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.319 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.799 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:25.320 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by CDW, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.160 Miller Lite and Hulu. It is a bye week edition 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.280 Affairs all Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.879 to score. We're brought to you by IGS Energy. We 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.280 got a great lineup of guests today. We got Tom 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.040 Fair and Jay Hilgenberg. What could be better than end 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.480 too offense? But I'm digging into your past in this show. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.360 We're not just talking about the Bears. We're going to 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.800 talk a little bit about your journeys as well. Because 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.160 I haven't had the opportunity to ever interview Tom there 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.800 and I've never had the opportunity to ever interview Jay 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.880 Hilgenberg on an in depth level. This will be interesting. Yeah, 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.600 you better take notes. But the task at hand though, 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.920 is breaking down what's happened so far the first quarter 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.039 of the season. Bears three and one sit in the 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.720 top of the NFC North at the moments, and it's 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.880 a feel good moment. Three game winning streak and a 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.520 bright future ahead for this football team. Um, what they 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.320 did against Tampa Bay obviously took a lot of folks 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.520 by surpress. But do you think the Green Bay game 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.479 still gives you a sense of reality? Because I'm talking 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.399 to you. Got a team, you burst out of the scene. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.920 Mitchell Trubisky had the biggest game by a Bears quarterback 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.200 since the forties. But you think there's always that, you know, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.959 thing lingering in the back room. The lingering thing for me, 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.000 Felons is that they were one play away. I don't 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.680 care what aspect of that game. You're one play away 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.600 from being unbeaten. But Matt Neggie's looking at that that 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.200 game will fuel something bigger down the road. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:48.160 I mean I think the team grew definitely that that 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.559 game at Green Bay. It was frustrating. Everybody's disappointed that week, 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.600 but you know, being three in one right now, I 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.960 mean that that game's long in the rear view mirror, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.880 and this team's thinking ahead. It's great bye week, get 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.240 ready for Miami. It's to be like Green Bay going 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.520 Oh my God, we got away with one. Because you 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.480 think of where the Bears have become have come from 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.440 since that game. They go into that game, you don't 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.800 know how many reps ro Quan or Calil Mack are 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.880 gonna play. What is their offering going to be? What 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.040 is Aaron Lynch going to provide for you for missing 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.200 the entire training camp? So they had so many question 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.919 marks going into that game. They're not all answered, but 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.239 I think the questions have gotten smaller. That game was 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.639 so big. It reminded me it was Jake when Jay 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.960 Cutler's first game of the year that he was up 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.160 at Green Bay, and I just remember it was the 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.400 anticipation that that game was huge, and his first snap 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.600 was a fumble and just I mean they erased that regard. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.079 They lost the game, but they erased the whole era 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.400 of that, that past and this team, and they continue 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.919 to build each week. Four games in a row, four 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.320 games opening drives have been very, very good for the Bears. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.960 Some led to touchdown, suns, led to field goals. But 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.400 that process is intriguing to me, and it tells me 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.920 a lot about what they're capable of, what Mitch's cap 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.720 How do you guys look at that moving forward. You know, 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.320 Jay used to bring out up with a lot during 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.280 the eighty five season. You don't care if you win 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.680 or lose the coin toss because the defense is so 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.240 good that they're going to go out there and take 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.040 a little starch out of your opponent immediately. But there's 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.919 no better way than providing some starch in your team. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.919 If your offense goes out there, boom boom boom, goes 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.799 down the field. And I think I feel that way 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.400 going into the season. I don't care if they win 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.840 or lose the coin toss, It doesn't matter. Right. They 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.080 almost remind me of the Packers. You remember, it's just 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.359 years passed how the Packers. I would if I was 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.920 the Bears, I would never for a coin toss. I'd 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.480 taken the ball all year long. Well, if you get 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.080 a lead with this defense, right, I mean, yeah, you're 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.040 you're you're giving them some ammunition, right. But you know, also, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.040 you know the kickoffs go and the ends. When they 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:47.720 get the ball at the twenty five yard line, if 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.600 they could can create a three and out, then you're 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.880 talking about the Bears. Their fuel position is better than 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.000 if they get kicked off too, because of the whole 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.920 process of it. Right, No, you're right, Tom, you gave 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.840 me a flashback then when we played. I liked our 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.320 defense going out there because there was always we'd probably 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.080 get pretty good field position. Right, and you already put 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.040 some doubt in the opponent's mind if they're gonna have 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.240 to deal with that defense being unleashed and be able 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:10.600 to put their hand in the dirt and just picking 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.000 their airs back. These are good options that we're talking about. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.360 This is stuff we haven't talked about getting. Hey, it's 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.479 been you know, in a last decade. I believe there 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.440 hasn't been a just two defenses. I believe the Broncos 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.200 are one of them that as after one quarter of 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.480 the season, they're in a top ten of almost every 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.599 single defensive category, top five in many and leading in 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.080 some very significant ones, including sacks. And I think that 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.200 pass rush has just scratched in the surface. How do 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.880 you guys feel about it? I agree? You know, I 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.800 think back to last season, when you look at the 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.080 conclusion of last season, the biggest profile defense out there 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.920 was the Jacksonville Jaguars, and they went out there and 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.440 two years ago they started gathering some pass rush, collecting 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.440 first rounders, Yeah, collecting first rounders, getting a couple of 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.320 free agents, making sure they make the right choices, and boom. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.480 Their defense now is the marquee defense of the lead still, 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.719 I think, And then you see where it brought it 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.560 to the AFC Championship game, correct, So I think when 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.400 you think about the defense, where they're ultimately going to go, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.680 the continuous process of this offense getting better, I don't 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.560 I don't think that anything's out of reach when you 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.719 think about the future. This defense reminds me of it. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.520 Remember the I don't know if it was a Thursday 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.640 night for you guys or a Monday night night out 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:26.240 in San Francisco when Vic Fangio was a defensive coordinator 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.160 and they came after the Bears quarterback five times. Yeah, Campbell, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.840 I think was the starting a quarterback. Was that the 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:39.000 kaepernet games Chaperneck's career, But that defense that night was 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:43.159 just ferocious. I remember that game and that's what this 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.479 Bears defense reminds me of right now. And that was 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:51.600 the Super Bowl team as the Mac impact not surprised you, 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.800 but made you stop and think a little bit about 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.320 just how great he is. Uh, definitely, yeah, it has. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.760 I mean going in to this two thousand eighteen season, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.839 I was thinking, I mean, where what's really the hope 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.840 at the bar? Everybody's thinking, you know, the win loss 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.640 are they're gonna win more in eight games or not? 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.960 But then all of a sudden they signed Mac and 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.120 boom that Green Bay game. It's just it's a different 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.400 This is a legit Super Bowl contending team right now. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.200 The way they're playing. I know it's the first core um, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.960 but I think, right, no, But I want to say 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.920 before he jumps too far ahead, Hey, Vic Fangio has 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.880 been five and old before in his league as a 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.160 linebacker coach in New Orleans Saints nineteen ninety three. That 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:36.800 was my last year in the league. We started five 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.600 and oh we didn't make the playoffs. So I mean 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.360 that's all given. But this is what I'm trying to say. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.400 This is a solid core team, right. You know for 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:50.360 Clil Mack, Cli Jay, Khalil Mack, Lawrence Taylor, what are 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.320 the comparisons between them and what are like? Because I 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.400 see Khalil Mackie comes out of a three point stance 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.000 a lot more than the LT did. He earns leverage 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.359 against these tall offensive tackles. Lawrence Taylor's playing against the 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.680 sixty three and a half Jimbo cover. They're more eye 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.839 to eye. Now you get these guys, Okay, we gotta 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.080 have these offensive tackles that are nine feet tall, like 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.600 DeMar N six nine. He got right underneath him. Right, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.600 he's relentless, right, I mean, that's that's what I see. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.880 I mean that he doesn't stop the other night, last 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.440 week's game, when he when he knocked the force to fumble, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.800 and then the way he reacted after the ball when 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.880 he rushed the quarterback tipped his hand ball sales in 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.520 the air, Travathan intercepts, he gets it, gathers and starts running. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.560 Guess who's down there blocking for him? Right? Godill Mac Right. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.400 I mean that was a pretty good distance to hustle. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.640 I mean, it's almost like to remember the day when 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.720 Erlaker was leading the block going down on every summer. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.600 Those guys fine too, fifty number. They turned right into 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.640 offensive linemant. Yeah, I mean I tell you that that's 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.920 the guy apparently does it at practice too. He he 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.800 runs non stop at practice. Yeah, and he's showing everybody 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.800 the way. It's amazing. He is an amazing athlete. He's 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.240 his again. It's it's like relentless. It's um. He reminds 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.360 me remember Pierce Hold. I mean he was an average athlete, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.000 but the guy was NonStop. Now you have Mac who's 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.240 uh the probably the ultimate athlete out there in the field, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.400 who is not and you know the underray. I think 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.120 he's outstanding and stop in the run too. Oh yeah, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.760 because you can't just run it. You can't just decide 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.240 to run it. You know, this is the funny thing 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.040 about Khalil Mack. When you're playing at home and you 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.800 can't hear the snap count, it slows the offensive tackle, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.880 and Clil gets an edge when he plays on the road. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.560 You can hear the snap count and he starts developing 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.160 a familiarity with the rhythm of the count that he's 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.240 playing against. So it's a double edged sword for him. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.160 He got a slow tackle out of his stance in 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.880 Soldier Field, and then you got you fall into the 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:42.480 rhythm of the count when you're on the road, So 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.719 it's it's a double bad All right, We're gonna take 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.559 a quick break where Jay Hilgenberg, the seventh time consecutive 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.520 Pro bowler and his former teammate and close friend. I 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.400 don't know how these two don't, you know, kill each 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.840 other sometimes, but they don't They still like each other Dogs. Yeah, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.880 maybe that's Tom there. I'm Jeff Jonahac and you're the 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.960 sending to Bears All Access brought to you by IGS 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:07.120 Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.600 back to Bears all Access brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.200 a front partner of the Chicago Bears for briding electricity, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.720 natural gas, and home warned. He products over one million 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.640 customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.000 igs dot com. Jeff jony Act, Tom Thair, and Jay 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:26.360 Hilgenberg from wvbm's prem postgame coverage, which we will resume 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.280 after the bye week in Miami against the Dolphins, we 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.320 spent a lot of time talking about Khalil Mack. Let's 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.480 spend a lot of time talking about Mitch Drobiski. Now 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.520 seeing the growth over the course of the season is 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.480 going to be as compelling as anything with the offense 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.960 and Mitch at the center of it. Where did he 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.640 grow in Week four? Confidence? You know, I think the 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.960 better understanding he against that allows him to develop the 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.240 confidence because you look at some of those throws that 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.959 he made this week. He was being criticized for him 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.000 two weeks previous to this, and now he's being complimented 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.760 for throwing the ball into these tight windows. Other Alan 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.840 rob Since touchdown to play before that to Taylor Gabriel 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.839 the one nice pass the tree calling down the sideline. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.360 You know it is is that you see all these 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.200 impressive fundamentals when you put a quarterback through drills at 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.600 the combine and stuff, and he's capable of doing everything, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.360 But are you capable of doing everything? That why you're 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.040 going through the process of thinking. And I think Mitch 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.120 has kind of elevated himself to a level that he's 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.079 being able to be a free He's more of a 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.640 knower instead of a thinker, so he's able to be 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.640 a better athlete doing it. Remember when Coach and A 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.560 he was talking about he doesn't care about the interceptions 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:39.000 and practice down and that's really what it is. A practice. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.600 Mitch brought it from practice to the field Sunday, and 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.959 that's what you want to continue to see happen. It's 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.560 not gonna happen every Sunday. He's gonna have his ups 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.920 and downs, and everybody's gonna have to live with that. 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.280 That's just the way the NFL is. But the demeanor 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.480 is key, and I thought they were going talked about 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.600 it this week. You know, his demeanor was different on Sunday. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.720 Neggie says it was different as well. He was very 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.199 steady when they got the first couple of touchdown. He 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.600 wanted more. He did not want to. He was riveted 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.520 to being great that day, and he was. He took 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.360 advantage of a secondary in turmoil, got a lot of 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.000 open receivers. The offensive line was spectacular. You know, Matt 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.319 stayed aggressive too in his play. Colleague, I want to 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.600 get to that too, because Matt, I guess he said 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.599 this year a couple of days ago, the offense he 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.559 went more to the meat and potatoes of the offense. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.200 And so if that's the meat and potatoes, I can't 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.160 wait to see the same. I think the big play 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.360 was just him running the ball on that early RPO 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.439 down the right side for twenty some yards. Okay, I 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.040 got one long RPO keeper and then one long scramble. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.360 But tay, so hey, I'll take those. I'll take those 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.880 two eyes. Yeah, it's nice to know he has that ability, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.240 and you can see in some of these quarterbacks out there, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.280 but it's more of you have a design run to him. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.839 That's when you start putting that fear in the defense. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.760 He is the ability I think. I think Mitchell's the 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.960 most athletic quarterback the Bears have ever had. I don't 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.199 think he's totally shown it at all, but he he 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.679 looks good on the hoof. He can run three hundred 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.600 ninety seven total net yards, the most since Jim Miller 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.880 four oh seven in Week ten and ninety nine against Minnesota. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.520 So yeah, the six touchdowns are sexy, obviously, but I 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.880 thought it was interesting Sunday Night Football. They it was 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.240 like one of the last games they highlighted when Pat 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.000 Mahomes through his six and Week two man it was hey, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.920 headline city. You go look at any natch NAT national 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.760 broadcasted h football game when they do the pre hype, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.240 there's not one Bear included in any of them. And 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.319 all the national markets are gonna have to change soon. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.920 Well they'll change next year. I don't know if they've 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.480 ever started. You're gonna well, you're not Kalio Mac. He's 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.760 gotta be Kali the Star is rising. He was in 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.960 Oaklandland's kind of a hidden market in this league. As 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:00.559 great as that franchises, it doesn't have the media eccentric 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.559 tob of the game that this city does. And nationally 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.040 Chicago is huge if they're playing well. See, but you 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.080 said the narrative the defense, it's mac It's not offense 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.480 in Chicago, it's all about the defense. I would like 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.839 to go back to see if they did any pre 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.599 filming hype with Kleil Mack in a Raiders uniform and 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.160 then all of a sudden they had a garbage it 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.680 all up. I'd be an interesting question to ask Mack 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.960 because again, go watch, you know, go look at these 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.880 pre hypes. No better respect this segment of Bears. All 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.120 access is orchestrated. Buy CDW, CDW people who get it. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.280 Jeff Joniac tamp there and Jay Hilgenberg with Paus rank 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.920 or engineer and Dan BURRELLI, our producer working the gum 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.920 light did go over there with his hat and everything. Well, 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.920 he looks, really, he looks. He's got that side muscle 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.040 going right. He's also the Hollis Hall Employee of the 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.880 Year and that doesn't come easily. He literally like, I'm 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:59.640 not Joe. He just blushed. He's blushings closer better than 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.080 it to can, I guess. But yeah, so Bears defense, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.080 obviously we're talking about that. The offensive versatility will get 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.360 into that, but I want to talk a little bit 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.160 of a special team before we get to our next break, 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.680 because Cody Parkey has proven to be a valuable asset 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.559 nine out of ten of the field goal department on 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.280 twelve of his extra points, and his kickoffs have been outstanding. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.400 We had Chris Tabron the Bears Coaches Show the other night. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.240 He said, it's not kickoff season yet, meaning the weather 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.600 has turned yet, So that's when it will become interesting 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.240 and teams are going to do more. Right now, they're 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:31.880 just kicking out of the end zone. I think the 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.400 same thing. You know, the kickers as much of a 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.680 weapon as the punter, and as that wind and that 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.800 weather deteriorates, and you'll be you're more familiar with the 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.360 circumstances in Soldier field and you bring some of these 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.880 teams that aren't or if you have to go. I 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.000 think the Bears have two powerful legs that you know 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:49.440 there are going to really gonna be able to help 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.800 him go it on this say, I just think Chris 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.400 Taver's an excellent special teams coach. So I mean, I'm 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.440 all on board with what he does. What I like 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.960 to Well, he's asked Patrick O'Donnell to change up his 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.560 approach a little bit more into the hang time and 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.000 also the direction as opposed to just banging it, and 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.920 he does a great job. He's right now at that 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.720 magical forty gross forty net. Uh. That's what you want 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.160 in a punter of these days. So he's doing his job, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.120 and you know, the Bear's get a lot of punt 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.200 returns because the defense is forcing three and out. So 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.600 three Cohen's leading the league chairing the league leading punt returns. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.560 That's great. I mean that's not average yet, but he's second. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.920 But punt returns the actual punt returns, which creates field position, right, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.200 I mean, hey, the kickers are important when you're in 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.360 close games. But I never wanted to be on a 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.760 team where the punder and the kickers are the stars. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.200 Well they're not the stars, right, you think they have 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.400 the stars? No, no, but I but I've been on 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.640 it to my last year in the NFL with the 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:46.000 Saints that that's Morton Anderson and uh, that's all ye 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.800 that at one time snap more punts than one sees 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.560 than that any other player in the history of the 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.760 lay years. Why don't we have stats like that that 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.800 should be in the NFL factor that I had multiple 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:02.120 solo tackles that I used to Patrick Manley all the time. Chael, Patrick, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:03.480 why don't you go down to make you know how 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.800 many tackles you got? He goes, oh, four or five? 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.480 I had like ten or eleven my rookie year. I 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.000 never told him we had an NFL record one hundred 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.280 nineteen punts. Do you know how many total tackles you 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.640 had in your special team's career? No, Okay, you should 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.760 work on that stat that's for sure. All Right, we're 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.360 gonna step away here segment number two in the books, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.560 we'll talk more with Jay Higgenberg and Tom there to 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.040 the great offensive lineman in Bears history. As we break 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.320 it down, Bears three and one on top of the division, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.600 awaiting Miami when they come out of the bye week. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:36.320 This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score, the 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.000 Chicago Bears Network for cents. Inside the Bear, brought to 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.640 you by Verizon Anthony Adams and Lauren Screetch over the 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.600 world of Bears football on It Off the Field every 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.680 Sunday night at eleven o five on Box thirty two Chicago. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.640 I'll watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com or on 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.680 the official Bears app. Jeff jonny Ack, along with Tom 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.960 There and Jay Hilgenberg, our special guest this week on 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.400 the Bears bye week. With the players off getting some 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.200 relaxation in now hopefully year, it up mentally to stay 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.600 in tune because of that big win. I don't know. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.920 Some people have said to me, I really wish they'd 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.560 be playing. Others said, hey, this is probably a good thing. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.119 They're not too high because now they're gonna have to 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.520 get refocused because they didn't play and they got this 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.200 Dolphin team sitting down there with Adam Gase. Their offense 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.000 has been struggling. But what do you guys sit on it? 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.479 Does it matter to you on or off? I mean 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.879 it is you can't have that answer all right, then 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.560 it's perfect. I mean, so it's the perfect time to 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.200 have the break. You're it's you're through four games, so 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.440 you're off to a really good start. This week is 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.760 always a time where if you look at the coaching staff, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.719 I think I'm sure. I'm sure the offensive coaches are 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.920 probably forming up some type of game playing against the 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.440 Bears defense, and the Bears defensive coaches are having a 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:50.120 game play against the Bears offense to self scout themselves somehow. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.560 But as far as the players to arrest, um, I 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.840 you know, it's it's a nice to three and one 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.520 ahead of the division. How long does that have? Perfect? 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.920 You know, this was announced and the players knew that 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.520 this one was going to be the schedule of this 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.320 week for us in our generation, Jay, it was dangled 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:08.960 out in front of us like a carrot. In front 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.320 of course, if we went and played a crappy game 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.720 before the bye week and then we practice the next 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.200 week in pads in a physical approach to our days off. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.880 If we did anything good, we still had to practice. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.960 But maybe it was just in shorts and shoulder pads. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.919 So I mean it was. It wasn't like the consistency 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.120 of saying, Okay, you guys, this is the way the schedule, 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.399 this is our tinnerary. You can formulate a plan that 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.480 you want. If you want to do something during the 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.720 bye week, it's it's better for the players to understand 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.320 that the coaches respect him enough, and then the coaches themselves, 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.000 they don't have to be in the same room anymore 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.120 to be scouting. You know, we all have our tablets 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.400 and I can we can be in a conversation doing 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.440 all that stuffy no. But you know, I agree for 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.600 the players right now, take a little break physically, you know, 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.080 take a rest your bodies for a few days and 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.159 get ready to go. Then it's a big push. I mean, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.359 it's really not that it's such a short period of time. Now, 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.639 you know, after this the Bears start up to the 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.400 end of the season. Twelve weeks, right, twelve weeks. Hey, 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.119 that's a that's a that's a little workout program. So 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.680 let's commit to everybody. Everybody can think about it. It's 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.240 for the next six are gonna be at home, so 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.080 not the Miami game. But then after that you get 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.320