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Speaker 1: the next fifty seven minutes as we get it right
Speaker 1: close to training camp, just around the corner, as the
Speaker 1: players are prepared to report the training camp. A lot
Speaker 1: of excitement about the Chicago Bears football team. Eddie Goldman
Speaker 1: willing the defunch playoff to snuff, so that's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting there No Matt Naggie was in the news
Speaker 1: this week talking about the number of carries they want
Speaker 1: to give their star running back at David Monco Race.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that plus as well as the show
Speaker 1: rolls along, we're gonna be joined by Bears safety to
Speaker 1: Shawn Gibson obviously resigned a one year deal for the Bears.
Speaker 1: Thought he was a bright spot in that secondary sixteen game,
Speaker 1: sixteen starts, two interceptions, seven passes, defense than sixty six
Speaker 1: total tackle, so played with a lot of passion for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. Good to see him in the mix
Speaker 1: for Chicago here in twenty twenty one. So what I'll
Speaker 1: further Ado, I'm gonna welcome in my co host. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk all things Bears and we'll talk to Deshaun
Speaker 1: Gibson about six thirty pm Eastern time. So let's welcome
Speaker 1: in Anthony Heron and Tom Thayer get their thoughts on
Speaker 1: Bears as they're about to report to training camp. Anthony, Tom,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you guys. Anthony, I'll start with you.
Speaker 1: It's been too long, buddy. I hope your summer is
Speaker 1: going well and how you feel about this Bears club
Speaker 1: as training camps about to kick off. Yeah, Jim, productive
Speaker 1: summer so far, and I think a lot of folks
Speaker 1: around the National Football League are hoping that their team
Speaker 1: has done the right thing, and Bears fans hoping that
Speaker 1: everything that's so exciting coming out of the draft will
Speaker 1: now be showcase on the field. Really, just days away
Speaker 1: from the opening of training camps, you kind of feel
Speaker 1: that juice, that energy is starting to pick up with
Speaker 1: folks really looking forward to seeing what not only justin fields,
Speaker 1: but this entire bars squad is going to bring to
Speaker 1: the table. Man, I can't wait, Jim Good to talk
Speaker 1: to both of you guys. I think, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a different plot in my mind also as the season approaches,
Speaker 1: because you know, you have a lot of the elements
Speaker 1: that you take into consideration from last year and then
Speaker 1: you got to kind of fast forward and think about
Speaker 1: this year. And I kind of have a thought that
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about during the course of the week
Speaker 1: that I'd like to bring up to both of you
Speaker 1: guys and see how you feel about it, Jim and Anthony,
Speaker 1: because when you start looking at the preseason and you
Speaker 1: start to talk about the distribution of reps, I start
Speaker 1: thinking about the three preseason games, and to me, I
Speaker 1: would almost like to see all the players, including the veterans,
Speaker 1: have a lot more reps in the preseason game, even
Speaker 1: if that takes away some reps in the in the practices,
Speaker 1: because I think the element of speed, you have to
Speaker 1: be up and ready to go by the time the
Speaker 1: first game gets here and now with only three preseason games.
Speaker 1: All right, if you want to pull back a little bit,
Speaker 1: you want to give him a veteran day, then give
Speaker 1: it during the course of the week of practice, because
Speaker 1: you're really only going about seventy to eighty percent anyways.
Speaker 1: And so I would like to think to have these
Speaker 1: guys ready to go at a faster pace earlier. I
Speaker 1: would like to see more reps, more game reps given
Speaker 1: to these guys during the preseason games. And I'd like
Speaker 1: to get both of your thoughts and see what you
Speaker 1: think about that. Yeah, your thoughts, Anthony on his question there.
Speaker 1: I was really excited, guys two years ago when coach
Speaker 1: Nagy was going throughout the offseason program and as the
Speaker 1: preseason was approaching, and you know, we were kind of thinking,
Speaker 1: how's he going to handle things at this point, how's
Speaker 1: he gonna split reps? And then we saw him use
Speaker 1: a similar approach to what he did in his first
Speaker 1: season coaching the Bears, when you really didn't get a
Speaker 1: lot of work for the starters during that phase. And
Speaker 1: then last offseason, you know, before everything had really truly
Speaker 1: materialized with the pandemic and we were still anticipating some
Speaker 1: preseason games being played early in the year he announced it.
Speaker 1: He told everyone, the assembled media, everyone covering the Bears,
Speaker 1: everyone looking forward to it, Guys like us who you know,
Speaker 1: I'm confident all three of us were kind of hoping
Speaker 1: that the starters were going to see more action, and
Speaker 1: that was his plan going into last preseason, and of course,
Speaker 1: for ab yeous reasons, wasn't able to materialize. So I'm
Speaker 1: happy to hear that Matt Naggie has the same plan
Speaker 1: for this coming preseason that he would have implemented last year,
Speaker 1: where we'll see more work from the starters. I think,
Speaker 1: to your point time, I'm curious how much is going
Speaker 1: to be more, because you know what I mean, Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: he's been at this for a long time, and of
Speaker 1: course that's who Matt Naggie most notably studied under in
Speaker 1: his time in the NFL before getting the big whistle
Speaker 1: with the Bears here, and Andy Reid doesn't necessarily shy
Speaker 1: away from letting guys get reps, letting guys get a
Speaker 1: little contact out there. Obviously there's certain individuals who get
Speaker 1: a little bubble wrapping there exempt for good reason, but
Speaker 1: it's not like game. The reasons getting guys on and
Speaker 1: off the field in ninety minutes every time they take
Speaker 1: the practice field, and I think for coach Nagie that
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. I would imagine a bit of the
Speaker 1: wrestling match for him, because his sensibilities we've seen up
Speaker 1: to this point have been to make sure that he
Speaker 1: is prioritizing health, prioritizing safety, and that's great. But for
Speaker 1: this team and especially this offense, to get as much
Speaker 1: as they can out of each other, not I really
Speaker 1: shouldn't shy away from including the defense in that. With
Speaker 1: Sean Dasai coming over to that side of the ball
Speaker 1: and running things as well. There's a lot of prominent
Speaker 1: players who I think will be at their best if
Speaker 1: they do get some work during the preseason, certainly more
Speaker 1: than we've seen them getting years passed under coach Nagie. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that the nflpa's not going to be happy
Speaker 1: about what I'm gonna say right now. I think teams
Speaker 1: should should really schedule more of those inner squad scrimmages
Speaker 1: for all the things that you guys both just mentioned
Speaker 1: that because at least there you can script them as
Speaker 1: a coach. So if you want to get time, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to do an active goal line period.
Speaker 1: You know, in a preseason game, a goal line situation
Speaker 1: may not arise, right, it may not even happen if
Speaker 1: your team doesn't get down there. But in those inter
Speaker 1: squads scrimmages, and for the Bears fans out there, the
Speaker 1: Bears will be scrimmaging the Miami Dolphins prior to the
Speaker 1: preseason game that will be August eleventh. In August twelve,
Speaker 1: you know, think of coach flores from the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: in Matt Naggi, Hey, these are the areas we need
Speaker 1: to work on. We need to hit more red zone
Speaker 1: or let's let's take this blitz period a little bit longer. Hey,
Speaker 1: we want to hit more more two minute drives or
Speaker 1: your or third down situations. What I like about there's
Speaker 1: inter squad scrimmages is you can actually script a situation
Speaker 1: that is going to be real in how it's going
Speaker 1: to unfold in the game when a preseason game it
Speaker 1: may not even happen. Tom, Yeah, I agree with you there, Jim.
Speaker 1: I agree. If you need those specific type of periods
Speaker 1: scripted so you can put the exact type of personnel
Speaker 1: packages you want, then yeah, I do think you have
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that. A couple of years ago
Speaker 1: when the Bears went and practice against the pain Patriots,
Speaker 1: when coach Flores was there, you know, they understand what
Speaker 1: that tepo's gonna be about. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: both teams have to understand. But to me, I just,
Speaker 1: you know, as I was trying to take into consideration
Speaker 1: the last few years about the veteran reps in preseason games,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you know, there's a slow start to the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, and I, you know, I just
Speaker 1: want to see these guys up and ready, you know,
Speaker 1: So a guy like David Montgomery, you know, to me,
Speaker 1: David Montgomery, he doesn't need a thousand in game reps
Speaker 1: because there's other backs that need those reps more than
Speaker 1: he does. However, I think when you look at the
Speaker 1: elements of what puts a team together, getting cole Commet
Speaker 1: ready from game one, getting Darnell Mooney up the speed
Speaker 1: when the season starts, same thing on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, with guys like Jalen Johnson and the
Speaker 1: younger crew of guys over there, you can't you can't,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of slowly step into the first game
Speaker 1: of the year. You have to be up and running
Speaker 1: with the mentality on the understanding the pace. And I
Speaker 1: know it's got preseason games aren't going to equal the
Speaker 1: regular season games, but if you have more reps and
Speaker 1: maybe if you want to redooce during the course of
Speaker 1: training camp practices, I just would like to see him
Speaker 1: go about it that way a little bit more. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm curious where where you think the approach will be
Speaker 1: on either side of the ball, because they even kind
Speaker 1: of caught myself a minute ago because the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, as I've been just watching the way that
Speaker 1: the Bears and coach that could go about their business
Speaker 1: and the run up towards the regular season, I've been
Speaker 1: I've been more urgent about wanting more work for the
Speaker 1: offensive players because of obvious reasons where the offense has
Speaker 1: sort of started behind the defense and obviously have had
Speaker 1: the you know, the travails at quarterback and what's going
Speaker 1: on there with development, and just feel like, you know what,
Speaker 1: you've got a veteran defense, they've played at a high level.
Speaker 1: I haven't found myself as concerned with the limited sort
Speaker 1: of physical work that that side of the all had
Speaker 1: gotten in years past. But even just as I was
Speaker 1: kind of thinking out loud about this topic of a
Speaker 1: moment ago while I was talking through it, because normally
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, yeah, this offense, they need the work man.
Speaker 1: The offense got to start fast. But it does feel
Speaker 1: more important to me for the defense this year than
Speaker 1: it has in years pasted. Also one because of the
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator, Sean Decide, and then also your factor
Speaker 1: in frankly, the defense they haven't necessarily looked like that
Speaker 1: same cohesive and explosive unit that we got a customed
Speaker 1: to them looking like before. So you know that that
Speaker 1: sort of sort of leads me to believe that maybe
Speaker 1: the defense could even use a little more preseason work
Speaker 1: than what I've kind of felt like they needed in
Speaker 1: years past. Yeah, good thoughts, because to Sewan Decide will
Speaker 1: be the new play caller caller, they're the continuity is
Speaker 1: there pretty much everybody's back and in terms of the players,
Speaker 1: but how you know, every play caller has their idiosyncrasies.
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna call things differently from whether it's
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio or Chuck Pagano. Everybody's got their own twist
Speaker 1: on things. And obviously the players will get have to
Speaker 1: get used to their new play caller. Guy's interesting day
Speaker 1: in the NFL, because, as we know, the franchise tags,
Speaker 1: teams had the ability to ink a long term deal
Speaker 1: with the players that are under the tag. The big
Speaker 1: deal done today was Taylor Moton down there for the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. That's a four year, seventy two million dollars deal. Tom.
Speaker 1: I never thought, right tackles in guards would be getting
Speaker 1: what they're getting right now in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: But out of all other players, I mean Brandon Sheriff
Speaker 1: of the Washington football team, he's gonna be playing under
Speaker 1: his second tag. You would think with all these deals
Speaker 1: in especially with Tuney's deal down there for Kansas City,
Speaker 1: right he signed the five year, eighty million dollars deal
Speaker 1: for Kansas City, I thought Brandon Sheriff would have the
Speaker 1: ability to sign. And then, of course, how it relates
Speaker 1: to Alan Robinson in the Bears. It doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: negotiations were really happening towards the end of the year
Speaker 1: Bears placed the franchise tag on him. I think Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson will handle himself like a professional like he always does.
Speaker 1: But just thoughts on how it unfolded today. I'll start
Speaker 1: with you, Anthony in no long term deal for Alan Robinson,
Speaker 1: it's been, you know, fairly obvious throughout a Rob's career
Speaker 1: here in Chicago that he's been the most consistent offensive
Speaker 1: weapon the Bears have had. And you look at the
Speaker 1: totality of his career where there's been uneven quarterback play,
Speaker 1: and he's always been a guy who's been able to
Speaker 1: find a way to make plays, to put up consistent numbers,
Speaker 1: to be sort of the consummate professional in the locker
Speaker 1: room and out of it and addressing the media and
Speaker 1: the big complaints there, and that's got more and more
Speaker 1: rare over the years. At the wide receiver position, as
Speaker 1: you guys know, where a lot of times somebody might
Speaker 1: spout off, because that just tends to be where those
Speaker 1: personalities and how they kind of go about their business,
Speaker 1: and that hasn't been Alan Robins. So so I respect
Speaker 1: the way that the Bears, where the Ryan Pace, Matt Naggie,
Speaker 1: everyone within the organization have paid Alan Robinson the proper
Speaker 1: respects verbally in the media. Obviously, Robinson and his representation
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily think the deal that's been offered by the
Speaker 1: ball club up to this point meets the standard they're
Speaker 1: looking for, and organizations in a tough spot. But I
Speaker 1: understand exactly where Alan Robinson's at also because this is
Speaker 1: very likely to be his you know, one of, if
Speaker 1: not his last opportunity in his late twenties now you know,
Speaker 1: surgeries in his past and all that maybe his last
Speaker 1: chance at a big, long, most lucrative contract that he
Speaker 1: may have the opportunity to sign. So he's pushing hard
Speaker 1: to get that. You know, the salary cap has come down,
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a tricky spot for him with
Speaker 1: the timing of it, But the Bears have cap difficulties
Speaker 1: at the moment to try to put any deal like
Speaker 1: this together. So I think that, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised where both sides are at the moment. While at
Speaker 1: the same time, you got a new rookie QB coming
Speaker 1: in who knows a year from now. If you get
Speaker 1: through another really productive season and Justin Fields takes off
Speaker 1: at some point there, then maybe the Bears are in
Speaker 1: a position like the you know, the Seahawks, for example,
Speaker 1: where able to find themselves in under Russell Wilson with
Speaker 1: him as the QB early in his career. Maybe you
Speaker 1: get that where there's a window to maximize. A lot
Speaker 1: of teams around the league are trying to maximize right now.
Speaker 1: Where you've got that rookie deal on a QB, perhaps
Speaker 1: they can still free up cap space after you get
Speaker 1: through this year, and maybe a rob isn't going into
Speaker 1: his final season with the Bears. But it doesn't surprise
Speaker 1: me where things sit at the moment. Tom the simplest
Speaker 1: answer I could give, because I don't think there's been
Speaker 1: any secret how much I admire Alan Robinson, his work.
Speaker 1: I think his dedication, what his leadership means of the
Speaker 1: locker room, it's hard to ignore because you see the
Speaker 1: productivity on the field. Would I like to sign Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson to a long term contract? I would? Do I
Speaker 1: want to sign Alan Robinson to the highest paid receiver
Speaker 1: in the league. I don't, so. I mean there's got
Speaker 1: to be a medium, a happy ground there between what
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson is realistically looking for in what the Bears
Speaker 1: are willing to pay him, because he's, you know, exhibited
Speaker 1: every time that he's been challenged what a quality guy
Speaker 1: he is. However, you do have to look at the
Speaker 1: reality of the financial side of it, and whatever they
Speaker 1: could come up with the deal, he can make him
Speaker 1: financially secure for generations to come. However, is he gonna
Speaker 1: walk out there as the highest paid wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. I don't think that's going to
Speaker 1: happen for him as well. But to me, when I
Speaker 1: signed him, I would, well, we got plenty more to
Speaker 1: come here on Bears All Access when we come back.
Speaker 1: Let's get into some of Matt Nagge's comments about the
Speaker 1: offense that time is now dedicated carries to David Montgomery
Speaker 1: wants to get a minimum of twenty touches a game
Speaker 1: in running the football. Also had some comments on Eddie Goldman,
Speaker 1: the big defensive tackles who hopefully will be there for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, because his defense could be special here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. So don't change it, Dial, keep
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Speaker 1: should be joined by Bears of veterans safety to Sean
Speaker 1: Gibson should be calling in here about six thirty pm
Speaker 1: Eastern time, so it'll be interesting to talk to him.
Speaker 1: He resigns the one year deal to come back to Chicago. Guys.
Speaker 1: I thought he really meshed well with the Bears, played
Speaker 1: with a lot of passion. I think he fed off
Speaker 1: the fans. He kind of got it right away and
Speaker 1: was a sixteen game starter, had the couple interceptions, and
Speaker 1: was very active tackler for the Chicago Bears. But getting
Speaker 1: that cohesiveness back at the safety spot Anthony gonna be
Speaker 1: crucial for the Bears because this is a veteran group
Speaker 1: that have really all played together defensively for quite some time.
Speaker 1: It was gonna be the first time at the safety
Speaker 1: position we've seen Eddie Jackson paired with the same safety
Speaker 1: next to him in a few years now, and so
Speaker 1: you would imagine that two things. One stylistically, I like
Speaker 1: the fact that to Shaun Gibson Eddie Jackson, they're not
Speaker 1: necessarily the same type of safety. Now thought that was
Speaker 1: a little bit of what made things tricky the prior
Speaker 1: season with how high Clinton Dix and how you know,
Speaker 1: they're stylistically kind of a similar type of guy, where
Speaker 1: Gibson can come in bring that thump a little more readily,
Speaker 1: and so you can kind of id which guy feels
Speaker 1: which role, not that either guy isn't incapable of doing
Speaker 1: sort of the other responsibility. But I like the way
Speaker 1: that they've messed together and then having another season playing
Speaker 1: alongside each other. It's just enhance the way they communicate,
Speaker 1: the way they're spatially aware of where the other will be,
Speaker 1: the game situations they've been in where perhaps they can
Speaker 1: even recognize without even having the verbally communicated, some of
Speaker 1: those nonverbals that are going to be important with certain offenses,
Speaker 1: certain tempos and formations and everything. The fact that they've
Speaker 1: been in so many situations together going into the season
Speaker 1: should just enhance the way they can play off of
Speaker 1: each other time. You know, Anthony GM, I think it
Speaker 1: was probably one of the most important signs of the
Speaker 1: offseason because when you think of are you taking consideration
Speaker 1: last year what he was not afforded in that shortened preseason,
Speaker 1: and then you have a new starting core back, you
Speaker 1: have a rotation at the slot corner, and you have
Speaker 1: to develop the relationship of the rest of the guys.
Speaker 1: So now you talk about the key ingredient as him
Speaker 1: and Eddie Jackson being back together, But now he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to break in a new slot corner. He's gonna
Speaker 1: have to make sure Jalen Johnson comes along in his
Speaker 1: second year, and then there's a little bit of uncertainty
Speaker 1: who that next cornerback is going to be. So when
Speaker 1: you have all of his veteran experiences in making sure
Speaker 1: that everybody's lined up at the right position during the
Speaker 1: cadence or some of the more complicated receiver groups, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see. Shoot, I think getting to Sean signed was
Speaker 1: as as important as anybody that you could have brought
Speaker 1: back into the fold at this stage of his career. Well,
Speaker 1: you look at Jalen Johnson. He was thrust into that
Speaker 1: role and he lived up to the hype. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got to give him a lot of credit with
Speaker 1: how he played as a rookie. But going into this year,
Speaker 1: you know Thomas Graham Junior, who's the sixth round corner
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears chosen the draft. To me, Anton,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough for any of these young guys
Speaker 1: to really contribute this year, because that's what I mean
Speaker 1: by the veteran leadership and what's on defense for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears and why it could be a pretty special season.
Speaker 1: Like you said, there are some question marks. Who will
Speaker 1: fulfill those other corner roles when you bring in a
Speaker 1: veteran like Desmond Truffont and Duke Shelley gonna win over
Speaker 1: that nickel corner job. But I think overall, all these
Speaker 1: guys have played and showed up, and they've been together
Speaker 1: to mesha as a defense. And what I really hope, Jim,
Speaker 1: is that the personality of the Bears defense shines through.
Speaker 1: I hope that exactly what Sean decides looking for, not
Speaker 1: only schematically, but just in the energy, in the approach,
Speaker 1: in the passion they play the game with. I hope
Speaker 1: that shines through and ends up being a key factor
Speaker 1: and who ends up manning that at the corner position
Speaker 1: and who ends up being the slot corner in those
Speaker 1: nickel packages as well. Like I think a guy like
Speaker 1: a Thomas Graham coming in through the draft. I loved
Speaker 1: what I saw from him in college, called some of
Speaker 1: his games in Oregon. He seems like a guy to
Speaker 1: me whose personality should mesh well with what the Bears
Speaker 1: will hope this defense can be going into this season.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a big part of why I
Speaker 1: love to Shaun Gibson as a football player, because that
Speaker 1: sort of lunch pale aspect of a guy who was
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent and coming in and making such
Speaker 1: a lengthy career in the NFL. He's one of those
Speaker 1: success stories that didn't necessarily come in as someone who
Speaker 1: everyone knew would make the squad or was, you know,
Speaker 1: an immediate starter from day one, but has worked himself
Speaker 1: into one of the better safeties in football. And I
Speaker 1: think that type of mentality, that lunch pale aspect of
Speaker 1: Gibson is something I hope sort of infiltrates the entire
Speaker 1: secondary for this season. Yeah, you know about to Seawan. Also,
Speaker 1: I think he's a good reflection on guys like Kendallville
Speaker 1: Door and Duke Shelley and even Lardie Burns has to
Speaker 1: get a bigger picture of seeing him and Trey Roberson.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of other guys that you know, we're
Speaker 1: waiting in the wings to see because we didn't get
Speaker 1: the opportunity last year to kind of watch what these
Speaker 1: guys could add to the defensive backfield. However, they all
Speaker 1: had a chance to sit there and watch how multi
Speaker 1: year veteran liked to Shan carries himself, his preparation during
Speaker 1: the week, and how it factored out in the game field.
Speaker 1: So I think again, they're fortunate to have evidence of
Speaker 1: hard work and how it can relate into success. Well,
Speaker 1: we should have plenty more to come here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access to Sean Gibson, he'll show he should join
Speaker 1: us on the other side. So we'll step away. We'll
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Speaker 1: keeping it out the Bears defense with Anthony here and
Speaker 1: Tom Theory and obviously coach Nagy talked about it. They
Speaker 1: expect Eddie Goldman to show up the camp. They're even
Speaker 1: said publicly that they they're working with the player. What
Speaker 1: the player. They believe the player will be there. And
Speaker 1: I mentioned this Anthony last week to Tom Theory and
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonia. I have the Bears, who we're going through
Speaker 1: every single position over on serious x M NFL radio
Speaker 1: and grading out the defensive fronts. And the Bears were
Speaker 1: nineteen points, came out on a scale of twenty with
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman in the mix. They were the highest rated
Speaker 1: team that we had in the national Football And it
Speaker 1: wasn't just for me. Pat saw him in the top
Speaker 1: five minimum for the Chicago Bears. I like the you know,
Speaker 1: being aggressive and you go out and you protect yourself
Speaker 1: by signing Mike Pannell. There's still some other potential defensive
Speaker 1: tackle free agents that are out there, Geno Atkins. We
Speaker 1: could go through a couple of names, but Eddie Goldman
Speaker 1: opted out last year. He's such a physical presence at
Speaker 1: the point of attack with what the Bears want to
Speaker 1: do upfront. But Pannell at least, you know, hinges that
Speaker 1: bet with bringing him over from Kansas City. So Anthony,
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the situation, and I do I think
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman will show up for camp for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: We're certainly seeing a net workout videos on social media,
Speaker 1: you know, the videos that have been circulating there, not
Speaker 1: necessarily from his own Twitter account, but he doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to be trying to stop anyone else from showcasing a
Speaker 1: few workout videos here lately. Of the work he's putting in.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, maybe he's not planning on playing
Speaker 1: football and National Football League this season. The types of
Speaker 1: workouts that I'm seeing out on social indicate to me that,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he's trying to be in the
Speaker 1: World's Strongest Man contest or Mister Limpy or something. He's
Speaker 1: putting the work in as though he's planning on reporting,
Speaker 1: planning on showing up. So it's nice that that's out
Speaker 1: there on social I'm a little curious just you know,
Speaker 1: why there's perhaps not some public pronouncement from Eddie Goldman,
Speaker 1: just you know, sort of putting some of the rumors
Speaker 1: to rest, putting Bears fans, Eddies, maybe even putting some
Speaker 1: folks in the front office Eddies. If there's still you know,
Speaker 1: some question mark about it. But it's at least nice
Speaker 1: to see that, just in the day and age that
Speaker 1: we're in at the moment, where you know, things can
Speaker 1: be parsed via social media and you're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what this means and what that means. It's at
Speaker 1: least a very it's a quality indicator that it seems
Speaker 1: like Eddie Eddie Goldman is planning on showing up and
Speaker 1: that when he does, he's looking like just from some
Speaker 1: clips there, looking like on social media, he's going to
Speaker 1: be in shape when he does. And after a year
Speaker 1: away from the game, that's obviously going to be a
Speaker 1: big question mark for the guy who plays on the
Speaker 1: interior right there in the middle of your defense, because
Speaker 1: you know, weight can fluctuate and the amount of hits
Speaker 1: you're taking, all those things can rack up at different
Speaker 1: rates and how they affect guys. So just hopefully after
Speaker 1: a year away what we're seeing on socially, what we're
Speaker 1: saying on Twitter and ig of Eddie Goldman putting the
Speaker 1: work in, then maybe he'll come back looking like the
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman of vote, because we saw what the Bears
Speaker 1: run defense looked like without him last season. The domino
Speaker 1: effect of how it affected Kim Hicks had affected the
Speaker 1: inside linebackers trying to roll other guys in like with
Speaker 1: Lal Nichols, who weren't, you know, sort of accustomed to
Speaker 1: that zero that one technique right in the middle of
Speaker 1: all the action. You get Eddie Goldman back in their time.
Speaker 1: A lot of other guys are more comfortable and played.
Speaker 1: Told that thought todd because I believe we've got our
Speaker 1: guest available. So let's go out to the guest side
Speaker 1: and welcome in ten years safety of the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: to Sean Gibson, to Bears all access to Sean, You
Speaker 1: got Jim Miller, Anthony Harren time there here. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us and going into your tenth training camp. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you prepare any differently to Sean? Thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us today. Oh man, I appreciate you guys for having me. Man,
Speaker 1: And you know, honestly, year ten, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: little more crucial obviously. Man, you gotta train a little different.
Speaker 1: You gotta get the body and custom a little different. Man.
Speaker 1: You're not a young spring chicken anymore. You're not twenty
Speaker 1: three years old. So you definitely got to make sure
Speaker 1: that you take care of the body a little more
Speaker 1: rigorously and just do the things, the small things to
Speaker 1: make sure that your body can uphold a sixteenth or
Speaker 1: seventeen game season. Now you see how it's a little different.
Speaker 1: Now we're playing an extra game. So definitely got to
Speaker 1: make sure that you're training and preparing yourself for the
Speaker 1: upcoming season. Quite a little different, man. You know, you
Speaker 1: can roll out of bed and you can have an
Speaker 1: ache and a pain. Man. You know, once you hit
Speaker 1: thirty compared to twenty one, the body, the body act different. Man.
Speaker 1: But in my mind, I like to think that I'm
Speaker 1: still twenty five. So I just try to continue to
Speaker 1: just you know, grind and take a day by that.
Speaker 1: Pay to Sean to talk about the defense as a whole.
Speaker 1: When Nig went to Mandatory mini camp, it seemed like
Speaker 1: the defense really brought the electricity. Is it something you
Speaker 1: guys talk about beforehand or is it just the natural
Speaker 1: closeness of this group? You know, I think that this
Speaker 1: is a mature group. So when you're looking at a
Speaker 1: mature group, a lot of people like to point out
Speaker 1: age age is a thing in a new school NFL.
Speaker 1: But the purpose of having a veteran group like this, man,
Speaker 1: is you have that family camaraderie and with us, it's
Speaker 1: just a beautiful thing to have. You know, we have
Speaker 1: a mixture of good younger sinding talent. You look at guys,
Speaker 1: young guys who in my opinion, would be very dominant
Speaker 1: in this league for a very long time. And you
Speaker 1: have a collective, a collection of veteran players who are
Speaker 1: established players and you know, just bringing that that big
Speaker 1: brother mentality. Man. So it's like a big fraternity, a
Speaker 1: big brotherhood. And when you see that, you understand these guys.
Speaker 1: You might take a look at practice and seeing or
Speaker 1: think that we've been playing together for four or five years, man,
Speaker 1: And that's just a type of the way that coach
Speaker 1: design man, the way that he coached us. Man. The closeness,
Speaker 1: the togetherness, man, And you know, those are the guys
Speaker 1: that you're gonna go to war with Dan and day out.
Speaker 1: So I think that those are huge things because, like
Speaker 1: you know, this only been my second year. Man, I
Speaker 1: feel like Chicago is my home. I feel like this
Speaker 1: team I've been on these guys for years. It just
Speaker 1: was it was so exciting and so fun to have
Speaker 1: everybody back together. And you know, there's those are the
Speaker 1: things that you need in order to build and have
Speaker 1: successful defenses. Man. Like I say, I feel like we
Speaker 1: have the recipe to do it Bears safety to Sean Gibson,
Speaker 1: senior our guests here on Bears All Access going into
Speaker 1: a decade now in the National Football League, and to Sean,
Speaker 1: You're going to go into like your reference second year
Speaker 1: in Chicago, also specifically second year playing alongside Eddie Jackson.
Speaker 1: As you've had opportunities to play alongside the same safety
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time in the past, how
Speaker 1: would you describe what what type of difference that makes?
Speaker 1: How does that enhance the way that you and e
Speaker 1: jack should be able to play off of each other
Speaker 1: this season? You know, I think that's a benefit for
Speaker 1: both of us. You know, you look back on um
Speaker 1: I think I've seen something that said that Eddie hasn't
Speaker 1: played with the same safety since um amost I believe
Speaker 1: was here with him, you know, and I think that
Speaker 1: what the new guy, new Skill said, you have to
Speaker 1: get up, you know, you supplant with you know, the
Speaker 1: guy next to you, that's kind of like me and
Speaker 1: Eddie is kind of like we locking next to each other.
Speaker 1: I kind of gotta be in his head. He gotta
Speaker 1: be in my head. I gotta know the way that
Speaker 1: I played Eddie is gonna have my back and vice versus.
Speaker 1: So I think that that puts a strain on on
Speaker 1: just growth and development Man, and for me to being
Speaker 1: able to come back in and he see that familiar
Speaker 1: face and he understand what he's gonna get out of
Speaker 1: three eight, and for me to understand what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get out of three nine or four, whichever one y'all
Speaker 1: want to call him. Um, it's huge for him, Man,
Speaker 1: and I think that's huge for both of us, and
Speaker 1: obviously him being a top tier talent. I don't think
Speaker 1: that he get enough credit. I think that he, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Man is one of the most gifted athletes
Speaker 1: at the safety position the National Football League. So when
Speaker 1: you can buy that with with just him having that
Speaker 1: that familiar face to play alongside of him, Man, that
Speaker 1: way he can just kind of say, Okay, I know
Speaker 1: what I'm getting game in and game game out. I've
Speaker 1: played with the guys sixteen games. It's not a new
Speaker 1: guy who I don't know what to expect. I think
Speaker 1: we can get get used to seeing Man Eddie go
Speaker 1: out there and do what Eddie been doing and people
Speaker 1: people fail to realize he did it last year. He
Speaker 1: did it last year had a couple of unfortunate cause
Speaker 1: call back, but that was one of the more exciting things. Man,
Speaker 1: to be able to come back and play with a
Speaker 1: guy like him. Man, he's like a little brother to me. Man.
Speaker 1: And for him to have a success that he's had
Speaker 1: and the accolades. Man, he is still a student of
Speaker 1: the game. He still asks questions. He still is a guy,
Speaker 1: man who who appreciate my veteran leadership Man, And you know,
Speaker 1: he's not too big for the game. And guys like that,
Speaker 1: man you root for and you you hope for him
Speaker 1: and has success and he's been having success, man, And
Speaker 1: I think that that's super exciting to be able to
Speaker 1: team back up with him. And I think that we're
Speaker 1: just going to continue to grow. Well, yeah, just called
Speaker 1: the Bears, you know, being back home, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought was pretty special about you last
Speaker 1: year to Sean. Know, you've had experiences where you you know,
Speaker 1: you left Cleveland, went into Jacksonville, then went into to
Speaker 1: Houston's locker room now here with the Bears, and it
Speaker 1: just it seemed seamless for you. It clicked really early
Speaker 1: for you. And this seems that you know, just to me,
Speaker 1: you get it, you know, and uh maybe just touch
Speaker 1: on that was it those other travels that allowed you
Speaker 1: to get ingratiated a lot quicker in Chicago because it
Speaker 1: just seemed to click right away, right. I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of the times when you when you kind
Speaker 1: of been around obviously that kind of helped that way.
Speaker 1: You kind of know how to verse yourself into different
Speaker 1: locker rooms. Every locker room is different, and anybody that
Speaker 1: played football dating back to college had high school. You
Speaker 1: walk in locker rooms, man, Every locker room different. The
Speaker 1: atmosphere is different, man. And it's just a test to
Speaker 1: kind of how mister Pace and Naggie runs the organization
Speaker 1: where you think about it. One of the biggest things
Speaker 1: for me was when I signed there, I had one
Speaker 1: of my closer friends in the National Football League in Bus,
Speaker 1: the Screen. I have history with him. So when I
Speaker 1: when the Bears reached out to me, I asked them
Speaker 1: as many questions as possible. The biggest thing in the
Speaker 1: most consistent word that was thrown around from when I
Speaker 1: talked to coach Nagy during the process last year, and
Speaker 1: mister Pace was just that this is a family and
Speaker 1: you know, everybody said, but not everybody mean it. And
Speaker 1: when I walked into SLocker room was a family orient
Speaker 1: It was just a family oriented locker room. And it's
Speaker 1: hard to come by that, man, And I'm not big
Speaker 1: on comparing left to write up to down, but this
Speaker 1: by far was with my most exciting lockeromly be a
Speaker 1: part of man because it's not egos. You have guys
Speaker 1: that's gonna be Hall of famers and gods like Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack and things like that, and you have top tiers,
Speaker 1: superstars in the league, and all these guys men just
Speaker 1: walk around here like normal guys. Man treat everybody with
Speaker 1: respect from the trainers and every and those things are
Speaker 1: huge when you come around and you realize, man, this
Speaker 1: thing is a big family. So I think that that
Speaker 1: was one of the things that kind of helped me
Speaker 1: trying to ease my transition into being that new face
Speaker 1: in the locker room. You gotta think last year was
Speaker 1: a little different due to COVID, so man, I truly
Speaker 1: was a new guy. People didn't have OTAs to kind
Speaker 1: of get a field for my personality and my gameplay.
Speaker 1: It was just like, truly I was thrown into the
Speaker 1: fire man and people kind of everybody have relationships and
Speaker 1: I'm the new guys. So for people that just embraced
Speaker 1: me the way that they did, Man, it just shows
Speaker 1: it's just a testament to how this locker room's ram
Speaker 1: and the leadership in the locker room and man, the
Speaker 1: leadership of the organization. You know, to John, you talk
Speaker 1: about getting to know your teammates and trying to get
Speaker 1: to know the system. You're aware about the whole facility
Speaker 1: and everything. But so now let's go to year two.
Speaker 1: You have a good understanding of the teammates around you. Now,
Speaker 1: you started with Matthew Stafford last year. You start with
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford again this year. Can you have kind of
Speaker 1: quarterback conversations early and throughout the preseason with the rest
Speaker 1: of your defensive backs? And I know, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a long seventeen game season, but hey, he happens to
Speaker 1: be the first quarterback he played against last year and
Speaker 1: the same first quarterback you're gonna play against this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that that shoes man, obviously. You know, and
Speaker 1: the guys in Chicago, you have guys like Eddie and
Speaker 1: Danny and those guys who has played them far more
Speaker 1: than I have being in the Division one for four
Speaker 1: or five plus years. Those are things that are huge. Obviously, Man,
Speaker 1: you just you you you play these guys long enough, man,
Speaker 1: and just like they have tails and tales on you,
Speaker 1: even some of these top tier quarterbacks. Man, you begetting
Speaker 1: to understanding half tails on them. You know, you look
Speaker 1: at guy's good great quarterbacks such as guy like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I remember any telling me things about him, and in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Aaron Rodgers, he was the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: football last year and he was being able to tell
Speaker 1: me like, hey, gift when he does this, look out
Speaker 1: for this. That that being familiar with your opponent, man,
Speaker 1: and taking it to the next level. It is how
Speaker 1: you are able to thrive in this league. So obviously
Speaker 1: playing against Matthew Stafford man having that familiar understanding of
Speaker 1: the way that he liked to play. Man. Obviously, Man,
Speaker 1: he's a risk taker. He's like a breast spread farm.
Speaker 1: It's kind of guy. He gonna take his shots and
Speaker 1: if you give it to him sometimes, Man, he understand
Speaker 1: his arm, his top tier arm, and he gets a
Speaker 1: little cocky with it. These are things and conversations. Man,
Speaker 1: too fortunate to be able to have with the guys
Speaker 1: who probably have not had those experiences with him. Man,
Speaker 1: that can ultimately help you win football games, man, especially
Speaker 1: guys on the back end. Obviously we have a young
Speaker 1: group besides myself, we have a very young group, um
Speaker 1: you know, with with Jalen and Kendall and a lot
Speaker 1: of the dude can a lot of these young guys
Speaker 1: who will have to step up. So that is definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be pivotal for sure, going until we want to shout.
Speaker 1: I'm curious about the impact that that you've noticed you
Speaker 1: can't have on other guys on the field because of
Speaker 1: your physical brand of play and frankly, you know like
Speaker 1: Jim and and Time and they were both draft picks.
Speaker 1: You were an undrafted free agent like I was. I
Speaker 1: got five Yeah, yeah, that the mentality that you add
Speaker 1: to the defense. How do you feel like you can
Speaker 1: your presence can impact your teammates? You know, it's a
Speaker 1: big thing, man. I think a lot of guys Man,
Speaker 1: just just even talking to you know, young guys like
Speaker 1: Thomas Graham, Man, you know he come in and you know,
Speaker 1: he he was asking me, man, what round did you get?
Speaker 1: You know a lot of the guys been when they
Speaker 1: come and they go into these youth teams. They check
Speaker 1: and see who's on a roster, you know, check the accolade,
Speaker 1: check that stats in. You know, he was mind bloom
Speaker 1: to know that I was undrafted, man. And you know
Speaker 1: those are the things that I ain't my hat on
Speaker 1: this too. I think that it's huge for the simple
Speaker 1: fact that, man, look, I'm a blue collar kind of guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't go to to to to the
Speaker 1: big college and I came in here. Man. I had
Speaker 1: to cause my way, man, and I was fortunate through
Speaker 1: through the grace of God. Man. God allowed me to
Speaker 1: have an opportunity in Cleveland to say, hey, if you
Speaker 1: can play football, you have an opportunity here. And I
Speaker 1: was able to drive and then I never looked back
Speaker 1: from there. Man. So I think that the understanding of presence, man,
Speaker 1: that you know, people understand like, hey, nothing booshe about me. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm driving. I'm gonna drive old pickup truck to work. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm put my heart at on and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to work. And I think gods gravitate towards that in
Speaker 1: God's respect that you know, guys can appreciate a God
Speaker 1: like that. There's a lot of guys like that. But
Speaker 1: you know, obviously when you have guys we've been doing
Speaker 1: it for a long time. You know, people respect time,
Speaker 1: people respect you know, when when they can see you
Speaker 1: physically go out there and say, hey, man, this guy's
Speaker 1: are undrafted three agent, teen years and year and he's
Speaker 1: still practice hard. He works hard, he he takes lifts serious,
Speaker 1: he takes you know, these things. These guys begin to gravitating.
Speaker 1: They begin to respect you not only as a player,
Speaker 1: but as a man and as a person. And I
Speaker 1: think that that is huge, and I think that that's
Speaker 1: why I've been able to have the impact in the room.
Speaker 1: And year or two is just when it better, I'm
Speaker 1: a little more comfortable with people to face a little
Speaker 1: more for me, I'm not that new guy. Just just
Speaker 1: speaking out of term. That's kind of like, hey, you
Speaker 1: got to earn your right. You earn your right, you
Speaker 1: go from there. Well, don't let Anthony foolia to Sean.
Speaker 1: I was like Tom Brady, a six rounder. It didn't
Speaker 1: work out the same though for some reason the same.
Speaker 1: But anyway, go ahead, no, no, no, I would saying, man,
Speaker 1: hey man, you got your name called man. That's what matters.
Speaker 1: That's right. It's all about the opportunity, whether you're drafted
Speaker 1: or undrafted's getting that foot in the door, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. Well, we got a couple of weeks left
Speaker 1: up before training camp cranks up. No, you're about it.
Speaker 1: You know, what do you do between now and then
Speaker 1: to get your mind right, to get your body right
Speaker 1: and get ready for this grind that you're about to undertake. Right,
Speaker 1: I think that the biggest thing about is making sure
Speaker 1: that you're physically prepared training camp, in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: you know, we all play football, it's like after the
Speaker 1: second after the second year, training camp is just like, look,
Speaker 1: let's get through it. Let's get it over with. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the fun part. Right training campus to grind,
Speaker 1: it's the dog days, man, and you know you got
Speaker 1: to prepare and get your body activated for those just
Speaker 1: so so you know, I think that you go through
Speaker 1: the six week period, you know, from the from mini
Speaker 1: camp to training camp, you know you you got to
Speaker 1: push your body. But then also you gotta know when
Speaker 1: you're to listen to your body and say, okay, it's
Speaker 1: time to clostest thing down, d load and kind of
Speaker 1: make sure I'll go in training camp temp top shape
Speaker 1: man and comparing for your the best season of your life.
Speaker 1: That's how you got to approach every training camp, so
Speaker 1: you know, do a little more with the family, enjoy
Speaker 1: because training camp, man, for that month, it's just going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, it's football, like you know, the wipe.
Speaker 1: The kids they understand, Hey, phone calls is gonna be
Speaker 1: less frequent and less freaking behaved. You know it's only
Speaker 1: for a short amount of time and you know it's understood,
Speaker 1: so you know, kind of enjoy the kids a little more,
Speaker 1: especially that last week leading up to train camp, kind
Speaker 1: of take a little bit off of your body a
Speaker 1: little bit, making sure that you pretty much fine tuny itself.
Speaker 1: And that's what it comes down to, you man. So
Speaker 1: for me, yeah, well, we appreciate your time to Sean.
Speaker 1: Good luck to you. Is sounding just a great a
Speaker 1: mental place right now to get ready for your your
Speaker 1: tenth year of the National Football League. So good luck
Speaker 1: to you here in twenty twenty one. And thanks for
Speaker 1: your time tonight on Bears All Access. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys for having y'all take here. Yep to Sean Gibson,
Speaker 1: everybody part of a very experienced defense returning for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. We gotta hit the last break. We'll come back,
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Speaker 1: great stuff from Bears Safety to Sean Gibson and I
Speaker 1: do I think this defense can be special because it's
Speaker 1: got a lot of veterans on this defense. Obviously the
Speaker 1: edge rushers with Khalil Mackin and Robert Quinn, and then
Speaker 1: you go out and get a veteran and Jeremiah to
Speaker 1: Achu from the Denver Broncos. Think he adds a ton
Speaker 1: of experience as well. So you hate to see great
Speaker 1: players goat like Roy Robertson Harrison. We wish him well
Speaker 1: down in Jacksonville. But I like the interior and where
Speaker 1: we were going Anthony with the defense upfront, because if
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman is working and pounding those weights, like you
Speaker 1: said on social media, I like that rotation of interior
Speaker 1: defensive tackles. I thought Mario Edwards really started to come
Speaker 1: on towards the end of the year. Obviously got the
Speaker 1: veteran and Keim hitson blow Nichols is just an ascending player,
Speaker 1: and they'd signing Evangela Blackson. He brings a lot of
Speaker 1: experience coming over from the Arizona Cardinals. I touched on
Speaker 1: Mike Panell, He's been a good rotational player in his
Speaker 1: NFL career. He comes over from Kansas City, and then
Speaker 1: you draft the young Kiris Tonga, who's obviously going to
Speaker 1: develop it and has that wide body that that fits
Speaker 1: the Bear scheme so well. So I like this group
Speaker 1: upfront as a whole, and we'll see if it can
Speaker 1: come to fruition early for this football team. We saw
Speaker 1: a last season where you know, John Jenkins did what
Speaker 1: he could as a rotational piece, but obviously you just
Speaker 1: didn't have that consistent mass and force on the inside
Speaker 1: of the Bears defense, and you had guys who sort
Speaker 1: of ended up having to play out of position at
Speaker 1: certain times and getting moved around to try and shore
Speaker 1: up things on the interior, which made life at times
Speaker 1: more difficult on Danny Trevathan and Rokuan Smith at the
Speaker 1: second level. And so the matchups and training camp approaches
Speaker 1: here time, I'm really eager to watch not only some
Speaker 1: of the youth like Tevin Jenkins on the offensive line
Speaker 1: matching up against a veteran pass rush, but the health
Speaker 1: of James Daniels and what that looks like. Because it's
Speaker 1: it's a Bears offensive line that should they should probably
Speaker 1: feel as good going into this camp as they have
Speaker 1: at any previous time under Matt Naggy, and so they
Speaker 1: will still have a veteran and talented defensive front to
Speaker 1: match up with. So that that matchup just in some
Speaker 1: those live settings you were talking about early really excites me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, you know, And the thing about it with
Speaker 1: Matt n Aggie saying that he has twenty carries a
Speaker 1: game intended for David Montgomery, I think that's is good
Speaker 1: for Tevin Jenkins because really the way you want to
Speaker 1: break him in is the ability to be in a
Speaker 1: powerful three point stance and use the traits of a
Speaker 1: running game that that not come easier. But I think
Speaker 1: when you had you work in the combination blocks and
Speaker 1: you work with guards and tight ends, it's really a
Speaker 1: way to settle in a guy that you're trying to
Speaker 1: gain experience and trying to keep your offense better. And
Speaker 1: so I think this offensive line should should feel really
Speaker 1: confident going into the start of the season, and I
Speaker 1: think it will really benefit the Bears. You know, one
Speaker 1: thing about the defense is I wish that Eddie Goldman
Speaker 1: wasn't such a secret. I wish that he would be
Speaker 1: bragging and talk about how excited he is to be
Speaker 1: back here. But one element too is if they ye
Speaker 1: Goldman is a first down defensive lineman, and if they're successful,
Speaker 1: then he's gonna get you know, he's probably gonna come
Speaker 1: out of the game because the opponent's gonna have to
Speaker 1: bring in more passing personnel and that's when you shift
Speaker 1: the balance of the defensive line. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I think Tonga and Panel and these guys are you know,
Speaker 1: they have those capabilities. I think when Eddie Goldman showed
Speaker 1: some really bright signs and a true upside to what
Speaker 1: his talent level is and then the Bears rewarded him
Speaker 1: with the contract, I think that's the same respect that
Speaker 1: the Bears season ticket holders, players and coaches deserve. So
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want it to be a secret.
Speaker 1: I want him to come out here with just all
Speaker 1: the glory he can possibly have and be excited about
Speaker 1: getting in a stance and lining up for the first
Speaker 1: time and over a year. Well, tom as we close
Speaker 1: out the show here on Bears All Access. What is
Speaker 1: the best way to bring along the young offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: whether it's Tevin Jenkins, whether it's Larry Borham when it
Speaker 1: comes to training camp. Is it one on ones? Is
Speaker 1: it the half lines? What you know, what specifically you
Speaker 1: think where they're really one because ste'll probably crank up
Speaker 1: their reps. Yeah, I mean, obviously you're gonna have the
Speaker 1: coaching element that's going to be very specific when you
Speaker 1: go through those one on one periods that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be highlighted. It's just gonna be you against the snapcount
Speaker 1: against the defensive lineman. But when you start going on
Speaker 1: to an eleven and eleven drills and you start implementing
Speaker 1: the running schemes, that you have to realize how many
Speaker 1: different guys that the left tackle or the right tackle
Speaker 1: they're gonna work with in order to fulfill their assignment.
Speaker 1: So the better they can know the offense, because you
Speaker 1: cannot break the huddle going there thinking while you're going
Speaker 1: up to the line of scrimmage. You have to have
Speaker 1: an understanding and a knowledge that you know it's so perfectly,
Speaker 1: that the thinking is second nature, that all you're thinking
Speaker 1: about is the explosiveness at the snap of the ball,
Speaker 1: gets up movement, and let David Montgomery and the rest
Speaker 1: of these running backs be as creative as what we've
Speaker 1: seen they can be. Well, guys, time flies when you're
Speaker 1: having fund Always a pleasure being with you, Anthony Heron
Speaker 1: as always Tom, Always great to be with Tom Thayer.
Speaker 1: And we'll do it next week. Bears All Access, thanks
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