WEBVTT - All Access: Nick Williams on his journey to Chicago 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.760 Hike and everybody and welcome into PNC Studios at hat 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.400 Us Off for this week's edition of Bears All Access. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.559 It is brought to you by IGS Energy, Jeff Joniac 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.720 and a broadcast partner from news radio seven eighty and 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.840 one oh five point NFWBBM mister Tom Fair Alumni Weekend. Tom. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.720 There's apparently a record number of alumni coming to the game. 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:19.440 And by the way, we're going to be joined here 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.440 by Nick Williams. He'll be coming up at just a 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.880 short while from now. The Bears defensive lineman making an 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.240 impact and we'll need to on Sunday against the Vikings. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.520 But at the bounce from the one hundred I think 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.320 I think one hundred and thirty five alumni got to 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.360 show up at the alumni dinner on Saturday, and they're 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.800 all welcome to attend the game, and there's almost four 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.600 hundred family and friends going to be there from these guys. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.919 So I think there's lingering impact from that hundred year 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.040 celebration that we had during the middle of the summertime, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.519 and I think it's lingered a little bit with the 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.000 modern day players and lingered with the alumni for sure. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.520 It was exciting to have an alumni outing after that event, 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.480 and we had a record number show up, and again, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.760 you know, it's about being proud to be an a 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.840 the Bears, and I think that's the key ingredient here. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.640 And when you see the special within the last couple 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.840 weeks of Missus McCaskey and the three other heads of 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.600 state in the NFL, it's another impressive portion of why 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.280 you're proud to be an alumni here. Do you think 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.679 the gathering at the one hundreds sparked in some of 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.360 these guys that, you know what, I have this personal 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.920 love affair with this football team because I poured my 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.560 heart into it as a player, and now I'm really 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.800 respecting what ther organization has done, what they're doing, how 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.000 they've always been reaching out. Maybe I need to be 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.640 a part of this a little more. I think it's 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.480 the combination. There's a lot of quality people within the organization, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.920 both of the supporting staff and the players that you 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.240 got to play with that you've really taken interest in 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.880 their life and you create a friendship that's longer than 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.520 just the time of period you played with the Bears. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.200 And when you get a chance to maybe come back 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.640 and reintroduce to a moment even the guys that we 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.920 have a chance to see that we broadcast careers and 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.640 now you have a chance to socially talk to them 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.920 a little bit easier because it's not pregame, it's not 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.080 post game, it's not losing or winning. It's just about 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.920 you know, family and how have you, how are you 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.200 moving on and what it's taken place in your life now. Well, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.360 it's a perfect matchup because I have a feeling this 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.720 is gonna be like the old NFC Central you played 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.119 in Tom Black and Blue. Ball up your fist, put 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.840 on your big boy pads kind of game. The weather's 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.160 expected to be a little rainy. These teams, you know, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.360 the Vikings are clearly one of the best run teams 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.600 in the league right now. Offensively, they'd like to stop 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.880 the run. Bears are outstanding and stop on the run. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.840 They'd like to run the ball a little more. Do 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.160 you get the sense that's going to be the case today? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.200 I do. I think it's gonna be like the old 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.760 style game. You're talking about grass stains on the front 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.919 of your uniform and on the back of your uniform. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.600 The cleat cleaners out there when they go for timeouts 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.320 and putting a little extra air in your helmet, making 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.200 sure you got your mouth guard. And but you know, 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.040 the stadium of the Chicago Bears is taken on a 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.240 different reputation than maybe just as much as a year ago, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.560 because I don't think team's really worried about coming in 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.440 here in the noise effect of soldier fieldings have over 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.720 the years, they've had a wealth time here, Yeah they have, 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.320 but I think the last year it's taken on a 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.799 whole different monster attitude. So now when teams come here 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.000 and they talk about their ability to communicate on the 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.200 line of scrimmage, there is real concern for it because 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.160 how much the crowd has been inserting themselves. We have 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.800 concern about that when the Bears go play the Minnesota 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.919 Vikings inside that terrarium, when they come to this outdoor 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.760 stadium and you have a natural grass field and it's 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.720 different to the specialists there because they just don't play 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.960 outdoors that much. I do think that the Bear Stadium 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.560 is a different weapon than it's been in the black. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.200 How can they work this place and no friends who 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:48.920 like they did at the Thursday night I opened our 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.120 first three series. It was deafening. The defense was feeding 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.280 off it. They were ferocious, getting after Aaron Rodgers and 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.720 the Packers, and then a couple of big place took 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.920 the air out of the balloon. They lost it. How 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.680 can they keep it in this game against the Vikings 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.160 and start with that same kind of venom. If a 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.200 big play does happen to them, then keep up the 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.640 aggressiveness and the ferociousness that they did early in the game, 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.320 because yeah, they're every quarterback in the league is going 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.680 to have a big play against you. But how do 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.880 you react to that? And I think that's one of 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.599 the keys here is how can the defense rebound from, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.240 you know, maybe being exposed to a big play. But 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.160 I also think this is an entirely different defense than 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.360 the first time the Bears fans saw him at home. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.960 I think playing against the Green Bay Packers here, going 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.960 on into the road twice, being able to develop more 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.200 continuity between the first line of defense and the second line, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.400 and how they support each other, how the inside linebackers 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:46.960 are playing, how learning about buster screen. He's as Clinton 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.800 Dix for that matter. Yeah, they they put put it 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:51.920 out there. We'd like three takeaways last week, so they 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.520 got five so maybe they're gonna keep dangling that bait 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.040 that that was from the coaching staff. They challenge these 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.000 guys from matt On down to start taking the ball away. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.239 You know. Frankly, you get a few of those against 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.479 the Vikings, that would be outstanding. He's only thrown two interceptions, 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.760 Kirk Cousins only been sacked twice, but they fumbled a 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.200 lot most fumbles in the league. They only lost two 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.320 of them, but they fumbled eight times in the first 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.520 three games. Is that inviting? It's gotta be, you know, 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.240 because there's two fumbles that I can remember right now 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.640 over the course of this early season, one by Aaron 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.279 Rodgers and one by case Keenom last week. Both of 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.880 the times the quarterback fumbled, but the ball fell right 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.520 in front of them and they are able to drop 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.080 on it. So I mean, there's a couple of opportunities 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.800 that you have to create, and I think the Bears 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.159 can do it because they can be disruptive at the 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.640 point of the handoff, and that's you know, when you 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.280 get a keym on a one on one, or you 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.760 get a big push by Roy robertson Harris up, they 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.120 can be disruptive and that is critical with Dovin Cook 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.960 and now Bears did an unbelievable job against him last 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.520 year twenty one for fifty. If you come out of 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.640 the game at twenty one for fifty, you're winning. You're 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.359 winning the game. But in order to do that, you 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.080 can't let he hits it hard all the time. So 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.280 but you make him stop or you get that penetration 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:05.839 with the guys up front, and we don't know if 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.160 a team's gonna play, it'll be game time decision, it'll 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.040 be it's a huge piece obviously that puzzle. But if 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.559 they get the penetration, you can get him to stop 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.920 his feet and he doesn't have that kind of gear 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.880 to get it up and going right away again, that 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.680 would be to me the most critical thing at the 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.800 line of scrimmage. Yeah, you know, as too as the 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.120 responsibility of the Bears defensive lineman. If so Cline the 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.600 guard is out, he's already on the injury port. They 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.800 have a rookie center. The coded Dozier is the right guarden, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.120 right and they have a rookie center. So now right 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.919 there spot of vulnerability. Now if the defensive lineman, if 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.880 they can go up and do their job, better than 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.760 anybody else. And that's what I mean. Occupying too offensive 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.000 lineman at the line of scrimmage and don't get pushed off. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.960 I mentioned a little while ago about Danny Trevathan and 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.400 Roquan Smith. They can run as well as anybody. They 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.720 can tackle in the open field as well as anybody. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.360 So that defensive line can set that standard for those 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.400 linebackers and allow him to run and be you know, uh, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.400 you know, heavy contact against m Dalvin Cook at the 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.000 line of scrimmage. Now I do they immediately have the 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.040 benefit of play action because of COO performance in the 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.280 first three weeks, because that's their game. It's a Gary 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:19.840 Kubiak influence. He is now the advisor offensively to this team, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.800 and it's his marks and his handprints are all over it. Yeah, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.400 how can you not, Because if you're going to go 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.280 up to the line of scrimmage and Dalvin Cook is 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.560 in the backfield and the quarterback is either directly behind 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.760 the center on a shotgun position, everything's going to flow 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.480 through the running back and then you got to read 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.640 to the quarterback quickly. But a lot of times that read, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.840 that read is being done by the defensive lineman and 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.600 how they're being blocked. They can read run pass immediately 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.920 and then they're that changes their approach and just like 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.560 the back end of the defense, they're gonna be reading 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.640 everything through the offensive line to the head of the quarterback, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.840 to the running back. Conversely, the Vikings are good at 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.520 stop on the run, but they're good at everything. It's 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.360 a four to three and the two ends. Once they 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.080 get you in third and long, and they've been very 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.880 good at getting teams in that. They like to just 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.600 let them loose and they are two of the best. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.640 And Neil Hunter and Everson Griffin when they're on, they're on. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.800 They've already combined for five sacks and a bunch of 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.480 hits on the quarterback, a ton of pressures. You know, 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.680 these are challenge guys. So how do you mute that 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.400 a little bit? Well, how you mute that? You mute 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.400 them with a good run game, maybe the screen game, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.640 and you know, getting some big chunks. So right there, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.800 you gave me a five minute description of what the 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.480 defensive ends do well for the Minnesota Vikings and I 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.000 and I agree with you, But what am I never 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.319 gonna let them do? I'm never gonna let them do 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.600 what they do well. So if I'm going to run 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.160 the ball, it's going to be directly at them with force, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.320 with trapping, with cutting, from h backs, from tight ends 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.000 to offensive linemen, from you know, to whoever can block 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.760 these guys. And that's just that's the key is there 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.080 is you never want to let those guys, you know, feel, 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.520 you know, feel the covert zone where they're only doing 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.240 what they're they really want to do and what they're 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.640 good at. All Right, we got a lot more to 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.960 discuss about this matchup. It's one of the intriguing ones 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.440 in the National Football League here in Week four, a 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.160 critical game when you think about it for the Bears, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.120 and it's been talked about by Matteggie will tell you 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.000 about his approach when we come back, and coming up 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.480 of the program, Nick Williams, the Bears defensive lineman, to 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.120 join us as well. We're brought to you by IGS 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.720 Energy with Paul's Oranger engineer and Dan Brilly our producer 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.199 for Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniak, and this is Chicago 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.160 Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.520 All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.319 partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.520 home warranty products to over one million customers across the country. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.559 Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.080 Joniak Tom there with you from PNC Studios here at 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.319 Hollis all getting ready for the vikings. And it was 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.160 a little bit out of character time, I thought with 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:47.360 Matt Neggee because Tuesday morning, big game. That's not typically 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:48.960 what he does. Because you don't want a bit too 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.920 much in one game. He feathered it out over the 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.280 course of the week, muted out a little bit to 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.360 the players. Didn't want to bang it over the head. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.760 But the fact of the matter is, back to training camp, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.640 the importance of division home games was pounded into their head. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.880 You already lost one, a second one would make it 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.800 very challenging in terms of winning a division. Doesn't mean 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.600 you can't, but it is rare. It's rare if you 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.480 lose two home games. And that's the weird math of 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.920 the National Football League because you say that, but I'm 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.640 always one hey after Thanksgiving, knocking on December's doors, when 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.120 the cream rises and the team's being to separate. That's 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.880 where I always look at it. I follow the lead 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.240 of Bill Belichick. That's how Tom Brady and Bill Belichick 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.080 think they don't worry about all that. But but you 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.440 have to. You know, every single day you walk into 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.719 the building, something's gonna happen that you don't know is 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.160 gonna happen, whether it's with the Bears or around the league. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.320 So last night you sat there, I know you did. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.160 You're a football fan. You sat there and you watched 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.400 that Green Bay Philadelphi. Told me there was no way 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.520 the Philadelphi. I thought there was no way Philadelphia had 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.040 a stance because they ran. They complained so much in 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.080 the last couple of weeks about their injuries, about you know, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.480 getting certain people back, about not being able to go 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.400 out and have practices, just having walkthroughs and stuff. But 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.720 maybe they you know, maybe they solved the puzzle. However, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:07.960 is when you go back there and you think about 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.480 everything that this game means to the future of the Bears. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.760 Then you go out there, and when you go out 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.760 there and you start looking what's happened around your division, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.960 it kind of changes things a little. Time you knock 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.560 out the Vikings, you're three and one time for the 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.640 division lead. You're going to London to take on the Raiders, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.720 albeit not as easy as everyone makes it seem. But 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.640 if you come back from London after the bye week, again, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.320 you're putting you're getting ahead of the game a little 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.959 bit here, I understand, but thinking ahead, if you were 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.520 to say the Bears could be in that position, say 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.760 say they could get to four and one going into 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.600 that game that Soldier field out of the bye week, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.480 you're thinking, Okay, we took the deep breath, we got 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.199 ourselves back on center. We're still growing, we still had 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.200 a lot of offensive growth to make. That would be 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.080 a dream scenario, but it's also what I expected. I 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.400 really thought the Bears were this good of a ball 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.920 team that would be better from the beginning of the season, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.480 that would be in this position, that they would either 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.640 be undefeated at this point or go into the bye 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.120 week with the loss. And I really didn't think they 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.280 would have a loss. I was that confident in them. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.240 But but you know, you're right, this is a division game, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.360 it's at home. I think the crowd support for the 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.280 Bears is gonna be I think it was as loud 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.800 as it was last year. And you know, it's as 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.839 much as a lot of the Bear a lot of 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.120 people were turned not turned away, or just so dissatisfied 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.480 with the degree by outcome. They're able to come back 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.360 because they see the team getting better. It's not like 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.880 they played, you know, like they have and they're just 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.520 getting worse from there. I think they've showed incremental signs 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.959 of improvement each week. Let's talking about the offense because 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.239 they will not have Taylor Gabriel out with a concussion 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.880 after his three touchdown performance. Uh, you know, he talked 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.319 a lot about becoming more of a professional in this offseason, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.680 wanting to be more of a leader and getting that 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.400 action anytime there's a connection between Mitch and any of 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.680 his skill position players, that's a part of that growth. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.960 Like the continuity and the chemistry needs to continue to develop, 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:14.160 because he may he cut three touchdowns in Washington, but 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.160 he is very off. He was healthy. He may not 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.120 have even got a target this week, because that's how 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.439 Matt Nage rolls. Don't know who he's going to be, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:21.800 the guy that he's going to try and create the 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.520 mismatches with against the Vikings, but the next man up philosophy. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.960 Maybe maybe we see Riley Ridley. I don't know, Maybe 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.520 he's activated. But Javon Wimms had a very good game 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.680 in that week seventeen against the Vikings and showed what 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.520 he's capable of doing if he gets an Outfude. If 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.040 you know, if I knew I was going to bat 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.480 and who was gonna be a rod Alan Robinson, Anthony 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.400 Miller and Javon Wims, those who are going to be 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.679 my three widest of the widest receivers and slot receiver, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.719 I'd be okay with that. I like what Taylor has 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.800 offered since he's come here to the Bears. He gives 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.360 you that element of speed, He's got right, great willingness 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.400 to catch it in traffic and then he high pointed 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.760 that football the other day with feet concentration. It was impressive. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:05.880 But I do see Anthony Miller wanting to have more 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.600 responsibility given to him, so it could be challenging him 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.440 to be a better player. Every time Javon Wims has 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.600 gotten into a game, even last year in Minnesota at 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.600 the end of the season, He's played well, He's got catches, 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.360 he's a big body, so and everybody knows what Alan 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.360 Robinson has been doing since the beginning of the year, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.840 So I'm confident. What they're going to bring on the 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.800 connection between Mitch and Alan Robinson in the middle of 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.320 the field. You know, that's that's an outstanding the vision 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.720 that he has and the ability to shield defenders and 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.720 make plays whether it be slants or hard in cuts 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.320 or post patterns, that that is something to build on. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.840 Oh yeah, in the past, every you know, every throw 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.280 that Mitch has, every throw to a different wide receiver. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.080 It's it's a great building experience. And when you talk 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.240 about Mitch, you know, we're gonna be talking about the 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.400 word building in Mitch three years from now, four years, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.160 four years from now. And that's the way quarterback careers go. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.840 And you know, I try to bring up the equation 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:08.120 of Steve Young's career and because I was parallel with 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.240 him out of BYU through the USFL when he was 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.320 in Tampa Bay onto the San Francisco forty nine ers, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.240 and if you wanted to judge his career in the 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.320 first two years, you would have never heard of Steve Young. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.920 Then you think about Steve Young in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.800 you're talking about a Hall of Famer. Look at lu 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.160 Kur Cousins. He's eighty fourty six million dollars quarterback. Right 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.440 He's sewing only sixty three passes this season. If it 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.240 ferrets out over the course of the year, it'll be 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.600 the fewest average per game throwing the ball in the NFL. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.240 This is a quarterback that the last four years, Tom 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.400 has hit that somewhat magic number that everybody wants of 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.960 four thousand yards passing. He well over fourth for four 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.080 consecutive years. Right now, he just throw a lot of 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.360 interceptions and they're trying to keep the ball out of 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.360 his hands at the moment because they love their running game. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:53.880 I don't know if they're trying to keep it out, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.440 but they're trying to minimize, you know, mistakes. And so 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.400 your job has never done as a quarter back. You're 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.120 constantly evolving in they're evolving to you look at you know, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.360 you look at Jamis Winston and Marcus Mariota. How much 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.240 excitement there was about them and how they were going 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:11.800 to be this then the other thing, and they were 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.520 for and then they tear it off and now you 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.800 don't know. And that is the quarterback position unless you're 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.280 one of the greats. Well, you know, like Matt says 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.560 he's worried. He's concerned about letters, not numbers, and that's 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.880 all w's and so I mean, that's what you're gonna 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.520 have to do, is when you're a team and you're developing, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.760 and you have a young guy like miss Trubisky, it 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.080 is about being patient with his development because you're not 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.720 going to claim a success or a failure within one 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.720 week's you know, even last year after the Tampa game, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.280 it wasn't like all this problem solved, you know, onto 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.720 bigger and better things now. All right, Tom there, Jeff, 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.800 Joni Act. This is Bears All Access and it's brought 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.120 to you by Igs Energy. One thing I want to 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:53.040 say about the Vikings offense, because yes, it is run 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.720 centric at the moment, but they could flip flip the 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.840 script on you and make your play left handed, as 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.720 they like to say, at any moment because they do 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.480 have weapons. Stefan Diggs. If you thought guy has been 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.920 targeted twelve times, he's caught six balls, two for big 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.120 plays for touchdowns, doesn't mean he hasn't been open. They're 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.760 just not targeting him at the moment. That guy could 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.520 go off at any time, limiting the big play against 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.000 this team with Adam feeling this guy, and you know, 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.440 they get IRF Smith Junior involved with the first time, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.160 and he is almost like their third receiver right now. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.760 He's at six two tight ends. He's not a big, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.480 thick guy an inline blocker, but can do it. This 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.680 is a guy who can catch the football. So he's 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.240 another guy to look out for in that play action game. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.359 And you know he's been around a long time and 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.960 he's a big target and big targets are friendly to 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.199 quarterbacks as Kyle Rudolph. So they got plenty to have 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.240 you worry about, right I just the two interior receivers. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.680 When you talk about IRV Smith Junior and Kyle Rudolph, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.560 you're talking about losing the size matchup because I don't 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.560 know if the Bears have two guys that can go 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.879 up there and match up with Kyle Rudolph, who's six six. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.880 You know he's not going to be covered by Aaron Lynch. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.399 He's going to be covered by guys that have different responsibilities, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.479 just like Herb Smith, and he's a matchup nightmare. All Right, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.560 We'll talk more about the matchup between the Vikings and 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.920 the Bears looking forward to its Sunday at Soldier Field. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:12.880 We're gonna have it for you, starting with a noon 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.560 pre game and a three twenty five kickoff. Before it 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.280 becomes a very interesting week, we'll delve into the London 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.479 experience with Tom. I know he cannot wait to go 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.359 to London to see the Bears and the Raiders. This 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.359 is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.760 to score Ay. Tomorrow's game against the Vikings is brought 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.760 to you by the Bears proud partner Beggar's Pizza. Jeff 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.919 Jony Act. Tom there. 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