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Speaker 1: with Tom Beare and Jim Miller of the former Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears offensive lineman, super Bowl winner and starting quarterback of
Speaker 1: the Bears in that fantastic two thousand and one playoff run.
Speaker 1: Jim Miller from Serious x M NFL Radio, I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: Johnny Act. Good to have you alongside everybody. Our producer tonight,
Speaker 1: Sean Anderson. We got a full show schedule tonight coming up.
Speaker 1: At six ten, we round out our rookie class cornerback
Speaker 1: Kendallville Door out of Georgia Southern, one of the three
Speaker 1: fifth round picks, will joined the program. And then at
Speaker 1: six thirty or we know we're gonna have a great
Speaker 1: conversation with Sam Acho, the former Bears linebacker a prominent
Speaker 1: voice right now social justice issues and ties with George McCaskey,
Speaker 1: the chairman of the board of Chicago Bears, will be
Speaker 1: looking forward to that conversation as well, and felt it's
Speaker 1: good to have you alongside. The offseason program is over,
Speaker 1: at least from the meeting perspective for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Today was it, and now they get ready for what
Speaker 1: they hope will be a normal training camp. Tom and Jim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, they've still done more than they used
Speaker 1: to do in training camp. I mean they've had I
Speaker 1: mean in the off season, they've had plenty of meetings.
Speaker 1: They've had a chance to have at least eye contact
Speaker 1: with these players, whether they're veterans or rookies, whether they're
Speaker 1: free agents coming in to learn information for the first time.
Speaker 1: So when you listen to Matt and Aggie's press conference,
Speaker 1: it's nice to hear him walk away with confidence that
Speaker 1: their team is in a good place. Because we're in
Speaker 1: an era right now you're not only considering the production
Speaker 1: as a football team on the field, you're also considering
Speaker 1: how you make the team more a better working environment
Speaker 1: than maybe it has in the past. But it's always
Speaker 1: been a great working environment at Hollis Hall. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I just think, how much more install can you do
Speaker 1: without really taking one rep of what you're installing? You know,
Speaker 1: how deep can you go into into the playbook. I'm
Speaker 1: sure with the veterans it is, you know, a good
Speaker 1: place where you can go. But I think for the
Speaker 1: first year players that are new on board, like say
Speaker 1: a young Kendall Vildore will be joining us this evening
Speaker 1: on the show. You know again, I think they can
Speaker 1: say conceptually they have it, but until you see them
Speaker 1: in a rep against a different look, whether it's say
Speaker 1: maybe it's a man call versus a zone call versus
Speaker 1: maybe a blitz call or a base defense alert automatic
Speaker 1: blitz on certain plays, I think there's only so deep
Speaker 1: you can go into the playbook where players can only
Speaker 1: retain so much, where really the learning is going to
Speaker 1: be on the field when they make a mistake and
Speaker 1: you can physically get your hands on them and really
Speaker 1: point out the mistakes via the tape of the rep
Speaker 1: they just received during the practices. Now, now man Naggie
Speaker 1: wants turn them loose, get himself physically right, get himself
Speaker 1: mentally right. So you guys both played long careers. If
Speaker 1: you were just in meetings all this time, when you
Speaker 1: do show up for training camp, is it going to
Speaker 1: be confusing? Oh my gosh, do I remember this? Do
Speaker 1: I remember that? How do I retain all of this information?
Speaker 1: I just sucked in over two months and then I
Speaker 1: had this five six week delay. How you do it? Well?
Speaker 1: To me? I think this will be the hardest year
Speaker 1: the rookies have ever had going into training camp, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna forget a lot of what you meant, but
Speaker 1: what you learned. But you know, Jeff, you weren't introduced
Speaker 1: to the speed of the game through OTAs, whether it's
Speaker 1: in shorts and T shirts or full pads, there's a
Speaker 1: certain introduction, there's a certain reality that you get of
Speaker 1: making sure that you're on the field for the first time,
Speaker 1: making sure that you understand the speed of the game.
Speaker 1: And so that's like the key ingredient here that they're missing.
Speaker 1: They don't have an introduction to that speed yet, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to catch up to the speed of
Speaker 1: the game in full pads, in full speed events and
Speaker 1: training camp. Jim, what advice would you give to everybody
Speaker 1: that I would take the physical side of it out
Speaker 1: of the equation, meaning I am going to show up
Speaker 1: in the best shape of my life, all right, that
Speaker 1: you know, were that transition from just being in good
Speaker 1: shape into football shape is accelerated at a great place
Speaker 1: because anything else I can learn mentally along the way.
Speaker 1: If I'm physically up to the task now I'm just
Speaker 1: mentally challenging myself. I'll be able to physically go out
Speaker 1: or even stay after practice and get other reps that
Speaker 1: I need to do physically, whether it's drops in coverage,
Speaker 1: whether it's certain pass rush moves against maybe an offensive linement,
Speaker 1: and maybe I'll ask them to come out, hey, stay
Speaker 1: for a couple acts to reps, so I would literally
Speaker 1: show up in the best shape of my life that
Speaker 1: I ever have. I'll take care of the mental side
Speaker 1: and any install that's there. But it allowed me to
Speaker 1: stay after and get extra reps that I'll make sure
Speaker 1: I'll be physically able to do to get caught up
Speaker 1: to speed quickly. Well, it's a tight team, maybe a
Speaker 1: tighter team after all what's going on here over the
Speaker 1: last nine weeks ten weeks, and it's a hungry team
Speaker 1: because of what happened last season. The unfulfilled expectations that
Speaker 1: they all feel individually. But you got a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson, Robert Quinn, Roquan Smith, Jermaine Fettie. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from all these guys tonight as we break down
Speaker 1: the Bears for twenty twenty. Coming back, We'll have our
Speaker 1: rookie selection tonight, Fifth round Kendallville Door out of Georgia
Speaker 1: Southern the cornerback to join the program with Sean Adderson.
Speaker 1: Top there, Jim Miller, I'm Jeff Jony Act. This is
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Speaker 1: on this June eleventh, the Bears of twenty twenty with
Speaker 1: Tom There, Jim Miller joined now by rookie fifth rounder
Speaker 1: Kendall l Door out of Georgia Southern, The five nine
Speaker 1: and seven eight one ninety pounder out of College Park, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Did I get all the math right on your kendall, Yes, sir, Yes,
Speaker 1: sir man. I'd love to give you the six feet
Speaker 1: right because I'm five seven and a half. I'm five
Speaker 1: seven and a half on a good day, so I
Speaker 1: feel you. I mean, I've seen guys come through the
Speaker 1: doors at allis off for the last twenty four years
Speaker 1: about your size and there. They can be nasty, they
Speaker 1: can be physical, aggressive, and you know, pretty amazing. So
Speaker 1: I think that's part of your makeup. You have that
Speaker 1: aspect to your game. You're you're not backing down from anybody.
Speaker 1: Are You're kind of fearless? Yes? They are? Well, definitely,
Speaker 1: most definitely. And where did that come from? Um? Just
Speaker 1: I feel like just growing up from Atlanta, Georgia, Colors
Speaker 1: part to be is that just growing up you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, a hard environment and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Just always want to have that edge and just older
Speaker 1: people around me installing that edge, having that edge mindset
Speaker 1: and I just cant out alone throughout me when I
Speaker 1: was just playing little league football, middle school, high school,
Speaker 1: college and now to the poet. I'm gonna keep that
Speaker 1: same mindset. Just want to go out there and dominate. Hey, Kendell,
Speaker 1: you know when I watch your highlight tape, you know
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta watch it carefully, but I like
Speaker 1: to see what I say. You're really pesky around the football.
Speaker 1: But one thing I noticed is when you see the
Speaker 1: football coming out of the cornerbacks hands and you believe
Speaker 1: that you have a better chance of catching it than
Speaker 1: the wide receiver, you go after a football. Is that
Speaker 1: a process that you have developed over the three years
Speaker 1: that you were a starter or is that always that
Speaker 1: you maintained. If the football is in the air and
Speaker 1: you can get it, it might be well be yours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say, just growing up being an overall athlete, playing
Speaker 1: UM wide receiver a lot as well, So when I
Speaker 1: transition to actually being the four time cornerback, I still
Speaker 1: had that wide receiver mentally in my head. Where the
Speaker 1: balls in the air, I'm gonna make a touchdown, Like
Speaker 1: I'm playing wide receiver. Now I'm on defense, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: gett that interception. Playing baseball, that's where I played centifield
Speaker 1: my sophomore year through my senior high school. That kept
Speaker 1: moving my ball skills as well, and the way that
Speaker 1: I actually train when we train it every day with
Speaker 1: our normal dbut drill we always using the ball, doing
Speaker 1: low ball drills and different things like that. So all
Speaker 1: of that, of course, you know, it's also you know,
Speaker 1: you have three years as a starter and you kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, earn and gain that mentality of I'm a starter.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't have any size concerns about you.
Speaker 1: But now you look at a team that needs a cornerback,
Speaker 1: a starting cornerback. Is your mindset that you're going to
Speaker 1: earn one of these jobs, because once you have the
Speaker 1: mantle as a starter and you do it for three
Speaker 1: years in college, it's hard to give that up, right
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. I mean, I know it's an opportunity for
Speaker 1: me to come out for the Umbars organization and compete
Speaker 1: for starting spot. I mean that's what they dropped it before.
Speaker 1: I just want to be just gonna go out there
Speaker 1: when I get there, just so what I can do
Speaker 1: socase my challenge and my abilities for the coaching and
Speaker 1: just that then't make decision. I want to contribute anywhere
Speaker 1: I can special teams of course as a big part
Speaker 1: of the game. So I just want to help contribute
Speaker 1: anywhere I can early on. Well, Kendall, Jim Miller here,
Speaker 1: welcome to Chicago. And you know it's got to be
Speaker 1: exciting for Jenner your first training camp. And how was
Speaker 1: the anxiety from that standpoint, because really you haven't been
Speaker 1: on the field to get one rep. I know you're
Speaker 1: probably doing stuff individually and doing some things on your own,
Speaker 1: but how is it all sinking in and how you're
Speaker 1: applying it in your workhouse to be ready for your
Speaker 1: first NFL training camp. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy times that
Speaker 1: we have it right now because usually I would have
Speaker 1: been up there for rookie mini camps and OTAs and
Speaker 1: different things like that. So just really now just digging
Speaker 1: in into the playbook, just making sure that I I
Speaker 1: know my assignments, where IM supposed to be lined up,
Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to be covering, different things like that.
Speaker 1: So when I finally get there, it's sticking nation to
Speaker 1: me and I can I'm able to go out there
Speaker 1: play fans without any of any mistakes and everything like that.
Speaker 1: So it's something I'm adjusting to and everything, but I'll
Speaker 1: be ready. Well, that's funny that you just said that
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this. I remember when I
Speaker 1: got drafted. It wasn't until I put on my helmet
Speaker 1: for the first time and my my uh shoulder pads
Speaker 1: that I really felt, hey, this is about to happen,
Speaker 1: that I'm going out for a p Have you Have
Speaker 1: you been able to even put on your bearer's helmet
Speaker 1: yet to feel part of it? No? I have. I
Speaker 1: mean that they sent me some gear and everything like that,
Speaker 1: so that kind of gave me a little feeling everything.
Speaker 1: But I didn't even putting no helmet on the name yet,
Speaker 1: So I know when I finally get there and putting
Speaker 1: their helmet on and do that first predic is going
Speaker 1: to be surreal. Yeah. Oh you're gonna love it, my friend.
Speaker 1: So good luck from that temper. Well when you when
Speaker 1: you're looking at it in the gear that they have
Speaker 1: sent you, have you been able to apply it in
Speaker 1: every way possible to make sure you come up and
Speaker 1: come into camp in the best part possible shape that
Speaker 1: you can come in? Oh? Oh yeah, for sure. This
Speaker 1: stream coach he's been sending this on workouts and everything
Speaker 1: like that. So I've been following that plan, making sure
Speaker 1: that I'm doing I supposed to do. So when I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get up there, I'm in shaping everything like down
Speaker 1: fast and I'm strong, and I'm detailing my techniques and stuff.
Speaker 1: Kendall Vadar is our guest here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: with Tom Thare and Jimmer. I'm Jeff Joniac, the rookie
Speaker 1: out of Georgia Southern, familiar school for Bears fans because
Speaker 1: of Bears running back Adrian Peterson. We love that guy here.
Speaker 1: His teammates really respected Adrian for what he had to
Speaker 1: go through in his life and how he just went
Speaker 1: about his daily work here and very beloved figure here
Speaker 1: from the guys who played with him on the O
Speaker 1: six Super Bowl team and whatnot. And you were influenced
Speaker 1: by him a little bit. He's ding the director of
Speaker 1: student athlete development there at Georgia Southern. What were conversations
Speaker 1: like with him over the years and how did you
Speaker 1: guys connect? Oh? Yeah, Adrian Preson, He's a good person
Speaker 1: to meet um just as him being the situation that
Speaker 1: I was in coming out of college, having UM, getting
Speaker 1: having ability to get ready to go to the pros
Speaker 1: and everything like that. So he gave me a lot
Speaker 1: of advice. I mean anything I needed. He was always
Speaker 1: there for me. He was actually UM there for academics
Speaker 1: part of UM enjoy something as well too. So he
Speaker 1: hit me with all my class where if I had
Speaker 1: any issues with any assigners that I needed and everything
Speaker 1: like that, you would there to help. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's been a big part of my arm career right now.
Speaker 1: And it's easy to forget that. Georgia Southern, you know,
Speaker 1: is a smaller school, but you played big schools. You
Speaker 1: have faced Auburn, your faced, LSU, your face Minnesota. Yeah,
Speaker 1: played big against Kelly Bryan and Clemson. That game has
Speaker 1: always talked about because of your ball skills. I mean
Speaker 1: we're talking some big time receivers from Tyler Johnson to
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson to Jamaar Chase Um. That's more than just
Speaker 1: getting your feet feet wet against competition, because these guys
Speaker 1: are all gonna be pros. They are pros. And did
Speaker 1: he think the way you faced them and no matter
Speaker 1: what the results were, that that put a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in you that you could do that at this level?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, man. Just in college, I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's great receiver throughout even in our conference. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of great receiver that I played against.
Speaker 1: Everything like that, So and then I was able to
Speaker 1: go to the Senior Bowl as well, showcase my abilities
Speaker 1: that gains the top athlete senior athletes in the nation
Speaker 1: as well. So just doing that, just seeing why I
Speaker 1: stand and gets the top, it's preparing me to wirean today,
Speaker 1: and I'm just ready to go out there compete. Hey kill,
Speaker 1: If they were talking to Buster's screen today and the
Speaker 1: press conference and they asked him, what advice would you
Speaker 1: give to a couple of the Bears corners the couple
Speaker 1: of the rookies come in, he said, Number one, I
Speaker 1: would tell them to be in better shape than they
Speaker 1: possibly think they need to be in. And number two
Speaker 1: is make sure you get into your tablet mentally stay sharp.
Speaker 1: So as a defensive back, yeah, you can get on
Speaker 1: your feet and you can do footdrills, and you can
Speaker 1: have access to a field where you can have running
Speaker 1: in shape. How do you improve mentally just by looking
Speaker 1: at a video screen playing a position as difficult as cornerback?
Speaker 1: I say, it's all about having that mental visualization as well.
Speaker 1: I know me for me myself personally, when I'm looking
Speaker 1: that film, I'm visualizing myself being in that position and
Speaker 1: making that play or playing that that unique playing that
Speaker 1: coverage as well. And also when I'm training, I have
Speaker 1: my trainer here probably called the defense out for me,
Speaker 1: and I'm imagining my head. Okay, I'm in and I'll
Speaker 1: run through it and make a play like that as well.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a lot of things that I'm doing
Speaker 1: right now that's helped me to prepare for that. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up the Senior Bowl from your standpoint,
Speaker 1: kind though, because you went against some good receivers down there.
Speaker 1: But you know, I know you'll be anxious come training
Speaker 1: camp and everybody wants to earn their spot. But hey,
Speaker 1: if time calls were you gotta go up against uh,
Speaker 1: say Allen Robinson, Let's say you're first in line and
Speaker 1: he's first up. You know, so bit, I mean, how
Speaker 1: anxious will you be to jump in right away? Because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of rookies they get intimidated by that.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, players respect that.
Speaker 1: I would think the veterans will respect if you jump
Speaker 1: right into the fire come training camp time. Your thoughts,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah? For me? I mean I love to compete.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to back down from anyone,
Speaker 1: just from while I'm farm how I was raising everything
Speaker 1: like that. So there's me going out there going to
Speaker 1: get a guy light all Ron's been in the league
Speaker 1: most of the years. I mean, I'm want to embrace
Speaker 1: the challenge because he's gonna make me better and everything
Speaker 1: like that. So at that time, I'm really really looking
Speaker 1: forward to they fight it for it well from that
Speaker 1: aspect as well, And it doesn't sound like that's in
Speaker 1: your personality, because I know everybody wants to be a
Speaker 1: part of something and get to know everybody, but everybody's
Speaker 1: apprehensive and shy. But getting to know the people you
Speaker 1: still need to know. I know they've called and talked
Speaker 1: to you personally and or had a zoom meeting, but
Speaker 1: getting to know people that you'll be working with. You know,
Speaker 1: you'll be working with all those people, whether it's the
Speaker 1: training staff, the equipment staff, your fellow teammates, everybody. You
Speaker 1: gotta get to know overall and who you'll be working
Speaker 1: with in order to achieve the common goal, which is
Speaker 1: to win all season long, right right exactly? Y'all these
Speaker 1: zoom meaning that we've been having it's been. It's a
Speaker 1: good experience for me since we haven't been asked, been
Speaker 1: it being in the building everything like that. So just
Speaker 1: um talking to all the guys on the calls, um,
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson, Cow he reached out to me and everything
Speaker 1: like that, and you, mister, but miss mentioned Buster as well.
Speaker 1: And me and Buster we're from the same hometown and
Speaker 1: we had the same trainer day my training and Buster
Speaker 1: grew up together. So actually want to meet up with
Speaker 1: Buster soon this all season. Oh, You're gonna like him
Speaker 1: because he's all about ball. He's all about staying fit
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just even talking to Jayleen Johnson,
Speaker 1: you're your fellow rookie. Uh, I mean I asked him
Speaker 1: a question. I said, Hey, anything on the side you
Speaker 1: like doing outside of football. He goes, Nope, I'm all ball.
Speaker 1: And I think can appreciate that. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: roster full of guy is that they are all about ball?
Speaker 1: Are you that guy? Oh? Yeah, for sure. I mean
Speaker 1: that's all I do. Man. And I'm just chilling at
Speaker 1: the house. I mean, I'm just they sitting up the
Speaker 1: out pad and everything. I'm just coming on the film,
Speaker 1: just going going through the film from last year and
Speaker 1: just setting the guys that played in my position now
Speaker 1: I'm going to be probably playing in just saying how
Speaker 1: they played and staying there said lease and everything like that.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's a foot a football, chuckey. That's
Speaker 1: what got me to im right now out of College Park, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Hometown of cam Newton and if I'm not mistaken, ludicrous,
Speaker 1: am I right? Ah? Yes, sir, all right. Also the
Speaker 1: hometown of Kendall Vidoor. Thank you, young man, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to seeing you up at Hollis Hall. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, Kendallville Door. Our guests will continue on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: Sam Acho with Jam Miller in time there. I'm Jeff Joniyak.
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Speaker 1: time there and Jim Miller as we bring you Bears
Speaker 1: All Access. Coming up at six thirty or so. Sam Icho,
Speaker 1: former Bear lionbacker, We'll be joining us. And yesterday we
Speaker 1: heard some Bears players Roquan Smith, who I just feel
Speaker 1: is about ready and actually is impactfully ready to have
Speaker 1: a big season. Yesterday, he spoke with reporters and basically
Speaker 1: told him the same thing, hoping to deliver on a
Speaker 1: big year. This is about me. I got a huge
Speaker 1: chip on my shoulder, just really excited. I don't want
Speaker 1: much hype going into the year because I know my
Speaker 1: mindset and what I plan to do this upcoming season.
Speaker 1: If it's all in God willing I stay healthy, I
Speaker 1: definitely feel like it's gonna be my best, my best
Speaker 1: year to day, and I feel like I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: some things, you know, and you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people counting me out. So I'm just gonna get back.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back to like who I really am
Speaker 1: and do pretty much everything the way I want to
Speaker 1: do it and make myself the best possible player I can.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, because he mentioned people counted him, I
Speaker 1: don't know who those people were. But this former first
Speaker 1: round pick who missed the last four games with the
Speaker 1: torn peck now says he's one hundred percent. Four of
Speaker 1: his final games had tenor plus tackles. He was starting
Speaker 1: to hit his groove, had some personal things to take
Speaker 1: care of. But Tom and Jim, if he's a star,
Speaker 1: I keep saying this with a lot of guys, but
Speaker 1: he's entering year at three. If he's the star that
Speaker 1: we think he can develop into with everything else in
Speaker 1: that front seven, everything else on that defense, that's huge, huge,
Speaker 1: I tell you you know. To me, Roquan Smith is
Speaker 1: a type of guy I put Luke keikley expectations on.
Speaker 1: And I know that's high praise because Luke Keikley possibly
Speaker 1: could be a future Hall of Famer. But when you
Speaker 1: talk about skills, you talk about intelligence, the ability to
Speaker 1: play football on first, second, and third down, a guy
Speaker 1: that can come out of the locker room and be
Speaker 1: a leader, his play, his role on the team. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna elevate Roquan Smith to a pedestal that very few
Speaker 1: guys can achieve. And the only reason I'm putting him
Speaker 1: on that pedestal is I've seen his abilities at work
Speaker 1: and I know what he can do, and I know
Speaker 1: what he can do second year in his system with
Speaker 1: the guys that he'll have in front of him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with Tom, but I think one thing from last year,
Speaker 1: he really didn't get started and he wasn't able to finish,
Speaker 1: And obviously we understand the latter part when you have
Speaker 1: an injury and you're unable to finish. So I think
Speaker 1: for him all he's capable of all the things that
Speaker 1: Tom just said, but it's got to be throughout the
Speaker 1: entire duration of the season. Need to be a fast
Speaker 1: starter and needs to finish even faster. He's still in
Speaker 1: the growing phase of his career. He's not a finished
Speaker 1: product right now by any means, and so miss some
Speaker 1: time last year, we'll see how he makes a ford.
Speaker 1: He should have a chip on his shoulder and he's
Speaker 1: capable of anything. His ceiling is so far away from
Speaker 1: from where he's at right now because he's such a
Speaker 1: talton young man, so he should be chumping at the
Speaker 1: bit to not only start, but finishing a flirt yeah
Speaker 1: up the middle of that defense, bringing him speed to
Speaker 1: the equation you know he can tackle. He gets there
Speaker 1: in a hurry, closes the gap quickly when he gets
Speaker 1: his eye on the ball and looking for big things
Speaker 1: from Roquan Smith. Coming up next, Sam Macho, the former Bear,
Speaker 1: joins us here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1: guys are all doing well. Tomorrow twelve thirty Facebook Live,
Speaker 1: Tom and I will be talking Bears football. Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: talking tomorrow time all. I hope he has a lot
Speaker 1: to say. He's never shied away from the podium, but
Speaker 1: in his season since he was drafted by the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: I think this is probably as the most interesting he's
Speaker 1: probably had, going to a podium at this stage of
Speaker 1: a season. All right, joining us now, the vice president
Speaker 1: of the NFL Players Association Executive Committee and the former
Speaker 1: Chicago Bear. Sam Acho, the veteran linebacker, joined the program
Speaker 1: with Jim and Tom, Jeff, Jonahak. Here's Sam. Good to
Speaker 1: talk to you once again. Everywhere we turn, we see
Speaker 1: Sam Acho, we see Emmanuel Acho. You guys have been
Speaker 1: out there on the front lines of getting the education
Speaker 1: out and bringing people together, and that's kind of what
Speaker 1: you've been on about your whole career, hasn't it. Yeah, well, Jeff,
Speaker 1: it's going to be back on and it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It's one of those moments where it feels like we
Speaker 1: were kind of made for this, in particular, just me
Speaker 1: being able to get back in Chicago, back in the
Speaker 1: community and be able to help people find healing. I
Speaker 1: think everyone now is looking for where they can go
Speaker 1: and where they can serve and what they can do,
Speaker 1: and we've been doing it for the last couple of
Speaker 1: years here in Chicago, and so it's been cool to
Speaker 1: be able to lead people in that way. Couple things,
Speaker 1: So we got a lot of questions for you. But
Speaker 1: your video with Chairman of the Board George hallis McCaskey.
Speaker 1: We know we've talked about it on this show. Your
Speaker 1: relationship with George and his relationship with you is wonderfully
Speaker 1: unique and really creative and productive. And that video, which
Speaker 1: if anyone who hasn't seen it yet, you can check
Speaker 1: it out. Go on Twitter, going to Bears platforms. You
Speaker 1: can see it. It's a it's a word association game
Speaker 1: and it's no game, it's reality. But what was the
Speaker 1: genesis of that how did you guys come up with that? Well,
Speaker 1: anybody who knows George knows his heart and his hardest
Speaker 1: to serve and to help people, especially in situations like these,
Speaker 1: and so I just called them up. We have a
Speaker 1: great relationship. I think he saw some of what my
Speaker 1: brother was doing and he commended him for that. And
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, would you want to do something? Would
Speaker 1: you want us together to do something just to try
Speaker 1: and bring people together. We have a really unique friendship
Speaker 1: in relationship, and he said yes. He said yes, And
Speaker 1: I thought about it over the weekend and got back
Speaker 1: together and have the idea of making this video that
Speaker 1: just talks about the differences that many people feel, but
Speaker 1: also that speaks to how we are more similar than
Speaker 1: we are different. Hey, Sam, Tom there here. It's really
Speaker 1: good to talk to you and listen. I thank you,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate both you and your brother for everything
Speaker 1: that everything that you've talked about in the difficulty of
Speaker 1: some of the subjects. You know, Sam, you've always put
Speaker 1: yourself out in front, whether it's union leadership, in the
Speaker 1: locker room, the social justice committee, and you know you've
Speaker 1: taken some tough challenges, but so not there's no eye
Speaker 1: in the sentence, where do we go from here? And
Speaker 1: what do you want to happen next? Yeah, Well, I
Speaker 1: think where we go from here is we continue to
Speaker 1: grow when we continue to heal. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are hurting right now, specifically in the
Speaker 1: African American community. There are many people who are hurting
Speaker 1: and wondering will things ever change? Now? There are another
Speaker 1: group of people in predominantly the white community, who were saying, wow,
Speaker 1: I had no idea that I was a part of
Speaker 1: this problem. I had no idea that me not speaking
Speaker 1: out against racism or against bias is actually causing me
Speaker 1: to be a part of the problem. And so there's
Speaker 1: a large group of people that say, how can I help?
Speaker 1: But I think the three things you do are simple.
Speaker 1: Number One, you educate yourself, whether that's through a couple
Speaker 1: of books, books you can read, or research you can do.
Speaker 1: Educate yourself on American history throughout African American lands. And
Speaker 1: you do step one in order to get to step two,
Speaker 1: which is empathize. You empathize with people of color, African
Speaker 1: American people, black people who have been going through years
Speaker 1: and years and years, decades and decades and decades centuries
Speaker 1: of prejudice and who have felt the weight of that.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, you would advocate, and that's step three.
Speaker 1: You speak up for those who oftentimes can't speak up
Speaker 1: for themselves. There's so many African Americans who have been
Speaker 1: trying to say, hey, look this is happening. We're getting
Speaker 1: killed by the police or by people. There's no justice,
Speaker 1: and so now is the time. We all saw what
Speaker 1: happened to George Floyd in Minnesota, African American man who
Speaker 1: was essentially choked to death by a police officer while
Speaker 1: three other officers stood idly by. Now is the time
Speaker 1: to say, let's do something, to speak up, to advocate.
Speaker 1: That speaking up can be as simple as you talking
Speaker 1: amongst your family members, but it also could be as
Speaker 1: big as you going into the community and donating your money,
Speaker 1: donating your time, donating your resources to organizations that are
Speaker 1: actually in the community making major change. You know, Sam,
Speaker 1: you put together a really impressive group of Chicagoland sports figures,
Speaker 1: and you brought them downtown and you had these discussion
Speaker 1: circles and discussion groups. I saw a still shot of
Speaker 1: you talking with it looked like a police officer might
Speaker 1: have been leading the conversation. He has his arm outstretch.
Speaker 1: Do they have a message that they want heard? And
Speaker 1: how accepting of that are you? Well, the biggest thing
Speaker 1: that we got a chance to do was to heal
Speaker 1: people are are are are hurt, They feel the pain
Speaker 1: they are They've been injured physically and now it's this
Speaker 1: emotional pain that the way is really weighing on people.
Speaker 1: And so for us and for the kids who were
Speaker 1: there as well. They're about thirty kids there and about
Speaker 1: ten pro athletes and some officers were there as well.
Speaker 1: It was really a great chance for the officers to
Speaker 1: listen to the kids and the kids to air out
Speaker 1: some of their grievances, asking questions about about is there
Speaker 1: a better way that you can police? And here from
Speaker 1: officers saying, hey, not all of us are like what
Speaker 1: you saw on TV, and then us all trying to
Speaker 1: come to a solution of well, how do we how
Speaker 1: do we highlight some of the positive interactions with police
Speaker 1: officers but also weed out the bad guys? If it
Speaker 1: is an issue of bad guys, and if it's not
Speaker 1: an issue of the bad guys, how do we find
Speaker 1: out where the issue starts, which it seems like it
Speaker 1: starts at the top, and a lot of different police
Speaker 1: systems and even structural systems in general goes through the
Speaker 1: NFL as well. These biases this uh, this, this this
Speaker 1: systemic oppression. How do we fight it and kill it
Speaker 1: and move on together? Sam, Jim Miller here, good to
Speaker 1: talk to him, and all great points that you bring up,
Speaker 1: and appreciate what you're doing. And I did read the
Speaker 1: article about how you had all the sports figures in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and I was struck by the of the sentence by
Speaker 1: a young lady who was in the group and at
Speaker 1: this field trip, and she said, we need Essentially, she
Speaker 1: was saying, we need a more consistent message, meaning hey,
Speaker 1: you're you're here for this event and then you're gone.
Speaker 1: It needs to be more consistent throughout the year, where
Speaker 1: it's not when some tragic event happens and then everybody
Speaker 1: comes together. It needs to be more consistent. How is
Speaker 1: that goal achieved from that standpoint in your eyes? Sam, Yeah, Jim,
Speaker 1: I love that question. Well, Uh, we were back today.
Speaker 1: I'm actually driving back from that same community, that same
Speaker 1: neighborhood where about eight of us got back together with
Speaker 1: those same kids, and once again we sat and we
Speaker 1: listened and we learned, and so for us, it's not
Speaker 1: a one time show up and leave opportunities. Is a commitment.
Speaker 1: We are committed. And I think it's not just us
Speaker 1: we're committed. I think a large number of society, people
Speaker 1: in Chicago, Land are committed. I've gotten so many emails
Speaker 1: from people saying, how can I help? What can I do?
Speaker 1: We are committed, and so we're gonna keep on going
Speaker 1: back and we're gonna make a long lasting change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. And I think you're right. Everybody is listening.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's eyes are wide open to this movement
Speaker 1: and what's going to happen and what can change. And
Speaker 1: I think you've seen that response not only nationally, but
Speaker 1: I think globally as well. Are you encouraged with the
Speaker 1: response that has happened as of late, even with the
Speaker 1: emails that you're saying, because I do think change is
Speaker 1: coming from that standpoint, I'm overwhelmingly encouraged by the response
Speaker 1: of not only the nation, but really, like you said,
Speaker 1: the world. We're seeing people in Paris protest saying black
Speaker 1: lives do indeed matter, seeing people in South America protesting,
Speaker 1: people in Africa pro to everywhere around the globe people
Speaker 1: are protesting, and so I'm unbelievably encouraged. And then you
Speaker 1: come back home, come back to these shores and come
Speaker 1: back to our cities, and I'm getting calls and emails
Speaker 1: and text messages from people saying, I'm with you, what
Speaker 1: can I do to help? And so I am overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: and unbelievably encouraged. Sam Macho our guests, the former Bears
Speaker 1: linebacker with us with Tom Fair Jim Miller. This is
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score and All Access
Speaker 1: is brought to you by IGS Energy. The one thing
Speaker 1: that I've repeatedly heard from all the years, Sam, that
Speaker 1: I've and you and I have talked about this, I
Speaker 1: believe going to the scouting combine and just listening to
Speaker 1: a majority of the participants are football players and their
Speaker 1: situations in their communities where they came from. In a
Speaker 1: lot of cases, not every case, was a difficult ride,
Speaker 1: difficult to get to where they were, and they've overcome
Speaker 1: a lot. But when you mentioned that and the hopelessness
Speaker 1: and the healing and the listening, how do you tell kids,
Speaker 1: because it does start with the kids. If you can
Speaker 1: change their minds or get them to think that, yes,
Speaker 1: change is possible, because I fear that you hear all
Speaker 1: the time from kids that they feel, well, it's really
Speaker 1: not going to change, so this is my destiny. Well,
Speaker 1: we did hear a little bit of that last week
Speaker 1: when we were in the community of listening. They said,
Speaker 1: what's ever going to change? Nothing's going to change. And
Speaker 1: I think for me that was hearing those words were
Speaker 1: devastating because you get met with this reality that people
Speaker 1: come and they talk and they leave. Politicians come and
Speaker 1: they talk and they leave. Oftentimes volunteers come and they
Speaker 1: and they leave. And so I think what's different about
Speaker 1: now is that we are not leaving. We are coming,
Speaker 1: and we are investing in that community specific We're not
Speaker 1: spreading out. We're focused on one community specifically on the
Speaker 1: West Side of Chicago. We're focused. And that's why the
Speaker 1: cool part about about getting athletes from all different sports
Speaker 1: is that we all have different seasons. So some of
Speaker 1: us last three times on US won't so US will
Speaker 1: have playoffs and preseason and some of us won't. So
Speaker 1: we are not leaving, and so I think the cool
Speaker 1: things for me is being able to hear from the
Speaker 1: kids and allow them to dream and say, Hey, what
Speaker 1: do you want your community to look like and how
Speaker 1: can we partner with you in getting that done. You know, Sam,
Speaker 1: when you think about sports and you have the hope
Speaker 1: that the role of sports can help the world heal,
Speaker 1: either from the pandemic or the social injustice that we're
Speaker 1: going through. Do you think coaches at a young level
Speaker 1: have to change the way they talk tough to players?
Speaker 1: Do you think they need to like soften sports talk
Speaker 1: and sports coaching. I know it's kind of off the subject,
Speaker 1: but that's the that's that's our realm of opportunity throughout
Speaker 1: our life, you and me together, Yeah, Tom, you make
Speaker 1: a great point as far as as far as sports
Speaker 1: having a great impact on society. Two years ago, George,
Speaker 1: George and I McCaskey and I went on a police
Speaker 1: ride along in Englewood in District seven, one of the
Speaker 1: roughest quote unquote districts in Chicago. And while we were
Speaker 1: in that car with the police officer, I asked him.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, I'm a dreamer, I'm superrofertimistic. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: does us winning games? Does that help your job? Does
Speaker 1: that make I think then We're gonna win games, win
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, and now all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: city's gonna change. Does that happen? And his response was astounding.
Speaker 1: He said, you know what, Sam, when you all win,
Speaker 1: when the Bears are playing well, or the Cubs are
Speaker 1: win in, or the black officer win in. When y'all
Speaker 1: are playing well, my interactions with the people in this
Speaker 1: community are a lot more positive. So instead of all
Speaker 1: interactions being you know, good guy, bad guy. Were talking
Speaker 1: about the game we're talking about Did you see that
Speaker 1: home run that Dexter Fowler here? Did you see what? What? Uh? What? Rizzo?
Speaker 1: Did you see? Mister? It's this It brings us together.
Speaker 1: And so I think there is a lot of hope
Speaker 1: that athletes can bring and a lot of power that
Speaker 1: athletes have. But oftentimes you don't even realize that, uh,
Speaker 1: that we that we hold. But those it's interesting you
Speaker 1: bring that up, Sam, because those were probably the most
Speaker 1: uniting things in this country, whether it's Jackie Robinson being
Speaker 1: the first to do what he did and all these
Speaker 1: things that sports have really broken a lot of those
Speaker 1: racial barriers for decades. For when you think about it,
Speaker 1: you know, um, it's it's amazing how healing sports can be,
Speaker 1: because I know a locker room is a locker room
Speaker 1: can heal pretty quickly, you know, as well as I
Speaker 1: do a locker room Kevin m Hey, Sam, uh, one
Speaker 1: last thing and we'll let you go. Do you want
Speaker 1: to keep playing? Yeah, definitely about it, doubt good. Nice.
Speaker 1: So you you still have plans to return to the
Speaker 1: National Football League at some point? Yes, now, you know,
Speaker 1: and ideally, if I'm being honest with the change you're
Speaker 1: trying to see in the community, I'd love to finish
Speaker 1: about career back with some of the best years happen
Speaker 1: back here in in Chicago. Love to have you. You're
Speaker 1: a good man in that locker room, good man of
Speaker 1: the organization, and a lot of great things being done
Speaker 1: by the Bears organization right now. And it seemingly has
Speaker 1: always been that way. They've always gotten it from a
Speaker 1: social point of view. Sam, good luck with everything. Appreciate
Speaker 1: all your time, my friend. Thanks so much, Jeff, Tom
Speaker 1: Jam I appreciate you all. YouTube. Sam sam Acho, veteran
Speaker 1: linebacker and a former Chicago Bear. This is Bears All
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Speaker 1: Bears fans. Jeff Joni Act, Tom there and Jim Miller
Speaker 1: with you as we take a look at what has
Speaker 1: been an eventful offseason, but seemingly as you listen to
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie this week, as you listen to players, a
Speaker 1: lot was accomplished and that's good for the players mentally
Speaker 1: in light of everything that has gone on that no
Speaker 1: one could have predicted in terms of the degree of
Speaker 1: which it did. As we have a final few moments
Speaker 1: here on our show, I want to run some tape
Speaker 1: from some of the interviews the media did today and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go right, Jim Miller and Tom. There's Wheelhouse,
Speaker 1: Jamada Fetti, the fifth year offensive lineman moving inside try
Speaker 1: to win that guard job. Is very very high on
Speaker 1: Wanka Steve. You know, reputation proceeds on you know, he
Speaker 1: has a history of just making guys better, you know,
Speaker 1: And how however that he's able to get that done.
Speaker 1: He's been able to do it. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you really can't say that for every coach, you know,
Speaker 1: as much as you'd like to say, especially for line coaches.
Speaker 1: The proof he's into pudding, you know, with this guy,
Speaker 1: you know, Buffalo, the Ravens. You know, I've seen the
Speaker 1: tape over and over again. These guys are getting better
Speaker 1: when he's coming in in that situation. So and the
Speaker 1: way he teaches, the way he teaches it, he makes
Speaker 1: it clear for you, he makes it, he makes it
Speaker 1: just a clear picture for you. And fortunate, fortunate that
Speaker 1: he's here. But I think I think he's gonna I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna take everybody on the lines game to
Speaker 1: a new level because it's something different I've ever been taught.
Speaker 1: It's a different way than I've ever been taught, and
Speaker 1: I think it's different A lot of guys been taughting.
Speaker 1: You know. If we buy in, I think he can
Speaker 1: really help us be a lot better and be that
Speaker 1: old line that this team needs. Fellas he mentioned something
Speaker 1: he's being taught. Thinks he's never been taught before as
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. What could that be? Oh, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of subtleties that coaches are so different about whether
Speaker 1: it's what type of stance they want him to be
Speaker 1: in an according to the type of play, how they
Speaker 1: want their balance associated, according to how their opponent is
Speaker 1: playing against them. There are so many little intricacies of
Speaker 1: the offensive line game that you could you know, one time,
Speaker 1: Mark Trustman said he could sit there and design a
Speaker 1: play in an entire day, and that's the way it
Speaker 1: is with the offensive line. There are so many little
Speaker 1: details that go along with the offensive line play. And
Speaker 1: then if a body in front of you shifts one
Speaker 1: eyeball to the next, it could change the entire working
Speaker 1: atmosphere of the five guys. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: attention to detail. But one thing you gotta like about
Speaker 1: Wan Castillo. He's very intricate about how your feet and
Speaker 1: your hands work together, and it's easy to dissect the process.
Speaker 1: Jim Eddie plays him tackle, but I think in his
Speaker 1: mind he sees himself more as a big power guard. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: he knows his role, and that's it's a good thing
Speaker 1: because you know the steps and all the things that
Speaker 1: that time we're talking about. He'll be able to be
Speaker 1: on the same page with Juan Castile moving forward and
Speaker 1: that's as a guard not focusing at the tackle position.
Speaker 1: So could be the trek of the running back, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's say it's an outside zone run where the
Speaker 1: aiming point of the running back is, whether it's a
Speaker 1: hook play, how guys are working with their steps up
Speaker 1: to the second level, which is what Affetti's job would do.
Speaker 1: So I do think what Tom's saying has a lot
Speaker 1: of credence. Every coach teaches differently and sometimes a different approach.
Speaker 1: How you teach it, it resounds with one player more
Speaker 1: than maybe another, you know, and just how it's taught,
Speaker 1: and with some players it resonates and it sticks. And
Speaker 1: maybe that's what's happening for Jermaine Affetti, which is a
Speaker 1: good thing. And now a little Eddie Jackson, the pro
Speaker 1: bowler who just loves football, is dying. He needs to
Speaker 1: be out in the building. It needs to be on
Speaker 1: the field, you know, just stand a shape, you know.
Speaker 1: He he want to see who's gonna be conditioned when
Speaker 1: you get back to camping and who's not. And that's
Speaker 1: gonna tell it. Law. You know a lot of guys
Speaker 1: say we've been Yeah, I'm working, I'm doing this, I'm
Speaker 1: doing that, but it's always gonna show when it's time
Speaker 1: to report back to camp, you know, and you know
Speaker 1: the messagg just you know, just doing what you need
Speaker 1: to do, stand on top of things, and just getting focused.
Speaker 1: You know, this this five weeks right now, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a five six weeks however longer this it's gonna
Speaker 1: be very important for everyone, you know, to be on
Speaker 1: top of it because, like I said, you're not you're
Speaker 1: not in the building. You're not going through a routine
Speaker 1: that you would be. So now you have to create
Speaker 1: your own routine yourself, you know, rather just wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning, try to do something, workout or eating
Speaker 1: habits or studying film, whatever the case may be. But
Speaker 1: you know, you just got to use this to your
Speaker 1: advantage right now. And you've got a lot of time,
Speaker 1: you know, to take care of your body, to work
Speaker 1: on all the weaknesses, even the strengths. You know that
Speaker 1: you gotta get even better. So you just gotta use
Speaker 1: this to your advantage. And you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: stand out a newspaper. You know, that's always that's always
Speaker 1: one of the messages. You know, when you're going for
Speaker 1: a while away from the building, you know, everyone just
Speaker 1: stays safe, stay out of trouble. You know, you got
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to represent it. You know, you
Speaker 1: just don't want nothing like that. So that's that. And Jim,
Speaker 1: he said earlier, he would do anything, anything to be
Speaker 1: in a team meeting in Halisah right now. And you
Speaker 1: know those can sometimes get mundane, but that's how much
Speaker 1: a guy like Eddie misses it. I do. If I'm
Speaker 1: a player right now, I'd be chopping at the bit,
Speaker 1: you know. I think players they want to go to work,
Speaker 1: they want to get better, they want to hold their craft.
Speaker 1: They want to be a better football player tomorrow than
Speaker 1: they are are today. And they're kind of you know,
Speaker 1: not that you can't work on and get better at things,
Speaker 1: of course they can, but they need to hold their
Speaker 1: craft in a team environment because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it is a team sport. And I think
Speaker 1: there everybody understands, especially veteran players like Eddie. You're you're
Speaker 1: you're only as strong as the weakest link, and you've
Speaker 1: got to get there and work with your teammates, your coaches,
Speaker 1: people within the organization in order to come together and work,
Speaker 1: you know, get that chemistry you need so much as
Speaker 1: a team to have success throughout an NFL season and
Speaker 1: tom a chemistry now with a new safety next to
Speaker 1: him again this year. Yeah. But you know one thing
Speaker 1: he said, in this process of getting ready for the season,
Speaker 1: you have to develop a routine because the one thing
Speaker 1: they know if they do get a training camp schedule
Speaker 1: and they look at the itinerary, when does Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: like to be active early in the morning. So if
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna go home for this next six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight weeks and you're gonna go, oh, you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like running at seven pm, or I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get in the weight room until sometime in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: that's not the routine that's gonna be the most beneficial
Speaker 1: to you. You have to go out there and you
Speaker 1: listen to every one of these veterans through their press conference,
Speaker 1: they talk about the physical and mental preparation and that's
Speaker 1: what it's a part. And one thing about Eddie Jackson,
Speaker 1: they asked him the time frame needed to work with
Speaker 1: the communication between a safety or a new corner, and
Speaker 1: he says it's different between every player. It could take
Speaker 1: a couple of days, it could take a week, and
Speaker 1: it could take a month, but I think with Gibson
Speaker 1: and the experience he has, he may be able to
Speaker 1: come here and teach Eddie Jackson nuances about this defense
Speaker 1: in NFL defenses. Interesting comments from Tarik Cohen today. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I think it was age probably or maybe
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, I feel like I didn't. I haven't
Speaker 1: been doing these things, like you know there stretching and
Speaker 1: I really slacked on that because I feel like a
Speaker 1: big part of that was me being now I have
Speaker 1: to be that leader in my running at room. I'm
Speaker 1: like the guy so to speak. I had been in
Speaker 1: before then, so I always had older guys with me
Speaker 1: that would like keep me on that, like keep me
Speaker 1: in line with let's go to the training room or
Speaker 1: I would see them in the training room and that
Speaker 1: would that would make me want to do it. But
Speaker 1: I feel like this year I didn't have that, and
Speaker 1: that goes to another part, you know, not on the field,
Speaker 1: but that's another part. I'm looking to step up this
Speaker 1: year's leadership in my position group and then springing it
Speaker 1: on to the whole team. Well, he's preferred to bet
Speaker 1: he kind of you have the leader in there, and
Speaker 1: he didn't attention to detail body wore down, says he's
Speaker 1: done a lot more yoga and stretching to get ready
Speaker 1: for the season. We're out of time, but fellas, you
Speaker 1: need to have a big year out of Tarik's final
Speaker 1: year of his contract. Production down a little bit last season,
Speaker 1: but he thinks they're gonna go back to eighteen in
Speaker 1: the way they utilized him out of the backfield and such.
Speaker 1: So Tom and Jim, let's go Tarike right, more weapons,
Speaker 1: more point. I think Dave. I think David Montgomery's gonna
Speaker 1: have something that. Oh yeah, he's gonna want to interject
Speaker 1: a little conversation there. Yeah, Montgomery's gonna step up. But
Speaker 1: I think, hey, it's you kind of learned, you grow
Speaker 1: as a player in it. Sounds like Terrico and definitely
Speaker 1: has done that. He's listening to his body and you
Speaker 1: do something about it. So another you know, just taking
Speaker 1: action in doing something about it. I commend him and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be the leader they're looking for. All right, fellas,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for top there. Jim Muller, our producer,
Speaker 1: Sean Anderson, and our guest Kendall, Bill Dour and Sam
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