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Speaker 1: football because you got the Senior Bowl going on down
Speaker 1: in Mobile, Alabama. Well, we have our Jim Miller from
Speaker 1: Serious x MNFL Radio, the former Bears quarterback. We got
Speaker 1: Tom Thayer in studio at the Score Studios observing the
Speaker 1: week before the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl festivities.
Speaker 1: And today here at hattisall I'm situated in my booth
Speaker 1: as we review the introduction of Chuck Pugano as the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Chicago Bears Fellows. Good evening and welcome everybody
Speaker 1: to Bears All Access here in Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy The Score brought to you by IGS Energy. So
Speaker 1: we got all kind of different perspectives tonight to bring
Speaker 1: to the table. Tonight We'll start with Tom in studio time.
Speaker 1: How you doing I'm doing good. You know, it's funny
Speaker 1: you got the picture of Mitchell Trubisky in the back
Speaker 1: of the Sun Times. You know it's a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: practice when you're in short sleeves and sunglasses, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's the indication that the Pro Bowl and the way
Speaker 1: these guys getting ready to prepare for the week and
Speaker 1: for what the Pro Bowl has become. I hope there's
Speaker 1: better effort than we've seen in the past. And then,
Speaker 1: but I think today as about Pogano and a lot
Speaker 1: of fans that don't know a lot about Chuck Pagano
Speaker 1: being in the AFC through a majority of his career,
Speaker 1: getting an introduction to see how he'll be up at
Speaker 1: the podium, how he's going to answer questions. When I
Speaker 1: was saw Chuck Begano when he was coaching with Indianapolis
Speaker 1: or Baltimore, he was always a cliche talker. And I
Speaker 1: think today you got a little bit wider exposure to
Speaker 1: Chuck Begano, what he's been going through the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, you know, the success of his coaching career,
Speaker 1: and even I'm glad that asked him the question about
Speaker 1: the desires to be a head coach. I think he's
Speaker 1: extremely content to be where he is. Yeah, he sounds
Speaker 1: like that very much, and he loves his quotes. I
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to visit with him. He's got it.
Speaker 1: He's a quote machine. He's got all sorts of sayings
Speaker 1: he's gonna roll out to his players. So it'll be
Speaker 1: fun to jack those down over the course of the season,
Speaker 1: and he's got big plans for that. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: cuts from him throughout the broadcast here this evening to
Speaker 1: a let you know, if you missed it earlier today,
Speaker 1: but Big Jim your year onto the draft, the draft
Speaker 1: right now, my friend. Yeah, it's been all week. It's
Speaker 1: down here at Theresa Sea Bowl. A lot of talent,
Speaker 1: you know. I can see definitely probably about eight first
Speaker 1: rounders that are down here performing in this game. And
Speaker 1: we can get into some of those names, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously the O Warrior, the defensive back. There was a
Speaker 1: little bit of scare. He's from Penn State. He went
Speaker 1: down early in the practice, but portually he wasn't hurt
Speaker 1: and was able to return. And you know, so there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on, like you said, and I was
Speaker 1: happy to hear all the things that Chuck Pagano said,
Speaker 1: I listened, I've read all your quotes today and what
Speaker 1: you were tweeting out, Jeff and and just how he's
Speaker 1: not going to change the terminology on the defense. I
Speaker 1: think that's a good thing that, you know, all those
Speaker 1: players on defense won't have to get to know what
Speaker 1: a different terminology. He'll keep it the same and it'll
Speaker 1: be familiar to the players. Now. I always say this
Speaker 1: about play callers. Though, He's gonna have a different way
Speaker 1: he calls a game that's different than Vic Fangio. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have certain tendencies that are different than Vic Fangio,
Speaker 1: things that he obviously believes in. You know, when he's
Speaker 1: gonna heat up an opposing quarterback, will he be more
Speaker 1: aggressive in terms of the blitzing, because certainly the Bears
Speaker 1: front seven they've been fantastic and I don't think Fancio
Speaker 1: has always had to do that as much as some
Speaker 1: other teams in terms of providing pressure. And then just
Speaker 1: the talent, you know, to continue to develop the young talent.
Speaker 1: That's going to be imperative for Chuck Pagano as well.
Speaker 1: You know, to Jim, I think it's really important to
Speaker 1: keep defensive line coach. Why am I losing his name?
Speaker 1: Jeff Rogers or Jay Rogers. It's important to keep him
Speaker 1: on the staff because if you are going to keep
Speaker 1: the same terminology, and you're keeping the terminology together to
Speaker 1: be able to have these guys experience the same terminology
Speaker 1: that they learned this year, there's going to be a
Speaker 1: coach on the staff that has the ability to explain
Speaker 1: little nuances of the defense to Pagano and I think
Speaker 1: it's important you talk about and even he talked about
Speaker 1: it at the podium. You know, you made a quarterback
Speaker 1: make it an indication that we're going to blitz you
Speaker 1: from one side, But as soon as that clock winds
Speaker 1: down and they get to the point where they can't
Speaker 1: make a transition, he'll blitz you from the complete opposite
Speaker 1: side and overwhelm you with bodies. So now it's good
Speaker 1: that they can put that into the terminology, so the
Speaker 1: players know what the coach is talking about, and easier
Speaker 1: for you know what, four new coaches on the defensive
Speaker 1: coaching staff to learn it, rather than every single player
Speaker 1: forgetting what they've learned over the last couple of years
Speaker 1: and trying to learn something new. So I think that's
Speaker 1: importan and part of the development, the continuous development of
Speaker 1: this defense. Here's what his vision is. Our vision for
Speaker 1: this defense is to be the best, and we'd be
Speaker 1: the best in the history of the game. Pieces are there,
Speaker 1: they'll continue to add pieces, and we'd be better than
Speaker 1: we were last year. Absolutely, it will be very, very
Speaker 1: difficult and be a huge challenge, but one that we're
Speaker 1: all up for. Well, he's not just sitting back and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys are really good and hope to be really good.
Speaker 1: He's shooting for the stars. I love it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's you know, and I love it too. And you
Speaker 1: talk about new players coming in here, and Jim, you
Speaker 1: brought it up a couple of minutes ago because you
Speaker 1: are down at the senior ball and you see all
Speaker 1: this upcoming talent, and then I start thinking about coach
Speaker 1: Pagano and where he fits in. But this upcoming draft,
Speaker 1: because you know, everybody talks about what the Bears don't
Speaker 1: have in terms of numbers, I think this is probably
Speaker 1: as an important draft and the players that you bring
Speaker 1: in as if you had a load of first rounders,
Speaker 1: because you can't have missus. You can't go out there
Speaker 1: and reach out a guy that maybe you think he
Speaker 1: can come up through the ranks if he's in a
Speaker 1: small program. You have to get these guys like here,
Speaker 1: Eddie Jacksons and stuff that there's a reason there in
Speaker 1: the fourth round. But the reason is that they're they're
Speaker 1: a good football player with maybe a little bit of
Speaker 1: hiccup of injury in their past. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: to Jim Miller and some of that. The Bears will
Speaker 1: have a guy making those decisions. Ryan Pace has had
Speaker 1: some very good mid the late round draft picks that
Speaker 1: have stuck and stayed and some are in the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl right now. We'll be talking to one of those guys,
Speaker 1: Charles Leno Jr. Former seventh round draft pick. We'll be
Speaker 1: joining the program from Orlando, where some practice took place
Speaker 1: today with his six other Bears teammates and having a
Speaker 1: good time. We can see that from all the pictures
Speaker 1: and all the video we've seen from Orlando. This is
Speaker 1: Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Jonyak up at Hattisaw
Speaker 1: with Tom Fair and the Score Studios and Jim Miller
Speaker 1: down at the Senior Bowling Mobile allowed them. I'll pick
Speaker 1: it up with Big Jim Weather Edman Grade. Eh No,
Speaker 1: they had to actually yesterday they had to moving inside
Speaker 1: and go into South Alabama. At least now they they
Speaker 1: have a facility that they can go indoors and practice.
Speaker 1: They had to limit the amount of you know, representatives
Speaker 1: for each team. The teams were only allowed to representatives.
Speaker 1: So that's unfortunate because you got all the scouts from
Speaker 1: every organization that's down here, so they're really gonna have
Speaker 1: to scout off the tape. But at least the players
Speaker 1: did get in a quality practice. And you know, back
Speaker 1: even when I played in this game in ninety four,
Speaker 1: I remember we had a practice that was canceled. We
Speaker 1: ended up doing our practice in the ballroom with a hotel.
Speaker 1: Imagine me throwing an out routes into a fold up wall.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, at least now they have a facility
Speaker 1: that they can use but it has been pretty bad
Speaker 1: weather down here. Hey, Jim, I have a question for you.
Speaker 1: Your era is different than Meyer when I when I
Speaker 1: came out, you had the Blue Gray Game, you had
Speaker 1: the East West Shrine Game, you had the Hula Bawl,
Speaker 1: you had the Japan Ball, and you had the Senior Ball.
Speaker 1: So you had that all these players were able to
Speaker 1: make a choice. Or I also went to maybe one, two,
Speaker 1: or three of the bowl games throughout at the end
Speaker 1: of theirs college career. Do you like the way the
Speaker 1: bowl games are for the players that are looking for
Speaker 1: an opportunity in the NFL Or did you have that
Speaker 1: access to that many when you came out of college
Speaker 1: as we did and we had to make a decision
Speaker 1: what bowl game we wanted to go to. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think now it's pretty much, you know, in terms of
Speaker 1: the competition, I think the Senior Bowl still is the
Speaker 1: premier bowl. If you get an invite to the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the players that play in this bowl
Speaker 1: game will be drafted. And again it's where you have
Speaker 1: the most first rounders too. I mean I can easily
Speaker 1: see a good thirty players through round one through round
Speaker 1: three that will get drafted that what I saw down
Speaker 1: here is probably one of the best groups of talent
Speaker 1: that I've seen in a in a senior Bowl. And
Speaker 1: think about last year Baker Mayfield played in this Bowl.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen played in this Bowl. So you can really
Speaker 1: improve your stock and the players that even playing something
Speaker 1: like last week was the East West Shrine game, right,
Speaker 1: so players from that game that really stood out have
Speaker 1: moved on and come over here to the Reesa's Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: Jim Nagge, the executive director, leaves some invites available so
Speaker 1: that players that do really shine in that game can
Speaker 1: come out and come over. And the one guy who
Speaker 1: really stands out to me is the offensive lineman from Elon.
Speaker 1: This guy is six six, three hundred and forty five pounds.
Speaker 1: He's a tackle all right, only you don't get to
Speaker 1: know his name. Because he shined and dominated so greatly
Speaker 1: last week in the East West Shrine, it was a
Speaker 1: no brainer to bring him over here to the Reesa's
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, and he stood up. He's gone against a
Speaker 1: great pass rushers that are down here, like Montrese Sweat
Speaker 1: from from Mississippi State, and they've really showed that they
Speaker 1: can stand up against some of the top pass rushers
Speaker 1: that are down here. Well, we'll be keenly interested to
Speaker 1: see and here not only from you, Jim and Tom
Speaker 1: You're analysis, but other analysis out there about you say,
Speaker 1: it's a good crop of talent down there, but at
Speaker 1: the combine, like they are going to be a bunch
Speaker 1: of key players pushed down into that range where the
Speaker 1: Bears are going to be drafting since they do not
Speaker 1: have a first or second round pick. Yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a critical part of it because you know, again,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going to drive the draft. We've seen it.
Speaker 1: Even the Bears they traded up to get Mitchell Turbsky,
Speaker 1: and you see teams always trade up to do it.
Speaker 1: Kansas City they traded up to get Patrick Mahomes. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, there's some good quarterbacks and I
Speaker 1: think all eight of these quarterbacks are going to get
Speaker 1: a shot somewhere. You know, mcsorley's a probably the only
Speaker 1: one from Penn State that's really not a true pocket passer.
Speaker 1: We know he runs a little bit more of the
Speaker 1: RPO stuff in terms of the play action stuff. But
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is here from Duke. He is definitely going
Speaker 1: to be a first round pick. I like Drew Locke
Speaker 1: from the Missoo Tigers. I think he's really had a good,
Speaker 1: good week. The kid from Auburn, Jarrett Stidham, he has
Speaker 1: really impressed me too. I think he has definitely improved
Speaker 1: his stock. And then Gardner Minshew from Washington State. He
Speaker 1: put out a clinic in accuracy today in the red zone.
Speaker 1: So quarterbacks are gonna move up and think about it.
Speaker 1: I didn't even bring up some of the underclassmen that
Speaker 1: have declared. You know, obviously when you look at Haskins
Speaker 1: at Ohio State, a lot of people think he may
Speaker 1: be the first quarterback off the board. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: do what then if all these quarterbacks go then I
Speaker 1: just mentioned potentially four that could go in the first round.
Speaker 1: It's gonna push some good players down the draft board.
Speaker 1: Jim Miller is in Mobile, Alabama. Tom Fair here in
Speaker 1: town along with Jeff Jonia. This is bears All Access
Speaker 1: brought to you by IgGs Energy. Chuck Baganto introduced today.
Speaker 1: I think widely from what I've read and just talking
Speaker 1: to reporters here at Allisall earlier this morning, they got
Speaker 1: a good vibe from this coach and he feels very
Speaker 1: fortunate to be here thirty three years in coaching and
Speaker 1: then sitting out last year. You know, I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how excited I am to be back on the
Speaker 1: grass and at such a special, special place. And so
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very very grateful, and I'm thankful and very
Speaker 1: excited obviously to be a bearer. Yeah. You know, as
Speaker 1: he told me that there is nobody to root for
Speaker 1: anymore last year. You know, when he's watching games, he's
Speaker 1: just watching games. There's no investment in terms of who's
Speaker 1: who he's coaching or who he's rooting for here. And
Speaker 1: it'd spend some time in the NFL office, time working
Speaker 1: with officials as a consultant, and he got a different
Speaker 1: perspective of life behind the scenes there. Yeah, you get
Speaker 1: to see the good and the bad of the NFL
Speaker 1: season and it's entirety. You sit in the room full
Speaker 1: of monitors where you get to watch every game. You
Speaker 1: get to watch how the officials react, You get to
Speaker 1: watch the different styles developing in the RPO offenses as
Speaker 1: opposed of the different styles of defenses now that you
Speaker 1: have to put on the field to counter or counteract
Speaker 1: against the RPO offenses, and it's probably as beneficial to
Speaker 1: Chuck Pogano to sit out there and watch the development
Speaker 1: of the NFL as it was for Vic Fangio to
Speaker 1: be around Matt Naggy before he gets a head coaching job,
Speaker 1: to get more exposure to the RPO offense. And you know,
Speaker 1: one thing about Chuck Pogano is a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know how many what's the percentage you look at
Speaker 1: all these guys that are hired this year in the NFL,
Speaker 1: whether you're a coordinator or a new head coach, you're
Speaker 1: coming into a project that you need drastic improvement as
Speaker 1: quickly as you can get it done or you will
Speaker 1: be fired again. Chuck Pogano is coming into a team
Speaker 1: that has elder statement leadership in the locker room, It's
Speaker 1: got a syste him in place, that has championship caliber
Speaker 1: and qualities to it. He was able to spew off
Speaker 1: all the interceptions, the turnovers, and everything that the analytics
Speaker 1: that complemented this defense. So now you think about everything
Speaker 1: that Chuck Pogano has gone through in the last five
Speaker 1: years in terms of his coaching and health up and
Speaker 1: downs that he's been able to work himself through to
Speaker 1: be able to step in at the Chicago Bears and you, man,
Speaker 1: you have a super Bowl caliber defense that's you know,
Speaker 1: putting your lap just like we are giving Kalel Mack
Speaker 1: at the end of training camp. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: comes with the expectations when he says, hey, we want
Speaker 1: to be great, you know, meaning to you know, go
Speaker 1: back to the eighty five Bears and how great that
Speaker 1: defense was. I think he comes with a lot of credibility.
Speaker 1: I mean, Chuck Pagano has been with teams that's had
Speaker 1: great defenses. You just go back to the days in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: He knows what it looks like and he knows what
Speaker 1: it takes to be great. So you know, you look
Speaker 1: at a team like last year, like Jacksonville. You know,
Speaker 1: they talk big, they talk like they're they got a
Speaker 1: great roster in all talent to all those talented players
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the board, and lo and
Speaker 1: behold some games they got lit up for forty five points.
Speaker 1: So I think for the players aspect of it, they've
Speaker 1: got to live up to it too. You know, you
Speaker 1: can't just walk into the building hallis Hall, and stride
Speaker 1: out to the field and think that you're gonna be
Speaker 1: great if you don't put in the work. So I
Speaker 1: think Chuck Poganno will definitely challenge these defenders. And they
Speaker 1: are mature guys that I think do understand it for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. But I think they'll all push themselves
Speaker 1: accordingly to reach the greatness that they want to be.
Speaker 1: I think he's got the right group of guys to
Speaker 1: do it. He's already said many text messages from his guys.
Speaker 1: They're ready to go already. These are a group of
Speaker 1: guys that love the game. You gotta love the game.
Speaker 1: You gotta really love the game to put in the work.
Speaker 1: He says he's going to keep it likable and learnable.
Speaker 1: An acronym for kill sounds worse than it is. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna let him loose because he has an aggressive mindset,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Here more on Chuck Pagano Hope here
Speaker 1: from Charles Letto Junior, as well from Orlando, Florida at
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. This is Bears All Access with Jeff
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Speaker 1: And there's there's a guy on the phone right now
Speaker 1: from Orlando, Florida who witnessed it firsthand. The Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: left tackle the Chicago Bears, Charles Leno Junior. Get evening, Charles.
Speaker 1: What are you doing, guys? How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good, You're doing real good. Hey, you know
Speaker 1: how fun is this for you? Man? Man? That's really cool. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really fun. Having a great time and join us weather. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go back up to where you
Speaker 1: guys at right now. That's what. It's very nice. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just enjoying it, having a good time, meet some
Speaker 1: great people and just relaxing. Hey, Charles, you've been around
Speaker 1: the Bears a long time now. We got to know you. Well.
Speaker 1: Will you ever become I'm chuck to us. Are you
Speaker 1: always going to be a Charles? Oh? Charles only if? Um? Hey,
Speaker 1: this year the seat when from the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season to the end of the season, what what what
Speaker 1: did you wanted to prove upon and what did Harry
Speaker 1: help you prove upon to the point where you're elected
Speaker 1: the pro ball We saw that the stats from your
Speaker 1: season are incredible in terms of penalties and mishaps and stuff.
Speaker 1: What what was the difference between you changing yourself and
Speaker 1: what Harry had to do with it? Um? Yeah, Coach
Speaker 1: Easton very great. Harry's a great coach. Man. Um. He
Speaker 1: came in and he just wants to find tune some
Speaker 1: of the things that I already I'm already good at man,
Speaker 1: and he knows I'm athletic, you know, if I can
Speaker 1: move really well, um, good with my hands, things like that.
Speaker 1: But you can have all those great tools, but you
Speaker 1: got to find tune it and you know, dial into
Speaker 1: the technique and the details of your blocking. So that's
Speaker 1: all I was doing. I was just hunging in and
Speaker 1: keep my hands and saw doing like simple small things
Speaker 1: that you know can be problems if you don't take
Speaker 1: care of it on the field. Well. Well, Charles, Jim
Speaker 1: Miller here, congratulations on a great year and going to
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. I saw you guys tweet out the
Speaker 1: family photo today. There's so many Bears down there. That's
Speaker 1: got to feel pretty good to see your teammates getting
Speaker 1: the opportunity to enjoy such a great honor of being
Speaker 1: and playing in the Pro Bowl. Oh. Absolutely, it really is. Um.
Speaker 1: Just hanging out with these guys again, was picking off
Speaker 1: when we left off. We having fun in the huddle.
Speaker 1: It's to read Cody and then you know, be a
Speaker 1: team over there jumping around and Cal Fuller and Eddie
Speaker 1: out there. This is really cool. As to seeing all
Speaker 1: the boy Charles Letto Junior, our guest here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access with Jeff, Tim and Jim as we get
Speaker 1: you set for the Pro Bowl. From the eyes of
Speaker 1: Charles Letto Junior, it's not all work, obviously, but you're
Speaker 1: you're with all these stars of the league that fans
Speaker 1: and and uh and coaches have put in there, and
Speaker 1: for you for being the first time, and for a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys, all these guys being for the
Speaker 1: first time. Are you drawn on the experience? Are you
Speaker 1: talking to these other guys from around the league about
Speaker 1: how they go about their business just from the general
Speaker 1: practice time and time you're spending with them. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: just not too long ago. Talking to guys like I'm
Speaker 1: talking to Trent Williams, somebody who I look up to,
Speaker 1: somebody who I think is like one of the best
Speaker 1: tackles in the league, and I'm just trying to pick
Speaker 1: his brains so I can get to the position with
Speaker 1: he's at, because I still feel like I'm far away
Speaker 1: from Mordat in the league. So it's just really cool, like,
Speaker 1: you know, hanging out with these guys talking to him,
Speaker 1: picking their brains so I can keep elevating my game. Charles,
Speaker 1: I remember last year being in the weight room up
Speaker 1: at Hollis Hall and you were in there and you
Speaker 1: kind of you missed a really super heavy power clean.
Speaker 1: All your teammates continue the encouragement, got the excitement built up. Bam,
Speaker 1: you pulled it. The next one throughout your career. How
Speaker 1: important is the weight room ben to the success that
Speaker 1: you're enjoying now and for every young player that needs
Speaker 1: to be have heavy duty involvement in the weight room. Oh,
Speaker 1: the weight room is a big part of it, especially
Speaker 1: as the offensive alignment. Uh, it's like putting on that
Speaker 1: body armor. The body armor is something that you gotta
Speaker 1: have when you and the when you when your offensive alignment.
Speaker 1: So that's just what it is. Sorry, just a lot
Speaker 1: of noise, guys, I'm I'm around. A lot of people
Speaker 1: were about the league to go to universal videos. So okay, well, well, Charles,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this obviously a tremendous year making
Speaker 1: the postseason and the success that you guys had as
Speaker 1: a team, how do you what do you draw from
Speaker 1: the experience as you decompressed from the first playoff running?
Speaker 1: Um Man, we had to have a season. Um as
Speaker 1: I decompressed, I look at it like a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't. But we were supposed to be in a situation.
Speaker 1: We know the type of time when we had, We
Speaker 1: knew the type of players we had, and we just
Speaker 1: had to buy in and believe. And we did that
Speaker 1: and we compensate our things, but it's still one goal
Speaker 1: in mind at the end of the day. So when
Speaker 1: you when you sit back and you lose the game
Speaker 1: like that, it was a tough one, you know that
Speaker 1: it gets too more hungry and more camped up for
Speaker 1: next year. Charles Leno junior guest and remaining moments with you,
Speaker 1: So we'll let you go here shortly to enjoy the
Speaker 1: evening up. How big is this for Mitch from your perspective?
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl? How big is the Pro Bowl experience for
Speaker 1: a guy like Mitch? Oh, it's really big. I mean
Speaker 1: he's having a great time. He started hanging out with Dad,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, seeing a lot of different leaders, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, picking their brains and stuff. H I
Speaker 1: would like know when when did you realize that James
Speaker 1: Daniels got it? Because I think we are all so
Speaker 1: impressed with his development throughout his rookie season. But when
Speaker 1: you're talking about a left tackle, now you're breaking in
Speaker 1: an offensive guard, You're breaking in a tight end. When
Speaker 1: you talk about Trey Burton being new here and even
Speaker 1: the rest of the tight ends with the new offense,
Speaker 1: when did you realize going, man, this James Daniels, this
Speaker 1: guy gets it. Um, you see, like I've seen it
Speaker 1: early because you see like a little like little snippets,
Speaker 1: like little little clips of this guy. If he if
Speaker 1: he just keep doing that, you got to figure it out.
Speaker 1: And it's just slowly, even surely, he just kept getting
Speaker 1: better and better and better every week. And it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's something that I mean, he put in a lot
Speaker 1: of work. I mean talking about saying after after practice,
Speaker 1: keep working his rest, doing it early, you know, getting
Speaker 1: filmed in with Tody and the guys stuff. He's just
Speaker 1: gonna keep being a pro and keep getting better. Well,
Speaker 1: last one for me, Charles, does it go through your mind?
Speaker 1: I mean not that you don't face the best pass
Speaker 1: rushers every single week, but you know, the FC's got
Speaker 1: the best on the other side of this Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Are you going to bed at night prior to the
Speaker 1: game thinking, Hey, I can't give up a bad sacket
Speaker 1: going into this Pro Bowl game. I'm about to go
Speaker 1: out there and do what I've been doing all year. Um,
Speaker 1: I know, well, I mean it's going gets the best
Speaker 1: of the best here right now. So I'm just happy
Speaker 1: to be here and I'm about to just express myself
Speaker 1: on the field with my excitement and play with him nity,
Speaker 1: play with some joy and knowing that you know, this
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't come along often, so I'm d thing play
Speaker 1: my game all right. Last one before I let you go?
Speaker 1: Were you playing dodgeball? No? I didn't get to play
Speaker 1: dogs wall? What what fun? What fun activity that they
Speaker 1: have you doing with all these different drills, um you know,
Speaker 1: playing catch with the uh, playing like a little fat
Speaker 1: and go aligning, thinking some fly routes, catching the ball
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That's the only fun I've been
Speaker 1: doing so far. I'm headed to Universal Studios hopping on
Speaker 1: the bus right now. I'm excited to do that. That's
Speaker 1: all the fun right now. There you go. It'll be
Speaker 1: a big hiding have fun. My man. Good to talk
Speaker 1: to you and enjoy the whole experience. I appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: talk about thank Charles Leno Junior down in Orlando, Florida,
Speaker 1: our guest here on Bears All Access, having a good
Speaker 1: time with the fellas you've seen, you know, as you
Speaker 1: would expect. Terry Cohen has been doing a lot of
Speaker 1: social media. He's been having a good time and a
Speaker 1: Keem Hicks is genuinely thrilled smile ear to ear, bouncing
Speaker 1: his step, and I could not be happier for a
Speaker 1: game that Jeff and the times that. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: never played in the Pro Bowl, but I used to
Speaker 1: go with Jay or all the other guys on the
Speaker 1: team all the time, and it was a big thrill
Speaker 1: for me to be around the other players from the
Speaker 1: NFL to rub shoulders with a Randy White or see
Speaker 1: Howie Long in person, or whomever you got to see
Speaker 1: play against. And so, you know, for a first time
Speaker 1: guy like Chuck and the rest of these guys that
Speaker 1: are first time Pro Bowlers, it's got to be a
Speaker 1: huge thrill. But even the participants, the fans, the players
Speaker 1: that go down there, it's it's a big thrill to
Speaker 1: be able to shake hands and get an introduction, you know,
Speaker 1: from these guys that's not pregame or post game. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing, Jim, is that you're not
Speaker 1: quite in NFL Siberia anymore. You're a playoff team with
Speaker 1: a rising expectations. You put eight guys in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Now when you add them all up, and Khalil Mack injured,
Speaker 1: but these guys are getting the rub shoulders of all
Speaker 1: these guys, they're hearing from their p how they feel
Speaker 1: about them, how they look at the Bears. It helps,
Speaker 1: I think down the road in free agency, I think
Speaker 1: you develop relationships that could last a lifetime. Whatever they
Speaker 1: do down there a lot of you know, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it well too. Is it's just validation. It's
Speaker 1: it's a tremendous honor to get voted to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Like you said, your your fellow peers, the coaches, obviously
Speaker 1: the fans are acknowledged in respect to your game that
Speaker 1: you're getting votes to go to the to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, from a competence standpoint, it
Speaker 1: just validates all the hard work that you put in.
Speaker 1: I think you do want to be recognized and respected
Speaker 1: for how you play the game of football. And these
Speaker 1: guys are truly got a ton of talent and now
Speaker 1: that is being recognized. So I think for them it's
Speaker 1: got to feel pretty good. And like you said, you're
Speaker 1: around the some of the best in the games that
Speaker 1: have been acknowledged as well. You can see how they work,
Speaker 1: how they prepare, bounce ideas off their head, and it
Speaker 1: really is probably a thrill for them and obviously quite
Speaker 1: an honor, and I think it's something that they you know,
Speaker 1: all know that their game is respected just how they
Speaker 1: present themselves on the field. It's Jim Miller, what Tom fare?
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Jonnyak and this is Bears All Access on
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Speaker 1: is it gonna be You're gonna be all right time
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Speaker 1: much as you possibly can. Jeff and Tim here with
Speaker 1: you and Jim Miller and mobile Alabama getting ready for
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. Now, are you gonna be broadcasting the
Speaker 1: game again this year? Jim, Yeah, we'll be broadcasting the
Speaker 1: game on Saturday. And surprisingly a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: the NFL teams, you know, they don't really take off.
Speaker 1: This is kind of the last day. The coaches and
Speaker 1: the and the scouts are here because the last practice
Speaker 1: is finished up. And a lot of the general managers
Speaker 1: that I've talked to, like Dave Gentleman, he's going to
Speaker 1: stay for the game, you know. To Bruce Allen, who's
Speaker 1: the president of the Washington Redskins. There's quite a few
Speaker 1: gms that are staying through the game this time because
Speaker 1: they want to see how the players play with the
Speaker 1: when the lights come on, you know, when the game
Speaker 1: actually starts. The guy last year who really didn't have
Speaker 1: a good week, he's from Texas, San Antonio, Marcus Davenport.
Speaker 1: Remember the first round draft pick that the New Orleans
Speaker 1: Saints traded up to Green Bay Spot and they gave
Speaker 1: up next year's number one pick as well to get him.
Speaker 1: He really flashed in this game. It's really the best
Speaker 1: he played all week. And it was all because of
Speaker 1: the game. Why the New Orleans Saints felt that they
Speaker 1: were motivated to trade up and get this guy. He's
Speaker 1: a small school player and certainly he had a big
Speaker 1: first year for the New Orleans Saints as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I think it's important to stay down there. I think
Speaker 1: you do. I want to see the way a player
Speaker 1: react to game day, how they react to a mistake
Speaker 1: on the field. Do they rebound from it intelligently thinking athlete,
Speaker 1: or do they let it, you know, linger in their
Speaker 1: head and maybe they're susceptible to other mistakes. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you talk about a team like the Bear specifically,
Speaker 1: and we mentioned without having a couple of draft choices,
Speaker 1: they need to investigate the talent within this draft as
Speaker 1: much as they ever had in the history of the draft,
Speaker 1: because those players they need to make a pick on.
Speaker 1: You know, they have to work out and when you
Speaker 1: go and you watch the practices down there gym that
Speaker 1: luck luckily enough we get them on TV that you
Speaker 1: see some talent there that is going to be around
Speaker 1: for the Bears. That's going to give them an opportunity
Speaker 1: of blow Nichols or some of these other guys that
Speaker 1: come in and you know, they start cultivating their talent
Speaker 1: immediately and then they work their way into the lineup
Speaker 1: and then you become a starter before the end of
Speaker 1: the year. So I think it would be important to
Speaker 1: stay down there and watch the actual reaction of these guys,
Speaker 1: not from a video where you don't hear anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really according to just the way it's shaping up
Speaker 1: right now. It looks like there's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of good edge rushers in this draft. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of good defensive linemen, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good offense the lineman. You know, you think about you know,
Speaker 1: some of the teams that were lighted at offensive guard
Speaker 1: and offensive tackle last year. And the one kid I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna love tom as a kid from Boston College,
Speaker 1: Chris Lindstrom. I mean, this guy's an absolute maller and
Speaker 1: how he's plays. He's currently rated I think the second
Speaker 1: best guard coming out in this year's draft. But safety
Speaker 1: position is another deep position, and again they got a
Speaker 1: lot of pig defensive backs down here. So unfortunately, Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: the most talents are probably linebacker coming out in the draft.
Speaker 1: He d committed and is not performing in this game.
Speaker 1: But man, I wish you were here because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of good linebackers as well that have really shown
Speaker 1: up all the league along and the lead up to
Speaker 1: the game. So you're right, just seeing how a player
Speaker 1: reacts in the game is big. You know, how a
Speaker 1: quarterback if he throws an interception, does he go into
Speaker 1: the tank? Can he forget about it and move on
Speaker 1: to the next play, or whether it's a fumble or
Speaker 1: a guy misses a tackle in space, and how does
Speaker 1: he respond. So it's big and I think that's why
Speaker 1: a lot of GM's elected to stay around this. You know,
Speaker 1: you know too is you know you think about offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: They can come in and they can start their rookie
Speaker 1: year that that tackle that's there from Washington as a
Speaker 1: big guy six six three twenty five, three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty pounds. So you offensive defensive lineman, these guys they
Speaker 1: can be plug and play if you have the right
Speaker 1: surrounding talent around them like Charles Leno Junior and Cody
Speaker 1: Whitehair developing a help development with James Daniels, and you know,
Speaker 1: those are the types of guys and defensive lineman they
Speaker 1: come and they contribute to the rotation of the defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have a guy that's immediate first
Speaker 1: day starter, but there is a lot of talent down
Speaker 1: there that these teams will be looking for these guys
Speaker 1: to play and contribute, some immediately, some as the season
Speaker 1: winds on. Dump there and Jim Miller are here with us, Son,
Speaker 1: Bear's all access that tackle. That's Caleb McGarry six eight
Speaker 1: three twenty four. Yes, he'll be wearing number fifty eight
Speaker 1: for the the North team. If you're gonna watch the
Speaker 1: game or if you're watching some of the practice session,
Speaker 1: that's a center guard number. And they think this Phillis
Speaker 1: guy out of sixty or seventy. You're you're that big
Speaker 1: of a guy. You need a big number to cover
Speaker 1: it up. Jim, I'm sure you saw the video of
Speaker 1: the Western Illinois defensive lineman, Lyman Kaylin Saunders, who did
Speaker 1: a backflip. It almost like when JPP did seventeen in
Speaker 1: a row of the backflips, and oh yeah, man, yeah.
Speaker 1: It was at the end of practice. John Gruden calls
Speaker 1: up the whole squad of the North team to watch it.
Speaker 1: He says, all right, Kay, you know how to end
Speaker 1: this practice, and so he does this backflip. And to
Speaker 1: see a three hundred and fifteen pounds defensive lineman do
Speaker 1: what he did, everybody was high five in him. It
Speaker 1: was the funniest part of practice. Jim. At the end,
Speaker 1: he says, I'm here to be a football player, not
Speaker 1: a gymnast, So he kind of wanted, yeah, I'm talented
Speaker 1: and I have the courage to do this at this
Speaker 1: body weight and stuff, but don't look at me because
Speaker 1: of that. You know, the Bears a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago had that kid that jumped out of the swimming
Speaker 1: pool Ron Gilbert all right, and that all that ignited everybody.
Speaker 1: All my god, this guy's got to be an incredible
Speaker 1: football player. UM, no offense to him. I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: of you know, mental recall. If you see these guys
Speaker 1: do something and then that's the that's the label they
Speaker 1: get stuck with. So this guy made a point of saying, look,
Speaker 1: I'm a football player that I can but I can
Speaker 1: do a flip. Hey, if you want to jump on
Speaker 1: as well. Three one two sixty four sixty seven sixty seven,
Speaker 1: three one two sixty four sixty seven sixty seven or
Speaker 1: with you until the top of the hour. Jim Miller
Speaker 1: in Mobile, Alabama, Temp there here in Chicago, and Jeff
Speaker 1: jonianc here at Hallisaad Bears All Access brought to you
Speaker 1: by IGS Energy. Jim, some of the big names at
Speaker 1: receiver have really lit up in the in the in
Speaker 1: the practice sessions. Uh, this Deebo Samuel h. Many people
Speaker 1: are saying he was the MVP of practice. What about him?
Speaker 1: He's been awesome every single day. You're right. He's out
Speaker 1: of South Carolina. He's six foot two hundred and ten
Speaker 1: playing for the San Francisco forty nine ers. In this matchup,
Speaker 1: he's sick. He is just one. He's smooth in his routes.
Speaker 1: He can separate and has his speed, good route runner,
Speaker 1: catches everything. But he competes the defensive bacts. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's there's not one guy that's been able to
Speaker 1: be able to cover him. He has had that good
Speaker 1: of a week. I'll give you another name of a
Speaker 1: guy on the North squad. He's about as fast as
Speaker 1: as quick as a hiccup. Andy Isabella. He's he's the
Speaker 1: wide receiver from Massachusetts. He's been really good from the
Speaker 1: from the slot side of things. He's six one two
Speaker 1: o five and Penny Hart. Penny Hart from Georgia State.
Speaker 1: He is. He's built like Tarik Cohen all right. He's
Speaker 1: diminutive in stature. They only have him listed at five eight,
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty pounds, but I'm telling you know
Speaker 1: who he runs like Tyreek Hill. This guy's an absolute burner.
Speaker 1: And you know he just jumps out at you when
Speaker 1: he watched him practices just physically much faster than everybody,
Speaker 1: just so the way he moves and how he runs,
Speaker 1: and he has been difficult, has made big plays all
Speaker 1: week long here down in Mobile and Andy Isabella I
Speaker 1: watched some of his route work today. Wow, I'll just
Speaker 1: say that he can make He can turn a defensive
Speaker 1: back inside and out. And you got a lot of
Speaker 1: speed with that Ohio State kid Terry McLaren, very very
Speaker 1: fast guy there with the football in his hands as well.
Speaker 1: It's a long way until the draft, and without a
Speaker 1: first or second round pick, I don't know the fans
Speaker 1: are gonna be going gaga over the draft right now.
Speaker 1: But this is the details of the draft will be
Speaker 1: the story of this draft for the Bears, you know.
Speaker 1: But Jeff, where all right? You know we talk about
Speaker 1: the draft and the picks they don't have. Where do
Speaker 1: the Bears need to draft? What position? Where do they
Speaker 1: need the ranks? Where do they need the numbers? I mean,
Speaker 1: because you think of all the receivers they have or
Speaker 1: the you know, every single position, where are the Bears
Speaker 1: at right now? In terms of what the fans or
Speaker 1: what people think they need going into next year. Well,
Speaker 1: because you're still you don't know what's gonna gonna happen
Speaker 1: with Alan at the at the defensive back or the
Speaker 1: safety spot. This is a very three feet draft for
Speaker 1: safeties that I mentioned. You got guys like carry Willis
Speaker 1: from Michigan State. It's down here. He's performed very well
Speaker 1: all week on. Because your first you got to think
Speaker 1: about your free agents who could be leaving your team.
Speaker 1: When you look at Adrian Amos is probably the first
Speaker 1: on that list who could potentially could be moving on.
Speaker 1: And then of course corner. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: Prince and Lukamar. He only signed a two year deal
Speaker 1: with the Bears. Do you want more depth that corner?
Speaker 1: And there's big corners that I mentioned here. I threw
Speaker 1: out a Warier from Penn State. He has been phenomenal
Speaker 1: with what he's done out here. And he's a big guy.
Speaker 1: Another guy he's six foot two hundred and three pounds
Speaker 1: that has the ability to do everything. So you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of good corners that are going to be
Speaker 1: in this draft as well. And you can never have
Speaker 1: enough corners and never enough pass rushers and you know
Speaker 1: it as a matter of taste right now, Yes, they're
Speaker 1: going to have their own list of needs. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see that defense continue to maintain its excellence, and
Speaker 1: so as much depth and strength at that spot the better,
Speaker 1: and the rest of it. You fill in the blanks
Speaker 1: and you keep loading up, keep as much depth as
Speaker 1: you can. It's been a big part of why this
Speaker 1: team won this past season and why they hope to
Speaker 1: be among the Super Bowl contenders in twenty nineteen. We'll
Speaker 1: step away one more segment to go, Jim Miller and Mobile,
Speaker 1: Tom there, Jeff Jonik here in town. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score,
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Speaker 1: two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com
Speaker 1: or on the Bears official app. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: our phone calls here and Todd and Mark, thanks for
Speaker 1: hanging on real quick, though little Chuck Pogotto from today,
Speaker 1: what this defense will be revoc and be calculated about it.
Speaker 1: I want to be aggressive. I want to dictate the temple.
Speaker 1: Put a premium on fundamentals, put a premium on the ball,
Speaker 1: taking the thing away. Nobody did it better than the Bears,
Speaker 1: you know last year with thirty six takeaways, I think
Speaker 1: in twenty seven interceptions and throwing their stop the run
Speaker 1: and pressure with more than four if you have to,
Speaker 1: but hopefully with four. That's the game plan for Chuck
Speaker 1: Fagano and the Bears. Fans certainly love hearing that. So
Speaker 1: the phone we go wheeling our stop for Todd. Todd,
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out, man, Hey, thanks for taking my call. First,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, hey, Jim, thanks man. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan. When you came to Chicago, it's been
Speaker 1: it was a while before we had a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad you got here. And you know,
Speaker 1: if they would have gave you more of a team
Speaker 1: to work with, I'm you know we would. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you would have been a lot more successful. And then, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, when I watched the Bears game, the
Speaker 1: best thing to do is turn down the volume on
Speaker 1: the TV set and then tune turn you up on
Speaker 1: the radio. That's the best way to watch the Bears game.
Speaker 1: But I'll make a quick Uh. These assistant coaches Townsend, Uh,
Speaker 1: I guess the defensive backs coach, and this Manchino. What
Speaker 1: are these guys solid? How would I mean? What do
Speaker 1: you know about him? I haven't heard much discussion about
Speaker 1: them on the radio. And then I'll hang up and then, uh,
Speaker 1: listen to you guys, all right, we'll talk. I'll talk
Speaker 1: about this Shake Townson. Obviously, he had a very successful
Speaker 1: career as a player. He was a very good cornerback
Speaker 1: and long many years in the National Football League, then
Speaker 1: went right into into coaching. I think his you know,
Speaker 1: because he's you'll be well respected one because he's played
Speaker 1: the game. He's gonna know a thing or two in
Speaker 1: terms of how to attack receivers and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So I think from that standpoint, it'll be fine. And
Speaker 1: Chuck Pagano obviously reached out to him, so he thinks
Speaker 1: shili of what he can be as a coach. But
Speaker 1: I think it'll be no issue from the players from
Speaker 1: the Shay Towns inside of things because he played the game,
Speaker 1: and I think players really do respect that. And Ted
Speaker 1: Monikino Tom has has been with Pagano, so he was
Speaker 1: with him in Baltimore, Indianapolis as his coordinator, so there
Speaker 1: is familiarity there. I like the way the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the coaching staff is rounded in a place. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm glad they left they kept the
Speaker 1: defensive line coach Rogers here because you need that goal
Speaker 1: between maybe learn something about a player a little quicker
Speaker 1: if a coach has experience with him, and in the
Speaker 1: coaches that Pagano is bringing with him, it's because of
Speaker 1: their experience, their experience of success either with the team
Speaker 1: they're coaching or the success they had as a player
Speaker 1: in the style of defense they played in. So I
Speaker 1: think all of these moves to the defensive staff is
Speaker 1: are positive ones. Considering you know, all the guys that
Speaker 1: Vic brought with them to Denver. I think Pagano was
Speaker 1: putting together a really solid staff and you know, Matt's
Speaker 1: got a lot of years of experience in the NFL
Speaker 1: along with Ryan, so they're not hearing these guys' names
Speaker 1: for the first time. They have an understanding of what
Speaker 1: their background is. They want teachers, and that's what excelled
Speaker 1: for the Bears defensively here in the last few years
Speaker 1: with Vic Fangio and his staff three one two sixty
Speaker 1: four sixty seven sixty seven. Will stay on the phones
Speaker 1: here and head out to Mark from Michigan City, Indiana
Speaker 1: Market evening. You're on Bears All Access. Hey, Mark, pleasure
Speaker 1: talking with you guys about six years agoys A, A
Speaker 1: Q and A with Jay h Jay Hilberger. And the
Speaker 1: question I had was we refers to Super Bowl twenty
Speaker 1: in the play acts and pass after the start of
Speaker 1: the in half where I d end zone the Bears
Speaker 1: were back at the four, did a play ash and
Speaker 1: passed to Peyton through great blocks and Jane Hildenberg didn't
Speaker 1: know it the name of the play where he came
Speaker 1: in from dica or it was an audible from McMahon
Speaker 1: and time I'm relying on you for the information. If
Speaker 1: you remember the play called it coming from the bench,
Speaker 1: Was there an audible? What was it? Off? It was
Speaker 1: it was a fake forty five trap pad. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it was it was a fake forty five slant pass.
Speaker 1: So McMahon came into the huddle on that play and
Speaker 1: he said to you, guys, listen to me. If you
Speaker 1: show me a good run fake, this is play is
Speaker 1: going to be huge. And I do think it was
Speaker 1: completed to Willie gaul for a huge game. But that
Speaker 1: was a play that was specifically as we ran the
Speaker 1: ball so much, we ran the ball so effectively, we're
Speaker 1: not really in that game as wish as much as
Speaker 1: we should have with Walter, but they were intended taking
Speaker 1: him out of the game. But because they were intended
Speaker 1: taking him out of the game, they went for the
Speaker 1: play action fake so aggressively that McMahon knew exactly what
Speaker 1: he was talking about, and it did convert into a
Speaker 1: huge play that first play of the second half. Never
Speaker 1: can stop going down memory lane. Canny, but you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of you kind of remember him coming into
Speaker 1: the huddle and just making a point of saying, all right,
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, listen to my snap count, but come off
Speaker 1: the ball like we're running in. It's gonna be huge.
Speaker 1: And those are kind of the subtleties that we knew.
Speaker 1: But Jim knew him as well as anybody in preparation
Speaker 1: to call the play, because he had to be thinking
Speaker 1: about it from the time. Ed Hughes or Ditka called
Speaker 1: it on the sideline, to the time he approached the huddle,
Speaker 1: to the message that he delivered in the huddle, and
Speaker 1: then the football he delivered to Willie. I'm impressed time
Speaker 1: with the recall. That's normally how it is for offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: They hear wa wa wa wah wah, and then they
Speaker 1: just hear the protection on two. That's pretty good, Tim.
Speaker 1: But Jim, what was your favorite all time play that
Speaker 1: you called in the huddle? That was something you'll never forget.
Speaker 1: What was it? Well, we ran the crap out of
Speaker 1: X shallow cross and obviously Marty or does White, we
Speaker 1: ran that place so much was either Z shallow cross
Speaker 1: or X shallow cross seven seventy two. So I'd bring
Speaker 1: Marty in motion. We go zero strong, Z half fly
Speaker 1: seven seventy two, Z drive and you can count on
Speaker 1: Marty Booker. Marty knew how to read coverages. He was
Speaker 1: gonna hook it up versus zone and if it's banned,
Speaker 1: he just if he's looking, he's booking, meaning if he's
Speaker 1: looking at me, I know that he's gonna keep on going.
Speaker 1: And Marty Booker could run that route as good as anybody.
Speaker 1: Man talk about recall as outstanding. Can you get the
Speaker 1: whole playbook down? I can go through a lot of them.
Speaker 1: They're in my head still somewhere. You know. It's amazing
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks, receivers, backs tight ends, how much communication that
Speaker 1: they can do without ever saying a word. If you
Speaker 1: give the verbiage inside the huddle, man, you can communicate
Speaker 1: with three or four different guys just by the subtleties
Speaker 1: of expression that Jim's talking about. An offensive lineman, they
Speaker 1: can do it. They can hear a couple things in
Speaker 1: the huddle, and you've got to be aware of You
Speaker 1: could be either working with your center if their defenses
Speaker 1: in one position, or you could be working with your tackle,
Speaker 1: and all those messages are conveyed to each other with
Speaker 1: otiver saying a word. It's just buy a subtle tap
Speaker 1: or an expression that you get you get that message across.
Speaker 1: I always used to remember Rex Tucker, if you remember him,
Speaker 1: the offensive guard. He would always say, I don't know
Speaker 1: what any of that means. So what I just said,
Speaker 1: zero strong, Z have live seven seventy two Z drive.
Speaker 1: He'd here wa wa wa seven seventy two. He knew
Speaker 1: it was seven seventh step drop seventy two protection. That's
Speaker 1: all Rex Tucker cared about. And then he'd hear me say,
Speaker 1: all right on two or whatever I call the staff
Speaker 1: count up. But that's that's kind of the life of
Speaker 1: an offensive linement. A lot of them don't pay attention
Speaker 1: to the routes and don't want to get get caught
Speaker 1: up in seventh or Z drive and all those things.
Speaker 1: They just want to hear the protection and what they
Speaker 1: need to do with their specific assignment that they're going
Speaker 1: to be asked to. You could take a kid out
Speaker 1: of college, you know. That's you know, maybe two or
Speaker 1: three years in the NFL probably has never heard of
Speaker 1: a seven step drop, you know. So when you when
Speaker 1: you think about the archives in the old school terminology
Speaker 1: and you get those igniters. Now, if you've got Charles
Speaker 1: Leno jor he here seven seventy two and he's got
Speaker 1: no tight end to his left, he's going, man, this
Speaker 1: protection for me is one of the extremes do I
Speaker 1: have to protect for a long time. I have to
Speaker 1: maintain my balance. I can't give him an outside edge
Speaker 1: or turn my shoulders too quickly. So yeah, the offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: they hear what the protection is but then they have
Speaker 1: a role of dex of information going through their head
Speaker 1: in terms of how they have to win that specific play.
Speaker 1: Kim Miller and tent there breaking it down XS and
Speaker 1: os for those of you who love that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: and there's plenty of football fans that do. You can't
Speaker 1: get enough of the great stories. All right, now, remaining moments.
Speaker 1: Bears are going to London next season. Thoughts on that
Speaker 1: real quick against the Raiders. I'm glad they're playing the Raiders.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: expect out of the Raiders next year. I see John
Speaker 1: Gruden in the quarterbacks face at these Senior Bowl practices,
Speaker 1: like his next out, his next quarterback. Maybe maybe there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Derek Carr thinks about that, but
Speaker 1: you know, I like playing a soldier field. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: glad it's the Raiders. John Gruten already admitted this year
Speaker 1: he hates to travel go to London, so you know,
Speaker 1: he says he's still disoriented from the trip the last
Speaker 1: time last season. So maybe that'll be a good thing
Speaker 1: because logistically, I think it'll be much easier on the Bears.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, there's lots to discuss between now and
Speaker 1: then for certain, and we will be in Atlanta next week. Jim,
Speaker 1: I'll be with you on the show from Atlanta covering
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Should be a fun week to break down
Speaker 1: Patriots and Rams. Tom will have his thoughts here from
Speaker 1: Chicago as well. Thanks as always to our producers Eli
Speaker 1: Herschkobitz and Herb Lawrence. Most of all to you for
Speaker 1: listening tonight, Thanks to our guest Charles Leto, Junior Dan
Speaker 1: really our producer, and for Jim Miller and Tom There,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joni act that I'll do it tonight on
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