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Speaker 1: It was great to hear starting left guard James Daniels
Speaker 1: on Zoom on Friday meeting the media. We don't hear
Speaker 1: from him very often, but it sounds like he's very
Speaker 1: glad he'd be rid of talking about the move from
Speaker 1: center to guard. First, I mean, the best question has
Speaker 1: been not answering like the center of guard questions. I mean,
Speaker 1: every time I interviewed the media, I always got those
Speaker 1: type of questions and it was just it's just annoying
Speaker 1: to constantly have to explain myself and answer the questions constantly.
Speaker 1: So the first that's the first thing that I like
Speaker 1: playing one position the same thing is I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: it was. This was my first camp like running with
Speaker 1: like the first team offense with like at guard. So
Speaker 1: it was nice to be able to like with like
Speaker 1: during camp, to get combos with Cody and combos with Leno,
Speaker 1: like throughout the entire camp. When I listen to that,
Speaker 1: when I hear James at this stage of his career
Speaker 1: doing an interview like that, I hear everything I want
Speaker 1: to hear, and that's attitude. That's the attitude of an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. And that's about keeping it in between the
Speaker 1: white lines. It's not taking it outside and having that
Speaker 1: type of attitude as he walks around. But when he's
Speaker 1: on the field and I heard you say something he's
Speaker 1: putting an extra credit or doing work or you know
Speaker 1: this is a scouting I said it, up said I said,
Speaker 1: I said it when Money and Hall on Friday morning
Speaker 1: and my eight am hit scouts say about nasty offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He's looking for work, meaning he has his assignment, he
Speaker 1: wins his assignment. When that's over with or if it
Speaker 1: doesn't present itself, he's going to hit somebody. And right
Speaker 1: now James Daniels from a scouting terminology, is looking for work.
Speaker 1: He's hitting guys, he's helping out Charles Leno, He's going
Speaker 1: after guys. He's extremely physical getting him down to the ground. Beth.
Speaker 1: The key ingredient to a successful running game is the offense.
Speaker 1: The uncovered offensive A lineman getting to the second level
Speaker 1: on being able to make an efficient block and when
Speaker 1: he talks about working with Cody or Charles Leno Jr.
Speaker 1: Most of the times of that the details of that
Speaker 1: job is getting up to the second level at linebacker level.
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna also hear from offensive coordinator Bill Laser.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be talking about Nick Foles. Knows him from
Speaker 1: seven years ago, getting to know him now with a
Speaker 1: coaching step that knows him very well. As he makes
Speaker 1: his Bears debut as a starter, his forty nine career
Speaker 1: start your man offensive line coach want cast deal with
Speaker 1: lots of conversation about what he wants out of the tackles,
Speaker 1: Bobby Massy on the right side, Charles Leno on the
Speaker 1: left side. How would you evaluate their performance so far?
Speaker 1: Because really I hate doing that because it's about the
Speaker 1: five guys. It's the dancing troop right there, the guys
Speaker 1: altogether working in sync. But the tackles, how do you
Speaker 1: think they've looked? You know, you look at the amount
Speaker 1: of safety they've shown in their game, A really limited
Speaker 1: amount of penalties associated to either the snap count, no
Speaker 1: crowd noise holdings and those types of things, So I
Speaker 1: think that's a key ingredient there. And then when James
Speaker 1: talks about how he has the ability to go and
Speaker 1: work with Cody, Cody's working with James Daniels, but he's
Speaker 1: also trying to break in five new tight ends in
Speaker 1: you know, that require their element in helping to do
Speaker 1: his job. Bobby Massie, I think they're both playing well.
Speaker 1: I think it's because there's a lot of attitude and
Speaker 1: expectation that one brought along with them, so he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be satisfied for what they did on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. It's what they do from the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and beyond. Coming up next from a NFL linebacker,
Speaker 1: Anthony Harrin joins the program. This is Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: to score No Stranger to six seventy to score its
Speaker 1: former NFL linebacker, former University of Iowa Hawkeye and all
Speaker 1: around media guy Anthony Herron, otherwise known as Aunt. How
Speaker 1: you doing, brother, I'm doing great, Jeff. Yeah, good to
Speaker 1: be with you in town, man. It's always good to
Speaker 1: cross paths over there in Fox thirty two and of
Speaker 1: course listening to you guys all the time, excited to
Speaker 1: get this discussion rolling. Here Is that a Hawkeye blanket
Speaker 1: sitting on your You know, I'm an Iowa Staters, so
Speaker 1: I gotta give you the business a little bit. I
Speaker 1: gotta give you the business a little bit. Hey is this? Uh?
Speaker 1: So you're doing just about everything, so you got a
Speaker 1: finger on the pulse of PAC twelve, Big ten college
Speaker 1: football NFL. Are you enjoying this experience now a post
Speaker 1: post playing career. I am very much so, and especially
Speaker 1: getting to do it back here in my home sweet Hope,
Speaker 1: Chicago now like I have for a little while, because
Speaker 1: for a minute, the weird thing was, guys, we were
Speaker 1: actually we moved back here. Why I'm saying back, I'm
Speaker 1: from here, my wife's from the East coast, but we
Speaker 1: moved here downtown in twenty eleven, and it was actually
Speaker 1: right at the time I'd been with the Big Ten
Speaker 1: Network the first three years of BTN prior to moving
Speaker 1: here to Chicago. We were living down south at that
Speaker 1: time when I was coaching arena football down there, when
Speaker 1: I was first getting into the media business. And actually
Speaker 1: it was the same year where NBC Sports took over
Speaker 1: versus turning into the NBC Sports Network. Got a nice
Speaker 1: little offer from them to start calling games out west.
Speaker 1: So we moved to Chicago and I stopped working with
Speaker 1: the Big Ten Network. And then from that point most
Speaker 1: of my content was calling college football games during the fall,
Speaker 1: calling arena football games during the spring and summer. And
Speaker 1: so I was living here in downtown Chicago for years,
Speaker 1: doing absolutely nothing here with the city's sports team for
Speaker 1: a long time. And then just as things continue to
Speaker 1: evolve now here for the last few years, like your
Speaker 1: reference being able to do some radios TV in town.
Speaker 1: And it's been fun. Is a kid growing up watching
Speaker 1: time play with the Bears, and you know, seeing everything
Speaker 1: going on in this city, consuming it on the various outlets,
Speaker 1: and I'm getting to work for it now. So it's
Speaker 1: been really great, all right. I got a couple of
Speaker 1: quick questions for you. Did you play for Johnny Ivlow
Speaker 1: at Bollingberth High School. I did not. I played for
Speaker 1: a guy, the Silver Fox, Phil Actis. So I do
Speaker 1: know John Ivlow really well, but I predated him. I'm
Speaker 1: old enough for that. All right. Did you played a
Speaker 1: couple of years in the in the Arena League? Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you play both ways? Did you play? Ye'd you play? So?
Speaker 1: I played. The position I played was known as tight
Speaker 1: end on offense, I was a tight end and a
Speaker 1: defensive end, but for arena football, the tight end was
Speaker 1: essentially just another offensive lineman. I did have one career
Speaker 1: catch for one career touchdown, so I went one for one.
Speaker 1: But it was it was a different sport. Like you,
Speaker 1: I'm sure at least seen a little bit of it,
Speaker 1: where you got three guys up front on offense and
Speaker 1: on defense, and even the fullback in the backfield. It
Speaker 1: takes on like what they called the mac linebacker. It's
Speaker 1: just another pass protect the essentially, so the ball wasn't
Speaker 1: throwing a lot to anyone else. But I did have
Speaker 1: one catch, all right. Last question about the Arena League is, so,
Speaker 1: when you look at that league, what position do you
Speaker 1: think is realistically most transferable to the NFL. Is it
Speaker 1: the modern day fast thinking of quarterback or could it
Speaker 1: even be cornerback. I think for the quarterback position, especially
Speaker 1: with the way the game is evolved at the NFL level,
Speaker 1: I really think there are a lot of mental traits,
Speaker 1: and my mental I suppose I would include even just
Speaker 1: the muscle memory of quick reaction anticipatory throws that have
Speaker 1: become an even broader part of the passing attacks in
Speaker 1: the National Football League now. Like obviously Kurt Warner is
Speaker 1: the most famous story of a guy who who had
Speaker 1: success in the arena league before transitioning to success. He
Speaker 1: had been in the NFL before, but hadn't hadn't really
Speaker 1: had a shot or had any success at that level.
Speaker 1: But to have to throw the ball with such rapid pace,
Speaker 1: with such ten bo and to be able to take
Speaker 1: that trade where obviously in the arena league it's more confined,
Speaker 1: but then to take that outdoors to the big field
Speaker 1: if you have the arm talent for it. There have
Speaker 1: been guys beyond Kurt Warner that have been able to
Speaker 1: make it at least you know, varying degrees of success
Speaker 1: in that transition. So I think quarterback is kind of
Speaker 1: the chief position that it seems most applicable for. But
Speaker 1: the dbs are on an island. Man. So when you're
Speaker 1: a defensive back in the Arena League and you you
Speaker 1: got a receiver coming in high motion screaming at you
Speaker 1: and you're one on one, I mean to be a
Speaker 1: defensive back in the Arena League. You see a lot
Speaker 1: of carry over there too. Bolding Brooks very own. Anthony
Speaker 1: Haron our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago's
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score. You can catch Anthony
Speaker 1: Herron with Luke Canelos on Bears post game Live on
Speaker 1: Fox thirty two Chicago. Anthony, as you analyze the Bears
Speaker 1: so far through three weeks, from your perspective, what are
Speaker 1: you seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly? Because
Speaker 1: it literally is a team meeting staple on Tuesdays and
Speaker 1: it's literally called the Good, the Bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 1: What we've seen from the team so far, the encouraging
Speaker 1: thing is that they're able to sit here at three,
Speaker 1: you know, while knowing there's still a whole lot of
Speaker 1: meat on the bone for where they can improve at
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, up front on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: I've been really encouraged by how the old lines played
Speaker 1: for the most part this season. I would say the
Speaker 1: third game was probably the least effective that they were
Speaker 1: upfront on offense, and overall there were still a lot
Speaker 1: of good things they did there, but because of the matchup,
Speaker 1: you didn't necessarily see the commitment to the run game
Speaker 1: from a play a game plan perspective. I think overall
Speaker 1: that ends up affecting, as time knows really well, the
Speaker 1: way you end up blocking, the consistency, the rhythm you
Speaker 1: get in with the run game upfront. But my my
Speaker 1: big I suppose I'll use the term challenge that I
Speaker 1: sort of had over the offseason to Matt Nagee was
Speaker 1: to evaluate what he felt like could best suit his personnel.
Speaker 1: It felt to me at times like coach Naggi was
Speaker 1: calling the offense for what he felt like could be
Speaker 1: the best version of his quarterback, of his offensive line,
Speaker 1: what his system could really be. And it didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: seem like you know, we've all talked about Mitch ter
Speaker 1: Biscuit at nauseum. Here, it didn't seem like Mitch was
Speaker 1: at that point in his development yet where he could
Speaker 1: really handle it that way. And it didn't seem to
Speaker 1: me to always suit the old line best. And I
Speaker 1: think the most important thing I've seen earlier this season
Speaker 1: is to me the continued growth and development of Matt
Speaker 1: Nagge in game play calling, the schematics of how he
Speaker 1: sort of operates the offensive game plan in game against
Speaker 1: the opponents they've had so far. I've been really impressed
Speaker 1: with that. And I think the you know, to use
Speaker 1: sort of a blanket term, the balance that we've seen
Speaker 1: from the Bears offense this season suits either quarterback and
Speaker 1: now that it'll be Nick Foles, you don't need to
Speaker 1: see Nick Foles out there try to throw forty five
Speaker 1: or fifty times a game either. I think it suits
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. It has certainly benefited the offensive line immensely,
Speaker 1: and I believe week by week we see a Bears
Speaker 1: defense where they're conditioning is improving. I think we've seen
Speaker 1: a Keem Hicks played better in every single game. We
Speaker 1: see Khalil Mack being more of a force and an
Speaker 1: impact and a dominant player game by game. I even
Speaker 1: thought I thought last week, while Danny Trevathan to me
Speaker 1: still didn't look like his old self, I thought he
Speaker 1: was moving better on the field, and we'll see if
Speaker 1: that ends up leading to more and more splash plays.
Speaker 1: Probably the star the stand out to me, and I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised by it, but I'm really pleased to see it.
Speaker 1: As Roquan Smith. I think he's playing at a pro
Speaker 1: bowl level. Every single game he stepped onto the field.
Speaker 1: I've been just so encouraged by what he's been doing.
Speaker 1: You had to just go away to the linebackers. I
Speaker 1: get it, that's your that's your game. I know Tom
Speaker 1: and I have talked about this too, about the condition
Speaker 1: that you bring up a great point, because I'm hearing
Speaker 1: more and more from around the league coaches starting to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is really entering now the fourth week of the preseason,
Speaker 1: where you know, the starters didn't play much in the preseason.
Speaker 1: But I get the thinking because of the reduced off season,
Speaker 1: everything condensed, you know that was going to be a
Speaker 1: likely scenario, and they're seeing, and Tom can agree, a
Speaker 1: lot more veteran days off for guys to keep their
Speaker 1: legs and get them built up for the long haul
Speaker 1: this season, because honestly, guys, we don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen AKA Tennessee. You know this could be a
Speaker 1: much longer season than we think. Agreed, and from a
Speaker 1: league wide perspective, one thing I hope is that we
Speaker 1: see the NFL going to daily or not not just daily,
Speaker 1: but testing on game day. I think that was something
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize testing six out of seven days.
Speaker 1: When I hear the term daily testing, I thought the
Speaker 1: NFL was testing everyone seven days a week to learning
Speaker 1: they weren't testing players on game days. I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: that seems to be a hole in the system that's
Speaker 1: now been exposed by what happened with the Titans. That
Speaker 1: I hope that's something the league ends up shoring up,
Speaker 1: because not only you know, could have potentially put I
Speaker 1: suppose losing players on game day at risk. Sure it can,
Speaker 1: but I think then you won't have the scenario we
Speaker 1: see playing out between Tennessee and Pittsburgh where now the
Speaker 1: following game is at risk because of not only players
Speaker 1: testing positive, staff testing positive, but the contact tracing associated
Speaker 1: with that. Well. Overall, I love the approach Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: has taken with it. He's taken it extremely seriously. He
Speaker 1: has urged everyone within the Bears organization, not just players,
Speaker 1: not just coaches, but everyone on the support staff, as
Speaker 1: you guys know better than me, he's been ringing that
Speaker 1: bell almost on a daily basis to make sure that folks.
Speaker 1: I love the way he phrases it. Don't just don't
Speaker 1: just act like someone you're in contact with has COVID.
Speaker 1: Act like you have COVID, and always have that mask
Speaker 1: on to take it seriously. And seems like the Bears
Speaker 1: have been doing as well as they can with that.
Speaker 1: So last week I said, Keen Hicks plays over eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps. Robert Quinn considerably less from what
Speaker 1: you watch the football the last eight or nine years
Speaker 1: to the present of Robert Quinn, What do you want
Speaker 1: to see out of him that will affect the defense
Speaker 1: to be a consistent impact in the pass rush is
Speaker 1: to me, the least to ask of Robert Quinn's. He's
Speaker 1: at a point in his career where you know, through
Speaker 1: my lens, I think we kind of know what he is,
Speaker 1: who he is as a run defender, and I think
Speaker 1: that's where the combination of he and Barkibious Mingo at
Speaker 1: the opposing outside linebacker from Khalil Mack, how that's implemented,
Speaker 1: how those reps are split I think will be key
Speaker 1: because Mingo he's I think he's played better every week
Speaker 1: as well. But he's obviously not going to be Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn as a pass rusher. But what he can be,
Speaker 1: and what I think he's showing a willingness to be,
Speaker 1: is a guy who will attempt to be more stout
Speaker 1: against the run than perhaps he was at previous stops.
Speaker 1: My expectations aren't frankly as high of Robert Quinn in
Speaker 1: that regard, So maybe it is a thing where certain
Speaker 1: downs and distances you make sure Robert Quinn is either
Speaker 1: in a certain part of the formation where that's not
Speaker 1: exposed as much, but certainly on passing downs, you don't
Speaker 1: want to see a situation where perhaps he's petered out
Speaker 1: by the fourth quarter a little bit. And I think
Speaker 1: that should continue each week, because as you guys know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't necessarily able to be on the field that
Speaker 1: much during the preseason. As he gets in shape, I
Speaker 1: think you're going to see a really ferocious combo continue
Speaker 1: to emerge off the edge with Mac and Quinn well
Speaker 1: gets more touches Cordarrel Patterson or David Montgomery. With the
Speaker 1: loss of Trique right it's it's going to be David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: But I think we're going to see Cordero Patterson's role
Speaker 1: expand even more in the offense because he has that
Speaker 1: Swiss Army knife ability similar to tarikon where You're not.
Speaker 1: I'd always sure he's a better at receivers, he better
Speaker 1: at running back. He's obviously the best kick returner in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And I've been really accouraged, really
Speaker 1: impressed by the growth he's shown as a back, getting
Speaker 1: his pad level down, running through the hole and things
Speaker 1: of that sort. So I think they're going to continue
Speaker 1: to find ways to utilize him to make the defense
Speaker 1: have to account for Cordero Patterson. But overall, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to continue to see as long as he
Speaker 1: can stay healthy, n gone would David Montgommer is gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of touches. And Cordero does run viciously.
Speaker 1: That's what I love about it. I ain't know messing around,
Speaker 1: he's getting trying to get anyway north and south. He'll
Speaker 1: get in that. Jean you as well, All right, final
Speaker 1: question before I let you go, Anthony, and so I
Speaker 1: appreciate it here on bears all Access on Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: So what's your indications in terms of what they're doing?
Speaker 1: Because the defense looks good and we know they play
Speaker 1: physical on the offensive line, and that's good enough for
Speaker 1: me right there to be. You know, I aware of
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Indianapolis Colts right big time
Speaker 1: threat there. It's you know, I've talked to some Colts
Speaker 1: fans here and there here from them on occasion. I
Speaker 1: understand the frustration they have with seeing the way the
Speaker 1: organization set itself up with the the personnel infrastructure to
Speaker 1: build around Andrew Luck and then you know, he made
Speaker 1: the decision that was best for he and for his family.
Speaker 1: But you know, Philip Rivers is not a bad consolation prize,
Speaker 1: a guy who who will potentially end up in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame at some point. I think Philip rivers
Speaker 1: best days are behind him personally. I have seen him,
Speaker 1: I believe, play with more efficiency weekend and week out
Speaker 1: as they haven't had to ask him to do as much.
Speaker 1: Against Jacksonville, they asked him to do a lot. He
Speaker 1: threw a couple of interceptions and kind of looked like
Speaker 1: who Philip Rivers has looked like the last couple of
Speaker 1: years of his career, with key turnovers at really awful
Speaker 1: moments for his football team. Last couple of weeks, they've
Speaker 1: been able to control things with the ground attack, with
Speaker 1: that mammoth offensive line with Jonathan Taylor a really excellent
Speaker 1: running back out of what's kind And if that's going
Speaker 1: to be the formula that leads to success against the Bears,
Speaker 1: then they're gonna be golden. But the Bears against i'd
Speaker 1: say the best offensive line they've faced so far this season,
Speaker 1: we need to see them control that in some phases.
Speaker 1: I think if they get them into predictable downs and distances,
Speaker 1: dominate that. You know, one of the issues that Trubisky
Speaker 1: had at times was holding the ball making quick reads.
Speaker 1: That won't be a problem for Philip Rivers, and I
Speaker 1: think that he'll get the ball out of his hands
Speaker 1: quickly like we saw last season. So the pass rush
Speaker 1: needs to affect the pocket, condense the pocket, make him
Speaker 1: sort of throw out of a vacuum, and if they can,
Speaker 1: then they'll have a great shot at some takeaways, I think,
Speaker 1: and don't let that big ten product get going Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: as we know he can. Anthony, We're gonna let you
Speaker 1: go appreciate it. We'll see you on Fox Bears Post
Speaker 1: Game Live, and we'll be running into you here down
Speaker 1: the road quite a bit. You're doing some great work
Speaker 1: out there. Should keep it up in good to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Really appreciate it, fellas talk against all right,
Speaker 1: A lot more coming up as the Bears meet the
Speaker 1: Colts Sunday at noon. It sold your feel for about
Speaker 1: to commence. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All
Speaker 1: Access with Tom Thayra. I'm Jeff Joniac will bring you
Speaker 1: the Bears in cold starting at nine am on WBBM
Speaker 1: with Ron, Jim and Ja in the pregame show and
Speaker 1: then kickoff at noon at Soldier Field Rokuan Smith. Tom, Really,
Speaker 1: we all think that this is going to be a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl year from him. He's off to a great
Speaker 1: start in terms of being active. He's done a great
Speaker 1: job in pass coverage. Yes, the running game is something
Speaker 1: that the entire defense needs to be held accountable. Horror,
Speaker 1: right now they are nobody's happy about it on that
Speaker 1: team or on that coaching staff, giving up over five
Speaker 1: yards to carry on the run. But overall, what has
Speaker 1: your been impression of Roe Kwan Smith at the inside
Speaker 1: linebacker position? You know, he's a sideline the sideline linebacker.
Speaker 1: He I think he's got all the capabilities to play
Speaker 1: really well against the run on the inside, the way
Speaker 1: he is able to read the movement of the offensive
Speaker 1: line and getting getting a pre predicted position to help
Speaker 1: make a tackle. But I admire what he's able to
Speaker 1: do outside the tackle box and the big picture real
Speaker 1: quant showed up in great shape. He rehabbed his injury
Speaker 1: very well in the off season, being one of the
Speaker 1: few players that could be at hattlesall and I raised
Speaker 1: this question to him and our sit down there will
Speaker 1: air on Bears Game Day Live Sunday morning at ten
Speaker 1: thirty on Fox. Did you in a sense reinvent yourself
Speaker 1: a little bit entering this season given what you dealt
Speaker 1: with last season and how you felt about it. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I feel like this season. I feel like I'm playing
Speaker 1: at a high level right now. There's obviously some things
Speaker 1: that I can improve on, and that's that'll never be
Speaker 1: that'll never change. Actually, there's always room for improvement. But
Speaker 1: I do feel like I'm playing really good football right now,
Speaker 1: and so I definitely still have a chip on my shoulder,
Speaker 1: and I just want to continue to get better each
Speaker 1: and every week. And I think attacking each and every
Speaker 1: week the way I am. I think that happened. How
Speaker 1: would you put it in context for us on how
Speaker 1: you did that, how you reinvented yourself? Was it physical
Speaker 1: as much as mental, emotional, spiritual? You name it, you
Speaker 1: pick it, you tell me. I think, honestly, I think
Speaker 1: it's a combination of many things. Just also knowing my ability,
Speaker 1: so knowing my talents and knowing what I need to
Speaker 1: do to achieve each and everything that I want to achieve,
Speaker 1: and then just also having a support of a lot
Speaker 1: of family, friends, teammates and things that our nature and
Speaker 1: just noring what I'm capable of all and then just
Speaker 1: going out each and every day and just chasing that
Speaker 1: and keeping a chip on my should and just knowing
Speaker 1: why once was Yeah, man Naggie off and talks about
Speaker 1: this Ryan pace two, But what's the person's why? Why?
Speaker 1: You know, everybody in whatever walk of life they have,
Speaker 1: has a why for why they work so hard to
Speaker 1: do something at this level. What's your why? I would
Speaker 1: definitely say many. There's many individuals and everyone have that
Speaker 1: has their different wise. I feel like my wis where
Speaker 1: I'm from, family, what I did to get in this
Speaker 1: position that I'm in, and it's just knowing that I
Speaker 1: never want to go back to where I once was,
Speaker 1: like growing up in the country. I love the country,
Speaker 1: but like just being able to do things for myself,
Speaker 1: do things for others, and just knowing not I never
Speaker 1: want to go back to where I once was. So
Speaker 1: that's my main why and my family. If you had
Speaker 1: to self analyze yourself self scout yourself, what part of
Speaker 1: your game that you may have looked at and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I need to do a lot more
Speaker 1: of this. I know I gotta get better and everything,
Speaker 1: but I gotta do a lot more of this. What
Speaker 1: would it be Going into the year, I was more
Speaker 1: so focusing on all just like my coverage, just like
Speaker 1: even because I know I can cover really good, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it. I've always showed that, but just
Speaker 1: more so focusing on the covering. So that was my
Speaker 1: thing going into this year. So pretty much a lot
Speaker 1: of my coverage situation, I felt like I've been doing
Speaker 1: pretty good and it's just about building on that. And
Speaker 1: then I think as I continue to keep getting better
Speaker 1: at that, I think the sky's a limit with that
Speaker 1: as well. Is there a lot more on the table
Speaker 1: for you here as a Chicago Bear with this great
Speaker 1: tradition of linebackers that you would like to attain that
Speaker 1: is in your mind. You may not have publicly stated it,
Speaker 1: or maybe I have it written down somewhere. What's the
Speaker 1: private side of quin Smith that maybe he's got some
Speaker 1: goals in there that we'd like to know about. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have many goals in the back
Speaker 1: of my mind. I think, first and foremost want to
Speaker 1: be the best possible player I can for this team,
Speaker 1: organization and with my teammates, as well as going down
Speaker 1: as one of the greatest Chicago Bears linebackers to ever play,
Speaker 1: and the ring is one of the obvious things. So
Speaker 1: it's just about just chipping away one game at a
Speaker 1: time and chasing my legacy with that. You know, I
Speaker 1: have a high expectations for him, just like everybody else does,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad he has those for himself. He's really
Speaker 1: turning and taking the leadership here and a lot of
Speaker 1: responsibilities in this defense. Coming up next. Rick Van Terry,
Speaker 1: the cut them out of the Indianapolis Coats and a
Speaker 1: homegrown Bears fan as a kid growing up of the
Speaker 1: fifties Indicator. It's next one Bears All Access on Chicago
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac, please be joined by our special guests to
Speaker 1: look at the Indianapolis Colts give us some perspective. Is
Speaker 1: a football lifer. There's no other way to describe Vick
Speaker 1: vent Urry, a Taylorville, Bourne, Illinois product who played his
Speaker 1: high school football as a quarterback at Rockford Auburn, then
Speaker 1: switched to peak in high school before going to Northwestern
Speaker 1: where he played quarterback in the mid to late sixties
Speaker 1: and defensive back and then Pretty Illinois, Northwestern, the Hamilton
Speaker 1: Tiger Cats, the Colts, the Saints, the Rams and head
Speaker 1: coaching in there as well. Exhausting and now the age
Speaker 1: of seventy four, you decided to dip your toe back
Speaker 1: in the water. And you're the color analyst of the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. You can't take the football out of your
Speaker 1: big Rick. No, You're exactly right. I've got one theory. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, aging is a process and getting old as
Speaker 1: a decision, and I won't make that decision. So I'm
Speaker 1: really thrilled to be back in the game, so to speak.
Speaker 1: As you guys know, sometimes it just it just doesn't
Speaker 1: leave your bones, does it? The game? It does not,
Speaker 1: will not. I grew up in a coaching family. You know,
Speaker 1: both my dad and my brother are in the all
Speaker 1: of my high school football coaches Hall of Fame. I'm
Speaker 1: the only guy that held a family back. So but
Speaker 1: it's uh, now, it's really great, you know if this
Speaker 1: is a great weekend for me. The Bears were the
Speaker 1: you know, the team of my youth, and really the
Speaker 1: coach have become the team of my life. So it's
Speaker 1: really a good battle that I'm looking forward to. Hey, Rick,
Speaker 1: question for me for only one of your past stops,
Speaker 1: and that's Northwestern. Have you had a chance to look
Speaker 1: or see at their new facility they have over there?
Speaker 1: You know, I really, I really have it. I've heard
Speaker 1: nothing but great things about it. It would it would
Speaker 1: be it would probably be tough for me if you
Speaker 1: to look at those facilities in seventy eight, they were
Speaker 1: a little bit different than they are today. But no,
Speaker 1: you know, they're spending a lot of money. They're certainly
Speaker 1: on the right track. So onto the Indianapolis Colts. When
Speaker 1: you think about these guys bringing in a veteran like
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and what that quarterback position has meant to
Speaker 1: this organization, you know, over the last twenty five years
Speaker 1: with Peyton and Luck, where are they at right now?
Speaker 1: Is this you know, is this a guy that they
Speaker 1: really feel that can fill this void for two or
Speaker 1: three years or what do you think? Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: they really do. And he's really off to a good start.
Speaker 1: You know. I think they've kind of found their way
Speaker 1: in the in the in the second two ball games
Speaker 1: after kind of laying an egg in Jacksonville throwing forty
Speaker 1: six passes. You know, they've they've only thrown Philisonian down
Speaker 1: forty six now in the last two games. But what
Speaker 1: they've done is they've recovered their really elite running game
Speaker 1: from nineteen, which was number five. You know, and now
Speaker 1: added it was Rivers within a very quick rhythm, decisive,
Speaker 1: get the ball out, keep you off balance. And I
Speaker 1: like the identity and they're a little bit different team.
Speaker 1: And I think what you're seeing in Philip is, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a real smart guy. He really understands that. And
Speaker 1: so you know, after week one, I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: turning it over. He said one turnover it was a
Speaker 1: you know, it was a balance, it was a care
Speaker 1: and play that was nothing to do with him. And
Speaker 1: I think he's really comfortable in the fact that Coles
Speaker 1: can play with balance. Plus you know, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if it lasts, but they're playing lights out defense,
Speaker 1: So you know, this is a team that he can
Speaker 1: be a little bit more of a complimentary part. You know.
Speaker 1: He and Frank Wright have a great relationship from back
Speaker 1: to the San Diego days when Reich was the coordinator.
Speaker 1: So I mean he was ready day one in you know,
Speaker 1: year like two twenty that ended up being more critical
Speaker 1: than we thought. And so yeah, I think that he
Speaker 1: you know, if it keeps going like it's going, I
Speaker 1: think you'll see more Rivers after this year. Is this
Speaker 1: the perfect marriage between young Jonathan Taylor who's got explosiveness,
Speaker 1: but with this offensive line where where they can compliment
Speaker 1: each other. When you talk about being balanced on offense, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's a good point. You know,
Speaker 1: we lost the heck of a player in Marlon mac
Speaker 1: thalsandy our young kid. But you know, Chris Ballard looks
Speaker 1: like a genius today for moving up in that second
Speaker 1: round and getting Jonathan. There's nothing I don't like about Jonathan.
Speaker 1: He runs low to the ground, he can break it.
Speaker 1: He was a four three nine guy, coming out, very
Speaker 1: hard to tackle, more elusive than you think. He's got
Speaker 1: a couple compliments with Hynes, who's a kind of a
Speaker 1: loose play our version of what Colin was to you guys,
Speaker 1: you know, and then he's got a kid Wilkins, who
Speaker 1: can come in and spell him. But Jonathan has really
Speaker 1: added that to it. But I think the key too, though,
Speaker 1: is the bat. So I mean a year ago when
Speaker 1: we couldn't throw a people caught up with us. They
Speaker 1: just beat us with numbers on the run, which you know,
Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator, I know you can do. But
Speaker 1: now when you have to defend rivers on first down,
Speaker 1: it makes it a lot better. But Jonathan. I just
Speaker 1: think the sky's the limit, you know, knock on wood.
Speaker 1: He's a durable you know, six thousand yards in college,
Speaker 1: six to seventy in a you know, in a tough
Speaker 1: league and in a league where everybody knew Wisconsin was
Speaker 1: going to run it. So yeah, that ended up being
Speaker 1: a terrific move. Ric VANCHERI our guest here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score
Speaker 1: the radio analysts this year for the Indianapolis Colts. All right,
Speaker 1: there's an obsession for old time football guys like myself.
Speaker 1: I love the history of the game. I love rugged
Speaker 1: playoff front. I love nastiness, and that pretty much encompasses
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson, doesn't It tell us about him a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's kind of a you know, he's a generational alignment,
Speaker 1: you know, and as an offensive guard, you know, Tommy,
Speaker 1: as an offensive aligneman, you don't always get the credit.
Speaker 1: The only time you're the only time you've ever noticed
Speaker 1: is if you give up a sack. Nelson is a
Speaker 1: tremendous athlete. He is a road grader, but he's an
Speaker 1: athlete that can protect. He brings a quiet nastiness to
Speaker 1: this team that this team really needed. I mean, he
Speaker 1: will puts you on the ground and he will drive
Speaker 1: you into the ground. You know, like I say, he
Speaker 1: has a generational talent. And incidentally, this is one of
Speaker 1: the better offensive line. I think Costonzo at left tackle
Speaker 1: is really an under the radar guy. Kelly at center
Speaker 1: is a pro bowler. Our right tackle Braden Smith was
Speaker 1: a number two draft pick, but he's actually played like
Speaker 1: a one. So you know, you made a good point.
Speaker 1: I mean this team is complimented running wise with a
Speaker 1: really good offensive line, and so with a quick rhythm
Speaker 1: passing game, it all kind of go into place. But
Speaker 1: you know, Nelson is a throwback guy to the you know,
Speaker 1: as you say, the old day, you know there was
Speaker 1: no rules between the tackles. Eric tell us about mole
Speaker 1: Ali Cox, the young tight end that is really blossoming
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, he was another This was a free
Speaker 1: agent selection by Baalor two years ago, a project if
Speaker 1: you will. You know, basketball, no college football, and he
Speaker 1: has just grown. He's a huge man. When you look
Speaker 1: at him, you would never think basketball player. You just
Speaker 1: think a big big man that blocks out the sun.
Speaker 1: But he's very, very athletic. With Doyle out, he is emerging.
Speaker 1: You know, I think where he really gives us something
Speaker 1: because you know, our receivers we've struggled at times in
Speaker 1: the red zone because our receivers haven't been very big.
Speaker 1: He gives you that big bank board guy that you
Speaker 1: can get a match up problem with. He runs a
Speaker 1: little bit better than you think. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: body control guy, and you know, those are the kinds
Speaker 1: of guys that you need in the red zone. When
Speaker 1: he gets really the space is tight. You're getting it
Speaker 1: out of Graham, you get it out of Robinson, and
Speaker 1: we need to get somebody along with him. We've taken
Speaker 1: a little hit at white Out with a loss of Campbell,
Speaker 1: you know, and then the loss of Pitman for three weeks,
Speaker 1: so we're patched up a little bit there. I think
Speaker 1: Hilton really has to rus the occasion. But you're exactly right,
Speaker 1: Molly really gave us. Gave us a shot in the
Speaker 1: arm last week, Hey us speed Rick speaking a shot
Speaker 1: in the arm was Xavier Rhodes and DeForrest Buckner on
Speaker 1: that defense? Do you think about Buckner on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and what Xavier Rhodes can and will do
Speaker 1: in the defensive backfield. How important was it to bring
Speaker 1: in a couple of veterans like that to this defense. Well,
Speaker 1: and there were two kind of separate decisions. There was
Speaker 1: no big decision on Buckner. Buckner, we gave up thirteenth pick.
Speaker 1: But I mean, why would you not give up a
Speaker 1: thirteenth pick for a three time pro bowler. I mean
Speaker 1: there's nobody in the draft that could ensure themselves they
Speaker 1: were going to get a pro bowler. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's one or three hundred. So I mean that
Speaker 1: move we knew. Plus, he has a great work ethic.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty four. I think you watch him, you
Speaker 1: run sideline to sideline at six to seven, So he
Speaker 1: means he's a core guy as well as a blue
Speaker 1: chip guy. And he you know, now that we're playing
Speaker 1: much better coverage, you're starting to feel him. He will,
Speaker 1: he can, he can penetrate and really pierce the inside.
Speaker 1: Road was a little different. Roads came off a really
Speaker 1: bad year. He was just expendable. We picked him up.
Speaker 1: And what the Colts have done is they made a
Speaker 1: real stylistic change from game one to Game two, actually
Speaker 1: from two years to game two. You know we've been
Speaker 1: before that, we've been giving up seventy five to eighty
Speaker 1: percent soft zone. Then don't break. And after that Jacksonville
Speaker 1: game when Minshew went nineteen out of twenty, you know
Speaker 1: wherever it came from, Aberflus or whatever, we called off
Speaker 1: the jam. And for two weeks now, for eight quarters,
Speaker 1: we've been up pressing and getting after it. And you
Speaker 1: know it's not only made our coverage better, harder to
Speaker 1: throw into, it's bought that extra step for the defensive line. Rhodes,
Speaker 1: you know, was player of the week this week. I
Speaker 1: mean he had a pick six and then he had
Speaker 1: a big red zone stop. Yeah, I mean that, and
Speaker 1: along with t J. Carey, who you know was kind
Speaker 1: of the same thing big year in eighteen nineteen. So
Speaker 1: you know, in some ways Ballard has gone out and
Speaker 1: got a couple of bargains at corner that so far
Speaker 1: knock on would have really paid off. Rick. Then, Terry,
Speaker 1: our guest, you're at Bears ow access before we let
Speaker 1: you go, get a little thought on the Bears and
Speaker 1: then take us back fifties and six as you say,
Speaker 1: you were a Bears guy, So need some memories from
Speaker 1: you in the fifties growing up in Decatur, Illinois. I
Speaker 1: mean it was Chicago Bears or no One. You had
Speaker 1: one game a week, and I always remember, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, I think it was on CBS. I don't
Speaker 1: even know, but I mean I remember listening and watching
Speaker 1: Range to do the color believe it or not. He
Speaker 1: he always referred to Rick Caserres as Rick Casseyeries. I
Speaker 1: used to just love it. Arlan Hill and then and
Speaker 1: then of course in the sixties, you know then you
Speaker 1: the sixty three team was Bill George when I'm in
Speaker 1: high school that you know, the you know, the deep defense,
Speaker 1: just like the eighty five Bears. So you know, I
Speaker 1: actually we coached against the eighty five Bears. Now I'm
Speaker 1: already in the NFL by the time that's there, But
Speaker 1: so yeah, there's big time memories. I always really one
Speaker 1: of my regrets. I always wanted to be on that
Speaker 1: coaching staff, but it just never worked out. I interviewed
Speaker 1: with Neil Armstrong, but I was just a kid out
Speaker 1: of college football and he was great to me. But
Speaker 1: you know, they were really interested in experience, and I
Speaker 1: totally understood it. But I did always really want to
Speaker 1: be a part of that. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: the Bears are really talented, you know. I mean they're
Speaker 1: three and ozo now. They you know, they've had some
Speaker 1: luck to drop in Detroit. I mean two to sixteen
Speaker 1: point comebacks. I think that's historical. I don't think anybody's
Speaker 1: ever done that in a season in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So there's been some miracles, there's been a drop. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they're three and OZ
Speaker 1: because they're pretty damn good and they have a lot
Speaker 1: of skill on both sides of the ball. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Folds, it's going to come down to the
Speaker 1: we're back. You know you're gonna rise and fall with him. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean you got plenty around him. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: you got a good running back. I think I think Robinson,
Speaker 1: of course we played years ago again Jacksonville. He's one
Speaker 1: of my best favorite players in the league. He looks
Speaker 1: totally healthy. Graham has given your big red zone guy
Speaker 1: you can run it. And then on defense, you got
Speaker 1: a bunch of impact players. I looked up the other
Speaker 1: day between Quinn, who I was a number one draft
Speaker 1: pick when I was in Saint Louis, between back and
Speaker 1: team hits, I think you have one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: six sacks and about fifty strips, so we really don't
Speaker 1: want to be in third and long very much. And
Speaker 1: then you have two Pro bowlers in the secondary and
Speaker 1: a lottery figured linebackers, so you ought to be pretty
Speaker 1: dog gone good. Really, and again this is a validation
Speaker 1: game for both teams. I mean it really has. Both
Speaker 1: teams are coming in coming off of you know, good starts.
Speaker 1: You know, the one in eight opponents is obvious. Everybody
Speaker 1: talks about that, so doubters, and so one of these
Speaker 1: teams is going to validate itself as a pretty dog
Speaker 1: on team at the end of Sunday, Rick, I one
Speaker 1: more because I can't resist now, because you're the linebackers coach.
Speaker 1: In eighty five with the Colts played the Bears at
Speaker 1: Soldier Field. It was December eight, Week fourteen and a
Speaker 1: seventeen ten Bears win that, believe it or not. And Tommy,
Speaker 1: you guys would have to go back. And I had
Speaker 1: the privilege working with Iron Mike down in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: and you know, he was always a guy had great
Speaker 1: admiration for and we beat him the year before they
Speaker 1: got good in Baltimore. Was the game that he busted
Speaker 1: his hand on the blackboard. I think that probably was
Speaker 1: about eighty three and he was just starting. And then
Speaker 1: then the eighty five Bears. Those guys, I mean, they
Speaker 1: rewrote the record book. I mean, you know, the Buddy
Speaker 1: Ryan to me, Buddy Ryan and Bill Waltz to me
Speaker 1: are the greatest innovators defensively and offensively of my lifetime,
Speaker 1: which is a long time. And you know, Ryan's defense
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. But the Bears were a lot better on offense,
Speaker 1: you know, than people will ever know. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: with Walter and McMahon in a good offensive line, you know,
Speaker 1: and the big receiver, the kid from Tennessee that you know,
Speaker 1: can get deep all the time. I mean, that was
Speaker 1: that was just a great football team. It's almost amazing
Speaker 1: that it was just became a snapshot and didn't go
Speaker 1: on and on and on, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: but you know, the a eighty five Bears were devastating.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were just devastating that that defense. Nobody
Speaker 1: had it figured out, you know. You know, as time
Speaker 1: went on, you know, people began to figure out exactly
Speaker 1: how to but in those early days, it was just devastating.
Speaker 1: I mean you you hope that your quarterback made it
Speaker 1: out alive. Hey, Jeff, I gotta tell you one story
Speaker 1: about that game though. Okay, so we played that game.
Speaker 1: It was really bad weather and Steve Fuller was starting.
Speaker 1: Dicka came up to the offensive line and looked at it, said, hey,
Speaker 1: my five blocks granted, I'm not gonna run it. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna throw the ball today. We're gonna run it,
Speaker 1: and ran at the first twenty two plays of that game.
Speaker 1: You know what, I just I remember playing up in there.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, it was really interesting and this
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with today, but we came back
Speaker 1: in there. I'll never forget it with Mike Dick. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't ask the coach of the say as the Saints
Speaker 1: and we came back into up into Soldier's field and
Speaker 1: played and you want to talk about and Mike never
Speaker 1: said a word, but I mean, as assistant coach as
Speaker 1: you want to talk about trying to use your guys
Speaker 1: up for a game, and it was amazing. All right, Rick,
Speaker 1: We'll let you go have a great season and enjoy
Speaker 1: your maiden voyage with the Indianapolis Colts this year. Good
Speaker 1: talking to you. Thanks for the time. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: we'll talk again. Rick Venturry, radio analysts of the Indianapolis Colts,
Speaker 1: will continue with Bears All Access after this on Chicago
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Speaker 1: Let's talk Nick Foles. Tom Let's listen into a little
Speaker 1: bit how he's handled his career because it has not
Speaker 1: all been Super Bowl MVP trophies. There have been dips
Speaker 1: and valleys, and he's had a deal with failures and
Speaker 1: also how to embrace success. You said, like Saint Louis
Speaker 1: being traded from Philadelphia, you know, even this last year
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, you know, they're they're definitely bright spots within
Speaker 1: those years. Absolutely, but all in all is a vocation.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of trials and just understanding who
Speaker 1: I am as a person and not letting my identity
Speaker 1: be framed in you know, how many yards I throw for,
Speaker 1: how many touchdowns do I throw for? Or even winning
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. You know, that's been a huge part
Speaker 1: of my life and career is not holding tight to
Speaker 1: those things, like I don't hold tight to the Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 1: I I want the you know, success to be a
Speaker 1: product byproduct of the little things each and every day
Speaker 1: and stealing into people's lives, using this as a platform
Speaker 1: to you know, help different people in different things. And
Speaker 1: then the bypart that is I can step on the
Speaker 1: field and be a lot more free than if I
Speaker 1: put everything on a pedestal. And it's just shown throughout
Speaker 1: my career. In my life there's been more of a
Speaker 1: piece are going to work. There's still a lot of
Speaker 1: things that go on, and it is you know, at
Speaker 1: times of stressful situation, but you the keys just learning
Speaker 1: how to alleviate stress by understanding that, you know, what
Speaker 1: I do is to glorify God first and foremost and
Speaker 1: not myself, and that helps me when I'm thrust into
Speaker 1: crazy situations. He sounds like a really level headed guy.
Speaker 1: And when you have the trials and the successes and
Speaker 1: some of the failures that you have throughout a football career,
Speaker 1: when someone comes up to you and tells you you're
Speaker 1: cut or they tell you you're traded, you feel that
Speaker 1: now you have to reinvent yourself. You kind of try
Speaker 1: to find out what my role can be on this
Speaker 1: football team and how can I improve. I know within
Speaker 1: that press conference, he said that Frank Reich, the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Indian Appolis Colts, it has a big
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibility for the way he changed as
Speaker 1: a player. But I like what I hear out of Nick,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think I respect it because I
Speaker 1: know how out of control I am all the time
Speaker 1: when you talk about situations that you're not in control of.
Speaker 1: Bill Azier he worked with them as seven years ago
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and the experience that he's gained then showing now.
Speaker 1: I think people probably underestimate the fact that a guy
Speaker 1: hasn't played football for a while, even a veteran, like
Speaker 1: some of the other veteran quarterbacks have been around and
Speaker 1: a lot of them still like even they may not
Speaker 1: like a lot of preseason time, but even that first
Speaker 1: series or so just to kind of get back in rhythm.
Speaker 1: When you think about it, for Nick, he didn't have
Speaker 1: any of that right. He just had to jump right
Speaker 1: in in the critical situation he was in. So I
Speaker 1: thought he handled that part of it really well and
Speaker 1: still was able to do probably some of the things
Speaker 1: that you're that you're alluding to as far as is
Speaker 1: making some decisions out there in the pocket, you know, Nick,
Speaker 1: I think Nick it really is excellent as far as
Speaker 1: maintaining his balance, keeping bending his knees, maintaining his strength
Speaker 1: as far as his base even when he has to
Speaker 1: move in the pocket. Obviously, that's so much of the
Speaker 1: practice times for these quarterbacks is not only you know,
Speaker 1: throwing when something's clean and on time, but when I
Speaker 1: do have to move in the pocket. You know, That's
Speaker 1: what John d. Philippo spends a lot of time with.
Speaker 1: But but Nick is strong and he's athletic, and so
Speaker 1: he can make those things and still keep his body
Speaker 1: in a position to make a good, strong throw. I
Speaker 1: also think he's able to make those adjustments in the
Speaker 1: pocket and really maintain his focus down the field, which
Speaker 1: is which is critical. So if you can maintain your
Speaker 1: focus down the field, and then physically keep yourself ready
Speaker 1: to make the throw. You got a chance to operate
Speaker 1: in an NFL pocket when it gets dirty, And I
Speaker 1: think Nick does both of those things, which we did see.
Speaker 1: We did see that already on Sunday. Do you like
Speaker 1: his ability out of the pocket and making place from
Speaker 1: the pocket? Yeah? I do. But you know, the thing
Speaker 1: about to me is, I hope I'm not overworrying about it,
Speaker 1: but I still want to see the run game as
Speaker 1: a major influence to overall what they can offer Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: because if they try to become one dimensional and throwing
Speaker 1: the ball a high percentage of the time, that's going
Speaker 1: to take away some of that deception at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and that's gonna put more pressure on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. So I just hope that whatever the percentages
Speaker 1: are right now run to pass, that they still keep that,
Speaker 1: you know, try to keep that number up there. It's
Speaker 1: forty one, fifty nine run past percentage wise, you know,
Speaker 1: forty three, I'd be okay with that too. All Right,
Speaker 1: here's one Castier, the Bear's old line coach, and what
Speaker 1: he's asking of his tackles. Charles Lenno Junior and Bobby Massey.
Speaker 1: We're working on consistency with Charles, you know, to be
Speaker 1: consistent with his set, to be consistent with his hands,
Speaker 1: and those were That's what when Charles and I talked about,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what you've seen from him, the
Speaker 1: consistency he's been. He's been playing square, you know, we
Speaker 1: do mix up or sets, you know, and he does
Speaker 1: a really good job. He's got really good feet, you know. Charles,
Speaker 1: we've been working thirty minutes before practice, and that's a
Speaker 1: credit to those guys. A sacrifice that they said is
Speaker 1: there's only one way lynman get better by doing something
Speaker 1: over and over and over. And it's hard when you
Speaker 1: only have ten minutes an individual and practice. So that's
Speaker 1: why we start thirty minutes. So with Bobby, it was
Speaker 1: a little different. With Bobby. We're just trying to get
Speaker 1: him to play square. Initially, you know, try to stay square.
Speaker 1: It's hard to get beat inside or outside when you
Speaker 1: play square, and that's what we're working on. And now
Speaker 1: he's starting to play a little square, and now we
Speaker 1: go to the next step. The next step is the
Speaker 1: timing of the hands. And then once we get the
Speaker 1: timing of the hands, we'll go to where we start
Speaker 1: switching up somebody the sets. So it's a progression for
Speaker 1: both guys, you know. But I just really have to say,
Speaker 1: you know, the work that they're putting in is you know,
Speaker 1: they're sacrificing to get better. Da it sounds like you're
Speaker 1: offensive line talk right up your alley. It is. You know.
Speaker 1: The fortunate side for all offensive tackles this year in
Speaker 1: the NFL is there is no crowd noise. So if
Speaker 1: you think about these offensive tackles, if they would have
Speaker 1: been in Detroit, in Atlanta with the support of the
Speaker 1: crowd noise, we may be talking about a completely different performance.
Speaker 1: But what I like to hear is these offensive lineman
Speaker 1: and the construction of the fundamentals that wants put together.
Speaker 1: It's changing their games for a positive. I think this
Speaker 1: could be a game could get real gritty. What do
Speaker 1: you think, Like I said, it's an eighties game and
Speaker 1: it could get gritty, you know again, and it is
Speaker 1: about the physical play of the offensive line and then
Speaker 1: how the defense reacts to it. When you think about
Speaker 1: some of the eighties and the Bears defense the eighty five,
Speaker 1: they never they brought the action to the opponent. It
Speaker 1: was never Hey, let's wait to see what these guys
Speaker 1: trying to do. It's like, let's go get him from
Speaker 1: the from the beginning. All right, tom we're out of time.
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