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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Bear, Tom Fair, and the former Bears
Speaker 1: quarterback who led the Bears to the two thousand won playoffs,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller. Everybody tucked away in their locals and ready
Speaker 1: to go. We're gonna have a good show tonight. We
Speaker 1: got a couple of guests. We're gonna be joined by Haha,
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix, the Bears new safety, a free agent signing
Speaker 1: a one year deal, and he'll be joining that back
Speaker 1: end with Eddie Jack and all Alabama back in. And
Speaker 1: then we'll be joined as we look ahead to the
Speaker 1: Bears one hundred celebration first weekend in June with the
Speaker 1: Big Oh Otis Wilson. Tom, you reminded me last week
Speaker 1: there's only one big O. We had Old and CRUITZI
Speaker 1: last week. You know, you can't help but say big
Speaker 1: oh to him too, But there's really only one big O.
Speaker 1: He's Otis Wilson. Yeah, you know, Otis is that kind
Speaker 1: of guy. He's got a huge personality and I think
Speaker 1: he kind of, you know, fills that with the way
Speaker 1: he played, the way he embraced Chicago, the way he
Speaker 1: became one of the most favorite of all x fairs,
Speaker 1: and it's it's you know, he's a he's a unique
Speaker 1: guy because he's you know, we always hear that term
Speaker 1: boy he looks like you could still play, But Otis
Speaker 1: looks like he could still play. He's in great shape.
Speaker 1: He's totally dedicated to the Bears and his whole lifestyle,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to talking to him. We'll be
Speaker 1: talking to him closer to the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: We'll have a segment here with Big Jim Miller and
Speaker 1: Jim it's crazy to think after everything that's gone on
Speaker 1: and there's a tough season, whether it be a free
Speaker 1: agency draft, hirings, firings, quarterbacks getting moved around. There's only
Speaker 1: five weeks left in the offseason for most teams, and
Speaker 1: then they get about a month break and then training
Speaker 1: camp starts. So we're coming down to wire here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really moves fast. And you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: it being three sixty five twenty four seven. Football really
Speaker 1: is now. I mean, it's just everything comes to the
Speaker 1: to the forefront from the season and their training camp,
Speaker 1: then the season and postseason and then hey, you're onto
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and the championship games, the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and then lo and behold the combines on you before
Speaker 1: you know it, and then the draft, and you just
Speaker 1: got this small window to work with where you really
Speaker 1: get all these players, whether they're undrafted free agents or
Speaker 1: the draftable players who you selected the free agent signings,
Speaker 1: to really indoctrinate them and get it all set and
Speaker 1: really a small amount of time for the team to
Speaker 1: gel together and line up and do it again. And
Speaker 1: so that'll be the challenge for coach Naggie and his staff.
Speaker 1: And but at the same point, you got to be
Speaker 1: excited about how the team performed last year. Areas of
Speaker 1: focus where they did extremely well growth of young players
Speaker 1: like Mitchell for Whisky and the players that were added
Speaker 1: in free ag, and then you can you just keep
Speaker 1: stacking them, keep stacking them because obviously a lot of
Speaker 1: excitement about the Bears going until the twenty nineteen season,
Speaker 1: and Jim and Tim I felt some real genuine excitement
Speaker 1: at rookie mini caamp over the weekend too, from the
Speaker 1: front office, from the coaches about the types of players
Speaker 1: they brought in. No first or second round pick, obviously,
Speaker 1: but running back David Montgomery feels like a first round
Speaker 1: pick and he's getting a lot of love out there
Speaker 1: nationally as well as maybe one of the impact backs
Speaker 1: in his rookie season with the Bears. And I think
Speaker 1: it goes beyond that. It's some of the undrafted players
Speaker 1: are gonna get into tonight as well. But do you
Speaker 1: guys feel the same way. I mean, these guys they
Speaker 1: really like what they're going to bring to the table
Speaker 1: intangibly and then what their skill sets are in traits
Speaker 1: for their respective schemes on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, Jeff, running back is kind of unique position
Speaker 1: and the fact that there's a lot of innatability that
Speaker 1: you can recognize immediately. It's the vision, it's the power,
Speaker 1: it's the lowering of the show. It's the quality of
Speaker 1: feat you have with all the other positions. Offensive line,
Speaker 1: you got to work in tandem with the other five guys.
Speaker 1: If you're a defensive back, you have to make sure
Speaker 1: you have communication with the front seven to help you
Speaker 1: with the back four or five or six, depending upon
Speaker 1: how many defensive backs you're playing. So uniquely enough, you
Speaker 1: get a talented wide receiver, you get a talented running
Speaker 1: back like Montgomery. You can go there and you can
Speaker 1: be an a media contributed contributor, but you fill your
Speaker 1: plate the better you understand the offense. And I thought
Speaker 1: it was interesting because we've talked so many times that
Speaker 1: the Bears probably wanted a bigger back with route running ability.
Speaker 1: This guy's got great cutback ability. We look at David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: He's elusive in his jump cuts, in his change of direction.
Speaker 1: It probably doesn't have elite top end speed, but he's quick.
Speaker 1: He's extremely quick. I thought it was interesting. The head
Speaker 1: coach of the Iowa State Cyclones, Matt Campbell, he said
Speaker 1: he turned our program around was a quote about David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: and he said, if we had to put him at receiver,
Speaker 1: he'd be our best runner at our best route runner
Speaker 1: at the position. So he comes highly regarded. All right, man,
Speaker 1: heck of a catch last weekend and Mini camp down
Speaker 1: the sidelines and stayed on his feet, which is what
Speaker 1: he's all about. Guy's kind of unbelievable contract balance. And yes,
Speaker 1: the quote from Matt Cabell. He's a culture changer. He
Speaker 1: was at Iowa State's going to fit into this culture
Speaker 1: in Chicago with the Bears. And he loves the idea
Speaker 1: of running the football for the Bears. His love of
Speaker 1: Walter Payton courtesy of his grandfather watching YouTube videos. You
Speaker 1: can learn a lot from watching Walter Payton. We'll continue on. Well,
Speaker 1: we joined by Haha, Clinton Dix, Bears new Safety, and
Speaker 1: we come back here on Bears All Access is brought
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Speaker 1: seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access brought
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Speaker 1: Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Joni Act, Tom Thayer,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, and now we're gonna learn a little bit
Speaker 1: more about the newest Bear and Bears defense at Outstanding
Speaker 1: Defense Haha. Clinton Dix and name familiar to the fans
Speaker 1: of the Bears because of his connection with the Packers
Speaker 1: in the NFC North. We watched him play heck of
Speaker 1: an athlete, heck of a safety and out How welcome
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bears. How you doing today? Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: doing pretty good, man. I'm excited to be here. You know,
Speaker 1: it's been I guess just about a month. Have you
Speaker 1: Have you gotten a real good feel of what it's
Speaker 1: like to mean to be a Bear and what the
Speaker 1: culture is like at Hallis Hall? Well, it's definitely, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a great culture here. I'm still a hundred a
Speaker 1: season this year now, and um just been just been
Speaker 1: around the team, have been around a lot of the guys,
Speaker 1: and I'm familiar with with with how a team has
Speaker 1: been set up and help an organization the vine. Man,
Speaker 1: It's I'm just got to be a part of it, man,
Speaker 1: and I'm just looking to continue going forward. Haha. This
Speaker 1: is Tom there, the broadcaster with the Bears. Have I've
Speaker 1: been doing games with Jeff for quite a while, and
Speaker 1: it seems like every time we refer to you in
Speaker 1: a game, we always said haha, Clinton Dix makes the play.
Speaker 1: Is there a shorter version of your name and that
Speaker 1: we can refer to you that everybody knows you? Wow?
Speaker 1: The names and I've been callings I was a little kid,
Speaker 1: so I think that's you know, it's it's like it's
Speaker 1: like all the popular people that only need one first name,
Speaker 1: and to me, if we say haha, then we got
Speaker 1: everybody has to know who are referring to exactly, so
Speaker 1: Hama has done. It's actually fine as well. So um,
Speaker 1: I love my name man, and people joke about it
Speaker 1: all the time, but it doesn't that everybody loves and
Speaker 1: the grass on to it. Well, how about for it
Speaker 1: for you? You know here you you indoctrinate yourself and
Speaker 1: ingratiate yourself to the locker room in Green Bay, then
Speaker 1: have to make the transition to the Washington Redskins and
Speaker 1: you know, just doing having the same opportunity to do
Speaker 1: that in Chicago. Just to acclimate to the environment. You know,
Speaker 1: there's not too much to do up in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to do in Chicago. But just I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it's old hat for you now,
Speaker 1: but you you've been through it before, and just what
Speaker 1: it takes to get to know your teammates, be a
Speaker 1: part of a new team and really be a part
Speaker 1: of it, and really to jump right in, so to speak. Well,
Speaker 1: the Bears know we have some special going on here
Speaker 1: and in the locking room, and there's so many good
Speaker 1: guys or more down the earth and funny and you know,
Speaker 1: I have the same pass and also you know, want
Speaker 1: to win ball games. And that's what it's about. The
Speaker 1: first couple of days I came in, I was kind
Speaker 1: of the cliet kids. You're trying to, you know, get comfortable,
Speaker 1: and you know, see where I sit in that, And man,
Speaker 1: everybody here is so humble, man, And what ethic is
Speaker 1: unbelievable between the guys and uh Coast and Nag always
Speaker 1: spoke on just being youth, you know, and um, that's
Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing. But I'm just being me, man,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, just having to positive energy and
Speaker 1: having fun doing it. So um, I'm exciting about this opportunity.
Speaker 1: Ha ha. Clinton Dick's our guest here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access how can you do us a huge favorite. We
Speaker 1: have a really bad connection on the phone. Is there
Speaker 1: any way you could call us right back? We'll continue
Speaker 1: our conversation. That's true there, all right, give a handout,
Speaker 1: give us a call back. We'll get you right back.
Speaker 1: On Tom Fair, Jeff Johnny k and Jim Miller with us.
Speaker 1: I hear on bears all Access is a likable guy, fellas,
Speaker 1: he's going to fit in perfectly on this defense. I
Speaker 1: know Eddie Jackson certainly had a big impact in bringing
Speaker 1: him to Chicago, as we're gonna learn if when he
Speaker 1: calls back. Mitch Trubiski also had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with him coming in here. Gave him a sales pitch
Speaker 1: to come in here. I like the fit. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny you listen to his personality because
Speaker 1: we're not exposed to a lot of his personality when
Speaker 1: he is on the other side. So now you have
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him about the culture. The
Speaker 1: bears the reason and is an attraction to Chicago, And
Speaker 1: it's kind of nice to feel that you Adrian Amos
Speaker 1: is not here anymore, but you're bringing a teammate that
Speaker 1: has experience as an understanding of the division and hopefully
Speaker 1: he'll be beneficial very quick for him. Well last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is productive now in terms of
Speaker 1: his career fourteen interceptions, has a nose for the football,
Speaker 1: and I think he's extremely productive. He's a willing tackler,
Speaker 1: he's long and lean, all the things you're looking forward
Speaker 1: for secondary players in modern day day football. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, for Eddie Jackson, just you know, Alabama in
Speaker 1: the type of program that Nick Saban runs, you know,
Speaker 1: for him to jump in, I don't think it's not
Speaker 1: a big deal for him, you know. I think this
Speaker 1: guy knows how to work, and I think he'll stick
Speaker 1: his nose to the grindstone every single day, and definitely
Speaker 1: we'll get turnovers for the Bears. All Right, let's see
Speaker 1: if we have Clinton Dick's back on the line. How
Speaker 1: are you there? Yeah, I'm here. Okay, that sounds much
Speaker 1: better now we can hear you real well, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you for doing that. I appreciate it. Hey, I
Speaker 1: was just saying, you know, Eddie Jackson, obviously the connection
Speaker 1: is undeniable, the Obama connection. He helped get you here.
Speaker 1: But as I was told by Eddie and Tom there,
Speaker 1: and I heard it on draft day. He was on
Speaker 1: our show, Mitch Trubisky getting on the phone and trying
Speaker 1: to get you here as well. Made an impact on you.
Speaker 1: How rare is that for a quarterback to to go
Speaker 1: on dip on the defensive side of the ball and
Speaker 1: bring somebody in you know that he would like to
Speaker 1: see and help out, you know with that recruiting process. Man,
Speaker 1: he's the leader of the team. He's one of the
Speaker 1: leaders of the team. And um, you know, I've had
Speaker 1: the chance of playing against him. So we have a
Speaker 1: quarterback that comes over and you know, he tells you
Speaker 1: how much of a you know, a great player you
Speaker 1: are because he's you know, he sees us on tape
Speaker 1: a lot. And that just really meant a lot to me.
Speaker 1: And it just shows that my playstyff doesn't go unnotice. Hey, hai,
Speaker 1: when you have a chance to practice against a guy
Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers and then you're removed from him and
Speaker 1: now you're gonna play against him. Who recognizes tendencies better
Speaker 1: defensive backs of a quarterback or a quarterback of a
Speaker 1: defensive back. Well, they always say that the IQO quarterback
Speaker 1: is a lot better than anybody else On the field.
Speaker 1: But I'm just running from a rod and being able
Speaker 1: to play with him and sit in on meet and
Speaker 1: just get a better field from the game on how
Speaker 1: he sees it, I think I'm pretty up there. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty hot with him when it comes to seeing the
Speaker 1: whole field. But you know, just being able to play
Speaker 1: with him and and um, you know learning from him, Uh,
Speaker 1: it just opened my eyes and I can see the
Speaker 1: field more. Yeah. I would say last year too with
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, who I think. I mean, that guy's outstanding
Speaker 1: with what he's done in his career. But when you
Speaker 1: look at your statistics, I mean, you're you're never afraid
Speaker 1: to stick your nose in there. You've got a great
Speaker 1: nose for the football. Just to your fourteen interceptions speak
Speaker 1: to that, haha. But where what areas? Do you feel
Speaker 1: you've gotten better since you've entered the the NFL because
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're now a savvy vette is what
Speaker 1: you're considered. Well, when I first came to the league, UM,
Speaker 1: I always went for the big hits instead of just
Speaker 1: wrapping up and just making the clean cut tackle. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that that was one thing that I always
Speaker 1: wanted to work on. It is my open field tackling
Speaker 1: and be able to hop point the ball when it's
Speaker 1: in the air. M There's a lot of things I
Speaker 1: can continue to work on. I haven't reached my peak
Speaker 1: yet and I'm just excited to get better. Ha ha.
Speaker 1: Clinton Dick's our guest here on Bears All Access. It's
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy, Jeff Jonny Act time there,
Speaker 1: Jim Millier with you, ha ha. You're familiarity with the division.
Speaker 1: You know to me, it's not an underrated thing at all.
Speaker 1: You know very much where all the bones are buried
Speaker 1: in the division. Any unfinished business in the division for you? Um, well,
Speaker 1: I can't really say that, no, No, just excited to
Speaker 1: get things going. Um. The Bears off to a great
Speaker 1: start last year, lost some first round in the playoffs
Speaker 1: on the wind, I'll say, and um man, we got
Speaker 1: unfitted spinners here and uh, you know, like coach and
Speaker 1: Nike says, we're the hunt it now and uh we
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta carry that tip on our shoulder and
Speaker 1: know that, Um every team is gonna be after us
Speaker 1: and we have to go out there with that same
Speaker 1: mindset each and every week to get better when and
Speaker 1: come out with the win each and every game. Hey ha,
Speaker 1: are you talking about being a young guy and always
Speaker 1: want to come up and make the big hit? You know,
Speaker 1: tackling technique has changed in the NFL as recently as
Speaker 1: the last two three four years. Has that changed anything
Speaker 1: in terms of your job requirement? And is how tiki
Speaker 1: tacky they are about some of the hits or even
Speaker 1: the area that you can hit in the body? Almost definitely,
Speaker 1: it definitely has changed a lot in the game. But
Speaker 1: it's awesome for players safety. Um, I think that's most
Speaker 1: important in this game. When you hear so much about
Speaker 1: CT and all the brain bruises as asy as SAK
Speaker 1: and cussions. Um, I think it's for a good cause. Um.
Speaker 1: You just have to, you know, buy into the rule
Speaker 1: and just figure out why it's not to get caught
Speaker 1: up in the you know, in the wrong areas. Um.
Speaker 1: Now going out, I mean you've been with a lot
Speaker 1: of defensive coordinators now too, when you look at Dom
Speaker 1: Capers and Mike Penton and then last year with Manusky
Speaker 1: and now being able to work with with Chuck Pagano,
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously coverage is coverage. Certainly everybody's got
Speaker 1: man Man free and how they call it and all that,
Speaker 1: but just maybe the different techniques you've been exposed to.
Speaker 1: And even I'll say this for Nick Saban at Alabama
Speaker 1: because I know we put a lot of guys, a
Speaker 1: lot of on you guys to make a lot of
Speaker 1: calls back there in the in the secondary, just in
Speaker 1: terms of your football intelligence and how you marry it
Speaker 1: all together to become the most complete player you want
Speaker 1: to be. Well, I think you started with just choosing
Speaker 1: to go play at the University of Alabama. Saban runs
Speaker 1: NFL type defense, and um, I was just familiar with
Speaker 1: everything when I came to the league. I believe su
Speaker 1: Pagando and Manusky and Dom Capers have been again there
Speaker 1: at some point in time or they were on the
Speaker 1: same defense. So when I switched teams those more so
Speaker 1: of the terminology, I understood the game. I understood the
Speaker 1: concepts and what to do to get lined up. So
Speaker 1: just being able to play with Saban, man, I think
Speaker 1: that that really took my game to the next level
Speaker 1: with learning defenses and grasping on quit ha Ha Clinton Dix.
Speaker 1: Our guests kind enough to join us here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access tonight as the offseason program continues, just about
Speaker 1: five weeks left in it before break. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know a lot about the coaching of the
Speaker 1: Shay Towns, and we know about him as a player.
Speaker 1: Obviously he was an outstanding player. He's now the Bear
Speaker 1: secondary coach. He got played one hundred ninety one games
Speaker 1: in his NFL career and put up some big numbers.
Speaker 1: You're tracking him down. You know, he's got he had
Speaker 1: twenty one interceptions, so you got fourteen. You're on his heels.
Speaker 1: But he's coached Patrick Peterson, He's coach Kevin Byard. He's
Speaker 1: coached a number of people while he's been at Arizona
Speaker 1: and Tennessee. What have you learned from him? What's he
Speaker 1: like as a coach. He's a great coach. I've been
Speaker 1: around him for a month and he's talk talking to
Speaker 1: nothing but ball. Man. He's all about the ball and
Speaker 1: making plays and just been in the right plays. Uh.
Speaker 1: He speaks on the back game. Man. We have to
Speaker 1: be the best at everything we do. And uh, he's
Speaker 1: very sharp minded. Of course, he was an Alabema guy.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take up farm on that behalf and
Speaker 1: I I mean, I'm excited to work with him. Like
Speaker 1: you said, he worked with a lot of great players,
Speaker 1: so he knows what he's doing. And uh, I'm just
Speaker 1: buying into the system and I'm excited to work with him.
Speaker 1: I wish we can come up my picks in the
Speaker 1: playoffs what we can't so uh, he he had twenty,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to catch him where he got seventeen
Speaker 1: with the playoffs, right, Yeah, but they don't count, So
Speaker 1: it's okay. We've seen a lot of defensive players in
Speaker 1: the offensive huddle. Are you gonna get in Coach Naggie's
Speaker 1: here and kind of want to display your offensive skills too? Well,
Speaker 1: me and Coach Nick you already have to talk about that,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how that goes. But I'm excited about it. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be a part of this team,
Speaker 1: this culture here, and um I'm just ready to move forward, man,
Speaker 1: and just keep this thing going. Well, I know where
Speaker 1: you guys are at in the offseasons. Still got the
Speaker 1: vetment or vetment veteran mini camp and whole team mini
Speaker 1: camp to go through. But what do you do in
Speaker 1: terms of your off time leading up to training camp?
Speaker 1: Are you one of the guys that crank it up
Speaker 1: in terms of your workouts to get ready just because
Speaker 1: you feel new team, you know, new opportunity, those type
Speaker 1: of things. What do you have scheduled for yourself as
Speaker 1: you get ready for training camp? Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know, but coach Local has been has been
Speaker 1: piped it up a lot on us in the weight
Speaker 1: room now. So just about just taking care of the body, man,
Speaker 1: and staying focus, and spending as much time with my
Speaker 1: family as I can before the season goes on the way,
Speaker 1: and just working out man, to make sure I stand shafe.
Speaker 1: I think being as safe was the most important thing
Speaker 1: for a player in this league. Well did you mind?
Speaker 1: And we'll let you go after this, But you know
Speaker 1: you mentioned time mansioned offense. You're a great running back
Speaker 1: in high school, now, weren't you all American running back?
Speaker 1: I was? I was, Okay, I was. I'm up like
Speaker 1: these guys in the NFL now, but I can still
Speaker 1: do something. All right. We'll enjoy I spending more time
Speaker 1: with you throughout the off season and during the season especially,
Speaker 1: But glad you're with the Bears and hope you're enjoying Chicago.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much appreciated. Haha, Clinton Dicks Bears safety
Speaker 1: joining us here on Bears All Access Back with Tom
Speaker 1: and Jim after this on Chicago Sports Radio Sick seventy
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Speaker 1: Tom Fair, Jim Miller, and if you guys have been
Speaker 1: on Chicago Bears dot Com or on the Bears Official
Speaker 1: app on Twitter or whatever you've been seeing this week, fellas,
Speaker 1: I'm certain they didn't do this back in your day,
Speaker 1: but throughout the league you got it's picture video promotional week.
Speaker 1: You know, you got you got different networks coming in
Speaker 1: to shoot the guys in full uniform. They're getting their
Speaker 1: their pump up videos you'll see and soldier field and
Speaker 1: you saw some of it on the web and so forth.
Speaker 1: It's branding for the season, and these guys take it seriously.
Speaker 1: I'm not joking. Well, you see how many times are
Speaker 1: we sitting at games or you're watching a game on
Speaker 1: TV and you see those videos come up and they
Speaker 1: the fans have a lot of fun with them. Their
Speaker 1: participation increases the enthusiasm inside the stadium. And like you said,
Speaker 1: you have to take it serious because it is It
Speaker 1: is part of individual branding, and if you happen to
Speaker 1: have a great football season, those videos and those presentations
Speaker 1: are going to be played regularly. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I just know players hated doing it because
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta go. You stand in line, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's CBS or the networks that are there, and
Speaker 1: they take in the back room. They have the whole
Speaker 1: big setup and everything, all right, can't can't you give
Speaker 1: us a mean look? Can't you, you know, all right,
Speaker 1: do something funny for us? And you're just like, what,
Speaker 1: I just want to go learn my playbook? Is that
Speaker 1: all right? Can I do that? But yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a necessity now the way modern day NFL is
Speaker 1: is really broadcasted helping us out today as always, and
Speaker 1: this is not an easy show to put together because
Speaker 1: of everybody's in parts of the country hurt. Lawrence at
Speaker 1: Adams Dzinski helping us out Shane Ridden as always as
Speaker 1: well here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Okay,
Speaker 1: a couple of takeaways from rookie Mini camp and after
Speaker 1: this next segment will be joined by Otis Wilson. The
Speaker 1: eighty five Chicago Bear outstanding linebacker Riley Ridley, known for
Speaker 1: his route running. Precise route running boy. That showed him
Speaker 1: mini camp as well. Granted no pads are running around,
Speaker 1: but you could see some of the strengths of some
Speaker 1: of these guys right off the bat, Tom and Jim.
Speaker 1: That was one of my takeaways. And then just some
Speaker 1: of the guys that they brought in in the undrafted market,
Speaker 1: Dax Raymond, the tight end out of Utah State, Missouri
Speaker 1: receiver Emmanuel Hall. Twenty five teams offered this guy a
Speaker 1: free agent deal he wanted to be with the Bears.
Speaker 1: Some local guys too from the States. So I'm really
Speaker 1: encourage about what they might be able to pluck and
Speaker 1: add to the competitive aspect of training camp. You know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: were you good as good? If you're If someone is
Speaker 1: good at their position, their skill, their craft, they're good
Speaker 1: the day they get there. And then you see players
Speaker 1: that develop over time, that have to learn different techniques,
Speaker 1: and that did a lift the differences between their college
Speaker 1: program and what's expected of bout the NFL. You go
Speaker 1: back to eighty five or eighty when Jimbo eighty three,
Speaker 1: when Jimbo was drafted, you knew Jimbo was great the
Speaker 1: second he got in a stance, and he got even
Speaker 1: better throughout his career. And then you see other players
Speaker 1: that have chace to develop. You mentioned Ridley, here's a
Speaker 1: guy with a great deal of experience. In all the
Speaker 1: assets they talk about leading up to the draft, he
Speaker 1: puts them on display and you get an understanding. Wow.
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, all the route running, the catching ability,
Speaker 1: the rate, catching radius and all that is evident. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's going to be a competitive wide receiver room.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that because Ridley not only he's
Speaker 1: got huge hands. Now if you go look at you know,
Speaker 1: just the measurables and things like that. Certainly the name
Speaker 1: of his older brother, and you know a lot of
Speaker 1: times too, it's it's the structure of the offense because
Speaker 1: him at Georgia, certainly with Sony Michelle and the running
Speaker 1: backs that they had there, or even this year Elijah Holyfield.
Speaker 1: They did focus more on running the football. This guy's
Speaker 1: a William blocker, does everything extremely well, can make the
Speaker 1: big catches, a really good fluid route runner that you mentioned,
Speaker 1: And I'd say the same thing about Emmanual Hall. A
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Gil Brandon made every pick of the
Speaker 1: draft there this year in Nashville, and it was from
Speaker 1: the fourth round on. Gil Brandt said, my highest guy
Speaker 1: on my board is Emmanual Hall. Shocking that he did
Speaker 1: not get drafted that as a talented football player from
Speaker 1: the Zoo. I'm excited about watching that unfold as well.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you Bears fans, you're gonna like Duke Shelley,
Speaker 1: the five nine corner likely to handle that try to
Speaker 1: compete for that slot job out of Kansas State. He's feisty,
Speaker 1: he's energetic, and he's magnetic. Players respond to his enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: You're gonna like it. Coming back, we're gonna be joined
Speaker 1: by Otis Wilson, but Big Oh, former first round pick
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty by Jim Finks and the Bears. He'll
Speaker 1: be joining us to talk about the one hundred celebration
Speaker 1: weekend coming up in June. This is Bears All Access
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the sport. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: join us for Bears one hundred celebration weekend in Rosemond,
Speaker 1: June seventh through the ninth. Enjoyed player autographs, photo ops,
Speaker 1: football panels, and activities for all ages. You can get
Speaker 1: your tickets today at Chicago Bears dot com. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun weekend. I know Tom and I are
Speaker 1: going to be involved in these football panels. There's some
Speaker 1: very interesting ones, some great ones that we can't really
Speaker 1: wait to get involved with and to hear the stories
Speaker 1: about the past and maybe things we've never heard before.
Speaker 1: I know that's hard when you're Chicago Bear in this
Speaker 1: market because so many stories have been told. But there's
Speaker 1: a few that we're gonna try to pull out of
Speaker 1: these guys. Right. Of course, there's a lot of great
Speaker 1: stories that even that you kind of re reminded of
Speaker 1: because you had some of the experiences with them. You know.
Speaker 1: One thing, for example, when I got to the Bears,
Speaker 1: I would watch Buddy Ryan lead this troop of defensive
Speaker 1: players to these archaic fifty updown they would have to
Speaker 1: do before practice, jog in place, jump through their stomach
Speaker 1: pop up, and I was thinking, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: can't believe at this level that Buddy Ryan can take
Speaker 1: this group of talent and just challenging the discipline of
Speaker 1: them by having doing something like updowns before practice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean there's I'm sure for every player
Speaker 1: that when you're part of something uh special, a part
Speaker 1: of teams, you know, you create those those bonds. A
Speaker 1: lot a lot of funny things happen. You know, you're
Speaker 1: with each other every day for for many hours, and
Speaker 1: a lot of funny stories really unfold. And there are
Speaker 1: some great ones and the legendary ones, but you know,
Speaker 1: I just know the ones that I was there in
Speaker 1: a in a part of with great teammates, and man,
Speaker 1: they're they're fun to think back, and it really brings
Speaker 1: a smile to your face to be a part of
Speaker 1: such a great guy's, great organization and everybody that you
Speaker 1: dealt with over the years that you participated tim you
Speaker 1: you you brought up something. Now I gotta ask so respectively,
Speaker 1: both you guys, what's the one thing you hated doing
Speaker 1: in terms of physically at during practice or at training
Speaker 1: camp that you really did not like doing? You know,
Speaker 1: when we started training camp, Jeff. You know, we didn't
Speaker 1: have these pre practices where you go at no pads.
Speaker 1: You show up and you start pads, and so you
Speaker 1: go through the very first day, you go through your stretching,
Speaker 1: you warm up your individual, the whistle blows, and you
Speaker 1: go to this drill it used to be called nutcracker,
Speaker 1: where it was one offensive lineman, one defensive lineman or
Speaker 1: linebacker in a running back behind you and you'd go
Speaker 1: up and down the line of scrimmage and that whistle
Speaker 1: would blow or the snapcount would go and it would
Speaker 1: just be a massive collision. And so that's the way
Speaker 1: that we began training camp. So probably the first five
Speaker 1: to eight or nine days, depending on depending upon how
Speaker 1: physically we are practicing, it would be judgment how long
Speaker 1: we would do. Though, so nobody looked forward to them.
Speaker 1: They were next shortening drills, but they were super competitive.
Speaker 1: What's the first who's the first guy you went up
Speaker 1: in nutcracker? Do you remember Steve McMichael. I would go
Speaker 1: with Steve mc I would go Steve McMichael first, Mike
Speaker 1: Singletary second, and then William Perry third. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: that's terrible Thank you, the Red jerseys. Thank you Lord.
Speaker 1: I never had to do the Oklahoma's. Well what did
Speaker 1: you what did you hate doing? Uh? Being in the
Speaker 1: damn training room all the time? You know that was
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's you know, it's when you're
Speaker 1: you find yourself in there more than well you're because
Speaker 1: I did. I love practicing. I love being out on
Speaker 1: the field. I love it, you know, honing the craft,
Speaker 1: getting getting better, and you know, whether it's torn achilles
Speaker 1: or shoulders, it just it gets old being in that
Speaker 1: training room. You know. But even then, though, there's so
Speaker 1: many great memories, and you know, God bless ed McCaskey
Speaker 1: because a lot of times I'd be sitting there on
Speaker 1: the table right next to him and we had some
Speaker 1: great conversations that even you know, I cherished to this
Speaker 1: very day. Yeah, you can't ever forget that at and
Speaker 1: nor can we forget the play of Otis Wilson, first
Speaker 1: round pick of the Bears back in nineteen eighty. Kind
Speaker 1: of enough to join us tonight here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score, good evening, Otis,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joni act time there, Jim Miller, how are you
Speaker 1: doing today? Good evening, guys. I'm doing fine. I've been good.
Speaker 1: Good good man. It's just I would say, just taking
Speaker 1: it easy this evening. Well, you know, I bring it
Speaker 1: up from the start because I just asked Tim and
Speaker 1: Jim about what they what's the one thing they disliked about,
Speaker 1: you know, going to practice or training camp or whatever
Speaker 1: one thing you dready going to every day. Was there
Speaker 1: anything Tim didn't didn't particularly love the nutcracker? How about yourself?
Speaker 1: Um well, I really viewed practice as like I did
Speaker 1: at school. You know, I just I did enough the
Speaker 1: polished my skills. But I always figured, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to take five hours to do something that
Speaker 1: you can do and two hours. So I didn't like
Speaker 1: practice much, especially when it's a hundred and something degree.
Speaker 1: Then you got to practice twice a day with pad
Speaker 1: zones and then beating up on the guys you love.
Speaker 1: That's no fun. But you know, Otis I was bringing
Speaker 1: up for me to watch the whole, the whole eighty
Speaker 1: five Bears because I was a latecomer there, but I
Speaker 1: remember coming out there and watching every single day, buddy,
Speaker 1: having you guys do updowns, and I hated it. For
Speaker 1: you guys, did you did you hate it or did
Speaker 1: you just know you had to live through it? Well,
Speaker 1: you knew you were gonna do it. I mean any
Speaker 1: type of running, whether it was you know, gases or
Speaker 1: up downs. I mean, but when you think about it time,
Speaker 1: you know it was really buddy, I always wanted to
Speaker 1: pay to pay you for five quarters. It wasn't about
Speaker 1: four quarters. It was about five quarters long. And that's
Speaker 1: what That's what the mentality he wanted you to have.
Speaker 1: So but to physically do it after a long day.
Speaker 1: I mean when he said hit the line, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, you know, here we go. And then he
Speaker 1: said okay, let's up, let's up down. You know, I
Speaker 1: look at him and I just like, okay. I just
Speaker 1: give him a little half smile, and he looks at
Speaker 1: me like, you know, you know, buddy, Ryan, you know
Speaker 1: what did you tell you? The heartbeat? Oldest Jim Miller here,
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you again, my friend. And when
Speaker 1: you arrived with the Bears in nineteen eighty, when did
Speaker 1: you realize you're going to be a part of something special,
Speaker 1: something historic in terms of the defense. Well, the gods
Speaker 1: ryder is true. When I first came here and I
Speaker 1: got dubble phones. Number Doug came from Louisville as I did,
Speaker 1: and played for fifteen years and did a stellar job.
Speaker 1: I said, the pressure is on me because I mean,
Speaker 1: I know they're going to compare, you know, what he
Speaker 1: did to what I'm going to do. And looking at
Speaker 1: the linebacker Colly had, Tom Higgs, Jerry mulcam Stern and
Speaker 1: oh god, I can't think this name went out of
Speaker 1: my head. Gary Campbell SHOPI, you know, honestly, and don't
Speaker 1: don't take this the wrong way. I said, this linebacker
Speaker 1: Corse sucks. I said, I need to be out there
Speaker 1: twenty four seven, and I just worked my butt off,
Speaker 1: you know, and and the process so that I could,
Speaker 1: you know, being number to be that number one player
Speaker 1: that they wanted me to be. But it really didn't
Speaker 1: start happening for us because we were losing a lot
Speaker 1: of football games and you know, at the last game,
Speaker 1: the last home games, guys are packing their car. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what kind of crapper is this? I mean,
Speaker 1: don't y'all want to go to the playoffs? So the
Speaker 1: attitude wasn't there. I say, those those first two years,
Speaker 1: it was an experience. I mean, the best thing about it,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you another guards on us too, was
Speaker 1: watching Walter Payton. I mean, this man would just beat
Speaker 1: up people trying to tackle him. So you know, when
Speaker 1: I got out there, I said, I want to keep
Speaker 1: him off the field. I mean, he don't need to
Speaker 1: be killing himself. So that that that's my take on it.
Speaker 1: Otis Wilson our guest here on Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score with Tom Thare,
Speaker 1: Jim Nutter. I'm Jeff Joniac. So you're a two time
Speaker 1: All Pro, you go to the Pro Bowl on eighty
Speaker 1: five ten and a half sacks that season. You are
Speaker 1: a feared pass rusher thirty six career sacks. You could
Speaker 1: have even done more damage if you were put in
Speaker 1: those positions. You swipe ten balls, scored a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And let me be the first to tell you in
Speaker 1: case you didn't know, it is going to be revealed
Speaker 1: the top players in Bears history to top one hundred
Speaker 1: for the one hundred celebration, and Otis Wilson, you're in
Speaker 1: the top fifty all times Chicago Bears. This is all
Speaker 1: a part of Chicago Bears Centennial scrapbook put together by
Speaker 1: two outstanding writers, Hall of Fame writers and Don Pearson
Speaker 1: and Dan Pompey. This book will be coming out right
Speaker 1: in time for the convention fifty five dollars. It'll be
Speaker 1: on the Bears Pro Shop when it comes out. So congratulations,
Speaker 1: top fifty player in Bears history. Well, I really know,
Speaker 1: you know, when people play, they don't play for accolades.
Speaker 1: But to hear that and know the tradition of what
Speaker 1: defensive players done in Chicago, I mean that that just
Speaker 1: total ony. I'm surprised, I'm shocked, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: greatly appreciative. You know, otis And in my time in
Speaker 1: watching Buddy Ryan, he never handed anything to anybody. And
Speaker 1: Jeff just read about the stats that you were able
Speaker 1: to achieve in stuff. When how did you make the
Speaker 1: transition to the good side of Buddy? What did you
Speaker 1: do that? Okay? Buddy said, I realize, man, this guy
Speaker 1: is legit. I'm gonna play him and I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him a lot of opportunity. How did that go with
Speaker 1: you and Buddy? Well, like everybody else, I mean, you
Speaker 1: have to win Buddy's confidence, you know, because He always said,
Speaker 1: rookies get you beat, and he stay, oh he stay
Speaker 1: on rookies and he just you know, humbles you, breaks
Speaker 1: you down to build you up. And finally, you know,
Speaker 1: probably the fifth game, you know, being anxious and wanted
Speaker 1: to play, you know, I sat in his office. I
Speaker 1: came to have a meeting with him. Man, I sat
Speaker 1: down and talked with him, and you know, he really
Speaker 1: explained to me, you know, what he was trying to
Speaker 1: get out of his players and watching the film and
Speaker 1: understanding system because number one, that system was crazy to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, we called AFC automatic front and cover and
Speaker 1: off of anything off that particular AFC. You know, you
Speaker 1: have four or five different responsibilities and then that's not
Speaker 1: even going into you know, the forty six. So you know,
Speaker 1: I just didn't know what was going on. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I mean, I ain't no five bit of kapital,
Speaker 1: you know, but I mean I'm gonna jumping. I'm not
Speaker 1: a dummy, but I mean, and I understand the scheme
Speaker 1: of football. But I saw took the time to sit
Speaker 1: with him on numerous occasions and really understood what he
Speaker 1: was talking about. But then again, he was still still
Speaker 1: hard on me, you don't have no favorites. But then
Speaker 1: when you buddy's boy, he would go to bat for
Speaker 1: you one hundred percent. And you know, I finally understood
Speaker 1: what he was trying to accomplish and how he wanted
Speaker 1: all of us to know what everybody's doing, and you know,
Speaker 1: get out there and just be the best athlete you
Speaker 1: can give, y'all. That's all he could ask, you know.
Speaker 1: And I saw always getting next to somebuddy's forty six
Speaker 1: buddy because what you know, what Kleio mac and Ron
Speaker 1: Millen Alan were doing. I was doing that a long
Speaker 1: time ago, you know. But it's a different times and
Speaker 1: a different defense and a different scheme the way they're
Speaker 1: playing it. But that's what you know. And then keeping
Speaker 1: the stats. They really didn't start keeping the stats until
Speaker 1: probably after the eighty five eighty six season, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know my average as far as you know,
Speaker 1: looking at Richard over there or any defensive end that
Speaker 1: on that side, I can get the ball as quick
Speaker 1: as they can. So just a matter of understanding what
Speaker 1: he was trying to do. Because he breaks, he treats
Speaker 1: us like his kid. He always say, just because I
Speaker 1: beat you don't mean I don't love you. Yeah, well, olness,
Speaker 1: when you brought up, you know, just you know the
Speaker 1: changes in the in the NFL and the evolution of it.
Speaker 1: Here the hundredth anniversary of football, and certainly football has
Speaker 1: been under attack, but yet it's rated higher than it's
Speaker 1: ever been. You know, just the meaning of football to you,
Speaker 1: Why you started playing, your love of the game, because
Speaker 1: it certainly showed what the passion you played with. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the game. I started when I
Speaker 1: was eight, and you know I used to have to
Speaker 1: go to different neighborhoods to play because after about two
Speaker 1: weeks I beat up on everybody and then nobody wanted
Speaker 1: to play. You know. So when I finally got in
Speaker 1: high school, I mean, you know, the competition got better
Speaker 1: and you always you know, my my philosophy is, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna let you outshine me. Ain't no way if
Speaker 1: you're gonna If I see somebody who's doing well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do better. And that that that's my philosophy. Since
Speaker 1: day one. I have a lot of respect for the game.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of great athletes, So I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at the offensive line, you look at you know, Walter,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, when I first got here, the
Speaker 1: only two people that had on that offensive line with
Speaker 1: Noah Jackson and Review Short, and then Walter would follow
Speaker 1: them and get as much as he could. So I
Speaker 1: think that eighty three draft would go down to history,
Speaker 1: probably one of the best drafts for US. That's Chicago
Speaker 1: because when league we had all these guys day do
Speaker 1: us and Richard did? I mean, everybody started coming, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know that's when that eighty three, eighty forty five,
Speaker 1: eighty six, eighty seven, I mean eighty eight. It was
Speaker 1: just a good rider. Otis Wilson, our guest at remaining
Speaker 1: moments with the Bears linebacker. I ranked the time the
Speaker 1: top fifty all time Chicago Bears. We'll tell you more
Speaker 1: about that scrapbook coming out here in June real quick.
Speaker 1: I was thumbing through some photos today and there's an
Speaker 1: iconic one of you and Walter Peyton high five, and
Speaker 1: I believe that's when he broke the rushing record um
Speaker 1: at at Soldier Field. Um, what what was the relationship,
Speaker 1: like the bond between the two of you, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of pictures of you on Walter. Well, when
Speaker 1: I first got here, you know, Walter, I guess took
Speaker 1: a liking to me. And you know, I'm a guy
Speaker 1: from New York City, Brooklyn, you know, a little fast,
Speaker 1: you know, run my mouth and you know how strong,
Speaker 1: and you know he he said, you know, we just
Speaker 1: really struck up a conversation and like you do with
Speaker 1: any teammate, and it would just form that bond. And
Speaker 1: you know I would go over to you know, meet
Speaker 1: him at his house and we go hunting on Tuesdays
Speaker 1: with Roland Hopper, three of us, and you know, he
Speaker 1: would I was interested in, you know, the business aspect.
Speaker 1: You know, he would always you know, take me to
Speaker 1: some of his restaurants and clubs. I mean we just
Speaker 1: really had a good time, you know, talking and and
Speaker 1: what I what I lived. What he loved about him
Speaker 1: was I mean he always had a smile on his face.
Speaker 1: He never took nothing serious. I mean, obviously he took
Speaker 1: a lot of things serious, but he always joking me
Speaker 1: about it. He enjoyed what he was doing. And he
Speaker 1: always said he played this thing, do this thing, you know,
Speaker 1: like you've never done it before, because you never know
Speaker 1: how long it's gonna last. Man always kept that with me,
Speaker 1: and you know until the end. It was heartbreaking at
Speaker 1: the end, but you know he walked with a genuinely
Speaker 1: nice guy. Plus he had nice car, so I'd always
Speaker 1: get to drive this car. Everybody think they were they
Speaker 1: were minor sometimes Liken, you know, you know you take
Speaker 1: that way like it's your car. More great stories like that,
Speaker 1: Promotis Wilson and many many other Bears. If you'll join us.
Speaker 1: Had the Bears one hundred celebration in Rosemont June seventh,
Speaker 1: through the night. We'll be looking forward to hearing these stories.
Speaker 1: You'll be on with Tim and Iron some panels, So
Speaker 1: looking forward to see you. Thanks for taking the time tonight. Well,
Speaker 1: you know I always guys, you guys do because you
Speaker 1: guys keep it real and you make it a joyable
Speaker 1: listening to it, and you people really understand what football
Speaker 1: is all about. So until next time, piece of love.
Speaker 1: Otis Wilson, Bears linebacker, will continue with our program after
Speaker 1: this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score back
Speaker 1: with you on Bears All Access. Jeff Jony Act, Tom Thare,
Speaker 1: and Jim Miller. We just talked to Otis Wilson. H
Speaker 1: the unvarnished truth. Huh. Otis Wilson gives you. He gives
Speaker 1: it to his treat Tom and Jim. You know, Jeff.
Speaker 1: One thing when we talk about in preparation for one
Speaker 1: hundred year anniversary celebration with the Bears, when you talk
Speaker 1: to a teammate, it ignites stories in your head up
Speaker 1: things that happen on the practice field that not everybody sees.
Speaker 1: You know. For example, I remember the day because they
Speaker 1: did it. They pulled it off on me, but when
Speaker 1: they did it to their defensive line coach or Dan
Speaker 1: Hampton would come up and kind of engage you in
Speaker 1: a conversation and then Mick Mike would get behind you
Speaker 1: on all fours and then half would push you over.
Speaker 1: And so they did it to behind the practice field
Speaker 1: boat the day I saw two guys like that do
Speaker 1: it to day. I'll hop their defensive line coach, and
Speaker 1: then he got so mad he was getting up chasing them.
Speaker 1: So it is. It's it's things that you think about
Speaker 1: with old teammates that are stories that mad you. You
Speaker 1: thought that you couldn't remember them. But a conversation, a
Speaker 1: subject that you start talking to someone and then you
Speaker 1: think about a million things that you went through as
Speaker 1: a Chicago bear, either as a broadcast or a player
Speaker 1: that are you're reminded of in these times? Jim, was
Speaker 1: there an era of football that you would have preferred
Speaker 1: to play in? Or did you? Were you the right
Speaker 1: fit for your era? H? No? I you know I
Speaker 1: enjoyed my era, you know when you look at it,
Speaker 1: you know, I started, like I said, with a great organization.
Speaker 1: But like you said, I mean, things are just different now,
Speaker 1: you know. And how you could prepare it was more
Speaker 1: hands on. You do, more field work, more practicing things
Speaker 1: like that, you know, and you look back. It's funny
Speaker 1: because you have on Os, we have on Otis Wilson
Speaker 1: to and I who's a great linebacker. And I go
Speaker 1: back and I bring this up about Dale Lindsay all
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, I'll never forget. We'd get out
Speaker 1: of our quarterback meeting rooms and Dale Lindsay would already
Speaker 1: have the linebackers Brian or Lacker obviously, carry Samuel would
Speaker 1: be out there in Roosevelt Colvin and he worked those
Speaker 1: guys to the bone. Now, I mean, but those guys
Speaker 1: will all tell you they credit that Dale's the one
Speaker 1: that got them ready to play. Yeah, war Coleman and
Speaker 1: they were that was a good group. I mean, they
Speaker 1: really were. But a lot of it was that that effort,
Speaker 1: you know, and all the hard work that those guys did,
Speaker 1: you know, during during you know, that time that you
Speaker 1: could go on the field in practice. And that's that's
Speaker 1: for every team that I've been with. You know, I
Speaker 1: could tell you a story like that and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: coach impacting a player plus the players, you know, realizing
Speaker 1: how great that they were and how good a players,
Speaker 1: uh they could be. And he pushed them now, and
Speaker 1: he pushed them hard. And those players were all willing
Speaker 1: to accept it. Probably like what ODIs said, didn't like
Speaker 1: it all the time, but they knew at the end
Speaker 1: of the day was making them better, all right. He's
Speaker 1: a heck of a linebacker two in the NFL, Dale Lindsay,
Speaker 1: I think the guys called him Sergeant Slaughter. So he
Speaker 1: was a tough guy. Man, he isn't He had so
Speaker 1: many knee injuries. That guy kept coming out of the
Speaker 1: practice field though, and coaching, coaching everybody up. He took nothing.
Speaker 1: None of those guys could take anything for granted, because
Speaker 1: he never knew where we're gonna get the next day
Speaker 1: of practice, you know, and some of these types of stories.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go back to this book that Don
Speaker 1: Pearson and Dan Pompey put together, and you know, with
Speaker 1: the foremost authority on the Chicago Bears, Virginia mccasky also
Speaker 1: providing a unique look back at the at the first
Speaker 1: one hundred years. They spent ten hours, over ten hours
Speaker 1: with her interviewing her and she's the only one with
Speaker 1: the first hand knowledge of every decade guys in the
Speaker 1: one hundred year history, So you can imagine what those
Speaker 1: stories are gonna be. Like, Oh, I mean it's unique.
Speaker 1: I don't you know. There's a couple of organizations that
Speaker 1: have the people I have been around him with the
Speaker 1: Rooney family or the Mars and stuff. But when you
Speaker 1: talk about the creation of the NFL and just just
Speaker 1: some of the meetings or everything that she was able
Speaker 1: to witness, there's not a person that you could go
Speaker 1: and talk to about the NFL that has actual eye
Speaker 1: account experiences. Yeah, it's really is amazing. Like and I
Speaker 1: mentioned this about Dan Rooney all the time, God rest
Speaker 1: his soul when I was with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But
Speaker 1: now you know his son or his relatives taken over
Speaker 1: the team. And you know, and that's the same for
Speaker 1: the whole mccaskie family. I mean, that whole family has grown,
Speaker 1: has seen it, have been a part of it, have
Speaker 1: witnessed it. But none none like her. None. I mean
Speaker 1: it truly is amazing. Be looking for the book Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear Centennial Scrapbook insider take on coaches, players, ownership, key games, innovations,
Speaker 1: significant milestones, events that shape what the Bears are today.
Speaker 1: There's going to be so many different things in that book,
Speaker 1: including you know, artifacts and everything like that. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be a great, great thing to get on
Speaker 1: your table for sure, on your nightstand. All right, a
Speaker 1: couple of things league wide today. Just want to touch
Speaker 1: on him real quick. First of all, Kyler Murray signed
Speaker 1: his contract. It's not unusual obviously with the way it's
Speaker 1: everything slotted now, but the thirty five million dollar contract
Speaker 1: for Kyler Murray, well, you know, now it's up to
Speaker 1: Arizona to make sure that they cultivate his talent, figure
Speaker 1: out a way how you can use it, and in
Speaker 1: the abusive defenses of NFL football, making sure that he
Speaker 1: turns out to be an asset that's going to lead
Speaker 1: you into the future for the next ten years, because
Speaker 1: this GM cannot go and fail on two top ten
Speaker 1: quarterback picks within two years. And that so I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pressure here with the first time
Speaker 1: head coach, a passing coordinator that's not really an RPO
Speaker 1: type of coach. And then his size is always going
Speaker 1: to be suspect unless he's so great that it just
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Yeah. I mean here, I think there's the
Speaker 1: stu i'le the fit, and you're right. I think we'll
Speaker 1: see how it plays out, you know. And I think
Speaker 1: Tom brings up a good point about Steve Kind. But
Speaker 1: I will say this about the general manager Arizona. He
Speaker 1: supports his coach, what his coach needs, he drafts, and
Speaker 1: obviously Cliff Kingsbury he coveted Kyler Murray. Shoot, he recruited
Speaker 1: him out of high school. He's seen the kid since
Speaker 1: he was a young man and always grown out to
Speaker 1: be a first round picking not only baseball but football
Speaker 1: as well. So certainly a lot of excitement about Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question, Jim. If Bruce
Speaker 1: are hypothetically Bruce arians is still the head coach of Arizona,
Speaker 1: does he develop Josh Rosen or does he even consider
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. I don't think, in my opinion, I don't
Speaker 1: think he would have considered Kyler Murray. He has always
Speaker 1: been the big strong pocket passer guy. Why he went out,
Speaker 1: you know he's been with Big Ben. You think of
Speaker 1: the guys he was within Cleveland and then they even
Speaker 1: went out and traded and got Carson Palmer from the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders. So he likes the big strong arm pocket
Speaker 1: passer guy is to throw chuck it down the field.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, believe it or not, We're out of time,
Speaker 1: ready to row. Thanks as always, Tom Fair, Jim Miller.
Speaker 1: Thanks to our guest tonight Haha, Clinton dix Otis Wilson.
Speaker 1: Thanks most of all, thank you for listening. Thanks to
Speaker 1: her Lawrence, Adam Suzinski and Shane Reardon. We're out of here.
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