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Speaker 1: the season where to begin? Right now, this very second.
Speaker 1: The Bears at the number two seed of the NFC,
Speaker 1: and they'd be hosting the La Rams, the seventh seed
Speaker 1: in the NFC. It's just fun to think about. There's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of football left to play, but another
Speaker 1: win in the NFC would certainly harden their stance toward
Speaker 1: that end. Dummy, you know how many carts you have
Speaker 1: before the horse by hooking break? If you even listen
Speaker 1: that topics they start this show six weeks, I have
Speaker 1: all season. Hey listen, you have a whole in front
Speaker 1: of that car. I understand that, but it's fun to
Speaker 1: talk about. It's fun to daydream a little bit. I mean, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: the NFL's putting this stuff out there, putting playoff matchups
Speaker 1: already out there. Who's playing who and when it's fun
Speaker 1: to think about. I think you should just focus on
Speaker 1: the Rams for this Monday night. See what type of
Speaker 1: team that you can bring out to Los Angeles. He
Speaker 1: had a bad experience there last year, and see if
Speaker 1: you can turn it around and have the growth out
Speaker 1: of the offense that you need in the consistency out
Speaker 1: of the defense that you've had. No the defense has
Speaker 1: done a good job just making sure they don't score
Speaker 1: a lot of points. The Bears just haven't scored a
Speaker 1: lot of points against the Ram. They split the last
Speaker 1: two meetings. To me, it's coming around to be a
Speaker 1: bit of an interesting rivalry because that eighteen game. The
Speaker 1: Rams are ticked off how the Bears beat them. They
Speaker 1: they just didn't believe the Bears were better than I mean,
Speaker 1: they went to the Super Bowl obviously and lost, but
Speaker 1: I remember covering super Bowl week that week, and you know,
Speaker 1: came up that the Bears had somewhat of a game
Speaker 1: plan that Bill Belichick used to stop them. So that's
Speaker 1: in the back of their mindset. To me, there's a
Speaker 1: little rivalry Bruin. Yeah, there is. You know, there's two
Speaker 1: young head coaches that have taken over organizations that needed
Speaker 1: to get a little spark going and they have both
Speaker 1: been able to do that. Now, when you get into
Speaker 1: this year of each of the coaches and the battles
Speaker 1: that they've had, wins and losses, you know, it's another
Speaker 1: and they're all Marquee showcases. You know, the game at
Speaker 1: the Coliseum, the game at Soldier Field, and now the
Speaker 1: game at the new Ram Stadium that Jeff, I gotta
Speaker 1: believe if this was being played under normal circumstances, fifty
Speaker 1: five to sixty percent of the fans would be Chicago fans.
Speaker 1: And I think it would be a great spectacle to
Speaker 1: see on Monday night opening of your new stadium and
Speaker 1: seeing it filled with blist. You know, doug On, well
Speaker 1: that people had that one circled. First of all, it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful place. I mean, that's number one, and that's
Speaker 1: a destination. Obviously it's la and you are exactly right.
Speaker 1: The Bears fans would have gobbled up tickets. It would
Speaker 1: have been quite the showcase game on Monday Night football,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Well, you know last year when
Speaker 1: we are at the Coliseum and you could see everybody
Speaker 1: filter in from every different direction. When that stadium opened,
Speaker 1: you know, two out of every three people that were
Speaker 1: coming in that we're sporting some type of Bear jersey
Speaker 1: or color. So it would have equalled it this year.
Speaker 1: But you would have been here, you'd been able to
Speaker 1: hear the Bears a lot more because the sound would
Speaker 1: not escape with like it does the old Coliseum under
Speaker 1: the roof of the new stadium. This is Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: There with our producer Julio Rosas, Jordan Trentup, Dan Burrelly
Speaker 1: also our producers. Tonight we got radio analysts of the
Speaker 1: Rams coming up to Marco far the former Rams defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: will also be joined by dhc He's been the star
Speaker 1: to finish the job the last two weeks on defense
Speaker 1: for the Bears. Outstanding Special Teams player DeAndre Houston Carson
Speaker 1: joined us at six thirty. Here's a snipp today Town
Speaker 1: from Nick Foles because the number one topic that comes
Speaker 1: up is a Hi, the offense going to improve, But
Speaker 1: two I got a deal there in Donald, so there's
Speaker 1: some insight here from the Bevers quarterback. Trust. You know,
Speaker 1: every team has a different plan for players is talented
Speaker 1: as him. And I was his teammate once upon time,
Speaker 1: and it was when he was younger, and I just
Speaker 1: remember going through practice and I didn't really know who
Speaker 1: he was. I think he was Rookie of the year
Speaker 1: and it was his second year. I'm like, why can't
Speaker 1: we block this guy? Like we have two guys on
Speaker 1: him and we are still not blocking him. And then
Speaker 1: years later I realize why. The dude's unbelievable. So obviously
Speaker 1: we have to respect and teams had different plans for him.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, when you play
Speaker 1: a game, it comes down to trust in your teammates.
Speaker 1: You can't focus on him. The dude might make a
Speaker 1: couple plays in the game like he's one of the
Speaker 1: best there is, so he might, but the game's not
Speaker 1: over after he makes one play. You keep moving on.
Speaker 1: So the big thing is getting going through this week,
Speaker 1: having our plan for their defense, and then going out
Speaker 1: there and executing and ultimately trusting him one another and
Speaker 1: playing as one. But these days are huge, watching the
Speaker 1: practice film and like an hour so whenever we will
Speaker 1: will be huge. Because then we can make corrections. But
Speaker 1: obviously he's a talented player and I'll look forward to
Speaker 1: playing against him. Was that your approach when you played
Speaker 1: great players, Tommy? I mean, you know he's gonna make
Speaker 1: a player too. Just can't focus on it wrecking your
Speaker 1: game plan. No, but you know you have to have
Speaker 1: a thought process going in there as an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: as an offensive line So if you're an uncovered offensive lineman, Jeff,
Speaker 1: you can never be hitting nobody. You do not have
Speaker 1: the luxury of just sit there and scan somebody. You
Speaker 1: gotta go and you gotta fortify the block of Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: You got to go to the backside of whomever's blocking him.
Speaker 1: And if you're an uncovered lineman to the right side,
Speaker 1: you gotta bay elbow to have you have your buddies backs.
Speaker 1: That's the whole game. There's not a play where there's
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman they should not have some type of
Speaker 1: contact with somebody to ultimately take a toll on them
Speaker 1: as a game wears on. And that would be your
Speaker 1: plan for Aaron Donald hit as much as possible. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, listen, we're not introduced to this plan,
Speaker 1: but we saw a plan like this last year in
Speaker 1: the Raiders game, after a team got hurt and when
Speaker 1: they went after and they attacked Khalil Mack relentlessly, they
Speaker 1: gave an im medium indication those other ten guys will
Speaker 1: beat us, but you're not gonna beat us. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the same approach that you have to have
Speaker 1: with Aaron Donald. You have to attack him from every
Speaker 1: possible angle. All right, we'll talk about it with DeMarco Far,
Speaker 1: the Rams radio analysts coming up on our extra report.
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Speaker 1: the La Rams and former star defensive tackle four the
Speaker 1: Rams to Marco Far on the line, always entertaining and
Speaker 1: always a delight to talk to and we say good
Speaker 1: evening to the former RAM And now how long you've
Speaker 1: been doing the games now on the radio? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: let's see. Uh since two thousand and eight on a
Speaker 1: pregame show and then nine rotated to the booth. Well
Speaker 1: getting there, Like Tom always says, you get a decade
Speaker 1: as a player, you get a decade in the now.
Speaker 1: You know. Now you get two careers going, so you're
Speaker 1: all You're still a young man too, no doubt. Jack
Speaker 1: Snow was a guy that did the broadcast when I
Speaker 1: was a player, and uh, you know we always talked
Speaker 1: about doing this post career and you know here I am.
Speaker 1: I love it, man. It's the closest thing you can get,
Speaker 1: the plan without the paint. I love. Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1: You know Jack Snow because Tom and I when we
Speaker 1: go to the o RCA Dome in Saint Louis and
Speaker 1: boy to Sofi Stadium looks so different, right and DeMarco
Speaker 1: we'll talk about but Jack Snow. We loved talking to
Speaker 1: Jack Snow Domer, like you know, he gave time. I
Speaker 1: don't know why, and I'm gonna embarrass you a little bit.
Speaker 1: He called you two ton timey remember why why When
Speaker 1: when I was at Notre Dame, Jack Snow used to
Speaker 1: come back and help at spring practice. So over the
Speaker 1: course of my four years I got to know him
Speaker 1: pretty well and talk to him socially after coaching and
Speaker 1: after practicing stuff, and it was just, uh, it was
Speaker 1: just great time getting to know Jack and his stardom
Speaker 1: and everything he meant to the Rams and professional football,
Speaker 1: no doubt, Tom, have you ever seen his eyes? Was
Speaker 1: he wearing sunglasses? I bet he was? Um, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we we got to when we got to see him,
Speaker 1: it was more of inside at the dome. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was like, bum phillips. You know you don't wear a
Speaker 1: hat indoors, so you know. Ye. Hey, So tell us
Speaker 1: first of all about so far. We're bummed we can't
Speaker 1: travel right now, as I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have been traveling at all as a as a radio crew,
Speaker 1: but we're not traveling. It looks like a masterpiece. When
Speaker 1: I pull up the game the team notes every day,
Speaker 1: that's the first thing you see. It's it's like the
Speaker 1: new shiny toy of the National Football League and almost
Speaker 1: their centerpiece facility. It's sure, it costs a lot and
Speaker 1: sure does look nice. How's how's it playing? It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: It's play as well. I mean, look, it's built straight up.
Speaker 1: I believe field level is three stories or three floors
Speaker 1: below ground, so it's built straight up. When they get
Speaker 1: fans in there, they're gonna be right on top of
Speaker 1: you and it's going to be loud. And I love
Speaker 1: the way they have the roofs. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a Foe roof. During the day, it looks like one stadium.
Speaker 1: Then when it turns night, when it's when it gets
Speaker 1: dark outside and they raise the lights. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: made for primetime. It is absolutely gorgeous. I mean you
Speaker 1: you guys have been the Dallas remember when Dallas was
Speaker 1: brand new, the same feeling. It's like, wow, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But just take that up a notch. They've done a
Speaker 1: great job at the stadium. Hopefully the team can do
Speaker 1: a great job defending that place. It's gonna be tough. Well, hey, DeMarco,
Speaker 1: speaking of defending that place, So you were listed at
Speaker 1: six one two seventy six. Aaron Donald is listed at
Speaker 1: six one two eighty in the Landed Giants where you
Speaker 1: guys playing, you were so successful. What trait do you
Speaker 1: need in order to be six so successful at that size? Well,
Speaker 1: for me, it was a great get off grant anticipation.
Speaker 1: I gotta jump the snap count. I mean, I really
Speaker 1: got to get into you before you get into me.
Speaker 1: You know, if you got you know, fifty sixty sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, eighty pounds on me, it's gonna be tough
Speaker 1: for me to move you or be effective. But that's
Speaker 1: the difference between me and Aaron. Aaron is just so
Speaker 1: darn strong. I mean, he is absolutely a monster so
Speaker 1: and he's lighter than what you think he is, so
Speaker 1: he can actually project himself into you. And then he's
Speaker 1: got enough strength to get his hands or get your
Speaker 1: hands off him. And he's always in the play The
Speaker 1: second thing is football, like you know what's coming, read
Speaker 1: those stances, get into the playbook, get into the film
Speaker 1: study room, see if you can get a jump on
Speaker 1: that offense and know where they're going, and then and
Speaker 1: then try to beat him there. But with Aaron, looked,
Speaker 1: he is so good, so strong, so everything that even
Speaker 1: if he's out of position, it's still a good position
Speaker 1: for him. He can just put your body in the hole.
Speaker 1: If you've hooked him. So he's absolutely tremendous and I
Speaker 1: agree with him. Man, he can actually get better from
Speaker 1: this point. There's a lot of things that he can
Speaker 1: actually improve on to get better. You know, being an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman and playing against Reggie White, the Great Reggie White.
Speaker 1: If he lined up over you, you know that you
Speaker 1: are a marked man and you you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: long day. So watching the Redskins game, Aaron Donald lines
Speaker 1: up over the left tackle, over the right tackle, over
Speaker 1: the right guard, and then he's started sociding who he
Speaker 1: wants to line up. So if he chooses you early,
Speaker 1: do you should you consider yourself a marked man? By
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald? Well, I mean you know who you are.
Speaker 1: What do they say at poker if you can't spot
Speaker 1: the mark and under an hour it's you. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: you know, if it's an obvious passing down, I mean
Speaker 1: during the middle of a game where it's you know
Speaker 1: it's time to make a play and he lines up
Speaker 1: over you, that tells you something. Either you're that guy
Speaker 1: or he feels good from that spot. But you have
Speaker 1: to move him around because you know every protection scheme
Speaker 1: is both to stop him. So if you vary the
Speaker 1: places he's gonna be. It just makes it tougher for
Speaker 1: the offense to pick him up, saying with J. J. Watt,
Speaker 1: he moved around. You didn't know where he was going
Speaker 1: to be from snap to snap, and that affected the offense.
Speaker 1: All right, here's a nugget for you. It just occurred
Speaker 1: to me. You know, I knew you were a great player.
Speaker 1: I remember you were living in a half sacks season,
Speaker 1: but for some reason I had Aaron Donald stats up
Speaker 1: and I just you, guys, he's just played his hundredth game.
Speaker 1: You played a hundred games in the NFL. Now here's
Speaker 1: the deal you had. You had thirty six and a
Speaker 1: half sacks. I'd say that's a very very good career. Right,
Speaker 1: you were disruptive, you're you were claps in the pocket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your young friend over there right now, he's got seventy
Speaker 1: nine and a half and it seems like he's just
Speaker 1: getting going down. Here's where you got him though, he's
Speaker 1: yet to intercept the pass you got. You got three
Speaker 1: and you and you had more tackles. So you can
Speaker 1: play that on your resume. You go toe to toe
Speaker 1: with them, but oh, look look at their careers. One
Speaker 1: hundred games. So you see what you did, You see
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Can you put that in the context
Speaker 1: for us? No, I've never seen anything like this his production.
Speaker 1: Uh not from that position. No. I mean I used
Speaker 1: to love watching John Ramball play. I used to love
Speaker 1: watching Warren sat play. Right, young, You know all the
Speaker 1: guys of my era, they were tremendous. They were they
Speaker 1: were game wreckers, they were they were problems. But it's
Speaker 1: been nothing like this to where you can win at
Speaker 1: will from anywhere. I mean, he can rush over just
Speaker 1: about anybody on the offensive line and win. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: this is truly unbelievable. And there was a year I
Speaker 1: believe it was two seasons ago where he finished with eleven.
Speaker 1: He had a chance to break the record I held
Speaker 1: for for Sax Buying and Terry Lyman for the for
Speaker 1: the Rams, and he finished with eleven, and he kept
Speaker 1: staring me down from the bench like eventually I'll get you.
Speaker 1: And the next year I think he had twenty Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: two elevens. He had an eleven and fifteen and seventeen,
Speaker 1: and they went up to twenty and a half and eighteen.
Speaker 1: He he blew your doors up, absolutely, and that's what
Speaker 1: he said without even saying it. Hey, DeMarco, is Jared
Speaker 1: Goff the key ingredient this offense or is there another
Speaker 1: ingredient that equally is important. Well, he's the guy, he's
Speaker 1: the quarterback, he's the trigger man. I mean, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the most important guy. You have to keep him upright
Speaker 1: and you've got to get him going if you're going
Speaker 1: to be successful on game day. But I would say
Speaker 1: the running game. Sean mcvay's offense is dependent upon a
Speaker 1: running game. Getting the defense to buy play action. That's
Speaker 1: how you get Jared Goff on the edges. That's how
Speaker 1: you create space for those those those crossing routes, those
Speaker 1: tight end screens and whatnot. If you don't buy run,
Speaker 1: you could just sit on it and get pressure on
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. That's what teams did last season. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's the guy. If Jared Goffs throws for
Speaker 1: three hundred, he's the player of the week. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: But I bet there was a credible and a consistent
Speaker 1: running game that kind of paced him, So I think
Speaker 1: that's most important. Daryl Henderson or a key Acres, the
Speaker 1: rookie they just brought in, or Malcolm Brown They've been
Speaker 1: using three guys pretty much all season long. It does
Speaker 1: not matter who carries the football, but you have got
Speaker 1: to keep the defense honest and pace your golf Gram's
Speaker 1: analysts DeMarco farre the former defensive tack over the Rams,
Speaker 1: our guest here on Bears Out Access, brought to you
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at your tight ends, Gerald Everett. He's got
Speaker 1: some big play to him. Tyler Higbee. You know he's
Speaker 1: got three to all came against the Eagles in one game,
Speaker 1: but he's proven to be worth every penny. What did
Speaker 1: those two add to the dynamic? Because we could easily
Speaker 1: just talk about Robert Woods, we can easily talk about
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. But what are those guys bringing to the table. Well, there,
Speaker 1: there we look. Gerald Everett is a big play waiting
Speaker 1: to happen, and they move him all over. He's kind
Speaker 1: of the age. They line him up as a fullback
Speaker 1: in the eye and he can lead up on linebackers.
Speaker 1: Is not his Ballywood, but he's willing to do it.
Speaker 1: But that opens everything up. Think forty nine ers offense
Speaker 1: with their fullback. It's just it's the same sort of
Speaker 1: weapon you can use in the passing game. And Higby
Speaker 1: is just like George Kittle. I mean, George Kittle, I
Speaker 1: think is the top of the league. If you line
Speaker 1: up with a smaller guy, he can block you. If
Speaker 1: you line up with a bigger guy, he can run
Speaker 1: around those guys. Higby is up that same vein. So
Speaker 1: they have this a similar approach with the tight ends
Speaker 1: that the Niners do. Depending on what you do to
Speaker 1: line up against their personnel group, their tight ends should
Speaker 1: have the advantage or a one on one advantage. So
Speaker 1: you know, Higby is a guy that kind of goes quiet,
Speaker 1: he goes dormant, and then all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: pops up and has you know, a great stretch or
Speaker 1: a big game or a big month or whatnot. And
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett has been a guy that's kind of found
Speaker 1: his niche in the offense. So you know, I'd like
Speaker 1: to go twelve. A lot of people will like to
Speaker 1: go twelve two tight end sets and stay in it.
Speaker 1: That keeps defenses kind of balanced, and you can pick
Speaker 1: that apart. But you know, it's just been a little
Speaker 1: bit tough, especially last week when the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: kind of get ahead and you you have to throw
Speaker 1: to keep up. Hey, DeMarco Jalen Ramsey. Um, you know
Speaker 1: he's pretty out, pretty loud, instigating type of guy. So
Speaker 1: is it something that you want to match wits with
Speaker 1: him or just ignore him every time that he has
Speaker 1: a chance to be on the play. Well, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna match wits, you better be pretty good at trash talk,
Speaker 1: and you better have thick skin because he's gonna stay
Speaker 1: on you. But man, I mean he has been worth
Speaker 1: every penny you hear about guys and their reputations and
Speaker 1: then you see it up close, you get to see
Speaker 1: him in practice. First of all, his body, it looks
Speaker 1: like he's from Mars. I mean, they just don't make
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that toll, that lean, with that long of arms,
Speaker 1: that can run like that. So that's impressive. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's really good in one on one. He can shut
Speaker 1: you down, to shut you down corner that is that guy.
Speaker 1: But he's also the Rams hurt his hitter right now.
Speaker 1: I mean he is a violent tackler. I mean he
Speaker 1: really really sets the tone defensively. So and they're moving
Speaker 1: him around there, put them in the slot, they put
Speaker 1: them outside of the numbers. That putting him just about everywhere,
Speaker 1: and he can cover just about anybody. So love his demeanor,
Speaker 1: love his attitude. As long as it's within the white lines,
Speaker 1: you have to keep it there. Yeah, we found that
Speaker 1: out a little bit with Golden Tape. That seemed to
Speaker 1: be a person issue there. So they did hit him
Speaker 1: with that one. A little bit of fine it. What
Speaker 1: can I make a point there? Yeah, every golden whatever
Speaker 1: Golden tape got at the end of the game. And look,
Speaker 1: I never advocate fighting and throwing punches or whatnot, but
Speaker 1: watching those two go at it during the game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he earned everything he got, really he did. De Marco,
Speaker 1: What is your view and what are they talking about
Speaker 1: in LA about the five and one Bears, because we
Speaker 1: certainly hear a lot of local concern and whatnot despite
Speaker 1: that record. What's what's the more view from your point
Speaker 1: of view? Now as you've broken down some of their tape, Well,
Speaker 1: the first thing that jumps out is their defense just big, strong,
Speaker 1: up up the gun. And look, we've the Rams have
Speaker 1: played Chicago, so we know about a key Hicks, I
Speaker 1: like Bala Nichols in the middle. I mean, Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: is the guy that you have to account for like
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, and you know Robert quinn is. You know
Speaker 1: he was here, so the Rams know him and good linebackers.
Speaker 1: So the first thing that jumps out is defense is
Speaker 1: going to be tough to move the football on the ground,
Speaker 1: and Chuck mcgonno really has them playing well, so that's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough sledding for the Rams. The other side,
Speaker 1: it depends on what Nick Foles you get. Nick Foles
Speaker 1: is a guy that, in my opinion, when he's hot
Speaker 1: or when he's on, can give anybody fits from elite
Speaker 1: on down. So you hope you catch the bad nick Foles,
Speaker 1: and you hope that the Bears can't replicate what the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers did last week with these jet sweeps
Speaker 1: and these tosses away from Aaron Donald, just making the
Speaker 1: defense have to really sing for their supper. So you
Speaker 1: hope some of that can't translate. But like you said,
Speaker 1: if Nick Foles gets rolling, if that offense gets rolling,
Speaker 1: couples with that defense. And I know some people like
Speaker 1: to say that the Bears maybe aren't as good as
Speaker 1: the five and one record, which I don't understand. They're
Speaker 1: five and one. You are what your record says you are.
Speaker 1: But if the offense can match what the defense is doing,
Speaker 1: I think the Bears are going to be in it
Speaker 1: come December. Hey, Mark DeMarco. When you look at the
Speaker 1: Bears defensive back Kyle Fuller, in the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: he's had a couple of game changing plays. One of
Speaker 1: them the flag was picked up, one of the flag
Speaker 1: was kept on the ground, and they were both legal hits.
Speaker 1: As an ex defensive player, when you see those types
Speaker 1: of hits, whether they happen on behalf of the Rams
Speaker 1: or other defensive players around the league, is it frustrating
Speaker 1: to you or do you just say, hey, that's the
Speaker 1: way of the game now, even though it's so disappointing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a hit here a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, it was actually up in Washington, the one
Speaker 1: that knocked oh my gosh, who was starting for Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen. Yeah, Kyle Allen, Yes, Kyle, And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he's scrambling for a first down and Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: like we talked about, came up and just absolutely tattooed him. Now,
Speaker 1: it's an angle tackle. There's one guy trying to dive
Speaker 1: out for a first down and there's a corner or
Speaker 1: a DV coming up to stop him, and they flagged
Speaker 1: him for it. They gave him a free first down
Speaker 1: and knocked the guy out put in Alex Smith. But
Speaker 1: I mean, look, if what do you want him to do?
Speaker 1: You can't let guys just have first downs. You're not
Speaker 1: thinking player safety, you're thinking off the field. So I
Speaker 1: always judge it by this. If the defender had the
Speaker 1: chance to do something else, then you should try to
Speaker 1: err on the you know, the side of safety. Get it,
Speaker 1: don't penalize your team and try not to hurt someone
Speaker 1: trying not to take your guy in the head. But
Speaker 1: if it's his bang bang, there's nothing he can do.
Speaker 1: You know. I feel bad for the officials they have
Speaker 1: to make those calls, but it's like, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: the defense they're playing football too, you know, you can't
Speaker 1: penalize them just for doing their jobs. So it's just
Speaker 1: one of those things, and it's one of those things
Speaker 1: you have to swallow and move on the next play.
Speaker 1: All right, demarc I'll appreciate all the time, and good
Speaker 1: luck on Sunday and good luck for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. For you. Guys, and too bad we can't
Speaker 1: say hello when we get there. But maybe down the road,
Speaker 1: maybe in the playoffs. Who knows, no doubt. I hope
Speaker 1: so good. A good talk to you, Rams Radio analyst
Speaker 1: to Marco far always a pleasant personality who enjoyed on
Speaker 1: him over the years when we went down to Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: Tommy and visit with him. I had some great, great
Speaker 1: folks down there in Saint Louis. I'm sure they missed
Speaker 1: their Rams, but they got a home now with the
Speaker 1: La Rams. We'll talk about all that with DeAndre Houston
Speaker 1: Carson coming up at the bottom of the hour. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us tonight. This segment of Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: Jeff Jony Act, Tom Thayer, good to be with you
Speaker 1: once again as we await DeAndre Houston Carson to join
Speaker 1: the program. While we wait for that, we got the
Speaker 1: news of the day injury wise, Tommy rest days for
Speaker 1: Ted Yean Junior and Jimmy Graham and Danny Trevathan. So
Speaker 1: that's been pretty much the case so far this season.
Speaker 1: A key mix out with an illness. Today, Shrik McManus
Speaker 1: working through another injury growing now it's a hamstring and
Speaker 1: Buster Screen with an ankle. He left the game briefly
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So he's important in this matchup, there is
Speaker 1: no question because of Cooper cup in that slot is
Speaker 1: one of the best slot guys in the NFL. Listen
Speaker 1: that position in the NFL, Jeff, it's equally as important
Speaker 1: as any defensive position out in the field, and sometimes
Speaker 1: it's more of a picked on position. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: importance of Buster's Screen since he's come in here, his
Speaker 1: ability to tackle, his willingness, and the desire to play
Speaker 1: physical brand of football. Hey, it's it's been good for
Speaker 1: the Bears and he has an important role on this team,
Speaker 1: especially against this upcoming offense and limited today Dion bush
Speaker 1: Is he tries to get back with his hamstring and
Speaker 1: Richeed Coward time with a finger injury today, so he
Speaker 1: was limited at left guard. That makes me nervous because
Speaker 1: one thing about playing against Aaron Donald, if you don't
Speaker 1: have perfect hands and feet, it's almost impossible to try
Speaker 1: to get in front of him and sustained contact to
Speaker 1: keep him off the running back or off of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to go in there with a healthy,
Speaker 1: confident offensive line. And you know, I guess Rahat is
Speaker 1: the best candidate to put in there, But if it
Speaker 1: had to be Alex Bars, he has experience. Yeah, working
Speaker 1: through his shoulder injury himself, he was a full go today.
Speaker 1: Interesting to hear DeMarco Farr talk about it. We saw
Speaker 1: it on tape when you watch the Rams game. Yes,
Speaker 1: the flash sweeps and running away from Aaron Donald, keeping
Speaker 1: things on the edges. Do you think that's the best
Speaker 1: way to go about it. Yeah. I think in any
Speaker 1: pass play, you got to get the ball out of
Speaker 1: your hands of the quarterback as quickly as possible. I
Speaker 1: don't think he ever wanted him to know the direction
Speaker 1: contact that's coming from, and you got to take an
Speaker 1: advantage of his assets. If you have a guy that
Speaker 1: has such tremendous burst off the line of scrimmage. You
Speaker 1: can trap him, you can run draws against him to
Speaker 1: take him out of his confident space on the field.
Speaker 1: Seven and a half sacks right now leading the NFL
Speaker 1: for this guy, Aaron Donald. Bears have gotten you to
Speaker 1: seeing him here the last couple of years. All right,
Speaker 1: time to welcome in our guest tonight here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access, Bears safety and special team star DeAndre Houston
Speaker 1: Carson to the program. Welcome to six seventy to score
Speaker 1: and All Access. How are you doing tonight, DHC? I'm
Speaker 1: doing very well. Thank you for having me our pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. What a wonderful last couple
Speaker 1: of games for not only the team, but you know,
Speaker 1: for you in terms of the opportunity to get in
Speaker 1: there at the end of the game at at the
Speaker 1: most critical time to try and finish finish the game,
Speaker 1: and you've had your hand on the ball in both cases.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel right now? Well, like
Speaker 1: you said that, the number one thing is obviously one
Speaker 1: and I was definitely very happy to do my part
Speaker 1: at the end of those games and to help contribute
Speaker 1: to the team win Hey, DeAndre, I want to go
Speaker 1: over those two plays real quickly. So at the Tampa game,
Speaker 1: when you guys were in the huddle to last play
Speaker 1: the game, did you guys mention around the huddle, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's fourth down, so understand the importance of this down,
Speaker 1: because again echoes back to the Tom Brady thing, thinking
Speaker 1: that it might have been third down. Did you guys
Speaker 1: say it amongst yourself that it's fourth down? You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not actually too sure if it was relayed you know,
Speaker 1: around the guys, but I could see for myself. You know,
Speaker 1: I knew it was fourth down, and I think I
Speaker 1: think most of the guys knew. Um, you know, just
Speaker 1: in that situation, looking to the sideline and getting the
Speaker 1: personnel and and looking at the down the distance. That's
Speaker 1: something that are that are safety stid. You communicate on
Speaker 1: every play. Um, so I don't think there might there
Speaker 1: might have been any extra emphasis, but the safety stid
Speaker 1: communicated down the distance and the person down group us
Speaker 1: in the game. Okay, now let's go to the last
Speaker 1: play in the Carolina Pathers game. You guys break the
Speaker 1: defensive huddle, you back into your position. You see kind
Speaker 1: of a semi stack receivers. Take us through from that
Speaker 1: moment on what you're thinking and how you just kind
Speaker 1: of like slid so confidently into the position that you
Speaker 1: were defending where you made the interceptions. But can you
Speaker 1: take us what is going through your mind when you
Speaker 1: see the offensive formation setting up in front of you. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was just I was just considering what what my
Speaker 1: role was and then you know what the offense potentially
Speaker 1: could be presenting us with, and so it was just
Speaker 1: happen to be perfect storm that was that was my
Speaker 1: zone on that play, and so I was just thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, get back to my get back to my landmark,
Speaker 1: and the D line did the great job. Russian and
Speaker 1: throw was there and just came down with it. DeAndre
Speaker 1: Houston Carson our guest here on Bears All Access with
Speaker 1: Tom Thayer. I'm jeff Jonah Yak. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of compliments from teammates. There's a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: you in that locker room, and you know, a Keem
Speaker 1: Hicks in particular, uh was was very strong in his
Speaker 1: postgame comments about what you are all about, what your
Speaker 1: preparation is all about, and you know, and I had
Speaker 1: your special teams coordinator Chris Tabor on the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show on WBBM on Monday night. We talked a great
Speaker 1: deal about you as well, because you know, I look
Speaker 1: at you as just a pure football player and not
Speaker 1: put into the box that sometimes happens with special teams stars,
Speaker 1: and I would put you in that category as well.
Speaker 1: But the work that must be done to be prepared
Speaker 1: defensively to go in at any moment because you don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't know what the situation is going to be here,
Speaker 1: you are going in these last two games a clench
Speaker 1: critical moments. Just how do you fare it out? Your
Speaker 1: time and you and your your amount of investment in
Speaker 1: terms of tape watching with all the defense tape and
Speaker 1: then you got to do all your special team stuff
Speaker 1: as well, how do you balance that? Yeah, so as
Speaker 1: far as tape goes, you know, the way, the way
Speaker 1: I look at it is, I'm a starter on two
Speaker 1: different phases of the game. So you know, obviously I
Speaker 1: watched it. I watched a lot of tape on special
Speaker 1: teams um and I prepare it like a starter in
Speaker 1: that aspect and then on defense. Just you know, the
Speaker 1: way the NFL works out and football works out. You
Speaker 1: always have to be ready. So I try to watch
Speaker 1: film like I'm a starter as well on that aspect
Speaker 1: um and that way. And that's something I've been trying
Speaker 1: to do since my rookie year. I had a coach
Speaker 1: gave me some really good advice and say, you know,
Speaker 1: get your routine solidified, in your habits solidified so that way.
Speaker 1: That way, when your time comes, you don't have to
Speaker 1: change anything. You're already your routine's already the same, and
Speaker 1: you don't have to be trying to scramble to try
Speaker 1: to change things because it's your opportunity. You'll be ready
Speaker 1: for it when it comes. So that's the approach I've
Speaker 1: tried to take. I try to take, you know, do
Speaker 1: the same thing on Monday's, Tuesday's, Wednesdays and leading up
Speaker 1: to the game and my pregame routine. I tried to
Speaker 1: do everything the same. That way, whenever the time comes,
Speaker 1: I don't have to to BATTERNI just be ready for it.
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't have to be nervous or like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what I do next, because you know, hey,
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation
Speaker 1: with Javam went whims and saying, you know, there were
Speaker 1: times in his rookie year, especially against he was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, don't don't put me in the game.
Speaker 1: I don't He admitted it, like, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm ready, and he was. It turned out
Speaker 1: he was. He was ready. He played a really good
Speaker 1: game against the Vikings in Week seventeen. But not every
Speaker 1: player learns that right away, that it is a commitment
Speaker 1: that you have to do. You have to do it
Speaker 1: that way. And and in your case, who was the
Speaker 1: coach that told you that. I just assume you were
Speaker 1: going to be that way anyway without his advice, because
Speaker 1: you've just seen that type of a player. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: my oldest Starger teams coach Jeff Rogers was the one
Speaker 1: who who gained that piece of advice particularly, And also,
Speaker 1: you know my rookie year, I was kind of up
Speaker 1: and down too as far as being active and not
Speaker 1: being actious. And there were some times so I didn't
Speaker 1: know if I was going to be active until hour
Speaker 1: and a half before the game. So I just had
Speaker 1: to had to prepare like I was going to be up.
Speaker 1: And I think that's just something that stuck with me
Speaker 1: since then. You know, d throughout my entire career, from
Speaker 1: the first game to my last game, I was on
Speaker 1: kickoff return. So I take a big special interest and
Speaker 1: I have never been. This is probably the most exciting
Speaker 1: year because last week or two weeks ago during the broadcast,
Speaker 1: Jeff was making it a description. He said, nine and
Speaker 1: a half yards deep and he's gonna take it out.
Speaker 1: How exciting is that for you guys? Last week was
Speaker 1: a different animal because the kicker was kicking at ten
Speaker 1: yards out of the back of the end zone. But
Speaker 1: when you know that it's every ball is returnable because
Speaker 1: of Cordarrel Patterson. How exciting is that for you guys
Speaker 1: as a group understanding no matter how far or what
Speaker 1: the hanging time is, there's a good chance you're coming
Speaker 1: out with it. Yeah, it's definitely exciting. Anytime eighty four
Speaker 1: has a ball in his hands, it's exciting. And so
Speaker 1: for us, as you know, we just try to make
Speaker 1: our blocks and give him any sort of alleyway because
Speaker 1: we know he can go to distance or any play
Speaker 1: and so that, you know, that's exciting to be a
Speaker 1: part of that. And it's also a great responsibility to
Speaker 1: make sure that you know, we're doing our signments and
Speaker 1: making our blocks and do what we need to do
Speaker 1: because you know, we all want to be successful in
Speaker 1: that aspect of the game. You know, if you guys
Speaker 1: were going out to La and circumstances were normal, this
Speaker 1: would probably be a majority Chicago crowd. As you go
Speaker 1: into these stadiums, Atlanta, Mercedes stadiums, or even Carolina, how
Speaker 1: are you tapping into your emotions to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're mentally prepared, emotionally prepared to go out and play
Speaker 1: a game from beginning till end, because you know you
Speaker 1: could have a little downtime in the course of the game.
Speaker 1: But how what is the challenge of staying excited? It's
Speaker 1: excited the whole time. So again, I had a coach
Speaker 1: told who said one time that execution fuels emotion, and
Speaker 1: so I've always tried to operate in that way not
Speaker 1: to get too emotional. You know, before the game, when
Speaker 1: you when you when you know the game plan and
Speaker 1: you're confident in the game planning, confident in the preparation
Speaker 1: you put in all week, and then you go out
Speaker 1: there and you execute what you've been practicing. To me,
Speaker 1: that that feels emotional more than anything. And obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: the crowd noid and the adrenaline and all those sort
Speaker 1: of things you know also play a major role in that.
Speaker 1: But right now, I think that the saying holds even
Speaker 1: more true just because you don't have that extra external
Speaker 1: influence as far as you're adrenaline. So it's really about
Speaker 1: executing your job, and when you do that, it's exciting.
Speaker 1: And then you know, there's there's times in the game
Speaker 1: we're not having fans um, you know, if you can
Speaker 1: really tell, and I know for me um, like on
Speaker 1: special teams, a lot of times I kind of depend
Speaker 1: on the crowd noise to tell me what's going on,
Speaker 1: Like if the crowd if I'm making a block and
Speaker 1: the crowd is is screaming, I know that you know,
Speaker 1: the return is probably start running with the ball, funny
Speaker 1: to keep blocking it. So there's times were kind of
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird while I don't have that feedback,
Speaker 1: and so I just there's been a few times while
Speaker 1: I've been blocking, like five seconds after the whistle just
Speaker 1: because I don't know, I don't know that the whist
Speaker 1: has been blown. I don't know if he's down yet
Speaker 1: or not. So There's definitely like small things like that
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't have thought about before the year started.
Speaker 1: That's been interesting playing without fans this year. Do you
Speaker 1: know what it would have been interesting the last listening
Speaker 1: to the stadium the last two weeks, either your play
Speaker 1: on the fourth down against the Tampa Bay or what
Speaker 1: you would have done to the Carolina stadium on an
Speaker 1: interception of a play like that, So you know some
Speaker 1: of that noise in support or disappointment that you know
Speaker 1: you kind of walk out of the stadium. You know
Speaker 1: what the feeling is because you've heard it before, but
Speaker 1: it would have been nice to hear for yourself in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Yeah, no, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And actually those two plays, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of times in football you can probably assess you're so
Speaker 1: locked in that sometimes you don't even notice what's going
Speaker 1: on around you. Things just slow down and you're just
Speaker 1: like in the zone. And so for me, that's kind
Speaker 1: of housetout the last the last two weeks. Like it.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, I can't speak to that, but
Speaker 1: maybe it would have been different if there were fans there.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like I was just so zooned
Speaker 1: in and locked in. I didn't really even notice whether
Speaker 1: it was quiet or loud or you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. From a broadcasting point of view,
Speaker 1: it Soldier Field where it Soldier Field. I cannot take
Speaker 1: my headset off, even during timeouts, because I did for
Speaker 1: a you know, for one of the games, and I
Speaker 1: took it. It's like it's like you're in some he's
Speaker 1: backyard and there's a few people there and you hear
Speaker 1: some rumbling noise, but that's about it unless the loudspeakers
Speaker 1: are cranking music or something. It was too eerie for me.
Speaker 1: I also thrive on energy and enthusiasm, and that just
Speaker 1: natural thing that happens when you take the air, So
Speaker 1: I have to keep my headset on with a lot
Speaker 1: of crowd noise that's cranked up in there, just so
Speaker 1: I don't lose my focus. So I can only imagine
Speaker 1: what it's like for you, guys. DeAndre Houston Carson, our
Speaker 1: guest here on bears All Access. You know, you got
Speaker 1: a lot of history based on your roots at William
Speaker 1: and Mary, because whether people know it or not, it's
Speaker 1: where you were taught the game there, you know, at
Speaker 1: a very key level. But you know, Mike Tomlin's a
Speaker 1: class in ninety five, Sean mcdermock the class in ninety eight.
Speaker 1: The great Marv Levy was a head coach there. Lou
Speaker 1: Holtz was a head coach there. Dan Quinn coach there
Speaker 1: on an entry level as an assistant coach. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of coaches and that those types of minds of
Speaker 1: football that that came out of that institution one way
Speaker 1: or another. Either he went there and played there or
Speaker 1: they coached there at some point. Why is that in
Speaker 1: your opinions as a graduate and a product of William
Speaker 1: and Mary, you know, that's a that's a good that's
Speaker 1: a really good question. I would probably say it's just
Speaker 1: at a certain point when when you can name a
Speaker 1: list like that of people who have gone before you,
Speaker 1: I think it becomes part of the culture. Um, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't know, football and South Florida
Speaker 1: or something. It's like, all these people have come out
Speaker 1: of there, and you try to try to understand exactly why,
Speaker 1: and I think it's probably nuanced, um, exactly why that is.
Speaker 1: But I think it becomes part of the culture. You know,
Speaker 1: you've seen people who have done it from where you are,
Speaker 1: and so you know what the blueprint is and you
Speaker 1: know that it's it's possible, you can do it. So
Speaker 1: I think I think that's part of it. And then
Speaker 1: also I think for coaching, at least that women Mary,
Speaker 1: I think it's has to do it. You know, just
Speaker 1: the type of people that go there, the type of
Speaker 1: people that attend that school. Um and not the same,
Speaker 1: not the same everywhere else, but typically you know how
Speaker 1: how they motivated individuals and and guys who know how
Speaker 1: to work and put the put the work in. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I think it's probably nuanced, but but
Speaker 1: it's definitely really cool to look at to look at
Speaker 1: that list and know that you know you're in the line.
Speaker 1: Joe Brady even the offensive coordinator for the Panthers, Now
Speaker 1: I was a teammate with him. Um I wait and Marry,
Speaker 1: so you know it's just it's pretty cool. Wait, you're
Speaker 1: a teammate of his. Yeah, yeah, so we definitely played
Speaker 1: together one year, I really can't remember play together. Might
Speaker 1: have played together two years. Um I waiting and Marry
Speaker 1: and a great guy, really good football coach obviously, but
Speaker 1: that's gonna be that's gonna be a little bit weird
Speaker 1: because he's on the sideline now as a coaching and
Speaker 1: you're not that old yet. You get who hate to go.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's I think he just turned
Speaker 1: thirty one or he's gonna turn thirty one. But that's
Speaker 1: a great sir. I didn't know that one. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a good nugget right there. And I interrupted you
Speaker 1: said something about what DJ. I was just gonna say.
Speaker 1: There was another coach on the staff as well, DJ Mangas.
Speaker 1: We played together for a year as well. So it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, it goes to what you were talking about
Speaker 1: as far as the culture and all the guys who
Speaker 1: come out of that program. I mean, it's pretty unique
Speaker 1: to be a part of that a D. Now that
Speaker 1: we're obviously five or six weeks into the regular season,
Speaker 1: considering you went what you went through in the off season,
Speaker 1: do you feel that you did come in prepared physically
Speaker 1: or would you would there? Would there would you change
Speaker 1: anything about the way you got prepared, knowing now what
Speaker 1: you know, but you never knew that before in the
Speaker 1: history of your football life, what you were going to
Speaker 1: get prepared for, the restraints, the time, and all the
Speaker 1: new protocol going on. For me, I want to say
Speaker 1: I would change anything. It was it was in a
Speaker 1: weird way, a kind of a blessing in disguise, and
Speaker 1: in two ways when it come down to the way
Speaker 1: the offseason went. We had a lot of time to
Speaker 1: just watch film obviously because we couldn't do practices for OTAs,
Speaker 1: so we're able to be very specific in detail with
Speaker 1: a lot of with a lot of the film and
Speaker 1: a lot of the assignments um and then for for
Speaker 1: training purposes. It was it was unique because there was
Speaker 1: a stretch of whatever it was, seven months straight where
Speaker 1: you could just focus on training the way you want
Speaker 1: to train. And so for me it was, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like it was good to be able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of all that all that time that we had.
Speaker 1: And also you know, with my a daughter who was
Speaker 1: born in March, and so just being able to spend
Speaker 1: time with her and still you know, do what I
Speaker 1: need to do. What it coust of my career was
Speaker 1: it was a blessing in disguise as well. So now
Speaker 1: I don't think I would change anything, and it was,
Speaker 1: it was. It was kind of not fun, but it's
Speaker 1: interesting to be a part of to be a part
Speaker 1: of the season. Yes, it is. It's one that you
Speaker 1: will never forget and hopefully the end of the rainbow
Speaker 1: has some some great surprise and some great reward for
Speaker 1: everybody involved. Before we let you go and really appreciate
Speaker 1: your carmon outs in time with us for tonight. This
Speaker 1: is DeAndre Houston Carton, the Bears safety and special teams
Speaker 1: player as the Bears get ready for the Rams. Uh,
Speaker 1: what's your what's your sneak peak preview of this Rams
Speaker 1: team that? Uh, Now, you face the last two years
Speaker 1: in a row and in big moments. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a big, big attention game and this one is no different. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, Coach Pagano says something that I think is
Speaker 1: um very applicable. He says, this game is the biggest game, um,
Speaker 1: and that's it's because it's the next game. And so
Speaker 1: we try to take that approach. Um. They're they're a
Speaker 1: really good team, very well coached. You know, they got
Speaker 1: a lot of good players, and so we've just been
Speaker 1: putting in a game plan and you know, hoping to
Speaker 1: go out there, EXEQ and you play at a high
Speaker 1: level out there on Monday night, Well, you have a
Speaker 1: great time. Good luck and thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time. You're having a great season. Man. Hope it's
Speaker 1: hope it ends well. Okay, thank you for having me
Speaker 1: on again. I really appreciate it. Our pleasure. DeAndre Houston,
Speaker 1: Carson Bears Safety. When we come back, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: snippets of today's news conferences. Buy Zoom with Nick Foles
Speaker 1: and Matt Naggie, Tom Fair, Jeff Joni here in Chicago
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Speaker 1: out of the Rams up. You know the Bears did
Speaker 1: go a little up tempo the it's in the scheme.
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie has done it many times over the course
Speaker 1: of his coaching career. Tommy, but Nick Foles today asked
Speaker 1: when he feels is the best time for it because
Speaker 1: things were looking good. I think the big thing is communication,
Speaker 1: Like I'm constantly talking to coach Naggy, and we have
Speaker 1: an idea of what we want to do, and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff has an idea of what we want to do.
Speaker 1: So there'll be specific times where you implement change a
Speaker 1: pace or change with this or different personnels. It's always
Speaker 1: good to have that and for us to do that
Speaker 1: effectively huge. I think it's shown it's something that we
Speaker 1: can build on. It's shown in games where we've been
Speaker 1: down and we've had to go no huddle, and it's
Speaker 1: helped us get back in games that once again, theoretically
Speaker 1: statistically we should have lost at that point in the game,
Speaker 1: but we weren't. We didn't because our defense did a
Speaker 1: great job giving us the ball back, especially teams did
Speaker 1: their job, and we were able to put points on
Speaker 1: board with that no huddle. But I think it's great
Speaker 1: to have that ability to go do that when you
Speaker 1: need it. Tommy, what do you think of it for
Speaker 1: the Bears in this particular offense. I like it if
Speaker 1: you can go on the field fresh and you have
Speaker 1: an attack that can create fatigue in the opponent's defense.
Speaker 1: I think it is a good pace, a good change
Speaker 1: of pace. However, I would always have to look and
Speaker 1: take defense into consideration if the defense just came off
Speaker 1: the field after an exhausted drive. No, I'm not going
Speaker 1: no huddle because if you don't get a first down,
Speaker 1: then your defense is right back on the field, and
Speaker 1: then you're putting those guys in a tough spot. If
Speaker 1: I get the defense that has a three and out,
Speaker 1: they're well rested. Man, I'm going on the attack, and
Speaker 1: I'm going on the attack, and I'm gonna bring it
Speaker 1: vertically at least a couple times early to try to
Speaker 1: try to see if I can get behind the defense
Speaker 1: within that no huddle attack. So I like it. I
Speaker 1: like the pacing of it, and I like the fatigue
Speaker 1: that creates if the defense doesn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: change personnel groupings. Did you hear Nixon tire and news
Speaker 1: conference today? By chance? Not the whole thing? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: But they're the confidence that is oozing out of this
Speaker 1: man's pores about his teammates, where they're going, what his
Speaker 1: expectations are, how dangerous he wants his offense to become.
Speaker 1: He is that he just it's natural for him Matt
Speaker 1: Naggie talked about it. He's not trying to be flip.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that rides on emotion and lives in
Speaker 1: the moment. He spoke about it obviously after the game
Speaker 1: about you want to lose pretty or win ugly, And
Speaker 1: what he meant by that was that, you know, he
Speaker 1: cares about winning first and foremost. Right, Well, you know what, also,
Speaker 1: if you had a chance to go back and you
Speaker 1: had to look at you had a chance to look
Speaker 1: at the table, what things can you do specifically to
Speaker 1: make this offense better considerably? And I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of elements in every single play. For example, the
Speaker 1: first play of the game, they run a rollout pass
Speaker 1: to Jimmy Graham and they got the receiver. Team throw
Speaker 1: the ball to Jimmy Graham immediately and put him on
Speaker 1: the offensive while he's attacking the defender. So it's just
Speaker 1: little things like that. It's like on the eighth play
Speaker 1: of the game, Cole Comet and Rashad Coward both pulled
Speaker 1: from the left to the right hand side. They hit
Speaker 1: the same guy. Now if they have more reps in
Speaker 1: time to communicate after watching the tape and they run
Speaker 1: that same play again, and they know exactly who their
Speaker 1: responsibility is that place turn it into a forty yard game.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery is not cutting it back into an unblocked tackle,
Speaker 1: and it's for a gain of one. So when you're
Speaker 1: talking about how much better you can make this offense,
Speaker 1: that's why Nick Foles is exciting. He sees the same
Speaker 1: thing on tape that anybody who's invested or spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time watching tape and understanding football that they
Speaker 1: are there is considerable improvement they can make just by
Speaker 1: getting things timed up more correctly. And obviously the old
Speaker 1: line needs to be consit more consistent obviously, both run
Speaker 1: and pass protection. And you know, plays like to Darnell Mooney.
Speaker 1: You talked about it at length during the broadcasts. He can,
Speaker 1: but is not his skill set where you're really looking
Speaker 1: to use him is he's not to go up and
Speaker 1: get it guy. He's to go up and go after
Speaker 1: a guy and go you know, the Bears are the
Speaker 1: only team in the league without a forty yard pass
Speaker 1: play this year, you know, so that is something that
Speaker 1: I could see down the road too, in timing when
Speaker 1: he gets behind a defense and he's streaking down the
Speaker 1: sideline and folds hits him for a touchdown. You know,
Speaker 1: I know you. You always kind of tease me when
Speaker 1: I say things are repetitiously done. When you talk about
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney, if you can get him in a pattern
Speaker 1: where he's running away from Jalen Ramsey, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot better chances. Percentage is to succeed rather than
Speaker 1: throwing a fifty fifty ball up against those two, because
Speaker 1: that is advantage defender. All right. I'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how they deploy that boy. Ramsey. He talked to
Speaker 1: go back on YouTube if you want. He was chatting
Speaker 1: up everybody. They had him miked up for the Bears
Speaker 1: game last year. He took cracks at every Bears receiver.
Speaker 1: It was something, all right, we gotta take one more break.
Speaker 1: We bear it back. Some final thoughts as we get
Speaker 1: you set for Bears Rams Monday Night Football. This is
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Speaker 1: score Bears and Rams on Monday Night Football. A battle
Speaker 1: of top ten defenses. Tom they're allowing a nineteen points
Speaker 1: a game, Bears one of the best as well. Khalil
Speaker 1: mac third and NFL pass rush according to the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus with a winning rate of twenty two percent.
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald can wreck a pocket. He got the Bears
Speaker 1: making leg difficult for opposing quarterbacks. I mean Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: he has a big you know, he's got to remember
Speaker 1: what happened in twenty eighteen. Things did not go well.
Speaker 1: They put pressure on him and thinks started to deteriorate.
Speaker 1: But the Bears are I have low completion percentage against
Speaker 1: these guys, so you know it's gonna be interesting battle.
Speaker 1: It's strength versus strength, and those corners are playing so
Speaker 1: physical right now for the Bears, but strength strength. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta figure out how to block Aaron Donald,
Speaker 1: and they have to figure out how to block the
Speaker 1: three Kings as you say, and that's Robert Quinn, Akiem Hicks,
Speaker 1: and Clill Mack. To me, you know you have three
Speaker 1: options defensively speaking for the Bears. How you could set
Speaker 1: it up against that offensive line in the Rams. You
Speaker 1: got one guy you got to concentrate on, and that
Speaker 1: that is Aaron Donald. Get him block and you can
Speaker 1: have some success. Go out to Leonard Floyd. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what you keep saying. We'll find out about the X
Speaker 1: Bear he's got a couple of sacks for the Rams.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us tonight. Thanks to everybody involved,
Speaker 1: including Julio Rosayas, Jordan Tredup, Dan Burrelly and most of
Speaker 1: all you do are listening for Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac.
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