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Speaker 1: in as we marched through the business season. I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: Johnny Acclock, my broadcast partner from news Radio one oh
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Speaker 1: is peaceful into business season, not anymore anyway. If this
Speaker 1: is the future of the National Football League these last
Speaker 1: two weeks, Tom, I'm hauling because it's so much fun.
Speaker 1: You just don't know what's going to happen next. Big
Speaker 1: trade today involving one of the best receivers in the
Speaker 1: NFL is certainly arguably the fastest in Tyrekio going over
Speaker 1: from Kansas City, Tom for five draft picks, and that
Speaker 1: he gets paid a bundle. That's just scratching the service
Speaker 1: of our night. Coming up, We're going to be joined
Speaker 1: by our good friend and weekly Guest Jim Series x
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Speaker 1: of the hour, the newest Bear and starting center Lucas
Speaker 1: Patrick will join the program. One of the bears early
Speaker 1: free agent soundings, Tom bid me, how you doing well.
Speaker 1: You know, a couple commercials right before we came on
Speaker 1: the air, they used the word unprecedented, And this offseason
Speaker 1: is unprecedented. And the amount of money that some of
Speaker 1: these guys are getting, the movement of the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: what they're doing in the AFC, the coaching changes, in
Speaker 1: the personnel movement, even with our Chicago Bears, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: In Tariq Hill, he's the fastest receiver in the league.
Speaker 1: He's not one of the best receivers in the league.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that they paid for. You know
Speaker 1: what he is as a weapon When you look at
Speaker 1: the best receivers in the National Football League, I would
Speaker 1: you know, Vante Adams and so on and so forth
Speaker 1: come to mind. And if he was the best receiver
Speaker 1: in the league and he was playing with Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: as he was the last couple of years, then I
Speaker 1: think that he would be even more explosive than he
Speaker 1: has the capability of being so there's a fine line
Speaker 1: between fast and the best receiver in the league. The
Speaker 1: thing I got to debate you on though, honestly, it's
Speaker 1: the fear factor that he instills in a defense. You
Speaker 1: can't there's no such thing as deepest in the deep
Speaker 1: with that guy. And granted, Kelsey opens up the field,
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody's searching for this stuff. Everybody's searching
Speaker 1: for speet. Bears wants be they want speed on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. And so that's what Miami paid
Speaker 1: for there, and to stretch the field and give to
Speaker 1: us something deep. And boy, I just that one I
Speaker 1: didn't see coming. But I didn't see a lot of
Speaker 1: things coming this offseason, but the quarterback carousel and what's
Speaker 1: been going on and the load up in the AFC overall.
Speaker 1: But this week, I mean, we all respect Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: Tom great respect for Matt Ryan, and Atlanta did him right,
Speaker 1: sent him to where the team he wanted to go.
Speaker 1: If he's not gonna be in Atlanta, and I think
Speaker 1: he was probably put off a bit on what happened
Speaker 1: there and their dalliance with Deshaun Watson, who could have
Speaker 1: wound up there, but Cleveland just opened up the vault
Speaker 1: and he goes to the Indianapolis Colts. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a nice situation for a guy in the back
Speaker 1: end of his career, fourteen years in and still a
Speaker 1: guy who can get the ball up and down the
Speaker 1: field right. And the pressure is enormous because they brought
Speaker 1: him here to win the Super Bowl. They didn't bring
Speaker 1: him here on a couple of year deal to come
Speaker 1: and get settled in your first year and let's make
Speaker 1: a run for it by next year, because you never
Speaker 1: know what's going to be happening next year on the board.
Speaker 1: And so you know, you go back to the eighties
Speaker 1: when the Bears had Willie Gauld. The reason they had
Speaker 1: Willie Gald is because the first couple plays of each
Speaker 1: game they sent him down field and they got they
Speaker 1: exposed his speed. So now all the defensive backs were
Speaker 1: on high alert. Just two a doubt in Miami have
Speaker 1: the arm to throw it to Tariq Hill if he
Speaker 1: opens it up and he is has no hesitation from
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. So there's gonna be so many
Speaker 1: question marks going into the season. You know, still where
Speaker 1: what's the landing spot for a couple of guys out there,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, but this is Bears all access.
Speaker 1: So yes, Bears play the Dolphins this year, so you
Speaker 1: know it'll be in a regular season the Bears will
Speaker 1: be facing the Miami Dolphins. In fact that the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that day will face. I think Brad Biggs and the
Speaker 1: Tribune put this all together this year. Obviously you've got
Speaker 1: the guys in the division, Goff Rogers, Cousins, and you
Speaker 1: got Dak you got Daniel Jones, Jalen Hurts, Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: Jared Allen, Tooa, Mac Jones, Zach Wilson of the Jets,
Speaker 1: Davis Mills from the time being in Houston, Trey Lanson,
Speaker 1: I guess Marcus Mariota now in Atlanta. So those are
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. And I always, whenever the schedule comes out
Speaker 1: of teams you're gonna play, not necessarily when you're gonna play,
Speaker 1: always start with the quarterbacks you're gonna face, and then
Speaker 1: I look at the pass rushers you gotta stop, and
Speaker 1: that's what I That's where I begin the process, because again,
Speaker 1: you don't know who's gonna be where or if they're
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy enough to play the week they play.
Speaker 1: But that's rice start. Where do you start when you
Speaker 1: look at a schedule with the Bears? You know me, Jeff,
Speaker 1: first of all, yeah, I look at temperature. Is there
Speaker 1: any extreme either on the front end or the back end?
Speaker 1: When when do they do they play Miami in Miami?
Speaker 1: When will that be? Because those are game changers, Jeff,
Speaker 1: You and I have sat on the sideline of that
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin Stadium where it has been over one hundred
Speaker 1: degrees and I'm sweating profusely while I'm standing there with
Speaker 1: a microphone in my hand. And it's the same thing
Speaker 1: I thought about as a player because the extreme heat
Speaker 1: made me uncomfortable. But now it's almost you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to Okay, let's let's wait and think about the teams
Speaker 1: until the regular season roster comes out, because that's what
Speaker 1: we'll know a lot more about these guys when you
Speaker 1: look at these incomplete rosters. The draft is yet to
Speaker 1: tell place. Free agency is still going on, honestly, unless
Speaker 1: you're a veteran team that has all the pieces in place,
Speaker 1: most like Indianapolis Colts, where they just bring in a
Speaker 1: fresh quarterback. There's so many chains is you know, tell
Speaker 1: me the four receivers. They're going to line up in
Speaker 1: the first four wide receiver package for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: You know things like that. So there's so much uncertainty
Speaker 1: right now. It's fun to speculate and it's fun to
Speaker 1: talk about. Well, you'll be having to know. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: are at Soldier Field this year, and as I look
Speaker 1: at it, Dallas is indoors. Uh, you know you got
Speaker 1: you got cold weather games. Atlanta's indoors. There's not gonna
Speaker 1: be You're not gonna have to worry about sweating this year, Tom,
Speaker 1: unless it's an extraordinarily warm day somewhere in the NFC
Speaker 1: North coming up in moments, we'll be joined by Jim Miller.
Speaker 1: But Tom, some business of the Bears took care of
Speaker 1: this this week, adding more options on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Dakota Dojer, a veteran, added this week the fullback Curry
Speaker 1: blasting game from from Tennessee. And to me, that's an importance.
Speaker 1: Twenty six ft two thirty three So time. Is that
Speaker 1: another signal that this is going to be because this
Speaker 1: is the first true fullback on the roster since twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen Michael Burton, But a true fullback is this going
Speaker 1: to instill the idea that you are going to be physical,
Speaker 1: mashing football team. Well, Jeff, last year at fourth and one,
Speaker 1: the Bears were nine to fifteen for sixty percent. Their
Speaker 1: opponents were ten of fourteen. I'm third and two or less.
Speaker 1: The Bears a twenty five or forty one. So every
Speaker 1: time I saw them get into a formation that didn't
Speaker 1: help win a third and one and a fourth and one,
Speaker 1: whether it's the quarterback in shotgun with no leadback, all
Speaker 1: those types of things, it just screams fullback to me.
Speaker 1: And if you have a guy that's willing to put
Speaker 1: his head down in charge at that oncoming linebacker and
Speaker 1: create that two to three yards, they need to continue
Speaker 1: to drive to keep their offense on the field. I'm
Speaker 1: all forward because I know those are small, small sample
Speaker 1: sizes of fourth and one and third and two or less.
Speaker 1: You gotta be successful. If you're gonna be an offense,
Speaker 1: it's gonna stay on the field. This is Bears All
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller, former Chicago Bears quarterback leading at two thousand
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Speaker 1: the business season as we touched down last week, Jim,
Speaker 1: it keeps getting better and better and more aren't more interesting?
Speaker 1: How do you put this in our perspective? It really is.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Remember how teams, I mean now draft picks
Speaker 1: are like like a Halloween candies. You just pass them
Speaker 1: out right. You remember how you used to this? You know, hey, man,
Speaker 1: we believe in building our team through the draft, resigning
Speaker 1: that rown all those type of things. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of a now league now I think these general managers
Speaker 1: they feel the pressure. They know what's not going to
Speaker 1: be a decade or longer job like it used to be,
Speaker 1: and so they're wheeling and dealing. Man, they're making moves.
Speaker 1: And that move today, I mean Miami basically resigned their
Speaker 1: whole defense. They you know, signed Terrell or Toronto Armstead.
Speaker 1: They brought in Connor Williams to play left guard. That
Speaker 1: now you've already got Wattle, who's the number one. They
Speaker 1: signed Cedric Wilson, who's a true number three, and then
Speaker 1: you trade for for Tyreek Hill. I mean, they're kind
Speaker 1: of a now team. They got Jesseki at the at
Speaker 1: the franchise tag at the tight end position. They brought
Speaker 1: into run backs, so they're kind of a now team
Speaker 1: right now. And I think even signing Teddy Bridgewater, who
Speaker 1: was kind of koy on well, you know, we'll leave
Speaker 1: that discussion with the coach and myself about what my
Speaker 1: role is here, but basically saying have two of falters,
Speaker 1: Teddy's gonna play. They're they're kind of a now team.
Speaker 1: So you know, we saw last year the Bengals flipped
Speaker 1: the switch and they went from worst to first, and
Speaker 1: Miami's kind of all in right now, but here right man,
Speaker 1: it's fireworks every single day. It's been fireworks since even
Speaker 1: before the Tamperine window. What the trades that have gone
Speaker 1: down this year so pretty amazing. Jim, do you think
Speaker 1: that Tua has the arm for hell that he if
Speaker 1: you're going to really open him up, giving him an
Speaker 1: opportunity to leave the line of scrimmage straight down field,
Speaker 1: do you believe he has the arm for him? And? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, because I know that he's blessed with you know,
Speaker 1: the best speed in the NFL, but you have to
Speaker 1: have an arm that matches up with that. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: can get it out there. You know. He He's made
Speaker 1: some big throws in Alabama, but he's just he's not
Speaker 1: overpowering with this rows. I don't think that offense it's
Speaker 1: really built on run after the catch. Think all the
Speaker 1: slant routes Jimmy Garoppolo through last year. They run a
Speaker 1: lot of X shallow cross Z drives, things like that.
Speaker 1: But if you're asking to it to like drive sixteen
Speaker 1: yard incuts or drive eighteen yard comebacks, that's not his forte.
Speaker 1: He can't really throw the fastball. He can get it
Speaker 1: out there probably about seventy yards at tops for but
Speaker 1: it's it's a soft ball, is what he throws, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's really about the timing of it. They're going
Speaker 1: to run a lot of wide receiver screens, slant routes,
Speaker 1: intermediate passes, focus on the run game, a lot of bootlegs.
Speaker 1: They're going to run a boatloaded jet sweeps with wattle
Speaker 1: and tyree kill, you know, and just get him in space.
Speaker 1: That's where where his where he's so dangerous. And you're right,
Speaker 1: they'll mix in some go routes here and they're in
Speaker 1: to say hey too and take a shot just to
Speaker 1: keep them honest defensively. Bottom line is they won seven
Speaker 1: games at the end of the year last year. They
Speaker 1: did it with defense, and they're they're putting all their
Speaker 1: money in the offense. And if TA fails, this is
Speaker 1: kind hit for him, you know, it would be my take.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of incomplete in terms of his grade. Right,
Speaker 1: he came in, he had the injury with the hip,
Speaker 1: and he admitted he didn't get in the playbook, admitted
Speaker 1: he didn't work hard enough. Then they change offensive coordinators.
Speaker 1: Last year was better, you know, it wasn't great, but
Speaker 1: it was better. And now you know, Mike McDaniel didn't
Speaker 1: draft him, right, He's a coach that was there prior
Speaker 1: to ta He says he's all in with them, but
Speaker 1: if he fails, they're gonna go to Teddy Bridgewater. That's
Speaker 1: basically what it is. So as they feel that they've
Speaker 1: invested a lot in around that quarterback, Tom Fair, Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: Jeff jonnyac here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access with Brian Callahan, our producer.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Dan Brudy as well. This week. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's look at what the Bears have done. A
Speaker 1: modest trip through free agency at the moment, and many
Speaker 1: more options will present themselves all the way up and
Speaker 1: through training camp. With cuts, I think this team will
Speaker 1: continue to look for for deals that will fill the
Speaker 1: roster with the type of people they'd like to have here,
Speaker 1: either to kind of set a foundation or guys that
Speaker 1: they are going to hook their wagon too with longer
Speaker 1: term opportunities or approve it deals as has been the case. Jim,
Speaker 1: We'll continue with you real quick here on just what
Speaker 1: they've added this week. Couple of receivers Byron Pringle and
Speaker 1: Mark has valdiscaming. We're gonna hear from Lucas Patrick here
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. You got on defense,
Speaker 1: Al Quadine, Mohammed, Nicholas Morrow, Justin Jones, Joe Thomas. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the offseason. You got uh Dakota Dozier on the
Speaker 1: offensive line as well. They took a look at former
Speaker 1: Northwestern quarterback Trevor simeon U the other day, according to
Speaker 1: multiple reports on the NFL wire. So in in hole'll
Speaker 1: start with Jim head to Tom and what's your what's
Speaker 1: your look at this so far? Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate what happened with Ogun Joeb you know, I think
Speaker 1: that was the guy that they wanted to sign, but
Speaker 1: quickly changed and you always got to have one or
Speaker 1: two guys you're going after, and they signed Justin Joe
Speaker 1: and so now I still think three technique needs to
Speaker 1: be a priority in the draft. And now if they're
Speaker 1: able to uh to move up and position themselves to
Speaker 1: get a three technique I think is critical. You know,
Speaker 1: I like even today's signing, I mean, there's no harm
Speaker 1: in fold in Dakota Dozier and their practice quite all
Speaker 1: last year for Minnesota. He's he's a guy who's played,
Speaker 1: he started twenty seven games, and he'll, you know if
Speaker 1: he has uh, you know, if he has an opportunity
Speaker 1: to get in there and play. But I think he's
Speaker 1: more depth from that standpoint. And again, I think for
Speaker 1: the for the Bears, it's not like they can be
Speaker 1: huge spenders in free agency, you know, the you know
Speaker 1: I mentioned I would have liked to Ron Armstead, but
Speaker 1: five years, seventy five million dollars, So I think that's, uh,
Speaker 1: that's pretty pricey, you know, but that's what the big
Speaker 1: guys are gonna Next year I think will be where
Speaker 1: the Bears do that. So I think they're being fiscally responsible.
Speaker 1: Next year is probably the year they dive in. But
Speaker 1: they're getting good quality players in a buyer's market that
Speaker 1: can play like Nicholas that's a good linebacker, man, that
Speaker 1: guy is very good in coverage like that. Signing from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, and bringing in guys offensively as we mentioned
Speaker 1: that know the offense, whether it's Lucas Patrick or Saint Brown.
Speaker 1: In the receivers as I mentioned, that have familiarity. Byron Pringle,
Speaker 1: I've got no issue with at all. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: an up and coming player. He kind of carved out
Speaker 1: more opportunities for the Kansas City Chiefs. He's in that
Speaker 1: young window of free agency. Do want to sign it?
Speaker 1: It's just a one year, four million dollar deal, So
Speaker 1: there's no harm, no foul there from that standpoint. Look
Speaker 1: at Juju Smith Schuster. I mean that was a one
Speaker 1: year I think three point two five. Yes, he's gott
Speaker 1: incentives to make big money, but for him, it was
Speaker 1: about going to play with Patrick Mahomes and be with
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. But I mean it's kind of
Speaker 1: a buyer's market right now, and there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of good players out there that Ryan Poles can tap into. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, one thing makes me nervous when you talk
Speaker 1: about the arm set contract and what he got to
Speaker 1: move over to the Dolphins. If next year we're doing
Speaker 1: the same show at this time time of the year
Speaker 1: and we're talking about how can you go out there
Speaker 1: and tap into the NFL offensive line free agent market,
Speaker 1: then that either means the two young guys they drafted
Speaker 1: are not going to be successful in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: I think that's a big setback because if you can
Speaker 1: get success out of Larry Boram. You got a deal
Speaker 1: there because where you were drafted him and he showed
Speaker 1: he has the ability to be a starter. Now if
Speaker 1: he matures this offseason and comes in and I like
Speaker 1: I said, I like Larry, and he comes in with
Speaker 1: that attitude and the mentality of being a dedicated seventeen
Speaker 1: game a year starter. And then we also have to
Speaker 1: look at their body differences because when you look at
Speaker 1: Dozier and Patrick, two guys are bringing in, they are
Speaker 1: that six three six four, three hundred and ten pound
Speaker 1: template that Ryan Poles is talking about. So I'm really
Speaker 1: interested to see the transformation because I don't think you
Speaker 1: can ask justin Fields to go out there and attempt
Speaker 1: to be a good quarterback according to his athleticism and
Speaker 1: be unprotected at times. So, you know, going into this offseason,
Speaker 1: I like the fact that they're going out there and
Speaker 1: trying to bring in offensive linemen with versatility and experience
Speaker 1: to try to make the training camp more competitive. All right,
Speaker 1: Time to step away for another break. Coming up at
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, Lucas Patrick Bears offensive lineman joining
Speaker 1: the program. This is Bears All Access Tonight with Jim
Speaker 1: Miller and Tom There. I'm Jeff Joni Yac on Chicago
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, and work our way towards
Speaker 1: the NFL Owners meetings this week. We'll touch on that
Speaker 1: with Jim on just what might transpire of the week.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from general manager Ryan Poles, will hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Eberflus as well next week, and so
Speaker 1: that'll be the first time Poles addresses, other than the
Speaker 1: statements that have been released through the organization, his take
Speaker 1: on free agency and how things have gone so far.
Speaker 1: Tom overall, you like to you always bring up things
Speaker 1: like pressure. Who's going to be dealing with the most
Speaker 1: pressure at any given time, at any juncture in the
Speaker 1: season leading into the season, and let's take a look
Speaker 1: at the NFC North because you would like to know
Speaker 1: which quarterback is under the most pressure. And there's many
Speaker 1: different contexts to that because you often think, well, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers doesn't have any pressure, right, He's got the money,
Speaker 1: he's back in Green Bay. He thinks he's always going
Speaker 1: to be in charge of everything that goes on in
Speaker 1: terms of the win loss record, and they have had
Speaker 1: that with him. Then you got the uncertainty, will Detroit
Speaker 1: go for a young quarterback? You got Minnesota given Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins or restructure, and then you got justin fields. So
Speaker 1: break it off down or where you think the most
Speaker 1: pressure lies, because I think it's always ever present. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: to me that you know, there's a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on Aaron Rodgers because with the amount of money he took.
Speaker 1: You know, we said, if you can tell me the
Speaker 1: four receivers that are gonna line up there day one
Speaker 1: of the season, you know you'd win sub type of
Speaker 1: award because I think there's so much certainty. And when
Speaker 1: you go and you sign Aaron Rodgers to that much money,
Speaker 1: it's super Bowl or bust. There is no continue to
Speaker 1: develop learn with your new your new coaching staff over
Speaker 1: there try to supply enough to this football team of
Speaker 1: a positive messages during the offseason that everybody's excited to
Speaker 1: see you and not you know, shine away from you.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Jared Goff when he went
Speaker 1: through that big trade and what Matthew Stafford went and
Speaker 1: did with the team that you know that what they
Speaker 1: switched teams and Stafford goes and wins a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, here's a guy that's been, you know, taking
Speaker 1: a lot of money each and every one of the
Speaker 1: years of these benwidth Washington and now Minnesota, and so
Speaker 1: what they seem to be ready to offer him another year.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Justin Fields, because this is
Speaker 1: the guy is just at the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1: I mean, his whole career, his whole future is ahead
Speaker 1: of him. And when you look at his athleticism and
Speaker 1: his development coming in with a new coaching staff, you know,
Speaker 1: he's the tight He's the guy that can come in
Speaker 1: here and have a second year that a lot of
Speaker 1: these you know, great quarterbacks end up having. He could
Speaker 1: change the whole culture of your football team. Green Bay
Speaker 1: is what it's gonna be. Minnesota is what it's gonna
Speaker 1: be in Detroit. There's still some question marks, but you
Speaker 1: don't have a young, inexperienced quarterback. So now when I
Speaker 1: look at the pressure on the quarterbacks, I think Aaron
Speaker 1: still has the most pressure on him. But the guy
Speaker 1: that can take the biggest leap in success is Justin. Jim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Justin is going to make a big leap.
Speaker 1: You know. There there's just no doubt. Just his routine,
Speaker 1: how he prepares, He's now experienced the length of the season,
Speaker 1: how game planning has gone about in the NFL, how
Speaker 1: you know just how you watch film in terms of
Speaker 1: your third down reels, your red zone reels, and how
Speaker 1: everything is kind of compartmentalized. I think that's a process
Speaker 1: you get you used to from your first year to
Speaker 1: your second year. And he's just going to be physically
Speaker 1: more prepared for the challenge that he's got that he's
Speaker 1: got to go through this offseason. Earlier he gets in
Speaker 1: the playbook, the better we've already gone over that hurdle
Speaker 1: of call and plays in the huddle and taking command
Speaker 1: and how you accentuate your voice and all those things.
Speaker 1: And he's learned all those and was able to accomplish
Speaker 1: some of those things he really has never done at
Speaker 1: the collegiate level what is demanded at the pros. But again,
Speaker 1: now it's the process of learning a new offense. There's
Speaker 1: going to be some carryover, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: But you know, Luke, guess he's gonna want him Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe read some things differently here, Maybe the progression reads
Speaker 1: might be different on certain plays that may be similar principles. Um,
Speaker 1: Like I said, he's got to dive into protections in
Speaker 1: knowing them against what blitz is where you're picked up,
Speaker 1: where you're not, where you have to throw hot, reading coverages,
Speaker 1: where to attack them where they're they're weak. So there's
Speaker 1: just a greater understanding overall, and it'll probably come quicker
Speaker 1: to him this year. But yet it still is new
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways because he's going to be
Speaker 1: learning some some new philosophies and new uh you know,
Speaker 1: basically topics that are going to be covered. So it's
Speaker 1: it's NonStop for me. I you know, I was relentless
Speaker 1: about it. You can never get away from it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you just see you can't, you know, you
Speaker 1: just you got to plow through it and you got
Speaker 1: to put the time in and I think he will.
Speaker 1: It's important to him, um, and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: He's got the talent, There's no doubt about that. He's
Speaker 1: got the talent, and he needs players and he's got
Speaker 1: to be able to do that too. Not only does
Speaker 1: he need players around him, he's got to elevate their
Speaker 1: level of play, you know, he really does. And so
Speaker 1: all those are and it's a lot coming at him,
Speaker 1: but I think he's up for the challenge. He's a
Speaker 1: talented young man. Begins up front, of course, and then
Speaker 1: adding those pieces to the puzzle. We expect further development
Speaker 1: and a third year for Cole commet looking for more
Speaker 1: development obviously from Darnell Mooney. Seeing what the new receivers
Speaker 1: are going to bring to the mix. I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: they will bring in a rookie through the draft in
Speaker 1: that regard as well. What else are they going to
Speaker 1: do it tight end, because right now there are two
Speaker 1: on the roster, Jasper Horstead Cole Commetz, so there will
Speaker 1: be new bodies there. Offensive line still up in the
Speaker 1: air and exactly what direction they're gonna go, and at
Speaker 1: the at the running game back position, you have the
Speaker 1: most stability right now with David Montgomery, Khalil Herbert and
Speaker 1: the addition of Darrynton Evanson and Kyrie blasting Game. Those
Speaker 1: are the guys that are coming into the mix to
Speaker 1: help out. So it'll be it'll be a very interesting
Speaker 1: process all the way up through training camp. I really
Speaker 1: believe that, because if there's something that you know may
Speaker 1: be available out there, they are going to continue to
Speaker 1: add to those positions and try to make it as
Speaker 1: easy transition time is possible into this third year, our
Speaker 1: second year rather for a justin fields. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you have the luxury to bring in
Speaker 1: players that are more mature in their career and they're
Speaker 1: going to offer you limited amount of snaps or is
Speaker 1: everything a youth movement here? And so when you look
Speaker 1: at the tight end position with the Bears and you
Speaker 1: look at Cole Commandant Jasper Horstad, they you know, they're
Speaker 1: inexperienced guys for the most part. And then what you
Speaker 1: look at Green Bay when they always had Mercedes Lewis,
Speaker 1: they always had a guy on the roster at the
Speaker 1: tight end position. Is going to give you valuable experience
Speaker 1: within the NFL. So it's going to be interesting to
Speaker 1: see if there are you know, tight ends kind of
Speaker 1: a unique position. It's not the Bears are out there
Speaker 1: looking for another Jason Peter for the offensive line. And
Speaker 1: if there's a position they can bring in that type
Speaker 1: of experience in multiple offenses and can be a blocker
Speaker 1: and not looking for those you know, eighty ninety receptions
Speaker 1: a year. You know that that's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: for the Bears personnel department to answer. All right, that's
Speaker 1: Tim there, Jim Miller, Jeff jony Aac here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score
Speaker 1: will take another break again. We thank you for listening
Speaker 1: to night and we will have Lucas Patrick coming here
Speaker 1: shortly on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. The
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Speaker 1: As we inch toward April on the start of then
Speaker 1: what becomes the offseason. The program begins April fourth with
Speaker 1: Tom There and Jim Miller from Serious x M NFL
Speaker 1: Radio is moving the chains. I'm Jeff Joniac here in
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score, please be joined
Speaker 1: by the newest Chicago Bear offensive lineman, Lucas Patrick. Good evening.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on and spending a few minutes with
Speaker 1: us before we get into your arrival here with the Bears.
Speaker 1: As a football guy now seven years, you're no rookie,
Speaker 1: You're no young buck. You've been around. We all been
Speaker 1: commenting before you got on about just how crazy these
Speaker 1: last two weeks have been unprecedented, as the word time
Speaker 1: you used to describe this free agent frenzy trades of
Speaker 1: big names. Have you ever seen anything like it? And
Speaker 1: from a player's perspective, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 1: First of all, thanks for having me on, But you
Speaker 1: know what it's been, it's just been exciting. I think
Speaker 1: as a player, it's been cool to watch guys, guys
Speaker 1: you see signed kind of go to teams or you
Speaker 1: see the fits and schemes, like you understand why certain
Speaker 1: guys are going to certain teams. But then also just
Speaker 1: being a fan of the league too and just seeing
Speaker 1: the excitement and and impossible, you know, teams that are
Speaker 1: developing across the league. I think it's great. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's also good for the media
Speaker 1: market because we've been in the minutes pretty much every day,
Speaker 1: so that's always exciting. Yes, it is, and you were
Speaker 1: a part of that. So and yeah, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us because i'd love to have you. Love your enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: and I love what you put out there right away
Speaker 1: at the news conference with the media quote quoting you, Now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna win some games, and that's what fans want
Speaker 1: to hear. They want to hear that that vibrant possibility
Speaker 1: turn into reality. And you gotta as a player coming
Speaker 1: in and you're used to winning, to be quite honest, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: very very used to winning, very used to a winning culture.
Speaker 1: But I think one thing that's you know, underestimated is
Speaker 1: just a winning mindset day in day out, because everyone
Speaker 1: thinks the games are one on Sunday. But I've got
Speaker 1: a firm belief that you win them, you know, Wednesday
Speaker 1: through Saturday, and your prep. And that's one thing that
Speaker 1: I've taken from my previous organization is that you don't
Speaker 1: just show up on Sundays in the NFL because you
Speaker 1: never know what'll happen. But if you prepare, write, you
Speaker 1: do everything right, then you just have that much, you
Speaker 1: have that greater of a chance of winning. Hey, looka's
Speaker 1: how you doing. My name is Tom There, I'm a
Speaker 1: former offensive lineman. Welcome aboard, Welcome to Chicago. You know,
Speaker 1: so at the before you came on the air, Jeff
Speaker 1: introduced you as the starting center for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: So what can you learn from an experienced center quarterback
Speaker 1: relationship that you've been in that you can help bring
Speaker 1: it to a young guy like Justin Fields. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, one thing that I learned from the previous
Speaker 1: quarterback that I worked with was consistency and a standard.
Speaker 1: So we all knew his standard, and he also expected
Speaker 1: a certain standard out of everyone. And that's just something
Speaker 1: that you know, I'll be able to come in and
Speaker 1: either help instill or help, you know, even whatever Justin's
Speaker 1: been doing is I think it's also good to echo
Speaker 1: or reinforce what he's doing, because he's clearly been doing
Speaker 1: a ton of things well to get to this point.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, really just there to support him and
Speaker 1: kind of whatever message he wants to bring, be one
Speaker 1: of the first guys to jump right behind him and
Speaker 1: echo what he's saying. So, you know, one thing Ryan
Speaker 1: Pole said immediately after he came aboard, was kind of
Speaker 1: changing the template of the Bears offensive line from what
Speaker 1: it was in the last couple of years to where
Speaker 1: he wants to go. And it seems like you're the
Speaker 1: exact size of a guy that he wants to bring in.
Speaker 1: Is this something that you're comfortable with? Is is this
Speaker 1: what they've always encouraged you to be at this weight
Speaker 1: and you know the size you are or is there
Speaker 1: anything that you need to change at this stage in
Speaker 1: your career? Um? Yeah, I mean I think when I
Speaker 1: shifted into this offense and twenty nineteen, I definitely had
Speaker 1: to change my body composition a little bit. Um and
Speaker 1: there there, you know, there is some stuff that will
Speaker 1: help in this offense. When you're kind of a leaner,
Speaker 1: you're able to run off the ball and play the
Speaker 1: game how it's supposed to be played. And you know
Speaker 1: it's something you've got to stay up on your conditioning
Speaker 1: and look at your body fat composition. But we are
Speaker 1: going to run the ball, We're gonna you know, do
Speaker 1: some things. Um. Still old schools. He can't just necessarily
Speaker 1: be out there all light and you know, right not
Speaker 1: not moving people. Um, But Yeah, it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: an exciting offense, and it's one that I've I've really
Speaker 1: grown to love and I think it's a it's an
Speaker 1: o lineman's dream offense. You know, we want to run
Speaker 1: the ball well, to set the pass and and get
Speaker 1: things rolling and make things as friendly as we can.
Speaker 1: For number one, Lucas Jim Miller here, congratulations and hey, welcome.
Speaker 1: You made a good decision coming over from the dark side. Man. Goodness. So,
Speaker 1: but let me ask you this, because all the things
Speaker 1: you just said that I love it from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: how you know it's not only just bringing along a
Speaker 1: young Justin Fields's got a couple of young tackles. We've
Speaker 1: talk about Tevin Jenkins and Larry Boum. And how quickly
Speaker 1: is the pace of install because I assume Luke Getsy
Speaker 1: he's going to have a pace of what he wants
Speaker 1: to install things and how quickly to get this thing
Speaker 1: up and running with having guys experience like yourself in
Speaker 1: this system that really can disseminate it to all the
Speaker 1: offensive linemen and even the tight ends for that matter.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, I mean, I think coach Getsy is he's
Speaker 1: an amazing teacher, so any install is easier with him
Speaker 1: and previous coaches that I've worked with, Um, he just
Speaker 1: has a way of relating the information to you so well.
Speaker 1: But the nice part about this offense, and specifically the
Speaker 1: run schemes are you really going to dive into upfront,
Speaker 1: is they're very complimentary and there's a there's an easier
Speaker 1: way to categorize them in both the how many backs
Speaker 1: we have in the backfield to you know, for running
Speaker 1: stronger week or for running certain plays depending on Mike
Speaker 1: declarations or whatever, that you can kind of put them
Speaker 1: into a you know, I'll go old school a rolodex,
Speaker 1: you know, and sit there and kind of be like,
Speaker 1: rely on this play and white and Mary's with display
Speaker 1: because a lot of football sometimes it's taught xes and os,
Speaker 1: but coach gets he's really good at teaching the why
Speaker 1: for the xs and os, which I think helps players
Speaker 1: take the information and understand conceptually, not just assignment. Lucas Patrick, Oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: sorry about that, Jim, go ahead, I cut you off,
Speaker 1: So I was just gonna ask you. You know, it
Speaker 1: was great playing with with Ola Cruz because he used
Speaker 1: to challenge me as a as a quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: he literally could see the secondary and we you know,
Speaker 1: I took pride on not missing blitzes, and of course
Speaker 1: every now and then he would he would correct me
Speaker 1: and recall the mic and things like that. So it
Speaker 1: was fun. It was a really good back and forth.
Speaker 1: But I was I was a veteran quarterback from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: You know, how can you break out in those discussions
Speaker 1: with young justin fields and say, hey man, this is
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing. You know, what are you seeing on this?
Speaker 1: Will you make a recall here or you know, maybe
Speaker 1: just touch on that a little bit of the conversations
Speaker 1: that you do have with your quarterback to make sure
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page. Yeah, I guess I'll go
Speaker 1: football nerd on you. But I think you've got to
Speaker 1: understand these protections, how many can handle three to four
Speaker 1: strong or two to three week and really understanding the
Speaker 1: schemes of defenses and understanding, you know, where linebacker location
Speaker 1: is tends to give away, where they can overload a pressure,
Speaker 1: where they can bring a combo pressure, and watching film
Speaker 1: in that way and also playing with the quarterback I
Speaker 1: did for the last six years he was in an
Speaker 1: offense for once, there's ten to fifteen years, so that
Speaker 1: you know, there's protection adjustments and then there's the adjustments
Speaker 1: for the adjustments, and then he took that as a
Speaker 1: new offense, you know, and that's something I hope to
Speaker 1: hope to get justin on the same page with is
Speaker 1: that you know, you can protect for for strong and
Speaker 1: one protection, but there's also different ways to do it
Speaker 1: and different calls that can you know, make a hot
Speaker 1: throw easier or make a protection adjustment easier by using
Speaker 1: a different furbage or a different principle of the protection.
Speaker 1: So really just trying to bring a full toolbox and
Speaker 1: trying to you know, use the best tool at the
Speaker 1: right time because at the end of the day, play
Speaker 1: clocks winding down and to pass information quickly and very
Speaker 1: concisely is the most important thing. Lucas Patrick our guest
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access. We're brought to you by IGS
Speaker 1: Energy with former Chicago Bears Top there and Jim Millerim
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac. Lucas should come from Brentwood, Tennessee. What's about
Speaker 1: ten menus from downtown Nashville and by way of Duke
Speaker 1: one what was your major, Duke? I should have looked
Speaker 1: it up, but I'm gonna ask you dead. And second
Speaker 1: of all, Jim just mentioned Olan Crutz, who I felt
Speaker 1: was a very smart football player and a nasty guy
Speaker 1: up front. You don't want to mess with Oland. You
Speaker 1: didn't want to mess with Jay Hilgenberg in Tom there
Speaker 1: and Mark Bortz on the Bears eighty five Super Bowl
Speaker 1: offensive line with Jim Bokovert at one side and Keith
Speaker 1: Vanner or the other. And I've always felt you kind
Speaker 1: of have to have an Alpha or two on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. That being said, would you major in a duke?
Speaker 1: And do you feel you're an Alpha type personality football player?
Speaker 1: So I majored in history, minored in education, so really
Speaker 1: using all of that in my current profession. Well, what
Speaker 1: drew you to history? First of all, you know, I've
Speaker 1: always just enjoyed history. It was something that was interesting
Speaker 1: to me. And when I first showed up the duke,
Speaker 1: tried to do something significantly harder and quickly found out
Speaker 1: I wasn't cut for that standard. So moved into something
Speaker 1: where I could write some papers and talk my way
Speaker 1: through answers. But uh, yeah, to speak on Owen. I mean,
Speaker 1: his career is something I think any player would dream
Speaker 1: to have, and just the style of football he played
Speaker 1: and how consistent he was, Yeah, he is. He is
Speaker 1: the standard. And you know, if if that's you know,
Speaker 1: if that's anything I can bring that's you know, maybe
Speaker 1: one to five percent of what he did, then I
Speaker 1: would call it a successful career. Or when I'm bringing
Speaker 1: to the Bears, Lucas, just think if you become the
Speaker 1: longest tenure Bear to ever wear a Duke uniform, that
Speaker 1: means you're gonna play well over three hundred games, because
Speaker 1: that is Patrick Manley. But you know, Lucas and the
Speaker 1: times that I've gone through coaching changes in my career,
Speaker 1: I always kind of listened to the first couple of
Speaker 1: times they address the media at the podium and when
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflu says, I these guys they better bring their
Speaker 1: running shoes. I didn't know if he met the running
Speaker 1: game or you guys better to be ready to run. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does that kind of you ever think about what that
Speaker 1: means in terms of what you gotta be ready for
Speaker 1: once you guys come all together on the field. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's two sided. And judging from the conditioning
Speaker 1: pack that I got, which I ran this morning, and
Speaker 1: trust me, I'm gonna bring my tracks shoes, not my
Speaker 1: running shoes. But yeah, it's it's just a mentality and
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the great things that he
Speaker 1: did in his previous spot. And we played against them,
Speaker 1: and their whole defense played tough and relentless, and i'd
Speaker 1: say speed. I mean literally, when you were playing the Colts,
Speaker 1: it was like speed everywhere you just you everyone was
Speaker 1: running u and it was it was exhausting, Like to
Speaker 1: play against a team like that, and to know that
Speaker 1: that's your head coaches, you know, he wants everyone to
Speaker 1: have that exhausting play football hot's supposed to be and
Speaker 1: pretty much make the team have to beat you not
Speaker 1: only xs and oath, but physically and mentally. It'll wear
Speaker 1: a team mountain. I think it's a great advantage that
Speaker 1: we can play too. Okay, I've been to Nashville. I've
Speaker 1: been to green Nashville's growing. They got all the boom
Speaker 1: bars there and everything gets growing. You've been up to
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Appleton. Now you're in the big city, bro,
Speaker 1: I mean, how you get declemated? Um, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a little there's a few more things to do than
Speaker 1: probably walking around best buying Green Bay are going to
Speaker 1: daves and boosters, but no, I it truly is an
Speaker 1: honor to play for the two most historic franchises in
Speaker 1: the NFL and to be a part of this rivalry
Speaker 1: on both sides. It's it's a true blessing. And you know,
Speaker 1: I know there's not too many players who have had
Speaker 1: this honor. But yeah, we're adjusting to Chicago right now
Speaker 1: and looking at homes and there's there's a lot more
Speaker 1: to do, but it's it's exciting. And my wife and
Speaker 1: I we took numerous trips down to Chicago during our
Speaker 1: time in Green Bay because how close it was, and
Speaker 1: we loved the city. We of the energy around it,
Speaker 1: and I mean, it's a sports town. You can't pretty
Speaker 1: much go more than a few weeks without watching some
Speaker 1: type of you know, major sports. So we're super, super
Speaker 1: excited and fired up to be there. We do love
Speaker 1: our town, We do love the sports mentality and the
Speaker 1: passion of the fan base, certainly no more greater than
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears fans, so appreciate it. Thanks for taking the
Speaker 1: time tonight and come back and join us again. Will
Speaker 1: you good luck to season. Definitely, definitely will do. And
Speaker 1: I appreciate all y'all and looking forward to it. Good
Speaker 1: to have you. Thanks Lucas Patrick. The Bears a new
Speaker 1: offensive lineman playing center as it stands right now for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears at twenty twenty two and BA, we'll
Speaker 1: take another break our final one tonight before our final
Speaker 1: segment with Tom Bear, Jim Butter, Jeff Jonik. This is
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of
Speaker 1: Bears All Actions brought to you by CDW. CDW people
Speaker 1: to get it learn more at CDW dot com. Tom
Speaker 1: there and Jim Miller, Jeff Jonik from your home two
Speaker 1: hours here at the Score. Uh, you know, we got
Speaker 1: a great producer here, Brian Callahan, And you know, Tom,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not good Jim either about remembering names
Speaker 1: and faces. And he just reminded me that he used
Speaker 1: to be the highlight coordinator. Is that what it was?
Speaker 1: Highlight coordinator on the Bears broadcast. So I've been pretending,
Speaker 1: like I mean, you know, that's when you know you're
Speaker 1: starting to lose it a little bit. Tom, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to lose I can't remember everybody either I'm getting too
Speaker 1: old or we've had, you know, just a lot of
Speaker 1: great people on the broadcast. So we thank you for
Speaker 1: pointing that out. Brian, don't about it. Not brag. That's
Speaker 1: not something to brag about. That's that's for sure. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed Lucas Patrick. I think this is you know
Speaker 1: what it is, Fellas Jim. It's a ground floor opportunity.
Speaker 1: You know. Remember, it's not this massive free age deal.
Speaker 1: He got a two year, eight million dollars package, I guess.
Speaker 1: But for him as a guy that started in this
Speaker 1: whole process seven years ago as a rookie minicamp tryout
Speaker 1: guy from Duke and here he is planning for Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and the Packers and winning there and now coming
Speaker 1: in here as a ground floor opportunity. I think guys
Speaker 1: young enough to appreciate that, want to want to be
Speaker 1: a part of something like well, he's earned it again.
Speaker 1: He was an undrafted free agent. He's smart, he's stuff,
Speaker 1: he's tough. Excuse me, stuck there in Green Bay, and
Speaker 1: especially with a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers, because I guarantee
Speaker 1: Aaron's changing things all the time up at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. So this guy is a critical thinker that
Speaker 1: can switch gears pretty quickly because I think we've seen
Speaker 1: the pace that Aaron Rodgers plays at and Coach Luke
Speaker 1: gets he knows it. Coach heaver Flus knows it. That's
Speaker 1: that's the pace they want Justin Fields to play at,
Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. So Lucas is going to
Speaker 1: be really critical in Justin Field's development. I mean, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in center go hand in hand. They got to be
Speaker 1: on the same page more than anybody upfront because they
Speaker 1: said everybody else. And so it's good. He's played a
Speaker 1: lot of Football's played guard, he's played center, like I
Speaker 1: mentioned so, and he's earned every bit of it. So
Speaker 1: welcome a board, and let's get this thing going. You know, you, guys,
Speaker 1: unless you're special like Olan and Jay were at the
Speaker 1: center position, you're not going to have a long tenured
Speaker 1: career as an undrafted free agent at the offensive line
Speaker 1: if you're not a multiple position player. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the unique traits that these guys that do last
Speaker 1: as long as they do when they do go undrafted,
Speaker 1: is their talent becomes recognized immediately by somebody on the
Speaker 1: staff and then they said, hey, can we cultivate the
Speaker 1: talent that they're offering us, And then when they finally
Speaker 1: do make the game day roster, can they be included
Speaker 1: on special teams? Can they be included on multiple positions
Speaker 1: on the offensive line? So then that gives them a
Speaker 1: lot more game day freedom when they're putting together the roster.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to have the experiences that Lucas has
Speaker 1: already had with one of the best players in the
Speaker 1: National Football League in some of those private conversations that
Speaker 1: he and Justin have can help Justin's growth and development
Speaker 1: and understand the way that he thought along with the
Speaker 1: process with the other quarterbacks he's played with time different topic,
Speaker 1: but if you would have been a center, which you
Speaker 1: easily could have played as well, would you have been
Speaker 1: a ten years center in the National Football League? No,
Speaker 1: because I had more confidence playing offensive guard in the times.
Speaker 1: I know in my senior year in college, I played
Speaker 1: four games at left guard, four games at center, and
Speaker 1: then four games at right guard, and I played some
Speaker 1: center in the USFL and I backed up Jay. But
Speaker 1: in terms of I developed all my self confidence in
Speaker 1: the weight room because I felt I was strong or
Speaker 1: stronger than anybody I'd ever play against, But for some
Speaker 1: reason I can never transfer that strength as a center
Speaker 1: that I could as a guard. All right, So draft's
Speaker 1: coming up. Jim sneak peek in our final moments here
Speaker 1: of the NFL owners meetings next week down here in
Speaker 1: South Florida as they get ready to get back to
Speaker 1: work on that after the COVID last year. Not available
Speaker 1: for that kind of meeting with the media and whatnot.
Speaker 1: What are you hearing out? What it will be the
Speaker 1: big topics? Let's see if you can hear this. Did
Speaker 1: you hear that coin flip? Nobody wants a coin flip
Speaker 1: for overtime, So overtime is going to be a huge discussion.
Speaker 1: I think obviously having two possessions, nobody wants a game
Speaker 1: to come down to that. What happened between the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs. Why not give Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and the Bills another crack at it. So overtime
Speaker 1: is going to be all the discussion. And you know
Speaker 1: there's already three rules changes by teams that are out there.
Speaker 1: I believe the Bills are proposed one, the culture proposed
Speaker 1: one Titans have proposed one, and so they'll get the
Speaker 1: vote on it, and I think that's gonna change. There
Speaker 1: probably is going to be more special teams because they
Speaker 1: want to increase the safety on special teams, and I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be some changes there as well what
Speaker 1: the proposals will be. But overtime is really going to
Speaker 1: be the big discussion. Tom. Is there anything you need
Speaker 1: to hear from general manager Ryan Poles when he speaks
Speaker 1: to the media for the first time, Are you regarding
Speaker 1: free agency and what has been the business season? Um?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, because I don't think he's gonna give up
Speaker 1: a lot of information of what he's thinking with his
Speaker 1: draft choices. As they're a player out there, he's targeting
Speaker 1: a targeting that no one's gonna know about that. So
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a wait and see and
Speaker 1: learn about Ryan process for every one of us going
Speaker 1: along all the way probably through the first year of
Speaker 1: this whole football season, because you know things will change
Speaker 1: next year. However, when these guys come aboard, we're learning
Speaker 1: little bits about him. You know, when he came out
Speaker 1: and he said what he wants to see out of
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and then Mattieberflus what he expects out
Speaker 1: of this football teams in terms of the running part
Speaker 1: of it. But I think there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be able to see once they hit
Speaker 1: the field. All right, quick hitter, Jim Miller tamp there
Speaker 1: priority picks for the first for the two second round picks.
Speaker 1: You got priority picks, not names necessarily, but positions, anything
Speaker 1: of priority. Each of you will start with. Jim, I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna say three technique until it gets addressed, you know,
Speaker 1: I think from that standpoint, so a quick penetrating defensive
Speaker 1: tackle is my priority. Tom, I would like to see
Speaker 1: corner linebacker. I think that you know, you have a
Speaker 1: guy like Roquan Smith that you could probably put in
Speaker 1: the place that he's needed the most. But if you
Speaker 1: can get another linebacker that can run side by side
Speaker 1: with him at this age, it may help control that
Speaker 1: front seven of the defense. And like Jim says, the
Speaker 1: three technique defensive tackle, but we need a corner also, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say, why receiver corner? Two options to look at.
Speaker 1: We'll break it all down as we inch toward the draft. Fellows,
Speaker 1: we're out of time today. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time. From Jim Mutter from
Speaker 1: Sirius x MFL Radio and Top There, I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Lucas Patrick and most of all to you
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